Posted on: March 25, 2010 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

Mar 31 2010 7:00P
Pygmalion Cafe Bar Dublin
Apr 1 2010 8:00P
Adventures In The Beetroot Field at Fabric London
Apr 2 2010 8:00P
Rainbow w/ Luke Vibert Birmingham
Apr 3 2010 8:00P
L\’Eremo Bari
Apr 4 2010 8:00P
Electron Festival Geneva
Apr 8 2010 8:00P
D:qliq Luxembourg
Apr 9 2010 8:00P
Bateau Ivre Tours
Apr 10 2010 8:00P
Motel Mozaique Festival @ Laatam Rotterdam
Apr 11 2010 8:00P
Auditorium Parco De La Musice Rome
Apr 17 2010 8:00P
Remixing the Ring Cycle at the Edye Theater Santa Monica, California
Apr 24 2010 8:00P
The Loft at UC San Diego San Diego, California
Apr 30 2010 9:00P
The Avalon Hollywood Los Angeles, California
May 1 2010 5:00P
Illumination @ Limelight featuring Pretty Lights Nashville, Tennessee
Jun 5 2010 8:00P
Starscape with Rusko, Trouble & Bass + more Baltimore, Maryland
Jul 24 2010 8:00P
Audiotistic San Bernardino, California

Daedelus:
Daedelus’ newest release, Righteous Fists of Harmony, will be coming out on Flying Lotus’ outstanding Brainfeeder label. Bridging the demise of the magic-inspired martial arts fighters of the Boxer Rebellion to the post modern malady of technology and imagination, Daedelus constructs a soundtrack-of-sorts to the struggle of both 19th century China against colonialism and modern man’s inevitable hurl towards an unknown future.

After seventy years of China’s opium-related subjugation by Queen Victoria and her allies, a force of resistance fighters — termed “Boxers” by the British — rose to the challenge in 1898. Calling themselves “The Righteous Fists of Harmony,” this secret society of martial artists felt they held magical powers: they believed themselves bulletproof, able to fly, and capable of raising the dead (who would then fight alongside them). And so began the brief Boxer Rebellion; three years later 100,000 Boxers had fallen, their magic helpless against the cutting-edge machinery of war. The British prevailed only to face ultimate defeat, as their empire rapidly declined.

Daedelus endeavors to compose a requiem for the end — of beliefs, of lives, and of an era. This elegy for a bygone battle sheds light on our own contemporary conundrum: will our faith in modernity be our downfall? Are we blinded by this age of wonders, doomed to be destroyed by our ingenious inventions? Although Daedelus’ music has always juxtaposed organic and electronic elements, they war as never before on Righteous Fists of Harmony, a portrait of a tumultuous era that came crashing to a close.

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