Fake Communication Has A Big Time Out
Published Wednesday, March 08, 2006 by Jeff | E-mail this post
Dance Disaster Movement (DDM) - Late Spring hinted at warmer weather and longer nights just after dusk at a nondescript warehouse in Costa Mesa. I had convinced myself that I was over whatever illness I had been struck with the previous week. (As I recall, I thought it was just a bad reaction to Melatonin but it turned out to be the onset of Juvenile Diabetes.) Dim lighting in a dingy garage-space and loud, youthful and noisy music left me with one desire: to dance. The Flying Saucers and The Pomp provided destructive garage punk, Miracle Chosuke stroked their egos in 7/8 time, and Dance Disaster Movement blasted out the building's foundation.
After DDM's set, Kevin stepped outside, where I was chugging 2-liter bottles of water and smoking a cigarette. He said, "This was the best show Costa Mesa has seen in decades." And whether it was too many $1 Pabsts in my reduced-to-100-pounds frame or a blood glucose level of around 600, I wholeheartedly agreed. It wasn't just the music or the people; it was something in the air. A sense that liberation was just within our reach, that maybe we could carve out someplace to exist.
I danced like I never danced before and when I ended up the hospital a week later I thought a lot about that night. Somehow that night I lost track of myself and was just able to be, to take in the scene. Maybe I've been trying to replicate that feeling ever since. Maybe the whole reason I wanted to start a 'dancey band' was to provide that feeling for others. It's easy to get idealistic with hindsight and it can be tempting to mythologize certain moments, but something in me really sees that night as a turning point, as an epiphany.
Since then, dance-punk has been turned into a dirty word and the pose has been taken up by all sorts of typically non-subterranean bands. But DDM keep it glitchy and repetitive enough to defy any sort of cashing-in criticism. At times Snow on the TV comes off a bit self-conscious and pretentious but I admire what they're going for. Without the minute and a half of powerdrill beats, DDM could come too close to being Rapture-clones. Without the open ringing guitars and ham-fisted synth chords, DDM would be nothing more to me than an idealized memory.
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