Manuel De Lorenzi has been playing instruments and making music as long as he can remember. He honed his DJ skills with an early radio show and has since built up an international profile playing cult spots like Hoppetosse in Berlin, Cocoricò in Riccione and many of London’s best clubs. For the last 20 years, he has also been turning out fresh house, tech and dub on the likes of What NxT, Locus and Yoruba, but now he returns to the label he set up in 2013 with his friends Samuele Pirani and Paul DC.
The title track kicks off with loose, low-slung drums that hark back to classic Fresh & Low tech house. Warm pads bring the soul, and a melodic bassline is topped with r&b vocals that ache and tease. Remixer Andrea Giuliani is a prolific techno veteran with hundreds of releases to his name, all of them seamlessly shifting from refined deep minimal to more driving grooves. His take on ‘Time To Be Free’ has extra texture and is charged up with wiggy synth lines and acid prickles that reframe it as something for when the party gets more lively.
‘To The Moon’ is another atmospheric tech house sound full of heat, with fractured vocals lingering in the mix as sprinkled percussion and deep, rubbery kicks move the groove on. ‘The Warehouse’ is a more prickly cut with sharper percussion and a lively rhythm infused with wordless vocal coos to crank up the heat.
Manuel De Lorenzi’s ‘Time To Be Free’ comes via Monday Morning on 18th December 2026.
Tracklist
1. Manuel De Lorenzi – Time To Be Free
2. Manuel De Lorenzi – Time To Be Free (Andrea Giuliani Remix)
3. Manuel De Lorenzi – To The Moon
4. Manuel De Lorenzi – The Warehouse
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