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Daedelus
Real Name:
Alfred Weisberg-Roberts
Profile:
Alfred Darlington isn’t your average cookie-cutter musician. From how they look (early Victorian Dandism), to how they make music, to how they express themselves and views the world, they have a very individual, a ‘bespoke’ outlook.
Alfred was born in Santa Monica in 1977 to an artist mother and psychologist father. Musical from very early on, as a child they were classically and jazz-trained in a number of instruments, but their interests were broad and varied – less a prodigy than a renaissance boy whose obsessions ranged from Greek legend to the mountains of Wales. As a 15 year old they finally persuaded their parents to take them to the Principality. Whilst in a YMCA in London they flipped the radio dial, found a pirate radio station and taped some UK rave and hardcore. “It was my first ‘Eureka!’ moment in music,” they say.
Back in the US he joined local rock bands, jazz bands and ska bands, which they enjoyed but felt limited by, too. At home they were listening to Warp, Ninja and your harder electronic stuff. They started DJing out the more leftfield side of drum and bass and making their own rudimentary productions. They were meant to be drum & bass but they kept turning out different and from their outsider’s experiments his own style was born. They chose the name Daedelus as they had a childhood obsession with invention, and what were they doing, after all, if not tinkering and fiddling and experimenting like the “gentleman inventors” of old?
Alfred was born in Santa Monica in 1977 to an artist mother and psychologist father. Musical from very early on, as a child they were classically and jazz-trained in a number of instruments, but their interests were broad and varied – less a prodigy than a renaissance boy whose obsessions ranged from Greek legend to the mountains of Wales. As a 15 year old they finally persuaded their parents to take them to the Principality. Whilst in a YMCA in London they flipped the radio dial, found a pirate radio station and taped some UK rave and hardcore. “It was my first ‘Eureka!’ moment in music,” they say.
Back in the US he joined local rock bands, jazz bands and ska bands, which they enjoyed but felt limited by, too. At home they were listening to Warp, Ninja and your harder electronic stuff. They started DJing out the more leftfield side of drum and bass and making their own rudimentary productions. They were meant to be drum & bass but they kept turning out different and from their outsider’s experiments his own style was born. They chose the name Daedelus as they had a childhood obsession with invention, and what were they doing, after all, if not tinkering and fiddling and experimenting like the “gentleman inventors” of old?
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Facebook, daedelusmusic.com, instagram.com, plus.google.com, MySpace, songkick.com, ninjatune.net, alphapuprecords.com, anticon.com, mushrecords.com, dublab.com, Wikipedia, whosampled.com, SoundCloud, YouTube, vimeo.com, Bandcamp
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