Hype Williams
Hype Williams is a duo made up of Russia-born Inga Copeland and London's Dean Blunt. They have built up a cult reputation over the past few years for a series of 7"s and EP's, as well as a playful obscuring of their idenities and strategies. Their last album was the critically acclaimed "One Nation" on US label Hippos in Tanks.
They collect and recompose the fragments of popular culture of previous decades, often filtered through lo-fi production, but in a way that puts them far beyond being pigeonholed as a hypnagogic pop act. Indeed, their alliance is with the UK's bass-mutating scenes as much as anything else, a fact underlined by their recent EP released on Kode9's Hyperdub label.
Yet in the end Hype Williams remain defiantly original, and really do sound like nothing else out there.
