HyperParadise by Hermitude

HyperParadise, the fourth album from Hermitude, came out on Elefant Traks on 3 February 2012, and it's the sound of two multi-instrumentalists from the Blue Mountains, Luke Dubber and Angus Stuart, better known as Luke Dubs and Elgusto, blowing up the turntables-and-keys setup they'd been working since 2000 to wide-screen size. The beats hit hard, the synths glitter, and the whole thing weaves between hip-hop, electronica and whatever else catches their ear.

The singles rolled out slowly: "Get in My Life" in November 2010, then "Speak of the Devil" in September 2011, which took the Triple J Award for Music Video of the Year, and finally the title track, which in a Flume remix reached number 38 on the ARIA chart and gave the duo their first charting single. The album won Best Independent Dance/Electronic Album at the 2012 AIR Awards and was up for Australian Album of the Year at that year's J Awards.

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