Growing up I was always a big fan of hip hop, so when I moved to Norfolk from Fredericksburg I didn’t know what to expect. Being a freshman at ODU with no knowledge of the surrounding area, my music outreach was looking bleak. That was until…

Get to know the indie/dance/electro outfit from Atlanta, Georgia. Seven questions and one bad-ass video after the jump.

Dalek comes from Newark and they are utterly distinct. Though they loosely share some ground with other indie hip-hop outlets, particularly the dystopian Definitive Jux camp and the self-consciously strange Anticon tribe, Dalek have spent the decade perfecting a genre only they seem to make.

The new album by this pack of Baltimore vertebrates is like when you’re 7 and nose deep in a blue snow cone-it hurts, even burns, but you can’t stop chomping down the ice and swallowing the cold syrup.

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