| Sporting some badass muttonchops and a shit-eating smirk, Los Angelino producer/composer/Dj Daedelus is to 21st century glitch-hop what Beck was to early-90's alt-rock - sassy, trashy and loaded with addictive post-modern pastiche. Based loosely on his collaboration (The Weather) with abstract emcees Radioinactive and Busdriver, Rethinking the Weather is a perverse dose of tantalizing hip-hop psychedelia, equal parts Orwellian nightmare and West Coast shimmy. Candy-coated groovemashers "Chorus, Verse, Chorus" and "Greatly Exaggerated, Our Demise" are lighthearted without being inane, and "The Weathers Secret Service" slyly subverts spy theme nostalgia with offbeat sampling and taffy-strength hooks. While Daedelus is often seen rubbing elbows with Prefuse 73 and Anti-Pop Consortium, the way he views hip-hop as a vanity rather than a directive is truly unique: he subverts the mainstream with its own rehashed poison, then tops it all off with subtle, cyanide-laced big-beat tomfoolery. He's not everyone's producer-of-choice just yet, but some day soon Daedelus is going to break out of the indie ghetto and overrun the penthouse. - Splendid |
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