Latest Release
- 5 SEPT 2023
- 1 Song
- Labyrinths · 2016
- Decades ( In Space ) · 2021
- Love To Make Music To · 2008
- Invention · 2002
- Drown Out · 2013
- Tailor-Made - EP · 2010
- Righteous Fists of Harmony · 2010
- L.A. Series 6 · 2010
- Exquisite Corpse · 2001
- L.A. Series 6 · 2010
- 2023
- 2022
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019
Music Videos
Artist Playlists
- Follow the 21st-century beatmaker's daring sonic logic.
Live Albums
Appears On
- Ape School
- Wylie Cable
About Daedelus
Los Angeles-based musician Daedelus (Alfred Darlington) is highly esteemed for their inventive sample-based compositions and energetic live performances. A longtime DJ for online radio station Dublab, Daedelus embodies the open-minded spirit of the L.A. music scene and is equally comfortable working with left-field rappers like MF Doom and Mike Ladd as well as contemporary jazz ensembles such as Kneebody. Initially surfacing with more experimental albums such as 2002's Invention, which blended vintage jazz samples with sideways breakbeats, their music ventured into abstract hip-hop on releases like 2003's The Weather (with Busdriver and Radioinactive) and 2005's Exquisite Corpse. Subsequent releases such as 2008's Love to Make Music To and 2011's Bespoke were more romantic and song-based, while albums like 2014's The Light Brigade focused on dreamy, downtempo grooves. 2020's What Wands Won't Break contained mutated club tracks similar to Daedelus' live sets, and 2023's Xenopocene was more abstract and orchestral.
- HOMETOWN
- Santa Monica, CA, United States
- BORN
- 31 October 1977
- GENRE
- Electronic