✨ vinyl only mix✨  

For edition 69 of our guest mix series, we welcome once again London-based record collector Ilan (Night City Life). A true Italo enthusiast, Ilan curated Night City Life (@spacetalkmusic), one of our favourite compilations of 2019. Night City Life II will be dropping this summer (and we can’t wait 🎷)

As a DJ his selections are always rich with nostalgia and emotion, taking us on a journey through time and sound. Here is a recording of his vinyl-only set from Flow Festival last year; an Italo-tinged expedition in the Helsinki sunshine.

H.A.N.D. MIX 069 - Ilan (Night City Life)

What up IC cru! Been a minute - how you been? We took a little break to let that last mix marinate but we’re back with another for your discerning pleasure. This time around we’re excited to showcase a real UK OG who has been active in various guises over the years, flying the Balearic flag as a DJ, producer and connoisseur of fine choons in The Main Stem circa 2010 and lately with Midlands trio Wrekin Havoc, whose edits and original productions - both of which blur the lines of what is what - have been on rotation in my bag since they first stepped on the scene a few years ago. It’s Rob.J! Robert to his mum, when not up into the wee hours pushing rare track rips to his friends via online chat like some kind of strange drug dealer with incredible taste, has been hard at work with his WH mates Stu & Rich, working on new music seemingly nonstop and blowing minds at last year’s Rotation festival in the English countryside. 

Rob is truly taking us on a Balearic journey with heaps of impossibly rare tunes that sound like they were beamed from the White Island telepathically, mixed by the seat of his pants over a whopping 150 minute mix! Obscure 80s pop gems meeting late-decade dance music head-on, 90s breakbeats, Italo cheese, Spanish vocals dancing with guitar licks - one could be forgiven to think this was recorded poolside at Ku in ‘88!

Big thanks to Rob for contributing such an epic mix, we hope you love it like we do. May it soundtrack your Spring & Summer! 

Mike Bee
San Francisco
April 2025

@wrekinhavoc
linktr.ee/WrekinHavoc


Rob.J (Wrekin Havoc) -  No Rules

Listen back to this excerpt from our resident Lex Wolf's first Pikes poolside takeover of the summer, where he was joined by none other than Jonny Rock!

Join us every Saturday from 12–10 PM at the legendary @pikesibiza, where we’ll be taking over the poolside with OpenLab residents and special guests!

OpenLab Live From Pikes 19/04/25 [with Johnny Rock]

first two hours of my annual all-nighter back home.

ALL NIGHT LONG @ GALLERY1986, 2025

Happy to present you a new mix by Mark Newman aka Running Hot !

UK dj/producer based in Berlin, Mark is a long time vinyl collector and renowned digger ! Now affiliated to Love on the Rocks crew, he's a skilled and versatile dj able to bring many different vibes to the party. He released tracks and remixes on Fauve, Jitter, Spunny Love, Permanent Vacation, Balearic Ensemble or Certain Music. More relevant to us, he also delivered the dope track "Pungi" on our Driving Blind compilation series ;)

Enjoy the blend!

LYO#254 / Running Hot

Thanks to DJ Mike for trusting me with a fill in for his Radio show
( The Afropean Club Radio ) on Cashmere_Radio 
Enjoy the ride!
Ed Jus-Ed That is....

Jus-Ed LIVE Afropean Club Radio 26.06.2025

Fernando Tortelli aka Ferpo, é DJ e pesquisador musical de Curitiba, Brasil. Com cinco anos de experiência, ele explora sonoridades que atravessam continentes, culturas e décadas.

Curador do coletivo Hometown, seus sets passeiam por uma ampla variedade de estilos — da world music ao house, do boogie à disco — sempre com coesão e narrativa. Seu som é uma celebração global embalada por batidas envolventes e descobertas musicais que transcendem fronteiras.

Além de apresentações frequentes no Caracol Bar, em São Paulo, Ferpo realizou recentemente uma turnê europeia com sets em Montpellier e Lyon (França), além de Sheffield (Reino Unido).

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Fernando Tortelli aka Ferpo is a DJ and music selector from Curitiba, Brazil. With five years of experience, he explores sounds that cross continents, cultures, and decades.

Curator of the Hometown collective, his sets travel through a wide range of styles, from world music to house, from boogie to disco, always with cohesion and narrative. His sound is a global celebration wrapped in warm beats and musical discoveries that transcend borders.

In addition to regular performances at Caracol Bar in São Paulo, Ferpo recently completed a European tour with DJ sets in Montpellier and Lyon (France), as well as Sheffield (UK).

Ferpo - Alter Disco Podcast 180

We asked Ewan to make us a short promo mix and this came in, totalling 32 tracks and clocking in at 2 hours 24 minutes! It opens with the sound of Mark Hollis’s voice as a nice nod to Spirit of Eden and then veers from drone through Balearic, Compass Point ish funk, Psych-y stuff and ends with Krauty excursions and a smattering of New Wave Pop.

We’re very grateful
Thank you Ewan xxx  🙏🏻

Ewan Pearson Spirit of Eden Mix

Jius-Ed & Move D all night long at Globus, Berlin 2025-09-05
I'm joining in at around 1h30min

JUS-ED & Move D ALL NIGHT GLOBUS 2025-09-05

Oto Nove Swiss is a three-day festival at London's Café Oto presenting adventurous musicians and bands from Switzerland and the UK. Initiated by Bad Bonn, Südpol Luzern, and Präsens Editionen, 2019 marks the festival’s second installment. Together with L'Amalgame Yverdon, La Cave 12 and Spezialmaterial—this year’s guest-curators—live gigs and DJ sets"

Andrew Weatherall - Swiss Nove - 21/02/19, Cafe Oto

Those who take it upon themselves to guide us into uncharted territory are the best. And they make us better people. Andrew Weatherall was one of those. Not only did he alter the course of Music History, he also changed the stories of our lives for the better. Thank you for the Art and the Love you gave us. They are eternal.

Live at LuX - 2016

Andrew Weatherall at Lux Frágil_29.01.2016

Tomorrow’s world...today. 
Playing forward thinking music via www.openlab.fm and 106.4 FM in Ibiza and Formentera.

OpenLab Live From Pikes 19/04/25 [with Johnny Rock]

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