That moment when you drop that good shit so hard that your consciousness really does travel to a parallel universe and you appear in a stranger's dream
I write songs on my sleep sometimes. 90% of the time they're trash when I wake up and play them on something. Once I got a usable, but not amazing, song from a dream. Once, I had this amazing, powerful melody come to me in a dream. I just had to make into something bombastic. On waking, it proved to be nothing more or less than "hot cross buns".
The 5/4 pace with such abrasive and harsh crunched sounds is so off putting it feels wrong or other worldly. Fitting as it came from a dream. This genre could unironically be used in projects where there’s a really trippy or somewhat creepy / off putting scene
Last time I was in a rave in a dream, a girl with blue hair, freckles, a crop top and elf ears bought me a "Milkshake" that was heavily laced with hallucinogens, and I didn't realize it, so I tripped HARD. Full on 80's concert level color waves. I came down, was asking for more but they were sold out, and then stumbled out of the rave bar and woke up. TL:DR; The elves are in the dreamscape now, and they have THE GOOD grass.
@@Bungusmingus i mean, in this video alone you can hear trance, atmospheric, breakbeat, hip-hop, hardstep, grindcore, and more. Though, I guess this just proves Hit 'Em is a subgenre of other genres.
@@commanderfoxtrot i think its a lot like breakcore in that its sort of a genre but moreso just a specific style that can be applied to other genres, although with hit 'em especially, since it didnt branch off of anything else and only has 3 very simple things defining it breakcore isnt really a thing that can stand just on its own either, it has to latch onto some other genre to exist (usually dnb/jungle)
This is a strange, almost (coincidentally) dreamlike feeling. This genre is amazing, and it would be fantastic if it took off, but sadly, we are the few blessed with the ability to understand the appeal so it will stay small. It may not even be something people continue to produce, but at least for this moment, we get to enjoy it. Thank you dream girl.
I mean jungle is getting popular again and this definitely has some similarities so i feel like it has atleast the potential of becoming a bigger genre
I think one main reason it won't catch on much is that the genre is too rigidly defined. The tempo requirement in particular may make mixes really easy, but it doesn't really provide enough freedom to the artist to make it worth making more than one track
@@Nat_the_Chicken You're kidding right? If anything, I swear this is the most diverse genre I have *ever* seen. I'm already beginning to notice "sub-genres" of Hit 'Em show up like Hit 'Em x Jass and Hit 'Em x Trap pop up.
@@commanderfoxtrot Yeah I like breakcore, breakcore makes me feel like I'm on amphetamines, this makes me feel like I'm on amphetamines but also forgot how to use my left leg.
The fact that a lot of the tracks are pretty short and blend into each other kinda suits it and makes this a really fun and punchy mix, nice work. Thank you dream girl.
genuinely i think i need more hitem as a genre. full songs and everything. it works so unreasonably well and i feel like it would be crazy to hear more people with different styles commit to it
I like this, but I desperately need to know why TH-cam (and therefore in a way, Google) wants me to know about this genre so badly. Like Hit 'Em is starting to randomly fill my suggestions since yesterday night. I can't help but wonder why the algorithm has blessed me with this almost otherworldly genre.... I'm probably overthinking again. LOL
Making a music genre based on some rando's dream is a novel concept, so people clicked on it. Drive enough traffic and people will begin to copy it in hopes of the same viral success. If you're into the old internet aesthetics scene and look for stuff like Y2K, "breakcore", or other microgenres, that'll be weighted as well. Repeat that enough time and eventually everyone in the world will be recommended these vids. I'm starting to see that with Rally House as well.
I honestly love how I got two wildly different answers yet both somehow make sense xD. I've started working on a Hit 'Em playlist if anybody wants to use it. I guess it was my calling to start the first TH-cam playlist for it since it somehow DIDN'T have one yet. Edit: I've since found one other earlier playlist with around 170 views, but it seems to be pretty well hidden behind the algorithm and has a total a 7 songs. So it seems that this is might actually be the second playlist made (but the first one truly intended for regular public use?). I wanted to clear that up the moment I found it. Re-edit: Okay, after quite a bit of digging, I've found a few other small lists including one with Hit Em' samples (I think they're meant for content creation... each one is under 1 minute long). So, there's definitely an underground foundation here... It's just not been tapped into much, which makes sense considering how even the "mainstream" part of this genre is still pretty obscure.
I've had a lot of dreams that lead to art and other creative things but never had a dream messenger straight up give me a new genre of music. That's wild . Usually it's just like a better variation of one of my favorite songs or something
I love everything about this genre, things that come from dreams feel special. Like, my gf had a dream that i had a tattoo, so i got it in real life, still my only one. Anyway love this :)
Discovered this genre last night (while sleep deprived and bored, go figure), and I will say... coming off the very limited samples I've tried, this is definitely something I'll be touring more.
4:58 leading into the drop feels like what I imagined Hit ‘Em to sound like reading dream girl’s description without listening to anybody’s interpretation
this genre feels like a missing piece; a genre of music that was supposed to exist in the early 2000s along with breakcore and acid but for whatever reason this reality just didnt
God I love 5/4. This reminds me of this weird “genre” project from the early 2000s called Skew, was all 3/4 and a certain tempo, much like the constraints of this. I wish I still knew any of those track. Was some cool stuff there.
best new edm genre and to think it came from someone's subconsciousness, trying to come up with something logical as to not alert the consciousness that it is asleep, and currently dreaming.
there is in the more experimental stuff. Venetian Snares does a lot in 7/4. i think Squarepusher and Boards of Canada both play around with odd time signatures regularly, and there's way weirder stuff than them.
It's the Future sound we've been looking for. But forreal this sounds so Futuristic even more than Neo-Y2K, Neotrance and Hypertrance. This feels like it will fit right in with that Y2K Era gaming.
I hate most of it lol but I cut them some slack because I know most of these producers are just hobbyists who can’t make good music in any genre 🤷♂️ I want to hear a professional EDM producer try their hand.
In some ways this is the opposite of vaporwave. Crunchy instead of smooth, purposefully fast instead of purposefully slow, OC instead of samples (cuz there aren’t many soft rock or smooth jazz songs in 5/4), dream-generated description instead of a dreamy aesthetic, etc.
They say it's synapses misfiring but sometimes they make too much sense. Sometimes you get results from them or they keep recurring and continuing. Some people get sensory inputs which linger beyond the dream without a source of cause. I certainly have. Synapses are weird when left to their own devices.
It's strange though when it takes on it's own form rather than connecting me to places I've known. Either I think relatively abstractly, or I'm just very creative. Because while some dreams are definitely memories remixed, there are others where I'm just somewhere completely isolated from anything I've seen. And honestly, you can't tell me that the phantom senses I get are false. I live 'em. My brain must be PRETTY GOOD at controlling my nerves and olfactory organs in very specific ways. I smell and taste food, feel excruciating pain, exhaust myself in the dream and wake up without energy. Oh, and I don't get sleep paralysis. The only 3 times it's happened to me was all the body being exhausted past it's limit while asleep, somehow.
I haven't listened to Flying Lotus in at least 10 years but my memory is that a lot of his stuff sounded like this. Could never see it becoming a genre being played in clubs but it's still fun.
That's the thing.. I didn't. It just randomly appeared in my recommended last night and seems to be slowly taking a spot there. It started with Bishu's video for me as well, which is weird because I never even watched his channel before.
That interdimensional rave chic really blessed us with something
The idea the dream girl was actually a dimension hopper is a theory I'm here for.
@@jordanmchighlander9365It's the Real Lain
@@jordanmchighlander9365 I agree, I already decided that dream girl was infact from a few dimensions over
That moment when you drop that good shit so hard that your consciousness really does travel to a parallel universe and you appear in a stranger's dream
she came from the future to talk about the success of the new hit em genre
Here before this genre hit em
I can't believe I was on time for something
@@aSipOfHemlocktea real
if it doesnt do it on its own i might make it hit em fr
It may have started as whimsy based on a dream, but these are genuinely great. I’m now a fully committed hitemhead.
Hitemhead is just the perfect word thank you
@@LucidLetters i prefer hit-head
As am i 🤝
I write songs on my sleep sometimes. 90% of the time they're trash when I wake up and play them on something. Once I got a usable, but not amazing, song from a dream.
Once, I had this amazing, powerful melody come to me in a dream. I just had to make into something bombastic. On waking, it proved to be nothing more or less than "hot cross buns".
Love when people drag dreamworld concepts into reality. That was the original intent of the Surrealist art movement btw.
thank you dream girl
The 5/4 pace with such abrasive and harsh crunched sounds is so off putting it feels wrong or other worldly. Fitting as it came from a dream. This genre could unironically be used in projects where there’s a really trippy or somewhat creepy / off putting scene
It really hits 'em
These sound like 90s - 2000s futuristic RPG music
alien raves would definitely need this genre
Cruelty squad
Everyone showing appreciation to the dream rave girl in the comments is kinda wholesome ngl
Last time I was in a rave in a dream, a girl with blue hair, freckles, a crop top and elf ears bought me a "Milkshake" that was heavily laced with hallucinogens, and I didn't realize it, so I tripped HARD. Full on 80's concert level color waves. I came down, was asking for more but they were sold out, and then stumbled out of the rave bar and woke up.
TL:DR; The elves are in the dreamscape now, and they have THE GOOD grass.
goddamn. I wish I could have them.
it was the same girl probably
Love how there's already budding subgenres of Hit 'Em when the genre's been out for like a month
Really? Like what?
@@Bungusmingus i mean, in this video alone you can hear trance, atmospheric, breakbeat, hip-hop, hardstep, grindcore, and more. Though, I guess this just proves Hit 'Em is a subgenre of other genres.
I feel like it's better-described as a subgenre of breakcore.
@@commanderfoxtrot i think its a lot like breakcore in that its sort of a genre but moreso just a specific style that can be applied to other genres, although with hit 'em especially, since it didnt branch off of anything else and only has 3 very simple things defining it
breakcore isnt really a thing that can stand just on its own either, it has to latch onto some other genre to exist (usually dnb/jungle)
This is a strange, almost (coincidentally) dreamlike feeling. This genre is amazing, and it would be fantastic if it took off, but sadly, we are the few blessed with the ability to understand the appeal so it will stay small. It may not even be something people continue to produce, but at least for this moment, we get to enjoy it. Thank you dream girl.
can't wait to have a video essay about "how hit em took over generation alpha from a tweet" in 5 years
I mean jungle is getting popular again and this definitely has some similarities so i feel like it has atleast the potential of becoming a bigger genre
Between Kawaiibass, synthgenres, glitchhop, DnB etc, there'll always be some dedicated folks to enjoy this corner of music
I think one main reason it won't catch on much is that the genre is too rigidly defined. The tempo requirement in particular may make mixes really easy, but it doesn't really provide enough freedom to the artist to make it worth making more than one track
@@Nat_the_Chicken You're kidding right? If anything, I swear this is the most diverse genre I have *ever* seen. I'm already beginning to notice "sub-genres" of Hit 'Em show up like Hit 'Em x Jass and Hit 'Em x Trap pop up.
Hear me out: the name Hit Em is actually a contraction of (Hi)gh (Tem)po
WAIT!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
You cooked
I hereby declare this canon
the hit em scene >>>
LET THE RHYTHM HIT 'EM 🗣️🔥🔥🔥
It's stronger in the other voice
We makes the joints that make em spread em butta moist
It's stronger in the other voice?
This is the genre I never knew I needed but now could never live without.
tbh i could say that about alot of niche music subgenre's, im just happy to be early to the subgenre so i can hit em early
Have you ever heard of breakcore?
@@commanderfoxtrot Yeah I like breakcore, breakcore makes me feel like I'm on amphetamines, this makes me feel like I'm on amphetamines but also forgot how to use my left leg.
The fact that a lot of the tracks are pretty short and blend into each other kinda suits it and makes this a really fun and punchy mix, nice work.
Thank you dream girl.
I'm a sucker for music in odd time signatures and this really tickled my brain
Check out Splatoon’s salmon run music if you haven’t!
@@koveltskiis8391 Hahaha I'm already a huge Splatoon fan
@@appleofdoom Ah, good taste then!
"It's Still Raining (I Don't Mind)" by Peatu was my introduction to 11/8 time sig. What a unique track to experience!
Really cool being around when a new genre has been beggining
genuinely i think i need more hitem as a genre. full songs and everything. it works so unreasonably well and i feel like it would be crazy to hear more people with different styles commit to it
It's crazy to think that someone dreamt about this and now their dream has become reality O_O
ik i keep thinking abt how bizarre and yet so cool that is
investing in hit em early
Stonks 📈
Thank you Dream Girl.
Lying somewhere between breakcore and DnB. Almost like turning DnB into a crunchy waltz, and I dig it. Thank you, dream girl.
14:46 on is just NUTS, it’s unironically so good
The way you count in Hit 'Em music is not 1-2-3-4-5.. it's H-i-t-'E-m
gonna use this
Lol
Thank you dream girl!
I was hoping someone was gonna make exactly this kinda playlist and it absolutely rips
I like this, but I desperately need to know why TH-cam (and therefore in a way, Google) wants me to know about this genre so badly. Like Hit 'Em is starting to randomly fill my suggestions since yesterday night. I can't help but wonder why the algorithm has blessed me with this almost otherworldly genre....
I'm probably overthinking again. LOL
Dream girl works for Alphabet
Making a music genre based on some rando's dream is a novel concept, so people clicked on it. Drive enough traffic and people will begin to copy it in hopes of the same viral success. If you're into the old internet aesthetics scene and look for stuff like Y2K, "breakcore", or other microgenres, that'll be weighted as well. Repeat that enough time and eventually everyone in the world will be recommended these vids. I'm starting to see that with Rally House as well.
I honestly love how I got two wildly different answers yet both somehow make sense xD.
I've started working on a Hit 'Em playlist if anybody wants to use it. I guess it was my calling to start the first TH-cam playlist for it since it somehow DIDN'T have one yet.
Edit: I've since found one other earlier playlist with around 170 views, but it seems to be pretty well hidden behind the algorithm and has a total a 7 songs. So it seems that this is might actually be the second playlist made (but the first one truly intended for regular public use?). I wanted to clear that up the moment I found it.
Re-edit: Okay, after quite a bit of digging, I've found a few other small lists including one with Hit Em' samples (I think they're meant for content creation... each one is under 1 minute long). So, there's definitely an underground foundation here... It's just not been tapped into much, which makes sense considering how even the "mainstream" part of this genre is still pretty obscure.
New music genre before GTA6 is crazy💀💀💀
I want GTA 6 to have radio station with hit em
😂😂😂😂😂
i am a devoted hitemhead, thank you dream girl
🔥🗣📢HIT 'EM 🔥🔥🔥
I've had a lot of dreams that lead to art and other creative things but never had a dream messenger straight up give me a new genre of music. That's wild . Usually it's just like a better variation of one of my favorite songs or something
Ngl this has a more cyberpunk feel to it than cyberpunk 2077 music does
Hitemheads rise up!
its like breakcore 2. i like it.
LMAO YEAH
I can see that being an Album compliation name. Breakcore 2.0 Hit 'Em
I love everything about this genre, things that come from dreams feel special. Like, my gf had a dream that i had a tattoo, so i got it in real life, still my only one. Anyway love this :)
Haters will say this is 10/8
106 bpm
@@kode-man23 70,666 bpm triplet feel
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Glorp is in before this genre blows up. Hello future goers from August 2024 👋
Damn
Erm.. what the florp
5/4/212
I might need a whole playlist of this genre on Spotify
thanks dream girl
THANK YOU DREAM GIRL
16:33 this drum beat is so freakin dope !! Thank you gream dirl
The human brain never ceases to amaze and astonish
Discovered this genre last night (while sleep deprived and bored, go figure), and I will say... coming off the very limited samples I've tried, this is definitely something I'll be touring more.
4:58 leading into the drop feels like what I imagined Hit ‘Em to sound like reading dream girl’s description without listening to anybody’s interpretation
this genre feels like a missing piece; a genre of music that was supposed to exist in the early 2000s along with breakcore and acid but for whatever reason this reality just didnt
Y’all cooked with this! I think I’m gonna have to make one.
Oh my god I need more hit'em in my life. I want to go to a hit'em rave.
HIDDIM. What an amazing creative exercise, loved everything that's come out of this meme genre.
This is like speed jazz for ravers.
Love this sort of 'Fake' genre, with it's blend of DNB, Breakcore, Techno, etc. The fact this genre came from a simple dream is very intriguing.
super interesting there is such variety as to what counts as 'crunched out'
thank you dream girl
God I love 5/4.
This reminds me of this weird “genre” project from the early 2000s called Skew, was all 3/4 and a certain tempo, much like the constraints of this.
I wish I still knew any of those track. Was some cool stuff there.
A lot of the tracks have a 3+2 feel being in 5/4. Fitting since the name Hit ‘em is 3+2 letters. 🤯
In my restless dreams, I hear that music
this is such a fun concept to mess around with
Plot twist: The dream girl is SOPHIE blessing us one last time by proxy.
finally getting a chance to listen to this, glad to hear it 🙌🙌🙌 we're going places with this one
best new edm genre
and to think it came from someone's subconsciousness, trying to come up with something logical as to not alert the consciousness that it is asleep, and currently dreaming.
reddit ass comment
Never understood why there hasn't been more odd time signature in electronic music
there is in the more experimental stuff. Venetian Snares does a lot in 7/4. i think Squarepusher and Boards of Canada both play around with odd time signatures regularly, and there's way weirder stuff than them.
Thank you, dream girl!
"It came to me in a dream"
THANK YOU DREAMGIRL ❤
Thank you for blessing us with this playlist, this genre feels like it’s got legs
This absolutely owns holy fuck lmfao I Am Floored
Anyone else feel like theyve actually heard this chaotic bliss type music in their dreams before?
THANK YOU SO MUCH DREAM GIRL
Hit Em' GOOD
Absolutely banger. Listened to this with headphones, midnight rn, moon shining through my window
I’d rather be -hit ‘em- than sleeping!
This is gonna blow up on RYM in two weeks flat
seeing megaphonix making heat instead of catching strays in chat is wild
It's the Future sound we've been looking for. But forreal this sounds so Futuristic even more than Neo-Y2K, Neotrance and Hypertrance. This feels like it will fit right in with that Y2K Era gaming.
Welcome to the second breakcore emergence.
Strange but exciting, sick to be here for some innovation in the genre. Ngl I hate some of this but there are some bangers here
I hate most of it lol but I cut them some slack because I know most of these producers are just hobbyists who can’t make good music in any genre 🤷♂️ I want to hear a professional EDM producer try their hand.
Here b4 huge
The best stuff comes out of dreams.
5/4 fucking slaps holy shit
In some ways this is the opposite of vaporwave. Crunchy instead of smooth, purposefully fast instead of purposefully slow, OC instead of samples (cuz there aren’t many soft rock or smooth jazz songs in 5/4), dream-generated description instead of a dreamy aesthetic, etc.
This to prove hEllolisTENER was here for the birth of hit ‘em.
They say it's synapses misfiring but sometimes they make too much sense. Sometimes you get results from them or they keep recurring and continuing. Some people get sensory inputs which linger beyond the dream without a source of cause. I certainly have. Synapses are weird when left to their own devices.
That myth is straight up false. Youre literally just thinking. Thats what it is. An extremely deep, conpletely free state of thinking.
@@arandomsupraHobbes pilled
I heard it’s your brain shuffling memories around and reorganizing them
It's strange though when it takes on it's own form rather than connecting me to places I've known. Either I think relatively abstractly, or I'm just very creative. Because while some dreams are definitely memories remixed, there are others where I'm just somewhere completely isolated from anything I've seen.
And honestly, you can't tell me that the phantom senses I get are false. I live 'em. My brain must be PRETTY GOOD at controlling my nerves and olfactory organs in very specific ways. I smell and taste food, feel excruciating pain, exhaust myself in the dream and wake up without energy.
Oh, and I don't get sleep paralysis. The only 3 times it's happened to me was all the body being exhausted past it's limit while asleep, somehow.
I like it and I'm only a month late
yo this rocks, can we have the links to each track?
This is what plays at the cruelty squad nightclub
I haven't listened to Flying Lotus in at least 10 years but my memory is that a lot of his stuff sounded like this. Could never see it becoming a genre being played in clubs but it's still fun.
It's super syncopated in FlyLo case but he didn't really mess around with 5/4
This isnt really "dancing" music, its definitely more like "150mph in a Honda Civic" music
FlyLo isn’t really played in clubs either.
And it’s so funny that this does sound like his more experimental works.
@@arandomsuprawho needs proper dance rhythm when druqs exist lol, never stopped people before
Why did we all see that tweet and then google it?
Hit.. me up
For me it was an Instagram repost of the tweet
@@levipicard7685 I saw the tweet cus I'm on X
@@levipicard7685 and for me it was Bishu's video
@@stewbankerSame. Thank you dream girl and thank you Bishu.
That's the thing.. I didn't. It just randomly appeared in my recommended last night and seems to be slowly taking a spot there.
It started with Bishu's video for me as well, which is weird because I never even watched his channel before.
Glittering dreams by lucid letters one of my favourites
yaaaay!!!
gonna do it
gotta hitem
@@kuciferr Bro's boutta hit em💀
Hit em in 2024
The real question is how do you dance to hit 'em? Like what's the designated dance style here? I'd love to see tbh
Like polyrhythmic odd meter breakcore with extra çřųśħÿ-ness. Gross, I love it…
here before it hits
good luck making this, SUNO
Lol
It sounds fitting for a rave to lol
that was a blast
Can more examples of the genre be submitted somewhere please?
hit em is the new biggest genre of 2024-2025
Definitely
thank you based dream girl, giving us a breakcore / drill n bass adjacent subgenre
well well well. *hittem.*