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New Resista 12” now available at Phonica Records now!
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Forthcoming Resista 12”…
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The latest slice of Daphni ingenuity comes via the newly formed Resista label, with Snaith flexing his editing skills on two lesser spotted oddities. “Mapfumo” touches on African Highlife, with Snaith extending and embellishing Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited’s 1986 track “Shumba”. Initially staying faithful to the original, it’s the midway arrival of a skeletal 4×4 thump where Snaith begins to weave his magic. The intricate guitar melodies skip in and out of focus as a stuttering wall of sub bass fills before the vocals slide back in and the newly fattened groove rides out.
Mapfumo on latest Phonica Podcast…
Daphni’s ‘Mapfumo’ has been featured on the latest Phonica Podcast…
Enchanting first edition from the Resista label, offering two edits from one Daphni aka Mr Dan Snaith aka Caribou! Face up we’re smitten with the modern Afro-beat percolation of ‘Mapfumo’, his edit of a Chimurenga tune - the Zimbabwean style drawing on traditional Shona and Mbira music but played with electrified instrumentation - adding a lick of subbass and dubbed out tricks to the gorgeous guitar and vocals to really push all the right buttons. Flipside, ‘NPE’ is cucumber cool edit of an obscure mid-’80s Dutch group, all languid cowbells and psyched FX with a swaggering bounce.
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…the new project of Dan Snaith (aka Caribou) has been chosen as the first release on new label Resista Music. It’s a 12” on which the Canadian shows his sonic restorer side, delivering two edits with different characteristics but equally enchanting…
Resista 001 - Daphni Edits Vol. 1
For our first release, we proudly welcome a couple of edits from one of the hottest names in electronic music, someone responsible for one of the biggest and most critically acclaimed albums of 2010. Both of these first appeared on a mix-cd not too long ago and the interest has been there ever since.
On the a-side, we are treated to a mournful yet essentially upbeat afro-workout with some exquisite guitar melodies interlocking with the characteristic vocal. To be filed under ‘Chimurenga’, the Zimbabwean popular music genre based on traditional Shona Mbira music, but played with modern electric instrumentation and lyrics providing social and political commentary. Definitely a record that begs to be heard by a wider audience…
On the flipside, Daphni delves even deeper into worlds unknown, with a re-fix of an ultra-obscure mid-80’s Dutch outfit that sounds like the bastard European offspring of Liquid Liquid.
