Hypno K.K.
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![]() Album cover in Animal Crossing: New Horizons | ||||||||
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Live Performance | ||||||||
Composed by | Manaka Kataoka | |||||||
Mood | It's hard to say | |||||||
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Genre | Hauntology Neo-psychedelia | |||||||
Instruments | Reversed cello Synthesizer Harp | |||||||
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Names in other languages
うたたねのゆめ
白日梦 Psykéké Mírame a los ojos K.K. Ipnotico Гипноз К. К.
졸면서 꾸는 꿈 白日夢 Psykéké Mírame a los ojos Schlummerlied Hypnotherapie |
"Hypno K.K." is a K.K. Slider song that first appears in Animal Crossing: City Folk as a live-only performance, and with an aircheck version in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. "Hypno-" as a prefix relates to sleep, and the original Japanese name, "Dozing Dream", indicates that the song is likely intended to be soothing or lullaby-like. This is also reflected by how Sherb, a sleep-themed lazy goat villager, plays it in his house.
Owing to this, the song may be based on hauntology music. The genre is characterized by distorted psychedelic sounds that may give the listener a sense of nostalgia or inner peace. Specifically, it may be derived from hypnagogic pop, a subgenre of hauntology. The live version of the song is more akin to neo-psychedelia, a genre from the 1980s which modernized psychedelic music from the 1960s by combining it with alternative rock, and was a precursor to hauntology and hypnagogic pop.
Album cover[edit]
The album cover for "Hypno K.K." features a close-up of K.K. Slider's head, from the nose up. The colors are blurred like bleeding ink, and a blue and black grid is revealed in the shadowed sections of K.K.'s face. The top of the background is checkered light blue and yellow, and it fades to white near the bottom. In New Horizons, green digital-like text that reads "HYPNO K.K." is written in a wave pattern above K.K.'s head.
Appearances[edit]
In City Folk[edit]
In Animal Crossing: City Folk, "Hypno K.K." can only be heard live if the player makes an invalid song request.
In New Leaf[edit]
In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, "Hypno K.K." is a secret song that can only be heard and obtained by request, and it is played in the houses of Flurry and Papi.
In New Horizons[edit]
In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, "Hypno K.K." is no longer a secret song. It is played in the houses of Flurry, Jeremiah, Papi, and Sherb. The aircheck of this song can be obtained from one of these villagers after visiting their house by their favor. This song's aircheck can also be purchased in Nook Shopping daily selection for 3,200 Bells.
In Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise, "Hypno K.K." is played in the houses of Bob, Ione, Jeremiah, and Pancetti.
In Happy Home Designer[edit]
In Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, "Hypno K.K." is played in the houses of Alice, Bob, Coco, Pancetti, and Wendell.
Gallery[edit]
New Leaf model
Happy Home Designer icon
Album cover in amiibo Festival
New Horizons icon
Music[edit]
Hypno K.K. audio tracks
Title | Game | Track | Notes |
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Aircheck | Animal Crossing: New Leaf | ||
Live | Animal Crossing: New Leaf | ||
Music Box | Animal Crossing: New Leaf | ||
DJ KK House Remix | Animal Crossing: New Leaf | ||
DJ KK NES Remix | Animal Crossing: New Leaf | ||
Aircheck (Cheap) | Animal Crossing: New Horizons | ||
Aircheck (Retro) | Animal Crossing: New Horizons | ||
Aircheck (Phono) | Animal Crossing: New Horizons | ||
Music Box | Animal Crossing: New Horizons | ||
DJ KK Remix | Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise |
Names in other languages[edit]
うたたねのゆめ Utatane no yume |
Dozing Dream | |
졸면서 꾸는 꿈 Jolmyeonseo Kkuneun Kkum |
Dozing Dream | |
白日梦 Bái rì mèng |
Daydream | |
Гипноз К. К. Gipnoz K. K. |
K.K. Hypnosis | |
Hypnotherapie | Hypnotherapy | |
Schlummerlied | Lullaby | |
Mírame a los ojos | Look into my eyes | |
Psykéké | Psy-K.K. | |
K.K. Ipnotico | K.K. Hypnotic |
Notes[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 In New Leaf and New Horizons
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 In New Horizons only
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 In New Horizons and Happy Home Paradise
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 In Happy Home Paradise only
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 In Happy Home Paradise and Happy Home Designer
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 In Happy Home Designer only
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