Mistletone

Artwork by Bjenny Montero

Mistletone is proud to present for the first time in over six years, the return of legendary New York sound experimentalists Black Dice for a special show at Oxford Art Factory on Friday, October 7. Tickets $40 + booking fee on sale now through Moshtix.

Los Angeles filmmaker Danny Perez, best known for his work on Animal Collective’s ODDSAC film and for providing Panda Bear‘s incredible live visuals, will provide a brain-melting visual component to Black Dice’s show. Joining Black Dice will be Los Angeles duo Lucky Dragons on their return Australian tour, plus local DIY no-wave adventurers Holy Balm to open this sumptuous evening of bewildering, exhilarating electronic experimentalism.

Rightly renowned as one of the pre-eminent forces of the noise art movement, Black Dice have built a reputation as one of the most mercurial, abrasive and overwhelming live music experiences touring the world today. From their origins as an occasionally violent post-hardcore outfit in the late 90s, through to the improvised distortion epics that marked their middle years, Black Dice have emerged in 2011 as a techno-influenced amalgam of noise atmospherics, jaggedly programmed beats and snatched, scrambled sample work. Feared and respected in equal measure, Black Dice’s live shows are relentless audio-visual assaults, exercises in virtuosic musical cohesiveness and defiant experimentation that will splinter opinion and also, potentially, your eardrums.

Lucky Dragons’ live shows are the epitome of coming together – less performance, more all-in, collaborative jam session where the shape of the song is dictated by the audience as much as it is the band. Listening to Lucky Dragons is like having your preconceptions of what music should be gently disassembled and recombined by two of your oldest friends. Armed with a varied and ever-changing array of synthesisers, loop pedals, wind instruments and percussive elements, the Lucky Dragons live experience is half interactive art project, half neo-hippy freak jam, and all shimmering sonic dreamscape.