Daphni: Jiaolong – review

(Jiaolong Records)Over the past decade Dan Snaith has released a brace of lush, faintly psychedelic electronic records as Caribou and Manitoba. His latest Daphni incarnation, however, finds Snaith in the DJ booth with a fist in the air. Jiaolong unites a number of Snaith's cuts under this alias – sample-led, club-floor workouts that draw from techno, analogue synths and the internationalist miasma of small-hours sweat. There's a rhythmic directness here, and a desire to have a good time, that'...

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