But I can't emphasize enough how this sounds literally nothing like the Dan Deacon I'm familiar with.

I bought this album, it pretty much sucks. Way overproduced/ sounds like every other EDM thing from lately. Which is too bad because he had a cool thing going.

OZ Weird! I also saw Deacon on one of the worst snowstorms of the year but in Milwaukee. I was working down the street so why not check it out, and I really liked Spiderman of the Rings. Anyway nobody showed up except for me and maybe 10 people, all of us (including Deacon) getting rather ripped probably all thinking of how the fuck we were going to make our way home. I mostly remember after the show, having the music stuck in my head and seeing a dune of snow that was at least 30 feet high that wasn't there before blocking my normal path home, and I climbed over that bitch because I knew I could, and if I didn't it'd make a cool obituary.

And personally I like this song but I mostly submitted it for the video :)

But I don't really get the "DM".. I mean, people can dance to it, and it's electronic so technically that is EDM, but I guess I think of it as electronic folk music (EFM?) or something, kinda like Tobacco or Chad Vangaalen (who does one of the animation sequences on here.)

Oh shit, you played with him, not just saw. Learn to read, IZ. I can't say that I've ever played a show with anybody who's risen to relative indie fame.. maybe Corinne Tucker Band and Federale but they're not really nationally known the way Sleater Kinney or Brian Jonestown Massacre are, and it was only two songs I was on :)

20 inches of snow in two hours. My whole band was snowed in but I live three blocks away so I walked down there with a guitar and an old rack delay with a hold function and did some ersatz Frippertronics that everyone else thought was better than I did, and the only people in the audience who didn't work there or play on the bill were the aunt of one of the people in the duo Dan came up with, and her friend. The headliner was this notoriously shitty hipster noise rock thing (their singer was also the drunk heckler) who stripped completely naked. The aunt and her friend loved it. One of the top 5 or 6 shows I've played.

I really want to find that tape because the music was good and all but mostly it showcases Dan Deacon's mastery of the iceburn.

This was right before he got really popular, by the next winter he was the Dan Deacon we all know.

I didn't play the SET with Dan Deacon, I just played the same show. I'm not that lucky! The closest I've come to actually playing WITH anyone famous is I used to play in a gamelan run by a guy from Bang On a Can for a few years, and he did the percussion arrangements for a bunch of Peter Gabriel stuff. But playing in a situation like that is more playing FOR than WITH.

So you're definitely ahead of me.

Cool! A good friend of mine up and left to teach English in Seoul. He DJed my wedding and things like that in Wisconsin, but I guess he's gotten pretty big on the EDM scene since he went there. Anyway it's a big city and I haven't been in contact with him for years, but if you run into a tall black dude with dreads named Dante, he's one of the coolest guys in the world (and makes the best fucking bloody mary you'll ever have), and tell him hi from an old friend.

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Yep! That's him! Small world :)