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Thomas Nøkling aka. Manipura, born in 1981 in the town of Bergen in Norway - began with music already at the age of 8 when he started to take piano lessons. Combined with his interest in computers, he soon started experimenting with tracker software and started producing trance at an age of 16, highly influenced by Ferry Corsten and Tiesto. Later he traded in trackers for midi sequencers and hardware.

From there on, his musical taste has grown more progressive but still you can find him behind trance aliases such as Recluse and 34th Assembly, though trance is not his favoured genre these days. Thomas's music styles vary greatly from alias to alias, but as Manipura he's producing mostly melodic breaks with harmonic and balearic melodies.

His first Manipura tune, 'Halcyon Days' was released by Minimal Records in 2004, and immediately sailed up as one of Sasha's favourites during the summer. Since then, Thomas have upcoming releases on labels such as 3Beat, Loöq, Minimal, Deepblue, Furry Music, CP Recordings and Heavy Rotation. Together with Stian Klo from Furry Nipples, he's Seyton. The two of them just got the track 'The Drake Equation' featured on Global Underground 028.

Thomas's productions are supported by a wide range of dj's. Among them are Sasha, Paul Oakenfold, Shiloh, Pete Tong, Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto, Hernan Cattaneo, Paul Van Dyk and the list goes on...

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