Hyper is undoubtedly one of the most intriguing names in the breaks business. Whether it’s his electrifying DJ sets or live band collaborations, you’d be mad to journey through your clubbing career without catching this guy at least once playing out. Luckily for us, he’s got a release coming out on 8th June with Kilowatt Recordings and you can download a nice little edit of it below, after reading what he has to say about yurts, live music in clubs and time travel.
You’ve got a CV that sees your career kickstarted through your mastery of mixtape compilations. How do you think this has affected your current style?
It flicks between me being inspired by that side through periods when I really want to write club music and then being in a mood to write more musical, 3 minute song based tracks. The latter is inspired by a love of seeing bands and punk rock/indie as a kid and the former from a love of DJing and clubbing from my teens. I like having more than one string to my bow.
Tell us a little about the thinking behind your live act, and some of the highlights of it.
The live act was inspired by my first artist album, ‘We Control’. I wanted to to get away from strictly writing club music at that point
and bring in live instrumentation which I felt would only really work from a live perspective and thats how it came about. It’s much more about raw energy and a totally different dynamic to DJing. I find that attractive. Highlights are our guitarist and singer who are both really talented and energetic. I think we show that you really can do live dance music.
Would you ever want the whole clubscene to go totally “live,” with the death of the DJ and the return of live performances?
Nah, that would kill the spirit of it. Variety is the spice of life and all…
Which music blogs do you read?
Noiseporn!
Could you tell us a little about your new release and your hopes for it?
This is the next installment really of whats going on in my world. Myself and JHz have a load of stuff ready to go and this nicely follows up from ‘Computer Says No’ which, 2 years later is now all over Radio 1 and MTV etc as soundbeds. Weird world. I’d say the follow up to ‘Pitch Bitch’ will be hot on the heels and you can expect more rock dance fusion…
Do submariners eat fish?
Be stupid not to.
We’re driving to Mongolia this summer for Save The Children, if we could arrange for a giant yurt and some punters, would you come out and play for our arrival party in Mongolia?
Yep, call the travel agent!
You’re on! Other than that, what are your plans for the summer?
Writing and writing. I’m feeling pretty creative right now and my production has gone to new levels I feel. Expect 2 new collabs with Vandal on top of the JHz collabs and a new Hyper EP toward the end of the summer.
Make three wishes for the next ten years of your life. We’ll have a word with our fairy godmother and make sure they come true, so they better be good!
I wish people stop talking about MP’s expenses and get on with the real issues. Paying off my mortgage would be rather nice..And generally feel happy, creative and still doing what I’m doing…Can I have the invention of time travel too? Go on..
Noise Porn waves magic porn wand (yes, we do have one) and Hyper disappears back to 1674, never to be seen again…
Hyper & JHz – Pitch Bitch (Hyper’s Re-edit).mp3
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