Loco Dice
about the artist
Loco Dice was born and raised in Düsseldorf, Germany. Growing up in a multicultural household with Tunisian roots, he developed a unique musical perspective that would later define his groundbreaking career in electronic dance music.
Before becoming an electronic music icon, Loco Dice was deeply embedded in the hip-hop scene. As a young DJ in the early 1990s, he honed his skills mixing hip-hop tracks, developing a rhythmic sensibility that would become a hallmark of his later techno productions. As rapper and DJ he toured the globe solo and supporting Snoop Dogg, Death Row Crew, Ice Cube and many more.
…MoreLoco Dice was born and raised in Düsseldorf, Germany. Growing up in a multicultural household with Tunisian roots, he developed a unique musical perspective that would later define his groundbreaking career in electronic dance music.
Before becoming an electronic music icon, Loco Dice was deeply embedded in the hip-hop scene. As a young DJ in the early 1990s, he honed his skills mixing hip-hop tracks, developing a rhythmic sensibility that would become a hallmark of his later techno productions. As rapper and DJ he toured the globe solo and supporting Snoop Dogg, Death Row Crew, Ice Cube and many more.
At the turn of the millennium, Dice began transitioning from hip-hop to electronic music.
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.