Daedelus - Rethinking the Weather

Daedelus is one of the foremost practitioners of non-serious experimental electronic dance music. Along with Prefuse 73 and The Avalanches (and slightly older artists like Wagon Christ at his loopiest and Aphex Twin at his prankiest), Daedelus throws away the notion that electronic artists are dour bedroom dwellers with minds like pocket calculators. His first album was a lush tapestry of strange easy listening and film orchestra samples welded to unsteady hip-hop beats; this album strips away the orchestral touches and goes in for a sparser, more frantic approach loaded with samples and chopped-up beats. Read More