Here’s Ben Aqua’s Remix of Feathers’ song “Dark Matter”

Have you noticed how recently everyone’s been walking around looking all dead-eyed and vacant, their skin pale as skimmed milk? This is not because people are suffering serotonin withdrawal due to the changing seasons and this is not because everyone’s been losing their shit and dancing till dawn, this is because everyone’s sitting around in their underwear playing GTA V until 5am. Escapism is great, for sure, but sleep is really awesome too. Nevertheless, we have now established one of the best things about GTA is the music and one of the highlights of GTA V radio is the track “Dark Matter” by Austin-based girl crew Feathers. Better still is this rework by fellow Austin-based dude Ben Aqua who amps up the awesome on this slinky track, giving the song boomy, beat-focused weight, while see-sawing the synths to anxiously atmospheric effect. Listen to it below. (Also check out Ben’s seamless smoosh of Aaliyah’s “Are You That Somebody” and Ciara’s “Body Party”.)

Feathers on tour with Depeche Mode

1.15 – Barcelona, Spain – Palau Sant Jordi
1.17-18 – Madrid, Spain – Palacio de Deportes Comunidad de Madrid
1.21 – Montpellier, France – Arena Montpellier
1.23 – Lyon, France – Halle Tony Garnier
1.25 – Antwerp, Germany – Sportpaleis
1.27 – Birmingham, UK – LG Arena
1.29 & 31 – Paris, France – Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy.

Read our interview with Feathers. They like ‘Battlestar Galactica’ and sound like a female Depeche Mode, so it totally makes sense that they’re kicking off next year opening for the synth legends. Nice, nice.