When Drew Daniel of experimental Baltimore duo xmatmosx went to bed earlier this week, he can’t have expected to wake up with a new genre of music rattling around his brain. The next day he shared what had been running through his mind as he slept: “had a dream I was at a rave talking to a girl and she told me about a genre called ‘hit em’,” he wrote on Twitter. “That is in 5/4 time at 212 bpm with super crunched out sounds.” He seemed to know that he was on to something, ending the tweet with “thank you dream girl.” So far hit ‘em is a lot less heady, with that unusually high BPM pitching it somewhere between gabber and speedcore. The early adopters of the hit ‘em are largely mixing their rapid-fire drums with booming bass lines and chopped up vocal samples, a sound to overwhelm the senses and baffle the dancefloor. Read ddavidrenshaw’s full blog at the link in bio, or head to TheFADER.com. 📸 janeplne on X #HitEm