Darren Hemmings new visions for music and sound

Darren Hemmings

MANAGING DIRECTOR | MOTIVE UNKNOWN

Darren is the founder and MD of Motive Unknown, a strategic marketing agency based in London, UK.


Motive Unknown is a strategic marketing agency based in the UK. Our artist clients cover anything from top-tier pop (Spice Girls, Robbie Williams) through hip hop (Run The Jewels), electronic (Underworld, Moby) and more.


Our label clients take in Dirty Hit (The 1975, Wolf Alice) Partisan Records (IDLES, Fontaines DC), Domino Records (Arctic Monkeys, Wet Leg), Warp Records (Aphex Twin, Danny Brown, Flying Lotus), LuckyMe (Baauer, Hudson Mohawke), and Lex Records (MF DOOM) among others.


We also work in the creator tools space, which sees us manage £5M+ in annual media spend across clients like Beatport, Loopcloud, Plugin Boutique, UJAM, Rhodes Pianos, RoEx, BT and The Crow Hill Company.


Darren also writes the influential Network Notes industry newsletter.

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