HiTech released "HONEYPAQQ Vol. 1" on May 23, 2025, and spent the rest of the year doing everything else. Coachella. Berghain. Primavera. Roskilde. Red Bull B2B at the Majestic on July 11. The Movement Waterfront stage closing a lap back through Detroit to remind people whose city this is.
HiTech is 47Chops, King Milo, and Milf Melly. The trio works in ghettotech, which is the Detroit-born, faster-than-techno, rawer-than-most strain that grew up around DJ Assault, DJ Godfather, and the Direct Beat Records orbit in the 90s. Ghettotech spent most of the last two decades being loved locally and underrated internationally. HiTech changed the math.
Loma Vista signed them. That is Danny Brown's label and one of the more interesting places in dance-adjacent music right now. The signing plus the Kresge Arts Fellowship plus the Coachella booking plus the album plus the worldwide tour added up to the single biggest international-crossover story in Detroit dance music of 2024 or 2025. Ghettotech went from a regional sound with hardcore international fans to a festival-stage genre with a major label home.
The Fader ran a long interview. Stereogum streamed the mixtape. Metro Times put the trio on the cover. DMY ran their 10 best ghettotech tracks list. The coverage was earned.
Whether ghettotech holds its crossover moment past 2026 depends on what HiTech and the broader scene do next. For 2025 specifically, they owned it.
"HONEYPAQQ Vol. 1" is on Loma Vista.
