Here’s The Run The Jewels Collaboration With Royal Blood ‘The Ground Below’

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Run The Jewels have released their collaboration with Royal Blood, with a remix of ‘The Ground Below’ from RTJ4.

Talking about the collab, Run The Jew­els’ El‑P said “We’re big fans of each other’s bands, A while back, we hung out and played each oth­er songs we love – one of mine was Gang Of Four’s Ether, which I lat­er sam­pled for the ground below. Mike and I thought it would be cool to get Roy­al Blood’s take on the ground below – we sent it off to them and they fuck­ing killed it.”

“Roy­al Jew­els is the ulti­mate dream come true sce­nario,” add Roy­al Blood. “It’s an alliance we wish long continues.”

The new collab comes after Run The Jewels released ‘No Save Point’ for the Cyberpunk 2077 soundtrack.

Royal Blood are also hard at work on other projects, returning with a new single ‘Trouble’s Coming’ back in September.

The band have previously stated that the song was a real turning point for the third album, Vocalist Mike Kerr said “It was the moment something started to click – where we started playing over those much more rigid dance beats. The breakthrough was realizing that there was real common ground between that and what we’d done before. It’s that AC/DC aspect: where the quality that makes the riffs seem so cutting is because of that beat. Although on the surface we were stepping outside what we’d done before, it didn’t feel at all unnatural; it felt like we were returning to music we’d loved from the very beginning: Daft Punk, Justice, things that were really groove-orientated. It was all about the beat. It felt like familiar territory, but something we’d censored in ourselves.”

Drummer Ben Thatcher adds “When we first broke out, there were only two elements to the band. I didn’t just have to carry the beat, I’d have to colour in the changes. We were both bearing a lot of freight, sonically. But this was a different challenge; less varied, maybe, but so satisfying as a drummer.”

Royal Blood are also set to feature on the upcoming Architects album ‘For Those That Wish To Exist’, which set to come out at the start of next year.