Making Beats with Hyper Crush

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Young Hollywood hangs with electro hip hop group Hyper Crush as they mix beats in their studio with Nat from 3Oh!3. We talk to Preston, Donny and Holly about their hit songs, the concept of the The Arcade music video and how MySpace got them on the map. Hosted by Michelle Hummel.
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Welcome to YoungHollywood. com.
What's up Young Hollywood?
I'm Michelle.
We're here with Hyper Crush.
Hyper color so you can see us glow, glow everybody I want to see you glow.
We're going to try to get to the bottom of this amazing sound that you have.
It's just up-beat just fun music, it's called electro hip-hop.
It's a cluster of just all kinds of different genres, decades.
You know, I mean, we like to pull stuff from, you know, even the 50s and stuff like that, you know.
Robotronic, technotronic Robotak is actually probably like one of the more high energy songs.
Robotic technotronic um is kind of a hook.
The words sound like our music.
We just came wanted to come hard with the beat.
So we kind of use electronics sounds and like saw-tooth basses and like um soft cents and stuff to make it as hard as possible.
It's like Super Mario
We're the concept of the arcade come along.
You guys start often an office.
So, we're all like doing these jobs and like we're at night, we're like working til like 4-5 in the morning on music and like it's kind of like the dream, you know, cuz we've all worked, she's a receptionist at a hair salon.
I worked in an office and he worked in a mental institution taking down crazy nuts.
Now this was in your video.
This is a Power Glove.
Me and Nintendo Power Glove locked and loaded with my finger on the trigger.
Shake it around a little bit, slap people with it, you know.
You can touch girls and they won't be offended.
How active are you guys with your MySpace Music page?
We like literally spend time like writing back everybody cuz we're like grateful like without MySpace, I don't know how.
We got a MySpace feature and that just like blew our page up and it's helped so much.
This is the studio which is also Preston's house.
We just go to Guitar Center we're like, how do we make beats?
And what is the most expensive thing you can buy to make a beat?
So they they gave us this, you know.
That's a $3,000 sound right there.
It's where, you know, we record the vocals.
We just started this song uh yesterday with Nat from 303.
I'm out here.
I'm out here.
He's not able to walk but he makes damn good beats.
This is it.
Oh.
Roll.
That's the whole chorus.
We're just going to do that.
Yo Young Hollywood, thanks for coming and check us out.
Hyper Crush in the studio.
Get out of here.
Get out of here.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Preston
Member of Hyper Crush, hosts the interview in his house/studio
- Donny
Member of Hyper Crush, participates in the interview
- Holly
Member of Hyper Crush, participates in the interview
- Michelle Hummel
Host from Young Hollywood
- Nat
From 3Oh!3, collaborating with Hyper Crush on a new song




