Six months ago, Brooklyn-based musicians Le Chev and TC Milan started tinkering with different sounds until they came upon a groove too good to dismiss. “We had made some other types of music together before, but right after we made ‘Get Me Off’… we thought, ‘Oh shit, this is a good one; we need to go after this,’” said Crush Club’s Le Chev in a recent phone interview with The Santa Barbara Independent.
That song became the duo’s first single and quickly received a healthy number of listeners on Spotify. And it’s no wonder: “Get Me Off” is an endlessly playable track with an infectiousness that hooks listeners from the get-go. Their delightful, highly danceable subsequent singles — “Louder” and “We Dance” — reaffirmed Le Chev and TC Milan’s dynamic musical collaboration, which includes a layering of disco, funk, hip-hop beats, and ear-pleasing vocals, creating a signature sound that is sonically reminiscent of ’70s dance music but has a 21st-century sensibility.
During our three-way chat, the good-natured, droll pair shared how they met, the core of their music, and their love of matador-wear.