flipEMoff!!'s "imagine if basement jaxx got a low taper fade" is 3:19 of hyperflip from Kawasaki
This week's pick is the 3:19 title cut of flipEMoff!!'s seventeen-track hyperflip best-of ghc: girls hyperflip cry!!!, free to download from Japan's Lost Frog Productions, with a direct link to listen.
flipEMoff!!'s ghc: girls hyperflip cry!!! came out on 24 October 2026: seventeen tracks, about an hour, name your price on Bandcamp. 1
Open with the last track, "imagine if basement jaxx got a low taper fade (girls hyperflip cry mix)", which runs 3:19. 2
Genre tag
Hyperflip and dariacore are two names for one internet microgenre of dance music, usually filed under hyperpop. 3 The producer Jane Remover coined "dariacore" with a 2021 album of that name, and the sound spread on SoundCloud across 2021 and 2022. 3
A hyperflip track is cut from sped-up, pitch-shifted samples of pop songs and other familiar media, over breakbeats and Jersey club rhythms. 3 Raphael Helfand of The Fader called the genre "an entire genre in and of itself, taking hyperpop's silliest tendencies to their logical conclusions". 3
The tags on this release read edm, electronic, dariacore, flipcore, hyperflip, plunderphonics and Japan. 1 Flipcore and plunderphonics name the same method in older words: records assembled out of other records.
This record belongs to the Japanese side of that scene. By the mid-2020s, dariacore had built a cult following there through the netlabel Lost Frog Productions. 3 The label's founder, Haruo Ishihara, puts part of that down to Japan's remix and meme culture, and to how often the tracks lift from anime and J-pop hits people already know. 3
Who is flipEMoff!!
The producer gives Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki as home, and the SoundCloud page runs the line "giving 'em the pinky finger since 2024". 4 Kawasaki is the city strung between Tokyo and Yokohama on the Tama River. 5
The music is credited to flipEMoff!! alone, and all three records sit on the label's Bandcamp rather than an artist page of their own. 1
The catalogue starts with ghc: good hyperflip collection vol. 1: seven tracks, 24 minutes, released 31 January 2025 as LF270MP3. 6 ghc: good hyperflip collection vol. 2 followed on 2 January 2026 with seven tracks in 23 minutes, LF309MP3. 7
So a producer who had put out two seven-track collections now has a seventeen-track one. The initials stayed: "good hyperflip collection" for the first two, "girls hyperflip cry" for this one.
The artwork is by al_7xyz. 1
Why this release stands out this week
This is the project's first release since vol. 2 in January. The artist's own note states plainly what the album is:
girls hyperflip cry! my new album!!! its kinda a best of flipEMoff!! compilation, with some new additions... ive also remastered a few tracks because some of the older ones sounded kinda bad compared to some of the songs now. 1
Eight of the seventeen tracks appear on neither earlier volume, among them "half lies are still half truths", "lonely little jellyfish" and the title cut. 167
The same note closes on a pause:
anyway im gonna recharge for the time being. for 2027, im want to be bolder and hopefully collab with some of my hyperflip oomfs, which is why i made a twitter account!! 1
For anyone arriving now, the timing helps. This is the fullest picture of the project the producer has published.
The label behind it is a long-running one: Lost Frog Productions gives Japan and 1992 on its own page, and at the time of writing carries 247 releases. 1 One supporter's comment on the album reads: "flipEMoff!! is easily my fav hyperflip producer. everything they do is just so fun to listen to and i will never grow tired of it." 1
Start here
"imagine if basement jaxx got a low taper fade" carries the album's name in its parentheses. Its title is a hypothetical, and the track answers it — the move hyperflip is built on.
What that sounds like in practice shows up in the earlier collections. "party drop pop rock anthem" lifts Reol's "Hibikase" and "Drop Pop Candy", both from 2014, plus "The Runaway Guitarist" from the anime Bocchi the Rock! 8 The SpongeBob-titled opener samples SpongeBob SquarePants clips alongside a Don Pollo track. 8
That opener, "spongebob and patrick use the secret entrance only to end up in the VOID", is the second stop at 3:13. 1 It is the producer's signature tune, and this release is its third appearance: it opened vol. 1 in January 2025, returned as an "anniversary mix" on vol. 2, and lands here remastered. 67
Third stop: "well if u know so much about everything", 3:16, the first entry in the SoundCloud page's popular tracks at 9,146 plays. 4
The album streams in full on Bandcamp, and the download runs at 16-bit/44.1kHz. 1 The price is name-your-price, and the label's own instruction to buyers reads "Enter 0 for free downloads". 1
The files carry a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 licence, which bars commercial use and requires any reworking to keep the same terms. 1 The release is digital only.
References
- 1ghc: girls hyperflip cry!!! | flipEMoff!!
lostfrog.bandcamp.com
- 2
- 3Hyperpop | Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
- 4flipEMoff!! | SoundCloud
m.soundcloud.com
- 5Kawasaki, Kanagawa | Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
- 6ghc: good hyperflip collection vol. 1 | flipEMoff!!
lostfrog.bandcamp.com
- 7ghc: good hyperflip collection vol. 2 | flipEMoff!!
lostfrog.bandcamp.com
- 8Ghc: Good Hyperflip Collection Vol. 1 | WhoSampled
whosampled.com
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