HYPERSPACE: Best Discoveries of the Week – Episode 143
Hey Space Travellers,
Are we ready for another incredible episode of Hyperspace?
Episode 143 landed, fasten your seatbelts and get ready to depart!
Alec La Roche – “Nothing On The Grid”
Let’s start this episode with Alec La Roche’s latest EP “Nothing On The Grid”, which feels like someone cracked open a lifetime of music lessons and wired them straight into a bass. You can hear a bit of punk in the energy, a bit of jazz in the detail, and the funk joyriding shotgun with the electronics. Everything starts from the low end: a groove, a bass riff, a flicker of a mood.. then unfolding into these layered, breathing tracks built with live bass, powerful drums, and synth textures that don’t care about genre lines.
Alec’s path runs from basement punk gigs to jazz clubs to Americana tours across the country, and this EP pulls all that history into something futuristic without losing touch with the human pulse underneath. Think Daft Punk heartbeat, Jaco-style bass brain, and the spark of someone who’s seen venues like The Fillmore but still thinks like a kid discovering sound for the first time.
This incredible project literally moves, mutates, and demands you catch the details. Genre labels? Nah. This thing lives off-grid on purpose!
Cupid Spell – “Look Alike”
Let’s now vibe into Cupid Spell, this cool dark synthpop duo from Bloomington, Indiana: Josh Kreuzman and Mandy Buffington. They’ve just dropped their single “Look Alike”, and let us tell you, it’s got this wild, dreamy sound that pulls you right into a David Lynch-inspired rabbit hole. The track’s all about duality: those messy, dual-nature vibes we all wrestle with, and it’s got a sample of Lynch himself, which just seals the deal.
Josh and Mandy’s voices weave together like a spooky dance, blending tension and harmony that keeps you hooked. The synths float around, minimal but packed with mood, and it feels like you’re drifting through a surreal dream. Formed in 2023, they’re diving into love, loss, and mystery, with more tracks lined up for the near future. Crank up the volume if you’re into something that sticks with you; it’s definitely going to bring pure, trippy magic!
Ooberfuse – “Better Than Gold”
“Better Than Gold” is one of those songs that doesn’t just entertain, it rattles cages. Ooberfuse link up with rap crew Tugista and turn corruption into their punching bag, flipping fury into fuel. The track sets a mood with eerie guitar plucks before the beat drops like a protest march. Tugista come in hot, each verse landing like a warning shot, no filters, no sweeteners, just lived truth and righteous venom.
Cherrie Anderson threads the chaos with a haunting hook that floats like smoke over fire. Her voice doesn’t soften the blow; instead, it sharpens it. The push-pull between rage and reflection gives the whole track a pulse that feels alive and dangerous.
Production-wise, Hal St John keeps it lean and mean: bass that growls, drums that punch, space where the words get to cut through. By the time the final line hits, it feels less like a song and more like a mic’d-up reckoning. This is literally a callout wrapped in a beat.
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Michelle Cameron – “Dealbreaker”
Michelle Cameron steps into the spotlight with “Dealbreaker”, and it lands like a late–night confession we weren’t ready to hear but can’t turn away from. Instead of going for drama or theatrics, she keeps it hushed and honest, the kind of heartbreak that sits quietly in your chest and waits you out. Her voice floats over soft guitar and those warm cello swells, sounding like she’s still trying to talk herself through the moment she wrote it.
You can hear some influences of artists like Phoebe Bridgers, but there’s something distinctly Michelle here: a queer perspective delivered with zero fanfare and full vulnerability. The songwriting doesn’t try to dress the pain up; it just lets the truth breathe.
For a debut, it doesn’t feel tentative at all. It feels lived-in, like she’s been writing songs in the dark for years and finally decided to let the rest of us listen. Wonderful single, definitely can’t miss this out.
DA REAL3ST – “PUSH IT”
DA REAL3ST is here bringins us “PUSH IT”, a tune that hits hard, reminding us that comfort never built a legacy. The beat’s got that drill grit, but there’s this smoky, jazz-tinged sample that keeps it from falling into copy-paste territory. It’s heavy, but it breathes. You can tell this wasn’t made in some glossy studio: it sounds like sweat, sacrifice, and studio nights where quitting was the louder option.
Lyrically, he’s not pretending. It’s that real-life duality: packs and crypto, loss and ambition, rage and reflection. When he slides between survival mode and vulnerability, it pulls you in deeper than a typical grind anthem. You don’t feel like you’re being performed at, you feel like you’re being let in.
Instead of leaning on a flashy hook or some recycled chant, he drives the refrain with pure intent. This single is a pressure cooker turned soundtrack for anyone still climbing with no safety net.
Richard Green – “Holding a Gun”
Richard Green is back with us, but this time we’re shining a light on one of his earlier releases, “Holding a Gun”. The Milan/London producer is known for bouncing between neoclassical strings and electro-pop haze, but here he dives into a lane entirely his own: part retro, part modern, built on melodies that slip into your head without asking.
You can feel the Boyz Noize imprint in the tension and crunch, but Richard twists it into his own headspace. The “gun” isn’t about violence; it’s the side-eye, the snap judgment, the way people forget every good you’ve done the second you slip. He turns that paranoia into percussion, layering synths that growl and swerve while the beat keeps swinging like it’s chasing something.
What makes the track slap isn’t just the production flex, but the intention. There’s frustration tucked beneath the kicks, like he’s dancing off a year that nearly broke him. No vocals needed, the rhythm does the talking!
Parkerlolo – “Lolo-Fidelity”
Some albums knock on the door, “Lolo-Fidelity” just walks in, drops the needle, and lets the dust settle where it may. Parkerlolo, the Bay-bred, Napa-based beat fiend, took a rough year and turned it into fuel. Instead of slowing down after a neck and back injury, he disappeared into his home studio and came out with his most dialed-in work yet.
This record doesn’t wander like his earlier projects; it cruises. Boom bap backbone, vinyl crackle soul, and sample chops that feel like they were dug up at 2AM under a dim lamp. Tracks like “Golden Years” and “Ceviche & Chips” carry real stories, not just loops: birthday isolation, beachside memories, quiet flexes disguised as grooves.
You can hear the fingerprints of legends like Dilla, Q-Tip, Premier, Madlib, but nothing here sounds borrowed. It’s that sweet spot where nostalgia nods and innovation grins. This incredible album feels less like a playlist and more like a journal written in basslines and drum patterns: resilient, funky, and built with both heart and homework.
Carl HS – “Buy sunnies on a gloomy day”
Carl HS is here dropping a mood swing in slow motion. “Buy sunnies on a gloomy day” is the first peek into his upcoming album “Dirt Bike Meditations”, and it feels like Britpop took a walk through a rainy Stockholm alley with a psychedelic umbrella. The whole thing is warm and acoustic on the surface, but there’s this eerie little hum of melancholy running underneath, like he’s smiling with a cracked mirror.
Carl has always been a bit of a shapeshifter: model, lit grad, sad clown onstage, dandy in decay; but here he sounds the most himself. The lyrics hit like fortune-cookie doom poetry, and the choruses land like advice from someone who’s seen both sides of the breakdown. It’s abstract without being pretentious, grounded without losing its weirdness.
If this is the first chapter of the new record, he’s setting the bar somewhere above the cloudline, shades on or not.
barDe – “Next to Last Girl”
barDe flips the heartbreak trope on its head and delivers a glittery middle finger wrapped in synths and sass: we’re talking about “Next to Last Girl”. Instead of sitting in the “almost forever” blues, she spins the whole thing into a retro-pop joyride where vulnerability gets a backbeat and a side-eye.
The track’s got that sugar-rush shimmer: punchy bass, powerful drums, playful harmonies, and hooks sharp enough to leave scratch marks. It’s very “dancing in the mirror in your most dramatic outfit while processing your feelings”, but make it alt-pop theatre with zebra print and emotional cardio.
What makes it land is the tone: equal parts confession and comeback arc. She’s not begging to be seen — she’s loudly reminding you she was never a side quest. The chorus hits like a group chat pep talk in 80s eyeliner, and every lyric winks while it stings.
If you’ve ever been the warm-up act for someone else’s happy ending, this one’s your theme song — but louder, sparklier, and fully in control.
SonicNeuron – “Blurred Borders”
When SonicNeuron dropped their debut album “Blurred Borders” back in July, it just showed us how music should be done. The Devon-based creative collective, led by brothers Danny and Jason Williams, decided to build an entire six-track record with the help of the AI, pairing each song with its own surreal, futuristic video. The result? A project that lives exactly where its name suggests: in the grey zone between human and machine, reality and imagination.
The sound of “Blurred Borders” stretches wide, from ambient washes and hypnotic rhythms to more urgent, dynamic beats. Lyrically and vocally, it leans into diversity, mixing English with moments in Spanish and even a Tamil lullaby, pulling its themes of identity and connection into a truly global space.
But while AI may have powered the production, the human touch is clear. Danny’s carefully tuned prompts and Jason’s sharp curatorial vision make this project feel purposeful, cohesive, and emotionally resonant.
“Blurred Borders” is a record that’s very difficult to dislike: it’s humble, thought-provoking, and quietly groundbreaking.. the kind of project that makes you think about it when the last track plays, and you’ll wonder, maybe it’s time to play it again.
