Dälek
Dälek (pronounced 'dialect') is an experimental hip-hop group formed in Newark, New Jersey in 1998 by MC Will Brooks (dälek) and producer Alap Momin (Oktopus). Their sound layers dense noise, industrial texture, and shoegaze abstraction over confrontational, politically charged rhymes — drawing comparisons to Public Enemy's sonic maximalism and Einstürzende Neubauten's industrial abrasion. The 2002 album From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots, one of four LPs on Ipecac Recordings, defined their approach, and the group continued releasing material through Precipice (2022).
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Dälek Discography
1 track
- 0 MOLTEN 4:42
7 tracks
- 1 Shattered 4:23
- 2 Guaranteed Struggle 5:06
- 3 Masked Laughter (Nothing's Left) 6:59
- 4 Critical 3:58
- 5 6bB 6:12
- 6 Control 5:58
- 7 It Just Is 5:33
11 tracks
- 1 Blessed Are They Who Bash Your Children's Heads Against A Rock 1:24
- 2 No Question 4:40
- 3 Armed With Krylon 5:11
- 4 Who Medgar Evers Was... 8:03
- 5 Street Diction 5:28
- 6 A Collection Of Miserable Thoughts Laced With Wit 3:21
- 7 Los Macheteros / Spear Of A Nation 3:15
- 8 We Lost Sight 4:32
- 9 Gutter Tactics 4:38
- 10 2012 (The Pillage) 3:30
- 11 Atypical Stereotype 6:22
11 tracks
- 1 Abandoned Language 10:13
- 2 Bricks Crumble 3:36
- 3 Paragraphs Relentless 5:33
- 4 Content To Play Villain 5:20
- 5 Lynch 5:25
- 6 Stagnant Waters 4:24
- 7 Starved For Truth 4:35
- 8 Isolated Stare 6:15
- 9 Corrupt (Knuckle Up) 4:04
- 10 Tarnished 6:45
- 11 (Subversive Script) 6:33
10 tracks
- 1 Distorted Prose 6:00
- 2 Asylum (permanent underclass) 5:48
- 3 Culture for Dollars 6:43
- 4 Absence 1:31
- 5 A Beast Caged 6:41
- 6 Koner 3:56
- 7 In Midst of Struggle 7:43
- 8 Eyes to Form Shadows 6:30
- 9 Ever Somber 4:49
- 10 Opiate the Masses 7:24
11 tracks
- 1 Spiritual Healing 3:29
- 2 Speak Volumes 4:42
- 3 ...From Mole Hills 5:18
- 4 Artichristo 1:21
- 5 Hold Tight 4:15
- 6 Heads 1:38
- 7 Black Smoke Rises 12:02
- 8 Trampled Brethren 5:12
- 9 Voices Of The Ether 4:55
- 10 Forever Close My Eyes 7:49
- 11 Classical Homicide 5:59
11 tracks
- 1 Echoes Of... 4:31
- 2 Weapons 4:53
- 3 Few Understand 4:21
- 4 The Son of Immigrants 5:54
- 5 Beyond the Madness 4:51
- 6 Sacrifice 4:57
- 7 Nothing Stays Permanent 4:21
- 8 A Collective Cancelled Thought 7:06
- 9 Battlecries 5:00
- 10 Straight Razors 3:56
- 11 Numb 5:45
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