Daedelus - Meanwhile…

More sublime eccentric beats and sampledelic cutups from the unstoppable Daedelus - this time offering up his distinct plunderphonic charm for the hugely promising Laboratory Instinct label. Following on from releases for Plug Research, Phthalo, Hefty, Tigerbeat 6, Mush and Eastern Developments, Daedelus has refined a style that is often immitated but seldom matched. The childlike quality of his selection defines these new pieces - film samples, television advertisement clips and anachronistic narratives lifted from deep within his dusty wax archives nestle themselves amidst a weave of breaks and reconfigured beats, a hip-hop paced antithesis to the Drill n Bass techniques of old. "Meanwhile" is an utterly charming album that you will adore if you're into anything from Madlib through to Venetian Snares - required listening as soon as you possibly can. Ace. (boomkt) Born Alfred Weisberg-Roberts in Santa Monica, CA, producer / instrumentalist Daedelus wanted to be an inventor from an early age, a sentiment that led to him choosing an artistic moniker (in Greek mythology, Daedalus was known as an inventor, although Weisberg-Roberts also cites the character Stephan Dedalus in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -- as well as the ship in the Japanese cartoon Robotech -- as equally valid reasons for his selection) when he began releasing his own work. Despite the fact that he was formally trained on double bass and bass clarinet, had studied jazz at USC, and could play additional instruments such as the guitar and accordion, Daedelus chose to go the electronica route, often incorporating samples from the '30s and '40s into his IDM and left-field hip-hop.Though Daedelus' first single appeared 2001, it wasn't until the following year that his debut full-length, Invention, was released by the Plug Research label. Daedelus proved to be a prolific composer, and the following four years brought four new albums (released via Plug Research and Mush): 2003's Rethinking the Weather, 2004's Of Snowdonia, 2005's Exquisite Corpse, and 2006's Daedelus Denies the Day's Demise. He also worked on countless singles and side projects, including a stint as a producer for his Mush labelmates. The musician's engaging live set was finally made available for fans, albeit in limited numbers, with Live at Low End Theory, which was recorded during a July 2007 performance at Los Angeles' The Airliner and released in early 2008. Love to Make Music To followed in July.

Track List

01. One Breath To Breathe
02. The Brazilianaire
03. Outnumbered
04. A Stiff Drink
05. Just For You
06. Denouement

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