Daedelus "Righteous Fist of Harmony"

I meant to post something about this earlier in the week, when it came out on Tuesday. I planned to have a tighty review written up for your enjoyment, but life interceded, and I am just going to say this:

This album is really worth buying. It's thoughtful, precisely executed  and diverse in its styles and textures. It would make an excellent gift to spoil yourself or for a friend who finds pleasure in music. You don't have to be a fan of "electronic music" to like this either.

Check out "Order of the Golden Dawn" featuring, if I'm not mistaken, his wife, Laura Darlington.

Not only did he make an awesome album, there's also an awesome concept behind it (via his publicist):

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.