{"id":7561,"date":"2026-04-04T16:17:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=7561"},"modified":"2026-04-04T16:17:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:17:37","slug":"track-of-the-day-can-we-make-it-real-manny-norte-x-ayanna-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/track-of-the-day-can-we-make-it-real-manny-norte-x-ayanna-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Track Of The Day &#8211; &#8220;Can We Make It Real?&#8221; &#8211; Manny Norte X Ayanna"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe data-testid=\"embed-iframe\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/75JdV3P7NGuorPSBnkoKWK?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a new one from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mannynorte\/\">Manny Norte<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ayanna\/\">Ayanna,<\/a> and it slaps. This is based around an afrobeat groove, and it\u2019s smooth, you can tell they cooked it up for the summer because it gets you dancing immedately even if your\u2019e not in the mood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What caught my attention was the Neo soul chord progressions, over that bassline &#8211; the keyboards and guitar are static, but the bass and drums are doing the work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add to this Ayanna\u2019s voice, she\u2019s singing a hook that will set the dance floors across the world on fire. I can hear this sitting up there with Love Me Jeje by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/temsbaby\/\">@temsbaby<\/a>\u00a0and Water by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tyla\/\">@tyla<\/a>\u00a0for catchiness. I have this on my next show and I might have to pull those two out of the archives just to play them back to back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a new one from Manny Norte and Ayanna, and it slaps. This is based around an afrobeat groove, and it\u2019s smooth, you can tell they cooked it up for the summer because it gets you dancing immedately even if your\u2019e not in the mood. What caught my attention was the Neo soul chord &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,220,42,118,40,129,174,172,139,31,143,132,30,185,153,37,142,140,73,150,175,287,162,54,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afrobeat","category-amapiano","category-band","category-bass","category-dance","category-drums","category-electronica","category-hip-hop","category-jazz","category-keyboards","category-london","category-lyricist","category-music","category-neo-soul","category-percussion","category-piano","category-producer","category-review","category-singer-songwriter","category-songwriter","category-soul","category-track-of-the-day","category-uk","category-uk-hip-hop","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7562,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7561\/revisions\/7562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}