Draft:Dariacore
Electronic music genre
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Dariacore, also known as Hyperflip[1], is a microgenre of sample-based electronic dance music pioneered by Jane Remover (under the alias "Leroy") in the early 2020s. It is characterized by a humorous tone, frantic tempo, and recognizable sampling. It is sometimes considered a subgenre of hyperpop.
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Dariacore primarily draws from pop music and internet memes for its sample material, and implements aspects of various genres of EDM, such as Jersey club, dubstep, and complextro. It has a notable regional scene in Japan, where its roots can be traced back to Niconico's "otoMAD" video editing subculture.
Characteristics
Dariacore is most defined by its eclectic use of samples from pop music, underground viral hits[2], pop culture, and internet memes[3], as well as its fast BPMs.[4] The genre often incorporates vocal chops and sound effects such as car crashes, police sirens[5] and bed squeaks.[6] It uses bouncy, syncopated rhythms derived from Jersey club[7], as well as breakbeats.[8] Pitch shifting is often incorporated, similar to another Internet-born remix microgenre, nightcore.[6] Billie Bugara, a creative director at SoundCloud and the manager of Remover's label, described dariacore as "pop music on steroids in the best way possible", saying the genre revolves around "how one deconstructs pop and dance music into this amalgamation of controlled chaos".[6] The sound design and bass drops of dubstep are also commonly present in the style.[2]
Jane Remover, the genre's creator, has cited producer Vektroid[9], particularly her glitchy track "Sick & Panic"[6], and the Weird SoundCloud movement as primary influences on the genre's sound.[10] Writing for No Bells, H.D. Angel draws comparisons to the work of Kid606.[2] The Fader's team compares it to John Oswald and the plunderphonics movement.[8]
Producers in the genre often theme their branding around various pop cultural references such as cartoons and video games.[6][4] As the genre evolved, aesthetics began to become more peculiar and abstract, with Kieran Press-Reynolds highlighting an example of a producer who themed their branding around the dress, a viral meme from 2015.[1]
Background and history
The term "dariacore" was first used by Jane Remover for a trilogy of albums released on SoundCloud under the alias "Leroy" in the early 2020s[4], with cover artwork taken from the cartoon Daria.[10] Others would begin to create music in the same style as the album, birthing a microgenre.[11] Remover would later disavow the term[12], calling it "a joke that's been going on for too long"[6], but the genre would continue to grow online, taking influence from the YouTube Poop community and the hyperpop scene,[1] with Dariacore sometimes being considered a subgenre of the latter.[13] The genre is primarily made by Generation Z individuals[14] who grew up listening to popular EDM producers of the 2010s, such as Skrillex and Virtual Riot.[6][2]
Some drama emerged in the scene early on, with accusations against other artists of ripping off Leroy's style.[2] Following Remover's comments on the name dariacore, some artists would remove the hashtag from their music.[12] Remover would later revisit the sound — releasing a new album under the Leroy moniker, Grave Robbing, in 2023[15], and saying in a 2025 interview with Anthony Fantano that they think dariacore is "more influential than anything" and that they returned to the sound with Revengeseekerz.[16] The alternate name "hyperflip" began to see more use after Remover's comments on the dariacore name.[17]
The genre has mostly remained underground, but has occasionally broken into the mainstream, with popular YouTuber IShowSpeed rapping over a Leroy beat, and Danny Brown and JPEGMafia taking influence from dariacore for their song "Fentanyl Tester".[1]
Regional scenes
Underground musicians in Japan began to take notice of the genre over the next few years[11], with the country's oldest netlabel, Lost Frog Productions, releasing multiple albums based around the genre. Even as the interest in the American side of the scene began to wane, it continued to increase in popularity in Japan, though more commonly under the name hyperflip instead of dariacore. Several real life events have been organized in Japan solely based around the genre, while in the US, in-person events are much less common.[1] Japanese hyperflip's origins can be traced back to the otoMAD remix culture of Niconico, a genre of videos using clips from different medias to create music[18], with Vocaloid producer Haraguchi Sasuke drawing comparisons between the two subcultures in an interview with Billboard Japan.[19] Common sources of sampling within Japanese hyperflip tracks include anime song, j-pop, and Vocaloid music.[1] The genre would even make its way into Konami's Bemani series of rhythm games, with the track "lowercase lifetime" in Beatmania IIDX 32 Pinky Crush.[20]
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