Collective and label based out of London.

music@squareslondon.com

Residents: Benj, Guzman, NHD, Preece, Zac G

Parties:
2026:
03.07 - TBA @ Lion & Lamb, London
09.05 - TBA @ Colour Factory + Secret Location, London
28.04 - TBA @ Mitsuki, Tokyo
24.04 - TBA @ Hertz, Seoul
13.03 - TBA @ Gaffe, London

2025:
07.11 - Sebastian, NHD, Zac G, Swaazy @ Lion & Lamb
04.10 - Ethan McNamara, Niff, Penelope, Roman, UU @ Starlane
19.09 - Brasi, Roman, Guzman @ Fold w/ XtD & Delito
06.06 - Borja, Laimonas @ Lion and Lamb
10.05 - Adi, Jesse, Maazn, Guzman b2b Preece @ Secret Afters
10.05 - Outransa, So-Fi @ The Colour Factory
22.03 - Preece b2b Zac G @ Kristina Records
10.04 - Mariiin, Issac (KR), Zac G @ Lion & Lamb
08.02 - Terraflow, Ruby SD @ The Glove That Fits

2024:
05.12 - Kino, Calla @ Lion & Lamb
05.10 - Elias Sternin b2b Manuel Jelen, Issac (KR), Roman @ Starlane
22.08 - Phase-o-matic, Jiminy Watts & Guzman @ Lion & Lamb
13.07 - Young Sun, Marcalina b2b KT, Residents @ Secret Location
31.05 - Omar, Calla, Residents @ Venue MOT
26.04 - Z@p, Residents @ Stage & Radio

2023:
11.11 - Alexia Glensy & Denaila
01.09 - Elias Sternin @ Starlane
16.06 - Jorge Escribano, N-Gynn @ Starlane
20.05 - Residents @ Eastern Bloc
29.04 - Colin Chiddle & Eliaz @ Starlane

2022:
26.08 - DMC @ Dalston Den

CdM88's journey into electronic music began at sixteen in Italy, where he honed DJing skills and explored the club scene. After the first gigs in Milan, he moved to London, managing nightclubs and blending music with hospitality. Recently, with his "Get Along" party project, worked behind the scene of DJ events across East London.
While following his studies at Point Blank University is now working around Clubs in London expressing his vision of Music entertainment.

Minimal house label operating between Brussels & Antwerp.

For bookings, demo's & podcasts: Onderons.rec@gmail.com

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Cardiff based party & mixcast putting on real parties and booking serious talent

DJ, Record Collector, Music Curator & Promoter 
w/ wide tastes across the sound spectrum 🪐 
⇣ Others: @cobeia-listening

SC hides most mixes when not paying anymore... 🙄
ALL MY MIXES (Cosmic, Disco, Italo, Wave, Edits, Balearic, African...)  www.mixcloud.com/cobeia + www.mixcloud.com/cobeia_2

Bookings / Promos: cobeia@gmx.net 

Running @ecoutesauvert (EAV) + Music for Indoors (MFI) MFI Mix series:  www.tinyurl.com/43ndn5ef 

@Cobeia is a sonic enthusiast with an extensive Vinyl & Digital collection. Exploring an array of genres, he digs up timeless high-quality gems. 💎 Music w/ instruments, synths, drum machines w/ a warm Analog sound in a computer world. :)

ON THE DANCEFLOOR:

💋 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐜/ 𝐈𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐨/ 𝐖𝐚𝐯𝐞/ 𝐀𝐜𝐢𝐝/ 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨/ 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐬 

LISTENING SETS: 
Mix Series, Radios, Spaces, Bars, Museums...

💋 𝐉𝐚𝐳𝐳/ 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐥/ 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐤/ 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐜/ 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧/ 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐠𝐚𝐞/𝐃𝐮𝐛 / 𝐎𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥/ 𝐀𝐥𝐭 𝐏𝐨𝐩/ 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤/ 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐤/ 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭-𝐏𝐮𝐧𝐤/𝐍𝐨 𝐖𝐚𝐯𝐞 / 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜/ 𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭/ 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥... 

Enjoying my Mixes & Playlists? Please TIP my Selector/DJ work! It takes much time, money & effort to dig, listen & create quality vinyl mixes. Paypal link in box above 👆🏼 (Send as Friends & Family). ❤️

2026

💄 Mo 30-11 Cave12 (Geneva)

2025

💄 Sa 22-11 BONGO JOE (Geneva) Post-Punk/No Wave Mix / Film + Q&A w/ legend Don Letts (UK)
💄 Sa 15-11 OTB (Berlin) b2b @naga_music
💄 Je 30-10 CANAL54 (Geneva)
💄 Sa 15-08 DISCOBESTIALE Festival (Sardinia)
💄 Sa 14-06 L'ORANGERIE (Geneva)
💄 RADIO RAHEEM (Milano) Postponed 2026
💄 Sa 10-05 UNDEAD (Regio Calabria) Postponed
💄 Sa 29-03 90mil (Berlin) MFI/@ecoutesauvert Night 
  w/ 4 Live & 6 DJ/Record Collectors
💄 Fr 14-03 @RefugeWorldwide Radio (Berlin)
💄 Th 06-03 CANAL54 (Geneva)
💄 Sa 07-02 @Sameheads (Berlin) Ayo Ke Disco Release Party! w/ @Norsicaa & @Renavolvo
💄 Sa 01-02 HEINERS (Berlin)

2024

💄 SA 07-12 OTB (Berlin) b2b Marvin @BalearicBanana
💄 FR 16-11 HEINERS (Berlin)
💄 SA 09-11 SCHANKI (Berlin)
💄 SA 22-06 HEINERS 
💄 FR 19-04 SCHANKI 
💄 FR 12-04 HEINERS 
💄 FR 23-02 HEINERS 
💄 FR 08-03 PETITE REINE (Geneva) 
💄 SU 18-02 Berlinale Film Premiere Party (Berlin)
💄 TH 15-02 8MM Bar (Berlin) w/ @bandit-voyage (@cheptel-records - Geneva) Live! www.banditvoyage.bandcamp.com

🚨 PAST REPRESENTS THE FUTURE 🚨

BERLIN / Griessmühle, Homopatik, @about-blank-berlin, Schrippe Hawaïi, @Sameheads, Zw/Heiners, Rummelsbucht, Atelier, Jonny Knüppel, OTB, Loophole, ACUD, Trickster, @menschmeier_berlin, Klunkerkranisch, Antje Oeklesund, 8mm, Paloma, Bar 25 & more... 

GENEVA / Underground spaces (Duplex, Walden, Cave12, Artamis, Falaises…); Bars (Canal 54, La Petite Reine...), Special Places (Bains des Pâquis, L'Orangerie, A la Pointe...); Clubs (@motelcampo, @le-zoo-usine, La Gravière, KZRN, La Jonquille, 360° LGBTQ+ Party) 

Around SWITZERLAND / @zukunft, Le Bourg, Dachstock, Fri-Son, Case à Choc, Mouton Noir, @kashemezurich, Bad Bonn, @klubkegelbahn, Neubad, @trnstnradio ... Festivals (Fête de la Musique, Electron, Festival de la Cité, Montreux Jazz Festival...)

ASIA / DJed in 2019 at a Festival in Koh Phangan Thailand & @theobservatory-hcmc Vietnam

@Cobeia was part of the Wet Delights cosmic crew 12 hours underground Parties in Berlin w/ guests like Albion @big-muffle, @Hysteric, Rune Lindbæk, @Chris_Korda, @soFAholic... 

💄 SHORT BIO 💄

Since his teens, Cobeia's been an avid listener collecting music on Vinyl, CDs, MDs, Tapes & Digital. Growing up in Geneva in a multicultural family & environment, he enjoyed the vibrant 90s local squats and Swiss alternative scenes, studied filmmaking in London from 96 to 99 before living between Geneva and Berlin 

Among other trips, he travelled extensively throughout Eastern and Southern Europe, North & East Africa, as well as Southeast Asia, further expanding his music appreciation. ✨

He's always been curious about life and various art forms and has been passionately exploring underground culture ever since. Since 2001, Cobeia's been a dedicated DJ, record collector, cultural actor, music curator & organiser. 

🚨 PROMOTING CONCERTS & PARTIES 🚨

Since 2001 he organised many electro-acoustic, alt-pop, indie-rock and electronic music events... before conceptualising his main project:

💄 ECOUTES AU VERT (Est. 2006) 💄 

EAV originated as an outdoor summer series with great music in parks & by lakes/riversides + indoor parties in Geneva. Soon enough, events with Concerts & DJs also took place throughout the year. 

2009 - 2015, EAV put up parties at @motelcampo with ace international & local guests. 

Events also took place in BERLIN since 2015 at Urban Spree, @klunkerkranich, @sameheads, Internet Explorer, Ziegra11, gART.n, Zenner, Loophole, Heiners...

Among many, COBEIA booked these great artists and often DJed along them:

LIVE: Shackleton, @Legowelt-official, @BlackMeteoricStar, @theEmperorMachine, Konono Nº1, OVAL, Mapstation, @LuckyDragons, Tevo Howard, Jan Jelinek & Masayoshi Fujita, Lichens/Robert Lowe, @JuliaHolter, Volcano the Bear, @colleenplays, @co_la, @LucreciaDalt, Rhys Chatham, @Hyperculte, Massicot, @JohnMoods, @CV-Vision, @bandit-voyage, @world_wild_web, @marlais, @killy44... 

AFRICAN & OUTERNATIONAL BANDS: Les Filles d'illighadad, @DeryaYildirimofficial & Grup Simsek, Imperial Tiger Orchestra, @MdouMoctar, @MeridianBrothers, Hailu Mergia, BKO Quintet, Nahawa Doumbia, ROB, Orchestra of Spheres, The Pyramids, Sahra Halgan, Fendika, Les Pythons de la Fournaise, OTPMD, @Cyril-Cyril-Music, L'Eclair, Onom Agemo & @AhmedAgKaedy...

DJs: I-F, @PrinsThomas, @Solarsf, @Helena-hauff, @Analog-Africa, Darshan Jesrani (Metro Area), ATA, @BeautifulSwimmers, @Svengalisghost, @AwesomeTapesFromAfrica, @Appleblim, @HodgeBristol, @AndrePahl, Daniel Wang, @Franz-Scala, @mark-grusane...

🚨 EARLY DAYS 🚨
 
2001 - 06: Part of a collective, Cobeia ran ace Underground Art Space DUPLEX in Geneva, where he booked electronic, experimental pop & folk-rock live acts: SO (Oval), Goodiepal, @planningtorock, Hermann Düne, Julie Doiron, @modeselektor... + DJs of various genres, while working in 2003 & 04 at FORDE Art Space at L'Usine. 

During the 2010s, he put up the JUKEBOX nights at @MotelCampo, Letage, Artamis, Falaises... w/ @andrew-weatherall, Mr. Ties, @Boris, @tevohowardrecordings, @kodenine, @djrupture, @thebugofficial, Shadetek, @glasscandy, Desire, @chromaticsofficial...

London-based Trinidadian DJ/Producer who loves everything underground house.

Stream my new EP 'Narrow Lanes' now! Out everywhere.

Barrister at law of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn 🇬🇧
Lawyer Licensing Candidate ,Law Society of Ontario 🇨🇦

Gradient - discovering uncharted spaces.

We aim to put on intimate parties in spaces you may not have come across before. The Location for the party will always be revealed on the day.

Our parties will showcase some of London’s freshest up and coming selectors who have all held their own throughout the London scene and beyond as well as the occasional special guest.

Nick Hook began his DJ/producer career back in the early days of the house music revolution. 

Since then Nick has produced and remixed more than 200 releases on many of the biggest house music labels including FFRR, Zulu Records, Freakin909, Motive Records, Whartone, Hed Kandi, Whore House, Distinctive, Whoop!, Loaded, Ulybug Records, Go Deeva Light, React, Multiply, Om, Limbo, Renaissance, Phonetic, AATW, Jeepers!, Revoke, Stress and DMC under artist names such as First Life, Soundsource, Pleasure Box, Subterfuge, Hook and, of course, Nick Hook. 

His many remix credits include artists such as The Grid, Gusto, Alex Neri, Hoxton Whores, Adamski, Jay Kay, Sara Parker, OneWorld and Saint Etienne. And his productions have been remixed by such luminaries as Jason Chance, Mike Monday, Hoxton Whores, Soul Mechanik, Jay Kay, Chris Fortier, Circulation, Rachel Ellektra, Dom Kane, James Harcourt, Tim Andresen, Stretch (Stretch & Vern), Dumb Dan and Lucien Foorte.
 
Nick has DJ'd extensively around the UK as well as overseas, where he has headlined at major clubs in Russia, Ukraine, Denmark, Poland, France, Germany, Ireland, Kazakhstan and Ibiza. 

Nick was the promoter and resident DJ of two of London's most legendary house music clubs of the 1990s and 2000s: Loosen Up and Whoop It Up. Both clubs were at the forefront of the UK progressive scene and featured the biggest guest DJs of the day including Sasha, Jon Digweed, Seb Fontaine, Dave Seamen and Timo Maas. Today, Nick is a resident DJ and co-promoter of the highly successful Brighton club night Tech-noir.

Nick's label Jeepers! has gone from strength to strength since it's inception in 2007, with tracks and remixes from top artists including with tracks and remixes from top artists including Stefano Noferini, Hoxton Whores, Jason Chance, Jay Kay, Dolly Rockers, Nick Hook, Martin Sharp, Tenacious, Gojack, Dan McKie, Stretch Silvester, Chris Rawles, Sonikross and Nightstylers.
Nick's productions on Jeepers! and other labels continue to gain support from many of the world's best DJs, including Todd Terry, Roger Sanchez, Groove Armada, Shapeshifters, ATFC, Brandon Block, Funkagenda, Timo Garcia, Carl Kennedy, Peter Brown, Oliver Lang, Quentin Harris and many more.

For a full discography and a more in-depth biography, plus news on Nick's DJ gigs and more go to www.nickhook.com 
Or check out news and info on Nick's label, Jeepers! Music, by going to www.jeepersmusic.co.uk

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