The Editors’ New Groove is a weekly pow-wow on the freshest new releases from THUMP’s editors and regular contributors’ radars.
Michelle Lhooq: I don’t know much about New Zealand’s Eyeliner, but I do know that his latest album is punnily titled LARP of Luxury, which is already enough for me to know I should be fucking with this. His Soundcloud describes the album as “nine tracks of romanced-commodities re-imagined as virtual-vacation destinations and add-to-cart artifacts.” Classic vaporwave.
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Michelle Lhooq: Lamin Fofana of Brooklyn label Sci-Fi and Fantasy found a bunch of casettes in the WFMU library of speeches given by the late Chinua Achebe. He hijacked audio clips from those casettes, and turned them into a haunting ode to the Nigerian writer, with the very concise title, “Homage (Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter).” It’s brilliant.
Vivian Host: I was obsessed with Last Magpie’s “No More Stories” a few years ago. Dude’s back on Hypercolour with four tracks of multi-layered mood music for lovers of Burial and hazy house. Throw this on and your morning-after-sex omelette is sure to turn out right.
Mike Steyels: Have you ever listened to Philly club or acid at 160 BPM and ridden an exercise bike? Well, I suggest it. You can’t shed excess energy any better way. LetsGoDeezy makes some fire party music, and N-Tech has got some heat too. Show them both some love. Let’s just say it’s good for the blood flow.
Max Pearl: Synkro is a criminally underrated, incredibly versatile British producer with an unrivaled ginger mop. He’s been quietly killing it for about six years on weed-headed labels like Smokin’ Sessions and Dubbed Out. This track is from his EP for Apollo Records, a subdivision of the unstoppable R&S. It comes out in December. And unlike the usual boring minimal drum and bass, this one’s actually sexy.
Max Pearl: Ikonika, once again, making this shit look easy. The Hyperdub originator and absolute bad gyal selectah took a track from CHVRCHES—a band that generally triggers my gag reflex—and gave them the throwback pop treatment, continuing her string of awesome 80s freestyle-inspired dancefloor destroyers. Check our interview with Ikonika from earlier this year!
David Garber: I am convinced that Eric Prydz (aka Pryda) is the King Midas of dance music. Or maybe I’m just a total sucker for his euphoric creations. Yesterday, he posted his latest slice of auditory hypnosis entitled “Lycka,” and BBC Radio1’s Zane Lowe already beat me to naming it as The Hottest Record In The World. Also, fun fact, “lycka” means “happy” in Swedish.
Vivian Host: This is Dom and his Roland machine delivering classic Metalheadz/Goldie flavor with extremely badman sound design for the Blade Runner types… not the dirty Jncos ‘and whiteboy dreads set. If people tell you drum and bass isn’t futuristic, tell them to put this in their brains and smoke it.
