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Newark, New York NJ, United States (1998 – present)
dälek (pronounced ‘die-a-leck’) is a hip-hop duo formed in Newark, NJ in 1998. The group comprises MC dälek (vocals) and the Oktopus (production). They have often toured with artists from radically different genres, such as Godflesh, Isis, Prince Paul, Melvins, De La Soul, RJD2 and Lovage.
dälek’s music is dark, noisy and atmospheric, equally inspired by industrial music like Einstürzende Neubauten, the layered noise of My Bloody Valentine and the dense sound collages of Public Enemy. Their sound is often constructed through sampling and a musical base atypical of most hiphop, making it difficult for people to classify their sound. They have been described as triphop, glitch-hop, and metal-shoegaze-hiphop, as well as criticized for their broad range of sound.
MC dälek described the duo’s music to the Chicago Sun-Times:
“It’s purely hiphop, in the purest sense. If you listen to what hiphop has historically been, it was all about digging in different crates and finding different sounds, and finding different influences to create. If Afrika Bambaataa wasn’t influenced by Kraftwerk, we wouldn’t have ‘Planet Rock’. So, in that sense, what we do is strictly hiphop.”
“If there is a difference, it’s that the palette of sounds we work with is more varied than what has been called hiphop in the last 10 years. Somehow, as hiphop grew, it’s been put into this box. I think it’s funny when people are like “That’s not hiphop. It’s this and this and this.” You can try to rationalize it as whatever you want to rationalize it as.”
dälek’s music is dark, noisy and atmospheric, equally inspired by industrial music like Einstürzende Neubauten, the layered noise of My Bloody Valentine and the dense sound collages of Public Enemy. Their sound is often constructed through sampling and a musical base atypical of most hiphop, making it difficult for people to classify their sound. They have been described as triphop, glitch-hop, and metal-shoegaze-hiphop, as well as criticized for their broad range of sound.
MC dälek described the duo’s music to the Chicago Sun-Times:
“It’s purely hiphop, in the purest sense. If you listen to what hiphop has historically been, it was all about digging in different crates and finding different sounds, and finding different influences to create. If Afrika Bambaataa wasn’t influenced by Kraftwerk, we wouldn’t have ‘Planet Rock’. So, in that sense, what we do is strictly hiphop.”
“If there is a difference, it’s that the palette of sounds we work with is more varied than what has been called hiphop in the last 10 years. Somehow, as hiphop grew, it’s been put into this box. I think it’s funny when people are like “That’s not hiphop. It’s this and this and this.” You can try to rationalize it as whatever you want to rationalize it as.”
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KwiatekZ wrote:
Dalek is genius
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xhearnoisex wrote:
etni22 Спасибо за исполнителя! Хорошая вещь! Послушал только несколько треков но уже чувствую что там все как надо! ) особо люблю когда есть скретчи это вообще кайф!
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etni22 wrote:
xhearnoisex послушай rubberoom,там нет таких жостких нойзов,но очень пиздатый индустриальный хип хоп )
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etni22 wrote:
Absence лучший
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Rocketko wrote:
http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=973022 Полная дискография
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_obzZzen_ wrote:
>>>"слушай, у него дохренища альбомов" У меня всего три релиза. Где остальные взять можно?
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BCDkey wrote:
ващеахуетьнравится
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Lightless22 wrote:
Public Enemy is better
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2393 wrote:
Well, Us and Them is quite "hip-hopish".
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Velvet_Myx wrote:
Godflesh as a similar artist is so wrong...
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Type040147 wrote:
@papiesztanczy ясное дело XYNTA, ты ж любитель послушать слипвротов, кстати почему Dälek, a не dälek
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Plaumtothashizz wrote:
they should collaborate with yo la tengo
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okkultestimmen wrote:
they should collaborate more with zu. that would be right thing.
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Kidvomit wrote:
слушай, у него дохренища альбомов
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xhearnoisex wrote:
Kidvomit спасибо Tenshun - просто супер и скретчи такие как я люблю и нойз просто супер! И конешно биток отличный!
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Kidvomit wrote:
xhearnoisex попробуй Tenshun, подходит вполне под твое описание
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nyakuw wrote:
Outstanding. [2]
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Hexoctahedron wrote:
My yesterdays don't matter now, they're gone. Your careless expression left my wrists torn. Yesterdays don't matter now, you're gone. Shattered glass of empty bottles cut my palms.
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xhearnoisex wrote:
Посоветуйте что-то из Noise Hip-Hop (В духе папки Дайтлека) кроме Oddateee, Deadverse Massive, Techno Animal, IconAclass (тот же Дайтлек) Что-нибудь мало известное бо жуть как хочется что-то ешё послушать а найти что-то никак не могу!
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anarxoaplytos wrote:
oh my god
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new dälek EP!!!
24 Sep 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/dalek
New Dj Baku VS dälek EP available by mail order! Go to:
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