Artist's albums
Flashdance (feat. Man Parrish)
2023 · single
Space Oddity (Man Parrish Mix)
2023 · single
Turned On
2022 · album
Johnny Are You Queer?
2022 · single
Native Love
2022 · single
Pull Up To The Bumper
2022 · single
The Art Of Pop / Volume 2
2022 · album
Riders In The Storm
2021 · single
SHIT CAKE RECIPE (Man Parrish Remix Collaboration)
2021 · single
Popcorn
2020 · single
Axel F (Theme from Beverly Hills Cop)
2020 · single
Super Nature
2020 · single
The Model
2020 · single
Warm Leatherette
2020 · single
The Visitors
2020 · single
The Chase
2020 · single
Can't Get You Out of My Head
2020 · single
IOU
2020 · single
Relax
2020 · single
Vogue
2020 · single
Just Can't Get Enough
2020 · single
Tainted Love
2020 · single
Moskow Diskow
2020 · single
Flashdance
2020 · single
Give You Everything (Man Parrish Remix)
2019 · single
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Biography
Although he produced only a handful of tracks of renown and disappeared into obscurity almost as quickly as he had emerged from it, Manny Parrish is nonetheless one of the most important and influential figures in American electronic dance music. Helping to lay the foundation of electro, hip-hop, freestyle, and techno, as well as the dozens of subgenres to splinter off from those, Parrish introduced the aesthetic of European electronic pop to the American club scene by combining the plugged-in disco-funk of Giorgio Moroder and the man-machine music of Kraftwerk with the beefed-up rhythms and cut'n'mix approach of nascent hip-hop. As a result, tracks like "Hip-Hop Be Bop (Don't Stop)" and "Boogie Down Bronx" were period-defining works that provided the basic genetic material for everyone from Run-D.M.C. and the Beastie Boys to Autechre and Andrea Parker -- and they remain undisputed classics of early hip-hop and electro to this day. A native New Yorker, Parrish was a member of the extended family of glam-chasers and freakazoids that converged nightly at Studio 54. His nickname, Man, first appeared in Andy Warhol's Interview magazine, and his early live shows at Bronx hip-hop clubs were spectacles of lights, glitter, and pyrotechnics that drew as much from the Warhol mystique as from the Cold Crush Brothers. Influenced by the electronic experiments of Klaus Nomi and Brian Eno as well as by Kraftwerk, Parrish together with Raúl Rodríguez recorded their best-known work in a tiny studio sometimes shared with Afrika Bambaataa, whose own sessions with Arthur Baker and John Robie produced a number of classics equal to Parrish's own, including "Wildstyle," "Looking for the Perfect Beat," and the famous "Planet Rock." What distinguished "Hip-Hop Be Bop," however, was its lack of vocals and the extremely wide spectrum of popularity it gained in the club scene, from ghetto breakdance halls to uptown clubs like Danceteria and the Funhouse. After he discovered a pirated copy of his music being played by a local DJ, Parrish found his way to the offices of the Importe label (a subsidiary of popular dance imprint Sugarscoop), with whom he inked his first deal. He released his self-titled LP shortly after, and the album went on to sell over two million copies worldwide. Following a period of burn-out, Parrish recorded and remixed tracks for Michael Jackson, Boy George, Gloria Gaynor, and Hi-NRG group Man 2 Man, among others, and served as road manager for the Village People. While Parrish's subsequent material achieved nowhere near the success or creative pitch of his earlier work, he continued to record from his Brooklyn studio and has been a frequent DJ at New York S&M clubs. His second LP, Dreamtime, appeared on Strictly Rhythm in 1997. ~ Sean Cooper, Rovi