| While I haven't always championed some of the collaborators that Daedelus has worked with in the past (Busdriver, Radioinactive, and the like), I've always deeply respected his imaginative and creative production, which has always managed to advance the production of hip-hop and other genres into a mash-up of styles and methods that just end up sounding great. And then when he dropped the amazing EP on Eastern Development, it ended up as the icing on the cake. But here, the instrumentals from The Weather are rearranged, chopped up and re-tooled to create twelve tracks of pure instrumental genius. While production-wise, Daedelus can sometimes draw comparisons to Scott Herren and Tadd Mullinix, he also goes above and beyond some of their styles to include much different source material in his beat construction. The result always has the flavor of old-time radio, gangster flicks, and children's cartoons, all coming out of a vintage boom box at the same time. Crossing channels, crossing genres, seemingly all too foreign, mixed together that end up sounding serendipitous. Subtle, meandering beats in a sea of samples, sail around creating a very different approach to hip-hop, pioneering a sub-genre of instrumental music creation that doesn't have to rely on bullshit. One of his strongest releases to date. - Absorb |
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