Dälek announce Bandcamp Live DJ set
Beloved experimental hip-hop group Dälek will pay Bandcamp Live a visit for a special performance.
Taking place at Deadverse studios, MC Dälek will be spinning tracks from rarities, unreleased tracks, remixes, and new cuts from the Deadverse vaults. Tickets for the DJ set, which takes place tomorrow (April 27) at 5 p.m. EST/2 p.m. PST, are on sale right now for $5. The livestream will be available on-demand for 48 hours after it ends.
The DJ set will promote Dälek’s new studio album Precipice, which will arrive this Friday (April 29) via Ipecac Recordings. MC Dälek said this about their new album:
“Precipice was a completely different record pre-pandemic. We had been working on the sketch of what the album was going to be at the end of 2019. I think me and (Mike) Manteca had narrowed it down to 17 joints out of the 46 or so that we had started with. Me and Joshua Booth had taken the 17 and really fleshed out the joints. The idea was to bounce them back to Mike and then arrange write lyrics. 2020 obviously had different plans for everybody. We basically put everything on hold. I ended up doing the MEDITATIONS series that year on my own. I think the catharsis of that projects, its rawness, the pandemic, all the death, the social upheaval, everything that went down… when I went back and listened to what we had down… it just wasn’t right anymore, it wasn’t strong enough, it wasn’t heavy enough, it wasn’t angry enough. It just didn’t say what I needed it to say.”
Pre-orders for Precipice can be made here. This is the follow-up to their 2017 studio album Endangered Philosophies.
Dälek will be touring across Europe from May 27 through June 16. Tour dates can be seen below. Tickets are on sale to the general public right now.
Dälek tour dates
May 27 Nantes, France WNWH Festival/ Stereolux
May 28 Verona, Italy Colorificio Kroen
June 1 Tourcoing, France Le Grand Mix (Tickets)
June 2 Strasbourg, France La Grenze
June 3 Dijon, France Un Singe en Hiver
June 4 Brussels, Belgium Magasin 4
June 5 Ottensheim, Austria Alter Bauhof Ottensheim
June 6 Vienna, Austria Werk
June 7 Prague, Czech Republic Fuchs 2
June 9 Preston, UK The Ferret
June 10 London, UK Electrowerkz
June 11 Birmingham, UK Centrala
June 12 Manchester, UK White Hotel
June 13 Newcastle, UK Cluny
June 14 Bristol, UK The Lanes
June 16 Glasgow, UK Bloc+