Canadian electronic musician, Dan ‘Caribou’ Snaith, has been committed to a mental institution following a diagnosis of multiple personality disorder.
The musician’s condition became apparent to friends only after a shooting incident in which Mr. Snaith shot himself in his own face.
“I’m not that surprised to be honest. I’ve known Dan since he was calling himself Manitoba,” explained close friend, Four Tet. “I think Manitoba, looking back, was his first experimentation with multiple personalities. I think he felt subconsciously that if he made an alter ego for himself he’d be able to do some of the things that maybe he was scared of or had repressed desires for but couldn’t act on them.”
“Around about the time of his Daphni releases I knew something was up,” continued Four Tet. “He started behaving a lot differently under the Daphni moniker. His tracks were a lot more muscular and dark. Real dance floor club tracks. It was like Daphni was able to make the harder, dirtier tracks that Caribou couldn’t.”
Mr. Snaith however initially claimed that Daphni was a different guy who he met on a plane, “I met Daphni on a flight and we had the same briefcase so began talking. We became friends, I moved in with him, he taught me how to make shower gel and then eventually he explained to me his ‘Night Club’ idea and things really began to change pace in my life.”
Four Tet claims that Caribou and Daphni were responsible for creating a highly secretive, nationwide underground dancing club known as ‘Night Club’. “He had all of these rules to keep it underground. Like the first rule of Night Club was that you don’t talk about Night Club. Things like that.”
In the lead up to the shooting incident Caribou claims that he couldn’t locate Daphni and was effectively cut out of the Night Club set up. “Things were getting out of hand,” claimed Mr. Snaith. “Daphni was going further and further with his ideas. It got to the point where we were effectively an underground army committing pranks and acts of vandalism.”
“In trying to find Daphni I travelled from city to city following his steps and everything felt incredibly familiar. Like I had been there before. It was around this time that the penny dropped and I realised that I was Daphni,” recounted Mr. Snaith. “Daphni wasn’t some guy I met, it was some guy I made up to do things that I couldn’t. He talks like how I want to talk, he fucks like how I want to fuck and dances how I want to dance.”
Mr. Snaith then claims that as Daphni he had planned to blow up some mainstream nightclubs and that in order to stop Daphni he had to turn a gun on himself. “I knew that was the only was to destroy him, or me. Or whatever. If he was just some guy in my head then I should just shoot myself in my head. So I did and miraculously lived. Immediately after the shooting my friend Marla convinced me to seek professional help and so I voluntarily committed myself to recover from the experience.”
Four Tet claimed that Mr. Snaith is now working through his issues and has even written a screenplay about his experiences of setting up an underground Night Club with his own alter-ego. “There’s never been anything like that done before. David Fincher is said to be really, really interested.”
