Black Dice
Hailed as sonic groundbreakers or derided as alienating and pretentious, Brooklyn's Black Dice push the limits of hardcore and noise rock. Taking their cues from Melt Banana, Merzbow, and Harry Pussy, Black Dice fixate on a few notes per "song" and focus on producing a sound that's as abrasive and distorted as possible. The group debuted in early 1998 with a single on Gravity Records and released Semen of the Sun on Tapes Records. They then appeared on Troubleman Unlimited's Mix-Tape and were picked up by Troubleman, run by Unwound. {$Black ...[more]
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This Brooklyn trio has never worked harder at crafting a set of concise, sonically battering, or flat-out bizarre tunes than on this collection of fringe-surfing tone bombs. Yet a new roadhouse blues band philosophy has simultaneously emerged, allowing the group to loosen up and casually toss off a record packed with blurry hooks and zoomed in riffs. Repo irreverently mulches the sounds and images of radio, TV, and Internet into a fertile compost pile squirming with new, raw life.
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Load Blown is the fourth album by Brooklyn's Black Dice. The beats drip and roll, tar-pit voices sing into an oil can, and the guitars crank like calliope. Some tunes crackle and burble like submerged television, others bump and click along like a Summer Jam concert series from another dimension. While a noticeable change in tone encompasses Load Blown (some tunes veer close to pop songs), this is a work of over-stimulation, a product of frenzied media culture, a sonic sifting of t [ read more ]
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Brooklyn's own BLACK DICE return to Troubleman with their second cd. Since we last heard from them, they toured the USA (again), and released a 7'. They have also been playing around NYC monthly, developing their sound and dabbling in improvisation. This record finds them experimenting with sounds, and mixing them with their patented brand of violent hardcore. The result is an odd mixture of the experimental HARRY PUSSY, noise master MERZBOW, and violent hardcore pioneers VOID. They also added more amps to [ read more ]
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