“They mix on the one, and I may be mixing on the two or the three. “I mix weirdly compared to others,” he explains. Still, the crowd is vibing as Carola and Dice drop Johnny Dangerous’ controversial “Problem # 13 (Beat That Bitch With a Bat).” Later in the set, the crowd moves to the hip-hop-infused track “Take It Over” by Elio Riso & Muter, with Dice waving his hands with each bar spat. Assuming you paid the $ 250 at the door and made your way up to the terrace, you’d be lucky to get a quick two-step in without stepping on anybody’s toes.
You can also see that malleability during Dice’s 24-hour set at Club Space, where the producer is going back-to-back with Marco Carola, a once minimal mastermind in his own right. The song, which has more than a million streams on Spotify, is one of many examples of electronic music’s malleability. On the Underground Sound Suicide track “Get Comfy,” a burst of laughter boosts the track while club-driven bass takes over and minimal textures hover atop as British rapper Giggs delivers bars in a streamlined flow. You can not imagine the hate and shitstorm I got – and now it’s a timeless piece. I can include the vocals and snippets, I can do more than play two records, and I started to bring the hip- hop music back in I dropped an album called Underground Sound Suicide in 2015. After the whole minimal boom, I started to go back to my roots. And when you come to a place which is ‘clean,’ it may sometimes disturb them even though we’re the nicest guys. I can not change the way I dress I can not change how I talk. People do not see hip-hop as a great musical and political movement with this important history, especially electronic music. I think my explanation is that many people like to exclude themselves from hip-hop. “Hip-hop comes with a bad taste – I do not know. “Every time – even until now,” says Dice about the resistance he faces. (Dice once dubbed his style “123 BPM chunky terrace music.”)īut hip-hop’s and techno’s origins are similar in many ways, both having come from oppressed Black communities in the US While these days techno is thought of as exclusively the domain of white, European-bred DJs, its origins can be traced back to Black Detroit artists like Robert Hood, Juan Atkins, and Jeff Mills. Here was a branded hip-hop DJ stepping into Germany’s minimal-techno underground, where unembellished instrumentals and repetition reign. So how did a hip-hop DJ transition to techno? The people loved it, and I created a buzz as a DJ who could mix up these styles. “I did my show like a resident: I started with ’80s hip-hop, soul / funk, and then slowly to house music and even techno. “This was the first club to believe in me and allow me to do what I was doing: big hip-hop,” he says. The sound blew up, and Dice soon took his first residency at a Düsseldorf nightclub called La Rocca around the turn of the millennium. An early impetus was spinning in Rotterdam with the “bubbling” sound – a hip-hop creation where DJs sped up the BPM to make vocals sound mousey and impart a relentless percussion to the beat. Though he found success, Dice edged toward the dance-music scene back when that was a career killer. He tagged and rapped his way through Europe and toured with Ice Cube and Snoop Dogg via Death Row Records. His roots are in hip-hop, spinning under the name de guerre Dice C in the 1990s. Describing himself as “a kid coming from the dance floor to the DJ booth,” Dice blends his experience, musical tenacity, and hunger with street smarts he picked up in cities like Düsseldorf and New York. He will not discuss family or romantic relationships and claims the Wikipedia page on which his supposed real name and age of 47 appear are inaccurate. Standing over six feet tall, tattooed, and pierced, the producer is tightlipped about his personal life. “Loco” was attached after his late Ibiza nights in the 1990s. “I want to go to people who understand me and think more forwardly.”īorn to Tunisian parents who immigrated to Germany, Dice earned his nickname from watching his grandfather play backgammon, then collecting the dice after the game. He’s a mature act, and it came organically, a next step between the culture of Miami and the culture that Loco Dice brings around the world.” “I think Loco Dice is at a very high caliber of the art. “We have a lot of residents now, but we have not gone out and said, ‘Hey, these people are residents,'” Space co-owner Coloma Kaboomsky adds.
#LOCO DICE CLUB SPACE MAY 2018 HOW TO#
Club Space knows how to do it – I feel like family.” I want to go to people who understand me and make new opportunities and think more forwardly. I would have a residency in Ibiza if it were the financial side,” he admits.