Choice Cuts bring Ninja Tune’s mutton-chopped Dickensian electronic producer Daedelus to The Twisted Pepper this Saturday – fancy winning a couple of tickets?
Daedelus (Alfred to his Mammy) will be chairing & competing in a chess competition in All City Records on Sunday, before heading down to Cork for a gig in Cyprus Avenue that evening.
Born Alfred Weisberg-Roberts in Santa Monica, CA, producer/instrumentalist Daedelus wanted to be an inventor from an early age, a sentiment that led to him choosing an artistic moniker (in Greek mythology, Daedalus was known as an inventor, although Weisberg-Roberts also cites the character Stephan Dedalus in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — as well as the ship in the Japanese cartoon Robotech — as equally valid reasons for his selection) when he began releasing his own work. Despite the fact that he was formally trained on double bass and bass clarinet, had studied jazz at USC, and could play additional instruments such as the guitar and accordion, Daedelus chose to go the electronica route, often incorporating samples from the ’30s and ’40s into his IDM and left-field hip-hop.
After a busy couple of years of touring, remixing and releasing singles and EPs with Brainfeeder, All City, Magical Properties (the Daedelus home-imprint), Alpha Pup, Warp and Stones Throw, Alfred Darlington aka Daedelus returns with his new full length album on Ninja Tune, Bespoke, a title summing up the unique and eccentric vision of a musical artist as obsessed with the clothing of the Victorian era as he is with the music of the future.
Bespoke is defined as “a term employed to mean an item custom-made to measure.” Darlington explains that “I not only intended it as a reflection of the LP itself, but also an outlook on life.” It’s Daedelus’ way of stating that it’s possible to grow and flourish as a musician without settling for the drab factory pre-sets of genre.
To be in with a chance of winning a pair of tickets just email [email protected] with DAEDELUSTICKETSPLEASE as the subject & including your thumped.com usernam & your real name by midnight tonight (Thursday).
ChoiceCuts Present
Daedelus (Ninja Tune)
8pm, Saturday October 1st
The Twisted Pepper
Tickets €12 from tickets.ie.
9pm, Sunday October 2nd
Cyprus Avenue, Cork
Tickets €15.50 from tickets.ie.
