MNEEMO and Slavko: The Three-Year Story Behind the Hï Ibiza Moment

From a London DM in 2023, to Radar Records, to Warsaw, to the Austrian Alps, to the James Hype booth at Hï Ibiza. The full version of how one working partnership built a career in plain sight.

Most ecosystem stories in dance music get told backwards. The artist breaks through, the press arrives, and someone reconstructs the timeline to make it sound inevitable. The Slavko story is different because the timeline is still visible in real time, and the people inside it can name every step.

This is the version told from inside the room.

Three Years Ago, an Instagram Message

In 2023, MNEEMO was running his own nights in London. The house parties had already moved into clubs, the brand around HOUSE OF MNEEMO was starting to take shape, and the booking conversations were happening in DMs more than in agency emails.

One of those DMs came from a young DJ from Ukraine, based in London, looking for places to play. His name was Slavko.

The first thing MNEEMO noticed was the skill. The second thing was the posture. Slavko was 20 at the time, fully open, no agenda, no posturing, no pretending to be further along than he was. That combination is rare at any age and almost extinct in club music. MNEEMO booked him.

What followed was not a one-off. It was the beginning of a working relationship that would run for the next three years across London nights, studio sessions, label releases, an Austrian mountain, a Warsaw club debut, and eventually one of the most important booths in the world.

MNEEMO & Slavko's Skyline 37: The First Joint Project

On 23 May 2024, MNEEMO and Slavko released Skyline 37, their first joint set. Melodic techno and tech house, recorded together, built around an idea that had been sitting in the room for months.

For MNEEMO, Skyline 37 was a first in a specific technical sense. It was the first time he integrated live instruments into the format: the Native Instruments Maschine MK3, the Roland SPD-SX Pro, the kind of hardware that turns a DJ set into something closer to a live performance than a playback. Slavko was the reason that shift happened. His comfort behind the decks created the space for MNEEMO to step away from them and add a layer that would not have existed otherwise.

The exchange went both ways from the start. MNEEMO brought years of branding, design, and social strategy thinking, the things he had been doing in parallel to music his whole life. Slavko brought DJ technique that was, plainly, ahead of his age. Each one filled in the part the other was less interested in. That is what working partnerships look like before they become public.

The Austrian Alps Set

The next project happened almost by accident.

Slavko's family lives near Salzburg, and the two of them had gone skiing in Obertauern, an Austrian resort sitting at around 1,200 metres above sea level. Riding the lift one afternoon, they spotted a restaurant at the top of the mountain that looked like the kind of place a DJ set has never been recorded inside.

So they walked in.

They introduced themselves, said they were DJs, sent over their Instagrams and press kits, and asked whether the venue would let them film a set on location. A week later they were back with a production crew and rented equipment, carrying the gear up the mountain by hand. The result became Live DJ Set in the Austrian Alps, filmed at the top of Obertauern.

Listen to the Obertauern set on SoundCloud here.

That trip says more about the working relationship than any release ever could. Two people who, given a free afternoon on a mountain, do not relax. They find a venue, build a production, and ship a project. That is the same instinct that had built HOUSE OF MNEEMO from a house party into a London club brand.

SoundCloud Remixes: WKND and Too Sweet

Alongside the live sets and original tracks, MNEEMO and Slavko built a parallel SoundCloud catalogue of joint remixes. These were not label projects. They were the kind of edits that get made between studio sessions, dropped quickly, and end up in DJ sets across multiple cities long before the streaming numbers catch up.

Two of them stand out. The MNEEMO and Slavko WKND edit, available on SoundCloud here. And the MNEEMO and Slavko extended tech house remix of Hozier's Too Sweet, available on SoundCloud here.

This is the same SoundCloud-first logic that runs through MNEEMO's Cannonball bootleg with Flash and his Peso flip of A$AP Rocky. Tracks built for DJ use, not playlist optimisation, released where club edits actually circulate.

Warsaw: The TBA Booking Through Radar Records

In April 2025, MNEEMO flew to Warsaw for the first time to meet the team behind Radar Records in person. That trip is the one previously documented as the moment the GIVE YOU MORE sessions with Flash and Daniel Okaro started.

What was not covered in detail at the time was that NIKITAIDISYUDA, Radar co-founder and the artist whose debut album This Is A Flower MNEEMO would later co-write on, also booked MNEEMO to play TBA, one of the Warsaw clubs in the Radar circuit.

MNEEMO brought Slavko with him.

That booking matters because it was the first time Slavko played outside the UK as part of the MNEEMO ecosystem. Not as a support act on a London night. As a co-bill in a foreign city, on the floor of a club run by the people who would, within months, become the label home for both of them. Warsaw was where the working partnership crossed an international border for the first time. Everything that followed, the Radar releases, the Hï Ibiza moment, scaled outward from that night.

Only For Tonight: The Radar Records Introduction

By the time Slavko had a finished original called Only For Tonight, the question was no longer whether the track was good. It was where to put it.

Slavko had been pitching to multiple labels with no clear answer. MNEEMO knew the Radar team from the inside. He introduced Slavko to Anton, better known as Flash, Radar co-founder and the engineer currently mixing and mastering MNEEMO's own catalogue.

Only For Tonight came out on Radar Records shortly after. Stream it on Spotify here.

That introduction matters because it is the same pattern repeating one level down. MNEEMO got to Radar because NIKITAIDISYUDA and Flash recognised the work. Slavko got to Radar because MNEEMO recognised it in him. That is how small label ecosystems actually grow, through trust passed forward.

The James Hype Comment

In July 2025, Slavko was scrolling Instagram when he saw a post from James Hype. The challenge was simple. If you are a young DJ or producer who thinks you deserve to come to Ibiza and play with him, leave a comment and explain why.

Slavko left a comment. He wrote who he was, where he was from, and what James's work meant to him. Then he forgot about it.

A month later, James Hype followed him on Instagram. Slavko's first instinct was that it had to be automation. Then a DM arrived from James himself. Then James's manager reached out. By the time it became clear this was not content or marketing, it was already happening.

The Waterfalls Remix, Made Against the Clock

James had just released Waterfalls. Slavko knew there was a real possibility he would be playing his own work directly to one of his biggest inspirations, and he had a window of days to come up with something he believed in. He made the remix.

Around the same time, MNEEMO was helping with the surrounding work, the things that turn a moment into a release. Editing the vlog Slavko was filming through the trip. Helping with branding. Helping urgently uploading the Waterfallsremix the night the vlog dropped, when timing meant everything. The remix went up on Hype Edit. It hit number one on the Hype Edit Progressive House chart.

That detail is small but important. The remix was not just played to James in private. It became a release of its own, with a measurable result, in the highest-pressure window of Slavko's career so far.

Inside Hï Ibiza

When Slavko walked into the Hï Ibiza booth for the soundcheck, the room was empty. Hours later it would hold thousands of people. James asked to hear his music. Slavko played the Waterfalls remix, plus a few other originals and remixes.

James listened the way artists rarely listen to other artists. Properly. Then he told Slavko he would play the remix in one of his sets.

He did. And later that year, in October, James dropped Slavko's Waterfalls remix again at Space Miami. Different continent, same booth-level validation.

Watch the full Hï Ibiza vlog on YouTube here and the Waterfalls remix performance here.

The Remix Contest and the Second Radar Release

After Ibiza, Slavko's audience grew by more than ten thousand followers in a window of weeks. He used that momentum the right way. He announced a remix contest for Only For Tonight and received between thirty and forty submissions from producers around the world.

The result became the Only For Tonight Remix Pack, his second release on Radar Records. The same label that had taken the original a year earlier was now publishing a community-built expansion of it. Stream the Remix Pack on Spotify here.

What This Story Is Actually About

It is tempting to read this as a luck story. An Instagram comment, a follow, a DM, a flight to Ibiza. The version of the story that travels through dance music press always rounds those steps into a fairy tale.

The version told from inside the working relationship is different.

Slavko did not arrive in James Hype's booth from nowhere. He arrived after three years of London nights, an album of joint sets with MNEEMO, a mountain shoot in Obertauern, a Warsaw club debut at TBA, two SoundCloud remixes circulating in DJ sets, two Radar Records releases, and a working partnership with another producer who had been building infrastructure around him the entire time. The Instagram comment was the visible step. Everything underneath it was already there.

That is why this story belongs in the HOUSE OF MNEEMO archive rather than in a generic profile piece. It is a working example of how a small ecosystem actually grows. One artist gets in. He brings the next person in. Trust passes forward. The label that took the first person takes the second. The platform built around HOUSE OF MNEEMO becomes the place where these introductions happen.

Slavko is a co-instructor at the HOUSE OF MNEEMO DJ School at Hague House Studios in London. He continues to release on Radar Records. He continues to play London nights alongside MNEEMO. The Instagram DM that started everything is now three years old, and the door it opened keeps opening into bigger rooms.

The story is not finished. It is just finally visible.

This editorial is part of the ongoing scene coverage at mneemo.com, written by London-based DJ and producer MNEEMO. Recent releases on Warsaw label Radar Records include GIVE YOU MORE, Down 405, and Never Come Back. Slavko's Only For Tonight and the Only For Tonight Remix Pack are available on all major streaming platforms via Radar Records. Full editorial archive and music at mneemo.com.