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The Editors' New Groove: Vol IIII

A grime remix of R. Kelly, the Baltimore club version of Poltergeist, and a cheesy masterpiece from Armin Van Buuren. Get on our level.
THUMP Staff

The Editors' New Groove is a weekly pow-wow on the freshest new releases on THUMP's editors and regular contributors' radars.

Joel Fowler:

No better way to kick off the weekend than this slow, syrupy, conga-infused dub of Toro Y Moi. JBoogie from SF, innit.


Vivian Host: I wanted to pick Dubbel Dutch's "Deepa," but that sweet nuggy ain't out until November 12 so you'll just have to preview it in his Cloud Club mix. Flip to minute 21:56 to hear the man's future rework of one of my favorite old skool hardcore tunes of all time. Goosebumps status!

Michelle Lhooq: I've had many doctors throughout my short and sickly life, but none have been as awesome as the one I have now—a 60-year-old Russian who gleefully hands out prescriptions like McDonalds coupons. The doctor behind this particular party mode anthem is actually a 23-year-old former Bostonite, but I'd let him do my physical anytime.

Max Pearl: If you want my immediate, undivided attention, all you have to do is take my favorite R. Kelly song, "I'm A Flirt," spread it over skeletal nü skool grime bars, and add some tubular bells. Ta-dah!

Mike Steyels:

OK, Rip Knox basically made a Baltimore club version of

Poltergeist

. Lil John samples call from an alternate dimension, echoing with ripples from another plane. Meanwhile, Lex Luger-like bass drum melodies pound out club rhythms that could make a house implode. It's like an epic battle between good and evil.

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David Garber: I've had the new 1968 EP from Submotion Orchestra on repeat all week. This cut, "Breathe It In," is a whirlwind of sounds loaded with some luuurvly vocals. You can actually tell that this is the work of a seven-piece band and not just some dude making computer noises from his closet.

Mike Steyels:

This new Teklife joint is less a footwork track and more a rap beat with footwork-style vocal chops. A couple melodies weave in between one another like whisps of incense smoke, and the double time duties are taken over by sporadic bursts of splintered white noise. If this is just the clip, what could possibly left for the full version—three more Teks?


Max Pearl: This is the stuff anthems are made of—I'm talking, like, Crystal Waters-level catchiness. I don't care that it sounds a bit too much like Disclosure.

David Garber: I'm hungover as a mofugga so I don't want to listen to anything with bass, kicks, bleeps, bloops or any other jarring computer sounds that will melt my already fragile brain. Thankfully, the dude behind our latest MIXED BY, Teen Daze, just put up a remix of "Life is Hard" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and it is a straight up ambient lullaby. Fuck, this song might make me go sleepy time.

Joel Fowler: Spoiler: Kim Brown is neither a Kim nor a girl, but rather a two-piece outfit comprised of Ji-Hun Kim and Julian Braun. Regardless, if Kim Brown was a girl, she would be utter perfection.

Vivian Host:

Of all the techno clubs I've been to, The Bunker in NYC and Tresor in Berlin were two favorites. Both are painstaking in their curation and deliver the sort of stripped down, raw vibe (and good soundsystems) that the music demands. Peter Van Hoesen, who has played some of my favorite DJ sets ever at Bunker, drops this album for Tresor and it's no frills, real-deal techno. This song in particular appeals to my love for dark and dirty afterparties and goth/industrial leanings.


Michelle Lhooq: Congrats, you've made it to the bottom of the post. Your reward: a special treat from the grandadddy of trance, Armin Van Buuren. If you're not A) tweaking, B) a ripped shirtless twink or C) Asian, this probably sounds like a car commercial to you. Well screw you. Get on my level.
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