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Daedelus | Invention

Daedelus reinvents music.
CD, Plug Research/Lowlands

Tekst: Koen Mariën

Publicatiedatum: 07 juni 2002

It's not easy being a follower of the Californian electronica label Plug Research. You just never know what comes next. This time PR lets the world get acquainted with the wonderfully strange sound of Daedelus, a "young romantic from LA." The tracks are a peculiar mixture of click-n-cut electronica and acoustic instruments. Daedelus uses influences from the thirties, the forties, and the seventies and combines them with twenty-first century, avant-garde experimental beats. The result is simply astounding and at least as big a musical surprise as the DNTEL release on Plug Research earlier this year. But the eclecticism of Daedelus easily surpasses that of any of the PR artists. Invention opens with a piano tune, with modern electronica gradually taking over the track. Pursed Lips Reply combines strings with thirties grooves and whizzling electronic sounds, and in Astroboy a voice tells a strange tale about a boy dreaming of Planet X. Daedelus knows no rest, surfing through the past and future of musical history. And just when you're almost at the end of the album, thinking you've heard it all by now, enter two MCs: Busdriver takes over Quiet Now, a melancholic gem that stands out after the first run, while Sach flows nicely over Pursed Lips Reply. Definitely one of the best leftfield albums so far in the wonderful year 2002.