Sweet Spot first began as a radio program created by a band of friends in Bandung, airing since 2021 on the local online radio platform Norrm Radio. We were a quiet bunch, hanging out at a local spot called Pollen Gallery, sharing our love for music and our urge to create.

Our story began with friendship, community, and that yearning for music. Alfi, Adhi, Al, Fathan, Khalid, Toby, and many more have contributed to Sweet Spot and remain part of its small, growing family.

When Pollen closed its doors in late 2024, we each continued on our own paths, with our own lives and personal matters to attend to. The physical space may be gone, but the connection we’ve built continues to live on.

What started as a radio show grew into events, parties, and residencies. Now, with Toby based in Melbourne, Sweet Spot is taking another step forward as an independent record label, carrying that same spirit of friendship, community, and curiosity into releasing lively electronic music.

The first official Sweet Spot release, Alfi’s So Many Trades EP, is coming soon.

So Many Trades

Explores the condition of constantly becoming something else. A practice shaped from the unwillingness to stay in one place for too long. Often phrased as “jack-of-all-trades”. 

So Many Trades is Alfi’s interpretation about wearing different hats in his life, crossing various disciplines. The learning by doing that has made him find connections and inspiration from surprising places and occasions. The work moves freely between sound, ideas, people, and community, never completely belonging to one category.

I’ve met Alfi through many lenses and worked with him through lots of projects together. Many would connect him with the Indonesian slang, ngulik, meaning that he would tinker and dive into practices in a very serious and detailed way. Detaching from the popular phrase, “Jack of all trades, master of none”. Alfi’s love and mastery in dance music is showcased in his first EP with Sweet Spot; starting from 99 Uphills, a very welcoming, dub influenced opening track. On to the very happy dance track, Slightly 909. The third track is So Many Trades, a more driving clubby sound, dirty but still in a way polished like a new song, with delays and echoes to just lose yourself in the dance. Closing it off with a very dreamy track which is smooth as… Silk.