7 Dunham Place - Loco Dice

7 Dunham Place

Loco Dice [Desolat]

#09 in this month's The 20

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• Written by: lizwarner

It may be surprising that a man from “D-Town City” — that’s Düsseldorf, Germany, for all you observers — would focus on a city based in the United States.

But when you’re talking about the world-class New York City, geography seems nearly irrelevant.

In order to create the record, ‘7 Dunham Place’, Dice, as his friends call him, relocated to New York with fellow producer Martin Buttrich after being inspired by its cityscape.

“I get my music from landscapes and cultures, and New York provides the best script for my love of creating soundtracks with instrumental music,” Loco Dice tells Beatportal.

In fact, the entire album — the artist’s first — was produced with Buttrich in Brooklyn while the two were living there after they made the move following Dice’s Brooklyn stop during the 2006 Carl Cox bus tour.

“Every track is dedicated to a neighborhood, a season and a situation from the time that we were living there.”

Each track does have its own individual feel, from the mellow ‘Breakfast at Nina’s’ to the Latin ‘La Esquina’.

There’s the house departure of ‘Pimp Jackson Is Talking Now!!!’ and the ‘THX-1138’ influenced decompressed sci-fi feel of ‘M Train to Brooklyn’.

Throughout the nine cuts, ‘7 Dunham Place’ becomes a series of moments captured in time, fully realizing Loco Dice’s confirmation that “New York was like a second stage for me.”

It’s not so unusual, after all, to find inspiration in other cities, much less other ideas.

Here, it’s a fitting tribute to a city that many electronic artists have left in order to find their sound in European lands, namely Berlin.

But it’s the inspiration that they’ve all taken with them.

Read Beatportal’s recent interview with Loco Dice.

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