Artist Daedelus
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Daedelus
Not unlike Caribou (a.k.a. Dan Snaith), Alfred “Daedelus” Darlington crafts an impossible-to-pigeonhole mélange of electronica, experimental music, and indie rock. But where Caribou zigs into pop, Daedelus zags into hip-hop. Darlington has collaborated with underground rappers such as Busdriver and Paperboy—the latter making a guest appearance on Daedelus’ 2008 disc, Love To Make Music To—by providing loosely wound batches of whirring, bubbly beats and instrumentation. Darlington has been moving closer to pop-minded accessibility—as evidenced by his moonlighting gig in the giddy outfit The Long Lost with his wife, Laura. But on this year’s Righteous Fists Of Harmony, he retreats into the past, pitting moody, anachronistic instruments against his early IDM work for the album’s broad tradition-versus-technology concept.
Updated 03/24/2011
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New York:
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Madison:
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