Man Recordings

06/06/2026

We are super happy to annonuce the release of ´s new single, „Abaixe“!

The tune draws inspiration from the legendary flute motif of Banda de Pífanos de Caruaru, a hypnotic fragment of Northeastern Brazilian folklore that recently reached new audiences through Kleber Mendonça Filho’s film The Secret Agent.

The title, Portuguese for “get down” or “go lower,” captures the track’s dancefloor spirit: a call to crouch low before the beat sends the crowd skyward.

For his version, Daniel took the traditional theme into tropical sound system territory. Heavy sub-bass, rolling percussion and cinematic drums meet haunting female choir vocals and baile funk-inspired horns, transforming the raw pífano melody into a euphoric club anthem. The flute parts are performed by Ori Kaplan of Balkan Beat Box, adding another layer of cross-cultural exchange.

Rooted in Pernambuco tradition yet built for peak-time dancefloors, “Abaixe” bridges folk ritual and modern club energy in unmistakable Haaksman style. This will be heard on many festivals to come!

Already flying out of our Bandcamp shop, the tune received early DJ support by Peter Kruder, Nickodemus, Tash LC, Jeremy Sole, Batida, Papaoul, Emily Dust, DJ Tom Bignon, Telefunksoul ++++

1. The cover of „Abaixe“
2. Ori Kaplan on the flutes
3. Voice processing in the studio
4. Daniel adding some vocal spice
5. Tje Pifanos De Cuararu song tha inspired „Abaixe“

Out now in all shops and on all DSPs! Link in bio!

05/06/2026

Out now, the new DANIEL HAAKSMAN single "Abaixe"!

“Abaixe” draws inspiration from the legendary flute motif of Banda de Pífanos de Caruaru, a hypnotic fragment of Northeastern Brazilian folklore that recently reached new audiences through Kleber Mendonça Filho’s film The Secret Agent.

The title, Portuguese for “get down” or “go lower,” captures the track’s dancefloor spirit: a call to crouch low before the beat sends the crowd skyward.

For his version, Daniel takes the traditional theme into tropical sound system territory. Heavy sub-bass, rolling percussion and cinematic drums meet haunting female choir vocals and baile funk-inspired horns, transforming the raw pífano melody into a euphoric club anthem. The flute parts are performed by Ori Kaplan of Balkan Beat Box, adding another layer of cross-cultural exchange.

Rooted in Pernambuco tradition yet built for peak-time dancefloors, “Abaixe” bridges folk ritual and modern club energy in unmistakable Haaksman style. This will be heard on many festivals to come!

Early DJ support by Peter Kruder, Nickodemus, Tash LC, Jeremy Sole, Batida, Papaoul, Emily Dust, DJ Tom B ++++

Download it, stream it from here:

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15/04/2026

We just found a box with some deadstock vinyls from our back catalogue, including 6 copies of the much sought after catalogue number Man 03, D.M. Project‘s „Habibi“ from 2005.

Grab the last - factory sealed - copies from our Bandcamp page!

06/02/2026

Mário Lúcio is a celebrated Cape Verdian artist known for blending traditional island rhythms with contemporary global sounds. A musician, poet, and cultural ambassador, Mário Lúcio brings deep historical and social awareness into his music. His track “Tema Di Minis” showcases his ability to transform Cape Verde’s musical heritage into a modern, soulful listening experience. The song draws on Cape Verdian rooted rhythms and melodic storytelling. It features rich vocal percussions and a warm chorus that sings about „Dexa Meninos Brincar“ (Kreol for „Let The Boys Play“) creating an atmosphere that feels both intimate and expansive.

In the brand new Daniel Haaksman edit of “Tema Di Minis” tradition and innovation are balanced, making it accessible to new audiences while honoring its roots. The new, dancefloor ready edit is ideal for DJs seeking authentic sounds with emotional depth and rhythmic sophistication.

The „Tema Di Minis“ edit aligns perfectly with other releases in the acclaimed „Black Atlantica Edits“ series by Daniel Haaksman, which already included reworks for artists such as Super Mama Djombo, Victoria Santa Cruz, Fernando Falcão and Pinduca amongst others.

Early DJ support from DJ Marfox, Batida, DJ Kampire, Papaoul, Toshio Matsuura +++

Link in bio!

Now play it out loud!

06/02/2026

Mário Lúcio Sousa is a celebrated Cape Verdian artist known for blending traditional island rhythms with contemporary global sounds. A musician, poet, and cultural ambassador, Mário Lúcio brings deep historical and social awareness into his music. His track “Tema Di Minis” showcases his ability to transform Cape Verde’s musical heritage into a modern, soulful listening experience. The song draws on Cape Verdian rooted rhythms and melodic storytelling. It features rich vocal percussions and a warm chorus that sings about "Dexa Meninos Brincar" (Kreol for "Let The Boys Play") creating an atmosphere that feels both intimate and expansive.

In the brand new DANIEL HAAKSMAN edit of “Tema Di Minis” tradition and innovation are balanced, making it accessible to new audiences while honoring its roots. The new, dancefloor ready edit is ideal for DJs seeking authentic sounds with emotional depth and rhythmic sophistication.

The „Tema Di Minis“ edit aligns perfectly with other releases in the acclaimed „Black Atlantica Edits“ series by Daniel Haaksman, which already included reworks for artists such as Super Mama Djombo, Victoria Santa Cruz, Fernando Falcão and Pinduca amongst others.

Early DJ support from DJ Marfox, Batida, DJ Kampire, Papaoul, Toshio Matsuura +++

Now play it out loud!
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Now play it out loud!

06/10/2025

Episode #13 in the 20 Years Of Man Recordings series is my album „With Love, From Berlin“, which was released in 2019.

After years of working with artists from abroad, particularly Brasil, I decided to look into my own city of Berlin for Non-German talent. Earlier I had noticed that in the 2010s, more and more people from around the world had moved to Berlin, it wouldn´t just be US or UK expats, but people from Portugal, Peru, Mexico amongst others, that were all acting in the local music scene or had international careers, but operating out of Berlin. So I kicked off a Berlin artist only album which resulted in „With Love, From Berlin“ conceived as ten musical postcards from the German capitol that would reflect on the city more and more becoming an international city.

For my album I chose to work with which´s music I had admired for years, our collabo resulted in „Corpo / Sujeito“, which later was famously remixed by then hardly know Kelman Duran. Another hit single from the album was „La Añoranza“ for which I asked the then only locally known DJ Coco Maria to sing. In one our first session, Coco Maria asked me and my co-producer Jamie Anderson to leave the studio - she was too shy to sing in front of people! Additionally, Balkan Beat Box wind master Ori Kaplan and temporary Berliner, , contributed a stunning flute lick and Felipe of added some keyboard wizzardy which rounded up the tune perfectly. All in all, we created a Latin pop tune which has been streamed more than 1.2 million times since its release. Other collabos in the album featured + .zia, + She´s Drunk, œ and Tikiman aka Paul St. Hilaire.

16/09/2025

DANIEL HAAKSMAN war heute live on air bei Deutschlandfunk Kultur und hat über 20
Jahre Man Recordings gesprochen.

https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/die-avantgarde-der-globalen-clubmusik-20-jahre-man-recordings-100.html

04/09/2025

Eposide #12 in the 20 Years Of Man Recordings series is the version of „Porque Te Vas“ ft. . It came out exactly five years ago, during the peak of the Covid pandemic in August 2020, and a little bit more than one and a half years after the release of their underground hit single “La Añoranza”, the first collaboration Daniel made with Coco Maria, Dengue Dengue Dengue and Ori Kaplan.

Building on the underground success of “La Añoranza” (+1M streams on Spotify), Daniel asked Coco Maria for a new vocal contribution to one of his personal all time favourite songs, the 1978 classic “Por Que Te Vas” (Spanish for “Because you are leaving“), originally sung by Jeanette. A romantic ballad, it deals with the pain of parting. Its lyrics speak of a loss, of an abandonment and have been described as conveying a sense of longing. For Coco Maria, the song also reflected on her relocation from Berlin to Amsterdam in early 2020 and her initial longing to Berlin. Through Coco Maria ́s subtle voice and my trance-synths carried arrangement and dembow groove, the new version gave the classic a fresh, 21st century update. Fast forward to 2025 and Coco Maria has become a much in demand selectora that travels the world with her record box, spinning rare Latin records.



1. „Porque Te Vas“ 2025, model: Tomer

2. „Porque Te Vas“ music video

3. Coco Maria + Daniel in the studio, 2019

4. Coco Maria + Daniel 2025

19/08/2025

#11 in the 20 Years Of Man Recordings series is the album „African Fabrics“ from 2016.

While travelling to Southern Africa, namely Angola, Moçambique and South Africa, as well as Nigeria for workshops between 2012-2015 Daniel heard incredibly new local sounds on his journeys. When in Luanda in 2012 and 2013 he was witnessing first hand the emergence of post kwaito afro house from South Africa pouring into Angola which led to the emergence of the new hybrid ku house, mixing up kuduro with afro house. When in Lagos, he heard the first afrobeats tracks. And on a trip to Maputo, he went to a pandza dance party which blew his mind. Of course, these new sounds emerging from across Africa had an effect to what he was Djing and producding and inspired him to create „African Fabrics“, his artistic response to what was happening at that time across Africa. During this time, Daniel also became more aware of colonial history and particularly German colonial history, thus creating the track and video „Rename The Streets“, inspired by taking part on a „Postkolonialer Spaziergang“ (postcolonial walk) through the Afrikanische Viertel in Berlin, where streets names were still called after German colonial thugs.

Daniel called the album „African Fabrics“ as he had learned that the African wax prints often thought of being „authentic African“, were in fact a product of globalisation and an invention by Dutch merchants who appropriated the technique of wax printing in Indonesia and then imported their wax prints to the West African coast. The title seemed approriate to Daniel as it embodied the non local, globe spanning, cross pollination music approach he had been cultivating for years as an artist and label head. The artwork for the album and the singles was provided by , who disguised his trademark „razzle dazzle“ designs as African wax prints.

1. Kim + Emily holding African Fabrics cover in Berlin, August 2025

2. „Sabado“ ft. video excerpt

3. „Rename The Streets“ video excerpt

4. „Akabongi“ ft. + video excerpt

5. „Xinguila“ ft. video excerpt

01/08/2025

Episode #10 in the 20 Years Of Man Recordings series is MC Tha´s „Bonde Da Pantera“

First released in 2017 on the „Baile Saboroso“ EP by the temporary transatlantic team up of boss producers Múlu (BR) and (FR), „Bonde Da Pantera“ ft. soon became a radio and streaming hit as it brought baile funk to the lounge floor. During this period, a new genre named „baile chill“ had emerged on the internet, particuarly on Soundcloud, and „Bonde Da Pantera“ was the most elaborated tune in the chill version of funk with a romantic, yet not cheesy flavour.

„Bonde Da Pantera“´s sweet marimba chords and vocal chops were giving the track a late summery vibe ideal to listen to while enjoying a last agua de coco on the beach or making love on a water bed. The song featured the sensual and sassy lyrics of then upcoming São Paulo vocalist MC Tha, who today is considered one of the major female voices in contemporary Brazilian music. Just last week, Tha released a collaboration with fellow Man Recordings alumni and



1. Bonde Da Pantera in Rio, January 2025

2. Music video for „Bonde Da Pantera“

3. Mulú + King Doudou