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ZIQ458 DJ Manny - Hypnotized
17-11-2023
DJ Manny
Hypnotized
ZIQ458
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DJ Manny’s new album ‘Hypnotized’ is full of fresh ideas which push the footwork format of 160bpm hyper-rhythmic music in really enjoyable new directions. He builds on the romantic themes of his last album ‘Signals In My Head’ and evolves them with shades of blue, taking very natural sounding experimentation into new moods and musical colour while never making the album inaccessible. Arguably this is a fine successor to the ground broken by DJ Rashad’s ‘Double Cup’ album, which of course Manny also worked on. ‘Hypnotized’ solidifies Manny’s style, from relaxed r’n’b rollers to moments of romantic distress – like ‘WTF Goin On’ and the reflective ‘You N You (ft. DJ Phil)’, to more intense moments like the dubstep inflected ‘Ooh Baby’ from the vaults, co-produced by DJ Rashad himself. Other tracks like ‘Want U Bad’ retool Robert Hood style minimal techno whereas dark, nervous belters like ‘Turn Me Up’ sound like Paul Johnson at his most wild but welded to footwork rhythms and a pumping jump up drum & bass-line. There are also moments of enjoyably hype daftness like the acid and diva head-fuck of ‘Opera’ or the old school Bukem style jungle homage ‘Lost In Da Jungle’. ‘Hypnotized’ is an album that expands footwork’s template with natural ease and outstanding skill.

01 Hard Drive (ft. SUCIA!)
02 WTF Goin On
03 Hypnotized
04 Ooh Baby (ft. DJ Rashad)
05 I Can Luv U
06 You N You (ft. DJ Phil)
07 Overnight Flight
08 Want U Bad
09 Turn Me Up
10 Opera
11 Lost In Da Jungle
12 Deep In My Mind

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