Venezuelan-born, Brooklyn-based DJ and producer Manu Miran has made his debut as a recording artist with 'Bang U', out now as the 17th release on cross-border imprint Muy Muy Limited. The EP marks a significant first for Miran, who has spent years building himself as a fixture of New York's queer underground as a DJ, curator, and disability advocate before ever putting out music of his own.
The title track is a hypnotic, slow-burning piece built around rolling percussion, layered drum grooves, and subtle low-end pressure. It unfolds with patient restraint before releasing a bright, progressive chord pattern that lifts the track to ecstatic peaks. Beneath its stripped back framework sits an unexpected emotional depth, working equally well on a late-night dancefloor and in an open-air moment of collective release.
The EP arrives with two remixes. Mexico City producer Kodemul delivers a driving, propulsive, forward-thinking take rooted in industrial and Latin-inflected club music. Label head Perfect Lovers takes a more understated path, channeling smoky after-hours energy with a melodic remix that sounds like the sun starting to come through the window.
Miran's path to this moment runs directly through his work as a community builder. He founded Visceral, a Cambridge, MA-based interdisciplinary techno platform dedicated to radical inclusivity for POC, LGBTQ+, and disabled people. Since relocating to New York City in 2021, he has become a regular presence at Basement, Por Detroit, Battle Hymn, and The Spectrum, with additional appearances at Nowadays, Refuge, Signal, Public Records, and Paragon. He has held peaktime slots at queer techno festivals including Honcho Campout, Somos, and Ladyland, and has toured London, Berlin, Paris, Marseille, Amsterdam, Bangkok, Hanoi, Buenos Aires, Lima, and Mexico City.
None of that work came with a record until now. Miran has always moved through these spaces as a DJ and organizer, someone who showed up for the culture before asking anything back. 'Bang U' is the moment he steps to the other side of it.
The release lands on Muy Muy Limited, run by Perfect Lovers and LA nightlife staple Victor Rodriguez. The label focuses on Latin American producers making some of today's most interesting music, artists who often get bypassed by Euro-centric and American scenes, while organizing community-centric events in Mexico City, LA, and Montreal centered on the underground, trans people, femmes, weirdos, freaks, and allies.
'Bang U' is available now via Muy Muy Limited.
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