DUDES TRIP ON DELAY

Above, a video from the BBC with ya boys Black Dice exploring their creative process. Black Dice create these noises/songs/soundscapes that at first listen seem incredibly chaotic and unfocused, at times youll hear a rhythm coalesce and dissipate and maybe a slight melody float by. youll think "yeah, they aight but, its a bunch of noise". but the thing about black dice is that when you put on an entire album of theirs and you let it ride out, theres this enveloping effect that takes place. you become transported to another environment. but without direction or motive. a band like Sigur Ros can make you feel as though you standing on a glacier as the sun rises and your first child was being born and a unicorn just walked up and gave you a slice of cake. theres that kind of enveloping sound and engrossing, moving composition. black dice just makes you feel like youre in a kind of weird forest just standing there. no talking reindeer approaching you no orcs to fight. just chilling out on in this weird as shit forest. the music sounds entirely organic in its chaoticness/randomness, a snapshot of coalescing unorchestrated (un)natural sounds.

imagine you just happened to capture the one sublime moment in the forest when water dripping of a tree branch taps out a simple melody, and the frogs croaking in the corner play out a bass rhythm, and some kind of erupting geyser rhythmically sputters out a drum pattern. but the whole time u were on mad hallucinogens, so the frogs were dumb loud and screechy and the rain drops sounded like your microwave short circuiting and that erupting geyser sounded like a a yelping dog.
thats what kinda what black dice sounds like....

"you hear a sound out on the street or in another type of music and you find some ass backwards type of way to emulate that..."
this kind of processing and regurgitation is something ive always found very inspirational, something ive always attempted in my work. to take multiple disparate influences, blend them up in the dome piece and just spit it back out with a retard foam on the side. shout out to Marcel.

- "...touching the guitar cable and running it through pedals and playing with knobs is more interesting than what you were playing on the guitar was..."
after spending years in hardcore bands, and having way too many pedals i can tell you that delay pedals are the best invention since The Pump.

i found it interesting that they said "mainstream hip hop has the most interesting sounds...". i to a degree, agree. specifically in the compositions of the Neptunes and Timbaland. i mean take a listen to a black dice jam like this:



and tell me you couldnt imagine that songs like the ones below might not be composed by similar minds:

Clipse - Trill


Timbaland playing instrumentals for Jay-z During Fade To Black recording sessions