https://www.mneemo.com/blog/ Notes from the floor — London club culture, UK garage and house, industry stories and event recaps. en https://www.mneemo.com/blog/house-of-mneemo-neon-black-takeover-embassy-gardens-2026/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/house-of-mneemo-neon-black-takeover-embassy-gardens-2026/ Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:58:41 GMT Scene House of MNEEMO returns to Neon Black, Embassy Gardens, on 20 June 2026 for a private filmed summer takeover. Guest list only. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/hi-vs-pacha-vs-amnesia-vs-unvrs-ibiza-2026/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/hi-vs-pacha-vs-amnesia-vs-unvrs-ibiza-2026/ Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:00:20 GMT The World Hï Ibiza, Pacha, Amnesia and UNVRS compared by sound, not hype. A DJ's guide to which Ibiza club fits house, tech house, techno or a big-room night in 2026. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/skepta-mas-tiempo-house-music-2026/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/skepta-mas-tiempo-house-music-2026/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:00:12 GMT The World Skepta's Mas Tiempo isn't a rapper playing DJ. It's one of grime's defining figures using house music as a full platform — the label and the Hi Ibiza residency. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/best-ibiza-parties-for-house-music-in-2026/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/best-ibiza-parties-for-house-music-in-2026/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:18:35 GMT The World A working DJ's guide to Ibiza's best house parties in 2026, sorted by sound: big-room, minimal, tech house and underground nights across Hï, Pacha and DC10. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/silva-bumpa-hypa-ep-london-launch-2026/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/silva-bumpa-hypa-ep-london-launch-2026/ Fri, 22 May 2026 19:04:39 GMT Releases Silva Bumpa released his HYPA EP on 22 May 2026: a four-track, eleven-minute project of club-ready UK bassline through Room Two Recordings and Sterling. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/boiler-room-history-blaise-bellville-superstruct-2026/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/boiler-room-history-blaise-bellville-superstruct-2026/ Tue, 19 May 2026 14:59:23 GMT Scene Inside Boiler Room's sixteen-year arc: from an East London broadcast experiment in 2010 to 5.16 million YouTube subscribers and 9,000+ artists worldwide. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/rossi-boiler-room-london-debut-minimal-scene-2026/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/rossi-boiler-room-london-debut-minimal-scene-2026/ Thu, 14 May 2026 17:33:22 GMT Scene Rossi. made his debut Boiler Room broadcast in London on 13 May 2026 — an intimate RSVP-only club appearance and a textbook small-room-to-Boiler-Room story. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/dnb-allstars-uk-drum-and-bass-label-festival-story/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/dnb-allstars-uk-drum-and-bass-label-festival-story/ Wed, 13 May 2026 09:58:47 GMT Scene DnB Allstars is the trading name of DNBA Entertainment Ltd, a UK private limited company founded by Joshua Paul Williams. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-facile-flash-e4teen-dnb-allstars-story/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-facile-flash-e4teen-dnb-allstars-story/ Mon, 11 May 2026 12:18:10 GMT Releases MNEEMO, FLASH and E4TEEN's "Facile" was released on 12 September 2025 via DnB Allstars Records as part of the 20-track Size Up Vol. 2 compilation. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/best-london-clubs-2026-where-to-dance/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/best-london-clubs-2026-where-to-dance/ Thu, 07 May 2026 20:51:42 GMT The World London's electronic club landscape in 2026 has reorganised around two extremes — mega-venues and small rooms. The full 2026 map of London clubs that matter. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/josh-baker-youme-manchester-amnesia-2026/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/josh-baker-youme-manchester-amnesia-2026/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:00:13 GMT The World Josh Baker — the Manchester DJ behind You&Me Records and Hide&Seek Festival — opens his first Ibiza residency at Amnesia, Thursdays from 2 July 2026. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/drumsheds-2026-london-tottenham-mega-club/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/drumsheds-2026-london-tottenham-mega-club/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:53:41 GMT Scene Drumsheds, the 14,999-capacity warehouse club in Tottenham's former IKEA, ranked #45 in DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs 2026 — up 24 places year on year. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/omnia-45-london-shoreditch-rooftop-party-may-2026/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/omnia-45-london-shoreditch-rooftop-party-may-2026/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:53:18 GMT The World On Saturday 2 May 2026 MNEEMO and House of MNEEMO take over the 45 London rooftop for OMNIA on the Roof — a seven-hour minimal deep tech session, 4 to 11 PM. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/circoloco-records-rockstar-games-prospa-free-your-mind/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/circoloco-records-rockstar-games-prospa-free-your-mind/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:00:10 GMT The World CircoLoco Records, the record label launched in May 2021 through a partnership between Rockstar Games and the Italian-founded Ibiza party brand CircoLoco. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/prospa-free-your-mind-circoloco-first-album/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/prospa-free-your-mind-circoloco-first-album/ Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:05:52 GMT The World Prospa release their debut album Free Your Mind on 5 June 2026 via CircoLoco Records, marking the first full-length album release in the label's history. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/parklife-2026-manchester-brit-uk-garage/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/parklife-2026-manchester-brit-uk-garage/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:38:25 GMT The World Calvin Harris, Sammy Virji, Skepta and Zara Larsson headline Parklife 2026, with Chris Stussy, Josh Baker, Nia Archives, KETTAMA, Silva Bumpa and 80+ more. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/sammy-virji-finsbury-park-2026/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/sammy-virji-finsbury-park-2026/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:04:05 GMT The World Sammy Virji headlines Finsbury Park London on Friday 7 August 2026, a Krankbrother-promoted open-air event running from 13:30 to 22:00. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/drake-iceman-rollout-toronto-ice-structure/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/drake-iceman-rollout-toronto-ice-structure/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:10:22 GMT The World Drake's ninth studio album Iceman is set for 15 May 2026 — a release date hidden inside a 25-foot blue ice structure built in downtown Toronto. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/notion-bristol-dj-the-days-remix-mixmag/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/notion-bristol-dj-the-days-remix-mixmag/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:25:15 GMT Scene NOTION is Bristol DJ and producer Rob Penny, whose 2024 remix of Chrystal's The Days became one of the defining bass-music crossover records of the UK cycle. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/printworks-reopening-2026/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/printworks-reopening-2026/ Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:00:15 GMT Scene Printworks London reopens in 2026 as Printworks 2.0, a permanent cultural venue inside a multi-billion-pound Canada Water regeneration project. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/sammy-virji-alexandra-palace/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/sammy-virji-alexandra-palace/ Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:00:16 GMT Scene Sammy Virji headlined two nights at Alexandra Palace on 17–18 April 2026, night two crowned by a centre-room back-to-back with Barry Can't Swim. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/is-afro-house-dying-2026/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/is-afro-house-dying-2026/ Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:30:12 GMT Scene Afro house in 2026 is not dying. It is entering its most interesting phase since the genre first broke internationally. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/ai-music-electronic-dance-music-2026/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/ai-music-electronic-dance-music-2026/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:00:16 GMT The World AI music topped Billboard country and R&B charts in 2025, yet electronic dance charts remain mostly untouched. The reasons are structural. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/why-wireless-festival-2026-was-cancelled/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/why-wireless-festival-2026-was-cancelled/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:59:12 GMT The World Wireless Festival 2026 cancelled after Ye's UK ban. The structural reasons: single-headliner risk, sponsor collapse, and a UK festival sector already in crisis. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/minimal-deep-tech-90s-house/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/minimal-deep-tech-90s-house/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:05:04 GMT The World Why minimal deep tech and 90s house keep colliding in 2026 — from Chris Stussy and Josh Baker to Prospa, a lane built on groove, swing and restraint. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-slavko-radar-records-james-hype-ibiza/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-slavko-radar-records-james-hype-ibiza/ Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:41:42 GMT The World How a 2023 Instagram message turned into Radar Records releases, a Warsaw debut, an Austrian Alps shoot, and Slavko playing his Waterfalls remix to James Hype. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-radar-records-how-it-started-hague-house/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-radar-records-how-it-started-hague-house/ Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:00:09 GMT The World MNEEMO's year with Warsaw label Radar Records started in a London drum & bass studio session at Hague House. The first chapter of a longer story. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-flash-cannonball-don-toliver-lithe-remix/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-flash-cannonball-don-toliver-lithe-remix/ Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:27:55 GMT Releases MNEEMO and Flash rework Lithe and Don Toliver's Cannonball into a UK garage weapon — written in half an hour before a London set and tested the same night. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-elizabeth-lip-barcelona-speed-garage-collaboration/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-elizabeth-lip-barcelona-speed-garage-collaboration/ Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:00:00 GMT Releases MNEEMO and Elizabeth Lip met in London ten years ago. They reconnected in Barcelona to write a speed garage track. The story of how the collaboration happened. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-nikitaidisyuda-never-come-back/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-nikitaidisyuda-never-come-back/ Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:00:00 GMT Releases The track is not a new collaboration — it is the surface of a collaboration that has been running for a year. The story behind Never Come Back. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/rave-per-minute-london-future-of-club-culture-2026/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/rave-per-minute-london-future-of-club-culture-2026/ Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:00:00 GMT Scene Rave Per Minute brought four DJs, four genres, one hour each into one London room on February 6. Why intimate events are winning over big festivals in 2026. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-uk-garage-2026-never-left-just-faster/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-uk-garage-2026-never-left-just-faster/ Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT The World MNEEMO on UK Garage in 2026: a London producer's view from inside the sound. Why the scene did not come back, it just mutated and got faster. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/interplanetary-criminal-uk-garage-safe-again/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/interplanetary-criminal-uk-garage-safe-again/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Scene Interplanetary Criminal made UK garage accessible without flattening it. From B.O.T.A. to ATW Records, a case study in how to become structural to a scene. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/kettama-image-persona-before-music/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/kettama-image-persona-before-music/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Scene KETTAMA — real name Evan Campbell, from Galway — turned a strict visual code into recognition long before most people pressed play on his music. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/omar-plus-read-the-room-uk-garage-rise/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/omar-plus-read-the-room-uk-garage-rise/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Scene Omar+ blends his own R&B vocals with UK garage and house — from DIY London kitchen parties to chart momentum without ever forcing it. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-xoyo-interview-kirk-allen-london-reopening/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-xoyo-interview-kirk-allen-london-reopening/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Scene MNEEMO XOYO interview with Kirk Allen at the London club's reopening press event on 31 January 2026. Inside the rebuild that turned into a cultural moment. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/house-of-mneemo-dj-school-built-for-the-stage-not-the-bedroom/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/house-of-mneemo-dj-school-built-for-the-stage-not-the-bedroom/ Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Scene The House of MNEEMO DJ School teaches DJing as performance, not button-pressing. Located at Hague House Studios in London with Pioneer CDJ-3000X kit. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-peso-asap-rocky-speed-garage-flip/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-peso-asap-rocky-speed-garage-flip/ Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Releases London DJ MNEEMO turns A$AP Rocky's Peso into a 137 BPM speed garage tool built for DJ sets. A hip-hop classic reworked through London club logic. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-london-clubs-small-rooms-vs-festivals/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-london-clubs-small-rooms-vs-festivals/ Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Scene MNEEMO on London clubs in 2026: a producer's view on intimate venues, the Boiler Room effect, and why small rooms are more important than big festivals. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/silva-bumpa-quietly-took-over-uk-garage-sets/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/silva-bumpa-quietly-took-over-uk-garage-sets/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Scene Silva Bumpa is winning because his records behave perfectly in real rooms. Production choices, DJ Mag Breakthrough Award, and the craft behind the hype. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-gallery-club-london-january-2026/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-gallery-club-london-january-2026/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 23:00:00 GMT The World MNEEMO leads Gallery Club London into its first party of 2026. UK house, funky house, speed garage — and an unplanned Omar+ moment on the floor. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/emi-mneemo-remix-collection-vol-1/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/emi-mneemo-remix-collection-vol-1/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 23:00:00 GMT Releases The story behind Remix Collection Vol.1 — three emi songs reimagined by London producer MNEEMO. From live London sets to finished club versions. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-down-405-la-story/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-down-405-la-story/ Thu, 16 Oct 2025 22:00:00 GMT Releases Down 405 is not a postcard record. It does not romanticise Los Angeles from a distance or flatten it into clichés. https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-mjp-the-vault-an-album-built-from-demos-nights-and-club-soundchecks/ https://www.mneemo.com/blog/mneemo-mjp-the-vault-an-album-built-from-demos-nights-and-club-soundchecks/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:12:11 GMT Releases Some albums are planned, others preserved. The Vault by MNEEMO and MJP grew out of demos, nights and club soundchecks — and it quietly stays with you.