Daedelus, Two Fresh, Auto Body - Wednesday 12.30.2009
w/ Jogger, Wyllys

Daedelus
Mutton-chopped sampler Daedelus looks like a Victorian-era pimp in the 19th-century garb he dons at each performance. But you can't blame him; it's been a big year. From the XLR8R magazine cover to his popular YouTube political party jam with hip-hoppers Sa-Ra, "Vote Obama," to his new album, Love to Make Music To, it seems all ears are tuned into the Santa Monica, CA electronic artist.

Daedelus, aka Alfred Darlington, studied classical music as a kid. He went to school for jazz when he grew bored with classical, but found that just as unsatisfying. Electronic music seemed much more limitless to him, so he jumped in while maintaining an element of his studied aesthetic. "Jazz - when you really get down to studying it - is a series of quoted lines," he says. "People's understanding of these [musical] idioms was pretty extreme [during jazz's heyday]. I don't feel that dissimilar from that concept." His third full-length for NinjaTune and 10th overall, Love to Make Music to employs several vocalists and a variety of tastes including burbling electro-pop, analogue lo-fi hip-hop, skittering breakbeats, IDM clatter and jaunty indie pop replete with hand claps. It's a tour de force album showcasing his broad musical vocabulary.

The live show is also impressive thanks to his use of the Monome, a programmable mixer that looks a little like a toy Lite-Brite. Its flashing, 40-button grid interfaces with the laptop, allowing live manipulation of samples as he punches buttons like the front of an accordion. But it can be a little disconcerting, until the energy gets going.

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Two Fresh
Two Fresh consists of twin brothers Sherwyn and Kendrick Nicholls and is accompanied live by drummer Colby Buckler. The twins have been making beats and playing music together since their freshman year of high school. In August of 2008, they began playing shows across the south. In early December they added on Colby on drums for the live setting. Together they bust out some of the freshest tracks, wowing people from all over the spectrum. Packing out venues, they keep the whole place moving with a raw, cutting edge sound that is a combination of hip-hop and jazz that takes electronic music to a whole new level. No matter what your into, Two Fresh will bring you music that is guaranteed to keep you moving. Their sound has begun to grasp the attention of people across the globe.

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Auto Body
Conceived in, and birthed from, Austin's steamy underground houses of Rock, Auto Body is Electro Fusion. Fueled by their shared bloodlust for sonic divinity, and armed with a war chest of synthesizers, samplers, rattlesnakes, and a bass guitar, Tibaut Bowman (DJ Thibault) and Felix Moreno (Future Rock), crusade the universe in search of the electronic Holy Grail.

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Jogger
Another product of the fertile cross-breeding programme in operation around LA right now, Jogger are a live electronics act combining psyche-folk leanings a la Animal Collective with the sort of beat science trimmings more associated with the many egos of Daedelus. ‘This Great Pressure’ is their debut full length release, displaying a well matured band ready to embrace the world with their glorious sound. Jogger’s aesthetic centres around a few well chosen sonic themes, from the Afrobeat debted guitars of ‘Napping Captain’ to ‘Master And Student’, to the electronic rhythm programming swinging from techno crescendos to glitched hiphop, and the cherry-on-the-cake of sublime vocal harmonies, giving the project a very indie-friendly edge. If the current wave of Brooklyn kids making African inspired psyche-pop were to move to California and hang out at the Low End Theory nights, it’s quite possible they’d sound just like this.

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Wyllys
After receiving his first set of turntables from his best friend Alan Veniscovsky in 1997, Wyllys set out on a path dominated by Drum and Bass and Jungle. Once he saw more and more Phish shows, his path seemed to split wide open. Phishís multi-genre approach to live music and improvisation made Wyllys realize there was a vast world of music out there and in order to truly reach out to the crowd, a DJ must be able to incorporate a myriad of styles in his set. And so it was born.....House, Hip Hop, Rock and Roll, Jazz, Drum and Bass, Trip Hop, Broken Beat...you name it...it is in Wyllysí collection and could quite possibly make an appearance in any one of his ferocious live sets. The energy Wyllys brings to the crowd is as brilliant as the track selection and mixing. Be on the lookout for his first multi-disc release coming out soon. Till then, go catch one of his sets. It will knock you on your ASS!

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