Dälek, live @ An Club (Athens, November 15th, 2008)If you have ever wondered what kind of sound you could create if you mixed My Bloody Valentine's noise soundscapes with Public Enemy's hard rhymes and hip hop beats then New Jersey's Dälek is the group for you. And if you happened to be in Athens on November 15th, then An Club was the place to be, where the experimental rap trio launched their sonic assault. No time for hello and thank you between the songs, or any kind of pause for that matter, just relentless, ominous beats supporting the rap flow trying to penetrate the thick wall of noise. In last year's "Abandoned Language" LP, the group turned down the noise levels that were prominent in 2005's breakthrough album "Absence", their best effort yet for my money, and took a more straight (although, still, way far from the beaten path) hip hop approach. However their live sound on this night was all about the take-no-prisoners noise-hop attack of "Absence". Perhaps an indication of the direction of the forthcoming new album "Gutter Tactics"? We'll find out in January.
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Dälek, live @ An Club (Athens, November 15th, 2008)Meanwhile, the night opened quite peacefully by Andrew Spencer's one-man-show Fulton Lights. Minimal, experimental, lo-fi americana sounds created with just a guitar, some effects pedals and a laptop, from the recently released, atmospheric "The Way We Ride" LP. The album is definitely worth checking out (the title track is one of my current favorites) and you can do so by visiting fultonlights.com, where you can download it for free in high quality mp3 - take that Radiohead!
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Fulton Lights, live @ An Club (Athens, November 15th, 2008)Dälek, live @ An Club (Athens, November 15th, 2008)
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