What is 'Misbehave'?
DJ Tennis, the Italian producer and label boss born Manfredi Romano, has a new single called 'Misbehave' out on Life And Death, the imprint he co-founded back in 2010. It teams him with vocalist Campbell King, who rides a shuffling beat and thick percussion and delivers the line the whole thing is built around: get to the drop, let's misbehave. There is a video too, King running through a city at night. Beatportal, which flagged it in its weekly rundown, calls it more torrid and commanding than his recent output, aimed squarely at sweltering summer floors.
Why does a single on your own label matter?
Because Romano spends most of his time being everyone else's A&R. Life And Death, the label and the party brand, is where a generation of melodic and indie-dance acts got their break, and running it is a full-time job that pulls a founder away from the studio. 'Misbehave' is his first production of the year on that imprint, and it arrives in the label's 15th-anniversary year. A boss putting his own name back on the release schedule, in the birthday season, is a statement about where his head is: back on the dancefloor, not just the spreadsheet.
Where does it sit next to his other 2026 work?
He has not been silent this year. In February the fabric series dropped fabric presents DJ Tennis, and two of his own cuts, 'I Wanna Know' and 'Hello Hello', rode along with it. Those were the mix-album context; 'Misbehave' is the standalone club weapon, and putting it on Life And Death rather than a fabric comp keeps the anniversary spotlight on his own house.
