Peanut Butter Wolf

Founder of Stone’s Throw Records, Chris Manak first started making a name for himself DJ’ing under the name Peanut Butter Wolf. While the success of Stone’s Throw has been continually growing, Peanut Butter Wolf continues to produce new albums and tour around the world to give his fans the best damn show he possibly can.

Watching a live set done by Peanut Butter Wolf is watching a master artist at his craft. Every switch, every button switch, all the timing is done with such precision and complete concentration; all the while he is still very in tune with the environment going on around him. Behind him, a visual video of animation, extraction of other videos, all things that are very much a part of the show as the music is. It is a production work, meticulously planned and carried out. The abstraction of his music is met by the artist styling that he sets up around him, and produces with his music. While people give a lot of flack to DJ’s not really being artists because they are not instrumentalists are proven very wrong when you watch Peanut Butter Wolf for the first time. Each piece fits together as a formula embodied by his music.