Bad Dudes

S/T Special Edition LP

When the Costa Mesa-based Miracle Chosuke (Dim Mak) split up in 2003, founding Chosukers Dan Gerchik and Brady Miller, recruited Phil Cobb, Daniel Haworth, recent Chosuke addition Marty Sataman (formerly of Friends in the Mountains) and B. Okhaifo Aigboboh and became Bad Dudes.  You could call Bad Dudes the new, improved Miracle Chosuke, but that would really miss the point of both bands.  Miracle Chosuke was one of the high points of the dance-punk movement that was (and some may argue still is) gaining popularity in recent years.  Bad Dudes will have none of that.  Granted, there's still the spastic melodies and the attention to danceable beats and, of course, the synthesizers, but Bad Dudes have tweaked these melodies and multiplied them at a frenetic pace to match a beat structure that doesn't so much try to be chaotic, as just slightly beyond the reach of your rational capability.  Only slightly, though, because unlike many other bands that share a similar aesthetic, and use it to confuse people, Bad Dudes use their music to rock the sense back into them.