Music for heart and feet

"Parable" Out Friday, May 8th! https://ffm.to/parable

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Josh Royse, Mikey Tucker and Taylor Hatty have spent several years honing their craft in the Las Vegas bars, casinos and festivals between Downtown and that infamous global vein known as ‘The Strip’. Surrounded by a vast ocean of musicians who succumbed to the allure of the city and surrendered their global dreams to the promise of heavy coffers built on unoriginal material, they decided that trading their creative passions to stack their tip bucket fortunes did not align with their mission. They kicked that bucket in pursuit of the great local music cultivated by the scenes of Downtown Las Vegas’ snarky street art and venues full of sharp audiences who thrive in the vortex of abundant creation.

The trio of sonically adventurous cosmic heretics, drenched in eclectic energies built with strange money bathed in neon lights, continued circumnavigating the wild eyed dreamers with diamond studded shoes pressed to the floors of their exotic whips, dodged the quick witted strippers with powdered noses and designer purses, tossed riddles through cocktail conversations of international consequence, and waded through the whales of the world who drop small fortunes just to feel the sweat again. In this Las Vegas chaos, they crystallized their creative triangle as a global bound pirate ship with a simple mission: to shine a light on the kings and their kingdoms – to expose the giants with the light of the Sun; so they called themselves NakedElephant and began bridging the gap from pauper to paper, from kingdom to the coming, singing hallelujah as their curious and open minded listeners bathed in the enlightening lyrical labyrinth and sonic masquerade of their Rock band.

Bookings - International/Rest of the World 
roman.trystram@caa.com

The experiment started as a personal sonic ritual between these two musicians of Las Vegas’ Rock N’ Roll band NakedElephant. Soon, it evolved into a project with a new name and sound: Ancient Agents.

Ancient is deeply influenced by the musical journeys at festivals Lightning in a Bottle and Further Future as well as by the profoundly fearless creativity of the Burning Man community. In their spare time they began to produce tracks together that emulated their playa covered memories; and as their memories turned into sounds and Taylor’s talent shaped those sounds into tracks, Josh began to enter trance-like states, free styling lyrics and melodies that defined their unique style together.

This isn’t just music. This is their way of living. And they are excited to share the way of the Ancient Agents with those who listen.

House Music!

Bookings: georg-wilczek@live.at

From early breakout hit "Phat Dope Shit" in 2002 to "Heavy Heart", a new collaboration with Skrillex and Fireboy DML, Dice has always been in the headlines. After his debut album "7 Dunham Place" on his own now long-running and well-regarded Desolat in 2008, came the major label follow-up "Underground Sound Suicide" on Ultra Music with guests like Giggs, Just Blaze, and Neneh Cherry, then the agenda-setting and club-focussed house and techno showcase that was "Love Letters" in 2018. 

Add in tens of EPs on Ovum, Minus, Cocoon, to name a few, and his remixes from everyone from Kevin Saunderson to Moby, Black Coffee to Disclosure, Warren G to Basement Jaxx, Loco Dice has always been at the beating heart of the electronic scene. 

His DJ sets, too, always brim with personality, whether in a small underground basement or on an iconic main stage at some of the world's top festivals like EDC Ultra, Tomorrowland and Coachella to name a few, playing to thousands. He has had era-defining residencies at iconic Ibiza super clubs like Circoloco at DC-10 and on the Amnesia Terrace as well at Space Miami. 

His lockdown move has been to unveil En Coleur, a label reserved exclusively for his own music produced at that time. SB Recordings followed. A new label open to all styles of dance music.

Since day one Loco Dice constantly pushes the boundaries of techno and house music production, from his appearance in 2004 PlayStation2 game "Decks & FX" to cooking up his own ideal fusions of hip hop and electronic music with his FKD side project or writing critically acclaimed runway soundtracks for Italian fashion designer Marcelo Burlon during Men’s Fashion Week in Milan for both FW20 and SS20.

Dice's distinctive fashion sense and strong visual aesthetic manifest in his collaborations with Amsterdam fashion label Daily Paper, pro sports hat purveyors New Era and in his own clothing brand Seran Bendecidos. 

All of this and his longevity prove that Loco Dice is undoubtedly an insatiable creative force most interested in the uncharted territory between genres and styles, the elements that link everything together.

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