Dälek 'Negro Necro Nekros' 2xLP

Reissue of the album from 1998 that started it all for dälek, this time with six bonus tracks. The LP includes a 12-page booklet with liner notes by John Morrison and new art from renowned artists Paul Romano (Mastodon, Hate Eternal) and Mikel Elam, who made his mark travelling and working with jazz legend Miles Davis.

When dälek’s debut, ‘Negro Necro Nekros’, arrived in the Autumn of 1998, hip-hop’s aesthetic and commercial conventions were in a state of upheaval. While mainstream rap had more or less completed the process of full integration into mainstream pop culture, underground hip-hop had mounted an aggressive opposition movement in response.

Forged in the fires of the East Coast underground music scene in the 1990s, experimental hip-hop pioneers dälek have spent decades carving out a unique niche fusing hardcore hip-hop, noise and a radical approach to sound. From the very beginning, dälek came out the gate, following in the footsteps of their predecessors Public Enemy, while drawing from influences as varied as My Bloody Valentine and German experimentalists Faust. 

dälek have succeeded in adding completely new textural and structural dimensions to rap music. Since 1998, they’ve released seven studio albums and countless EPs, singles and collaborations.

They have toured with and supported a wide range of acts in the hip-hop, rock, metal and experimental genres, including KRS One, TOOL, Tomahawk, The Melvins, Grandmaster Flash, Jesu, Dillinger Escape Plan, Pharcyde, RJD2, De La Soul, Prince Paul, Lovage, ZU, Black Heart Procession, Earth, Flying Lotus, The Bug, Mastodon, Fantomas and many more.