Performer Notes

Audio Mixers: Joshua Booth; Alap Momin.
Recording information: DeadVerse Studios, Union City, NJ; Sweetwood Sound, Parsippany, NJ; The Mayan Ruins, Newark, NJ.
Unknown Contributor Role: Marco Burbano.
The Newark, New Jersey, duo Dalek (made up of MC Dalek and DJ Octopus) walks the line between underground hip-hop and ambient turntablism on their 2007 release, ABANDONED LANGUAGE. MC Dalek's grim, understated delivery and apocalyptic wordplay combined with the album's seething and arrhythmic beatscapes culminates in an overwhelming air of avant-garde menace.

Professional Reviews

Q (p.117) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "The opening title track is a 10-minute opus of seismic sub-bass, blurred word association and unnerving echo effects, all of which resolve into an oddly uplifting harmonic drone."

Alternative Press (p.194) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] sound that's more sedate, but just as unnerving....Dalek can still deliver the art-damaged goods."

The Wire (pp.45-47) - "ABANDONED LANGUAGE sees Dalek newly focused on melody, structure and cohesion....It's clearly a complex and unsettling kind of refinement."

Kerrang (Magazine) (p.50) - "Dalek have carved out a niche in marrying rumbling, low-ball rhyming over the kind of static, buzzing beats that appeal to fans of industrial rock and underground rap aficionados alike."

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