Daphni - Jiaolong LP (new record from dan snaith/caribou)

(are there any similar house/techno remixes of emeralds?)
― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Thursday, 3 February 2011 22:00 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hey Lex, Daphni mixes right here:
http://soundcloud.com/caribouband/sets/emeralds-jiaolong002-does-it

― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Wednesday, March 14, 2012 3:29 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i tried :(

...they've been on that Soundcloud forever lex!

:((((((

yell at me until i get it next time :(

look for the [/achtung lex]

This album is pretty good but "Yes I Know" is a total all-time jam; I heard it on some RA or Beats in Space mix a year ago and have been pretty hardcore in love with it since.

I may have been so carried away on the wave of joy upon hearing Yes I Know for the first time that I slightly overrated the album, although even the more functional, fillery tracks don't feel especially skippable. I do find myself wishing it was all mixed together though.

The records are labelled (a) and (c) where they should be (b) and (d) - a bit weird but made up for by the DL card embedded with wildflower seeds that you can plant after using.

People not following releases on Jiaolong and complaining about missing out on great releases, WAT??

Lex, I'm surprised that you of all people thinks you need a CD in the post to alert him to a new release. PR did send out some CDs but indie labels have to be selective. (I've missed out on good stuff from the same PR in the past)

i didn't mean this album or PR specifically (though i wasn't PRed this either) - i meant the general buzz/conversation around a release that makes me aware that something exists (which most of the time doesn't come from PRs or labels). like what happened for the daphni album actually.

plus everyone should know that relevee-alikes are MY CATNIP

http://youtu.be/fu1-mFpn6i0

I keep thinking of this as being like Audion but then it occurs to me that I'm only thinking that for biographical reasons.

For me it's Four Tet, but both for biographical and sonic reasons.

not really feeling this, but i like the four tet record a lot though since we're comparing them. that one has nice rough edges but sounds much more composed. i get that this record is supposed to be quick loops and modular synth jams for dj gigs, which is cool but most of it doesn't stick for me.

Of the four "we are going to dance in a club" albums I've bought this year (Orbital, Talabot, Four Tet and this), this feels like the most fun (and also the most functional). Four Tet's is the most cosmic, Orbital's the most pop, and Talabot is a nice middle ground between them all. For me, anyway.

Love the occasionally African and Brazilian vibes that appear through this.

Actually I got the Blondes album as well which is also pretty "we are going to dance in a club" too but it never interested me as much as these. I almost use it as ambient.

Jiaolong also best captures that "last track feels like going home" vibe.

The Four Tet album doesn't feel particularly clubby to me, quite the opposite actually, it really feels like a living room record, although a couple of tracks near the end might work in a club.

Jialong is definitely the most functional of the four though. I still find myself wishing it was mixed together.

Yeah, Pink is feeling less clubby and more living room the more I... Play it in my living room.

i'm not blown away by this but i'm into "light" the most, the hi-hats and flute riff are great

Yeah that one is my second favourite, after Yes I Know.

New album 'Joli Mai' out tomorrow!

Four tracks already up on his bandcamp: https://caribouband.bandcamp.com/album/joli-mai

Nice! Very little Snaith has done that I haven't liked, looking forward to playing this on the way home.

Record is on spotify now. It's fucking great!

Really enjoying this. Sometimes I feel like Dan Snaith is my musical avatar, not exactly my "favorite artist" so much as the one that best marries all of the aspects of my musical taste, sense of groove, aesthetic, etc.

His recent Fabriclive mix is entirely his own stuff and is excellent.

Isn't most of that mix meant to be on the new album?

My guess is that it'll sound a lot better mixed together than as discrete album tracks but this is a bit of a truism with dance albums anyway.

Listened to the album now and it's fine, it's good, but fucking hell *every track* bar one is already on the Fabric mix. Except the mix has a load of other good stuff in there in about the same amount of space and is just a much more exciting and varied and dynamic listen. Whereas an extra three or four minutes of 'Face To Face' or 'Hey Drum' add nothing at all really. It's a string of good-to-great club tracks laid out alongside each other.

Hmm, I wanna hear that then. I think the new one works really nicely as a mix, agree the tracks are sort of static but I enjoy the trance-inducing aspect of that.

Found this by accident on Spotify, can’t believe I missed it, pure disco heaven.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aufPghczxM&app=desktop

Ah ffs, try again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8BC4-jnFDU

I posted on another thread about not liking this ep.

I have changed my mind.

I just found Joli Mai on Spotify and how the hell did I not know about this for 4 years

new album Cherry in october, really liking the 3 preview tracks on bandcamp so far

https://caribouband.bandcamp.com/album/cherry