Dälek

Newark, New Jersey's Dälek undermine the simplistic gloss of mainstream rap with gritty, complex underground hip-hop that at once clicks and whirs like some electronica head trip, layers on environmental ambience, and assaults the listener with aggressive, intelligent rhymes. Recalling the Bomb Squad's innovative production style but pushing further into the avant-garde, sometimes stretching their tracks past the ten-minute mark and incorporating drones and atonal noises, Dälek took the industrial hip-hop sound of the '80s and '90s to its extreme, paving the way for noise-rap ...