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British electronica duo Groove Armada will release a greatest hits album, Groove Armada: Best of, in the U.S. on October 26th, before parting ways for a year.
Tom Findlay and Andy Cato assembled the compilation specifically to close out the first phase of their career. "We love the stuff we've done, but we've been going around playing it, DJing it for a number of years," Findlay says. "I think we're interested in going somewhere different now."
BMG is issuing the twelve-track effort, having bought out Groove Armada's contract with Jive. "They were a disaster," Findlay says of the group's former label. "It was a pop record company, and they weren't interested in us. If you sell 50,000 Britney units in a week, then why work hard to sell 500 Groove Armada units in a month?"
Best of will draw upon material from three of Groove Armada's four albums, 2000's Vertigo, 2001's Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub) and 2003's Love Box. Alongside club hits like "I See You Baby," "At the River" and "Chicago" is the new cut "All of Me." "It might be a little pointer to the direction we're going in," Findlay says of the track. "It's a sleazy, filthy, pop-funk sort of thing."
Following their fall U.K. tour, Groove Armada are planning to return to the U.S. in the spring. "Knowing it's a 'best of' thing, we've both invested a lot of effort into making this the best tour yet," he says. "And it would be a shame not to bring it to the States."
At the tour's end, Cato and Findlay will pursue separate musical projects and then plan phase two of Groove Armada. "At the moment we're only thinking conceptually," Findlay says. "I really like the OutKast album [Speakerboxx/The Love Below] and the idea of a double album. It might be that we do one album that's weirdly esoteric and one that's kind of a dance-floor thing. We're going to do some solo bits for a year . . . then, if anyone's still interested in Groove Armada, we'll make a record."