DnB Allstars: Inside the UK Drum and Bass Platform Turning Community Into Infrastructure

DnB Allstars is a London drum and bass label, events brand and online community founded in 2017 by Joshua Williams, and no Gunnersbury Park festival is listed for 2026: its last one there ran on Sunday 14 September 2025, and its 2026 London event moved to Eutopia Warehouse in Barking on 13 and 14 June. As of late September 2026 the brand is touring Australia and New Zealand, from Brisbane on 26 September to Sydney on 5 October, and its Phuket weekender returns on 22 to 24 January 2027. Below: how Williams' brand grew from an online community into a label, a festival, a touring network and an open A&R gateway.

Editorial by House of MNEEMO

DnB Allstars is the trading name of DNBA Entertainment Ltd, a UK private limited company founded by Joshua Paul Williams. The brand was launched in 2017 and the operating company was incorporated on 28 September 2018. What started as a community-facing drum and bass platform now runs a record label (DnB Allstars Records), an international festival arm, a touring business across the UK, Europe and Australasia, and a direct-to-consumer apparel store. The 2025 flagship festival ran at Gunnersbury Park, London. The 2026 London flagship event, Summer in the City, took place at Eutopia Warehouse in Barking. The 2027 international calendar opens with DnB Allstars Thailand in Phuket. This is an editorial profile of how that infrastructure was built, and what it actually does for the artists inside it.

Quick facts: DnB Allstars / DNBA Entertainment Ltd

• Trading name: DnB Allstars
• Operating company: DNBA Entertainment Ltd
• Companies House number: 11593420
• Incorporated: 28 September 2018
• Public brand launch: 2017 (per official site footer "© DNB ALLSTARS 2017-2025")
• Founder and director: Joshua Paul Williams
• Registered address: 5-9 Headstone Road, Harrow, England, HA1 1PD
• Forbes recognition: Joshua Williams, Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe Entertainment 2023
• Core arms: Record label (DnB Allstars Records), events / touring, festival, apparel store, plus a reported publishing JV with UMPG (not confirmed on UMPG's own pages)
• 2025 UK festival: Gunnersbury Park, London, Sunday 14 September 2025
• Gunnersbury Park 2026: no date listed on the official events calendar as of late September 2026
• 2026 London flagship event: Summer in the City, Eutopia Warehouse, Barking, 13 to 14 June 2026 (now past)
• On now: Australia and New Zealand tour, Brisbane 26 September, Perth 27 September, Christchurch 2 October, Auckland 3 October, Sydney 5 October 2026
• 2027 destination event: DnB Allstars Thailand, Phuket, 22 to 24 January 2027, 3-day GA from £189, 20+ only

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What DnB Allstars actually is

The first thing to understand about DnB Allstars is that it is not a record label that grew an audience.

It is the reverse. It is an audience machine that grew into a record label, a festival, a touring brand, a publishing operation and a clothing retailer.

That distinction matters because it changes how you read every other part of the story. Traditional drum and bass labels (Hospital Records, founded 1996; RAM Records, founded 1992; Metalheadz; Critical Music; Shogun Audio) built catalogue first, signed artists, sold records, eventually grew live arms. DnB Allstars worked in the opposite direction. The brand captured the attention of a global drum and bass community across social platforms before it ever signed a release. By the time the label put out its first release in January 2019, the distribution audience was already built in.

That is the structural difference. Everything else flows from it.

From community brand to DNBA Entertainment Ltd

The verified public record gives a clean skeleton.

DnB Allstars was launched in 2017 by London-based entrepreneur Joshua Williams. Forbes' coverage of his 2023 inclusion in the 30 Under 30 Europe Entertainment list describes him as the founder of "DnB Allstars, a touring event and drum and bass music label based in London", and confirms the 2017 launch year.

On 28 September 2018, the operating company DNBA Entertainment Ltd was incorporated at Companies House. Joshua Paul Williams is listed as sole director from incorporation and as the majority shareholder per Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. The structure means the brand operates under direct founder control, which historically gives it agility that larger institutional labels rarely match.

What is less formally documented is the texture of the early growth. Drum and bass fan discussion online often describes DnB Allstars as having grown out of a social-first, community-first project before it became a label and festival brand, the kind of page that understood how drum and bass culture was already moving through clips, memes, reels, crowd videos and online community behaviour. The exact origin mechanics (which platform, which group, which first post) are not strongly source-verified, so they should not be claimed as hard fact. What is verifiable is that by the time the limited company was formed in 2018, DnB Allstars was already operating as a public-facing drum and bass community brand.

A useful nuance lies in the company's Standard Industrial Classification codes. DNBA Entertainment Ltd is registered under SIC codes 46420 (wholesale of clothing and footwear) and 56210 (event catering activities). The legal filing categories reflect specific revenue streams alongside the brand's wider music, label, festival and media operation, but they do not fully describe the public-facing scope of the business. In practical cultural terms, recorded music functions as one part of a wider flywheel: attention, events, apparel, publishing and community data, all running through one operating company.

The social machine

DnB Allstars positions itself as "the largest online community of Drum & Bass fans globally". Across multiple platforms, the underlying scale supports that positioning at a level few drum and bass brands match.

As of May 2026, the verified scale across owned channels:

• Instagram @dnballstars: approximately 863,000 followers (main account)
• Instagram @dnballstarsuk: approximately 167,000 followers (UK-specific)
• Instagram @dnbarecords: approximately 49,000 followers (label-specific account)
• Facebook DnB Allstars: 537,000+ likes, with the page self-describing as having over 1.3 million followers across platforms
• YouTube @dnballstars: approximately 358,000 subscribers, around 1,000 videos
• SoundCloud: approximately 175,000 followers
• TikTok @dnballstars: active presence, follower count not reliably verified at time of writing
• Spotify playlists: owned editorial reach across multiple DnB-themed playlists

The competitive context matters. UKF, the closest legacy comparator in UK bass music, has approximately 462,000 Instagram followers as of May 2026, despite holding 2.83 million subscribers on YouTube. Hospital Records sits at around 249,000 Instagram followers and 562,000 YouTube subscribers. RAM Records is at around 119,000 on Instagram. Liquicity, the Netherlands-based community-festival-label hybrid, sits at around 846,000 YouTube subscribers.

DnB Allstars' particular strength sits on Instagram and across combined community footprint, where the brand operates more like an attention platform than a traditional label. UKF remains the dominant force on YouTube specifically. These are different shapes of audience scale, and within the genre they coexist as complementary rather than directly comparable.

What this scale unlocks structurally is a single thing: total operational independence from traditional electronic music press. By owning the audience, DnB Allstars can launch a release, sell a festival or move a producer into rotation without needing coverage from Mixmag, DJ Mag or Resident Advisor. The platform does not need permission from external media to dictate what matters in the genre's online conversation.

The label: DnB Allstars Records

The brand was founded in 2017; the label has been releasing since 2019. Its first release was Turno's "Lunar" (DNBAR001) on 7 January 2019, and DnB Allstars Records is now one of the most active drum and bass catalogue operations in the UK, with its own site at dnballstarsrecords.com.

Public-facing infrastructure for the label includes:

• Beatport label page: beatport.com/label/dnb-allstars-records/73448
• Bandcamp: dnballstars.bandcamp.com
• Spotify label playlists across multiple genre angles
• Discogs historical catalogue going back to the first release, DNBAR001, in January 2019

The Bandcamp description positions the label as "Delivering high quality Drum & Bass content to party people around the world", with location listed as London, UK. The Beatport label description states that DnB Allstars "represents both the unheard and established names of Drum & Bass", which is structurally accurate. The label sits in the rare position of running the same release calendar across both well-known names (Bou, Hedex, A Little Sound, Bladerunner, Camo & Krooked, Andromedik, Wilkinson, P Money on guest features, Mollie Collins, Used, Makoto) and producers entering through the open submission funnel.

Recent 2026 releases verified on Bandcamp and SoundCloud include "Love Me Better" (Document One feat. Jolie P and i.5.2.y), "Do You" (Upgrade and Basstripper), "Feel Your Love EP", "Over Again" (Eddy Don't Sail and Jordvn Emanuel) and Gino single material, alongside compilation releases continuing into the Allstars Collections and Size Up series.

The release architecture: Collections, Remixes, Size Up

The strategic structure of the label is built around three ongoing compilation series, supplemented by single releases and EPs.

Allstars Collections is the flagship multi-track series. Volume 2 of the Allstars Collections, as documented on the official site, featured Burt Cope, Primate, Captain Bass, Mandidextrous, Ayah Marar, Formula, Amplify and P Money. Volume 6 of the Allstars Collections was released on 7 November 2025 with tracks by Used, Makoto, Eskei83, Murdock, Joe Killington, Rendah feat. Comma Dee, and Refracta.

Allstars Remixes is the remix-format series, with Volume 1 released on 7 January 2022 and including Tsuki remixing Catch-22 NZ, Whiney remixing goddard., Benny Page remixing Alcemist, Jamezy remixing Willy Mav, and Phibes remixing Jammez and 4K.

Size Up is the more festival-leaning compilation series. Size Up Vol. 2 was released on 12 September 2025 as a 20-track compilation. Tracks include "Pull Me Down" (Ticky), "Never Get Enough" (Comet), "Badman" (Silloh), "Facile" (MNEEMO, FLASH and a producer from MNEEMO's London circle), "Count The Stars" (SKIYE) and "Obsess" (Mountain), among others.

Public analytics for the catalogue, as reported by Songstats label analytics, indicate the label has accumulated significant streaming totals, with hundreds of millions of cumulative streams across DSPs, broad playlist reach across the editorial ecosystem, and thousands of documented DJ supports. These figures are useful as scale indicators rather than as exact audited numbers, since label-level analytics fluctuate.

The strategic point is straightforward. By running three parallel compilation series, the label can release a large volume of music throughout the year, give multiple emerging producers a route into a documented catalogue, and maintain editorial visibility across DSPs without depending on rare landmark single releases.

The publishing maturation: UMPG joint venture

In late 2023, DnB Allstars was reported to have launched DnB Allstars Publishing as a global joint venture with Universal Music Publishing Group. We could not find the announcement on UMPG's own news pages at the time of writing, so treat the details in this section as the brand's account rather than a confirmed UMPG statement.

This step is more significant than the press cycle suggested. A label deals with master recordings. A publisher deals with the underlying songs, the compositions, the synchronisation rights for film, TV, advertising and video games, and the long-term collection of mechanical and performance royalties. Adding a publishing arm to a community-first brand is a serious structural move. It signalled that DnB Allstars was no longer just monetising recordings. It was now positioned to monetise the underlying intellectual property generated within its ecosystem.

Writers reported as early signings to DnB Allstars Publishing include Grace Barton, Elipsa and Tsuki, vocalists and producers whose compositions sit at the centre of multiple recent DnB releases.

If it runs as described, the UMPG partnership is also a credibility marker. UMPG is one of the three major global publishing companies, and a joint venture between a community-led DnB brand and a major publisher would be a meaningful endorsement of the platform's long-term commercial trajectory.

The festival as strategic infrastructure

DnB Allstars Festival is the physical manifestation of everything the brand has built online.

The 2025 edition took place on Sunday 14 September 2025 at Gunnersbury Park, London W3 8LQ, from 11:00 to 22:00. Resident Advisor's event page documents seven stages, over 100 artists, ticket pricing in the £45 to £57.50 range, and the event positioned as the third year of DnB Allstars Festival in London, back at Gunnersbury Park.

The 2025 lineup spanned generations. Verified performances and timetable entries included Andy C, Camo and Krooked, Andromedik, Bou (and Bou B2B B Live 247), Amplify, Latte and Toxinate, Master Error and P Money, Flava D and Comma Dee, Kelvin 373, Selecta J-Man and Waeys with Carasel, Emily Makis, 1991, and a programmed timetable across Clarkey, Azule, Natty D, Nersha, JBookey, Anton, WeejiD, Upgrade and Cino with Harry Shotta. The festival programmed heritage names (Andy C, Camo and Krooked) alongside the current dancefloor wave (Bou, Amplify, Flava D, 1991) inside the same physical space.

The 2026 calendar tells a different story.

Summer in the City 2026 was the 2026 London flagship event. It moved from the open-air expanse of Gunnersbury Park to Eutopia Warehouse in Barking, East London, on 13 and 14 June 2026, running 12:00 to 22:00 both days. The event site (dnballstars.london) describes the format as two indoor warehouses plus an outdoor yard, with Funktion-One sound across all three stages, and final-release weekend passes at £50. No Gunnersbury Park date appears on the official calendar for 2026.

We read the Summer in the City move as a shift in philosophy. Outdoor London festivals in residential-adjacent parkland are constrained by strict municipal noise regulation, which is structurally hostile to bass-heavy music. By moving the June 2026 event to a warehouse format, DnB Allstars chose acoustic pressure over open-air scale. The choice is not a downgrade. It is a curatorial signal that drum and bass works better in a dark indoor room with proper sound than in a quiet open-air park.

Touring beyond London

International touring is the part of the operation that most clearly reads as a global infrastructure play.

Verified 2026 events from the official DnB Allstars site include:

• DnB Allstars: Tallinn, Estonia, 15 May 2026
• DnB Allstars: London (Summer in the City), Eutopia Warehouse, Barking, 13-14 June 2026
• DnB Allstars: Rotterdam, Netherlands, 26 June 2026
• DnB Allstars: Mannheim, Germany, 27 June 2026
• DnB Allstars: Australia and New Zealand, Brisbane 26 September, Perth 27 September, Christchurch 2 October, Auckland 3 October, Sydney 5 October 2026

Earlier dates on the official events archive include Portugal, Prague, Stockholm and Slovakia abroad, and Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool and Nottingham at home. Resident Advisor also lists two sold-out DnB Allstars nights at Printworks London in 2023, and a 2023 Leeds date on the 30Hz UK tour with Serum.

The most ambitious forward date is DnB Allstars Thailand, 22 to 24 January 2027 in Phuket, a return after the brand's Phuket weekend of 23 to 25 January 2026. The official event site puts last year's crowd at 2,000 and expects 3,000 in 2027, from more than 40 countries, across three stages with a Void sound system. Tickets start at £189 for a 3-day GA pass, £289 for VIP and £499 for the Inner Circle tier, and the event is strictly 20+.

The Asia move is strategically significant. In our view, UK drum and bass infrastructure rarely travels into Southeast Asia at this scale. Most international DnB tourism flows from the UK or Europe toward festivals in Czech Republic (Let It Roll), the Netherlands (Liquicity), Croatia (Hospitality On The Beach) or Belgium (Rampage). A purpose-built DnB Allstars weekender in Phuket reverses that direction and treats the modern DnB audience as a mobile, international consumer base willing to travel for curated experiences.

The open A&R funnel: Trackstack and producer access

The mechanism that ties DnB Allstars to emerging producers most directly is its open A&R submission pipeline.

The brand routes demos through Trackstack, a digital demo submission platform designed to replace the traditional unreviewed "promos@" email funnel that has historically frustrated underground producers. Trackstack consolidates submissions into a single reviewable inbox for the label A&R team, with internal notes, ratings and decision workflow built in. Trackstack is the only demo route: the label does not take submissions through LabelRadar.

This open pipeline is unusual at the scale DnB Allstars operates. Most labels of comparable size move to closed A&R, manager-only submissions and curated relationships. DnB Allstars publicly maintains the open door. The strategic logic is consistent with the rest of the brand: keep the funnel wide, let community members continue to convert into contributors, surface signals algorithmically and editorially, then promote what works into the compilation series.

For producers researching label strategy, that open door is the most distinctive thing DnB Allstars offers. Most labels promise some version of "we listen to demos". A submission is still no guarantee of a release, and each track follows its own path through the editorial process.

DnB Allstars compared to UKF, Hospital, RAM and Liquicity

To understand DnB Allstars' competitive position, it helps to place the brand explicitly against the major comparators.

UKF (founded 2009 as a YouTube/online media brand, later expanded into label and events): largest YouTube footprint in UK bass music with approximately 2.83 million subscribers. Discovery and media-first identity. Broader bass music scope (drum and bass, dubstep, house). DnB Allstars surpasses UKF on Instagram-specific scale but does not compete on YouTube totals.

Hospital Records (founded 1996 by London Elektricity / Tony Colman and Chris Goss): heritage drum and bass label with deep catalogue across three decades, plus the Hospitality In The Park festival arm. Catalogue-first identity. Approximately 249,000 Instagram followers, 562,000 YouTube subscribers. Different model: artists are signed and developed long-term within the label's curated identity.

RAM Records (founded 1992 by Andy C): drum and bass heritage label with a heavyweight roster (Sub Focus, Wilkinson, Andy C, Audio, Loadstar). Approximately 119,000 Instagram followers. Operates as a more selective, deep-catalogue label rather than a high-volume aggregator.

Liquicity (founded in the Netherlands as a YouTube community channel, later expanded into label and festival): community-festival-label hybrid with around 846,000 YouTube subscribers, focused largely on liquid and melodic drum and bass. Strategically the closest comparator to DnB Allstars in structural shape, but with a narrower musical focus.

Critical Music, Metalheadz, Shogun Audio, Vision Recordings and other specialist labels each occupy specific subgenre niches (neurofunk, jungle, technical drum and bass, jump up) and are not directly comparable in scale.

What separates DnB Allstars from all of the above is the combination of: community-first origin, genre-agnostic curation across the full drum and bass spectrum, open A&R funnel, vertical integration of label plus festival plus apparel plus publishing, and the scale of owned-audience reach across multiple platforms simultaneously. That is the distinctive shape of the operation. No single comparator combines all of those elements.

DnB in the UK in 2026: a thriving genre on fragile infrastructure

The wider context for DnB Allstars matters.

UK drum and bass in 2026 is in an unusual position. In our view the genre is commercially stronger than it has been at any point since its 1990s rave-era peak.

Nia Archives' album Silence Is Loud (released 12 April 2024) reached number 16 on the UK Albums Chart and earned a 2024 Mercury Prize nomination. Hedex, Bou, Turno, A Little Sound, Vibe Chemistry and a generation of jump-up and high-tempo producers have built mass TikTok and Reels audiences.

Simultaneously, the UK's underlying club infrastructure is fragile. NTIA data records around 480 UK nightclubs lost between June 2020 and June 2024, leaving 851 in the whole of the UK by mid-2024, with the mid-tier club sector under particular pressure. The traditional 1,000-capacity club tier that historically supported drum and bass culture has thinned significantly.

That paradox (rising genre, falling infrastructure) is what makes a platform like DnB Allstars strategically important. When the historic club ecosystem cannot reliably host the genre at scale, a brand that owns its audience, runs its own festivals, controls its own publishing pipeline and operates its own ticketing channels becomes the structural backbone of the scene. The infrastructure is moving away from the venue and toward the platform.

What DnB Allstars does for an artist

For producers, the practical question is what the brand actually offers.

Based on public information, the answer covers five concrete things:

1. Distribution into a credible catalogue. Inclusion on Allstars Collections, Allstars Remixes, or Size Up volumes places a track alongside established drum and bass acts, with structured DSP delivery, label-level marketing and Beatport / Bandcamp presence.
2. Editorial playlist potential. A label release volume this high gives tracks a route toward Spotify's editorial drum and bass playlists. Placement is never guaranteed for any single release.
3. Social and community amplification. The DnB Allstars Instagram, YouTube, SoundCloud and Facebook channels function as in-house promotional infrastructure, surfacing releases to an existing audience of well over a million followers across platforms on the May 2026 counts above.
4. Live integration. The label and the events overlap. A Little Sound, who has released on DnB Allstars Records, shared the bill with Hedex and Bou at DnB Allstars' sold-out Printworks London show on 26 March 2023, according to Resident Advisor.
5. Long-term IP relationships. The reported UMPG publishing joint venture, while writer-specific, would let the brand represent compositions as well as recordings, which matters for producers who hold meaningful publishing splits.

The fair editorial summary is that DnB Allstars offers a route from open submission to label catalogue, with playlist support and live bookings possible for the tracks and artists that fit, and publishing layered on top for the writers who fit. That pipeline is not the only route into the scene, but it is one of the most accessible at this scale.

What this article is not claiming

This article does not claim exact annual turnover figures for DNBA Entertainment Ltd, because the company files abridged accounts under UK micro-entity / small company rules and granular profit and loss data is not publicly available. Companies House filings confirm corporate structure, directorship and controlling ownership, not financial performance in detail.

The article does not claim that DnB Allstars is independently certified as the largest drum and bass community globally. That claim originates from the brand's own Facebook page description and is treated here as confident self-positioning supported by combined cross-platform reach data.

Social media follower counts cited are approximate and were verified at the time of writing in May 2026. These numbers fluctuate continuously, and broader platform-wide bot purges in May 2026 affected reported follower counts across many large accounts.

Festival attendance for Gunnersbury Park 2025 is not cited in the body of this article as a specific audited number. Public event listings (Resident Advisor, Skiddle, Drumandbassuk.com) confirm seven stages and 100+ artists for the 2025 edition, but no official audited attendance number was publicly available at the time of writing.

Specific lineup details are drawn from a combination of the official DnB Allstars site, Resident Advisor event listings, Clashfinder timetables and direct social posts. Where Clashfinder is used, it is treated as a useful but secondary source rather than primary confirmation.

The discussion of the brand's pre-2018 origin (described in some fan communities as having grown out of a Facebook group or community page) is included as context, not as verified primary record. The verifiable starting points are 2017 (brand) and 28 September 2018 (limited company).

FAQ

What is DnB Allstars?

DnB Allstars is a UK drum and bass platform operating as a community brand, a record label (DnB Allstars Records), an events and festival promoter, a reported publishing joint venture with Universal Music Publishing Group, and a direct-to-consumer apparel retailer. The trading name is owned by DNBA Entertainment Ltd, registered in the UK.

Who founded DnB Allstars?

Joshua Paul Williams, a London-based entrepreneur, launched DnB Allstars in 2017 and incorporated DNBA Entertainment Ltd on 28 September 2018. Williams was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe Entertainment list in 2023.

Is DnB Allstars a record label or a media platform?

Both. DnB Allstars was founded as a community-facing drum and bass brand in 2017, its label, DnB Allstars Records, has been releasing since its first release on 7 January 2019, and it now runs label, media, events, festival, publishing and apparel operations under DNBA Entertainment Ltd.

Where is DnB Allstars based?

London. DNBA Entertainment Ltd is registered at 5-9 Headstone Road, Harrow, England, HA1 1PD, and the Bandcamp label location is listed as London, UK.

When is DnB Allstars Festival 2026?

The 2026 London flagship was Summer in the City, held on 13 and 14 June 2026 at Eutopia Warehouse in Barking, East London, with two indoor warehouses plus an outdoor yard and Funktion-One sound. No Gunnersbury Park festival is listed for 2026. The brand's next dates are its Australia and New Zealand tour (26 September to 5 October 2026) and DnB Allstars Thailand (22 to 24 January 2027).

Where was DnB Allstars Festival 2025?

Sunday 14 September 2025, Gunnersbury Park, London W3 8LQ, 11:00-22:00, seven stages, over 100 artists.

Is DnB Allstars going to Thailand?

Yes. DnB Allstars Thailand runs 22 to 24 January 2027 in Phuket, after a Phuket weekend in January 2026. The official site expects 3,000 people, with 3-day GA from £189 and VIP from £289, and the event is 20+ only.

How do producers submit demos to DnB Allstars?

Through Trackstack only: it is the label's sole demo route, and there is no LabelRadar portal. Producers upload demos directly through the platform, and the editorial team reviews submissions through the platform's backend.

What is Trackstack?

Trackstack is a digital A&R submission platform that allows producers to send demos directly to record labels through a structured submission system, replacing traditional email-based promo culture.

How big is DnB Allstars on social media?

As of May 2026, approximately 863,000 followers on Instagram (@dnballstars), 167,000 on @dnballstarsuk, 49,000 on @dnbarecords, around 358,000 YouTube subscribers, 175,000 SoundCloud followers, and active Facebook and TikTok presence. The brand self-describes as the largest online community of drum and bass fans globally.

Who has released on DnB Allstars Records?

The label catalogue includes releases and features from Bou, Hedex, A Little Sound, Andromedik, Camo and Krooked, Mollie Collins, Amplify, P Money (as featured vocalist), Used, Makoto, Document One, Upgrade, Basstripper, Gino, Mountain, Tsuki, Whiney, Benny Page, Phibes, Burt Cope, Captain Bass, Mandidextrous, Ayah Marar, Formula, MNEEMO, FLASH, SKIYE, Ticky, Comet, Silloh, Eskei83, Murdock, Joe Killington, Rendah and others across the Allstars Collections, Allstars Remixes and Size Up series.

What is the DnB Allstars UMPG deal?

DnB Allstars Publishing was reported in late 2023 as a global joint venture with Universal Music Publishing Group, with Grace Barton, Elipsa and Tsuki named as early writer signings. We could not find the announcement on UMPG's own news pages at the time of writing.

Who owns DnB Allstars?

DNBA Entertainment Ltd is led by founder Joshua Paul Williams, who is listed at Companies House as sole director and majority shareholder.

Updated 5 October 2026: corrected at the request of DnB Allstars Records. The brand was founded in 2017 and the label has been releasing since its first release, Turno's "Lunar" (DNBAR001), on 7 January 2019; demos go through Trackstack only; the label's own site is dnballstarsrecords.com.

Sources & further reading

• Companies House: DNBA Entertainment Ltd corporate filing, incorporation date, directorship and PSC information
• Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe Entertainment 2023: profile of Joshua Williams as founder of DnB Allstars
• Official site: dnballstars.com (brand, events, shop)
• Label site: dnballstarsrecords.com (DnB Allstars Records)
• Bandcamp: dnballstars.bandcamp.com (full catalogue)
• Beatport label profile: DnB Allstars Records label page
• Instagram: @dnballstars · @dnballstarsuk · @dnbarecords
• YouTube: @dnballstars channel
• 2026 London festival site: dnballstars.london (Summer in the City)
• 2027 Thailand event site: dnballstars-thailand.com
• Resident Advisor: DnB Allstars Festival 2025 event page
• Clashfinder: DnB Allstars Festival 2025 lineup timetable
• Trackstack demo submissions (the only route): tstack.link/dnballstars
• Universal Music Publishing Group: the DnB Allstars joint venture announcement was not found on UMPG's news pages at the time of writing
• DnB Allstars events calendar: dnballstars.com (2025 Gunnersbury Park, 2026 Eutopia Warehouse, Australia and New Zealand 2026 and Thailand 2027 dates)
• Resident Advisor: DnB Allstars promoter page (Printworks 2023, Leeds 2023) and DnB Allstars Festival 2025 listing
• Apple Music: release dates and track lists for Size Up Vol. 2, Allstars Collections Vol. 6 and Allstars Remixes Vol. 1
• Official Charts / Mercury Prize: Nia Archives, Silence Is Loud, number 16 and 2024 shortlist
• NTIA: UK nightclub closures, June 2020 to June 2024
• Songstats label analytics: DnB Allstars Records aggregate streaming and DJ support data
• Companion editorial: The Story Behind Facile: From Forgotten Demo to DnB Allstars Release
• Related reading on mneemo.com: Best London Clubs 2026 | OMNIA at 45 London

What is next for DnB Allstars

The rest of the 2026 calendar is on the public record:

• Brisbane (26 September 2026)
• Perth (27 September 2026)
• Christchurch (2 October 2026)
• Auckland (3 October 2026)
• Sydney (5 October 2026)

Beyond the Australia and New Zealand tour, the visible trajectory points in three directions. The Asian market expansion with a second Phuket weekend in 2027 (22-24 January) consolidates a new geography for UK drum and bass infrastructure. The reported UMPG publishing partnership would build out long-term IP capability around composition rights, not just master recordings. The shift from outdoor park festival to warehouse format in London suggests a deliberate prioritisation of acoustic quality and curation over headline attendance figures.

The brand is not announcing a strategy shift. It is executing one already.

What DnB Allstars has shown over the past nine years, since the 2017 brand launch and the 2018 company incorporation, is that an independent drum and bass platform can build infrastructure that traditional labels and traditional promoters typically cannot reach inside one operating company. The label runs alongside the festival. The festival runs alongside the publishing. The publishing runs alongside the apparel. The apparel runs alongside the community brand. All of it sits inside one director's controlling stake, one operating company, one consolidated audience.

For drum and bass culture in 2026, that consolidation is unusual. For producers, ticket buyers and writers operating within the genre, it is increasingly the centre of gravity.

Written by London-based DJ and producer MNEEMO, millions of streams to his name and a party series running through some of London's best clubs. Listen to MNEEMO: Spotify · Instagram · YouTube

This article is part of House of MNEEMO's editorial coverage of the UK and London electronic music landscape in 2026. The release story it follows from is The Story Behind Facile: From Forgotten Demo to DnB Allstars Release. Related reading: Best London Clubs 2026 | OMNIA at 45 London | Drumsheds 2026.