After popular releases on Ovum and Fresh Meat, New Yorker MANIK releases the My Machines EP on Bristol’s Four:Twenty label.
The My Machines collection starts with Fable, a gradually building collection of syncopated melodies over a simple percussion base, which progresses into a nicely restrained breakdown.
The wittily titled Aftermath Class is a simple, solid, deep house tool, with the acidity of the 303 line tempered by the warm synth riff that permeates the track. Rick Wade’s remix is less Detroit and more Miami as he beefs up the backing beats and adds an unnecessary generic vocal to the original.
Finally, Shutterfly, strips things back a bit, losing the US sound for something altogether more European, but without losing sight of the basic elements of melody and rhythm that typify the EP.