![]() Obviously I didn’t do it yet, I don’t have a residence in Ibiza. Should I do a residency in Ibiza? The offers are there for four years, I guess, and I still haven’t decided. So I do think actually that’s maybe something that I learned over the years, that you should not be too fast, or should not run through your career or your life in general, and you should reflect a little bit about it, and very often when a door was opened that was the moment for me to reflect on it. I think in my career it was very often that there were certain doors open that it took me a while to enter. I guess, as with everything in these times that we’re living in, things change very fast, or can. So I’d love to ask you a little bit more about what that state feels like for you. Hearing this from one side and on the other side seeing the fruits of your labors, seeing the entire Innervisions ecosystem in front of me. Somewhere between popular and unpopular, loved and hated, commercial and underground. It was a party at the Innervisions office, just before you were playing your headlining set at one of the Red Bull Music Festival parties, and it was really interesting because in one ear you were telling me something which I was surprised to hear coming from you, that you felt like you were someone whose caught in between states. I think the context of it is pretty important. But I actually wanted to start by kind of picking up a conversation that I had with Steffen the other night, when we met. I think you will, I think we’ll all be fine. Gerd, how does it feel to be back on this sofa as lecturer rather than a journalist?ĭon’t really know the difference between both of them. So we’re going to talk about that a little bit today. Both label heads, both A&R, both incredible DJs and both, at certain points, have been called the people’s DJ and also the DJ’s DJ. Both active for 20 years, or perhaps even more. My name’s Christine, and I’m here with two absolute pillars of German house music. Welcome, everybody, to this very special lecture as part of Red Bull Music Academy 2018. ![]() In their lecture at Red Bull Music Academy Berlin 2018, Berkhahn and Janson discussed the highs and lows of their jobs as label bosses and full-time DJs, the joy of the All Night Long concept and the ever-changing nature of the electronic music landscape. He also co-headlines the long-running Liquid club night at Frankfurt’s Robert Johnson with Thomas Hammann. His label Running Back is responsible for blistering analog house releases, and he is a remixer and producer of note, both on his own and as Tuff City Kids with Phillip Lauer. A music journalist and RBMA lecture host-turned-DJ, Janson, like Berkhahn, co-owns a record label and spins in clubs around the world. He’s also the co-founder of Innervisions, the Berlin-based label synonymous with house and electronic music that traverses the line between the progressive underground and the commercially viable. Ranked #1 on Resident Advisor’s yearly “Top DJs” poll from 2013 to 2016, Dixon deploys his subtle and meticulous edits in sets that blur the lines between house and techno. Steffen Berkhahn, AKA Dixon, and Gerd Janson are two of the hardest-working and most celebrated DJs in Germany.
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