Saunders succeeds former Defected founder Simon Dunmore, who will stay on at the label as an A&R consultant. By Katie Bain Defected Records, one of the dance world’s leading labels, has a new CEO and ...

When Billboard Dance catches up with Simon Dunmore, the Defected Records founder is in Ibiza, where he's preparing for the label's closing party later that week following a summer-long residency at… ...

The night-time economy was the fifth biggest industry in the UK in 2019 according to the Night Time Industries Association, driven in no small part by clubbers getting hot and sweaty on packed dance ...

Five nights. Four days. Three stages. A whole lot of house music. Last weekend, Defected Records brought a lineup of world-class DJs, producers, and performers to celebrate its eighth edition of the ...

Defected has announced a new partnership with UK charity Shelter. Kicking off this month, the year-long campaign will involve a range of fundraising activities, with Defected’s dance music community ...

U.K. house music label Defected Records has been strategically dancing its way across the pond for nearly five years now, programming stateside events and releases in major club scene destinations ...

Andy Daniell is rejoining Defected Records as director of music. Effective from this month, Daniell will report to CEO Wez Saunders, with a remit to oversee the label’s entire musical output. Daniell ...

Over the past 17 years, Defected has reached several milestones that not many independent labels get to achieve. Having accomplished number one albums, global hit records and a mammoth 17 years within ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The past 12 months haven’t been kind to dance music. On the weekend of March 14 2020, the final club nights ...

Defected Records has announced details of its first virtual music festival in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. As the disease continues to spread across the UK, the London label will stream 12 ...