Destined Records is an independent record label

Independent record label

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, based in West End

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 in London

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, in the United Kingdom

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History

Destined Records was set up for the club output of producer Matt Schwartz

Matt Schwartz

Matt Schwartz is a multi-instrumentalist record producer a songwriter, an Artist, DJ, and a prolific audio engineer based in the UK.He has contributed to numerous records since 1995 as an engineer, producer, composer, musician and a songwriter, working with all the UK major record labels, he also...

, known for his work on Massive Attack

Massive Attack

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, his Deepest Blue

Deepest Blue

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 project and the producer behind hundreds of club records from Tall Paul, Arthur Baker

Arthur Baker (musician)

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 and other DJs

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Starting its life in 2000, Destined Records has hosted hits

Hit record

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 from The Drill

The Drill (band)

The Drill is an international chart topping house music record written produced and performed by electronic music pioneer and Israeli-born UK producer Matt Schwartz in mid-2004 for His label Destined Records....

, 4tune500, M'black and Dada

Dada

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 Ft. Sandy Rivera

Sandy Rivera

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 and Trix

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, Deepest Blue

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 and collaborations with Paul Harris

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 and Sam Obernik, MJ Cole, Jo Mills and Jonathan Ulysses, Destined has had support from Pete Tong

Pete Tong

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, Eddie Halliwell

Eddie Halliwell

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, Sister Bliss

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, Tiga

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, Paul van Dyk

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, and Tiësto

Tiësto

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Discography

2001

DEST01 - M' Black 'Day Dream'

DEST02 - Shine 'Feelings'

DEST03 - Quantom 'Cannibal'

2002

DEST04 - Matt Schwartz Pres. Sholan 'Can You Feel'

DEST05 - Sabre (2) 'High Tide'

2003

DEST06 - Orielle 'All I Know'

DEST07 - M' Black 'Good Girl'

DEST08 - Illusion 'I got the feeling'

2004/5

DEST09 - The Drill 'The Drill'

DEST10 - 4Tune 500 'Strung Out'

DEST11 - 9 Lives 'Electro Sex'

DEST12 - Antarctica 'Antarctica'

2006

DEST13 - Matt Cole* & Matti Schwartz* present UnBalanced 'Earthlift'

DEST14 - M' Black 'Night Runner'

DEST15 - The Drill 'One More Night'

DEST16 - Streamrocker Meets Alexander Purkart & Gorge 'Give It Up For Love'

DEST17 - Crackdown EP1

2007

DEST18 - DADA Feat. Sandy Rivera & Trix 'Lollipop'

DEST19 - Shay Dt 'Release'

DEST20 - The Drill 'Queen Bee'

DEST21 - Bar Electric 'Watch out'

DEST22 - Klark 'Do Disco'
DEST24 - 4TUNE500 'You gotta believe'

DEST24 - Crackdown 'Pressure'

DEST25 - The Drill Feat. Jonny L 'Can't wait for love'

DEST26 - DADA Feat. Sandy Rivera & Trix 'Shake ya Back' (unreleased)

2008

DEST27 - Jukey Feat Sway 'The Way We Go'

DEST28 - Benny Streisand 'Cellphone'

DEST29 - Deepest Blue 'Miracle'

DEST30 - Firetruck 'Burning'

DEST31 - 4TUNE500 'Dancing in the dark' 08

DEST32 - The Drill Feat. Firetruck&Antarctica 'Piano Mano'

DEST33 - 9Lives 'Planet Earth'

2009

DEST35 - DADA, Obernik & Harris 'Stereo Flo'

External links

• http://www.discogs.com/label/Destined+Records
• Official site