Red Bull Music Academy Radio recently caught up with Daedelus before one of his legendary live shows at Big Chill House in London and heard the man hold forth on technology, Victoriana and, of course, his music! Portrait Of The Artist.

Alfred Darlington isn’t your average cookie-cutter musician. From how he looks (early Victorian dandyism), to how he makes music, to how he expresses himself and views the world, his is a very individual, a ‘bespoke’ outlook. Alfred was born in Santa Monica in 1977 to an artist mother and psychologist father. Musical from very early on, as a child he was classically and jazz-trained in a number of instruments – but his interests were a lot broader. Less a prodigy than a renaissance boy whose obsessions ranged from Greek legend to the mountains of Wales, until he was a teenager, he was convinced he’d grow up to be an inventor.

As a 15 year old though, he finally persuaded his parents to take him to Wales and whilst in a YMCA in London, he flipped the radio dial, found a pirate radio station and taped some UK rave and hardcore. Ever since, Daedelus has been re-inventing the possibilities of ‘electronic’ music with albums on Mush, Plug Research, Laboratory Instinct and lately Ninja Tune. Definitely no quiet party over here.

Fireside Chat - Daedelus (Ninja Tune, Los Angeles)