Dalek is creating some of the deepest hiphop around, with a crazy live show and intense music that owes as much to My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth as it does to Public Enemy and BDP. Dalek’s new album, Obscene, is out now so go get that shit immediately if you want your mind blown. The following is a brief interview with the group’s mysterious leader…
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Jan Fossbeck, former radical communist and archivist for USOUNDS, recently took time out of his busy schedule of listening to old records and sending letters to friends back home in Potsdam to interview one of the new century’s best acts, m83…

Jan’s impressive interviewing skills got Antonio Gonzales to finally open up about his secret Panda training center, his love of the Olsen Twins, his future collaboration with Cher, and the scope of his excellent new album…
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Call and Response have just released a fantastic new album called Winds Take No Shape… our own Yola Freestorm conducted an interview with Daniel Judd, guitarist, about the album, their tour, and their sound.

YS: Tell us about the new album.

Winds Take No Shape is a selection of songs that we put together last winter. It began with “Silent Chill” which had a minor-key bittersweet mood to it.

Somebody said it sounded like motown for stoners. We just kept flowing and building songs up from there, trying to construct an album that complemented that deeper sound.
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Greetings, friends and associates from around the world. Life is suffering, and suffering is born of desire. That is why my life has been cleansed of all desire, even that of the marvelous and soothing pleasures of the finest resin-soaked nodules of cannabis buds.

Lately I have been spending my time following a schedule in keeping with my Zen Buddhist beliefs. I wake at dawn, eat some barley grains, and take a long walk around my property. This is followed by 4-6 hours of intense meditation. After that I usually fire up my imac, send some email, and listen to music. My favorite album of this year has been the amazing Last Exit from Junior Boys.
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Greetings, Comrades. By now you know I preach sonic revolution, freedom from the tyranny of soulless sounds, and liberation musicology. You also know that to spread the word, my partners and I strap on massive boomboxes, such as the Panasonic RX-7700, and free minds through dB levels previously only experienced at commercial airports and heavy machinery plants.

But what you might not know is that even revolutionaries like me and my comrades can get down, and I don’t mean in a funky way.
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Since I renounced radical communism and German tourism for a life of music, technology, and long pants, I have found myself to be happier, healthier, and imbued with a sense of manly vigor that is nearly unshakeable. I spend most of my time poring through the USOUNDS archives, looking for rare finds or new ideas, mining the thoughts of great men like Ric Befara, drinking energy drinks and generally feeling full of power and energy.

On one such day last fall, I discovered that my favorite musical device had, after more than two decades, finally banded together with others and started to produce their own music. Although I was later disappointed to learn that this group was made up of several young men, and not consumer electronics, I was still enthralled with the music. The Walkmen had everything I was looking for in contemporary rock music– sexual dynamism, drunken intelligence, and a certain gotterdammerung at the end of each song which made me tingle with delight.
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Howdy ladies and gents! Been some time since I’ve graced the pages of Usounds, huh? Usually, when I take extended breaks, I can gauge the right moment to return based on two factors. 1) my fan mail trickles to a slow drip, 1 or 2 pieces a day, with no photographs and 2) my water cooler runs out of beer to fill it with.
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