Black Dice - Mr. Impossible

hmmm. well i guess our ears just work differently!

active apathy is definitely right, the cheap hipster diss explanation is putting it down to a kind of guardedness re showing any feelings or more importantly showing THE WRONG feelings about things, but i haven't been able to come up with a better one. i've come to accept it and my lonely dancing but i know people who've given up on going to indie-leaning gigs in london because of that vibe, and it's very understandable.

I say take the dancefloor back. Do a Sid Vicious and shake things up, bump into people, fuck it. Something I didn't mention in the review was when I found myself getting cross and shouting "I don't know about you but I came here to see fucking BLACK DICE" (bit tipsy by that point), one bloke turned round and kind of acknowledged the situation and started bouncing around with me, which I was very pleased to see :-)

I never really thought of Cone Toaster as a dance track, tbh. It was easily one of the least dance-oriented early DFA records. In fact, I always thought having Black Dice on the label in those days was a way to pin down an extreme noise end of the spectrum of the sound they were charting.

when i saw bd in london, mb three years ago, there was some dancing

As an aside, I was on Discogs the other day and was amused by this: "Punk funk label set up by James Murphy, Tim Goldsworthy and Jonathan Galkin."

I haven't heard DFA described that way for ages, mainly since their sound became sort of ubiquitous or at least normative throughout the 00s. Anyway, reminded me to compilations like this one.

In any case, agree that Black Dice have become way more dancey over time, but especially by now mining 90s genres like breakbeat, gabba and drum'n'bass, combining that with their noise-roots. To my mind, they also always arguably had electro-influences, but mainly through stuff like power-electronics.