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Mr. Sinclar- What's in his Record Bag? With the release of his 'Sound of Freedom' single, available here , we catch up with Bob to see what he's been droppin' and why. Bob Sinclar & Steve Edward... |
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Eivissa 07, Opening Party & more!! If you want to know what the big club tunes are going to be on the White Island this summer, then there’s just one album you need, and that’s ‘Eivissa 07â... |
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Strictly MAW Latest Now this is truly an event release – the first new compilation on Strictly Rhythm, the legendary house label which we here at Defected are proud to have helpe... |
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Bonjour Monsieur Sinclar In a dance music world populated by faceless producers and po-faced DJs, French hero Bob Sinclar stands alone. The Parisian whose passport reads Christophe Le F... |
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Strictly Business As you’re reading this, it’s safe to assume that a) you’ve got internet access and b) you’re quite fond of house music. So we’re pretty certain you’... |
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Defected Sign 4th Floor & Sub-Urban Records As you may have gathered by now, here at Defected we’ve recently helped relaunch the mighty Strictly Rhythm records. Now, for most labels, that would be enoug... |
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Cafe Mambo Returns If you go to New York, you’ve gotta go up the Empire State Building. If you visit Paris, the Eiffel Tower is a must-do. And if you go to Ibiza, a sunset chill... |
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MAW Mix First Strictly Comp Masters At Work by name, Masters At Work by nature. From underground sample grooves to top 20 crossover tracks via traditional live-based vocal productions and... |
18/05/07 | more |
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Simon Dunmore's A&R Corner Springtime! I think the last A&R section I did was in January so it’s been a good couple of months since I’ve told you what I was up to. It’s now that int... |
17/05/07 | more |
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Defected Returns to North America This June, Simon Dunmore embarks on a whirlwind tour of North America, playing two Defected In the House gigs in two different countries in as many days. On the... |
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Defected @ Ministry Review It’s been more than two years since Ministry of Sound played home to Defected’s In The House club nights, and after tonight it’s hard to imagine it’ll b... |
09/05/07 | more |
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Defected.com Down As you may have noticed the Defected site went down at the weekend due to an issue out of our control, apologies to anyone this affected, especially if you requ... |
08/05/07 | more |
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Strictly need to know. You’ve all seen the catalogue now and you should have the CD’s proudly placed at the front of your Defected DJ wallets by now. But we want to emphasise its ... |
04/05/07 | more |
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Ibiza Here We Come Last month we told you that Defected are to return to Pacha this year. Now we can reveal all. And there’s plenty to reveal, as Defected team up with Strictly ... |
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Bumpin’ all the way home Anyone lucky enough to have attended last year’s Winter Music Conference in Miami would have been among the first to hear Mr V’s outstanding hip-house anthe... |
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Freedom Soundz ‘Soundz Of Freedom’ is the new album from French house legend Bob Sinclar, featuring 14 new mixes of some of his classic tracks like ‘I Feel For You’ an... |
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Dennis Ferrer Officially In the House Dennis Ferrer has been a fixture on the underground dance circuit since the early ’90s, but the past couple of years have seen his career sky-rocketing like n... |
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WMC 2007 Yeah yeah yeah, we’ve heard it all before. Miami is ‘so over’, it’s not relevant any more, yada yada yada. Well that might be the case for jaded music j... |
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I Know I'm Bumpin' You wait forever, and then XX turn up at once. No, we’re not talking about buses, we’re talking about mixes of Mr V’s ‘Da Bump’. It’s over a year si... |
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Strictly Strictly Here at Defected we can’t tell you how proud we are to be responsible for the relaunch of what’s probably THE most legendary house label of all time, so weâ... |
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In the Ministry This Saturday sees Defected, Britain’s biggest and brightest independent house label, make a sensational return to Ministry Of Sound, undeniably one of the wo... |
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Ibiza Here We Come …and speaking of the world’s finest nightclub’s, there’s not a great deal we can disclose at the moment, but Defected are pleased to announce that the s... |
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Bob Sinclar- Radio 1 Presenter? After last week's Essential Selection live from Miami Pete Tong stepped aside and Defected mainstay Bob Sinclar steps up to present tonight's show. Fresh bac... |
30/03/07 | more |
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Defected WMC Blog- Day 2 Ok. So just woke up from a marathon 4hr sleep. Well, exactly 2 hrs more than the night before. No exaggeration, yesterday got to bed from Shelter at approx 6:30... |
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Defected's WMC Blog- Day 1 After a two and a half hour delay at Heathrow we finally got underway on the marathon 9 hour flight to Miami (which by usual standards was a pretty tame flight,... |
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Strictly Monday OUT NOW- This week sees another Strictly Rhythm installment, this time we've got 10 classics on 12" for all you old school jocks out there including Aly-Us ... |
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WMC's Top Parties In no particular order, other than days we'll be hitting them, here's 10 top WMC parties we'll be getting ourselves down to. Tuesday March 20 - Soulfuric p... |
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Defected Host Dance Valley Dance Arena Defected is going to host the Main Dance Arena at 2007's Dance Valley event in Holland. For those that don't know, Dance Valley is the biggest open-air dance... |
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WMC Updates As anyone with any interest in house music will be aware, the year’s premier event is just around the corner. The Miami Winter Music Conference attracts more ... |
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Defected Smash It from New York to Switzerland We smashed it in Switzerland and New York – check out the MADness… They couldn’t be further apart, one venue in the alps of Switzerland, the other in t... |
12/03/07 | more |
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Defected Hit the South Coast Defected make a rare appearance on the South Coast at the prestigious Junk Club! Junk opened just under 2 years ago and in that time has carved itself an env... |
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Defected Return to Ministry Saturday 5th May. Defected In the House. Ministry of Sound. 103 Gaunt St, London SE1. 11 – 6am. Junior Jack & Kid Creme Dennis Ferrer Pasta Boys... |
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Defected In the House @ Cielo Review 23/02/07 Cielo, New York A nervous Defected crew touched down in NYC feeling more than a little cheeky about playing House music in the cold Big Apple. The f... |
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Defected's Weekend in Lausanne All aboard for the Defected weekender, on Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd March the Defected In the House crew will leaving the UK on mass, with the sole intention ... |
15/02/07 | more |
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Strictly's Back On Vinyl After Strictly's return a couple weeks ago with over 30 classic titles being made available digitally, we're now throwing the 12"s into the fore. Check out the ... |
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Miami 2007 Track Notes We got Copyright to sit down and give us a bit more information on why they chose the tracks the did for the forthcoming Defected In the House Miami 2007- M... |
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Defected Launches Galaxy Radio Show Defected Records Podcast develops into a brand new show With Galaxy, the UK’s most listened to commercial brand for 15-34s. Defected Records have joined f... |
09/02/07 | more |
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Barbara Tucker Forum Q&A Log on to the Defected Forum this Wednesday around 4:00 in the afternoon and have a chat with the legendary Barbara Tucker. Barbara Tucker is one of the most... |
29/01/07 | more |
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Defected at Cielo Defected present their debut night at Cielo – New York’s most respected House music venue. New York has always been at the centre of house music, since... |
26/01/07 | more |
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Simon Dunmore's A&R Corner January is always a tough month for finding new music. It seems that dj’s are busy touring all summer and records dry up as a result of them not being in the ... |
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Strictly Rhythm Takeover Week It’s been five long years since Strictly Rhythm closed its doors, its reputation remained firmly intact as the worlds most respected house music label, establ... |
15/01/07 | more |
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Defected's International Forum Party!! Time to stop surfing and start mixing at the Defected In The House official international forum party at Karma Bar & Restaurant before the main event at MAD Clu... |
10/01/07 | more |
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Junior Jack returns with ‘Dare Me’ (Stupidsico) Junior Jack is back – and this time there will be no stopping him with the re release of ‘Dare Me’(Stupidisco), a cover of the Pointer Sisters original by... |
20/12/06 | more |
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Simon Dunmore in Switzerland Defected Records brings its unique mix of disco influenced chic and sublime house music with a series of FOR THE LOVE OF HOUSE events in Switzerland. The fir... |
07/12/06 | more |
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Urban House?! The inner city predicts House to be the next big urban movement “When Matt Mason left last year as editor of RWD magazine, the UK’s foremost urban public... |
22/11/06 | more |
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Limited Edition Merchandise As the year draws to an end, so does some of our merchandise. The following items are strictly limited edition so if you don't get you hands on them now, you're... |
21/11/06 | more |
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Defected Exclusive Ringtones Get them here first... Fish Go Deep feat. Tracey K ‘The Cure & The Cause’ To get the Vocal Version Truetone on your mobile text CURE 1 to 85099 To g... |
15/11/06 | more |
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Dennis Ferrer Questiontime Question From secretsoul How did you first discover house music? Hmm… I didn't discover anything....it discovered me! LOL...I actually came across it whe... |
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Dennis Ferrer Forum Q&A Stop by the Defected forum around 4ish (GMT) on 1st November as man of the moment, Dennis Ferrer, will be stopping by answering all your questions on his forthc... |
30/10/06 | more |
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Defected In The House @ ADE The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) is a marathon of cool DJ’s, amazing clubs, and a little conferencing! So you guys who have never been should hop on a bus, the... |
11/10/06 | more |
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Bob Sinclar Crashes into Top 5 We always new he could do it and Bob Sinclar sails into the national charts with a superb chart placing of #5. Pipped to the number one spot by the likes of Raz... |
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Soulheaven Hits The States SOULHEAVEN will be guesting at a number of venues across the good old U S of A throughout October 2006, along with OSUNLADE we will be spreading the word as par... |
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The Legendary Strictly Rhythm Records is Back After a four year hiatus the label that defined house music throughout the 1990s announces its return to the dance music community following the re-acquisition ... |
29/09/06 | more |
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The World As I See It - Exclusive Audio Over the coming months the Defected audio player will be featuring previously unheard, exclusive tracks off the forthcoming Dennis Ferrer album- The World As I ... |
28/09/06 | more |
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Martin Solveig In The House Parisian Martin Solveig shows us how to effortlessly bridge the gap between electronic music, rock and R & B and why the British perception of French music is j... |
21/09/06 | more |
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Ame 'Rej' Pure, pure Balearic, a much abused terms these days but trust us this will do to Ibiza what Sandcastles did 2 years ago. Whether Immersed in flashing midnight s... |
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Soul Heaven presents DJ Spen & Osunlade The seal of guarantee is in the title and the track list of tunes these two scene leading figures select and craft are nothing short of genius. The winning form... |
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A&R - The Latest from Simon Dunmore September is always crazy busy… damn the year is always crazy busy! Basically getting ready for the Christmas period at the same time as the Ibiza closing par... |
18/09/06 | more |
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Dennis Ferrer - Church Lady One of the most eagerly awaited tracks in house will be available as of tomorrow (15th Sept) only in the Defected Store..... get it hear first.... |
14/09/06 | more |
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For The Love Of House Its all for the love baby – The new instalment of Defected’s all you need to know about House Music is ready to drop. Disco is Volume 3’s theme as tracks ... |
08/09/06 | more |
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Mr V – Welcome Home A Master of his art, Mr.V drops a new slant on New Yorks staple sound of Hip-Hop pressure. A unique patter of Jazzy lyrics and laid back party vibes are married... |
08/09/06 | more |
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Junior Jack New Format Junior Jack is back, after a short period away from producing Vito Lucente has stayed true to form and has brought us a another massive anthem, already played b... |
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Ibiza Closing Party with Louie Vega, JJ and KC..... Oh dear, we are at the end of the season already, so all you headz that have missed out this season you have your final chance to get the Defected In The House ... |
08/09/06 | more |
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Lifelike & Kris Menace ‘Discopolis’ video Very French and very sexy is the best way to describe ‘Discopolis’ and this also applies in every sense to the hot (literally) new video which you can watch... |
05/09/06 | more |
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Deep Down & Discofied Compiled by Defected’s Simon Dunmore, Deep Down & Discofied is the first in a new compilation series of classic grooves & house inspirations. A retrospective ... |
30/08/06 | more |
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New Defected merchandise range Launched to coincide with our brand new website is the new range of Defected merchandise. As well as CD cases and Records Bags for the working DJ we also have s... |
30/08/06 | more |
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Defected Office Chart Here's ten tracks currently on rotation on the Defected one's and two's . . . . Joe T Vannelli Ft: Rochelle Fleming 'Get It On'(Tom Novy remix) DJ Technic... |
29/08/06 | more |
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Storm Queen Video Competition - T&Cs 1. This competition will be governed by these terms and conditions and entrants agree that they have read and understood these terms and conditions and will be ... |
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