London’s Starlane Pizza Bar hosts nine-act minimal techno showcase Sunday

The real story at Starlane Pizza Bar was not just the nine-name bill, but the kind of room it put them in. JUST FOR FUN - 2nd Edition brought Timoti, Greg Nox, Daci, Desuba, Ughe, Monterosso, Obreja, Darush and Save P into a local London setting built for food, dance and late-night social spillover, the sort of environment where minimal techno and electro scenes keep their shape between larger club weekends.

The event landed on Sunday at Starlane, on 12 Cody Road in E16 4SR, and the lineup leaned directly into Electro and Minimal Techno. That mix matters because nights like this are where the scene stays porous: newer producers get tested against an actual floor, established underground names share a bill with emerging selectors, and the room itself becomes the filter. The second edition of JUST FOR FUN suggested that the format already has some traction, not just curiosity.

Starlane has become one of those spaces that can hold that function. Its own description frames it as a place to meet new people, eat, dance and hear local and international artists, and its calendar has repeatedly hosted minimal-leaning programming. Recent listings there have included a Cartulis afterparty described as featuring deep-dug minimal, electro and IDM, Sunset x HIVE tagged Electro and Minimal Techno, and LANDED IN THE LANE billed with Minimal Techno and house and minimal techno pushers. That kind of repetition is what makes a venue feel woven into a scene rather than merely rented by it.

The roster also showed how much personal backstory sits inside a supposedly simple club flyer. Ughe, born in Cagliari in 1998, has a profile that points to minimal, organic, electronic and elegant sounds, while Desuba’s lane stretches from old-school techno to electro and minimal, shaped by seven years in London. Greg Nox is pitched as an artist focused on evolving sound and experimentation. Daci is listed as Daniele Pucci, Italy-born and UK-based. Monterosso, identified as Elio Monterosso, is UK-based and first appeared at Resident Advisor in 2023. Obreja’s biography already ties him to Orange Yard, 93 Feet East, E1, The Goose and Starlane itself, along with his own London events, while Save P is Saverio Petruzzi, born in Italy and based in the UK.

That mix of local continuity and cross-border movement is what gives a night like this its weight. London’s electronic ecosystem still runs on tiny bars, clubs and warehouse rooms, and Starlane’s 24-hour Friday and Saturday licence only strengthens the sense that it is part of a wider after-hours infrastructure. JUST FOR FUN - 2nd Edition read less like a one-off and more like a small but credible sign that a minimal and electro community is building its own steady ground.