You know that feeling when you've been out all night with your friends, it's 5 AM, and you're debating whether or not to get breakfast together, that feels so purely like going out in the summertime? Still buzzed from the night before, traces of glitter and silvery outfits shimmering in the morning sun? Maybe I'm getting a little too niche here, but for those of you who know exactly what I'm talking about, "Ez," the latest track from electronic-pop artist Slic, captures this feeling of endless summer and early-morning adventures perfectly.

Slic is a Venezuelan-American artist based in Brooklyn-by-way-of-Miami. Their longstanding affair with the club began as a teenager in Miami amidst the EDM explosion of the early 2010s while Carl Cox was still DJing underground warehouse parties.

They integrate structural threads of Venezuelan music not found in the sample library: beat patterns drawn from tambores, reggeaton, and merengue are loaded up with digitally-generated specimens of sound. In their compositions, the laptop grid becomes a vantage point from which to build a shimmering, transnational future.

"Music can be a way to channel collective wish fulfillment," they explain, embracing a crucial element of pop: the visceral romance of pure belief that punctures through and out into the glaring light of reality."

Watch the exclusive director's cut of EZ below.

Videographer by Ana Maria Hernandez

Directed by Ana, Khalil Flemming, and Slic

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Malaika Astorga is the co-founder of Also Cool. She is a Mexican-Canadian visual artist, writer, and social media strategist currently based in Montreal.

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