| The West Coast is an incubator for left-field emcees. You see, these two emcees (Busdriver and Radioinactive) are iller than a gorilla using a power drill to feel its way through a darkened room. Daedelus' beats boom, bounce, roller skate, then dissipate like a warped tape. With freeform word play, the things that they say skid across beats like bald tires and jiggle like a splitting amoeba. For example: "If I read from the Tao of Pooh, the crowd will boo, hiss and complain and pout and whine / But there's no double-threat in doing a shuffle step in a too-too, the litterbug nigga loves and buys a ticket stub," from the track "Germs That May Cause the Following:" exemplifies the twenty-word-a-second/slowed-down-muttered-stutter, in the same vein as Mikah-9, that keeps you pressing rewind. Daedelus matches the freeform wordplay with drum patterns that scatter from double-time to off-beat to up-beat, while switching sounds from distorted electro to clean funk snare hits without any splits or seams. Quit your dreams, though, to hear this on your local rap show. This is strictly underground and would probably pop the head of a square if they dared to hear this sound. Buy this and share. - Long Beach Union |
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