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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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| Here comes the eccentric and fluctuatingly resonant release as porpoise and delivered by LA's Daedelus. Splicing 30's and 40's cinematic arrangements to create the focused backdrop of Dadaist surrealism in music Exquiste Corpse flutters around the musical scale like a moth to a kaleidoscopic light bulb. Scales of sound bounce around Exquiste Corpse on space-hoppers all in the direct aim of creating a full sounding enjoyable movement in hip-hop. Think fancy dressed beat-nuts entertaining a range of confused ball room Casanovas but add lashings of style and curious pleasures in listening. - Blowback |
1XLP/Out Of Print