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Ilan(NightCityLife)

Heineken Backyard

London-based record collector and DJ Ilan has gained fame for posting artwork of rare 1980s records from his collection on his Instagram account and curating the 2LP compilation Night City Life for Spacetalk Records in 2019. The compilation was received enthusiastically and proved that not all high-quality 1980s Italo disco, synth-pop, boogie, and other club music had yet been discovered. Ilan is a crate digger who has been searching for under-the-radar club cuts from the early-to-mid 1980s since his teens, and currently, he is working on a second compilation for Spacetalk Records, which is scheduled to be released in 2024.