Mix of the Old new wave from the dancing day at the Cafe and Ivy.

Dj Baby Manny's Old Wave mix

	
Some DJs get along just fine by simply spinning the dance hits of the moment and eliciting reflex “WOOO!s” from the audience. DJ Baby Manny digs a lot deeper than that. Baby Manny was born in India and reached adolescence in London during the aftermath of the punk rock explosion and the early days of industrial music. He’s been a denizen of Fairfield County’s clubs and sub rosa hot spots for over two decades, soaking up emerging house and trance sounds in the late ’80s and hobnobbing with groundbreaking DJs of that era (including Darien native Moby, naturally). When the phenomenon of underground raves went viral throughout the northeast in the early ’90s, Baby Manny was there, spinning cutting-edge dance music at huge parties just off the public radar. When the underground party scene grew too big to be underground anymore, Baby Manny took his act to the clubs, helping introduce house and trance music to dance clubs of Fairfield County. Nowadays he works clubs in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey, spinning music of and inspired by the dance music underground and the industrial and electronica movements. Yes, Baby Manny’s tastes land on the alt- side of things. But as a DJ, one has to excite audiences — and not just niche audiences — to keep those gigs coming. He’s been exposing crowds to the alt- end of dance music for years, whether they’ve intended to be exposed to those sounds or not, and they’ve liked it. That’s one mark of a good DJ — play something that not all of the assembled audience has heard before, and make them love you for it.

—Brian LaRue (Fairfield Weekly)

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