3 brand new vital club tracks from L-Vis 1990! In the 18 months after releasing his debut album �Neon Dreams� the NS label co-curator, DJ and maverick producer L-Vis 1990 has been firmly refocussed on club music. 2011�s �Club Constructions Volume 1″ on NS, and more recently his contribution to Clone�s Jack For Daze series saw him explore sweat-drenched, jackin analog techno and classic hard-house flipped with a uniquely UK perspective. While the aim of these releases was explicitly to create functional club �trax� that felt sweltering in the dance, in contrast �Ballads� is L-Vis� first true artist statement since �Neon Dreams� - a set of bizarre, show-stopping pieces designed to spiritually open up the club. With every release the Night Slugs landscape becomes more vivid, rezzing further into existence with each track. 2011 saw �Classical Curves� and �Club Rez EP� inject a previously wireframe environment with dense new texture. The �Ballads� EP continued that process, transposing the listener to the flooded underwater realm of its title track �Ballad 4d". Fans of the track�s YouTube rip have dubbed it the �submarine tune� for its obscene, living bass, like some mechanical whale cry. It�s the sound of a �00�s Sublow bass tone emerging from warm �80s analog oscillators, letting you up for air before sucking you down once again as drum fragments and debris float by through the murk. The track moves with a vast, sighing implication of a groove until suddenly propelling into decisive 4x4 as L-Vis lets the the drums take control again. �Not Mad� is demented, a guitar-pedal troika powered by an overdriven electric bass and Jersey kicks. It features a clapper with the giggles, a talking flanger and sawtooth stabs that beam across the track like strobes, all combining into another startling, endothermic groove. Like some of the best grime productions it echoes, �Signal� is an exercise in dancefloor shock and awe through reductionism, and is the surprise club bomb of the EP