HiTech’s twitching, sweat-slicked club beats tend to lionize life’s simple pleasures: Getting blitzed. Ass. Comfort food. More ass. The Detroit ghettotech trio’s new single “SPANK!” is a hip-house paean to popping, slapping, shaking, and dropping…you guessed it. HiTech premiered the track earlier this year during a set at Brooklyn’s Lot Radio, but a new glitched-out video directed by IGoByCy captures the group’s exquisite and unsubtle joie de rump. Notably, when guest artist GDMRW is tapping on butt cheeks like they’re bongos, or playing a video game that awards points for bountiful twerking. All this and more, brought to you by the boys with the “Horny for HiTech” booty shorts on their merch page.
“SPANK!” roils and sizzles, cooking to trappy hi-hats, programmed claps, and dripping neon keys. GDMRW and King Milo swap verses, the former issuing the song’s husky hook (“Let me spank”) as his voice stretches into belching slo-mo. Milo’s springy flow is similarly fixated: “Let me give that ass a whoopin’/Let’s get to it,” he snaps over digital drums that rattle like a souped-up den-den daiko. HiTech’s latest perpetuates a kind of closed-loop booty ecosystem, where the music fuels the shaking and the shaking spawns the beat.
Correction: An earlier version of this story misidentified GDMRW as HiTech’s Milf Melly.
