Daedelus - The Household EP

Part of this EP started as the 2002 theme to the Los Angeles radio show Spaceways on KPFK 90.7FM, which was comprised of a medely of Daedelus songs, including "Busy Signal." Scott Herren (aka Prefuse 73) heard it, and told the show host and Eastern Dev. co-director Carlos Niño that "we gotta put this out."

And what a curious EP it became. Mere seconds over 15 minutes in length total, which he called a "portrait of sound, where the little things can be epic and meaningful." Without any real liner notes about what went into this, you can only imagine the things played or sampled that found their way into this EP. "What is the sound then?" Guitar, piano, TV with rabbit ears, alarm clock, vocals (both singing and beatbox) are gathered and layered. Sometimes sounding like a stuttering music box, other times like a small orchestra joined by joyous robots. And as a bonus, the Prefuse 73 remix of Busy Signal finishes the EP, with more distinct and head-nod-able beats of the hip-hop sort.

This is definitely an EP to find, either in CD or vinyl form. If you have turntables, or money and wall space, the vinyl version has larger artwork, so you can see Daedelus' studio in more detail, tiny rabbits and all.