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Black Dice are coming to Australia in October for a special performance at Melbourne Festival with visuals by Danny Perez and support from Lucky Dragons. Tickets on sale now.

Sat 8 Oct: Black Dice + Lucky Dragons + Kangaroo Skull @ Forum Theatre (Melbourne Festival). Tickets $40 from Ticketmaster 1300 723 038. Over 18s event only.

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. Love it or hate it, there will most certainly be no other experience like it at this year’s Festival.

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.

Opening act just announced will be Kangaroo Skull, a new band featuring Rohan Rebeiro & Ben Andrew from My Disco. DJing between bands will be China’s king of 8-bit techno Sulumi, the purveyor of some of the finest, take-no prisoners electro-glitch-house this side of a souped up Sega Mega Drive.

“An idiosyncratic mix, where attention to detail, openness to possibility, and intuitive senses of rhythm and timing all collide.” – Pitchfork

“Like a dance-based Animal Collective hollowed out of melodies and overstuffed rhythms clashing chaotically against each other.” – Drowned in Sound