The Partysquad & Punish ft. Adje – Rijden Tot De Morgen Komt

Trap invades The Netherlands just in time for all of us to get sick of it, apparently…

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[5.78]Abby Waysdorf: My friends told me once about a trend from their youth where “Smurf versions” were made of popular hits. Vocals were sped up, dance beats were added, and it was all the rage in middle schools (apparently).  So essentially, this is 90s nostalgia, Dutch style, spun through with modern EDM trends and the general weirdness that the Partysquad always brings to things. Being not Dutch I don’t really get the context, so it’s the strangeness that comes through — the speed slamming up against the lazy drawl of the rapper, the piling up of not-entirely-familiar sounds at siren volume. I’m still a foreigner.
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Alfred Soto: This Dutch combo, producers of two of Matangi‘s most perfervid tracks, don’t need to extend this track past the one-minute mark to prove M.I.A. brings the character and force.
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Iain Mew: “Double Bubble Trouble” was kind of stupid-cool, as was Partysquad’s “Helemaal Naar De Klote” (thanks Abby). This one doesn’t aspire to even that kind of cool. Instead, they take several aggressively straightforward approaches (chipmunk trance! Trap bits! Bass thump that Basshunter might think a bit too obvious!) and smash them together in a way that keeps their energy but short-circuits their predictability. I like songs that make me laugh the first couple of times I hear them, almost however they achieve it.
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Will Adams: Somewhere, Darude smiles.
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Micha Cavaseno: Words cannot express the confusion and distaste I have for proper pure trance/gabber shlock and “TRAP”, the great bane of existence, joining forces. Araabmuzik, so much to answer for.
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Katherine St Asaph: I guess I am fine with a chipmunk-trance-hardstyle-trap remix of “Can’t Hold Us” existing in the world? But I don’t know why. It’s like the musical equivalent of Guts of Glory.
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Brad Shoup: You’d better fucking throw some pitas in the bag, dude. Everything’s sticky, from the drumtrack to the synth whoops to the pitched-up sigh that scanned goofy then turned wise. This goes hard and exits through the window.
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Patrick St. Michel: Ugh, why did they include a trap drop? This was such a glorious bit of Euro hardcore until they decided to try to be with it.
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Ramzi Awn: Not sure there’s much more to say than “nightlife, bikelife, shawarma extra pita.” Oh and the synths aren’t half bad.
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