Name: DGTL Amsterdam 2024
Start: 2024-03-29T22:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-04-01T05:00:00+02:00
Location: NDSM

Berlin's Steffen Berkhahn, best known as Dixon, has made a major impact on the global dance music scene through his adventurous DJ sets as well as his renowned Innervisions label. While minimal techno dominated dancefloors during the 2000s, especially in Dixon's home city, he helped shift the balance back towards house music, incorporating vocals and a dramatic sensibility within a techno framework. Though he's released a few innovative mix CDs, particularly 2009's The Grandfather Paradox (with frequent collaborators Henrik Schwarz and Âme) and 2011's Live at Robert Johnson Volume 8, he's gained his reputation mainly due to his DJ gigs, exhibiting his mastery of track selection as well as pacing and flow, and has become a frequent, in-demand presence at major clubs and festivals throughout the world. As a producer, he is known for remixes, edits, and collaborations rather than solo compositions; he frequently makes fine-tuned edits of tracks specifically for usage in his own sets, and has crafted well-received mixes of songs by Disclosure, LCD Soundsystem, Depeche Mode, and numerous others.

Dixon grew up in East Berlin and was initially interested in a career as a footballer or a long-distance runner before an injury derailed his ambitions. Instead, he took up DJing, initially leaning towards hardcore techno before house music grabbed his attention. During the early 1990s, he played at major Berlin clubs such as Tresor, Turbine, and WMF, where he would play lengthy sets every weekend, teaching himself the art and science of crowd control. In 1996, Dixon released a single as part of a project called AVDC (Audio-Video-Disco Connexions), and by 2000, he had remixed tracks by Femi Kuti, Atjazz, Beanfield, and others. He also mixed three volumes of the deep, jazzy house/broken beat series Off Limits for Recreation Recordings, as well as Audio Video Disco (with Mitja Prinz), a 2001 release for WMF Records. Eventually he met Jazzanova and became affiliated with their Sonar Kollektiv; the label released the first two singles by Wahoo, Dixon's vocal-driven house duo with Georg Levin. 

In 2005, Dixon and Âme (Frank Wiedemann and Kristian Beyer) co-founded Innervisions, initially as a Sonar Kollektiv sublabel. The label found early success with releases Tokyo Black Star, Âme (the massive club hit "Rej"), and Stefan Goldmann, as well as "Where We At," a 2006 collaboration between the label's owners, Henrik Schwarz, and Chicago house legend Derrick L. Carter. In 2007, Dixon mixed Body Language Vol. 4 for Get Physical Music, and Wahoo released their debut full-length, Take It Personal, on London label Fine. Schwarz, Âme, and Dixon continued to collaborate, performing live and producing remixes as Innervisions Orchestra and A Critical Mass. They released the D.P.O.M.B. 12" in 2008 and The Grandfather Paradox, described as "An imprudent journey through 50 years of minimalistic music," on BBE in 2009. A more club-focused Dixon mix, Temporary Secretary, also appeared in 2009, as well as a 12" of custom edits from the mix. A Critical Mass Live EP, developed during 2009 sets in Chicago and Berlin, surfaced in early 2010.

Dixon released the slow-building Live at Robert Johnson Volume 8 in 2011, and announced that it would be his final commercially issued mix CD, seeing no further reason to continue with the format. This was far from the end of his career as a DJ or remixer, however, and he delivered mixes of tracks by Disclosure, the xx, Tiga, Plastikman, and dozens of other artists, additionally collaborating with Guy Gerber on the 2014 single "No Distance." His status as a top-tier DJ only continued to grow, and he was voted number one on Resident Advisor's Top DJ Poll from 2013 until 2016 (the website decided to discontinue the chart the following year). Dixon branched out into clothing design and started fashion label Together We Dance Alone in 2017, and he launched an Ibiza residency titled Transmoderna in 2019, later expanding the concept into a digital platform incorporating art, fashion, and technology. ~ Paul Simpson, Rovi

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