Dälek /Action Beat/ Charles Hayward Thurs Oct 15th, Twisted Pepper

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Ballroom #92 : Dälek (Ipecac Recordings, USA) Action Beat (Southern Records) & Charles Hayward

Thursday Oct 15th
The Twisted Pepper
Doors 8.30pm

€15 entry, tickets available in advance from Tickets.ie

Dälek



Dälek has rightfully gained iconic status as one of the finest alt-hip hop bands of our time. Until recently ”resolutely underground”, Dälek methodically undermines every idiotic idiom perpetuated by mainstream rap, choosing instead to blend assaultingly hypnotic rhymes with a corrosively atmospheric, electronica-inflected hard rock sensibility. Combine all this with an undeniable lyrical intelligence and absolutely no illusions about the world we live in and you’ve got a duo that effortlessly embraces genres--from hip hop to jazz, from jazz to metal, from metal to punk, from punk to noisecore, from noisecore back to hip hop. Think My Bloody Valentine + Tool + early Wu Tang combined with Massive Attack and Aphex Twin and you only begin to wrap your brain around what Dälek has unleashed with each album release, each collaboration, each remix…

Dälek’s first release, NEGRO NECRO NEKROS (Gern Blandsten 1998) was released to overwhelming critical acclaim, artfully combining elements of Faust, the rock grit of The Velvet Underground, shoegaze-like density of Ride, and electronica beats with incisively lyrical social commentary. Dälek's second album, FROM THE FILTHY TONGUE OF GODS AND GRIOTS (Ipecac Recordings 2002) established them firmly alongside hip-hop innovators such as the Antipop Consortium and cLOUDDEAD. Come 2004, Dälek released their dense and dread-filled album ABSENCE (Ipecac Recordings 2004), which brought them their broadest critical and public attention to date. Then, in early 2007, the band released what is perhaps their greatest work: the eloquent and brooding ABANDONED LANGUAGE (Ipecac Recordings 2007). The resulting press coverage around this release speaks for itself:


“Even when they abandon language completely, Dälek can still deliver the art-damaged goods.”
- Alternative Press “100 Bands You Need To Know in 2007”

“…they’ve created a hip-hop masterpiece. Atonal, dissonant and majestic, Abandoned Language…is the future---I hope.” - Under The Radar

“…Abandoned Language still resonates caustic cultural call-outs and seismic indignation spit live rivets at a martial pace.” - URB

“Dälek has fashioned the soundtrack for our post-millennial angst.” - Magnet

Dälek has played and toured with bands as diverse as Dälek’s own expansive creative output, winning admiration across the spectrum: Pink Floyd, Kanye West, Pharcyde, Prince Paul, Mr. Lif, Tool, Mastodon, ISIS, Jesu, Faust, Peanut Butter Wolf, KRS-One, Grandmaster Flash, Underworld, DJ Spooky, The ****ing Champs, Bob Dylan, The Pixies, Morrissey, Sonic Youth, Blonde Redhead, Kraftwerk, Rye Coalition, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Battles, Dillinger Escape Plan, Deftones, Massive Attack, The Mars Volta…the list goes on and on.


“…instead of creating a sense of intimidation through overpowering samples and sheer brute force, they realize it through a cinematic eeriness and minimalist disquiet.”
– Dusted

“…an incantatory power…the social Armageddon the rapper prophesies may never happen, but the group’s caustic music conjures it with persuasive force.” – The Washington Post

Ever prolific, Dälek is touring throughout Europe and the US in late 2007, in addition to working simultaneously on their next two albums, producing a number of fellow artists and creating remixes and cutting-edge beats upon request…with much, much more to come.



http://www.deadverse.com
http://www.myspace.com/dalek


Action Beat (UK, Southern Records)




Action Beat are an improv noise/no-wave band which is often made up of musicians who are available to play the gig on any particular date. They sound quite like early sonic youth, Glenn Branca, Swans and Rhys Chatham. They normally have at least 4 guitarists, a bassist and between 1 and 4 drummers.

http://www.myspace.com/actionbeat

Charles Hayward



Charles Hayward is known as the pioneering drummer with This Heat
and an ever growing list of solo concerts and cds (His most recent release ‘Abracadabra Information’ is out now on the Locus Solus label), special collaborative performances, and is in Massacre with Bill Laswell and Fred Frith.

Committed to song ‘but the shapes have to change’, his current one-man show is an intoxicating mix of percussive attack, swirling electronics and lyrical fragment collage.

'He sweats, there is saliva coming out of his mouth,
and he looks ugly and beautiful at the same time and he is there.’[Jean-Herve Peron/Faust]

‘Telepathic magic……. Hayward is
one of the most life-affirming people who stalks this dark globe.’
[Sound Projector]

http://www.myspace.com/charleshayward

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This Thursday

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Action Beat have had to cancel due to this mess

Good news is Legion of Two have stepped up to replace them

Richieee

Any idea what time this will finish at?

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Will be finished by 11.30

Lo2 on for 8.50 so get down early!