we have been working pretty hard and pretty much non-stop on the website and LOBOTOMIX in general over at Urbandy’s place lately, and have been pretty tired of it all, so we took a much needed break last night and went down to zydeco to see daedelus. urbandy, jamie, MackONE and i dipped in to a sadly empty music hall to see a really great show with what seemed like 15 or 20 other heads. there were more folks there, but the cavernous hall really seemed empty. i bought some vinyl from the man himself and then we watched him tear up the soundsystem – it was a good time. no, it was a great time, and daedelus hung out and talked to us about music and production and gear and his recent trip to thailand. and jamie got a really sweet picture with him. charles III started the night out with his usual panache and bumped the soundsystem to life and schlomo and tokimonsta brought it hard. overall, it was a really great night of leftfield for birmingham and a nice break from the usual. i think we need more field trips. and i think a LOT more people should have been told about this show.

if you aren’t familiar with daedelus, you should check him out – here’s a link to his website.

for posterity, here’s the link to the event on Facebook.

footnote – aside from the fact that the beats and patterns, although not hip hop [usually], draw from the same sensibilities and intricate layering of the best in leftfield hip hop [as well as the most interesting elements of intelligent drum&bass and idm], they are also a building block to some of the best beats ever produced. take a listen to daedelus’s tracks and get familiar with his vocabulary, then sit down and listen to madvillain’s [madlib and mf doom] album madvillainy and keep an eye out for the heavily sampled sounds poached from daedelus’ discography – especially the tight use of daedelus’s accordian parts which madlib uses masterfully to create the frantic, glitchy audio wonderland that doom’s thickly drawled lyrics live in. it’s one of the best hip hop albums you’re ever likely to hear [in my humble opinion], and will forever be a staple in my crate.
daedelus also produced all the tracks on mush record’s album the weather, which is a collaboration between busdriver, radioinactive & daedelus and is really, really out there, at least in the realm of hip hop.