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

anyone know of any Four Tet and Manitoba/Caribou collaborations? i have one remix they did together of the Notwist song "This Room" that is ridiculously good.

There used to be a Manitoba remix of Hilarious Movie Of The 90s floating around.

xp the Four Tet remix of Melody Day is beautiful

Odessa sounds quite good. The late April release date has me pretty excited too. I'm could definitely go for some early springtime cruisin' to the new Caribou!

vocal sounds very erlend oye

Four Tet mix of Melody Day seconded, it really is something special:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKvZtD8V6Kc

So I went back and listened to Milk of Human Kindness after dismissing it long ago for not sounding more like Andorra. Everyone up thread who were championed this were totally right. I don't know that I'd say I'd prefer it over Andorra, or even Up in Flames (easily two of my favorite albums of the past 10 to 15 years) but this ranks right up there.

Dan Snaith is dream a boat I tell ya.

Just realised that Swim comes out just before I get married. Nice.

cover connection

http://img12.nnm.ru/2/9/7/e/a/297eaef79cca17feca1bae2e337c01b3_full.jpg

Odessa sounds quite good. The late April release date has me pretty excited too. I'm could definitely go for some early springtime cruisin' to the new Caribou!

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is that song streaming somewhere online?

Never mind streaming; download the damn thing here - http://www.caribou.fm/swim_download/

sweet thx nick

odessa is funky and kind of gangster

Dan did this grrrrreat mix for his Nightmare Before Christmas day, well worth checking out: http://www.atpfestival.com/assets/cariboumix/index.html

Jamie will you be at NBC?

yes indeed, might even be djing if there's a free slot somewhere

Bonza, see you there.

Has anyone been peeping Dan's dance edits on the Resista label under his "Daphni" alias? They've been pretty killer so far and i like that his love for African music translates into some very dancefloor friendly edits of songs by Balla et ses Balladins and the like. and then the track he just dropped on Jiaolong, which uses an Analog Africa track for some heavier techno business, is easily one of my favorites for the year.

This Daphni remix of an old Malian disco track is all percussivey and great:
http://soundcloud.com/sofrito/niama-makalou-et-african-soul

Need to check that out. I see that they are doing some dates as Radiohead's opening act, and previously remixed Radiohead.

Didn't really know this guy until Swim, but have since been checking out the back catalog which I like even more.

Up In Flames is still one my favourite things ever

^^ cosign! love this one forever.

I gather Dan was recording Caribou material early his year. I love this dude.

I'm not on this thread making Chapterhouse jokes? How? Or was that another thread?

Heard "Sun (sunsunsunsunsunsunsunsun)" in the pub the other night, which was a bit of a headphuck. Someone in my local boozer is determined to make sure I spend more time in there.

daphni album yeah awright damn

http://www.factmag.com/2012/07/24/caribou-side-project-daphni-announces-full-album/

that daphni emeralds remix is still one of my favourite things this year. WCC you def need to hear that!

Yes? What? Hello? Did someone call my name? I've only heard one Daphni track but this is relevant to my interests.

Also, Dan Snaith needs to stop raiding my cupboard because he is wearing my shirt in that photo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0umj3YAoJkk

Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here? (Daphni Mix)

Yeah, I found it. It's nice, but it's too... too clean? I don't know. I might come back to it when I'm in a different mood because it seems like the sort of thing I would like if I were feeling more pristine.

The tracks I've heard are suuuuper minimal, like, hilarious. I love it

Sinkane - Runnin' (Daphni mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tmiEdNt2bA

...builds up something awesome.

Daphni album streaming here: http://www.residentadvisor.net/feed-item.aspx?id=53133

can't find the streaming link - do I need to "join" to be able to see it or am I just dumb?

lol, there is a REALLY shitty metal band on Spotify with the same name

There should also be a link from the RA front page? I'm not signed in or anything.

I think I might just be missing plugins on my work browser.

really like jiaolong on first listen

what I mean, fwiw, is that I get the page that says "RA Exclusive: Stream Daphni..." but there's nothing on the page to actually stream, that I can find. Is it some kind of player?

Looks like a Flash plugin, I think.

ah, flashpwned again

So it's basically a more griddy and less interesting Four Tet. That makes me sad. I wanted to like this more.

Yeah I'm enjoying this but I'm not in love with it by any means.

aw, i had my hopes up for this after loving yeye and the emeralds remixes

I often find this with Manitoba, though. That if I hear just one track, I'm all "yeah, this is the best thing evah!" but it doesn't really hold my attention for a whole album's length. So I'd probably like them in other contexts, i.e. if they were in a DJ set or something.

TMI: manitoba is good sex music

Really liked the Daphni record, reviewed it here, was clearly battered the night before judging by the sentence length lol:
http://crackmagazine.net/music/daphni/

Bows is the best sex music. But that's probably for another thread.

What is this sex you speak of?

It's like wanking but more socially awkward.

Oh man, I love this. Like the latest James Blake, I feel like I like it a lot more than I should, it doesn't really break new ground, but the mood is incredible.

He's never been a better producer than he is on this every album, every single element sounds so good... except his voice which I don't think I'm ever going to get past, it just anchors everything in the emotionally lukewarm zone for me.

Is there a general consensus that Swim is his best one? It's clearly Andorra and then The Milk... and then a big gap imo

up in flames is still my fav

i haven't been able to get into the new one, it's too song-y. seeing him live in a couple of weeks and maybe that'll get me into it

Scik Mouthy: so sad you’re going through that heartbreaking experience with your kid. Sincerely send you some love.

I love how this album sounds, makes up for the disappointment of the Grimes one.

more into this than the last one

i always thought the consensus was that andorra and swim were the best in whichever order

"magpie" is lovely, one of his best sounding tracks

Yeah, really into the minimalism and sound palette of this album. The two singles are probably my least favorite tracks tbh.

yeah "never come back" feels like an Obligatory Single here and not a standout

Thanks Moka - we're generally all pretty good at the moment but we've been through the mill for sure.

I have reservations about his voice, although it's normally not obstrusive enough to have any detrimental effect, and I wasn't expecting to be so into this from radio play of the singles (Never Come Back sounded exactly like a continuation of Our Love, and Home seemed too reliant on the sample, but they both work much better in context of the album for me) and early reports of how much he's singing on it, but it's actually working for me way more than his singing has before.

There are a few points where I kind of want it to go wild and tip into that collapse/chaos he's done before - the end of Magpie, for instance, teases me that it's going to explode and then it pulls back and finishes - and initially I was a bit gutted that he hadn't pushed it right out there, but I'm also impressed by the restraint.

Great seeing you write about music again, Scik Mouthy. I remember following your blog years ago and getting some amazing recommendations. And I'm glad the family's doing better!

“Our Love” didn't grab me much either, maybe apart from the singles, and Daphni was never really my thing, but I'm looking forward to picking up a copy of the new one today after work. I actually like his singing on his older tracks so the focus on vocals shouldn't be a problem.

this album is beautiful

i enjoy it a lot, as i do with all manitoba/caribou lps

our love lost me, used to love his mid aughts stuff. worth a revisit?

40000%

like i skip a couple of tracks on our love, but there are some stunners on it

this new one is more dance-oriented. "home" feels like something he coulda done mid-aughts, tho.

I think this one is good but nothing on it sizzles for me