Don Ruijgrok is the winner of Vinylized, a famous annual Dutch producer contest in co-operation with Amsterdam Dance Event. The winner gets studio time at SAE + his release on vinyl.

Next to Don’s outstanding original we are proud to present remixes by Zoutman, Mladen Tomic and Locomatica. All mixes are melodic and warm, as is the trademark sound for Manual Music, but they all bring a different approach to the table, making this a package which includes something for everyone!

Early support by Bart Skils, Nick Warren, Pole Folder, Daniel Mehes, Paul Hazendonk, Dance Department, Anthony Pappa, Dibby Dougherty, Daniel Sanchez, Alexi Delano, Cora Novoa, Eelke Kleijn, Remy and many others!

Some might know him as DJ Stephen, resident DJ of the infamous Amsterdam club iT, others might know him from his techno alter ego Stefanowitz (on our sublabel Stolen Moments in the near future), but most of you will know him from his strong releases on Anjunadeep under his Stephen J. Kroos alter ego.

It’s obvious that we are very proud to welcome this veteran on board at Manual Music with this full on 5 track release!

Deep, moody, warm and cleverly produced tracks that find the middle between techhouse and techno, but also suitable for the prog lovers out there, this is a very versatile package. Enjoy!

Early support by Estroe, Remy, Eelke Kleijn, Dance Department, Dibby Dougherty, Paul Hazendonk, DJ3000, Daniel Mehes, Francesco Pico and many others!

We welcome the very talented Miroslav Pavlovic on board on Melomane. He drops the huge techhouse bomb ‘I’m Melting Myself’ which will cause some major dancefloor damage for sure!

Especially for this release we had arranged a remix contest, and it’s with great pride that we introduce to you the contest winners Miss Soulfly (Croatia), Darkrow (Spain) and Nachtbraker (NL)!

An interesting package with something which will appeal to everyone, with early support by Marco Carola, Mladen Tomic, Paul Hazendonk, Daniel Mehes, Tyler Stadius, Ille Bitch, Francesco Pico and many more!

If you have seen the video for ‘Lair’ you must have been wondering how the story continues.. Wait no longer, the story continues here in the official video of Spada’s ‘Green’ track! Both ‘Lair’ and ‘Green’ are taken from the ‘Affin To You EP’ which is in stores now!

For the people in Germany:
Due to the issues between rights organisations GEMA and Youtube you can’t watch the Youtube video. Especially for you we’ve uploaded the video to Vimeo. You can check out the video here: http://www.vimeo.com/30186659

Some of you might have already heard that we are taking care of digital distribution for some labels. ‘Some’ labels rapidly became 60 labels at current and growing rapidly, so we’ve decided it’s time to tell the world about it, as it seems there is a need for a solid digital distributor who doesn’t rip people off with strange deals and taking high percentages of sales.

Manual Distribution delivers releases to all the main digital download stores. We do not deliver music to 30 or 50 useless stores, our philosophy is to send your releases to the important and selling stores only, stores which are either important to be on for the statue of your label, and/or stores that are willing to put some effort in promoting your music and releases.

To give you an idea: we currently take care of distribution for labels like Cinematique, Wide Angle, Trouw, Dubmetrical, Nightbird Music, Atonal, Comport Records, Silhouette Music, Maktub Music, Epsilon Trax and many many others.

If you want to find out more you can drop us an e-mail and/or visit the webpage and freshly created official Facebook page.

Irish techno don Matador has been on fire lately with releases on numerous infamous techno labels such as 1605, Sleaze, Rekluse, Harthouse, Perc Trax, Brood Audio, Open Records, Trapez, Phobiq, Excentric Muzik and many others.

After having done a track and a remix for big sister label Manual Music, Matador now drops a full new release on Stolen Moments, presenting the ‘Blond Slackers’ and ‘Valrhona’ tracks. You might recognise the ‘Blond Slackers’ track as it was featured on Paul Hazendonk’s latest ‘Sound Shifting’ mix compilation.

On remix duties we welcome back Hypertic on Stolen Moments, and welcome a new face on the label: Birmingham based DJ and very talented producer Rebekah!

Early support by Surgeon, Hernan Cattaneo, Tommy Four Seven, Coyu, Angel Molina, Anderson Noise, Perc, Alan Fitzpatrick, Dustin Zahn and many others!

We welcome back Spada on Manual Music after last years’ highly acclaimed Happiness EP.

After the great success of previous Manual Music releases and adding the fact that Spada is now also releasing on infamous labels such as Traum, Flash, Natura Sonoris, it’s not more then logical that expectations are high for this one. We think Spada has outdone himself once again with these four outstanding brand new tracks. Fresh, versatile, clever and skilfully produced, this is nothing less of essential!

Judge for yourself..

With a carreer of 10+ years, releases on infamous labels such as CR2, RG Electronics, Sneakerz Muzik, Pescado Recordings, MN2S, Spinnin, Hardsoul, Peppermint Jam and many many others, and DJ gigs all over this entire globe we call planet earth, DJ Jeroenski is not one who needs a big introduction. It is with no doubt that we are honored to have him on board on our Melomane label, presenting his brand new single ‘U Are’.

‘U Are’ is less mainstream when you compare it to his usual work, but still easy on the ear with crossover genre potential. A real treat for the dancefloor! Label founders Furrr and Hazendonk dip the track in their trademark bouncey funk stylo, whilst Discojack (Gramma Rec.) goes for the more straight forward big room approach.

Early support by a wide range of DJ’s from Nick Warren till Born To Funk and from Daniel Mehes till Ille Bitch!