Mix: Daedelus Does Fact
A thousand words might be overstatement, but the picture above is worth at least 250. You see Daedelus at his most dapper and dandy-like, theatrical but serious, and illustrating the opposing impulses that fuel most interesting artists. Alfred Darlington has been prowling between musique concrete, rap, IDM, EDM, and rock since the days when people rocked Rio MP3-players. He and Dabrye were among the first to do it and you can see the influence of a half-decade ago still reverberating in laptop studios across America.
His mix for Fact illustrates the many faces of the Victorian-era enthusiast. It starts with Bone Thugs' "First of the Month" and ends with a Daedelus track titled after the French term for "end of the century." Subtlety is the surprising strong suit of a man prone to wearing strong suits and slapping things together that would ostensibly clash. Juke shouldn't jive with Sonic Youth, but it does in his claws. So does Dead Prez juxtaposed with phosphorescent beats. Daedelus understood it was bigger than hip hop early on and that's why a decade after his first record, this mix still sounds fresher than almost anything you might hear today. A good tailor is hard to come by.
Tracklist below the jump.
Download: MP3: Daedelus - Fact Mix 331 (Left-Click)
Tracklist: 1st of the Month – Bone Thugs and Harmony Crew – Mono/poly Act Stupid – BoeBoe HighrGravity – Swarvy Maven – Lil Jabba Electric Relaxation – A Tribe Called Quest Bounce Bang – Dj Deeon Hard 2 Be – Machinedrum Kaychunk – Kyle Hall The Art Of Murder – Jonwayne Clotting – Deft Cybo – Bobby Tank Dance 4 U (Kiff Remix) – Kiff The Producer Veridis Quo – Daft Punk My Time – Ann Steel Curtains Don’t Talk (Daedelus Pacific Juke) – Janet Jackson / Beach Boys Weight on the Moon (Dntel remix) – Adventure Time Shift – Gumar Sippin – Bames Imagine3 – LDFD Lyposuct – D.I.M. & Tai Positif – Mr. Oizo Palm Shade Tree – Morpheground Codéine (instrumental) – TTC The End – Milenese Ooos and Aahhs (feat. Jesse Boykins III) – Theophilus London Grimboh – Stagga Unbelievable – Dj Clap Another Girl – Jacques Greene Fog – Portable Sunsets It’s Bigger Than HipHop – Dead Prez Space Muzik Pt. 3 – Young Smoke Reaction Time (Daedelus Juke) – Calyx Sugar Kane – Sonic Youth Faux Art – Krampfhaft Nothing Is Always The Same – Alex B Fin De Siècle – Daedelus