daedelus

cadavre exquis

the title song (well, translated into french) from daedelus' upcoming release. if you haven't heard daedelus before he is pleasant sort of chap from san fran that likes to play with electronics. what sets him a part is probably the source of his sounds, which as far as I can tell are from the 20's and 30's. my first encounter with daedelus was invention which got me all excited. such neat sounds! and somehow it worked. later on came the weather, a collaboration with busdriver and awol one, which was essentially a rap album with daedules providing the tracks. well, it was a lot of fun but i often wished that they had mixed the album differently, bringing the music a bit more upfront. daedelus must have thought the same becomes rethinking the weather, an "instrumental" version, appeared shortly after the weather. on his forthcoming album deadelus keeps moving further away from IDM to hip hop, this time collaborating with a variety of rappers including mf doom, which i always imagined would be a near perfect match. i wasn't entirely right but the thing is that mf doom's stuff can't really be improved on so it nowhere near a miss. prefuse 73 also appears on a track that could belong on any prefuse 73 album. in the end it is all good fun but like before i'm not convinced daedelus should bother with the rappers. his fairytail mini-musicals are quite enough for me. at least this time around the music manages to shine through. the sample song features the french ttc who sounds a like a french missy elliot. which is not a bad thing at all. two thumbs up.