Dance Label Armada Music Debuts London Creative Hub in Boost for Local Scene

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The abstraction successful Shoreditch spans six floors of signaling studios and lawsuit space.

LONDON — Armada Music Group, location to the autarkic creation statement of the aforesaid name, volition unfastened a marque caller originative hub successful London for its roster, it was announced Monday (Sept. 22).

The 7,000-square-foot abstraction successful London’s Old Street successful the bosom of Shoreditch spans six floors and boasts signaling studios, lawsuit space, listening rooms and more.

Armada Music was founded successful 2003 by Dutch DJ Armin van Buuren, concern enforcement Maykel Piron, and euphony manager David Lewis. The radical present encompasses a fig of subsidiary labels, the first-ever creation concern fund (BEAT Music Fund) and a publishing division.

The abstraction successful London includes 2 state-of-the-art signaling studios for recording, and country to big penning camps for its roster. An lawsuit abstraction has besides been built with L-Acoustics club-grade dependable system, and has unrecorded streaming capabilities and tin big a capableness of astir 130 people. There are besides listening rooms for A&R sessions arsenic good arsenic moving abstraction for 60 full-time employees. See pictures below.

Speaking exclusively to Billboard U.K., Armada’s main enforcement Piron expanded connected the determination to bring this abstraction to the U.K., the label’s second-largest market. “The U.K. is undeniably a vibrant hub for creation music, and arsenic a planetary company, our purpose is to motion and make artists successful London connected an planetary scale,” helium says. “This expanded beingness volition supply much opportunities to motion planetary acts. We expect this to pb to a important summation successful wide planetary streams. This caller abstraction volition service arsenic a dynamic originative hub, fostering the instauration of much hits successful the UK and worldwide.”

Armada has had occurrence successful caller years with Manchester-born DJ and shaper D.O.D, who achieved his archetypal U.K. apical 20 deed successful 2023 with “So Much In Love.” In 2024, the statement besides saw a resurgence for Mason & Superstar’s 2007 opus “Perfect (Exceeder)” which re-entered the apical 40 decades aft its archetypal release. The abstraction volition besides service Armada’s planetary roster specified arsenic Armin van Buuren, Joris Voorn, Lilly Palmer, THEMBA and ARTY.

“This is simply a pivotal infinitesimal for Armada and a testament to the U.K.’s vibrant creation euphony scene,” said Ben Malone, wide manager of Armada Music U.K. “This caller hub volition empower america to further champion section artists, supply them with unparalleled resources, and foster much innovation and creativity successful the UK.”