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Weirdo Kanye Reworks and Skrillex’s Pure Joy in THUMP’s Seven Most Played

Blame Chance the Rapper, but this week around THUMP HQ we’ve gravitated toward songs a hair more joyful than weeks past. Whether that’s the Chicago rapper’s sunny guest turn on Skrillex‘s Hundred Waters remix or Mall Grab’s gleeful house flip of the ultra-lightbeam gospel of Kanye West’s “Father Stretch My Hands,” all things bright and beautiful were on repeat.

We’ve also dug our heels into Ametsub’s cloud-parting techno on “Precipice Drive,” the quivering ecstasy of Buz Ludzha’s “Basslines for Life,” and Selvy’s cowbell mantras on “Basics.” Even Total Freedom’s got little more mellow this week on the back of a typically jarring rework of Kelela’s heady “Gomensai,” which may be one of the most restrained, most hopeful of his brickwall-collision compositions.

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If your face starts to hurt from grinning too much at all these tracks, you might want to cue up Young Marco’s “Late Checkout Episode 1” an hourlong ambient mix initially recorded earlier this month on Red Light Radio. Go ahead, spin on our Seven Most Played tracks below—you deserve a little happiness.

1. Ametsub – “Precipice Drive”

2. Buz Ludzha – “Basslines for Life”

3. Mall Grab – “Father”

4. Selvy – “Basics”

5. Hundred Waters – “Show Me Love” (Skrillex Remix, feat. Chance The Rapper, Moses Sumney, Robin Hannibal)

6. Total Freedom – “KELZ MTG JAHLIL BEATS CARNAGE AT NJIVAST W KORMA TF’d”

7. Young Marco – “The Late Checkout Episode 1”

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