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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 / Terrific proof of the underground’s vitality - Rockpile / Alive from beginning to end - Mean Street / A master mortician - CMJ / Full of humor, brains, passion and breathtaking sounds - All Music Guide / Mad and beautiful, beautiful and mad - Big Chill |
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| When the orchestra starts up, the lights dim and the picture flickers into life, Daedelus cranks up the beats and the emcee kicks out the rhymes. A hip-hop album from LA - But this is not just a hip-hop record with some old crackly movie samples thrown in. This is an old crackly Surrealist record with some hip-hop thrown in. As the conductor, Daedelus oversees the Surrealist concept behind the making of these tracks, applying the cadavres exquis principle, where a collective collage is made by adding and passing on sounds to another person who adds and passes on their sounds and so on. As MF Doom languishes lyrically on the lush "Impending Doom," Sci passes on a more contemporary edge with "Move On" and Prefuse 73 signal yet another experimental advance on "Welcome Home." The Cyne collaboration on "Drops" gets poetic and even Mike Ladd waxes lyrical on another version of "Welcome Home." At the same time, the record's sonic identity stays firmly fixed in the past. Harking back to Hollywood's golden age, Exquiste Corpse explores the cinematic textures of those old black and white tear-jerking movies your gran made you watch on Sunday afternoons, with windswept love-scenes and forlorn farewells sound-tracked by classical strings and swirling harps. In 1940's Paris, the French Surrealists were dreaming of revolution, and this is what Daedelus captures so well on record: two cultural ideals - one American dream and one European archetype. - Paris Voice |
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