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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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| Plenty of electronic producers are prolific; for some it's simply a mater of churning out Fruity Loops files. What makes Alfred Weisberg-Roberts (Daedelus) so interesting is how unchartable his work is. Picking cumbersome source material for his cut-up compositions, many of Daedelus' greatest triumphs on Exquiste Corpse (his best yet) are terraced tracks of unwieldy rhythms and samples, things not quite lining up, melodies holding hands with each other briefly and disappearing back into their forgotten easy listening pasts. Uninterested in seamless structures, he opts for teetering arrangements of genres and influences, piled like old vinyl. It's also one of his most varied collaborative efforts to date - snaring, among others, Laura Darling, Sci, and the One AM Radio's Hrishikesh Hirway. "Impending Doom" features MF Doom surveying the sonic field that Daedelus has plopped him into with a bit of confusion ("Bro / This beat is sickly retarded, yo / Sound like it came off the I Hate Ricky Ricardo show") his flow is natural and distractible as ever. Both Mike Ladd and Prefuse 73 have respective whacks at the standout track, "Welcome Home" producing twin versions that have only their housing in common. - Boston's Weekly Dig |
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