Dan Snaith – Caribou – fait partie des prodiges de la musique électronique. Producteur inimitable, il se place parmi les meilleurs musiciens de sa génération. La richesse de ses titres est la preuve d’une culture musicale aussi vaste qu’hétéroclite.
Depuis quelques années maintenant, Caribou est devenu un véritable phénomène des musiques électroniques, attirant de plus en plus d’oreilles curieuses. Touché par cet engouement, il a décidé de remercier ses fans à sa façon, en offrant une playlist de 1000 morceaux baptisée «The Longest Mixtape – 1000 Songs For You» reprenant les titres qui l’ont marqué et autres morceaux qui composent sa bibliothèque. On y retrouve alors aussi bien du funk, que du jazz, du rap, du blues ou de la house !
En écoute intégrale sur Youtube (la vidéo ci-dessous ne contient que 200 titres du fait de l’encodage Youtube), la playlist est accompagnée d’une lettre de remerciement qui explique la façon dont il l’a construite et comment elle doit être écoutée :
NOTE: PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS PLAYLIST ON SHUFFLE.
“The last few years of my life have been incredible, thanks in large part to all of you – so I’ve been thinking of how to say thank you. As you can imagine, music has been a central love of my life since I was a teenager and over the years I’ve been introduced to a lot that has stayed with me. I’ve collected the majority of that music here – and I thought sharing it with you seemed like one way I could say thanks.I’m sure some things are under-represented or over-represented, but roughly speaking this is a musical history of my life. Of course a lot of this music has come to me through my friends – thank you to Koushik, Kieran, Jeremy, Gary, Brandon, Jason, Sam, Ketan, Ryan, Toby and many others…Also, please share music with me that you think I would like but is not included here, in the hope this becomes a dialogue rather than a monologue.I suggest you listen to this on shuffle as I made no attempt to sequence these tracks – I just entered them as I browsed along the shelves in my record collection. If you see dead links or duplicate songs please tweet me @caribouband.I hope you find something to enjoy here. Thanks, Dan”