HOME WAS NEVER A FIXED PLACE. 

 

MNEEMO was born Yaroslav Gorovoy in Sumy, a small town in northern Ukraine, into a family that kept moving. His grandfather had been a military doctor across the former Soviet Union, and after the union broke apart, the family stayed on with roots in both directions. His mother is Russian. His father is Ukrainian. They met in Sumy, and MNEEMO grew up between languages, between countries, between cultures that were never fully one thing.

 

Before London, there was Maykop, the capital of Adygea in the Caucasus, a place most people he would meet later had never heard of. Then Krasnodar. Then Moscow. By the time he was 17, the idea of starting over somewhere new was not frightening. It was what life looked like.

 

What followed him through all of it was music.

 

His father plays guitar. His mother went to music school and put him into classical piano as a child. Nobody in the family became a professional musician, but music was always in the room, treated like something real even when nobody was paid for it. He spent years on guitar, recording early parts into an iPad with an iRig, writing songs before he knew what the songs were for.

 

In 2015, he opened Google and typed "program to record music." FL Studio was the first result. He downloaded it. That was the moment everything started pointing in one direction.

 

 

FAR AWAY

 

He moved to London at 17, to the only person he already knew there: his father. He spoke no English. He enrolled in college, learned the language at night, and sat in his room writing beats with no scene, no connections, and no plan beyond keep making music and see what it does.

 

In 2018, he released his first single, Far Away. Deep house. A soft thing, built alone.

 

Then something happened that felt small at the time and large in retrospect. Bloggers started reposting it on Instagram. Strangers in cities he had never been. The track travelled without him, and he understood for the first time that the thing he made in a room could reach people he hadn't met yet.

 

That was the moment he stopped being a kid who made beats and started being an artist.

 

 

ALL IN

 

When war broke out between Russia and Ukraine in 2022, both sides of his family were hit at once. Money disappeared. The ground moved under everyone he loved.

 

He took the last of what he had and bought a DJ controller.

 

He set up a camera in his flat. Three friends danced behind him. He played a tech house set on an iPhone and uploaded it to YouTube. In the first week, it reached 100,000 views. It now sits at over 200,000.

 

 

HOUSE OF MNEEMO

 

The house parties started the same week. Five friends, then ten, then twenty, then thirty crammed into his flat. Word spread through the London scene the way it always does when something real is happening — sideways, through voice notes at 3 a.m., in the quiet question of who do you know who's doing something different. People began asking how to get in. Some couldn't, because the flat was full.

 

He named it on the last of those nights, just before everything moved to a proper venue. HOUSE OF MNEEMO. Because it had started in his house, and home was the only geography he had ever really trusted.

 

Since then, HOUSE OF MNEEMO has moved from flats to pubs to some of London's most recognised venues, including B London, Paloma Chelsea, Gallery Club London, Cuckoo Club, and Colours Hoxton. The principle is still the same as the first night. Bring the right people into the same room and let the music do the work.

 

 

WHAT MNEEMO IS NOW

 

His catalogue has passed through several corners of UK electronic music: drum & bass on DnB Allstars, afro house on major labels, and more recently an atmospheric, percussive, UK-garage-adjacent direction where the low end does the thinking and vocals behave like rhythm. His 2025–2026 releases have centred around Warsaw-based label Radar Records, with collaborators including emi, Goodscandal, Afro Queen, NIKITAIDISYUDA, Daniel Okaro, Flash, and MJP.

 

Beyond club music, MNEEMO composes original scores and sound design for film, with credits on Drill It, County Lines Girl, and LIMBO under his given name on IMDb.

 

In November 2025, he was selected for Anti Social Camp UK, the London edition of the world's largest songwriting camp, held in partnership with Tileyard and featuring alumni such as PinkPantheress, Jacob Collier, and Nile Rodgers. 200 artists were selected from 10,000 applicants.

 

In January 2025, he appeared in Cybernews as one of the producers who helped expose an elaborate impersonation of a major dance producer operating in London clubs, a story that later turned into one of his closest ongoing collaborations.

 

 

HOUSE OF MNEEMO is a world still being built. Editorial, releases, and archive at mneemo.com.