Food House

In the organizer's words:

If anything good can be said about the COVID pandemic in retrospect, it is perhaps this: It has inevitably given the young artists of hyperpop, a generic term for postmodern music that is open to reference and plays with the insignia of the digital world and its new idols, plenty of time and space to find their very own musical and lyrical language - and to bring the genre much more into focus in general. This is because, unlike classical musicians in the past, these artists often produce their music alone and almost exclusively at home on their own laptops - a process that has of course been massively accelerated by the global lockdowns. Among the leading figures in hyperpop are the two producers and vocalists Gupi and Fraxiom, who met back in 2017 and initially became close friends before joining forces musically in 2019 under the name Food House - a name that goes back to the fact that they almost exclusively ate takeaway services during the nationwide lockdowns, during which they produced their first album together. Gupi, real name Spencer Anthony Hawk and scion of skateboarding legend Tony Hawk, and Fraxiom may have grown up on opposite coasts (in San Diego and Kingston, Massachusetts respectively), but the two twenty-somethings have a lot in common: Both use the gender-neutral "they" as a pronoun; both grew up with the pop cultural trappings of their parents, but found their own heroines early on in YouTube, gaming and internet culture; both have degrees in electronic music production, and both use their voices for a variety of outlets between rap, singing, spoken word and expressionistic onomatopoeia. In addition, both have a bright mind as well as an equally dark soul at times, going through phases of mental instability and depression - and making all these experiences the subject of their songs in open-hearted words. Soon after their first song together, "Thos Moser", released in 2020, their self-titled debut album appeared on the label of 100 gecs star Dylan Brady - with great success, especially in the online world. Their subsequent experiences with the music industry almost led to the dissolution of the project, and in the years that followed, the two increasingly worked alone, with Gupi releasing three solo albums between 2020 and 2022. It was only last year that they came back together as a producing duo and released their second album "Two House" under their own direction in February, which was described by Pitchfork as "very vulnerable, but in the next moment above all absurdly funny".