Deadmau5, Foster the People – Hyperlandia

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Deadmau5 featuring Foster The People is not a sentence that anyone may have imagined being written, but stranger things have already happened at the start to this decade, so here we are. To be fair, Hyperlandia actually works entirely in favour of this collaboration. Unlike his previous single with frequent collaborator Lights When The Summer Dies, Hyperlandia is anything but hyper. It’s a spacey, star-lit dreamwave track that opens with twinkling arpeggios like little pieces of stardust, underscored by a chugging  bass synthline that adds a touch of texture to the otherwise ethereal production that Zimmerman conjures. With the track occupying this sort of gazey space and tonality, Mark Foster’s voice makes complete sense. His distinct tone is perfect against this sort of quasi-mysticism that finds Deadmau5 with his head in the clouds, and his voice is strangely nostalgic in this context. For millennials whose taste was torn between the cool factor of indie and delinquency of electro, Hyperlandia will be a strangely transcendent experience, more so than one might expect from this unlikely crossover of disparate iTunes playlists. Listen below, and download here.