{"id":1216,"count":1,"description":"British dance music label founded by Simon Dunmore.\r\nFormer [l=Cooltempo] and [l=AM:PM] A&R Dunmore incorporated parent company [l=Defected Records Ltd.] in September 1998 and launched Defected, with funding from [l=Ministry Of Sound], on 1 January 1999, when A&M's owner PolyGram formally merged with [l=Universal Music Group].\r\nJanet Bell, Dunmore's promotions partner at AM:PM, with whom he launched the label, departed in December 2001 to run [l=Big Love].\r\nA&R manager from 2004 to 2019: Andy Daniell.\r\nFormer MD Wez Saunders acquired the label and its subsidiaries via a management buyout in July 2022 and became the company's CEO.\r\nHead of A&R from 2023: Allan Nicoll aka Kid Fonque.\r\nDirector of Music from 2024: Andy Daniell.\r\nThe label marked its 25th anniversary in 2024 with a special logo designed by Trevor Jackson.\r\nDefected has various sublabels with separate A&Rs and musical identities and owns the catalogues of a number of heritage house labels from the 1990s.\r\n\r\n[u]Current sublabels[\/u]\r\n[l=Glitterbox Recordings] (label: [l=Glitterbox]) (A&R: Seamus Haji \/ Director of music: Melvo Baptiste)\r\n[l=Classic Music Company] (2010-) (label: [l=Classic]) (A&R: Luke Solomon)\r\n[l=DFTD]\r\n[l=D4 D4NCE]\r\n[l=Faith (18)] (A&R: Terry Farley, Stuart Patterson and Dave Jarvis)\r\nBad Decisions (A&R: Wez Saunders)\r\n[l=Big Love Music] (label: [l=Big Love]) (A&R: Seamus Haji)\r\n[l=D-Vine Sounds] (A&R: Sam Divine)\r\n[l=The Remedy Project] (A&R: Melvo Baptiste)\r\nMahaba (A&R: Kitty Amor)\r\n[l=Stay True Sounds] (A&R: Allan Nicoll)\r\n[l=One People (2)] (A&R: Allan Nicoll)\r\n[l=4 To The Floor Records] (label: [l=4 To The Floor (2)])\r\n[l=Faya Combo]\r\n[l=Nu Groove Records]\r\n[l=Soulfuric Recordings] (A&R: Seamus Haji)\r\n[l=Slip'N'Slide Records] (label: [l=Slip 'N' Slide])\r\n[l=Yoruba Records]\r\n[l=Fourth Floor Records] aka [l=4th Floor Records]\r\n[l=K4B Records]\r\n[l=Movin' Records]\r\n[l=Sub-Urban]\r\n\r\n[u]Former sublabels[\/u]\r\n[l=ITH Records]\r\n[l=Soul Heaven Records]\r\n[l=Bargrooves]\r\n[l=Cyphon]\r\n[l=Fluential Records] (label: [l=Fluential])\r\n[l=M (4)]\r\n[l=Spectrum Records]\r\n[l=The Sound Of Defected]\r\n[l=Code Red Recordings]\r\n[l=Strictly Rhythm]\r\n[l=Sondela Recordings]\r\n\r\n[u]Series[\/u]\r\n[l=House Masters]\r\n[l=Most Rated]\r\n[l=In The House]\r\n[l=For The Love Of House]\r\n[l=Isolation Nation]\r\n[l=Sampler EP]\r\n[l=Sessions (5)] (with [l=Ministry Of Sound])\r\n[l=Together (3)]\r\n[l=Connected (4)]\r\n[l=Deep Down & Defected]\r\n[l=Defected Accapellas]\r\n[l=Defected Clubland Adventures]\r\n[l=Defected D-Fused]\r\n[l=Defected D-Fused & Digital]\r\n[l=Defected In The House]\r\n[l=Defected Presents]","link":"https:\/\/egiarecords.com\/eu\/sello\/defected\/","name":"Defected","slug":"defected","taxonomy":"sello","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egiarecords.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sello\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egiarecords.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sello"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egiarecords.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/sello"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/egiarecords.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?sello=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}