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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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| Wielding a hacksaw, a scalpel, chomping on a sarnie and going about his task with grim purpose, Daedelus is performing an autopsy on hip-hop's greying cadaver. Or is he re-animating the beast? Tears are clearly mingling with the embrocation. Exquiste Corpse is so perfectly balanced between mournful surgery on hip-hop's dead ends and positive rekindling of rap's creative synapses, you emerge from the gorgeous swell of tracks like "Impending Doom" and "Dearly Departed" wondering whether hip-hop's been given a new lease of life or been read the last rites. Highlights are the Can-lke rattle and thrum of "Just Briefly," Mike Ladd's and Prefuse 73's takes on "Welcome Home" and the ever-welcome TTC fucking up the fader "Cadavre Exquis" something wicked. This way comes intrigue explored forensically. Masks and gown people, we're going in. - DJ |
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