Daedelus - Fallen Love

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10th track on the 2005 album "Exquisite Corpse" by Daedelus.

I remember when I worked for a hip hop magazine as a critic about 15 years ago. It was a time, when producers like Daedelus (or Flying Lotus and Hudson Mohawke) were praised by my colleages for pushing the boundaries of Hip Hop, mixing endless genres - and plainly for their overall creativity. For me, that whole thing lost its charm pretty quick because you don't sit there and listen to a Flying Lotus album for enjoyment (like you do with Sonic Sums "The Sanity Annex" for example). You do it to be amazed by what's musically possible or because you don't want to miss out on that new hot shit or just because you want to feel superior to others who claim that kind of music is lost on them.
So it came to be, that a bunch of music nerds (nerdier than me) got really excited over artists like Daedelus while most people (I mean like... 999.999 out of 1 million) wouldn't know what to do with that kind of music. You will still find those critics reviews online. Here is what some guy had to say, something, I would agree with:

"The album "Exquisite Corpse" is some of the quirkiest music out there, taking the samples of Daedelus and feature artists including MF Doom, Prefuse 73, and Mike Ladd to make hip-hop music that explores nearly every realm of the musical world. The guest appearances come in different styles, tones, and even languages. "Exquisite Corpse" is a collage of, according to Rip and Burn, 'Latin rhythms, Japanese pop, IDM, braindance, glitch, opera, instrumental hip hop, 1930s music hall and rap.' I don't even know what half those genres mean, but the description just shows how many worlds this album touches. The album stutters, speeds up and slows down on end, and somehow, everything comes together at the end. The sampling of Daedelus is a bit sloppier than, say, DJ Shadow or Massive Attack, but the overall concept of each song is there."

For me, one thing is especially important and thats the "everything-comes-together" part. I mean, many of the so called producer geniuses that have blessed us with their music back then seemed to take pride in making their music as complicated and as least-appealing as possible and in hiding the rythms of their songs best they could. I would argue that Daedelus didn't do that (at least not on this album) and instead managed to keep the balance between innovation and appeal. "Exquisite Corpse" IS difficult to listen to at times but most songs come around eventually, there's a catchy theme hidden somewhere.

So enjoy this piece of art best you can. Next upload will be some straight rap shit, I promise :)

Oh yeah, if you've not heard of Daedelus so far and this music is not for you, try his collabo album "The Weather" with Radioinactive and Busdriver. That shit is hilarious.
Oh yeah #2: The album title "Exquisite Corpse" refers to an artform with the same name that is also being used in painting and poetry, where one person draws/writes something and the next person ads something without knowing what came before him. The first time this technique (or game or whatever) was used by some french surrealist dudes, the sentence "the exquisite corpse shall drink the new wine" was the result. Now the only question that remains is: did Daedelus really use that technique while composing the beats?

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