DnB Allstars: Inside the UK Drum and Bass Platform Turning Community Into Infrastructure
- MNEEMO
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How Joshua Williams' London-born DnB brand grew from online community into label, festival, touring network, publishing JV and 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 and Europe, a global publishing joint venture with Universal Music Publishing Group, 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, takes place at Eutopia Warehouse in Barking. The 2027 international calendar includes the DnB Allstars Thailand Weekender 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, global publishing JV (with UMPG), apparel store
2025 UK festival: Gunnersbury Park, London, Sunday 14 September 2025
2026 London flagship event: Summer in the City, Eutopia Warehouse, Barking, 13-14 June 2026
2027 destination event: DnB Allstars Thailand Weekender, Phuket, 22-24 January 2027
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 arm went live around 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 label arm of DnB Allstars went live around 2019 and is now one of the most active drum and bass catalogue operations in the UK.
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 2019, including catalogue number prefixes DNBA and DNBFS
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 published 4 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 E4TEEN), "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 announced a global joint venture publishing arrangement with Universal Music Publishing Group, launching DnB Allstars Publishing.
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.
Early signings to DnB Allstars Publishing have included writers like Grace Barton, Elipsa and Tsuki, vocalists and producers whose compositions sit at the centre of multiple recent DnB releases.
The UMPG partnership is also a credibility marker. UMPG is one of the three major global publishing companies. A joint venture between a community-led DnB brand and UMPG represents a meaningful endorsement of the platform's long-term commercial trajectory. This is not a back-room indie partnership. It is a major-publisher level of structural commitment.
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 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 is the 2026 London flagship event. It moves from the open-air expanse of Gunnersbury Park to Eutopia Warehouse in Barking, East London, across the weekend of 13 and 14 June 2026. The promotional infrastructure (dnballstars.london) describes the format as two indoor warehouses plus an outdoor yard, with Funktion-One sound systems across all three stages, capped at 4,000 attendees per day. Additional 2026 dates may be announced through the year via the official site.
The Summer in the City move is, regardless, a deliberate 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 and intentionally capping capacity, DnB Allstars chose acoustic pressure over scale. The 2026 lineup, with over 50 artists in the Phase 1 announcement and a Macky Gee guest appearance, demonstrates that the brand can hold top-tier talent at either 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
Past international activity referenced in brand materials and event archives includes shows in Portugal, Bristol and Birmingham, alongside the Propyard venue and a documented Nottingham event series with 30hz featuring Serum, A.M.C and Turno.
The most ambitious confirmed forward expansion is the DnB Allstars Thailand Weekender, scheduled for 22-24 January 2027 in Phuket. The official event site projects a 2,000+ capacity destination event with over 50 international artists, jungle afterparties and a curated weekend experience, with GA tickets from £129 and VIP from £199. Some social posts have referenced higher capacity figures, so the 2,000+ number from the official site should be treated as the verified planning baseline.
The Asia move is strategically significant. 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), Netherlands (Hospitality, Liquicity), 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. A LabelRadar portal for DnB Allstars also exists in parallel.
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.
The verified example of how that pipeline functions in practice is "Facile" by MNEEMO, FLASH and E4TEEN, the lead case study documented in detail in our companion article. FLASH submitted "Facile" through Trackstack, alongside one parallel submission to UKF, without external industry contacts or press push. The track was shortlisted by the DnB Allstars editorial team approximately 2-3 months later, signed to Size Up Vol. 2, released on 12 September 2025, and subsequently added to Spotify's Massive Drum & Bass editorial playlist (around 1.5 million saves) where it sat in rotation for approximately seven months. In the "Facile" case, the release also connected back into the festival ecosystem through artist access around the 2025 Gunnersbury Park event.
That sequence is not the universal experience of every Trackstack submission. It is one verified successful path through the pipeline, useful as a concrete example of what the system can deliver when the demo fits the curation.
Where "Facile" fits into the wider DnB Allstars story
The MNEEMO, FLASH and E4TEEN case is worth flagging precisely because it sits at the intersection of every part of the structure described above.
The track entered through the open submission funnel (Trackstack). It landed inside the festival-leaning compilation series (Size Up Vol. 2). It was placed into editorial playlist rotation (Massive Drum & Bass). It was followed by integration into the festival ecosystem through artist access around Gunnersbury Park 2025. It has since moved into secondary playlist environments (Run 'N' Bass, Sunny dnb).
The point is not that "Facile" is uniquely important. It is that the path from forgotten demo to label release to playlist support to festival access is documented end to end, and it followed exactly the route DnB Allstars publicly describes its system as offering.
For producers researching label strategy, that pipeline is the most distinctive thing DnB Allstars actually delivers. Most labels promise some version of "we listen to demos". The verifiable proof here is that the system can move a casual studio submission into a major editorial playlist within months.
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. The genre is commercially stronger than it has been at any point since its 1990s rave-era peak. UK electronic music industry reports for 2026 cite £2.47 billion in annual economic activity and 3% growth on 2024, with the UK retaining a 30.5% global market share in drum and bass specifically and 14.7% in dubstep. UK dance music exports reached £86.8 million in 2025.
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, the first jungle-leaning record to receive that level of mainstream UK cultural recognition in over 25 years. 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. Pirate's 2026 Electronic Music Business Report cited 7% sector growth in 2025.
Simultaneously, the UK's underlying club infrastructure is fragile. Coverage of NTIA reporting in 2026 indicated UK nightclub stock had declined approximately 36% since March 2020, with the mid-tier club sector under particular pressure. Free events and regional electronic activity grew, but 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 verified public information and the documented MNEEMO / FLASH / E4TEEN case study, the answer covers five concrete things:
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.
Editorial playlist access. Successful releases enter the Spotify Massive Drum & Bass ecosystem and adjacent secondary playlists. That access is not guaranteed for every release but is consistently observable for the strongest tracks across the catalogue.
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 approaching one million combined cross-platform.
Live integration. Artists released on the label are routinely integrated into DnB Allstars events and festival programming, either as performers, as label-aligned guests, or as documented brand-aligned acts. For the "Facile" team, the release period coincided with the 2025 Gunnersbury Park festival, and artist access was extended around that event.
Long-term IP relationships. The UMPG publishing joint venture, while writer-specific, signals that the brand is increasingly capable of representing compositions as well as recordings, which matters for producers who hold meaningful publishing splits.
The fair editorial summary is that DnB Allstars offers a documented, repeatable pipeline from open submission to label catalogue to playlist support to live integration, with 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).
The "Facile" case study is one documented example of how the DnB Allstars A&R pipeline can function. It is not presented as a guarantee of similar outcomes for other Trackstack submissions, since each release follows its own path through the editorial process.
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 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 started as a community-facing drum and bass brand around 2017, activated the label arm (DnB Allstars Records) approximately 2019, and 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 is Summer in the City, taking place 13-14 June 2026 at Eutopia Warehouse in Barking, East London. The format is two indoor warehouses plus an outdoor yard, with Funktion-One sound systems and a 4,000 daily capacity.
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. The DnB Allstars Thailand Weekender is scheduled for 22-24 January 2027 in Phuket, projected as a 2,000+ capacity destination event with over 50 international artists.
How do producers submit demos to DnB Allstars?
The label uses Trackstack as its primary digital A&R submission platform, with a parallel 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, E4TEEN, 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?
In late 2023, DnB Allstars announced a global joint venture publishing arrangement with Universal Music Publishing Group, launching DnB Allstars Publishing. Early writer signings include Grace Barton, Elipsa and Tsuki.
Has MNEEMO released on DnB Allstars?
Yes. MNEEMO, FLASH and E4TEEN released the track "Facile" on Size Up Vol. 2 on 12 September 2025. The track subsequently spent approximately seven months in Spotify's Massive Drum & Bass editorial playlist. The full release story is documented in our companion article.
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.
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, releases, shop)
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 A&R portal: tstack.app/dnballstars
Universal Music Publishing Group: UMPG / DnB Allstars joint venture announcement
Songstats label analytics: DnB Allstars Records aggregate streaming and DJ support data
Companion editorial: The Story Behind Facile by MNEEMO, FLASH and E4TEEN
Related reading on mneemo.com: Best London Clubs 2026 | OMNIA at 45 London
What is next for DnB Allstars
The 2026 calendar is already on the public record:
Tallinn (15 May 2026)
Summer in the City at Eutopia Warehouse, London (13-14 June 2026)
Rotterdam (26 June 2026)
Mannheim (27 June 2026)
Beyond June 2026, the visible trajectory points in three directions. The Asian market expansion with Thailand 2027 (22-24 January, Phuket) opens a new geography for UK drum and bass infrastructure. The UMPG publishing partnership continues to 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.
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.