El Guincho – Hiperasia (LP)

Album Info Hide Show Artist: El Guincho Album: Hiperasia Released: Spain, 2016 Tracklist: A1 Rotu Seco A2 Cmix A3 Pizza A4 Sega A5 De Bugas A6 Muchos Boys B1 Parte Virtual B2 Stena Drillmax B3 Abdi B4 Hiperasia B5 Pelo Rapado B6 Mis Hits B7 Zona Wi-Fi Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. You can also pick up your order in store, just select Local Pickup at the checkout. We also ship internationally – prices vary depending on weight and location. We ship vinyls in thick, rigid carboard mailers with a crushable zone on either side, and for extra safety we bubble wrap the records. 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You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show El Guinchos third album arrived in 2016 like a neon-lit detour from the sun-drunk world of Alegranza and Pop Negro. Pablo Daz-Reixa always had a crate-diggers ear and a party-starters instincts, but Hiperasia turns those impulses inside out. The rhythms snap instead of lilt, melodies arrive in splinters, and Auto-Tune becomes a colouring tool rather than a crutch. Its a joyfully synthetic record, restless and bristling, and it still feels like one of the more audacious pivots in Spanish pop this side of the last decade. If you came for the balmy psych of Bombay, Hiperasia tells you early on to recalibrate. Beats hit with trap-like weight, hi-hats chatter, and samples pop in and out like fluorescent signage. The production has a clipped, percussive focus, yet it never loses El Guinchos knack for earworms. Hooks dont announce themselves with big choruses; they creep up as little chants and fragments, the sort of bits you find yourself muttering while boiling pasta. Its the sound of a producer who has spent years chopping, re-pitching and reassembling, until even silence feels rhythmic. Comix is the calling card and a minor classic in its own right, not least because of the jolt that Mala Rodrguez brings to the track. Her feature nails the records mood, tough and playful at once, with verses that dance on the knife-edge between street swagger and surrealism. The song also sums up Hiperasias palette: rubbery bass, busy percussion, synths that squeal like LED lights, vocals tuned into glassy contours. You can hear the studio work as musical arrangement, the way he frames voices and percussion like cut-up collage. What keeps the record from feeling cold is Daz-Reixas sense of mischief. Even when he leans into harsher textures, theres a wink in the beat switches and a sly smile in the ad-libs. Spanish club currents thread through the set, from reggaetons dembow sway to lithe hip hop motifs. Hes not copying those styles so much as treating them as raw material, same as the samples he slices. That collage spirit has always been part of El Guinchos world, but here its compressed into sharpened shapes. The songs are shorter, leaner, more hooked on the hit of a single idea. A few years on, the record sounds prescient. Plenty of pop and indie artists have since chased a similar mix of abrasive beats and candy-bright melody, but Hiperasia lands with a peculiar mood thats still hard to replicate. Theres a lived-in, street-market tactility to it, a sense of plastic, nylon and fluorescent light that undercuts any nostalgia for analog warmth. Its not anti-vinyl by any stretch though. On wax, the low end has extra bounce and the transients snap in a way that flatters big speakers. If youre hunting for El Guincho vinyl, keep an eye out because Hiperasia vinyl pressings dont tend to gather dust. Folks who buy El Guincho records online will often tell you this one sells through quietly, then vanishes until the next batch shows up. The videos around the album, driven by the Barcelona outfit CANADA, underscored the shift with a glossy, uncanny aesthetic that matched the sonics. It felt like El Guincho was rejecting easy exoticism and building his own futuristic city out of flashing signs and fragmented grooves. Critics clocked the move and were largely on board, noting how the record shed the beachy frames of earlier work for something spikier and more urban. That reception makes sense. This isnt a background listen; it asks you to lean in and follow the edits, then rewards you when the percussion blooms or a chorus suddenly snaps into focus. For fans of adventurous pop, Hiperasia is a keeper, the kind of album that pushes you out of old habits while still giving you something to hum. If you collect El Guincho albums on vinyl, it pairs beautifully with Pop Negro on the shelf, a left turn that makes the earlier record sound fresher by contrast. And if youre crate-digging in a Melbourne record store, dont be surprised if the staffer at the counter lights up when you ask about it. In the world of vinyl records Australia has a strong soft spot for shapeshifters, and this one has earned its cult stripes. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review