Special Requests
HATIHATI - Whip It / Head
Picture a burning car at the roadside in southern Crete, speakers held together with tape, playing records that survived sun, dust, and metallic sunrises, loud enough to make mountains sweat and clouds blush in hyper hue. HATIHATI lives somewhere between fragmented muscle memory and long walks through the Cretan mountains. The project formed on the move: buses, ferries, borrowed rooms, missed connections. Music made with travel still in the body. This is HATIHATI.
At a young age, Bart Demey and Tania Gallagher were already experimenting with electronics, some 30 km apart. They wouldn’t meet for another decade, when their first collaborative work began to take shape. Since then, they have worked under a range of shifting aliases, expanding their practice into theatre, performance, and a role as music supervisors for the fashion label Kokon to Zai, led by Marjan Pejoski — designer of Björk’s swan dress.
“There are a lot of small sounds in the HATIHATI tracks that are recreations of sounds you would hear in everyday situations. Instead of sampling, we try to recreate those sounds through synthesis. It could be anything — something you hear in nature, or when you are in your kitchen preparing a meal. We like to see how far we can get with these sounds. That library is called Dear User. It’s become a living and growing organism”
HATIHATI - a new signing to DEEWEE, the record label founded by David & Stephen Dewaele of Soulwax / 2manydjs. After teasing pre release performances at DEEWEE’s 2025 Halloween event, DEEWEEKEND and supporting Soulwax on their 'All Systems Are Lying' tour, HATIHATI’s two track debut, 'Whip It / Head', will be out on March the 13th and available on 12" & digital.
| track | artist | |
|---|---|---|
| Whip It | HATIHATI | 2:53 |
| Head | HATIHATI | 4:18 |
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