The Editors’ New Groove is a weekly pow-wow on the freshest new releases on THUMP’s editors and regular contributors’ radars.
Max Pearl: Essential break-up jawn from Ninjatune mainstay Bonobo, off his new Late Night Tales compilation which comes out this weekend. I’ve been listening to so much militant techno recently that it’s nice to know someone out there is still playing instruments and singing harmonies. It reminds me that people have souls.
Max Pearl: And speaking of militant techno, Phantasy label boss Erol Alkan came through with the preview of his new EP, out December 2. This shit is anxious and overwhelming… like the first time I took LSD.
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David Garber: Jerome LOL just came back on our radar in a big way, this time with a bubbling jazzy piece of heaven called “Always.” Featuring the always lovely vocalist Sara Z, this is a track that will please everyone from house heads to yo momma. Find this cut on Jerome’s debut solo EP Deleted/Fool when it comes out in February on Friends of Friends.
Joel Fowler: This Huxley jam crept its way into my life this week and I will be two-step tobagganing to it through the winter.
Joel Fowler: From the foggy hills of Edinburgh, Firecracker is home to the likes of Vakula, House of Traps, Fudge Fingas and Linkwood. They’ve put out some of the best feel-good hot dog with all the fixins boogie house to date, and are at it again with this flip from Linkwood.
Mike Steyels: Nando makes some of the most epic trap beats ever. It’s meant to run as an instrumental, but avoids the trappings of most of that festival garbage. This track has mad subtle melodies that run throughout it, usually paired with counter melodies and expressed through a diverse selection of synths. It also features some very strongly worded samples towards the end about revolution and the state of black incarceration in America. This is some real Brooklyn fire right here.
Vivian Host: I kind of hate how hypnotic this is but it also makes me picture a bunch of people with sweaty abs doing interpretive gypsy dancing at EDC and that is LULZ 2 Da Future. Extra points that this festival smasher (#7 on Beatport, obvs) makes Balkan flutes work with Noisia-style bass farts. And of course there’s even an evil voice in there saying “Motherf**cker” sample is even in there because… WHO CARES?
Vivian Host: I worked out to this and I fell off the Stairmaster.
Michelle Lhooq: Bambounou is a young Parisian, so maybe he doesn’t “get’ the loaded expectations of calling a song “Ignition.” This cut sounds like raving in a giant tube—metallic, sharp and echoey—but sadly lacks midgets popping out of closets. We can only hope for the remix.
Michelle Lhooq: Fun fact—the cute guy from Chromeo (you know which one I’m talking about) used to teach French literature at Columbia, and I’d hang around outside the library waiting for him to slink past in his white jeans so I could peep his tight little ass. If only he’d ask if I “wanna spend the night” in that sexy growling… falsetto.
