History

UKD Productions was set up by Dominic Brendell, whose strong musical background began when he was a small child. Both parents were heavily involved in the music industry from the early 60’s to the mid 80’s so Dominic grew up with a wealth of knowledge and creativity around him.

After leaving school Dominic developed his musical interests by working within the live music sector of promoting local music across his home town of Hereford under the name of RAF Promotions with the notorious Dr B. These promotions really increased Dominic’s passion for combining music with business. This then led him to explore and later complete a Diploma in Music Industry Management & Marketing at the Buckinghamshire Chilterns University. The course gave Dominic a broad overview of how the whole music industry works and the dramatic changes that were occurring within the industry as we entered into the new millennium. By now understanding the theory of the business it was essential to gain the more important practical experience.

During the course Dominic received two offers of work experience, one from ‘Cooking Vinyl Records’, the other from the newly formed ‘Futureproof Records’. The one he chose to get involved with was Futureproof Records.

The role at Futureproof was a varied one, which later led into a full time position within the organization handling marketing and sales, with Phil Legg (Futureproof MD) as mentor.

Phil came from a varied background, having started of his musical life playing guitar, he toured Europe supporting acts like Iggy Pop, The Human League, Scritti Politti & Joy Division, before having immense success as an engineer working alongside Sade, Boy George, The Rolling Stones, Depeche Mode and Erasure. He then produced Desree, The Pasadenas & Martyn Ware of Heaven 17 the critically acclaimed Terence Trent D'Arby album "The Hard Line According To..." firmly establishing Phil's position in the British music industry. More recently Phil moved into writing and producing and has had massive success with writing a track on the best selling Playstation game in America "Gran Turismo". He has since gone on to write with Beverly Knight, Keith Lowndes (ABC) and Neneh Cherry.

The learning curve was very steep as both Phil and Dominic worked closely together on all areas of launching a new label/brand with acts into the UK industry. It was after this amazing adventure that Dominic had the opportunity to launch his own company and UKD Productions was born in 2006.

In early 2007 UKD Productions launched an underground DJ brand called the UKD Collective, which has taken UKD across the UK, Europe, The Middle East and more recently to Asia working with a wide range of energetic personalities. Most recently the collective involved UKD joining forces with one of Taiwan's top DJ's - DJ Mikey J.

Mikey J originally from Wales, UK has been DJing since 2011 and has already come a long way by securing regular monthly slots at Sparkle Nightclub and weekly spots at late night hang out "Tokyo Nights" in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

DJ Mikey J started out as a guitar player and singer in the UK and has played in a number of punk bands performing in various venues across the UK. Not content with just playing in punk bands, he went on and studied music technology with the hopes of becoming a sound engineer and on this journey discovered jungle/drum and bass.

Since then he has made the crossover into becoming a 'one to watch' DJ in the Taiwan scene. Having already played along side other top international DJ's at the legendary Earthfest music festival he's now in the process of learning the art of production from one of Egypt's finest DJ/producers DJ Karim. From what started out as just a pipe dream for Mikey J has now turned into something a lot bigger with bookings coming in island wide, with his fast paced and energetic live shows, 2013 is already shaping up to be a great year.

2014 has been an exciting year as UKD returns back to the UK and forms a partnership with music production powerhouse Charlie Hoskyns.

Charlie Hoskyns is a multi instrumentalist musician/composer based at his South London studio and has credits working with the following:

Simon Napier-Bell, Shane MaGowan, Tony Visconti, S Club 7, Howard Marks, Debbie Clarke, The Popes, Chris Brown, Peter Godwin, Gerry Diver, Lisa Knapp, Don Mescall, Universal Music, 19 Management, Brett-Dempsey Music, The BBC, BMW, Unilever and songwriter Peter Wright.