CREATE DEFINE RELEASE (CDR) is a black-led community-first music company with a deep heritage in the UK's grassroots electronic music scene. CDR is a generation of music producers, artists and fans building an equitable music ecosystem to progress electronic music across genres and historical perspectives.
Stemming from our flagship 'Session', a night for aspiring producers to road test their 'work-in-progress' tracks at the iconic London club Plastic People; we've created safe spaces for countercultural musical development since 2002. Described by FACT magazine as “an anti-industry utopian platform for creative development”, CDR is renowned for helping to kickstart the careers of outstanding electronic music artists s...