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…Caribou, Villalobos, Cottam, Twitch and loads of others – seemed to be experimenting with samples or edits of tracks from around the world. Finally I discovered labels such as Honest…

Jiaolong (Jialong) 16/20 Having already released a phenomenal split 12” with Four Tet and remixing the likes of Emeralds and Virgo Four, Caribou mainman Dan Snaith has already proved his…

…get Down (Atlantic) Toby Tobias – Love Papers (Quintessentials) Virgo Four – It’s a crime (Caribou Remix) (Rush Hour) Trevino – Derelict (Naked Lunch) Pearson Sound – Clutch (Hessle Audio)…

…devoid of all the charm and innovation that established his originality. Despite some driving and bass-heavy rhythms, his sound was so assimilated he could quite easily have been DJing. Caribou…

…year’s equivalent event, curated by the monumental trio of Les Savy Fav, Battles and Caribou are so good they actually hurt to recollect. Flying Lotus, Hot Snakes, Factory Floor, Pharoah…

…“leaving the body”, ‘mystic’ east Asian percussion filters in, then the central reversed-melodic loop comes in, and then we’re on more familiar territory: 4/4 rhythm, harmonised vocals (courtesy of Caribou),…

…invigorating jams, in comes a moment to bring the room to its knees: see Bashmore’s Footsteppin, or the Four Tet remix of Caribou’s Sun. When Alfresco residents Dan Hayman and…

…euphoric disco territory. Gettings was joined by Tom Hodgson, and the pair’s coalescence produces highlights such as Silicone Soul’s bongo-heavy classic Right On and Caribou’s re-jig of Virgo Four’s It’s…

…Collaborations probably aid this process, and Amgydala has loads — Matthew Dear, Milosh, Caribou, Apparat — a veritable A-list of stars of the alternative electronic music scene. It’s a great…

…house. Definitive tracks like Larry Heard’s The Sun Can’t Compare, Endian’s Straight Intention and Caribou’s anthemic earworm Ye Ye would’ve given us goosebumps if we weren’t sweating our nuts off….

…consider to be the most important underground electronic artist to come to prominence this decade? The obvious triumvirate of Four Tet, Caribou and Bonobo have a solid case to make,…

…touch of Caribou and Santiago’s guitar throttling mini-freak outs on Vamos which preserve Pixies’ legacy, not the faux-stadium Nickleback rock of Toe In The Ocean. Thankfully, the mantric Where Is…

…Pitchfork and Explosions In The Sky respectively, boast an embarrassment of collective riches: Vampire Weekend, Bon Iver, Beach House, Hot Chip, Dirty Projectors, Caribou, The National, Deerhunter, Animal Collective amongst…

…is going to be more than a simple saunter through well tread electronica territory. Sounding something like a less hyperactive Dan Deacon, or Caribou with the playfulness lever fully deployed,…

…as darkness falls, Monkey Gone To Heaven, Caribou and a closing Where Is My Mind? are pure, peerless, heartwarming/breaking oddball euphoria. The band stay on stage for an age waving…

…that he has surrounded it with a more natural, twinkling set of sounds that owe far more to Four Tet or Caribou than Ghost People did to the Hardcore Continuum….

…around the various venues for a while and saw most of Caribou, all of Todd Terje, a bit of 2ManyDJs and a bit of Loco Dice. Dan Snaith continues to…

…began with Caribou’s now ubiquitous I Can’t Do Without You (we counted four plays at least over the two days) and several pints of restorative Pimms. Six hours of digi-dub…

…other with differing methods. You ultimately feel Caribou’s layered odysseys work best in a warehouse or an under covered tent as opposed to a colossal outdoor stage, though they drive…

…Friday evening sun. But even this was just a warmup for the delicious and precision-crafted live show that is Caribou in 2014. After literally years of constant touring, Dan Snaith’s…

…melodies of Nils Frahm and gyrations of Kwabs paved the way for Caribou to steal the show with wonderfully expansive interpretations of Sun and Can’t Do Without You. The days…

…Tale of Us, which closed with Caribou’s Can’t Do Without You. The mere teasing of this song’s cloud-nine hook took the night in to the home stretch in perfect fashion…

…Caribou, METZ, Mac DeMarco, Slowdive, Portishead, Fat White Family and Perfect Pussy.       – – – – – – – – – – – Filmed by: Leo Stamps,…

…plant that hosts corporate events and medical-science conventions as well as music concerts. Some major ticket-selling acts play here over the next two nights (Jungle, Caribou, SBTRKT, Apparat), but fittingly,…

…day long festival also saw queues snake around corners for Future Islands and Caribou, it was the glass-walled venue Harpa that saw The Knife draw their critically lauded, constantly confounding…

…Susanne Sundfør, Norwegian metal band Enslaved, Låpsley, The War On Drugs and Kathleen Hanna’s current band The Julie Ruin. Previously, the likes of Caribou, Flying Lotus, Future Islands, Run The…

…Jon Hopkins, Underworld, Tony Allen, Perfume Genius, Pharmakon, Shabazz Palaces, The Soft Moon, Mac DeMarco, Caribou, Viet Cong, The Strokes, Sun O))) and many more. The full line-up, tickets and…

…Caribou record and just couldn’t contain themselves any longer. Take It To The Max arpeggiates gloriously, and the synth on Meme Generator trembles with such emotion that you can forgive…