Caribou / Manitoba (Dan Snaith) - Classic or Dud?

skin flute

belly trombone

etc

hahahahahahaha totally hadn't noticed that!

Oh my.

Just entered the UK chart at #8 - quite a surprise.

Woohoo!

Awesome!

But, y'know, this shows how few albums are being sold, I suspect, rather than that Snaith is now a pop star.

Kind of hooked on this album. Vinyl is cheap too.

Is it an Arthur Russell sample for the drums on All I Ever Need?

This is a lot better than anything he's done previously, the growing influence of club sounds really suits him. I much prefer this to the Daphni album, which was really enjoyable big dumb fun but felt functional rather than accomplished.

Listening to this for the first time gave me the same feelings I got on first listening to Four Tet's There Is Love In You (dancefloor direction, big step-up from previous work) so given how much more interesting Four Tet got from that point I'm really keen to see what's next.

I thought I heard a Kelly Polar drum sample in there somewhere.

haven't gotten a chance to check out the new record yet but i'm enjoying this:

http://boilerroom.tv/recording/caribou/

This record is excellent -- really nice meld of the Daphni dance sound and that Caribou mood. Only complaint is that the extended mix of "Can't Do Without You" shoulda replaced the 4 minute version! Still great. Vinyl sounds especially great, too.

Owen: if you still around, are there any other recordings out there where you use this patch? It sounds amazing and I want to hear more of it.

Regarding Caribou: He's been interesting to follow since he called himself Manitoba but couldn't have guessed he'd be this good, I was expecting Kieran Hebden to become the better, bigger artist but Snaith has surpassed him in almost every level.

Well, yeah, I use it with almost every one of my clients these days tbh, esp. the ones with zero-budget. Dan wanted it because he likes the sound of direct piezo pickup violin recording, which is cool, because violinists typically can't stand that sound. As for the machine, when the pitches are close together it functions like the ensemble setting of an ARP Solina, and it expands outward to full microtonal clouds. There are no "proof of concept" recordings yet, unfortunately, but one day I'll get to it. I use it a lot live, both with my own shows and Foxes In Fiction, either as a rack thing or a scaled-down pedal board equivalent.

ok. i think there is something i must be missing with this album.

let us kno if u figure out what it is

i've tried. many multiple listens and i don't find this to be anything special. i don't hate it or anything... just nothing stands out to me.

four tet is still a more interesting listen for me, good thing we don't have to choose between them.

they will be battling one another to death next week, actually.

Don't get me wrong, I love Four Tet. I just think that Caribou has gone farther with his sound while Kieran has been mostly distracted in all sorts of experimentation without an objective or signature sound in mind.

Caribou's output makes more sense as a whole and you can see clearly the evolution of his sound.Four Tet has been meandering here and there and it's a hit or miss for me. This is, of course, just my humble opinion.

Also, Caribou's live set is more interesting that Kieran's (who in my opinion is not great at dj sets) and that has definitely helped in making Caribou more 'significant'.

very true, 2+ drummers is always a good idea.

Snaith seems a little more focused somehow, like I can picture him putting a lot of stuff aside as "not a Caribou track," so that he winds up with a pretty distilled sound and concept. Kieran seems to put out more throwaway material.

And thanks Owen! Had no idea you collaborate on the Foxes on Fiction album. Loved their 2010 release, didn't know they had released a new one... a quick research tells me that it's only been released digitally and as a limited LP? Will it get a proper release?

I'll revive a Dream Pop thread so we can talk about it over there

Caribou doesn't have Hebden's gift for melody which is often completely sublime.

I do also want to say in Hebden's defense, holy shit @ this (which I first heard on a Daphni mix):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihnzf1YrW1c

hurting, i bet you would like Clap! Clap!: https://soundcloud.com/clakclakboomclak

Going to see him tonight!

Fantastic night! Hard to believe for me but I first saw Caribou/Manitoba over 12 years ago at Wonky. He was so friendly on the night then and what's just brilliant is not just how throughout the years he's stayed so sane but that even this evening, where he had played an amazing show to huge rock star adulation and could have wandered wandered off to the dressing room thinking 'job well done', he came out and spent time chatting and posing for pictures. How is he not more jaded?

His encore of "Sun" was (forgive pun) blistering! All of it, the new stuff, the slightly older songs - all brilliant.

Very happy!

1,000 song mixtape!
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lEESSgxM_5O81EvKCmBIm_JT5Q7JeaI

New live EP w/ his live version of Sun, which is p different from the album version and is also like OMG maybe the best thing he's ever recorded? When I saw it live last year I felt like I was at an Underworld concert.

http://caribouband.bandcamp.com/releases

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMLc89-ICro

my goodness

I started compiling the songs on the 1000 songs mixtape on Spotify. Daunting task... I'm at 533 so far as there's several songs in the playlist not available as of yet in spotify.

Here you go:

http://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/59fmLtRSCPQC1TyvoD8HeA

thankig u, plz update when finished

Ha, I just searched Twitter for other people doing it and there were like 30 of them.

This is great. It actually gave me the idea that it might be a fun ILM project to do our own sort of "skeleton key to our musical taste/DNA" ultralong spotify mixes, and then maybe like each person gets assigned to listen to one other person's mix -- not obligated to the whole thing but as much as they please.

I started making my own for fun, the only problem being whether to include stuff that completely clashes with everything else, e.g. should I exclude classical

It could be fun. A collaborative playlist where each person adds 50 tracks max. With 20 people involved we can get to 1000 songs pretty fast.

I'm at 727 tracks so far, btw. Almost finished. I will post the tracks that were not available in here in a couple of days for future reference.

oh I was actually thinking individual mixes, but that's an interesting idea too, a sort of ILM collective musical genome

Oh if it's individual mixes I have this one which I haven't updated in a while but it's 350 songs around 24 hours of music:

Favorite songs of all time:
http://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/4xpwn7ChVZ0HpNeOMpLbxc

thx Moka, both lists a nice complement to the ILM 2014 trax rundown

There's some amazing songs that are not available on Spotify on that Caribou list btw! I'm listening to them all and picking favorites to share later.... here's some of my favorite so far (not on spotify):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNXx-IKp50w
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ1QZnRXs58
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUgvsxOFwqY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqw2tpF6zEk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkFI6vW8jo0

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUMS2CrTrd0

Is there a plain text version of this somewhere?

I have one that I go from here: http://m.uploadedit.com/b044/1421689643906.txt but it's been taken down. Is there a way of looking at archived urls?

I have been erasing as I update so right now I only have a list 117 songs not available on Spotify:

MISSING SONG REFERENCE VID
Adolf Stern - More I Like It www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQfabF7nK9Y
Al Green - I Wish You Were Here www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAXAD7ObCZI
al hudson & the soul partners-SPREAD LOVE www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uAM5OKGQTc
Alex Lee 'One More Time' www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXNg0jSIsdc
Amanaz - Green Apple. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I368EWBLIs4
Amas - Slow Down www.youtube.com/watch?v=egGTAk6P_iQ
Ame Son - Eclosion www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCxpZlxjxx4
Amral's Trinidad Cavaliers Steel Orchestra - Oye Como Va www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXl5d6PR2-E
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish - Flowers www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nKzRhhMlaQ
Anthony "Shake" Shakir a.k.a. Da Sampla -- 'Pursuit Mix 3? www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQxM5RvgY84
Anton Bruhin - Schtandli www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHQUAdyqoqk
Arawak : Accadde A Bali www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYIZM8YaInw
Archie Whitewater - Cross Country www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z-db8uxDQI
Arica - Heaven www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHveEOaTilQ
Arica - Rock www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky-sX1H3UMc
Armin Rusch - Moon Morning (Beat For Lovers) Drums Breaks www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp0Ej1t2d0o
Arthur Russell - In The Light of The Miracle www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xXhJ2agJCg
Ata Kak - Daa Nyinaa www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW28iwIikq8
Balla et ses Balladins - Samba www.youtube.com/watch?v=VomRPSu2rgc
Batteaux - Tell Her She's Lovely www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_gaQs0t4Oo
Bernard Parmegiani - Incidences / Resonances www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaHcT-3ssI4
Bert Lynch -Black Skin & Kinky Hair www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O4Smu7tbX8
Bill Loko - Nen lambo www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SbT72IvL3Y
Billy Nicholls-Girl from New York www.youtube.com/watch?v=UneE7kAHx98
Black Cock - Give It Up www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlxsj1fs2W4
Bob Lind - Cool Summer www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4iQsp1o68o
Bobby Moore - Call Me Your Anything Man (Tom Moulton remix) www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuvGa3iOZYc
bone thugs-n-harmony - 1st of the month ( dj premier remix ) www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lnEXKRQw38
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - First of the Month www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpBP9dALcWw
BOSS MAN - Steel Mind 1982 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwIFrl-We9I
Brave New World - Halpais Corn Dance www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kDRe1-Dwsk
Britney Spears - Breathe On Me (James Holden dub) www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC7G8LpckhY
Bruce Ditmas - Yellow www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZct4iovvwE
Byard Lancaster - Rib Crib I www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Np3sgT9ktg
Calung Darso - Ararateul www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNXx-IKp50w
Cambodian Cassette Archives - Sat Tee Touy www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ1QZnRXs58
Charles Bobo Shaw & Human Arts Ensemble - Concere Ntasiah www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRS0G9uA4l0
Charlie's Roots - Pasttime Paradise www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEYQ1xkoErI
Cheb Hamza & Cheba Wasila* -Untitled www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqw2tpF6zEk
Chez Damier - Untitled www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgHuFx81-hg
Coco & Ben - Good Feelin www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfMIbPazYAU
Congregacion - Arrebol www.youtube.com/watch?v=B838RnsHDTw
Congregacion - Fantastico www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQilLyKlL8A
Cozy Powell - And then there was skin www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl_o1ywhFcQ
Crazy Bald Heads - First Born www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkF89p6y2qo
D-HA feat. Yolanda - Rock Ya Body www.youtube.com/watch?v=in1SMEE5E5o
Da Posse - Searchin Hard (Hula's Dance) www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO6p-WgEa7I
Daniel Bell - Electric Shock www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iklb6zPj3DE
Daniel Bell aka DBX - Blip www.youtube.com/watch?v=xujQH0I5VPI
Danyel Gerard - Le Vieux de la Montagne (Part 2) www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOTWLSJrGRQ
David Borden - Esty Point, Summer 1978 (1981) www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUqv21AJ3ng
David Lee Jr - I want our love to always last www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMkbRQaAUhU
David Lee Jr. - cosmic vision www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Ad4yMYzms
David Wertman - sunshine www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ4jwI1V2oQ
Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Relevee C2 rmx www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai1sfPKq2gk
Dem 2 - Broke my heart www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhoZy9__Xdw
Demis Roussos - Let it happen www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBBCs7fnO6Y
Dennis coffey - wings of fire www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r0a6kjYk5Y
Dewey Redman - Lop-o-lop www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvFba0MjSDM
Diamond D & the Psychotic Neurotics - Best kept secret www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQpUhDiTuXQ
Dick Sutphen - Trance sex www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4nbyTxI7SU
Discothèque - disco special www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy8vbJMfx3Y
Dizzy K. Falola - Be my friend www.youtube.com/watch?v=32CSQDi-1m0
DJ Bossman - Bongo eyes 2 (reverse) www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCzgLy4v63E
DJ Harvey - Keep on trying www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZX4fn9i8mw
DJ Rush - Looking for excitement www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DMAQj-EkVo
Dj Sprinkles - Grand Central Pt. 1 (MCDE Bassline dub) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OqQSfdC0Zo
Donnell Brown - too late to ry www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wBuFNmjV3I
DORIS NORTON "Personal Computer" (original 1984) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3S-u_llVEE
Doug Carn - Western sunrise www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Smwp_ezWPo
Dr. Philter Banx - High heels and mirrored thigs www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HfSJmku-go
Drexciya - you don't know www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUJtlVKHAj0
Dur-Dur Band - Ethiopian Girl www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj0mJ6m047w
Earth Opera - Home to you www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReyOpRYopR8
Earth Wind & Fire - Come on Feet www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSpvY9K5STE
Eddy Grant - Time Warp www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogB_H19kVzM
Edward Lahaari Gordon - Celestial Vibration www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY8A0HH1GUY
EKO - Love can be happy www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDvAnaZKz8Y
El-B - El-Brand (dub mix) www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlNMZ5mQvp4
Elisio and Voz de Cabo Verde - Capchona www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf8m9VnyYjw
Ellis Dee - Big up your chest www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIY5Dq6Djsw
Embryo "Abdul Malek" www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ5cK4etLxs
ENCHANTMENT - Call on me www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffRGSNiT274
Eric Martin - Emergency (Poindexter edit) www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDBqMdPbA_I
Erotic Drum Band - Action 78 (EXTENDED 12" VERSION) www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9DpV9xYsN8
ESG - Party Music (Party Mix) www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6SAkEisud4
Faces Drums (Steve Poindexter/Jamal Moss) - Faces Drums 2 (Faces Drums / Short Circut, 2005) www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAAAAmL-LeU
Fat Joe - shit is real (dj premier rmx) www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLVD3uMTX7I
Fatimah Al​-​Zaelaeyah - Ya Mun Dakhal Bahr Al​-​Hawa www.youtube.com/watch?v=_an6QgB1pf8
Ferdinand - Monsieur Blanc www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylN_vo0deNY
Hannibal Marvin Peterson - Soul Brother (In Dedication To Malcolm X) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppo63C_Uklc
Hannibal Marvin Peterson & the Sunrise Orchestra - The Bombing www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUMS2CrTrd0
Herbie Hancock, Thad Jones, Ron Carter, Jerome Richardson, Tate, Jonathan Klein - Sanctification www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN18ppxYMBM
Horace Tapscott " Peyote Song No. III " www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkFI6vW8jo0
Ifang Bondi - Saraba www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTryBxLj8iU
Iftin - Haka Yeelin Nacabkeenna www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8sQnNpLAxs
Igor Wakhevitch - Rituel De Guerre Des Esprits De La Terre www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNcTePruv3Y
Illvester - Feel Reel (Kon edit) www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUqee-K3TIE
Implog - Holland Tunnel Dive www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHlfuv422Bw
Intriya Ag Babo - Taliat www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuEsV5-bCPU
Iration Steppas - Iration Steppas vs. Dennis Rootical www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMs2Sx1Ncyw
Ithaca - Dreams (Story Of Our Time - Beneath This Sky) www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_cGvLNGpuE
Jodeci - Freek'n You (MK dub) www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbZ8JUU2nC8
Ricardo Villalobos - Fizheuer Zieheuer www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8_BAoVwoaM
Sharon Ridley - Changin' www.youtube.com/watch?v=7omSDoNr_1c
The Fourth Way - Mesoteric Circle www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXoW-J-n4Ik
Vito Ricci - The Ship Was Sailing www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVL0ZTNtoBI
Volta Jazz - Mama Soukous www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPpBiw-5c0c
Wayne Winslow - Time & Space www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM28rAG3Gkw
wolfgang dauner "dig my girl" www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0ddDDZqBSE
Yaseen Mogamed & Saada - Lala Mpenzi www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbd_FVdjIqg
Yellow Balloon - How can I be down? www.youtube.com/watch?v=x71s3_-YXuw
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Firecracker www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqZxcLGYVUc
Younger Than Park - Can't Turn Back (Claude's Low Key Mix) www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOhuRfjM17w
Z-factor - Fast Cars www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUgvsxOFwqY
Zed "Dune" www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8fGk1iyh_4