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Birth Name:

Dan Snaith

Genres:

Electronic & Dance Music, Ambient Music, Trip Hop Music, Dance Pop Music

Decades Active:

1990's|2000's

Start Breaking My Heart, the debut album from Canada's Manitoba (Dan Snaith) for The Leaf Label, underlined his status amongst the chattering electronic classes as one of the brightest talents to emerge over the course of 2001. He cooks up messed beats, lost grooves, and a future jazz mentality in a single frothy disc which stabbed, hooted, and crinkled its way through swathes of rich percussion. Having already proved himself master of the sublime with his debut EP, People Eating Fruit, the year before, his subsequent Paul's Birthday opened him out even further with crazed percussives losing the grooves entirely, often before a single element extracted something beautiful from what in other hands would be tuneless chaos. Having moved to London, he booted his connections to the post-folk and jazz scenes back to Canada with the Give'r EP, which locked thumping beats to an almost-garage sub-plot. His second album, Up in Flames, followed in 2003.

- Kingsley Marshall, All Music Guide