Building on the colossal success of its 9-week Virtual Festival residency, Defected has revealed plans for further virtual events. The new Defected WWWorldwide series will see three weekly events from Friday 19thJune – 3rd July, reflecting the house music heavyweight’s summer of well-loved club events that have been postponed due to the global pandemic.
Partnering with Twitch to use its ‘Squad Stream’ function to stream music events for the first time (which can then be watched back on YouTube), Defected WWWorldwide events will feature three virtual rooms with DJs playing concurrently in each, as they would in a nightclub.
Defected WWWorldwide will kick off with this Friday 19th June, followed by a Pride celebration hosted by Defected’s sister label Glitterbox on Friday 26th June, and an Ibiza Special on Friday 3rd July.
FRIDAY 19TH JUNE / LOUIE VEGA, THE MARTINEZ BROTHERS & FRIENDS
For Defected WWWorldwide’s first event Friday 19th June, house music titans and fellow New Yorkers Louie Vega and The Martinez Brothers will headline in Room 1, with Eli Escobar and Luke Solomon in Classic Music Company’s Room 2, plus much-loved Defected resident Darius Syrossian and more to be announced in Room 3.
Line-up
7-10PM BST
Room 1: LOUIE VEGA / THE MARTINEZ BROTHERS
Classic Music Company, Room 2: ELI ESCOBAR / LUKE SOLOMON / MARK FARINA
Defected, Room 3: DARIUS SYROSSIAN + MORE TBA
FRIDAY 26TH JUNE / GLITTERBOX X PRIDE
Friday 26th June will see a Pride celebration hosted by Defected’s sister label Glitterbox.
FRIDAY 3RD JULY / DEFECTED IBIZA
The final event on Friday 3rd July will take the Defected WWWorldwide audience back to Ibiza, with Ferreck Dawn and Sam Divine in Defected’s Room 1, Mambo Brothers, David Penn and Manu Gonzalez in Café Mambo’s Room 2, and Mike Dunn and Terry Farley in 4 To The Floor’s Room 3.
