(Nacional)
Hiperasia is the product of two life-changing moments for Pablo Díaz-Reixa. The first was when he visited the Hiper Asia chain of Chinese bazaars in his hometown of Madrid, after which he scrapped all of the songs he was working on and set to work trying to sonically recreate their unique atmosphere instead. The second was collaborating with Björk on Biophilia, which taught Díaz-Reixa that an album could be more than just a CD: Hiperasia comes billed as a “wearable”, with various sportswear items available embedded with microchips hosting additional content. Amid all the conceptual fireworks, you can forget that there are 13 tracks here too, which see El Guincho moving into harsher, more crudely digitised sonic territory: synth shards, distorted vocals and punchy bass collide, but as Stena Drillmax’s cheeky diversion into mutated UK garage shows, Díaz-Reixa can still be rhythmically playful. For those who loved 2008’s sun-dappled breakout album Alegranza!, the more abrasive Hiperasia might not digest as easily. But its restless experimentalism is typical of an artist unwilling to sit still.
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