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Respondent EP
Resplendent/Downey
mixxtape006/hrtph001 : EP
Released: June 5, 2007

1. Spring (MP3)
2. Home (MP3)
3. Buildings & Food (MP3)

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Michael Lenzi played drums and sang in the Chicago group Number One Cup. He later went on to front The Fire Show and then release a series of EPs and a full length under the name Resplendent. The Respondent EP consists of Mike Downey’s reworks (edits, remixes) of 3 previously unreleased Resplendent songs.

In the beginning of 2005 I played my one and only show under the name of Resplendent. I had a band of 4 people consisting of Derek See (guitar), Pat O’Connell (guitar) and Joe Adamik (drums).

I was a bit discouraged after that and decided I needed to take a break. Perhaps that would revive me. It did temporarily and I set about recording an EP called Spring. I thought that I would release it under the name of Michael Lenzi, thus retiring the Resplendent moniker.

I came up with 3 songs which I recorded in a few weeks in my home studio Plastic Skull. I promptly shared them with a few people and forgot about them. My desire to make music vanished.

I did however share them on my website. That is how Mike Downey heard them. He contacted me and we talked about a collaboration but it fizzled on my end. I just couldn’t get the music going again.

He plugged away on his own and sent me a remixed track by email. It was awesome. He went ahead and did the other two tracks from the EP. I loved them so we decided to release the collaboration. This is it.

All my tracks were recorded using my two samplers: the AKAI MPC 2000 XL and the Roland DJ-70. I recorded them on a 1/2″ analog 8-track machine. Mike did his remixing, editing and additional recording in early 2007 at his home studio Funkis & Svettis in Stockholm using an iBook and Ableton Live.

If you would like to contact me about Resplendent, Fire Show or Number One Cup music, you can visit my website: www.michaellenzi.com or send me an email: michaellenzi@sbcglobal.net.

—Michael Lenzi (aka Resplendent), June 2007

Press resources: One-sheet (pdf) Promo photo (jpg) Hi-res front cover art (jpg)

Press: Pop Dakar (June 2007) Pitchfork (July 2007) 8hands (August 2007)

Respondent EP by Resplendent/Downey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.