forgot to post that there’s finally a new episode!
we had various troubles scheduling multiple episodes that we had to either reschedule or cancel in december and i had real life stuff and Max got sick. but we’re back and hopefully going to try to somewhat consistently stick to a schedule again.
this time we talk about experimental/industrial hip-hop pioneers from New Jersey, Dälek (aka Will Brooks & company) and their 2002 album “From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots”
Dälek is sort of an early iteration of a hip-hop artist that crosses a lot of different genres and like they were on Mike Patton’s Ipecac Recordings for a bit. they toured with a lot of other non hip-hop artists. i actually had never heard of them until Max offhandedly mentioned this album while recording the Blackalicious episode. i think it’s definitely a case where i have no idea why this artist still hasn’t gotten their due, because a lot of like experimental/industrial hip-hop of the 2010’s i.e. Death Grips and clipping. and other artists owe a lot to them.
but yeah, definitely worth checking out this album if you haven’t. seems like a lot of people missed out on them for whatever reason (even tho this did appear in Pitchfork’s best albums of 2002 list back in the day):
they’re also still active today, thankfully. definitely going to check out some of their other albums.