Forged in the fires of the East Coast underground music scene in the 90s, experimental Hip Hop pioneers, Union City, NJ-based duo Dälek has spent decades carving out a unique niche fusing hardcore Hip Hop, noise and a radical approach to sound. Their brutal sonic temperament pushes rap music’s capacity for noise and protest to some exhilarating conclusions. For their latest and eighth album, Precipice, Dälek unleashes a work that is practically bristling with fury and power. Predominantly the work of the core duo, Will Brooks, aka MC Dälek and Mike Manteca (Mike Mare), Precipice features a guest appearance of Adam Jones of Tool. The striking cover art was done by Paul Romano (Mastodon), and the packaging features the art of Mikel Elam.

Cantenac Dagar is Stéphane Barascud and Aymeric Hainaux, a post-indus-folk duo built on a limited instrumentation (banjo, human beatbox and k7 player). Together they produce long feverish tracks and a multitude of sounds which are arranged, embedded, withdrawn and form a ritual for the invention of a radical sensibility, a secret music, almost imperceptible, from which emerge long hypnotic forms, hyper raw, rough and borrowed of a great sensuality. The two companions are always on the road and their musical complicity is beautiful to hear. They deliver a music without beginning, a music without end, a tampered bhangra with noise tints which embarks those who throw themselves in it like in a torrent.

Since 2021, the acolytes of Chaos E.T. Sexual represent the French underground with an ambitious music at the crossroads of dub, indus and doom-metal. The result, hybrid, mixes distorted basses, drones, hip-hop rhythms, cold mechanical beats and science-fiction themes. The Parisian trio has just released "Only Human Crust", a third album signed to Chien Noir. This opus punctuated with engaged speeches, draws up an icy retro-futurist decor which perfectly translates the darkness and the tumult of the modern world.