AnCo's tourmates, labelmates, split singlemates, Terrestrial
Tonemates, occasional roomates and high-decibel masters of a
candy-painted sour-patch squiggle all their own: Brooklyn knob-
twurkers Black Dice are not only brothers in arms, but tangled
deeply in a symbiotic relationship pushing noise and beatwork to
the bleeding edge of the rainbow. Since 2004's Creature
Comforts, Dice's contribution is mostly rhythmic, evolving into
the most noggin-tobogganing beat-makers this side of Steve Reich
or Chicago footwork, a tangle of disoriented phasing, skips,
glitches, live-wire boners, locked grooves and Groundhog Day
repetition. The nebulous, intangible, broken ear rhythms of
recent AnCo songs like "In the Flowers" and "Taste" roll the
Dice nimbly  Avey Tare: Aphex Twin and Black Sabbath and Merzbow
blended into this blissful, heavy experience. The first time I
saw 'em, I did this thing at NYU, I was on the program board and
this fellow member brought them to play. I heard a little bit
about them, but in those day