Episode 183: Return to the HIT 'EM

Two years ago, a genre arrived in a dream. Drew Daniel woke up from a rave that didn't exist, where the music was called "Hit 'EM" — 212 bpm, 5/4 time, crunchy — and posted it, and for one beautiful week producers everywhere raced to make a dreamed genre real. Episode 116 was my entry. Episode 183 is the return: two years later, I wanted to know if the dream was still open. It is. The crunch is…