textura

Albums
Leila Abdul-Rauf
James Blackshaw
David Borden
Build Buildings
bvdub
Corey Dargel
Tom Flaherty
Fogh Depot
Bjørn Fongaard
(ghost)
Nick Gill
Chihei Hatakeyama
High aura'd & Mike Shiflet
Map 165
Maranha & Espvall
Missy Mazzoli
Midaircondo
Jonas Munk
P-Ben
Pearson Sound
Michael Price
PRISM Quartet
Michael Robinson
Sankt Otten
SCNTST
The Sebastians
Sigtryggur Sigmarsson
Matteo Sommacal
Sphäre Sechs
To Destroy A City
Tudor Acid
Mark Vernon
Michael Vincent Waller
worriedaboutsatan

Compilations / Mixes
Supafunkanova Vol. 2

EPs / Cassettes / DVDs / Mini-Albums / Singles
Alex Agore
Ariadne
Aux Field
Disciples
Djrum
EZLV
Future Ghost
Jim Haynes
Mako
[MIIIIM]
Sacco / Lapiana
Scyye
SlowPitch
Marshall Watson

EZLV: No Regrets EP
Seaking

Issued on the Montreal-based duo's own Seaking label, No Regrets is a new two-track outing from Deep House/Nu Disco producers Maxime Laverdière and Louis Vallières under the EZLV (Ezekiel and Louis Vee) name. Whereas the pair's bio is refreshingly tongue-in-cheek (a typical detail reports that they met in prison in 1982, Ezekiel having been incarcerated for molesting Michael Jackson's monkey and Louis Vee for wearing Margaret Thatcher's wedding dress), their music is anything but a joke.

The hard-grooving title track locks into position immediately, its crisp swing powered by claps, hi-hats, and a chunky synth bass pulse before the soulful vocal line surfaces to amp up the cut's sensual allure. Frothy vocal and synth episodes alternate, with Laverdière and Vallières nicely calibrating tension and release throughout the tune's six-minute strut. As infectious, “Speechless” cranks up the BPM ever so slightly, though not to the point of delirium. In place of the straight-up vocal on the title track, “Speechless” sprinkles its charging house groove with a dizzying swirl of chopped-up vocal effects; yet even in those passages where the vocals are stripped out, the duo's music entrances. Generally speaking, it would be hard to imagine any dance floor not filling up in response to quality cuts like these.

March 2015