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   • Hi All, just a quick shout out about a pretty sweet show we have and one we’re excited about……
     
     
     
     
     Room 237 presents….
     
     IPECAC RECORDS SHOWCASE
     
     DALEK + ZACH HILL
     + BROKEN BONE + WORRIEDABOUTSATAN
     (+ A live set from P45 mixing electronica/noise/hip-hop/dubstep/experimental)….
     
     @ Brudenell Wednesday 3rd December
     
     £8.00 advance/£10.00 on the door
     
     Advance tickets available now from:
     
     Crash Records Online Ticket Page
     Jumbo Records Online Tickets
     
     DALEK
     
     
     
     Dälek is an alternative hip hop duo from Newark, NJ. The group comprises MC Dälek (vocals) and the Oktopus (production). They have often toured with artists from radically different genres, such as Godflesh, Isis, Prince Paul, The Melvins, De La Soul, and Lovage.
     
     Dälek’s music is dark, noisy and atmospheric, equally inspired by industrial music like Einstürzende Neubauten, the layered noise of My Bloody Valentine and the dense sound collages of Public Enemy. Their sound is often constructed through sampling and a musical base atypical of most hip-hop, making it difficult for people to classify their sound. They have been described as trip-hop, glitch-hop, and metal- shoegaze-hip-hop, as well as criticized for their broad range of sound
     “It’s purely hip-hop, in the purest sense. If you listen to what hip-hop has historically been, it was all about digging in different crates and finding different sounds, and finding different influences to create. If Afrika Bambaataa wasn’t influenced by Kraftwerk, we wouldn’t have ‘Planet Rock.’ So, in that sense, what we do is strictly hip-hop. ”
     ” If there is a difference. It’s that the palette of sounds we work with is more varied than what has been called hip- hop in the last 10 years. Somehow, as hip-hop grew, it’s been put into this box. I think it’s funny when people are like, ‘That’s not hip-hop. It’s this and this and this.’ You can try to rationalize it as whatever you want to rationalize it as.” ”
     
     - MC Dälek, Chicago Sun-Times
     
     DALEK Links:
     Dalek Deadverse Official Website
     Dalek Myspace
     
     ZACH HILL
     
     
     
     Zach Hill is a musician residing in Sacramento, California. He performs/has performed in numerous Pacific Coast based groups, including Hella, Holy Smokes, Nervous Cop, and a diverse other range of groups including Team Sleep (featuring Chino Moreno of Deftones), Goon Moon, and The Ladies (a duo consisting of Zach on drums and Rob Crow of Pinback on guitar). Zach is completely self taught, having started drumming around 1995.
     
     One of Zach Hill’s most defining characteristics as a drummer is his footwork. Many drummers are surprised when they realize that he only uses one bass drum and a single bass drum pedal when he plays. For example, in the song Imaginary Friends from Hella’s Church Gone Wild record, Hill employs his characteristic double-stroke bass drum method throughout much of the song, leading many to believe he is using more than one foot to do so, when he is only using his right foot. Zach Hill’s set thus far had had generally very low-tuned tom-toms and floor-toms. When playing rhythms back and forth between his bass drum and these tom-toms, it often sounds as if it is all being created by the bass drum. His snare drum sound is often a contrasting highly tuned “crack” sound.
     
     A unique aspect of Zach’s style is his liberal use of unconventional sounding cymbals, often referred to as “trash” cymbals. His most commonly and characteristically used trash cymbal consists of broken cymbals (usually between 3 and 4) stacked on top of each other, mounted just to his right of his high tom. This setup produces a harsh sound similar to that of a China cymbal, but with much less sustain. This is easily heard on almost every single Hella release.
     
     In addition Zach has a custom made cymbal with a very warped shape that can be heard on the Holy Smokes album Masculine Drugs (clearly audible starting at 1:36 on the song “Masculine Drugs (Tri-Duplex Edit)&rdquo the Hella album Church Gone Wild the Ladies’ first album, They Mean Us and the Zach Hill & Mick Barr album Shred Earthship.
     
     Zach Hill links:
     Zach Hill Myspace
     A Zach Hill Fan Myspace Page
     Hella Website
     
     
     BROKEN BONE
     
     Extreme noise destruction from legendary Leed’s producer Daz Quayle and friend. For fans of merzbow, whitehouse, yellow swans and one foot in the grave.
     Broken Bone Myspace
     
     WORRIEDABOUTSATAN
     
     Downtempo/techno/post-rock in the vain of godspeed mixed with autechre.
     WorriedAboutSatan
     WorriedAboutSatan Myspace
     
     Should be an ace show!
     
     
     [Edited by brudenell at 15:56 on 29/11/08]
   • [15:32 on 29/11/08]

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