his unique brand of psychedelic
electro-pop transcends genre and culture
hi I’m Barbara with watchmojo.com and
today are going to be speaking to dan
snaith better known as caribou give us
the origins of caribou what originally
made you gravitate towards music it’s
hard to say I remember just if when I
was four or five years old always like
banging on stuff always having like some
sort of a thing was acting as a drum and
then I started playing piano when I was
a kid and that wasn’t voluntary I think
that my parents kind of courage just to
play an instrument of something like
that and I took a long time to become
interested in music again maybe when i
was a teenager so but but it’s always
been around what kind of music did you
listen to growing up and how has that
changed over the years the first time i
got really excited about music was when
i was a teenager I lived in dundas which
is a little hippie town Ontario and so I
was really into like really overblown
70s progressive rock like yes and I’m
recent like power and rush all those
kind of bands and that got me really
really excited and then and then I mean
that a big big change for me was like
hearing kind of electronic music and
technolo various kind things like that
for the first time and it was just the
opposite of everything that i was
listening this really technical kind of
virtuosic music and this is repetitive
and simple and I was like how do I I was
a real it really kind of challenged how
I thought about really your music has a
very unique flavor to it how would you
describe it to people who have never
heard of before I have a tendency to
like really dense music where there’s
like lots of layers and things going on
tell us about swim what were you working
towards in this album I was kind of
excited by dance music so I wanted to
make something that is somehow
influenced by their music
use those kind of ideas repetition and
thinking about it as being played in a
club rather than on headphones or
whatever and I had this idea of making
liquid sounding dance music so that
every all the elements are kind of
washing around behaving a fluid way were
there any types of world cultures that
affected your music because my musics
always kind of incorporates lots of
diverse things there on the track bowls
on the album there tibetan bowls being
played that i bought i was in southwest
China for a month a year that I was
recording this and I got those there but
I mean I’ve always approached things in
a very aesthetic way first you know I
like the sound of that and then kind of
learn about culture that comes from or
whatever but my initial excitement comes
from just the you know the way it sounds
and not really the contest described to
us a typical live show what would
someone see at a caribou concert I want
to get as far away from as possible is
the typical presentation electronics is
a guy behind the laptop so you want to
make it covers overwhelming as possible
to drum kits going at the same time all
the time and a visual projections that
are tied in with the music synthesizers
and guitars keyboards and I want it to
be kind of spontaneous and live I
suppose so people get that sense that it
could fall apart at any moment which
would probably good well thank you very
much thank you
you
electro-pop transcends genre and culture
hi I’m Barbara with watchmojo.com and
today are going to be speaking to dan
snaith better known as caribou give us
the origins of caribou what originally
made you gravitate towards music it’s
hard to say I remember just if when I
was four or five years old always like
banging on stuff always having like some
sort of a thing was acting as a drum and
then I started playing piano when I was
a kid and that wasn’t voluntary I think
that my parents kind of courage just to
play an instrument of something like
that and I took a long time to become
interested in music again maybe when i
was a teenager so but but it’s always
been around what kind of music did you
listen to growing up and how has that
changed over the years the first time i
got really excited about music was when
i was a teenager I lived in dundas which
is a little hippie town Ontario and so I
was really into like really overblown
70s progressive rock like yes and I’m
recent like power and rush all those
kind of bands and that got me really
really excited and then and then I mean
that a big big change for me was like
hearing kind of electronic music and
technolo various kind things like that
for the first time and it was just the
opposite of everything that i was
listening this really technical kind of
virtuosic music and this is repetitive
and simple and I was like how do I I was
a real it really kind of challenged how
I thought about really your music has a
very unique flavor to it how would you
describe it to people who have never
heard of before I have a tendency to
like really dense music where there’s
like lots of layers and things going on
tell us about swim what were you working
towards in this album I was kind of
excited by dance music so I wanted to
make something that is somehow
influenced by their music
use those kind of ideas repetition and
thinking about it as being played in a
club rather than on headphones or
whatever and I had this idea of making
liquid sounding dance music so that
every all the elements are kind of
washing around behaving a fluid way were
there any types of world cultures that
affected your music because my musics
always kind of incorporates lots of
diverse things there on the track bowls
on the album there tibetan bowls being
played that i bought i was in southwest
China for a month a year that I was
recording this and I got those there but
I mean I’ve always approached things in
a very aesthetic way first you know I
like the sound of that and then kind of
learn about culture that comes from or
whatever but my initial excitement comes
from just the you know the way it sounds
and not really the contest described to
us a typical live show what would
someone see at a caribou concert I want
to get as far away from as possible is
the typical presentation electronics is
a guy behind the laptop so you want to
make it covers overwhelming as possible
to drum kits going at the same time all
the time and a visual projections that
are tied in with the music synthesizers
and guitars keyboards and I want it to
be kind of spontaneous and live I
suppose so people get that sense that it
could fall apart at any moment which
would probably good well thank you very
much thank you
you
Please follow and like us: