Daedelus Meets Dance, 7:30 p.m., 18 January 2009. Edye Second Space, 1310 11th St., Santa Monica, CA 90401 http://www.TheBroadStage.com
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Wendy Gilmartin Daedelus, Peanut Butter Wolf at the Echoplex Los Angeles Weekly, 18 June 2009
Daedelus, Peanut Butter Wolf at the Echoplex
The always delightful and surprising Alfred "Daedelus" Darlington weaves his compositions together by pure instinct, knowing the uncanny connections between found sound, cinematic samples and his own instruments, combining them via a God-given sense of timing and spectacular segues. Peanut Butter Wolf, on the other hand, loots the mausoleum of rock's cadavers to build a funky Frankenstein monster that becomes as much about guessing what comes next, as it is a project that comes from his pure love and obsession for music. PWF is doing his choppy video editing set here, burning up DVD players like turntables and mixing visuals into a contorted social history of MTV. The two DJs are together tonight launching "Friends of Friends," a chain-letter label of sorts in which an artist is invited to join by signing on to do a split EP; they in turn invite another musician to complete the release or to commission a designer to create the EP's artwork or maybe a limited-edition T-Shirt. Interesting, no? Ecstatic joy awaits. (Wendy Gilmartin)