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Songs We Love: Patrice Baumel, 'Engage'

The Amsterdam DJ/producer believes in the narrative power of electronic music, which he illustrates here with a transitory deep cut from his new EP.
Patrice Baumel's <em>Glutes</em> comes out May 12.

If electronic music is best described as a journey, many of the tracks topping today's charts are joyrides down the Vegas strip — blissed-out pop vocals, bass stunts and flashy, dramatic synths designed to spur

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