Dälek just announced a US tour starting February 19th, that will be co-headlined with Russian Circles. According to the press release for the tour, the two bands will alternate closing out the evening's festivities on each night. Dälek's most recent release, Abandoned Language was released nearly a year ago - Feb. 27 2006 on Ipecac. Recently, the band has been working on new songs with an ea.
Hydra Head Records, the label that bring us Pelican, OXBOW, Isis, Boris, Merzbow and others, announced that they will release the first hip hop album in their catalog. The album is by none other than MC Dalek and Oktopus and it's called Deadverse Massive Volume 1. According to Hydra Head, the album will "unfurl a collection of dream-like instrumentals, ten-ton remixes (including Enon’s unforg.
Well, some time ago, I posted about Faust versus Dälek (umlautless, though it was) and since then, I have acquired a few more pieces. Abandoned Language, Streets All Amped e.p., and Absence, a cut of which is tacked onto this post. Oh Captain, My Crash... I miss that kid horribly. The following is an excerpt from one of 2 (soon to be 3) MOG posts on Dälek (properly spelled) from the always ri.
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 definit...