100 gecs and the Mystery of Hyperpop

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3.3 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

What is hyperpop? A movement? A meaningless label? A Spotify playlist? Whatever the answer, it surely has something to do with 100 gecs, the duo of Laura Les and Dylan Brady, whose songs sometimes sound like the last three decades of popular music happening all at once. On this episode, Pitchfork Editor Puja Patel interviews Les and Brady about their conflicted relationship to the genre they’ve come to embody, as well as their influences—ranging from PC Music to Lil Wayne to John Zorn to Britney Spears—and a new wave of artists who are taking their cues from gecs themselves.

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0:00.0	This is the Pitchfork Review. I'm Pooja Patel, the editor of Pitchfork.
0:07.2	And today, I'm here with Laura Less and Dylan Brady of 100 Gex.
0:12.4	Hello.
0:13.3	How's it going?
0:14.5	If you haven't heard of them yet, 100 Gex is a wildly popular musical duo.
0:19.1	Their breakout song was last year's explosive money machine.
0:22.2	Which was a good example of what was to come, this unique, heavily layered, semi-chaotic sound that is polarized
0:39.3	music critics, even within pitchfork. So I think first things first, is it 100 gecks or 100 gex? Isn't
0:48.2	there a third option too? 1-0-0. Gex. Yeah, that's the one. It's either 100 gecks, a hundred gecks, or 100 gecks.
0:57.3	Or 100, yeah.
1:00.2	Mm-hmm.
1:01.3	And you don't have a preference.
1:03.4	Jury's out on that one.
1:05.4	Jury's for sure out.
1:06.8	How do you refer to yourselves?
1:09.6	Dylan and Laura?
1:11.5	Those knuckleheads.
1:13.3	Hundred geese.
1:15.7	Laura, what music were you making when you came across, Dylan?
1:20.5	I was making like sort of like singer-songwriter stuff, but i always knew that i would want to drum in there
1:31.0	somewhere dylan what were you doing i was producing um rap songs for uh some friends of mine at the time
1:38.2	i hadn't really um made my own music at that point i think i was just kind of like doing the producer grind, chopping up
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