North East music maker Man Power drops three cheeky edits that pay homage to Suzanne Vega, Queen and Simple Minds.
Geoff Kirkwood aka Man Power is a music lover. From writing symphonies, running club nights in social clubs, performing at Boiler Room to running his label Me Me Me with Gabriel Day, Kirkwood is enamoured with music. So, when we see on his socials he’s dropped an edit series, of course we got keen as mustard.
Man Power has released music on Skint, Four Thirty Two, Echocentric Records, Throne of Blood and many more. His total ‘normality’ is one of the Newcastle-champion’s strong points. Staying at arms length from the media merry go-around that becomes many ‘pro’ DJ’s. Kirkwood keeps his career factual, there’s little peacocking, it’s just a man with a lust for good music. What else do you need? And for this we love Man Power, a true hero of our scene.
I’m just someone who loves music and who enjoys his job, but I also enjoy other things in life, so I just try to be as truthful as I can be online.” Man Power
This new volume of ‘Talent Borrows (Genius Steals)’ sees Man Power in a mischievous, audacious kink. First up he touches up Suzanne Vega’s 1982 classic ‘Tom’s Diner‘. The flip is a sort of electro, B-Boy loving beat that is heavyset whilst bringing its own sombre piano chords to the proceedings. Queen in 1989 we’re in top form and ‘The Invisible Man‘ was a heralded pop tune and here Man Power utilises Deacon’s bulbous bass line and adds twangs of his own indications to really flavour this rolling cadence.The third and final track is Simple Minds’ 1985 classic ‘Sanctify Yourself’. A near perfect track in its original form. Yet somehow Man Power manages to impress us with this edit that takes it to a level of user-friendliness we would never had dared dream of. If we don’t hear this across myriads of dance floors, they’ll be hell to pay. We love you Man Power, don’t ever change.
The ‘Talent Borrows (Genius Steals) Vol 2’ EP is out now to buy via his Bandcamp here.
