Product type | Electronic music |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Introduced | April 2009 |
Markets | Worldwide |
Ambassador(s) | Luke Hood |
Tagline | The home of bass music |
Website | http://www.ukf.com/ |
Company | |
Parent | AEI Group |
UKF (short for United Kingdom and Frome) is a record label founded by Luke Hood and AEI Group that focuses on promoting electronic music. UKF Music was created by Luke Hood, who began sharing bass music through his original two YouTube Channels, UKF Drum & Bass and UKF Dubstep, in 2009. The UKF brand now has five YouTube Channels: UKF Music, UKF Dubstep, UKF Drum & Bass, UKF Mixes and UKF On Air. UKF has expanded beyond its YouTube Channels to creating compilation series and podcasts, organizing events, offering merchandise as well as its own ticketing platform.
Luke Hood created UKF on YouTube to share music with friends while studying at Frome Community College in 2009. [1] As his subscriber base began to grow, he started to focus on the music channels and expanding the UKF brand. The brand has since sold half of its ownership to AEI Media and plans to take advantage of YouTube's live streaming function to broadcast their events that now occur throughout Europe and North America. [2]
The name UKF stands for United Kingdom and Frome , Luke Hood's hometown. [2]
In January 2012 Your Hidden Potential, a UK-based platform for aspiring entrepreneurs, named Luke Hood one of the top 20 young entrepreneurs to watch. [3] At the 2012 Red Bull Elektropedia Awards in Belgium, UKF took home the award for 'Best Really Big Party', and an award for Visual Iconography for both of their sell out shows in Belgium. [4]
In October 2019, UKF held a ten-year anniversary event in the Cheese and Grain hall in Frome. [5]
On 13 December 2024, to commemorate their 15th anniversary, UKF held an event in Drumsheds, London.
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |
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US Dance [6] | |||
UKF Dubstep 2010 |
| 7 | |
UKF Drum & Bass 2010 |
| — | |
Circus One |
| — | |
UKF Bass Culture |
| 15 | |
UKF Bass Culture 2 |
| 18 | |
UKF Dubstep 2011 |
| 3 | |
UKF Drum & Bass 2011 |
| 3 | |
UKF Dubstep 2012 |
| 4 | |
UKF Drum & Bass 2012 |
| — | |
UKF Drum & Bass 2013 |
| — | |
UKF Dubstep 2013 |
| 8 | |
UKF Bass Culture 3 |
| — | |
UKF Drum & Bass 2014 |
| — | |
UKF Dubstep 2014 |
| 15 | |
UKF Dubstep 2015 |
| 21 | |
UKF Drum & Bass 2015 |
| — | |
UKF Dubstep 2016 |
| 5 | |
UKF Drum & Bass 2016 |
| — | |
UKF Dubstep 2017 |
| — | |
UKF Drum & Bass 2017 |
| — | |
UKF Bass Culture 4 |
| — | |
UKF10 – Ten Years of UKF | — |
Frome Community College, styled as Frome College, is a comprehensive school in Frome, Somerset, England for students aged 13 to 18. Approximately 1,200 were enrolled in December 2021, within the three tier system. Students' studies at the college lead up to GCSE, GNVQ, AS-Level and A-Level qualifications. Adult learning courses are also offered, as well as a nursery for preschool children.
Dour Festival is an annual music festival in the municipality of Dour, Belgium. Since its creation in 1988, the festival has grown to an attendance of about 225,000 in 2015. The first year, only five bands were programmed. The festival format now consists of 5 days, 9 stages and more than 280 bands and DJs. The festival's acts come from a wide range of genres, such as: electro, rock, drum and bass, pop, R&B, reggae, house, punk, hardcore, metal, hip-hop, indie, techno, and more. Music is played for 17 hours each day, from 12pm until 5am. The festival attracts a very international and mixed crowd, at the 2009 event 40% of attendees were from Wallonia or Brussels, 32% Flanders, 16% France, 5% the Netherlands, 5% the United Kingdom and 2% elsewhere. In January 2010, Dour Festival won the prize for the best medium-sized festival at the European Festival Awards.
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