M.A.N.

M.A.N. first formed in 2004, although had being talked about between it's two members both called Andy for at least two or three years before when one night round at Andy N (Music and some words)'s house during a sound testing, Andy M (Vocals) started coming out with this brilliant vocals almost out of nowhere and before the pair of them knew it that night they had recorded their first few tracks.

Their brief originally was not serious - Andy N wanted to have some fun away from DIH (where he still does the vocals) and try and do something slightly more light hearted and in some cases softer.

Andy M at the time was involved in a folk group called 'Plain Jain' and co-formed August sometime later after the collapse of 'Plain Jain' with whom he still works with on keyboards and backing vocals (although he is currently working in South Korea so that is on hold at the moment).

M.A.N. however is different from both of any of the projects that either do otherwise, as although it has the spoken words structure of DIH, the structure of the songs themselves are much more freer and looser, perhaps close to a mixture of Boards of Canada meets Air or The Chemical Brothers with Andy's sometimes improvised vocals.

Their debut album 'Journeys' came out in 2004 and it was also around about this point that M.A.N. also started contributing to the DIH and friends at Christmas and have contributed to several of these albums since.

Their second album simply entitled 'M.A.N.' followed in 2006 on Hallo Excentrico as well as a two separate remix albums of the track 'Narnia'.

M.A.N. is currently on hold with Andy M (Vocals) teaching in South Korea although their third full album 'From a Boy' should be getting released in 2008 or 2009.

Albums

'Journeys'

available for FREE DOWNLOAD from
on http://www.archive.org/details/journeysman

's/t'
available for FREE DOWNLOAD from
on http://www.archive.org/details/hemp019

Mis Releases

'Off the Cuff'

available for FREE DOWNLOAD from
on http://www.archive.org/details/manoffthecuff

'Narnia remix (Minimal Impact Remix)'

available for FREE DOWNLOAD from
on http://www.archive.org/details/manoffthecuff

'Narnia remixes'
available for FREE DOWNLOAD from
http://www.archive.org/details/hemp021

'Christmas with M.A.N.'
available for FREE DOWNLOAD from
http://www.archive.org/details/hemp030

M.A.N. appeared on the track 'What Not to Do If
You Get Married on Christmas Eve'
on DIH and friends's 'Wedding Ep'
available for FREE DOWNLOAD from
http://www.archive.org/details/hemp020

Several M.A.N. tracks appeared on a interview
Andy N did discussing his music projects
which can be found here

http://www.archive.org/details/andyliveoncolllitspotfeb08

'Let's talk about Sex' is on appear on the comp
'Let's talk about Sex'
Available for FREE download here

http://digitalvomit.wikidot.com/dvr012

A couple of M.A.N. tracks can be sampled here

http://web.mac.com/joneve/The_Peregrine_Muse/v.html