Spazz Music: August 2004 Archives
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.
