What actually got added to "Butterfly"?
On September 25, Daphni quietly reissued "Butterfly" as an expanded edition on Jiaolong, his own imprint. No lead single, no pre-save campaign, no countdown clock, just a Bandcamp upload that nearly doubles the record: 16 tracks become 29, and a tight 58-minute album turns into something closer to two hours. The additions lean heavily on remix work, with new versions from Kelbin, Peder Mannerfelt, Pär Grindvik, BRUX and Aasthma folded in alongside the original tracklist.
Why hand it to Peder Mannerfelt and Pär Grindvik?
This is the part that separates the expanded "Butterfly" from a standard remix-pack cash grab. Mannerfelt and Grindvik aren't chart names chasing a sync deal, they're two of Stockholm's most respected techno lifers, the kind of producers who get booked to push a dancefloor somewhere strange rather than fill an arena. Handing them, and Kelbin, BRUX and Aasthma, unreleased space on a Dan Snaith record is a statement about who Daphni is talking to: not a pop audience looking for a hook, but the same underground rooms that shaped the album in the first place.
Why go back to an album five months after it shipped?
"Butterfly" arrived February 6, Daphni's first LP since 2022's "Cherry" and the first Daphni record with Snaith actually singing on it. He built much of it around a single night at Open Ground in Wuppertal, a club he described as close to his idea of a perfect room, and tested most of the material there before it was even mixed. Coming back to double the tracklist five months later, without fanfare, reads less like a marketing cycle and more like an artist who wasn't finished with the material, or the room, yet.
"The platonic ideal of the kind of club I'd want to play in."
