Browse by Artist: LOCO DICE

Artist:	LOCO DICE
Title:	Harissa
Label:	CADENZA (GERMANY)
Format:	2x12"
Price:	$25.50
Catalog #:	CADENZA 013EP

"Following the success of his enigmatic singles 'Seeing Through Shadows' for Richie Hawtin's Minus label and 'Flight LB 7475' for Ovum, Düsseldorf's Loco Dice returns with a monster four-track, co-produced with Hannover's Martin Buttrich, the man behind one of this fall's biggest hits -- 'Full Clip,' released on Carl Craig's Planet E. The four cuts on this doublepack EP are monsters all, between eight and 13 minutes apiece. Coming hot on the heels of similarly sprawling releases from Ricardo Villalobos and Luciano & Thomas Melchior, they confirm Cadenza's commitment to stretching electronic dance music's form to fit a more expansive frame. These are anthems, but they're anthems of a different sort. While too many hits beat their riffs like dead horses and treat their listeners little better, Loco Dice turns their attentions to gauzier, wispier elements: ghost melodies, feathery percussion, iridescent timbres that flash once and are gone. These are tracks for clubbers who like their bumping subtle; they're cuts for headphone listeners who want to follow a corkscrewed groove until the g-force tugs their lips into a private smile. The four tracks sound simple at first -- easygoing house rhythms, skeletal melodies, agreeable sounds and textures -- but the more you listen, the deeper they get, multiplying their inner dimensions exponentially. 'Raindrops On My Window,' opening with clopping hooves and twittering birdcalls, feels like a journey through the forest back to civilization: a male voice mutters monosyllables, a female singer wails a near-Eastern lament, and the track's taut machine rhythms box in an unruly bassline that cuts corners with every bar, refusing to slot itself in 4s. The whole thing is dead simple, unabashedly dark, and delectably funky. 'Paradiso' is one of the gentlest tracks you'll hear this year, braiding keening keyboard lines and unfolding like a flower caught by time-lapse photography. Romantic melodies meet Afro-Latin polyrhythms."

Artist:	LOCO DICE
Title:	7 Dunham Place
Label:	DESOLAT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	DESOLAT 001CD

Originally released in 2008, this is the debut full-length release by renowned Düsseldorf minimal DJ, producer and Desolat label-head, Loco Dice. 7 Dunham Place has been created to take the listener on a journey: an album to be treasured as a fine-textured catalog of the senses. Loco Dice, who spends much of his time shuttling between the world's main electronic music ports as an in-demand DJ, packed up his studio and relocated to New York City. There, he fomented a raw and simmering soundtrack: a nuance-packed collection of sonic interpretations of scenes, characters and moods from the most diverse and mythologized city in the world. The album specifically pays homage to their adopted home base, Brooklyn, while sketching the trajectory of a musical life uprooted and transplanted, where dream-like feelings of isolation and melancholy transmute into a sense of place and kinship. Loco Dice began a fruitful studio partnership with Martin Buttrich in 2002 leading to tracks like "Phat Dope Shit," "Menina Brasiliera," and "Seeing Through Shadows," and these productions are meticulously planned by Dice. It's a directorial, cinematic outlook, which permeates Dice's everyday life: fed by his experiences living in extreme environments like Ibiza and New York, as well as drawing on elaborate film scripts imagined as a young Loco Dice on the streets of Flingern in Düsseldorf and the Kerkennah Islands in Tunisia. It's an album that re-imagines the soul of a city, built from careful observations of urban tribes that crisscross and sometimes clash, of minute details and sensory impressions. From the two guys at the local deli who're always on the verge of fighting over football results or presidential candidates, to the tattooed lady couple who sell the morning soul food, all find their way into this cohesive collection of tracks which breathe deeply, and as they exhale, tell a story. "M Train To Brooklyn" includes the sounds of a subway train on the tracks, with a low-slung, incredibly relaxed vibe, "Esquina" is a Latin-themed piano-led track with bouncy beats, and "Tight Laces" uses sampled female voices, shakers, and analog squiggles that make the track sound absolutely propulsive, like everyday life. 7 Dunham Place is your city-commute headphones soundtrack with reduced grooves, kept infinitely personal.

Artist:	LOCO DICE
Title:	7 Dunham Place
Label:	DESOLAT (GERMANY)
Format:	4x12"
Price:	$42.00
Catalog #:	DESOLAT 001LP

Gatefold 4x12" version. Originally released in 2008, this is the debut full-length release by renowned Düsseldorf minimal DJ, producer and Desolat label-head, Loco Dice. 7 Dunham Place has been created to take the listener on a journey: an album to be treasured as a fine-textured catalog of the senses. Loco Dice, who spends much of his time shuttling between the world's main electronic music ports as an in-demand DJ, packed up his studio and relocated to New York City. There, he fomented a raw and simmering soundtrack: a nuance-packed collection of sonic interpretations of scenes, characters and moods from the most diverse and mythologized city in the world. The album specifically pays homage to their adopted home base, Brooklyn, while sketching the trajectory of a musical life uprooted and transplanted, where dream-like feelings of isolation and melancholy transmute into a sense of place and kinship. Loco Dice began a fruitful studio partnership with Martin Buttrich in 2002 leading to tracks like "Phat Dope Shit," "Menina Brasiliera," and "Seeing Through Shadows," and these productions are meticulously planned by Dice. It's a directorial, cinematic outlook, which permeates Dice's everyday life: fed by his experiences living in extreme environments like Ibiza and New York, as well as drawing on elaborate film scripts imagined as a young Loco Dice on the streets of Flingern in Düsseldorf and the Kerkennah Islands in Tunisia. It's an album that re-imagines the soul of a city, built from careful observations of urban tribes that crisscross and sometimes clash, of minute details and sensory impressions. From the two guys at the local deli who're always on the verge of fighting over football results or presidential candidates, to the tattooed lady couple who sell the morning soul food, all find their way into this cohesive collection of tracks which breathe deeply, and as they exhale, tell a story. "M Train To Brooklyn" includes the sounds of a subway train on the tracks, with a low-slung, incredibly relaxed vibe, "Esquina" is a Latin-themed piano-led track with bouncy beats, and "Tight Laces" uses sampled female voices, shakers, and analog squiggles that make the track sound absolutely propulsive, like everyday life. 7 Dunham Place is your city-commute headphones soundtrack with reduced grooves, kept infinitely personal.

Artist:	LOCO DICE
Title:	Seeing Through Shadows
Label:	MINUS (CANADA)
Format:	12"
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	MINUS 041EP

Known for his deep and groovy productions and driving DJ sets, Loco Dice debuts on Minus with Seeing Through Shadows, a symphonic slice of minimized and maximized techno. An untouchable hit for the few DJs that possess it, "Seeing Through Shadows" is a track that delivers. Its intoxicating slow-build introduction rises to the perfect point, breaking over with a bassline and beat that kicks the night into the afternoon. "Backroom Melody" pops and pulses along a more experimental route -- tones mutate and forge together as rhythms evolve, propelling a sketch of minimal movement to another, out-there dimension. Yes, do believe the hype and look out for Loco Dice.

Artist:	LOCO DICE
Title:	Knibbie Never Comes Alone/Loose Hooks
Label:	MINUS (CANADA)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MINUS 111EP

This is Loco Dice's first release on M-nus since 2006, exploring an abstract and cerebral techno template. The opening 90 seconds of the A-side is all sparse atmosphere, static crackles and weird effects with just a sole note played over and over. The pulsing of a deep sine wave hints at what is to come. "Loose Hooks" is a deeply-burrowing affair with an extra-heavy kick hitting every four bars to give things an air of extra insistency.

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