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 Daedelus - Exquisite Corpse (2005), Indie Electronic, Exp. Techno, IDM - WavPack, coverset |
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Posted: 26-11-2005, 19:59
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Released: Mar-2005 Label: Mush / Ninja Tune Catalog#: ZENCD102 Official info: 1 2 3 Track listing 01. Dearly Departed [0:17] 02. Impending Doom [0:17] 03. Just Briefly [0:17] 04. Move On (with SCI) [0:17] 05. Now & Sleep (starring Laura Darling) [0:17] 06. The Crippled Hand [0:17] 07. Welcome Home (Prefuse 73 Danse Macabre) [0:17] 08. Drops (Cyne collaboration) [0:17] 09. Fallen Love [0:17] 10. Welcome Home (with Mike Ladd) [0:17] 11. i Sent Off ii Sus Percoll (Jogger Remix) [0:17] 12. The Trains Are Now So Clean [0:17] 13. Thanatopsis (featuring Hrishikesh Hirway) [0:17] 14. Cadavre Exquis (avec TTC) [0:17] Daedelus, the eccentric, electronic maestro of the Pacific coast returns with "Exquisite Corpse" his most complete and baffling record to date. One of LA's most daring new artists this young musical romantic weaves together a true "love-sound" that falls between honeyed melody and avant-electronics. Daedelus chops and splices disparate acoustic sources into incredible works of staggering resonance. Contrasting IDM styled cut-ups with childlike arrangements from the 30's and 40's, he has refined a style that has no imitators. Exactly the kind of music you’d expect from a scarily well-connected hip hop nut who happens to dress in Edwardian clothing and names himself after an Ancient Greek Legend. The album title, as well as the idea, is taken from the old Surrealist game in which a group of random French crazies and intellectuals write down part of a sentence, fold the page and pass it on to the next - 'Consequences' without the consequences. Or if that doesn't make sense, how about this? "A kind of collective collage of words or images" ("Dada & Surrealist Art" by William S.Rubin). And there's definitely a collective at work here, Daedelus' trademark musicality running up against a slather of maverick talent from the worlds of hip hop and beyond. The performances range from traditional (MF Doom, Sci from Scienz of Life) to poetic (Mike Ladd, CYNE, Laura Darling) to experimental (Prefuse 73, Hrishikesh Hirway of The One AM Radio, TTC, Jogger), but Daedelus moulds the seemingly disparate elements of sound with a single-minded vision. With a body of work including releases through Mush, Plug Research, Hefty, Tigerbeat6, and Eastern Developments, Daedelus' rep is long since established. At last he has given us the record about which journalists can use the word "surreal" without being lazy. And for this alone we must all be thankful. --Ninja Tune Daedelus' fourth album finds the Santa Monica-based producer at the peak of his considerable powers. Exquisite Corpse is a near perfect blend of the densely packed, sample heavy, nearly symphonic electronica and off-kilter hip-hop that the last three albums have featured. The main difference here is that for the first time a Daedelus record is loaded up with collaborations; MF Doom, Prefuse 73, Mike Ladd, French rappers TTC and Laura Darling among others, and while a few of them add some luster to the proceedings (MF Doom unspools a typically unhinged rap on the hilarious "Impending Doom", Mike Ladd drops a typically heavy rap into the melancholy and political "Welcome Home") for the most part the guests don't add or subtract much from the sound of the album. That sound is a clattering and sparkling blend of junk shop sampladelica, post-rock sound sculptures, fractured experimental techno and underground hip-hop that will have you clutching the arms of your chair as the record lurches and whirls from one song to the next. Just trying to wrap your head around a track like "Just Briefly" with its glitchy string samples, ghostly vocals piped in from some old opera record, mumbled bits of raps and a Can-like rhythmic drive is enough entertainment to justify the cost of the disc. That almost each track has the same exuberant feeling, brilliant construction and whacked-out sense of glee makes the record an unfettered joy to listen to. Only a couple of tracks like "Drops", the collaboration with rapper Cyne that suffers from less than inspired rapping, and "The Crippled Hand", which goes on too long, are less than wonderful. Along with Prefuse 73, Dabrye, Jason Forrest and a few others, Daedelus is keeping experimental techno (or whatever you want to call it) alive with records like this, records full of humor, brains, passion and breathtaking sounds. Exquisite Corpse definitely lives up to half of its title and you would have to be the other half to pass up a chance to check it out. --Tim Sendra/AMG Collection (eMule >=v0.46c required) of all the ed2k links above: Daedelus - Exquisite Corpse - 2005 - eac-wv-coverset-ine.emulecollection |
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Posted: 26-11-2005, 20:00
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