DJ Manny's new album is full of fresh ideas which push the footwork format of 160bpm hyper-rhythmic music in really enjoyable new directions. 'Hypnotized' is an album that expands footwork's template with natural ease and outstanding skill.

Jlin’s Pulitzer Prize nominated ‘Perspective’ is a suite of compositions written for Chicago-based, Grammy-winning percussion ensemble Third Coast Percussion who have been performing it live for the last couple of years. Jlin is excited to release the original electronic versions of these works which TCP based their scores on. The results often sound more stark and alien than the acoustic performances let on. The CD format includes four previously vinyl-only bonus tracks from 2021’s Embryo EP.

DeForrest Brown Jr., the writer and producer behind Speaker Music describes Techxodus as "abstracting Blackness through information overload" or as he states in the first track "Black music that sounds technological, rather than music made with technology." On Techxodus, he stakes out the intersection of tech, Blackness and resistance via music he's performed live and edited, ordered and reassembled in the studio.

Saint Abdullah & Eomac is a long distance, ongoing collaboration between New York based Iranian-Canadian brothers Mohammad and Mehdi Mehrabani (Saint Abdullah) and Ian McDonnell a.k.a. Eomac, based in Wicklow in Ireland. They tested the waters with their first album on Nicolas Jaar’s Other People label last year, but ‘Chasing Stateless’ is their fullest expression so far. […]

Nondi_ is the alias of Tatiana Triplin, a US producer based in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, who also runs the net label HRR, releasing the music of friends and herself under various aliases. Her brother is the up and coming MC, Eem Triplin.

A five track reminder of DJ Manny's open-ended footwork before his next album drops. DJ Manny always finds very natural ways to stretch footwork into new shapes and moods. Enjoy the EP and look out for the album in November.