Description:	12" on Paw Tracks
	Format:	12" (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Experimental/Math/Noise Rock
	Label:	Paw Tracks
	Price:	£6.49
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Ant on 24 May 2007.

A bit of Black Dice 12" action on Paw Tracks me thinks, in the form of 'Roll Up' and 'Drool'. Includes full color poster. The foundation of 'Roll Up' is a clicky percussion rhythm with electronic pulses and a mystical melody. The flipside is totally confusing as it sounds decent at both 33 and 45rpm. I'm a bit lost for words with this one. Mingus Rude was also intrigued as to the nature of this two tracker. Abstract rythmic intensity that just rolls & rolls, adding filters, flickering sound fx, rough biscuity textures with what sounds like an army of drumming ants interupted by sporadic droning tones. If sound textures is your thing then the flipside can be likened to one of the more dry-dubbed reverbed jams of a certain HannasBarber or a mildly more playful Thomas Koner track.This is one of those very abstract releases that makes writing about music challenging, even more so in the very limited timeframe we get to digest the music we bring to you.Given that I'll probably have a different perspective on this, if heard again sometime in the near future, i'll end this micro review with a reccomendation that you purchase this and post your own review. Strange but strange good. Ant & Mingus

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What their label says...

Coinciding with their ten year anniversary,Black Dice release a new two song 12" EP,their second release on Paw Tracks.Reflecting another withering season in a Brooklyn basement rehearsal space, the band created a work of abandon, a sonic balloon to unfamiliar vistas. The tunes were debuted on a Peruvian network television show called, funnily enough, “Jammin’,” on their trip to Lima this past fall. Both “Roll Up” and “Drool” offer something upbeat and hypnotic, looking far away from America 2007, while still retaining a familiar Black Dice raw boldness and playfulness, existing in a wide gray area between jam bands and minimal techno. While developing new songwriting processes for live concerts, the group recorded these tracks at the Rare Book Room in Brooklyn between local shows and heaps of work outside the band. This release serves as a companion to the recent DFA “Manoman” 12".