Dirty White Pants: Dance Disaster Movement
Posted by: steve | From: August 19, 2004
You guys know about Boots Pants, right? You know, Boots Pants, or as some people like to call it Disco Punk, but Boots Pants just sounds so much better. It's called Boots Pants because if you repeat those two words it sounds like the drums and cymbals from this brand of rock and roll music. Oh crud, as I listen to Dance Disaster Movement, while writing this I realize they don't use the classic 4-on-the-floor Boots Pants beat but they have much more fractured beats maybe of the break beat variety, does that term mean anything outside of electronic dance music?
Once again, I find myself knowing a paltry amount of information about a Greatest Band of All Time, but let me lay out what I do know. 1. They are from Long Beach, Ca. 2. They are comprised of two men. 3. One man plays drums and the other man plays guitars, keys, and sings. 4. One of the men is named Kevin Disco (wasn't he in Bis....oh that's John Disco or was it Stephen Disco?). 5. They both wear all white, but it always seems to be a beautifully filthy pair of white jeans, and there is something so awesomely nasty about dirty white jeans. 6. They have 1 record out on Dim Mak called We Are From Nowhere. 7. They put on a really radical show. What else does anyone need to know?
Their sound is very angular and attacking. A Dance Disaster Movement song plays itself out like this: it starts with a skittering drum beat, then Kevin Disco rips some weird crusher of a riff on guitar which he then loops, he might do a second guitar loop or not, he runs over to the keys are starts mashing away and tears into with vocals. It really lends itself to some super fun spazz out dancing. In fact, yours truly was even awarded with the dancer of the night award at one of their shows. Some serious freak out stuff. This is not to say that they are altogether predictable (even though a lot of their songs follow this formula) their album has some really interesting songs that sound nothing like that like "Quarkscrews" with its bubbling squeeks and melodic synths it sounds like something from a Plone record. Or their is "The Shots" that sounds like what U2 would sound like if they had any guts and only two dudes.
These dudes have been somehow sorely underhyped even in the last year or two where Boots Pants has ruled, as both shows I have seen them play have been pretty sparsely attended. I think they may be getting some propers as they just got done touring with Peaches, so that's good, but you should totally go see them in your town. You know what makes a Greatest Band of All Time?? Wearing the same filthy white jeans at every show you ever play. SERIOUS.
They both wear all white, but it always seems to be a beautifully filthy pair of white jeans, and there is something so awesomely nasty about dirty white jeans.
What's even more awesome is watching guys in their new WHITE jeans try to keep them white! a few years back me and the two other guys in our band took to wearing brand new, super WHITE jeans at our gigs. mind you, getting our WHITE jeans dirty ws NOT part of the act! After a few times with no problem, we didn't hesitate to accept a gig at a local outdoor venue. well, having no problem before, it never occurred to us to have an extra pair of white jeans with us. An outdoor setting, GREEN grass, too much beer and WHITE jeans are receipe for a laundry disaster. briefly and very carefully sitting on a grass hillside, some clumsy bastard spilled his cup of beer right behind me. instinctively trying to avoid the spill, I slid forward on the grass. not a totally well-thought out reaction as I got beer stains and major grass stains on my new WHITE jeans before our gig! At least the front of my white jeans were still white!
Posted by: Daryn at June 14, 2005 06:20 PM
Daryn, your're right on the money, dude. the awesomely nasty part is watchin the dude in said white jeans try to keep them white! one particularly memorable episode was watching this dude in obviously new white jeans trying to keep them whiter than white whilst waiting for the bus. chatting loudly and obnoxiously on his cell phone he managed to miss the mud puddle by the stop. one appropriately place lory, mud puddle and WHIITE jeans--there's the laundry disaster. the shocked look on the dude's face and the frantic pawing at the mud splash (yeah, sure, that goin' to get it out) was priceless.
adam
Posted by: adam at June 20, 2005 01:15 PM
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Dance Disaster Movement is performing Friday, March 4 at the Natural History Museum (LA).
Posted by: Stefka at March 3, 2005 10:09 AM