Louis La Roche


Brett Ewels, best known by his stage name Louis La Roche, is a French house/nu-disco/funk producer, remixer and DJ from Norwich, UK.

Biography

La Roche sprung to prominence in 2008 with his Michael Jackson sampled debut track "Love" and featured on an unofficial five-track EP entitled "The Peach EP". The track quickly made an impact across online blogs and led to recognition via an article by British newspaper The Guardian. From there, Louis went on to form his own record label "Ever After Records", on which he released the EP's "Me & Her", "Super Soaker" and "Number One", a collaboration with German producer Patrick Alavi. He followed this with the single "My Turn", which featured guest vocals by Yann Destal of Modjo.
At the end of 2011, his next single "Gimme Gimme/The Wall" topped the Beatport Electronica chart, which was shortly followed by the neighbouring single "Untrue/Touch Wood". The track featured a guest appearance from upcoming UK rapper Ad-Apt and contains vocals by La Roche himself. Both singles had accompanying videos which were featured on YouTube.
In 2013, La Roche released the five-track EP "Composure" on Ever After Records, shortly followed by the double A-side single "Kaboom/Funk Trunk Skunk" on Om Records. This single had accompanying music videos which were exclusively featured on Vevo.
During 2014, he released the single "Offline" featuring J Paul Getto & Lizzie Curious on Nurvous Records. This was then followed up with a late 1980s inspired EP entitled "Dusty Cassette" on Ever After Records.
On 1 June 2015, he released the single "Just Like You" on Ever After Records, which was featured on Majestic Casual. This was followed by the release of Louis' debut album To Rest Is To Rust on 6 July 2015.
In February 2016, It was announced La Roche would be releasing two concept EPs entitled "1986" and "1996".
In addition to his own material, La Roche has created a string of official remixes for artists such as Basement Jaxx, Fred Falke, Spiller, Aeroplane, Mike Mago, Don Diablo, VV Brown, Del Marquis, :fr:Teenage Bad Girl|Teenage Bad Girl, Mercury Music Prize winner Speech Debelle and The Supermen Lovers. Unofficial remixes include the likes of Michael Jackson, Calvin Harris, Miley Cyrus, Riva Starr & Fatboy Slim, Burial, Kate Bush and Gorillaz.
His tracks have appeared on compilations by Ministry of Sound, Modular, Neon, Hed Kandi, Defected and Annie Mac Presents. La Roche has received radio airplay from DJs such as Pete Tong, Annie Mac, Zane Lowe, Alex Metric, MistaJam, Kissy Sellout, Benji B, Huw Stephens, and Jaymo & Andy George. He has had exclusives mixes on Kiss FM and Australian radio station Triple J. In 2012 Louis hosted an hour-long show for BBC Radio Norfolk as part of the BBC Introducing programme.
In addition to radio, La Roche has also written music for television, being featured in the Channel 4 series Skins as well as composing the theme song for Canada's MuchMusic Video Awards. La Roche was featured as The Guardian Music's first 'New Band of The Day' for 2010. He was featured in the UK music magazine Future Music and recorded a video interview in the MofoHifi studio in London, where he discusses working with FL Studio, producing techniques and his creative process. La Roche was promoted to a FL Studio Power User in late 2013.
Between 2011 and 2013, he produced a series of 15-minute mixtapes entitled Scenery, which have collectively collected over 120,000 plays on SoundCloud. The press release reads:
The final instalment of project Scenery Mixtape Part 6 was released on 1 August 2014 and was twice the length of the previous mix tapes.
La Roche has shared the stage with artists such as Armand Van Helden, A-Trak, Aeroplane, and 2ManyDJs. Since 2008, He has toured America, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, Indonesia and Malaysia. European countries include: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine. Festival appearances include Creamfields, Farmfestival, The Isle of Wight Festival, Latitude Festival and Oxygen.
In 2014, La Roche supported Kylie Minogue on two dates of her Kiss Me Once Tour. In 2015, he undertook North and South American tours.
On July 28, 2015, La Roche presented his own hour long show on BBC Radio 1.
On March 20, 2017, La Roche released his second album, Sleepless Nights.
On March 30, 2018, "All I Had" was featured in the Channel 4 comedy Lee & Dean.
La Roche released a surprise single "Lovers" on 25 May 2018, a collaboration with Scottish DJ/Producer Mylo.
On 24 January 2020, La Roche announced his upcoming album Saturday Night Griever, following the release of the two singles "Better" featuring Lucy Pearson and "Desire" featuring Frankmusik.
Saturday Night Griever was released on 27 March 2020.

Discography

Albums
EP's
Singles
Official remixes
Unofficial remixes
Bootlegs
Mixtapes
Misc production