Avant-garde Hip-Hop 101: dälek...

[Concerning VIolence]

If you don't know, now you do...

Responsible for atleast four mind-blowing, explosive, pro-black avant-garde hip hop masterpieces.









dälek (pronounced ‘die-a-leck’) is a hip-hop duo formed in Newark, New Jersey in 1998. The group comprises MC dälek (vocals) and the Oktopus (production).

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 hip-hop, making it difficult for people to classify their sound. They have been described as trip hop, glitch-hop, and metal-shoegaze-hip-hop, 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.”


Recent release:

 

[iFightSeagullsForBread]

Experimental yes, but I wouldn't call them Avant-garde.

 

[Concerning VIolence]

Experimental yes, but I wouldn't call them Avant-garde.

Absence is ahead of its time, possibly by decades. Experimental just means anything slightly off mainstream, that can mean anything from MF Doom to Death Grips. Nothing about most of their albums is just experimental.

 

[Insensitive]

I don't know it sounds cool but it doesn't sound much better than what
Death Grips, Saul Williams and El-P have done.

I was expecting something mind blowing, got something that was just cool.
I'll see if I can come up on their albums though.
Good looks.

 

[Concerning VIolence]

I don't know it sounds cool but it doesn't sound much better than what
Death Grips, Saul Williams and El-P have done.

I was expecting something mind blowing, got something that was just cool.
I'll see if I can come up on their albums though.
Good looks.

They started before all of them except for EL-P who doesn't even sound like them. It's clearly a more noisy and industrial sound.

 

[Insensitive]

They started before all of them except for EL-P who doesn't even sound like them. It's clearly a more noisy and industrial sound.

I never said they "sounded like El-P" but let's be real El-P and all those other cats
from around that time from Busdriver to Eyedea were trying to make "avante garde Hip Hop".
What I'm saying is I'm not really impressed with their take on "Avante Gard Hip Hop".
It's cool no doubt but I'm not seeing what puts them head and shoulders above
other dudes.

As for "Who started first", Saul Williams has been dropping poems/verses since like the mid 90's
so if we're going by "Who was here first" then Saul trumps them in that regard too as well as El-P

 

[Concerning VIolence]

I never said they "sounded like El-P" but let's be real El-P and all those other cats
from around that time from Busdriver to Eyedea were trying to make "avante garde Hip Hop".
What I'm saying is I'm not really impressed with their take on "Avante Gard Hip Hop".
It's cool no doubt but I'm not seeing what puts them head and shoulders above
other dudes.

As for "Who started first", Saul Williams has been dropping poems/verses since like the mid 90's
so if we're going by "Who was here first" then Saul trumps them in that regard too as well as El-P

I'm going by technical terms, not what was the trendy term in that era. All of that was just underground/experimental rap.

 

[Insensitive]

I'm going by technical terms, not what was the trendy term in that era. All of that was just underground/experimental rap.

So what you're saying is, all of that, was exactly what this is.
Cool, that's exactly what I was saying.

While I'm at it Ka is pretty dope and daring too.

 

[Concerning VIolence]

So what you're saying is, all of that, was exactly what this is.
Cool, that's exactly what I was saying.

While I'm at it Ka is pretty dope and daring too.

In a sense, yes, but dalek were never integrated into that movement is what I'm saying. They were always alone.

Ka is dope.

 

[iFightSeagullsForBread]

 

[Art Barr]

dawg,...
dude can't rhyme and if you want someone with this voice but WAY BETTER.
go get some bahamadia.
this shyt he kicks is some styles war outdated nineties shyt with no technical skill rhyme wise at completely all.
this is company flow but with a bit better quality of vocal.
yet, dude has the awful rhyming ability on the level of sole.
this is just excuse for my skills really aren't great rap.
so, imma just use pr like rawkus did to make up for if.
plus some online based propaganda like hiphopinfinity.com/fard.
if I wasn't supporting this with that fraud elp.
I won't support this with anyone else.

#notgoin


Art Barr

 

[Grand Conde]

New album is cool. Dalek are always good for a couple of really dope tracks per album.

 

[Tanahashi Coates]

Saw Dalek a couple months ago playing direct support to a experimental metal band called Candiria. This dude in a room full of cacs said, "And they show us that Black Lives don't matter!". Immediately bought the vinyl to Asphalt to Eden after that.