Fresh off of a landmark collaboration and release with Germany's krautrock legends Faust, dälek are back with their third and most sonically challenging full length to date, Absence. Expanding their sound and pulling from their influences, Absence recalls the best parts of Public Enemy and the Bomb Squad, the street poetry of KRS-1, the raw beats of Gang Starr and Mobb Deep, and the fearlessness of the avant garde, like Glenn Branca, My Bloody Valentine and Penderecki.

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VINYL FORMAT. After two long years, their masterpiece is finally unveiled, an album the band have described as their Dark Side of the Moon or Pet Sounds a la Dälek. Still as layered as their previous work but complex enough for fans of avant noise while being accessible enough for mainstream hip hop audiences. Packed w/avant hip hop guests incl. Rob Swift (X-Men). Gatefold sleeve artwork by Paul Romano (Mastodon).

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MC Dalek and beat master Oktopus unfurl a collection of dreamlike instrumentals, 10-ton remixes, and scarce gems from the last seven years. This is no odds 'n' sods collection but rather an addendum to a body of work that already rests comfortably atop underground hip-hop's proverbial heap. Over the ominous grind of metallic friction and industrial-strength beats, MC Dalek flows like silk on glass, foregoing all the usual hip-hop lyrical conventions for something darker, more textural, and infinitely memora   [ read more ]

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MC Dalek and beat master Oktopus unfurl a collection of dreamlike instrumentals, 10-ton remixes, and scarce gems from the last seven years. This is no odds 'n' sods collection but rather an addendum to a body of work that already rests comfortably atop underground hip-hop's proverbial heap. Over the ominous grind of metallic friction and industrial-strength beats, MC Dalek flows like silk on glass, foregoing all the usual hip-hop lyrical conventions for something darker, more textural, and infinitely memora   [ read more ]

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If you're the type of hip-hop fan who finds a group like OutKast a tad too experimental for your tastes, you might wanna back away from this album slowly and try not to make any sudden moves. With a cacophonous sound that falls somewhere between the Bomb Squad, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, and that annoying guy with the jackhammer who just...won't...stop, this is music for those people who think Anti-Pop Consortium just isn't quite weird enough. The jarring industrial noise t   [ read more ]

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After 2 long years we present Dalek's masterpiece Abandoned Language. Self described as their Dark Side Of The Moon / Pet Sounds A la Dalek the band have once again reinvented themselves with their fourth and most accomplished full-length, exploding all common preconceived notions of hip-hop and showing how truly dark and original the form can be.

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On their fourth record, Abandoned Language, electronica- and progressive-minded rap group DSlek continues their exploration of the netherworlds of hip-hop, where dark, plodding, sewer-gas production churns with MC/producer dSlek's nearly spoken rhymes. Beats are moody and delicately urgent, live strings and horns mix in with hollow drums and delayed keyboard chords, and everything is very purposeful, even in the occasional cacophony that folds itself out from amid the slow melody. The same   [ read more ]

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Though the left-field hip-hop group DSlek (composed of DJ Oktopus and MC dSlek) released a full-length album in February of 2007 -- the spectacular Abandoned Language -- less than six months later they came out with another set. Not that this material is new: almost all of it had been issued before, mostly on 12", though there are a few never-before-heard songs, too ("Music for Asm" and "Angst"), along with a fair share of remixes, all of which are interesting enough to give new perspec   [ read more ]

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