Senior North Korean diplomat Ri Il Kyu was in Cuba before he reportedly defected to South Korea with his family last year. He is the highest-ranking official known to have escaped to the South since ...

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 ...

Wez Saunders has acquired dance label and music group Defected, Music Week can reveal. The independent label was launched in 1999 by Simon Dunmore. Following the management buyout by the MD, Saunders ...

Defected Records is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a limited edition collector's book and vinyl boxset. The label’s first-ever hardback coffee table book, Defected: 25 Years In The House, has ...

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It’s a time of change at Defected Records, and the indie’s latest move is a plan to “set a new industry” standard for royalty rates. Wez Saunders, who was recently announced as the company’s new CEO, ...

"I want to continue the work that made me a fan of Defected," says Saunders, who acquired ownership of the venerable U.K. house label in August. By Krystal Rodriguez On a late summer morning in London ...

A Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine with a Mi-8 helicopter will receive a substantial reward of half a million dollars for changing sides and taking Russia’s military equipment with him. Ukraine’s ...