The world is currently being swept by a new musical trend that calls Down Under home. No, we’re not talking about 5 Seconds of Summer, unless the Sydney crew decide to start making dance music out of a ride in an elevator.

Many will be familiar with the inescapable ‘Melbourne sound’, which has exploded in recent years thanks to SoundCloud and Facebook. The sound is a bouncy, hard-edged style of dance music built around ever-present bass-drops and catchy hooks.

However, several homegrown artists have taken the genre into new levels of creativity and awesomeness by piecing together Melbourne bounce tracks from everyday sounds, like coffee machines, electric toothbrushes, and Mario Kart.

These tracks don’t just incorporate the sounds into pre-existing tracks, in many cases they literally form the basis of the tune. They’ve become so popular that there’s even a Reddit channel dedicated solely to what users have dubbed ‘Unexpected Remixes‘.

At the forefront of the genre are inventive Brisbane duo Mashd N Kutcher, whose feats include the ‘Toothbrush Bounce’ and an impromptu collaboration with a Domino’s pizza guy wherein said pizza guy was asked to create a hook on the spot.

These aren’t just throwaway tracks, either. Each song is fully formed, with drops and breakdowns, in some cases even vocals, and they’ve become a legitimate phenomenon, with some of Mashd N Kutcher’s tracks accruing views in the millions on YouTube.

The trend has spread across the pond, with American producers getting in on the game. Just check out Las Vegas-based producer Revolvr’s take on Australian rapper Iggy Azalea’s infamous onstage freestyle below.

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