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artist ■■ daedelus
title ■■ exquisite corpse
year ■■ 2005
genre ■■ electronic
label ■■ ninja tune
catalog ■■ zencd102
website ■■ www.ninjatune.net
encoder ■■ lame 3.90.3 modified
quality ■■ VBRkbps/44,1khz
source ■■ compact disc
size ■■ 64,5 mb
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.
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01 dearly departed 04:07
02 impending doom 02:18
03 just briefly 03:14
04 move on (with sci) 03:01
05 now & sleep (starring laura darling) 03:13
06 the crippled hand 06:25
07 welcome home (prefuse 73 danse macabre) 03:33
08 drops (cyne collabration) 03:25
09 fallen love 02:31
10 welcome home (with mike ladd) 04:38
11 i sent off ii sus percoll (jogger remix) 04:45
12 the trains are now so clean 01:06
13 thanatopsis (featuring hrishikesh hirway) 03:21
14 cadavre exquis (avec ttc) 03:24
playtime ■■ 49:01 min
int ■■ #165
today ■■ 25-feb-2005
ripper ■■ the kid
we're all about billy