IDRIS is the house alias of Idris Elba, better known as an actor, and he releases under both names openly. RA logs his first listed booking in 2010, which puts the dj work a long way ahead of most of the records.

defected announced a multi-single deal with him on 28 february 2024, covering the main label and its d4 d4nce arm. La Trumpeta arrived on 8 march 2024 as his first solo original for the label, a latin trumpet line over a four to the floor push. he had already appeared on defected with No More Looking Back, made with inner city and steffanie christi'an on 5 february 2021, and with an extended remix of the cure & the cause for the label's twenty fifth anniversary.

I am super excited to be able to announce this signing with Defected Records. Since working with them on 'No More Looking Back' and playing various parties over the years with them, it felt like a natural fit to release a few of my original tracks with them.

idris elba to defected, 28 february 2024

7Wallace is his own london label and it holds most of the older catalogue. Girl with the Bat with shadow boxxer came out in 2021, and fudge with eliza legzdina picked up a Low Steppa remix on 27 august 2021. kathy brown sang on pushing on, out 14 june 2024. that roster runs well past dance music, so the club material mostly goes somewhere else.

somewhere else is Sound International, the house imprint he runs, which beatport describes as a label inspired by his uncle's 1980s london sound system and which trades under the line neverending house. euro flow with honeyluv landed on 26 september 2025 and tops beatport's own popularity ranking for him. maithori followed on 18 july 2025, The Drum with sio on 30 april 2026, and Chasing Fire on 26 june 2026. dirtybird took no long talk on 6 december 2024.

he brought sound international to new york for its debut at h0l0 in ridgewood, queens on 22 may 2026, billed at the top of a four-name lineup. three weeks later he was the invited guest on Solomun+1 at pacha in ibiza on 21 june 2026. as of 2 august 2026 no upcoming bookings are published on skiddle, on songkick or in the ibiza season listings.