Jonathan Immanuel Kievit (born 14 November 1998), known professionally as Imanu (stylized as IMANU), formerly as Signal is a Dutch-Surinamese DJ, record producer and musician born in Saint-Denis, Réunion.
Career After being exposed to trance and progressive house by a friend at the age of 10, Kievit started producing house at the age of 14. A few years later he discovered the music by Dutch trio Noisia and subsequently started producing drum and bass. Eventually, Dutch drum and bass artist Fre4knc also sent a song by Kievit to Noisia, who then signed him under the alias Signal to their label Invisible Recordings when Kievit was only 16 years old. In 2018 Kievit co-founded the record label Dividid (stylized as DIVIDID) with Mark McCann, known as Abis and Rotterdam-based promoter Lars Dingeman.
In 2019 Kievit started a new project under the alias "Imanu", which has since been active. As Imanu he pushed the boundaries of drum and bass as a genre and explored other genres, such as house, techno and footwork. He described his style of music as "future breaks" and cited Flume as his primary influence besides Sophie, Cashmere Cat and Arca.
Since starting with Imanu, Kievit has released music on significant electronic music labels such as Zeds Dead's Deadbeats, Vision Recordings, and UKF Music and has collaborated with Noisia, What So Not, Kučka, Josh Pan and Pham.
In 2021, Beatport named Kievit as one of six Beatport NEXT artists, supporting him for a full year by offering store featurings, playisting, editorial features, live-streams and social media support. In the same year, Kievit performed a 1-hour mix with UKF on BBC Radio 1.
In June 2022, Kievit announced his debut album Unfold, which was released on September 16, 2022, through Deadbeats. In April 2023, a remix compilation album titled Unfold Remixes was released, featuring remixes from artists such as Zeds Dead, Machinedrum, What So Not and others.
Discography Sourced from Apple Music.
As IMANU
Albums Title Details Unfold Released: September 16, 2022 Label: Deadbeats Formats: LP, Digital download, streaming
EPs Title Details Ego Released: October 13, 2019 Label: Vision Recordings Formats: EP, digital download, streaming Memento Released: May 29, 2020 Label: Vision Formats: Digital download, streaming Cheren Released: September 11, 2020 Label: Vision Formats: Digital download, streaming Neiges / La Fournaise Released: January 4, 2022 Label: Critical Music Formats: Digital download, streaming Paradise Released: October 20, 2023 Label: Deadbeats Formats: Digital download, streaming Entangled Released: May 2, 2025 Label: Deadbeats Formats: Digital download, streaming
Remix compilations Title Details Re: Imanu Released: December 18, 2020 Label: Vision Formats: Digital download, streaming A Taste of Hope (Remixes) Released: February 24, 2022 Label: UKF Formats: Digital download, streaming Unfold Remixes Released: April 14, 2023 Label: Deadbeats Formats: Digital download, streaming
Singles As lead artist Title Year Album Label "Technoid" 2020 Critical Music "Bloom" Memento Vision "Nagow" Cheren "Fuji" Self-released "A Taste of Hope" 2021 A Taste of Hope (Remixes) UKF "Skin To Skin" Heaven Sent: Volume 1 Heaven Sent "A Taste of Hope (Hallowvale)" A Taste of Hope (Remixes) UKF "Buried" rowspan="3" Deadbeats "Gaspin 4 Air" UKF "Kotaro" 2022 Sable Valley Records "It's Our Destiny" Unfold Deadbeats "Somehow We Lost It All" "Temper" "Pillow Talk" "Empress" "Catalyst" 2023 UKF "Empress" Unfold Remixes Deadbeats "Outlaw" Monta Records "Of Two Minds" Paradise Deadbeats "Dream Sequence" "Aching (On A High)" "Rush" "It's Our Destiny" 2024 Deadbeats & Brownies - Drum & Bass Compilation Deadbeats / Brownies & Lemonade "Reminiscing" rowspan="3" UKF "Fire" Deadbeats "Celeste" Altered States "All Too Late" 2025 Entangled Deadbeats "Hush" "It Doesn't Matter" "Sutekh" rowspan="6" Majestic Collective "Bleak" Deadbeats "Falling Apart" "Runaway" 2026 "Heaven Knows What" Majestic Collective "All U Need" UKF
As featured artist Title Year Album Label "Overwerk" 2019 We Are Friends, Vol. 9 Mau5trap "Transit" 2020 Particles Vision "Parallels" Lifecycle: Creation Blackout Music NL "Preamble" Mission 01 Vision "Glass Hearts" 2021 First Light "Life Suck" Crisis Vision Never Say Die Records "Shift" 2022 Closer Vision "Libre" 2023 Heritage Distorted Reality "You Left Me Hanging." 2024 Self Reflections: Self-released "Slow Motion" Motions Create Music Group "For Her (Chemtrails)" Electric Honey (Encore) Republic Records
As remixed artist Title Year Album Label "Empress" 2023 Unfold Remixes Deadbeats "Haunt My Mind" "It's Our Destiny"
Remixes Official remixes TitleYearArtistLabel "Berry Patch" 2020 Machinedrum and Holly Vision "Love That Never" Tokimonsta Young Art Records "Obsession" RayRay and DJ Soda Barong Family "Got The Blood" 2021 Yultron and Shybeast Hopeless Records "I'm Fine" Apashe Kannibalen Records "I Think You're Cool" Zeds Dead Altered States "Incessant" Noisia Vision "Shadow" 2022 Boombox Cartel and Moody Good Monta Records "All The Highs" San Holo Helix Records "Gassed Up" Subtronics Cyclops Recordings "Lost In Mumbai" 2024 Apashe Kannibalen Records "Loon Moon" 2025 Lia Kuri Friends Of Friends
Unofficial remixes TitleYearArtist "Jack" 2020 Breach "Formula" RL Grime and Juelz "Star" 2021 Machinedrum, Tanerélle and Mono/Poly
As Signal
EPs Title Details Concept / You Don't Know Released: February 9, 2015 Label: Ammunition Recordings Formats: Digital download, streaming Footprint / Dusk Released: August 10, 2015 Label: Overtech Music Formats: Digital download, streaming Critical Presents: Binary Vol.7 Released: August 31, 2015 Label: Critical Music Formats: Digital download, streaming Indirect / In Motion Released: January 25, 2016 Label: Lifestyle Recordings Formats: Digital download, streaming Critical Presents: Systems 004 Released: April 15, 2016 Label: Critical Music Formats: EP, digital download, streaming Parallax Released: October 14, 2016 Label: Critical Music Formats: Digital download, streaming Indirect VIP / Indirect Released: December 23, 2016 Label: Lifestyle Recordings Formats: EP, digital download, streaming Mantura Released: October 6, 2017 Label: Invisible Recordings Formats: Digital download, streaming Consonance / Locust Released: January 26, 2018 Label: NËU Formats: Digital download, streaming The Wall Released: March 5, 2018 Label: Dividid Formats: Digital download, streaming Doom Desire Released: April 27, 2018 Label: Shogun Audio Formats: Digital download, streaming Torment / 2ME Released: July 9, 2018 Label: Dividid Formats: Digital download, streaming Solitude Released: November 9, 2018 Label: Invisible Recordings Formats: Digital download, streaming Exile / In Black Released: April 5, 2019 Label: Dividid Formats: Digital download, streaming
Singles As lead artist Title Year Album Label "Doom Desire" 2018 Doom Desire Shogun Audio "How Will I Know"
As featured artist Title Year Album Label "Arkaik Twelve" 2015 Compound Two Renegade Hardware "Existence" Mind Technologies Vol. 5 Mindtech Recordings "Tripwire" Invisible 015 Invisible Recordings "Vollzeit" RA011 Rise Audio "Seven" 2016 Demand Selects #1 Demand Records "Beneath The Surface" Art of Deception Authentic Music "Erger" Invisible 019 Invisible Recordings "Ritual" MethLab, Vol. 2 Bad Taste Recordings / MethLab "Shapes" Shapes Dispatch Recordings "Barrier" Barrier Major League DnB "Informer" Pitch Black Cyberfunk "Objectify" Eurofunk Volume Two Neodigital "Unusual Behaviour" Dreamland Dispatch Recordings "Omega Point VIP" Binary : Codes Critical Music "Stealth Ops" Critical Presents: Systems 006 Critical Music "Illusion" 2017 Invisible 026 Invisible Recordings "Periphery" Critical Music Presents: 15 Years of Underground Sonics Critical Music "Funky Feeling" RAM Goes to Let It Roll 2.0 RAM Records "Hydraulic" Unity Project, Pt. 2 Open Outlets "Aversion" 2018 Wölfe Eatbrain "Make Me Feel" South London's Finest Critical Music "Angst" Angst / In Time Dividid "Tatsu" Havel "All You Got" The Abyss Eatbrain "Black Nazareth" Extraction Bad Taste Recordings "Triage" 2019 Rampage Sampler 05 Rampage Recordings "Artworld" Artworld Sofa Sound "Human Behaviour VIP" 2022 The Variance in Production EP Dispatch Recordings
As remixed artist Title Year Album Label "The Wall" 2019 The Wall (Buunshin Remix) / If U (Synergy Remix) Dividid "Locust" 2023 Nëu V, Pt. 2 NËU
Remixes Official remixes TitleYearArtistLabel "Just One Look" 2016 Enei Critical Music "Black or White" 2017 Camo & Krooked RAM Records "Listen" Hybrid Minds Hybrid Music "Rollcage" 2018 Blu Mar Ten Blu Mar Ten Music "Alarm" Lookas and Krewella Monstercat "Fall" Amba Shepherd Beat Music Fund "24/7" Foreign Beggars Par Excellence "Goh" What So Not and Skrillex Sweat It Out "Dies Irae" Apashe Kannibalen Records "Together" Mefjus Vision Recordings "Step by Step" Droeloe Bitbird "Progression" 2019 Phace and Misanthrop Neosignal
References
External links Imanu's website Imanu on SoundCloud