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About|the experimental hip hop duo|other uses|dalek (disambiguation)Infobox musical artist | name = dälek| image = dälek @ Leoncavallo.jpg| caption = dälek at the cultural center Leoncavallo ( Milan ), in 2008. MC dälek at the microphone, The Oktopus in the background.| image_size = 200px| background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = Newark, New Jersey|Newark , New Jersey , United States|U.S. | genre = Hip hop , Rap music|rap , shoegazing|shoegaze , industrial hip hop , experimental hip hop , Ambient music|ambient | years_active = 1998–present| label = Ipecac Recordings|Ipecac | associated_acts =| website = url|deadverse.com| current_members = MC dälek Oktopus| past_members = Still dälek (pronounced 'Die-a-leck') is an United States|American experimental hip hop duo from Newark, New Jersey . The group is composed of MC dälek ( Rapping|vocals & co-producer ) and the Oktopus ( Record producer|production ). They have often toured with artists from radically different genres, such as Godflesh , Isis (band)|Isis , Prince Paul (producer)|Prince Paul , The Melvins , Tool (band)|Tool , De La Soul , RJD2 , and Lovage (band)|Lovage .
dälek's music is dark, noisy and atmospheric, equally inspired by industrial music like Einstürzende Neubauten , the layered noise of My Bloody Valentine (band)|My Bloody Valentine and the dense sound collages of Public Enemy (band)|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.Cite news | last=Jakubiak | first=David | title=Dalek makes hip-hop without sound barriers | newspaper= Chicago Sun-Times | date=March 2, 2007
MC dälek described the duo's music to the Chicago Sun-Times :
Cquote|"It's purely hip-hop, in the purest sense. If you listen to what hip-hop 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 (song)|Planet Rock .' So, in that sense, what we do is strictly hip-hop. Cquote|If there is a difference. It's that the palette of sounds we work with is more varied than what has been called hip- hop in the last 10 years. Somehow, as hip-hop grew, it's been put into this box. I think it's funny when people are like, 'That's not hip-hop. It's this and this and this.' You can try to rationalize it as whatever you want to rationalize it as." Oktopus and MC dälek collaborated with hardcore punk - heavy metal music|heavy metal band Starkweather (band)|Starkweather on their 2010 album, This Sheltering Night .cite web| last = Gergesha| first = Nick| title = Transmissions: The Starkweather Interview| work = Hearwax| date = July 5, 2010| url = http://hearwaxmedia.com/4297/transmissions-starkweather-interview| accessdate = August 28, 2010
My Education vs. dälek (2007) in collaboration with My Education cite web|url= http://www.thirtyghostsrecords.com/bands_dalek.htm|title=My Education vs. dälek|
Griots And Gods - Les Eurockeennes Festival Belfort 2010 (2010) Live collaboration with The Young Gods .cite web|url= http://www.younggods.com/cms/front_content.php? idart=505|title=Griots And Gods - Les Eurockeennes Festival Belfort 2010|work=Everyone Knows|publisher=The Young Gods|accessdate=14 October 2011
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http://www.ipecac.com/artists/dalek Dälek at Ipecac Recordings
http://theyshootmusic.at/posts/Dalek Pizza joint recording session with 'They Shoot Music - Don't They' (04/09)
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