Spectrum City

We're an online record shop shipping worldwide from Finland - specialising in electronics, dub, dance and weirder worlds beyond.

Pike Bay Sound is an online record shop based in Helsinki, Finland – and setup by former staff of London’s Selectadisc and Sister Ray stores. We specialise in many different forms of independent, innovative and interesting music across the board (new and old), with an emphasis on dance music, electronics and the weirder worlds beyond. Alongside house, techno and electro you can expect to find ever

ything from jazz to reggae to disco to post-punk to IDM to experimental and much more. If you would like more info (or to provide suggestions/feedback) please contact us at [email protected] or use our contact form. We also buy records and are happy to make home visits – if you have a collection you would like to sell please feel free to drop us a line!

11/12/2025

Spectrum City is an underground music and culture store based in Finland, selling vinyl, CD and cassettes of electronics, dub, dance and weirder worlds beyond

01/21/2023

The debut album proper from Polish production wizard Lutto Lento aka Lubomir Grzelak - and most definitely one of our favourite releases from the Where To Now? camp.

On Dark Secret World, Lubomir delivers a psychedelic, mystical collage of electronics, tribal percussion, spoken word, weighty bass, airhorns, sirens and a whole lot more to deliver a killer, expertly crafted record which is as head-noddingly funky as it is unsettling.

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01/17/2023

Keith Hudson - Flesh Of My Skin, Blood Of My Blood

Incredible Basic Replay reissue back in print.

"Flesh Of My Skin is the most hallowed of all those reggae albums which remain unavailable, and Keith Hudson's key achievement in a career launched when as a fourteen-year-old he recorded with members of The Skatalites on his Shades Of Hudson rhythm.

Originally released in 1974, after a series of solid-gold productions for Ken Boothe, Delroy Wilson, John Holt, U-Roy and the rest, it projects Hudson's removal from JA to London and New York studios and transatlantic audiences, and inaugurates a sequence of albums - classics like Pick A Dub, Brand, Playing It Cool - which show his troubled experimentalism better suited to the LP than the cardinal 7" reggae format. Anchored here by Santa Davis and George Fullwood from the Soul Syndicate - alongside musicians like Augustus Pablo, Count Ossie and Leroy Sibbles - Hudson's mood is tormented and dazed, as on titles like Darkest Night, My Nocturne and Testing My Faith he struggles for Black senses of commitment - political, existential, religious - at its breaking point.

Magnificently and deadly serious, hauntingly unique, unmissable and unforgettable." - BASIC REPLAY

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01/16/2023

Ihor Okuniev - Roots (10" Ltd to 40 copies)

With RASSVET Records, Pavel Milyakov (aka Buttechno) shone a much appreciated light on forward-thinking underground electronic artists from Eastern Europe - and this fourth and final release saw the debut of Ukrainian multimedia artist Ihor Okuniev.

On 'Roots' - a side step from the more club-friendly sound of previous RASSVET releases by Shadowax and Pavel himself - Ihor delivers ten unique, bleakly poetic tracks, criss-crossing from lush, delicate electronics to unsettling ambience through to pure creeping dread; each one channeling a different aspect of the landscape of his homeland, and all combining to evoke an eerie, self-reflective solo odyssey through Ukrainian forests and folklore.

Imagine the desolate feedback washes of the Dead Man OST but filtered through SAWII or Mika Vainio's Konstellatio and you're half way there... this is an absolute killer record.

BTW - this is a super-limited, handmade lathe cut pressing; there are literally only 40 physical copies of this record in existence!

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01/15/2023

Sabu Martinez – Afro Temple

A long sought-after masterpiece in Latin Jazz/Funk percussion (OG pressings have previously exchanged for up to £1000) this is the US re-press of the jazz drumming maestro's absolute classic. A heavy, beautiful album to get lost in.

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10/12/2020

Seltene Erden ‎– Scorched Erden

After a brief break in releases (or so it seems) this is a very welcome return from PBS favourite Gunnar Wendel – aka Kassem Mosse aka DJ Residue – and his first under the Seltene Erden moniker since 2011’s ‘Northern Rae’ for Mule Electronic. And it’s another pitch-perfect release for Andrew Lyster’s unstoppable YOUTH imprint

With his Workshop / Kassem Mosse releases alone, Gunnar Wendel cemented a reputation as one of the most exciting and effective club-orientated producers out there and then kept the bar just as high with his more experimental releases for The Trilogy Tapes (eg the MM/KM and Dillon Wendel collaborations and his singular DJ Residue EP), not to mention the releases on Honest Jon's and his own Ominira label.

Like that previous Mule release, his latest is a strong side-step away from the dancefloor – focusing on melody and atmosphere over rhythm and percussion, delivering a shimmering, enveloping blend of lush electronics that is all too easy to get lost in – and (of course) it’s all wrapped up in that superior, trademark production. BIG RECOMMENDATION!

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07/29/2020

Following on from the Model Home LP we also have a drop of sumptuous back catalogue belters now up on the site and ready to ship worldwide.

Impeccably curated collections culled from the archives of and 💙💚⚡💛💜

We don't deserve this.

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07/27/2020

Model Home – One Year (LP + DL code)

*FIRST FEW COPIES COME WITH A FREE, SUPER LIMITED ‘MODEL HOME X PURE RAVE‘ MIXTAPE – A ‘ONE YEAR’ DIS-ASSEMBLAGE BY DETROIT TURNTABLIST CREW (AND WOLF EYES AFFILIATES) PURE RAVE

Disciples continue their noble pursuit of unearthing obscured gems from some of the finest artists residing in the outer reaches of forward-thinking, exploratory music – and as with previous Disciples releases (please check Black Lodge, Bogdan Raczynski and His Name Is Alive) it’s another sumptuous archival release, this time culled and curated from eight self-released mixtapes from Washington DC avant-rap duo Model Home aka MC NappyNappa and beat-scientist Patrick Cain.

Model Home continue to fly the DIY flag of their hometown with wildly inventive excursions into free form rap and electronics – when hearing the term ‘Avant-rap’ you’d be forgiven for automatically lumping this in with the likes of Sensational, Spectre and Anticon etc but the term applies rather loosely here. NappyNappa’s truly free-form rap vocals, along with Patrick Cain’s unique electronic production conjures a distinct do-it-yourself atmosphere, which to our ears is closer in spirit to Adrian Sherwood/On-U Sound, Thomas Leer, Crash Course In Science et al than it is Def Jux.

Pure head spinning, jaw dropping, future-thinking energy on this one.

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07/25/2020

Georgia ‎– Fuzzy Logic / Future Proof

Another superb (and super limited) vinyl release from YOUTH – one of the best (and busiest) labels currently operating in underground electronics; let’s hope Lyster doesn’t slow things down anytime soon.

NYC sound-manglers Justin Tripp and Brian Close, aka Georgia, return to YOUTH following last year’s ace ‘One Mind’ CD and appear to be as prolific as their current label boss – with 17 releases already attributed to their name since 2012, across an assortment of gold-standard labels including Firecracker Recordings, Good Morning Tapes, Emotional Response, Kashual Plastik, Palto Flats, FTD etc.

This time round the duo take a slew of frenetic styles as a starting point (from dancehall to footwork to 90s electronica to UKG to Noise to Jungle) before melting and molding them into seven unique, forward-thinking abstracted-techno workouts, keeping things both chaotic and cohesive. This will work just as well in the club as it will on your headphones.

Our favourite – the Push Button Objects / 90s AE channeling ‘Underpass.’

+ Limited to 150 copies
+ Includes insert with artwork by Vernon O’Meally & Georgia, design by DJ Lyster

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07/21/2020

Beatrice Dillon – Workaround

One of this year's finest is finally up on the site!

‘Workaround’ is the lucidly playful and ambitious solo debut album by rhythm-obsessive musician and DJ, Beatrice Dillon for PAN. It combines her love of UK club music’s syncopated suss and Afro- Caribbean influences with a gamely experimental approach to modern composition and stylistic fusion, using inventive sampling and luminous mixing techniques adapted from modern pop to express fresh ideas about groove-driven music and perpetuate its form with timeless, future-proofed clarity.

Recorded over 2017-2019 between studios in London, Berlin and New York, ‘Workaround’ renders a hypnotic series of polymetric permutations at a fixed 150bpm tempo. Mixing meticulous FM synthesis and harmonics with crisply edited acoustic samples from a wide range of guests including UK Bhangra pioneer Kuljit Bhamra (tabla); Pharoah Sanders Band’s Jonny Lam (pedal steel guitar); techno innovators Laurel Halo (synth/vocal) and Batu (samples); Senegalese Griot Kadialy Kouyaté (Kora), Hemlock’s Untold and new music specialist Lucy Railton (cello); amongst others, Dillon deftly absorbs their distinct instrumental colours and melody into 14 bright and spacious computerised frameworks that suggest immersive, nuanced options for dancers, DJs and domestic play.

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