Caribou producer Dan Snaith will release his first studio album under more “manic” dancefloor-orientated alias Daphni this autumn.
Daphni’s nine-cut debut album JIAOLONG gathers exclusive new tracks and material already released to huge fanfare this year – last year’s trippy William Onyeabor-sampling house smash Ye Ye is also included. Snaith claims he wants to avoid the “mind-numbing predictability” of contemporary mainstream dance and the corporate-modelled electronic underground. Listeners can expect something that is closer to Theo Parrish and jazz-funked glitch-houser Floating Points then, than to Caribou’s quirky, psychedelic electronica.
Daphni was created in 2009 to remix Cortney Tidwell, before re-interpreting material by Hot Chip and releasing a few original productions last year. Daphni’s album title is taken from Snaith’s record label of the same name, which releases his new project alongside Merge Records on October 8.
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