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An electronic producer and trained sound engineer his Resident Advisor biography calls "a nomad of modern times," Germany-based, folding instrumentation picked up on his travels into deep, organic, melodic house. "Man O To" first surfaced on Acid Pauli's Get Lost V in 2012 and became a slow-burning modern classic, later getting its own Crosstown Rebels single in 2017. The vocal is Iranian singer and actress Ghazal Shakeri, sampled from a recording by French film composer Armand Amar, singing a ghazal by the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi from the Divan-e Shams — the refrain "man-o to" simply means "you and I." The opening line translates roughly as "blessed is that moment when we sit together on the veranda, you and I; two forms and two faces, but one soul."

From the notes for Episode 02 · fact-checked Sep 23, 2026.