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DFTD
235 releases tracked from 2013 · 292 producers · latest sep 2026
Scene: Festival & crossover house · also in Underground tech house
9 tracks · 11 charting artists · 31 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · active
DFTD, a breakout sublabel of Defected Records, focuses on new and undiscovered talent from around the globe.
◢ what the catalogue measures
sound
34% one genreHouse, then Tech House and Deep House
34% of the 235 releases we can tag · 10 of the last 12 we could tag
tempo
±4 BPM124 BPM typical, 120–128 across four in five releases
235 of 235 releases carry a tempo reading
chart tier
tier 12.5 per record
35 chart entries since July · rate = entries per record over that window; 3 bars = most; no tier = no charts or under 10 records/yr
career stage
10 yrs medianProducers here had a median 10 years of releases before their first record on the label
across 51 producers whose earlier history we can follow
first records
debuts
13 of 14
last debut
3 months ago
new here Ahmed Spins (Jul) · Mike Dunn (Jul)
13 of the 14 releases in the last 12 months were an artist's debut on the label
format
84% solo/duoSolo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases
counting compilations too, 207 of 246 · 7 various-artists compilations
remixes
10% of releasesRemixes appear regularly
23 of the 230 releases whose credits we can read
◢ how often the roster changes
10.5
new names a year
averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace
8 of 78
get a second record
producers who debuted here over a year ago
1.1
releases a month
26 records in 24 months
◢ first records here, by year
Grey counts releases that year. Full colour counts producers whose first record on this label falls in that year — including producers with no traceable earlier history, a wider population than the per-year rate above.
◢ on the charts, week by week
new entries
week of 12 oct: 2 new entries · 0 top-20 placements · avg rank ▼ 22.7 places
pathKling Klong Music, SPINNIN' DEEP +6 → DFTD → Heattraxx, HouseU +68 before · 8 afterpath into
DFTDKling Klong Music10SPINNIN' DEEP10Southern Fried Records7Rekids6DFTDHeattraxx58 before · 8 after ↓◢ path into DFTDwhere DFTD artists released before and after
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01 · before · artists released here first
- Kling Klong Musicno tier10 artists
- SPINNIN' DEEPtier 110 artists
- Southern Fried Recordstier 37 artists
- Rekidstier 16 artists
- Yoshitoshi Recordingsno tier6 artists
- Blockhead Recordingstier 25 artists
- Cocoon Recordingstier 15 artists
- Go Deeva Recordstier 15 artists
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02 · this label
DFTD
03 · after · released here next
- Heattraxxtier 15 artists
- HouseUtier 35 artists
- IN / ROTATION (Insomniac Records)tier 25 artists
- Jackies Music Recordstier 15 artists
- Let There Be House Recordsno tier5 artists
- Make The Girls Dance Recordstier 15 artists
- Nu Groove Recordsno tier5 artists
- Tinted Recordstier 15 artists
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each count = artists here who also released there, out of 116 traced
also releasing on (shared artists): Variety Music (23), Defected Records (19), Moon Harbour (13), Recovery Tech (13), Toolroom (13), Snatch! Records (12), Crosstown Rebels (11), Club Sweat (10)
16 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 292
◢ who's on it
16 artists charted on this label in the last 8 weeks · 70 have pages here · showing 20, newest chart date first
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- Variety Music (23), Defected Records (19) and Moon Harbour (13) share producers with this roster in the same period.
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