Why did you decide to revive Dälek in 2015?
The short answer? I just missed the noise.
I started playing a few Dälek songs on the iconAclass European tour in 2013 and it just sparked that love for that noise and heaviness again. I had a good conversation with Oktopus about it all in mid 2014, and though he didn't want to pursue it, he was cool with the fact that I wanted to head out on the road as Dälek again. It kind of took off quickly after that. I asked rEk if he'd be interested in re-joining as the DJ. rEk was the original DJ in Dälek; he was out there grinding with me when we were sleeping on people's floors, playing basement shows for gas money. He came out on our first European tour opening for The Lapse in 1999. He never got to experience the "good times" with Dälek, when we got luxuries like our own beds to sleep in!
With the DJ secured, I told former Mikey Manteca, who I had started Fill Jackson Heights with, my plans and that I had thought about asking him to rejoin. I thought he wouldn't be interested because he had recently started a brewery called Secret Engine. Thankfully I was wrong. Now, after just a few months, we got some new joints finished and a month-long EU tour ahead of us.
You have some new material, but is it safe to assume you'll be playing stuff from earlier records on your upcoming tour? Do you have any new perspectives on those older songs after some time away from them?
Yeah, we debuted a new joint right up there, "Masked Laughter (Nothing's Left)," which embodies where I'm at right now and where the new material is heading. We've been relearning old songs, and I got to say, I'm amped. The duality of looking back and yet also moving forward, it's a bugged out feeling. The old songs make up a fifteen-year period of my life. I love those songs, the memories attached to creating them, the time spent on the road performing them. Being able to perform them again feels amazing.
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/dalek-video-interview
https://vimeo.com/123548675#at=86
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