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 Flaming good psychedelic jiggery-pokery.  listen to manitoba interview feature"I don't mind people using the word psychedelic to describe it," says Dan 'Manitoba' Snaith of his new album, Up In Flames. "It's music that people have recorded with all sorts of different sounds," he continues. "Just throwing everything in and sorting it out later on, which is definitely the approach I take to it." Up In Flames is a swirly, kaleidoscopic mishmash of tribal drums, catchy loops and joyous noise. "It's pretty much half me playing instruments and half samples," he explains. "I think it confuses people as to what's what. Which is a good thing, if I can make them sit together so well that people don't know what I did and what I stole off records." Dan was brought up in a small town near Toronto and has played music as long as he can remember: "I lived out in the country so, until I got my licence and could drive to hang out with people, I was doing music most of the time," he says. "I stole a shitty little sampler off the high school I went to, that nobody was using. It had one secondís worth of memory on it and that's how I started doing electronic music, using basic equipment like that. And I've been doing it ever since."  This is his second album. His debut, Start Breaking My Heart, came out two years ago to a murmur of acclaim in the electronic music press. "My first album is more that Warp kind of thing, Aphex Twin, Boards Of Canada," he says, "Up In Flames still has some of those elements but, for me, the new thing is integrating that into a live band sound. Hopefully it doesn't just sound like a band, it's something weird and in the middle." "And that's something I was interested in capturing," he continues. "Because a lot of electronic music misses getting you excited because it doesn't have that energy or a feeling of building." Up In Flames is an anything-goes assault on your ears, freestyling layers of experimentation with a melodic sensibility. "I'm of the mucking around school of doing things" says Dan. And you can tell. Matt Walton 28 March 03 Up In Flames, released 31 March 03 on The Leaf Label.
dan snaith recommends Neutral Milk Hotel: "It's sort of similar sounding to me. They've got a lot of brass and drums and droney kinds of sounds, and it really is a massive sounding album. And, as well as being weird and woolly, it's also awesome pop songs the whole way through. It's one of my favourite albums."The End: "An album produced by Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones in the late 60s by a band called The End and it's called Introspection. It's a totally overlooked psychedelic masterpiece, again brilliant pop songs and awesome vocal harmonies, and perfectly produced." useful link: www.manitoba.fm The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. conversations
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