MNEEMO Inside the Radar Records Era: How It Started at Hague House

Some artist-label stories begin with a demo submission. This one began with a drum & bass session in a London studio and a decision to keep the third chair in the room.

The year London-based DJ MNEEMO spent with Warsaw label Radar Records did not start in Warsaw. It started in a London studio, on a drum & bass track that would not be released for another twelve months.

That is worth saying first, because the usual version of "how I met my label" stories tends to travel from artist to demo to A&R to signed release. MNEEMO's version travels sideways. It moves through rooms, through friends, through a city that always rewards the people who spend enough time in the right studios.

Facile, and the producer who opened the doors

Sometime in early 2025, MNEEMO walked into a session with a London-based producer called E4TEEN. E4TEEN had spent years opening recording studios across the city, most recently a space called Hague House Studios. The two of them were working on a drum & bass track called Facile, with a third producer in the room: a Warsaw-based engineer and producer called FLASH (Anton Ditiashov).

MNEEMO did not know it at the time, but the third chair in that session was going to define the next twelve months of his work.

Facile would eventually come out a year later on DnB Allstars, one of the most respected drum & bass labels in the UK. By the time it was released, everything around it had already changed. But its importance had almost nothing to do with its release date. Its importance was that it put MNEEMO in a room with FLASH for several hours, and MNEEMO walked out of that room with a new contact who happened to co-run a small independent label back in Warsaw. A quiet operation. Friends-only. No open submissions, no A&R inbox. Distribution and artist management handled in-house for the people in the circle. It was called Radar Records.

MNEEMO decided early that he wanted to find out more.

April 2025, Warsaw, MNEEMO, Radar Records

Over the weeks that followed, MNEEMO kept the conversation going. FLASH introduced him to his Radar Records co-founder, NIKITAIDISYUDA. Introductions turned into conversations, conversations turned into an invitation, and in April 2025 MNEEMO booked a flight and flew to Warsaw for the first time.

Warsaw booked him a set on arrival. Club TBA. First visit, first night, first set in the city.

It tells you something about how Radar Records read MNEEMO's work that they put him on stage the day he landed rather than wait to see how he played. Most labels do not move at that speed. Most labels wait. What MNEEMO had walked into was something faster than that, and by the end of his first weekend in Warsaw, he understood why.

What he found in the city was not a label office. It was a flat. Daniel Okaro and NIKITAIDISYUDA shared a Warsaw apartment that doubled as studio, office, and label headquarters, and by the end of his first day there MNEEMO had eaten, recorded, and talked shop inside the same four walls. For an artist used to labels that ran through email chains and scheduled calls, it was the first time the whole business had happened inside one room. He liked it.

That first visit was also where MNEEMO met emi for the first time. No one worked on anything together that week. It was an introduction, a couple of rooms, a name added to a growing circle. What that introduction would eventually become would not reveal itself until seven months later, after a songwriting camp in London changed what the circle was for. That is a story for another chapter.

GIVE YOU MORE

MNEEMO wrote a track during that first visit to Warsaw. He wrote it in the flat with FLASH and Daniel Okaro. It would be released a few months later under the name GIVE YOU MORE, and it would be the first MNEEMO record on Radar Records.

The important thing about GIVE YOU MORE was not that it happened. It was that MNEEMO made it happen during the first visit. It was not a demo polished over weeks of back and forth. It was a track written in the same flat, in the same week, by three people who had only known each other for a handful of days. The speed of it was the statement, and the decision to commit to it that fast came from MNEEMO's side as much as theirs.

By the time he flew back to London, FLASH was his mixing and mastering engineer as well as his manager. Radar Records was now the label releasing his work. The working relationship had moved from "I like what they do" to "we are building something together," and MNEEMO was the one moving it there.

On that same first trip, MNEEMO also brought SLAVKO with him to Warsaw for the first time, another London-based artist he wanted the label to meet, and one who would later release on Radar Records in his own right.

Los Angeles, October, and Down 405

That summer, MNEEMO took himself to Los Angeles for a month. No sessions booked, no agenda beyond clearing his head and seeing what came out of the city. What came out of it was Down 405, released in October 2025 as his second record on Radar Records. Another track, another chapter, another story worth its own telling.

By late summer, the timeline was beginning to look less like separate trips and more like a single circuit that MNEEMO was running on purpose. Warsaw. London. Los Angeles. Warsaw again. Each stop added another name, another room, another reason to keep going.

And then, in early November 2025, something bigger happened. MNEEMO was selected for Anti Social Camp UK, and the circle that had started in a Warsaw flat in April was about to converge, for the first time, in London. On a night that MNEEMO himself would set up.

That week changed what the Radar Era would become.

And Facile, finally

The drum & bass track that started all of this — Facile with E4TEEN and FLASH — finally came out on DnB Allstars a full year after it was recorded at Hague House.

By the time it was released, MNEEMO had two releases on Radar Records, a growing London network, a collaborator roster that did not exist before, and an entire year of forward momentum that had been set in motion by a decision he made in a London studio in early 2025: to stay in the room and see where a new contact would lead.

Facile was the track. But it was also the door. MNEEMO was the one who walked through.

Final note

Some relationships in music are built fast, on paper, through emails and signed deals. Others are built slowly, in flats and studios and clubs, between people who keep ending up in the same rooms.

MNEEMO's year with Radar Records was the second kind. It started sideways at Hague House in London, in a session that was supposed to be about a drum & bass track. It travelled to Warsaw in April 2025, when MNEEMO booked his own flight to meet the label's inner circle, and it produced GIVE YOU MORE in a flat over the course of a single visit.

What happened next — Anti Social Camp UK, Paloma Chelsea, Warsaw 8HUB, the emi Remix Collection, Never Come Back — is a longer story than one chapter can hold. Those nights will be written about in their own time.

For now, it is enough to say that the year started when MNEEMO walked into a London drum & bass session and decided not to leave the new contact at the door. Everything else followed from that decision.

MNEEMO's early Radar Records catalogue includes GIVE YOU MORE with FLASH and Daniel Okaro, released summer 2025, and Down 405, released October 2025. MNEEMO's releases and editorial archive are available at mneemo.com.