dälek has spent over two decades redefining the edges of hip hop — merging noise, shoegaze, and political fire into a sound entirely their own. Known for their dense atmospheres, heavy beats, and uncompromising lyricism, MC dälek (lyrics and production) and Mike Mare (production/multi-instrumentalist) have built a legacy rooted in experimentation, truth, and raw emotion.
In 2026, dälek returns to the core of their artistry with a new album — a project that finds them going back to the essence. Stripped to their rawest form, the record channels the grit and immediacy of their earliest recordings while pushing forward sonically. Built around the MPC 3000, processed guitars, and the tangible chemistry between dälek and Mare, this new material is a study in purpose and precision. Every sound, texture, and rhythm serves the composition — no excess, no filler, only intent.

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 Together they produce long feverish tracks and a multitude of sounds which are arranged, embedded, withdrawn and form a ritual for the invention of a radical sensibility, a secret music, almost imperceptible, from which emerge long hypnotic forms, hyper raw, rough and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.