I’ve been friends with Matthew Schnipper (per bio: “writer, editor, and Depop dealer”) since well before this circa-’06 dancefloor photo was taken.
How’d we meet? “The internet.”
Why we’re still buds today? Matt is a wellspring of kind curiosity and enthusiasm for music, culture and humans in all forms.
A fellow traveller!
He’s gone from Kinko’s cut-and-paster (shout out anyone holding mid-aughts Schnipper’s zines, featuring themed, alphabetical life entries including “Record Collection” and “Things In My Parent's House”) to topping the mastheads of some of yr favorite publications.
Matt’s also the first person I know IRL to start a Substack. His aptly-named Deep Voices curates “underheard music with commentary,” and is always putting me on to sounds from the fringes and elsewhere.
In that spirit, he extended an invite to collaborate on a DV guest post, bringing new eyeballs to catchdini dot substack dot com (and vice versa). I suggested a theme of personal interest — cover songs! — and you can read it here in full.
Spoiler alert: Frente! is involved. I did not remember to shout out the nose ring.
Speaking of bottle-spinning, I’m sure this was on a geriatric millenial makeout playlist somewhere near you. I can smell the Gap Dream already (top notes: Osmanthus and Tangerine). “Bizarre Love Triangle” has the narcotizing quality of other alt-era slow jams, but less self harm-y than, like, Mazzy Star. They have an exclamation point in the name! The cassingle was pink! They’re Australian! (On that note, Triple J’s “Like A Version” series is an essential YouTube follow for fellow cover freaks. Slow jams a plenty, but my favorite might be Confidence Man's jock jam performance art).
The Wide World Of Spotify Poop Songs
“I’m The Juggernaut, Bitch!” — An Oral History
Vampire Weekend “Broken Washing Machine (Japanese Bonus Track)”
Da Beatminerz on Questlove Supreme podcast
Linden, NJ Visual Artist & Producer Frank Dorrey
1992 MTV Music Awards With Pre-Show + Commercials (4K Upscale)
Vincent, The Owl’s 100 Proof, produced by me (more in last week’s post) is dropping this Friday. Pre-save, jabroni!
Also, updating these playlists weekly…
Bonus beat: guest selections for Chromeo’s record label Juliet, “a safe space for funk.” Plus some backstory if you want it. I love these songs.