Textbook Maneuver on the Virtual Sessions presented by The DJ Sessions 9/18/25

About  Textbook Maneuver –

Emerging electronic project Textbook Maneuver has unveiled a mesmerizing track and video, ‘Nocturnal Musings’, released on his Life Science Records, LLC imprint. With nearly 130,000 streams across platforms to date, the project has steadily drawn the attention of the global IDM and experimental electronic community. 

Interviews with Magnetic Magazine, Illustrate Magazine, features on 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 Boards of Canada, μ-Ziq, and Squarepusher.

‘Nocturnal Musings’ is an off-kilter glitched-out dreamscape, unfolding with restless beats that shape-shift beneath jagged synth stabs, blinking beeps, and spectral textures, evoking the drift of a mind caught between realities. The accompanying video, all caught on a trail camera set up outside the artist’s studio, shows eerie black and white footage of animals meandering in the snow in the dead of night.

Textbook Maneuver shared: 

“I spent much of my time composing for the Strike Joy EP in a fully screened porch at night, during the height of cricket and frog activity, focusing on loops and sound design. Elements of the rhythms and tones from nature helped inspire ‘Nocturnal Musings’. The video for the song is from footage I captured on the trail camera set up outside the studio, sticking with the night hours synced up with the song. It was a fun creative experience.”

“A spaced-out odyssey of an album, leaning heavily into the ambient & leftfield side of electronic music.”

Magnetic Magazine

“Textbook Maneuver creates music that takes listeners on an atmospheric journey.”

Illustrate Magazine

“No words required here. It’s all emotive sound, frequencies, and there’s plenty of it to entertain, energize,

and even hypnotize.”
Good Music Radar

Bandcamp: https://textbookmaneuver.bandcamp.com
TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@lifesciencerecords

Label: Life Science Records https://lifesciencerecords1.bandcamp.com/
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/5f9O1kS96ShpCQiXqoWLDS

ITunesApple  https://music.apple.com/artist/1787480924

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