Black Dice
A kaleidoscopic collision of jagged noise and warped electronic grooves. It sounds like a computer having a vivid, colorful fever dream in a crowded basement.
A kaleidoscopic collision of jagged noise and warped electronic grooves. It sounds like a computer having a vivid, colorful fever dream in a crowded basement.
Black Dice sounds like the exact moment a machine breaks and starts making something more beautiful than it was designed for. Their music is a thick, tactile slurry of electronic chirps, distorted vocal fragments, and rhythmic pulses that feel both primitive and futuristic. It is a sensory overload that somehow remains organic, like a digital ecosystem growing over a concrete ruin.
What sets them apart is their evolution from thrashy hardcore into a unique form of 'patchwork' psychedelia. They use signal processing not just to distort, but to sculpt entirely new environments. Every track feels like a physical space you have to navigate, filled with unexpected textures that range from slimy and liquid to sharp and metallic. It is the sound of Brooklyn's experimental underground at its most uninhibited.
Start with Beaches & Canyons if you want to hear their transition into long-form, immersive soundscapes. If you prefer something more rhythmic and punchy, Broken Ear Record offers a more aggressive, beat-driven entry point that showcases their time on the DFA label.
Black Dice is an American experimental noise music band based in Brooklyn, New York and consisting of brothers Bjorn and Eric Copeland along with Aaron Warren. Formed in 1997, the group was initially inspired by hardcore and noise rock, but subsequently shifted toward the extensive use of signal processing, effects units, and electronic instrumentation. They released their debut album Beaches & Canyons in 2002. They have recorded for labels such as DFA, Fat Cat, and Animal Collective's Paw Tracks.
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