A chance meeting and subsequent college friendship starts the dälek story. As classmates at William Paterson College, Will Brooks (dälek) and Alap Momin (The Oktopus) began a musical partnership that would spawn some of the most progressive Hip Hop music ever heard. dälek’s sound is instantly reminiscent of Public Enemy, Beach Boys (a la Pet Sounds), Eric B and Rakim, Gang Starr and My Bloody Valentine. [...]

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09/21/00 —dälek & Techno Animal
The first Matador release from Techno Animal will be a split single with Newark, NJ’s dälek, “Megaton” (T.A.) b/w “Classical Homicide” (dälek), coming on November 14. Although this single is part of our ongoing Hip Hop 12" Series, you could say that Techno Animal & dälek are hip hop much the way the neutron bomb was a big firecracker. This is hip hop... and everything else that matters. Both groups will commemorate the release of this single with an October/November 2000 tour of Germany and Switzerland (please check our tour dates section).