Dan Snaith’s evolving relationship with dance music has been fascinating to watch over the years. As Manitoba — renamed Caribou after a legal snafu in 2004 — he incorporated all manner of experimental electronics alongside dreamy, band-based psychedelia. Sometimes those aspects were woven together, which loosely aligned him with the folktronica movement at the time; but more frequently, as on early anthem “If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be an Airport” or his remix of Seelenluft’s “Manila,” he would make out-and-out dancefloor slammers. At the time, he was notably one of only a tiny handful of leftfield producers who could successfully incorporate the shuffle and warp bass of UK garage with unhinged glitch, discord, and free jazz.

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