From a Viral Tweet to a Defining Compilation: The Story of Hit 'Em

US The subject of a dream becomes cult genre 07/03/25

The origin of 'Hit Em' is not like your average music genre; it was proposed in a tweet by Drew Daniel in July 2024, stating that he had:

had a dream I was at a rave talking to a girl and she told me about a genre called "hit em" that is in 5/4 time at 212 bpm with super crunched out sounds thank you dream girl

What followed was a wave of people taking up this new genre which has spawned an incredible amount of music. This video goes through the origin story, how to make 'Hit Em', and the music that has been created since that tweet. There was a 'Thank you dream girl' compilation available on Bandcamp, featuring 27 tracks of the super-meta cult genre, released last year. Here are the timestamps:

0:00 intro

1:39 Hit Em origin

2:13 Hit Em requirements

3:37 People producing Hit Em

4:20 Porter Robinson & Bishu Twitch streams

8:54 The compilation

9:43 Submissions for the compilation

11:00 The compilation release

12:41 Conclusion 31:03 Will Hit Em survive?

14:03 Final thoughts

14:37 Outro

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