Duke Dumont: Real Name, Need U (100%), Union and the WHP Return

Duke Dumont's real name is Adam George Dyment. He was born in 1982, grew up in the London Borough of Harrow, and turns 44 in 2026. He is the producer behind Need U (100%) and I Got U, two UK number ones in the space of a year, the man whose Ocean Drive became a decade-long slow burn, and the owner of two Grammy nominations, a label called Blasé Boys Club and, since July 2025, a second album called Union. On Saturday 24 October 2026 he plays The Warehouse Project in Manchester for the first time in more than ten years, and it sold out. This is the profile: the name, the Harrow years, the Switch apprenticeship, the hits, the albums and why a house producer from the 2013 wave can still sell out a Warehouse Project date.

Duke Dumont at a glance

• Real name: Adam George Dyment.
• Born: 1982, and raised in the London Borough of Harrow. He moved out to the Hertfordshire countryside in 2011 to write original material.
• Age: 44 in 2026.
• Label and alias: Blasé Boys Club, the imprint he founded and a name he has also produced under.
• The number ones: Need U (100%) in 2013 and I Got U in 2014, both UK number one singles.
• The rest of the run: Won't Look Back (2014, UK number two), The Giver (Reprise) (2015), Ocean Drive (2015), Red Light Green Light (2019), The Chant (2023).
• Albums: Duality (17 April 2020) and Union (25 July 2025), with singles Your Loving and I Need You Now.
• Grammy nominations: Best Dance Recording in 2014 and 2015.
• Next UK date: The Warehouse Project, Depot Mayfield, Manchester, Saturday 24 October 2026, 21:00 to 03:00. Sold out.

What is Duke Dumont's real name, and where is he from?

Adam Dyment took the Duke Dumont name early, and it stuck because it sounded like a label rather than a person, which in 2007 was the point. He grew up in Harrow, in the north-west suburbs, and came up through the London remix economy of the late 2000s: reworks of pop and indie records that got played on the radio and in the clubs while the original artists got the credit. His early career was mentored by Switch, the producer behind records for M.I.A., Santigold and Beyoncé, and the apprenticeship shows in the way Dyment's biggest records are built: a vocal you can sing in the queue, a bassline you can feel in the floor, and nothing in between that does not need to be there. In 2011 he moved out of London to the Hertfordshire countryside to stop remixing and start writing, and the next three years are the reason you know the name.

Need U (100%), I Got U and the 2013 house moment

Need U (100%), with the vocalist A*M*E, went to number one in the UK in 2013, and it did something more useful than sell: it made a piano-house record with a pitched vocal the sound of British pop for a couple of years. I Got U, with Jax Jones, went to number one in 2014, and Won't Look Back reached number two the same year. Both number ones earned Grammy nominations for Best Dance Recording, in 2014 and 2015, which is how a producer from Harrow ended up on the same lists as the Americans he had been remixing. That run is the moment the UK's garage-and-house lineage went back to the top of the charts, the story I told in why UK garage works again, and Dyment was the one holding the door.

Then the strange one. Ocean Drive, in 2015, peaked at 42 in the UK, which by his standards was a miss. It is now the record people most associate with him, a synth-pop slow burn that found its audience over years rather than weeks and has outlived the two chart-toppers on every festival main stage he plays. The Giver (Reprise) the same year was the club record; Ocean Drive was the one that got him a second career as a songwriter rather than a hitmaker.

Duality and Union: the albums

Duke Dumont did not make an album until 17 April 2020, and when he did he said it "gave me an opportunity to make an album and a body of music that has an emotional impact". Duality landed in the first month of lockdown, which was bad luck for a house record and good luck for a record built to be listened to rather than danced to. Red Light Green Light, from 2019, and the later singles pointed the same way: melodic, structured, more song than tool.

Union, the second album, arrived on 25 July 2025 with Your Loving and I Need You Now as the singles, and the title is a fair description: a record about the room rather than the radio, written by someone who has spent a decade watching what 20,000 people do when a chord change lands. The 2025 shows that followed were the proof of demand: Magazine London on 24 October 2025 and Victoria Warehouse in Manchester the night after, both sold out, and a North American run through November and December. Which brings the calendar to this October.

The Warehouse Project, 24 October 2026

Duke Dumont plays Depot Mayfield on Saturday 24 October 2026, 21:00 to 03:00, in the sixth weekend of the Warehouse Project's 20th season, billed as his first WHP show in more than ten years. It is sold out. It sits in the busiest weekend of the month: Alisha in the Concourse the night before, Terminal V and False Idols at Drumsheds in London, CamelPhat at the new Ironworks, and Amsterdam Dance Event running all week; the whole weekend is in the October 2026 club calendar. If you have a ticket, the Depot is the room his records were written for: a long shed, up to 6,100 people standing and a piano riff. If you do not, the WHP waiting list is the only legitimate route.

Why Duke Dumont still matters in 2026

Every few years British dance music rediscovers that a house record with a real vocal and a real bassline can be pop without apologising, and every time it does, the template is the 2013 to 2014 Duke Dumont run. The producers I write about on this site who have taken UK garage and house back into the charts this decade, the names in the best UK garage DJs and producers, are working in a lane he reopened. What he has done since is rarer: turn a hit machine into an album artist without losing the room. A sold-out WHP a decade after the last one is what that looks like from the outside. Like Solomun, whose 25 September date sold out, he sold out his night well ahead of the doors; Eric Prydz's Concourse-only show the Saturday before was down to limited final tickets in late September.

FAQ

What is Duke Dumont's real name?

Adam George Dyment. He records and performs as Duke Dumont and has also produced under the Blasé Boys Club name, which is also his label.

How old is Duke Dumont?

He was born in 1982, so he turns 44 in 2026.

Where is Duke Dumont from?

He grew up in the London Borough of Harrow, in north-west London, and moved to the Hertfordshire countryside in 2011 to concentrate on writing original music.

What are Duke Dumont's biggest songs?

Need U (100%) with A*M*E, a UK number one in 2013; I Got U with Jax Jones, a UK number one in 2014; Won't Look Back, which reached number two in 2014; and Ocean Drive, from 2015, which peaked at 42 but became his most enduring record.

Has Duke Dumont won a Grammy?

No, but he has been nominated twice for Best Dance Recording, in 2014 and 2015, for Need U (100%) and I Got U.

What albums has Duke Dumont released?

Duality, his debut, on 17 April 2020, and Union on 25 July 2025, with the singles Your Loving and I Need You Now.

Who mentored Duke Dumont?

Switch, the British producer known for his work with M.I.A., Santigold and Beyoncé, mentored his early career, which began with remixes from 2007.

When is Duke Dumont playing The Warehouse Project?

Saturday 24 October 2026 at Depot Mayfield, Manchester, 21:00 to 03:00, his first WHP show in more than ten years. It is sold out; WHP runs a waiting list.

What is Blasé Boys Club?

The record label Duke Dumont founded, and an alias he has used for some of his own productions.

Sources

• Wikipedia entry for Duke Dumont; Official Charts Company data for the UK chart peaks
• TotalNtertainment (25 July 2025) and AAA Backstage on the release of Union and the 2025 tour; The Warehouse Project event page and calendar for 24 October 2026 (sold out, checked 25 September 2026); Amsterdam Dance Event official dates (21 to 25 October 2026)
• Recording Academy nomination records for the 2014 and 2015 Best Dance Recording categories

This profile is part of House of MNEEMO's ongoing coverage of the electronic and club music scene, written by London-based DJ and producer MNEEMO, with millions of streams to his name and a party series running through some of London's best clubs. For the season he is playing into, read the Warehouse Project 2026 guide.