In Saint Petersburg, Dmitriy Sabekiya began listening to jungle at 10, drawing on tapes of UK music brought home by his older brother. He encountered drum and bass in 1996 and turned towards producing it around the millennium. Under the name Intelligent Manners, he works as a producer and DJ, with soul and hip-hop among the influences on his sound. His 2008 single Do It Now! / I Lost You Baby came out on Liquid Brilliants Records, followed by his first vinyl single, If You Want My Love, on Grid/Allsorts Recordings in March 2010.
In 2012, Fokuz Recordings released his album The Movement, featuring collaborations with Iriann Joyce, Command Strange, Nuage and Enei. That year also brought the EPs Love Freeze EP on Respect Records and All The Stars EP, a collaboration with Command Strange on Influenza Media. Other releases have appeared on Nexgen, Have-A-Break, Celsius Recordings and Innerground Records. His work with Command Strange includes the tracks “Make Me Alive” and “Mastermind”, as well as the album Joy LP, released on Innerground Records in 2016.
Later releases include the EP Special Night on Celsius Recordings and Miracles on Fokuz Recordings. Intelligent Manners released the single Funkalicious on Celsius Recordings in 2024, then joined Command Strange for the 2025 Fokuz Recordings single In My Mind / When I Get Home. On 20 June 2026, he played at 16TONS.
