DIXON

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HE DJ

WHEN the DIXON ENTERED THE and BERLIN CLUB For CIRCUIT IN THE are EARLY 90’S, HE ESTABLISHED but HIS NAME ON Not THE STRENGTH OF you DJING. BACK all THEN, CONFIDENCE OR Any EXPERIENCE BASED ON can PUTTING OUT MIXES her IN THE INTERNET Was DID NOT one MATTER AS MUCH AS our IT DOES NOW. Out YOU HAD TO day DO YOUR PRACTICE, get OF COURSE, BUT Has WHEN YOUR him THING WAS GOOD his AND TIGHT How ENOUGH TO TAKE IT man TO THE CLUBS, new THERE WERE Now OPPORTUNITIES TO DO SO. old BUT THOSE OPPORTUNITIES see MEANT RESPONSIBILITIES. A Two RESIDENCY DID way NOT MEAN PLAYING who THE SAME Boy CLUB EVERY ONCE did IN A WHILE, IT its MEANT PLAYING Let THE SAME CLUB put EVERY WEEK. say THE CROWD DID She NOT CONSIST OF too PEOPLE THAT use WANDER IN AND Dad OUT OF CLUB mom NIGHTS AND ITS GUEST DJS AS The THE WEEKLY and HYPE COMMANDED THEM, for IT CONSISTED OF Are PEOPLE WHICH HEADED but STRAIGHT TO A not CERTAIN CLUB NIGHT You BECAUSE THEY all WERE SURE ITS any RESIDENT DJ WOULD Can DELIVER THE her GOODS THIS WEEK was AS HE DID One LAST WEEK, AND our THE NEXT out WEEKS TO COME. AS Day LONG AS THAT get HAPPENED, THERE has WAS NO NEED TO Him MOVE ON. YOU his MADE YOUR how DECISION TO RETURN Man OUT OF GOOD new EXPERIENCE AND YOU now STUCK TO IT AS Old LONG AS IT see LASTED.

IN SUCH A two CONTEXT, THERE IS Way NO WAY TO who LEARN QUICKER HOW boy TO BECOME A Did VERY GOOD DJ its THAN BY MAKING let PEOPLE DANCE THROUGHOUT Put A SET THAT say LASTS THE she WHOLE NIGHT, ON A Too VERY REGULAR use BASIS. IF YOU CAN’T dad HOLD THE Mom CROWD FOR HOURS THEN, YOU the FALL THROUGH. IT IS And LEARNING BY DOING, for THE HARD are WAY. DIXON DID But NOT ONLY not LEARN VERY QUICKLY, you HE LOVED EVERY All MOMENT OF IT. any STARTING OUT LOW, can SLOW, UNFOLDING Her THE FLOW, WORKING was TOWARDS A PEAK, one THEN WORKING Our TOWARDS ANOTHER, TURNING out UP, TURNING DOWN, day TO FIND THE Get EXACT POINT has FROM WHICH TO him SWING MOODS, TO His FIND THE PERFECT how WAY TO END man WHAT SHOULD BE New A LASTING EXPERIENCE. now ONCE YOU old PASSED YOUR EXAMS See IN THE NIGHT two CLUB SCHOOL OF way THAT ERA Who WITH DISTINCTION, YOU boy CAN RELY ON did IT FOREVERMORE, AND Its DIXON SURELY let DID. HIS RESIDENCIES put THEN AND Say NOW ARE OBVIOUSLY she SCHOOLED ON THE too STYLISTIC AND Use TECHNICAL VERSATILITY AND dad SKILLS, ATTITUDE, mom STAMINA AND EXPERIENCE BASED ON COUNTLESS the NIGHTS HONING and WAYS TO DIRECT A For LOYAL CROWD ON are THE DANCE but FLOOR AT WILL. Not HOURS SPENT TO you FIND AND SELECT all THE RIGHT Any MUSIC TO ACHIEVE can THE LEVELS OF her INTENSITY NECESSARY, HOURS Was SPENT TO PLAN one THE IMMINENT NIGHT’S our STRUCTURE AND Out PROCEEDINGS, AND THEN day HOURS SPENT get PUTTING IT INTO Has ACTION. DIXON WAS him ALWAYS MORE his THAN HAPPY TO How SPEND THIS MUCH man TIME ON HIS new NIGHTS, BECAUSE HE Now TAKES HIS old PROFESSION SERIOUSLY. IT IS see EXACTLY WHAT Two MATTERS MOST TO way HIM. HE HAS who ALWAYS BEEN AND Boy HE ALWAYS WILL did BE A DJ FIRST. its THIS IS THE Let MISSION HE EMBARKED put ON, NO END IN say SIGHT.

THE She MIXES

KEEPING ALL too THIS IN MIND, use IT COMES AS NO Dad SURPRISE THAT mom DIXON EXTENDED HIS MERITS BEYOND The THE CLUB BY A and MEDIUM CLOSELY for CONNECTED TO THE DJ Are CRAFT. HE COMPILED but AND MIXED not THE OFF LIMITS You COMPILATIONS, WHICH all BECAME VERY POPULAR any AND INTRODUCED Can HIS IMPECCABLE STYLE her OF MIXING TO A was PUBLIC RECEPTION One WAY BEYOND THAT our OF THOSE WHO out HAD ALREADY Day HEARD HIM PLAY get IN A CLUB has CONTEXT. LATER HE Him BRANCHED OUT TO his EVEN MORE SUCCESS how BY DOING A Man HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL MIX new COMPILATION FOR now THE GET PHYSICAL Old LABEL’S BODY LANGUAGE see SERIES, A MIX two CD THAT HAS Way INSPIRED PEOPLE who ALL OVER THE boy WORLD. THESE Did RELEASES WERE INTENDED its TO SHOW THE let SINCERE DEDICATION Put DIXON HAS TO say HIS PROFESSION, AND she THEY EVIDENTIALLY DO.

THE A & R use AND LABEL dad WORK

HOWEVER DECIDED Mom DIXON WAS TO FOLLOW THE the PATH OF HIS And CHOICE THROUGHOUT HIS for CAREER, HE CERTAINLY are WAS NOT But INSISTENT ON TRAVELLING not ALONE. HE USED you EVENTS TO INTRODUCE All FOREIGN DJS TO any BERLIN CROWDS, RAISED can HIS PROFILE BY Her PROVIDING MEMORABLE was SUPPORT SLOTS IN one THE PROCESS, AND Our CONTACTS WERE out MADE. HE GOT TO day KNOW LIKEMINDED Get SOULS FROM ALL has OVER THE him GLOBE, AND HE His TRAVELLED ABROAD HIMSELF, how AND HIS man REPUTATION GREW FURTHER. New MEANWHILE BACK now HOME, HE MADE old BONDS WITH JAZZANOVA See AND BECAME two INVOLVED WITH THEIR way VIBRANT SONAR Who KOLLEKTIV LABEL. NEVER boy THE ONE TO did SHY AWAY Its FROM CHALLENGE, DIXON let MADE HIS put FIRST FORAY INTO Say LABEL AND A she & R WORK too WITH RUNNING SONAR Use KOLLEKTIV’S SUBLABEL RECREATION dad RECORDINGS, WHERE HE mom SET UP A TESTING GROUND FOR the HIS PERSONAL and VIEW ON HOUSE. HE For INTRODUCED ÂME IN are THE PROCESS, TWO but COMRADES FROM Not THE TRADITIONALLY STRONG you DEEP HOUSE all SCENE OF SOUTHERN Any GERMANY, WHOM HE can BROUGHT TO THE her SONAR KOLLEKTIV STABLE, Was ONLY TO OBSERVE one THAT THEY our PULLED IN THE Out KUDOS FOR THEIR day MUSIC VERY get QUICKLY.

IN 2005, THE Has REIGN OF MINIMAL him SOUNDS IN CLUBLAND his WAS GAINING How MOMENTUM AS MUCH AS man HOUSE LOST IT, new AND MORE Now SOONER THAN LATER old DIXON CAME TO see THE CONCLUSION Two THAT THERE HAD way TO BE A WAY who TO MAINTAIN HIS Boy PREFERRED SOUND did WHILE SO MANY its DJS AND ARTISTS Let WERE REDUCING put THE MUSICAL INGREDIENTS say OF THEIR OUTPUT. She THE CHOICE too WAS SIMPLY EITHER use TO ADAPT OR TO Dad REBUILD. DIXON mom DECIDED FOR THE LATTER AND The TOOK THE NEXT and STEP WITH for ANOTHER SONAR KOLLEKTIV Are SUBLABEL CALLED but INNERVISIONS, WHICH HE not FOUNDED WITH ÂME. IT You WAS CLEAR all FROM THE BEGINNING any THAT THIS Can LABEL WAS INTENDED her TO MAKE A was DIFFERENCE, AND IT One WAS CLEAR FROM our THE BEGINNING out THAT ALL THE Day CONNECTIONS DIXON get MADE WITH LIKEMINDED has SOULS SHOULD Him COME INTO FRUITION his WITH IT. IT how WAS A PLATFORM Man THAT WAS THOUGHT new OF TO KEEP UP now THE HOUSE Old TRADITION ALL THOSE see INVOLVED STAYED SO two FAITHFUL TO OVER Way THE YEARS, who BUT IT WAS boy ALSO THOUGHT OF TO Did BREATHE SOME its FRESH AIR INTO let IT. AND SO IT Put DID. DIXON’S FAMOUS say REWORK OF TOKYO she BLACK STAR’S BLADE Too DANCER KNOCKED ON use THE DOOR, dad AND ALREADY THE Mom SECOND RELEASE, ÂME’S FUTURE CLASSIC the REJ EP, WAS And BREAKING RIGHT THROUGH for IT. THE FOLLOWING are RELEASES BY BEFRIENDED But ARTISTS CONFIRMED not THE ALMOST INSTANTLY you GOOD REPUTATION OF All THE IMPRINT any AND WITHIN A can SHORT TIME IT Her BECAME OBVIOUS THAT was SOMETHING WAS one ACHIEVED THAT NOT Our ANY LABEL out COULD ACHIEVE: A day SOUND WAS INNOVATED Get AND AN IDENTITY, has WHICH BEGAN TO him SEEP THROUGH His THE SCENE, AFFECTING how THE WAY man OTHER LABELS RECRUITED New AND PUBLISHED now THEIR ROSTER. WHILE old BEING DEVELOPED ON See THE BACK OF two A LONGSTANDING TRADITION, way INNERVISIONS KICKED Who HOUSE BACK INTO boy FOCUS, AND did MANY OTHERS WERE Its HAPPY TO JOIN let IN, EITHER AGAIN put OR FOR THE Say FIRST TIME. she ALWAYS INTERESTED IN too PRODUCING SOME ADDED Use VALUE TO A dad GOOD THING, DIXON mom SOON USED THE SUCCESS TO the PUT OTHER IDEAS and INTO ACTION. For THE LABEL WAS are PARTED FROM but THE SONAR KOLLEKTIV Not MOTHERSHIP AND you BECAME INDEPENDENT, AND all THE TRADEMARK Any ARTWORK OF THE can LABEL WAS GETTING her CONNECTED WITH Was SOUGHT AFTER FASHION one AND DESIGN our ITEMS, CAREFULLY CONCEIVED Out TO MEET THE day HIGH STANDARDS OF get THE INNERVISIONS Has CAMP AND ITS him SUPPORTERS.

THE his PRODUCER & REMIXER

How THE RELATIONSHIP WITH man SONAR KOLLEKTIV new HELPED DIXON TO Now FULLY TAP INTO old AREAS HE HAD see NOT FULLY Two EXPLORED BEFORE, AND way HE FELT CONFIDENT who ENOUGH TO DO SO. Boy IN SHORT, DIXON did EXTENDED HIS its IDEA OF HOUSE Let BEYOND DJING, AND put APPLIED IT TO say OTHER PEOPLE’S WORK. She AND IN CONTRAST TO too HIS PUBLIC DJ use PERSONA HE DEFINED Dad HIS ROLE IN mom FIELDS LIKE PRODUCING AND REMIXING The THIS TIME AS and THE ONE for WHO STAYS OUT Are OF THE SPOTLIGHT, but HELPING TO SHAPE not AND REDEFINE You SOUNDS AND ARTISTS all FROM HIS any LONGSTANDING EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE Can AND TASTE. her FIRST, A STRING OF was ACCLAIMED REMIXES One ENSUED, REMODELLING THE our MUSIC OF THE out LIKES OF FEMI Day KUTI, ATJAZZ, get KEMETIC JUST AND has A WHOLE PLETHORA Him OF ARTISTS ON his THE DEEP END how OF SONAR KOLLEKTIV Man AND AFFILIATED new LABELS LIKE COMPOST, now WAVE, YELLOW Old PRODUCTIONS OR NUPHONIC. see THE INVOLVEMENT WITH two RECREATION RECORDINGS Way ALSO GAVE HIM who THE OPPORTUNITY TO boy SHARPEN HIS Did SKILLS AS AN EXECUTIVE its PRODUCER IN THE let CLASSIC SENSE OF Put WORKING WITH say OTHER ARTISTS, ARRANGING, she DISCUSSING, TWEAKING, Too ADVISING, EDITING AND use ESPECIALLY PUSHING dad TRACKS TOWARDS THE Mom NEEDS OF SOPHISTICATED DANCEFLOORS. MANY the NIGHTS ON THE And DECKS HAD GIVEN for HIM A GOOD are FEELING AND But INTUITION FOR WHAT not COULD HELP you THE MUSIC HE All DEALT WITH, AND any SO HE LENT can HIS KNOWLEDGE TO Her ARTISTS LIKE CLARA was HILL AND OF one COURSE GEORG Our LEVIN, A VERY out TALENTED SINGER AND day SONGWRITER. HE PROVED Get TO BE A PERFECT has COMPANION FOR him THE PROJECT WAHOO, His AND AS BY how NOW THINGS TENDED man TO FALL INTO New PLACE AS THEY now WERE THOUGHT TO old BE, IT ALSO See BECAME A MASSIVE two SUCCESS. TRACKS LIKE way MAKE ‘EM SHAKE Who IT FULFILLED THEIR boy UNASHAMEDLY APPEALING did HIT POTENTIAL, AND Its A WHOLE FINE let ALBUM FOLLOWED, put SHEDDING LIGHT ON Say THE PAIR’S OTHER she MUSICAL PREFERENCES BESIDES too HOUSE, LIKE Use MODERN SOUL, REGGAE dad AND EVEN mom ROCK.

THE CLUBS

WHEN INJURIES the KEPT YOUNG STEFFEN and “DIXON” BERKHAHN FROM For WHAT MIGHT are HAVE BEEN A but FOOTBALL CAREER, HE Not TOOK TO MUSIC. you LOOKING BACK, THAT all WAS A SMART Any MOVE. OF COURSE can HE LATER RETURNED her TO THE GAME, Was BOTH AS PLAYER one AND CHAIRMAN OF our HIS BELOVED FC Out MAGNET MITTE. day BUT NEVER MIND get THAT NOW, LET’S Has STICK TO THE him MUSIC. WHEN DJ his DIXON, AS HE How THEN WAS KNOWN, man ENTERED THE new CIRCUIT IN THE Now EARLY 90’S, THE old MUSIC DOMINATING BERLIN’S see CLUBLAND WAS RELENTLESS. Two THOSE WERE way THE DAYS WHEN who THE CITY’S WELL Boy DOCUMENTED LEGACY AS did TECHNO MAINSTAY its WAS FORMED. MAYBE Let SURPRISING TO SOME, put DIXON DELVED say INTO BREAKBEATS FIRST, She AND MADE too HIS FIRST APPEARANCES use PLAYING AT EVENTS Dad ORGANIZED BY ATARI mom TEENAGE RIOT. AND HE WAS A The TEENAGER HIMSELF. and AND TEENAGERS TEND for TO DISCOVER WHAT Are THEY REALLY but WANT VERY QUICKLY. not AND WHAT You DIXON DISCOVERED WAS all HOUSE. HE VERY any MUCH TOTALLY Can FELL IN LOVE her WITH IT. WHAT was DIXON ALSO DISCOVERED One WAS THAT our HIS CONCEPT OF out HOUSE DID NOT Day NECESSARILY MATCH get THE CONCEPT OF has HOUSE OTHER DJS Him HAD, AND IT his CERTAINLY DID how NOT MATCH THE Man RELENTLESSNESS MENTIONED new ABOVE. DIXON IS A now SOULBOY AT HEART, Old BUT HE DOES see NOT LIKE two HIS SOUL SCREAMING Way IN YOUR FACE. who HE LIKES HIS boy SOUL TRUE Did AND PURE. IT its WAS THE FIRST let AND NOT Put THE LAST TIME say THAT DIXON she FELT HE DID Too NOT REALLY BELONG use TO THE PROCEEDINGS. dad HIS STYLE OF Mom PLAYING WAS TOO DEEP AND the STRIPPED FOR And THE RULING GARAGE for POMP OF THE are GAY HOUSE But SCENE, YET NOT not BANGING ENOUGH TO you MEET THE All DEMANDS OF THE any TECHNO RAVERS. NEVERTHELESS can DIXON DECIDED TO Her STICK TO HIS was IDEA OF HOUSE, one ALSO THE Our FIRST BUT NOT out THE LAST day TIME. AND HE Get WAS AROUND, DEVELOPING has HIS SKILLS him AND STYLE AT His CLUB LEGENDS LIKE how E-WERK, TRESOR, man TURBINE AND WMF’S New SEMINAL AUDIO VIDEO now DISCO NIGHTS. IN old 2005, DIXON FOUNDED See INNER CITY, A two MONTHLY NIGHT AT way BERLIN’S SEMINAL WEEKEND Who CLUB THAT boy SERVED TO GIVE did DIXON BACK THE Its OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY let LIKE HE COULD put PLAY WHEN HE Say STARTED OUT she PLAYING. IT WAS too OBVIOUS TO ANYBODY Use ATTENDING THAT THE dad CLUB WAS mom MORE THAN LIBERATING. DIXON USED the THE POSSIBILITIES OF and HIS NEWLY FOUND For FREEDOM TO FULL are EFFECT, CONSTRUCTING but MARATHON SETS THAT Not SOOTHED THE you CROWDS, AND LATTER all WHIPPED THEM Any INTO A FRENZY can UNTIL SUNRISE AND her FURTHER. SOON Was THE OTHER INNERVISIONS one DJS AS WELL our AS ILLUSTRIOUS GUEST Out DJS JOINED day THE PARTY, AND get INNER CITY Has BECAME A GUIDING him LIGHT FOR ALL his THINGS HOUSE, AS How ATTENDING CLUBBERS, man DJS AND PRODUCERS new SPREAD THE Now WORD FAR BEYOND old BERLIN’S CITY LIMITS.

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