FISH IN WATER (2021)
FISH IN WATER
FISH IN WATER is an abstract beat tape by Pop Hitchcock, originally released in 2021. Built from industrial electronic production, unconventional sampling, and heavily lo-fi textures, the project turns the unlikely world of fishing into the raw material for a strange and immersive sonic experiment.
Throughout the tape, Pop Hitchcock incorporates samples taken from bait and tackle shops, fishing tutorials, and other fishing-related recordings, transforming ordinary sounds and pieces of instructional media into distorted musical fragments. These samples become part of a much larger industrial landscape filled with abrasive textures, electronic rhythms, and unconventional beat construction.
The lo-fi character of FISH IN WATER is far removed from the traditional boom-bap aesthetic often associated with beat tapes. Instead, its roughness comes from the deliberately raw production, unusual sampling techniques, and mechanical electronic textures that give the project its own peculiar atmosphere.
What begins with fishing becomes something much stranger.
FISH IN WATER is a collection of beats built from the collision of industrial electronics, found sound, and the everyday world of bait shops and fishing culture—an abstract experiment that sounds nothing like what you would expect from its source material.