While I got into the band after the release of their album 4ourIVer, it was this album, Vagina, where they really go for it. My friend Ian and I always say that she's been at the cutting-edge of electronic & aggressive music for so much of her career, and her current band, Vantana Row, was my introduction to her music. I'm just gonna say it: Jamey Blaze is my favorite producer.
It works perfectly with hyperpop 808 drops and those sizzling trap hi-hats we all know and love. It creates a unique groove that's dancey, while still distinct from the usual "snare-on-the-2-and-4" SKA grooves you hear. The verse groove in this song is essential to how I write my SKA parts, with the skanking, upstoke guitars against half time drums. I got Peace Through Music on CD from Mike as payment for packing records at Asian Man Records one day as a high schooler, and I listened to it on repeat in my car for months afterwards. I've gone on record saying that Skankin' Pickle is my favorite 3rd wave band, but it was revisiting those Chinkees records that really shook my world. Scootie (as part of production duo Social House) would go onto produce some of Ariana Grande's biggest hits and I would go on to spin this record while working on my HYPERSKA album My Checkered Future ) You can definitely hear this influence in songs like "MISERY - Remix" and "2 OF US," specifically. The hook is so sugary and catchy, the beat drops out and returns in all the right places, and it has the cool DJ Screw influenced slowdown at the end. "Needy" is the album opener and is a perfect pop-rap song. I was freshly into my modern hip-hop obsession (thanks again BROCKHAMPTON) and immediately latched onto this album. Scootie's In-Flight Service was an album I found in spring 2018. In the words of my dear friend Val, "stan SOPHIE." This song came out in 2015! How?!?! An absolute icon, well ahead of her time and gone from this world far too soon. In her tragically short career, SOPHIE managed to do it all well before (and often better than) everyone else in the scene. You can hear the through-line from her music right to 100 gecs and every hyperpop artist their rise spawned, myself included. This song has all the weird, unexpected sounds and sugary hooks that would go on to be a staple of the genre. I would not be doing what I'm doing if it wasn't for BROCKHAMPTON's music. The album came out the day after my birthday and I was enamored with this track right from the get-go. "THUG LIFE" perfectly encapsulates their influence on HYPERSKA: the unyielding trap hi-hats, the proto-hyperpop kick / snare pattern, and the formant-shifted vocals I loved so much that I absolutely had to use them in my own music. The release of 2018's Iridescence marked a period of my life where I was OBSESSED with modern rap. I immediately went back, devoured their earlier output, and waited patiently for their continued rise to superstardom. I have always loved hip-hop & rap, but BROCKHAMPTON's approach to the genre grabbed me in a way that nothing else really ever has. I looked up the video for "SWEET" and was mesmerized by what I found. In 2017, I discovered BROCKHAMPTON through my friend Jeremy (he plays drums in this awesome SJ band Star 99) posting about Saturation II on twitter. My friends Drew and Bailey (guitarist and bassist for hardcore darlings SPY and Scowl, respectively) got me into this album when we were in high school and it's been a true underrated SKAsterpiece to me ever since. Silly now, considering, but it made hella sense at the time. Before joining the NEW TONE movement / modern SKA scene / unlearning the "wave" rhetoric, I was *convinced* that Return To Paper was the "fourth wave" we were all waiting for. The way this song's breakdown goes from sparkly almost RnB influenced driving SKA chords to a quasi-funk breakdown that ends in a "guitarmonized" almost country-lead riff. It sounds like nothing else that was happening at the time: songs that morph and flow through various genres, great vocal and instrumental hooks, cutting-edge production, and RIFFS! This one is a huge reason why I wanted to add a dash of twinkly emo guitars to my HYPERSKA concoction (more on that later). No Service Project's 2009 project Return To Paper is such a unique record. "The Placebo Effect" by No Service Project
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