Dälek to Release Gutter Tactics January 2009, Remix D'Mite's "Read a Book"

Shortly before the wonderful world of mashups, groups like New Jersey's Dlek were really doing mashups. That is to say that Dlek's previous effects, such as 2005's doom-saturated brain-burner Absence, mashed disparate genres such as shoegaze, noise, and hip-hop into something entirely new, something that didn't quite fall in to both the aforementioned classifications or the contemporary definition of a mashup. Indeed, Dlek remain one of the most diverse hip-hop collectives in existence, (...) - RELEASE NEWS