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Dälek - Negro Necro Nekros 12"

Just got this in the mail the other day.  Trying to build up my Dälek collection, I guess.  I think this might've been their first output when they were a trio rather than the duo they are now.  It's not terribly different than the newer stuff, but Absence and Abandoned Language are very close in their set-up while this a lot shorter.  Even though it's only a 12" and not an LP there are lengthy instrumental passages throughout the four songs.  His voice is perhaps a little weaker but it's nothing too bad, they've obviously matured as a group.  The rhymes are solid and are pretty much the same stuff he's still rapping about now: impoverished peoples and the like.  Dälek doesn't make shitty 'conscious hip hop' though, like Immortal Technique or something.  There's a lot of creativity here and the potential obviously came through in spades as Abandoned Language in '07 was one of the best records I've heard in years.