Absence
by D盲lek
- Type: Album
- Released: 8 February 2005
- Label: Ipecac
- Country: United States
- Length: 57:05
- Community rating: 4.25/5 from 14 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
D盲lek pushes hip-hop to its noisy extremes on 'Absence'. The beats are suffocated by walls of guitar feedback and industrial sludge, creating a terrifying, apocalyptic soundscape. It is a crushing, uncompromising album.
Genres
Descriptors: anti-religious, conscious, dissonant, noisy, political, rap, experimental, distorted, abrasive
Tracklist
- Distorted Prose (06:00)
- Asylum (Permanent Underclass) (05:48)
- Culture for Dollars (06:43)
- Absence (01:31)
- A Beast Caged (06:41)
- Koner (03:56)
- In Midst of Struggle (07:43)
- Eyes to Form Shadows (06:30)
- Ever Somber (04:49)
- Opiate the Masses (07:24)
Credits
- Marco Burbano - artwork ["absence" tag]
- MC D盲lek - band [d盲lek are], mc, producer
- Oktopus - band [d盲lek are], producer
- Still - band [d盲lek are], turntables [turntablist], producer
- Mike Mori - booking
- The Agency Group - booking
- Alap Momin - engineer
- Will Brooks - engineer
- Hsi-Chang Lin - layout [layout design]
- Scott Shields - layout [layout design]
- Alan Douches - mastered by [mastering engineer]
- Jesse Cannon - mixed by [mixing engineer]
- Joshua Booth - mixed by [mixing engineer]
- Mike Mare - photography by [photography: cover]
- Alexandra Lyach - photography by [photography: inside live shot]