US-based Iranian DJ, producer and NXT event founder Mana Nabati – aka MANTi – is fast becoming one of the most exciting rising talents on the underground circuit. Crafting a unique and distinctive sound palette through an immersive education in Music Production and Sound Design at Point Blank Music School in LA, MANTi’s sonic journey is characterised by deep, melodic and atmospheric compositions that champion resonant basslines and vibrant synth work. Championed by some of the industry’s most respected tastemakers – from Âme and Jimi Jules to Innellea and Mind Against – her discography spans releases on a huge spread of leading labels including Automatik, ATLANT, Elektrons, Kiosk I.D., Marginalia, Zamna and Akumandra (to name a few). Now, twelve months on from the release of her critically acclaimed ‘Eureka’ EP, MANTi returns to Kater Blau’s Kiosk I.D. imprint with ‘Numa’ – a four-track EP that infuses her beautifully textured synth work and chord-crazed nostalgia with an eclectic rigour that transforms her hovering melodics into spaced-out dancefloor weapons.
"Numa is a genre-blurring EP that fuses groove, nostalgia, and experimentation. I wanted to explore new textures without losing dancefloor energy, from spaced-out melodics to percussion-heavy rollers," the artist tells us about her latest release, out today on Kiosk ID.
With ‘Numa’, MANTi delivers a diverse opus that fuses richly textured melodies with – you name it – Disco, Chord House, Breakbeat, and her own brand of percussive and tonal experimentation. The EP ends up both intimate and expansive; designed for dancefloors, rooted in sonic storytelling, and at the bleeding edge of dance music.
Numa, Shade, Halo and Ashes are the four tracks that make up her new project. “Every track is a different side of my sound, but they all come from the same core intention: movement with meaning,” she adds. Inviting us to delve into a sonic universe full of nuances injected with deep musicality and raw, stripped-back minimalism, this is just the beginning of a very exciting career for the artist, who consolidates her presence on the global scene with each new release and whose community of followers continues to grow all over the world.