Ear To The Ground: Nico Lahs vs Tooli – Everything Is Good

Loving the title for this EP from the great Local Talk as it pretty much sums up my feelings completely. Two original tracks and a dub from Nico Lahs and one of Local Talk’s main men Tooli.

Title track from Nico Lahs is smooth as silk, with simple loops and hooks, standard beats, short vocal sample, essentially it doesn’t sound so exciting but with everything the Italian producer touches at the moment, it is the sum of the parts, and stick them all together and you have a stunning track just waiting for that glimpse of sun and a terrace!

Tooli steps up for the flip side with ‘That Cowbell Track’. No messing as the syncopated beats build with rolling bass line and the introduction of synth stabs and percussive layers taking this straight to the dancefloor. The creative beats give this the extra level of class and this is certainly a sonic workout I desperately want to hear on a big system. One for late night but equally for the house dancers!

The Dub, as you would expect strips it all back a touch but brings to the fore the cowbell for a well crafted addition to what is an awesome EP!

Check out all the tracks below and click through on their Bandcamp where you can order the vinyl and buy Tooli’s gems with Nico Lah’s Everything is Good available over the next few days.