| The West Coast’s most eccentric beatmaker returns with a couple of choice cuts from his Exquisite Corpse album. First up, “Impending Doom” features a guest appearance by the one and only, the metal-faced MF Doom (following recent Dangerdoom and Gorillaz star turns). Daedelus gives him some 40s movie soundtrack and samba flavored material to work with and Doom picks it up and runs with it. Going the other way round the block, “Just briefly” doesn't feature anyone but Daedelus himself, so the sideburn surfer chops it up and rides the thing out over a high bass and single guitar wave. Spacey, musical and quite infinitely melancholic, it sums up the Daedelus aesthetic perfectly. Clever without being too clever, melodic without being twee, kitsch without being ironic, a kind of wide-eyed, big-brained music that anyone should be able to get into. But there is more. Time to get 'broken' (or 'bruk up'). Domu turns “Impending Doom” into an insistent, dancefloor-filling bouncer where the kicks are the bass and the bass is the kick and all one can do is twitch around like a loon. For his next trick, Domu transforms into Umod and offers a downtempo take of “Just briefly” which is as moody as Bill Murray and as atmospheric as ozone. – Rough Trade |
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