Rising producer Textbook Maneuver is gearing up to unveil his first release of 2026: a single named ‘Murmur 3 Home (Radio Edit)’, which lands on January 23rd alongside a dreamy music video via his Life Science Records imprint. With nearly 150,000 streams across platforms to date, Textbook Maneuver has steadily drawn the attention of the global IDM and experimental electronic community. Most notably, his track ‘Adrenaline Slip’ was recently remixed by the legendary µ‑Ziq, premiering on the globally renowned Wonderland Magazine. Interviews with Magnetic Magazine, Illustrate Magazine, features on House Music With Love, Vicious Magazine, WWAM (We Write About Music), Music For All (Brazil), and Good Music Radar have already highlighted the project’s immersive debut album Adrenaline Slip (2025). It is clear that Textbook Maneuver is emerging as one of experimental electronic music’s most intriguing new figures.
Michael Keane is the Bronx-born, New Jersey-based composer behind the Textbook Maneuver alias. A classically trained pianist with a punk DIY heart, Keane blends cerebral sound design with cinematic storytelling, drawing from a wide palette of influences that stretch from Genesis (Duke era), Rush, and Gary Numan to The Postal Service, U.N.K.L.E., and Phantogram. Under the Textbook Maneuver moniker, his releases balance the intellectual curiosity of IDM with the emotional resonance of ambient and prog-influenced electronica, offering soundscapes fit for film, television, and interactive media. His music thrives on improvisation and sonic experimentation, refusing easy classification while remaining deeply accessible. With critics comparing his sound to Jon Hopkins and Nils Frahm, listeners are sure to hear echoes of Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis, and Aphex Twin in his latest track.
‘Murmur 3 Home (Radio Edit)’ departs from the wintery atmospheres of Textbook Maneuver’s recent tracks, launching into the stratosphere and beyond in an astral burst of twinkling pads, airy synths, and flickering rhythms. The track moves through an odyssey of whimsy and wonder – and finally, a gently glimmering end. The accompanying video moves through a plethora of everyday images and scenes, from suburban driveways to people embracing to piano keys, coating it all in a vivid wash of pink, orange, and blue hues which pixelate and shift in a dreamy haze.
Textbook Maneuver told us: “‘Murmur 3 Home’ closes out the debut album, Adrenaline Slip, and is the coda to the unofficial ‘Space Trip’ suite. I composed this song while trying to imagine the feeling of what it must be like to be home after an overextended scientific journey into orbit. I feel it also works well for any conclusion of time away from loved ones due to work or tragedy. There is an element of joy, followed by relief, then just an emotional release upon fully realizing the trip is over, and then it just fades.”
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