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Birth Name:

Alfred Weisberg-Roberts

Genres:

Electronic & Dance Music, Ambient Music, Trip Hop Music, Techno Music, Rock Music, Alternative Rock Music

Decades Active:

2000's

Artistic Quality

Low

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Born Alfred WeisbergRoberts in Santa Monica, CA, producer/instrumentalist Daedelus wanted to be an inventor from an early age, a sentiment which led to him choosing his artistic moniker (in Greek mythology Daedalus was known as inventor, although WeisbergRoberts 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 decided to begin releasing his own work. Despite the fact that he was formally trained on double bass and bass clarinet (and also played the guitar and accordion, among other things) and studied jazz at USC, Daedelus chose to go the electronica route, often incorporating samples from the '30s and '40s into his IDM and leftfield hiphop. Though his first single came out in 2001, it wasn't until the following year that his debut fulllength, Invention, was released after he signed to Plug Research. A prolific composer, the next four years brought four new albums (on Plug Research and Mush): 2003's Rethinking the Weather, 2004's Of Snowdonia, 2005's Exquisite Corpse, and 2006's Daedelus Denies the Day's Demise, as well as countless singles and side projects, including producing The Weather for Mush labelmates Busdriver and Radioinactive in 2003.

- Marisa Brown, All Music Guide