Benny Benassi — Hypnotica. A brief history of the album
At the end of the spring of 2003, the landmark album of the Benassi brothers Hypnotica was released. It was landmark for three reasons. Firstly, since then we’ve experienced the massive presence of buzzing, humming and whirring in popular electronic music. Secondly, it became permissible to record an entire album from these sounds. Thirdly, it became possible to successfully sell such an album and receive several gold and platinum discs as a reward. That means that the fact that for 20 years the music has been sounding like God knows what isn’t the fault of Skrillex, but of Marco and Alessandro Benassi from an Italian province. It was them who came up with this set of absolutely amelodic sounds and used them for