With less the 2 weeks until "Drown Out" is released on Anticon and today celebrating 15 year's anniversary of the label in Los Angeles' Echoplex here is Music Concrete.

The title, a play on the term for found sound features Chris Alfaro (of Free The Robots) and Phil Nisco skateboarding. I find the noise of which is speed incarnate. The sidewalk's texture, ollies and grinds, all evocative of a controlled fall. The track is that, barely holding on, crashing along, but also unabashedly free.

Drown Out is released on September 17th

http://www.anticon.com/item/drown-out

Music Concrete

Holy Water over Sons

If We Must Take It, Fair Enough

Target (feat. Katie Dove Dixon)

Nooneseemstocare

Floyd

Touring is a solitary business for the most part. Into one city and the next thing you know you are looking at it in the rearview mirror traveling to the next. Thoughts happen; like what if this and this and this all went together and had sex, remix sex. This is an EXPLICIT song, full of fucks and sillinesses, made out with quickly, I'd like to think expertly done, but likely not. Just a mess, and I'm happy to present it to you.

Would You Mind (Daedelus' Pacific Explicitly)

Imagine if you will two foes locked in endless combat, each driving towards their destiny with every thrust, parry, and repost. I had the pleasure to score such an honorable goal. Forest is one level of many you'll encounter when you play the game, with the songs as a little bonus when you download. Check the link for all the platforms supported.

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Forest (from Nidhogg OST)

Another from the Nidhogg soundtrack. It's nice when an opportunity provides an excuse to try on other styles, but I'm also smiling when I can find a way through the labyrinth including some of where I've been. Clouds, I believe does just that in harkening back to my previous albums a bit. 

This song and all the others from the OST come with the game when you purchase.

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Clouds

Last year I fell head over heels hard for the original, the band is Alpine from Australia, and although they don't have mountains enough to have an alpine forest it all makes sense in their sound. I was driven to paint broadly across their song's perfect veneer with my kind of crude coloring markers. Please enjoy.

Multiplication (Daedelus' the sum, the sun remix)

from the album Invention, later used to make Madvillian's Accordion. I just felt it like sharing it here today.

Experience

Sounds of Symmetry, Vol. 1

An Armada Approaches (Cruise from Here to the Afterlife Remix, conducted by the James Pants Sea Faring Orchestra)

Track 3 from Xenopocene featuring Vivek Menon. An album inspired by my time as artist-in-residence with S.E.T.I. (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence). Day 1 hints at what happens right after first contact!

Xenopocene

A Considered Reply - Day 1

The Breathing Effect (forthcoming Alphapup artists) bring their vision to Los Angeles' Beat Scene with their Jazz infused creations. This is their gorgeous cover of The Light Brigade's Baba Yaga.

Baba Yaga (Breathing Effect Cover)

Mono/Poly takes the elegiac Onward from my recent LP "The Light Brigade" and pulses, pushes, and pulls it forward. Find his "Golden Skies" also recently released on Brainfeeder.

Onward (Mono/Poly Remix)

No excuses, just up-tempos and tongue-in-cheek. Photo by Sean Charmatz (http://instagram.com/sean_charmatz/)

Lotus Flower Bomb (Daedelus Pacific)

4th track from the EP "Visible", Gait is twisting turning pushy frequencies.

Gait

Abstract heavy? Colorful but not Color Bass.

Way Out!

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Therein Sound

From the Flywrench soundtrack. The prompt was uptempo breaks to underscore the twists and turns needed in game. I'm so honored to have assembled an incredible collection of artists that took on this challenge with aplomb. Included a link to iTunes, but you can find the music now through any digital service. Onwards and upwards!

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Speeds

Such a fan of Floating Points' treatment of Milosh and my song, as remixed from 2011's Bespoke. I feel like it should be with you in these days, perhaps to sooth what harshes your mellows.

Tailor - Made (Floating Points Remix)

Special Re: Quest from the LP Labyrinths due October 28th on Magical Properties. Limited cassette available on Dome of Doom.

Bass by Goodnight Cody!

Labyrinths

Special Re: Quest

With a gloved style all his own Omniboi has transformed Special Re: Quest into soaring, sailing, uplifting, and alighting! Almost a month now since Labyrinths was released, still surprises around every corner.

Just yesterday the video premiered for the original over at Noisey. 
watch it now https://youtu.be/f9lLAQwKNPQ
and how to do it yourself http://bit.ly/SRQdaedeluszine

Labyrinths Remixed

Special Re: Quest - Omniboi Remix

Righteous Fists of Harmony

Order of the Golden Dawn

Fair Weather Friends

Tidal Waves Uprising

From the "Throw A Fit" EP but only Japan edition. I thought sharing now, as the last embers of 2011, such a mad year for many. So it is madness, and the lyrics are:

It's like Madness that we should be,
Apart in (on) the instance to be.
Madness, Madness, Madness
It's like, and such, Madness to be.

Nosaj Thing did such an excellent remix! You should really find his material if you a moment to listen.

It's Maddness (Nosaj Thing Remix)

I'm not timely with this mix. It is long after the rap's been spit, yet how can you not try to wrestle with the words and see if they might be purposed to today? Speed and plosives here. Mid deranged kicks and distorted toms. Lots of little moments as I try to better my craft.

Fun fact. In high school I was in a jazz quartet called "Tres Gatos" (a name that never made sense) with Terrace Martin who kept playing incredible saxophone and features all over's Kendrick's albums. Hearing his output over the years has been an inspiration.

Alright (Daedelus' Werk)

Baker's Dozen: Daedelus

Know What You'd Like

First sound from my forthcoming Taut LP. This will be something like my 19th full length, and although I never felt out of breath, what a wonderful marathon its been. The song is more California quiet storm than gale force, but hopefully you feel it.

I'll be posting the stems for download soon and would love to hear your take on the song, or just pass along the the skittering drums for you to find use.

Cover by Debbie Cho

Taut

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Raindrops

A mash-up of sorts of Dj Trouble's "Bangs and Works" and The Cardigans "Rise and Shine". Unholy and Wholly Fun. Unfinished, Unmastered, but immediate.

Rise and Bangs, Shine and Works

Amazing what you'll find when the rabbit just bounding away, late for a very different party than you'd thought you'd ever attend.

Add this to my Pacific series of adjacent and nearby, always with a tempo.

Nobody (Daedelus' Pacific)

Inspired by the sounds coming from Chicago's Dance Mania records and similar uptempo house from the late 90s. Hot Music is actually a New York anthem, also counted as a seminal track for London's Jazz Step, and just dares to be stepped to. I hope you enjoy the theatrics involved, and maybe a 'work or two.

From a series of Pacific remixes taking sounds out of context.

Hot Music (Daedelus' Pacific)

Madlib's remix of "Playing Parties" from the LP Invention from 2002 found on The Quiet Party EP

Playing Parties (Madlib remix)

The original by Sir Michael Rocks, to which I've put on layers of varnish and 'work. It is uptempo and a little lost in a mix, but the sentiment as with all these Pacific mixes is adrift in the large ocean out there.

Don't Forget (Daedelus' Pacific Juke)

A favorite from Daft Punk's recent "Random Access Memory" which I've chopped into tiny pieces and carefully glued back together along with macaroni, glitter, and footwork.

Doing It Right (Daedelus' Pacific Drift)

Sundown

Under the alias Daedelus, Alfred Darlington has been an instigator of electronic music culture for the past 25+ years. A fore-figure of Los Angeles' Beat Scene, they have released 20+ LPs, countless EPs, remixes, and additional productions on labels such as Ninja Tune, WARP, and Brainfeeder. As a performer they're synonymous with controllers, from the grid Monome to computer-free modular, and have played over 1,000+ shows on 6 continents at events ranging from Boilerroom to festival mainstages such as Coachella.

Dj at Dublab, founding faculty member for the Berklee College of Music's EDI (Electronic Digital Instrument) program, and S.E.T.I. artist in residence.

Daedelus has begun to live up to their Greek mythological namesake.

Daedelus

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