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MH-232 Daedelus - Exquisite Corpse  The new release from Daedelus, Exquisite Corpse is an ode to, and a lament for hip-hop culture. Featuring solo contributions and collaborative efforts with guests whose 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), Daedelus forms the seemingly disparate elements of sound found on the album with a single-minded vision. The album's title has a triple meaning: a reference to death, a grand body of work, and the Impressionist group drawing game of the same name. The guest MCs and vocalists contrast their own styles with Daedelus' sugar-laden undercoating proving that there are no limits to what can be included on a hip-hop album. |
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| Exciting - Pitchfork / Exquisite Corpse is terrific proof of the underground's vitality - Rockpile / Alive From Beginning To End - Mean Street / Daedelus is a master mortician - CMJ / Full of humor, brains, passion and breathtaking sounds. - All Music Guide / Fascinating Music - Copper Press / Mad and beautiful, beautiful and mad. - Big Chill |
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| MF Doom speaks the truth when he says, "This beat is strictly retarded, yo / Sound like it came off the I Hate Ricky Ricardo show." Daedelus gets a lot of mileage from the contrast between his fly beats and string-soaked samples from old TV soundtracks and public doamin 78s. Mike Ladd guests, describing the forelorn smell of Taco Bell as experienced by an expat returning to the US, and Joggger's remix has pants-wettingly good synths. Exquisite Corpse is a concept album about death - it doesn't sound like showtune about getting gunned down in Vegas, gangsta-style, but more like a lullaby for dying in your sleep. - XLR8R |
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