Innervisions: Where We At CD

Few labels manage to cause such a stir with their first releases as Steffen "Dixon" Berkhahn's Innervisions. Besides running the club night Innercity which takes place in the epicenter of Berlin, through his label he offers a hand picked selection of producers a platform to celebrate the current renaissance for all things deep house. This first compilation is a review of the labels output in the last year and so shows exactly where it is at. The concept behind the club orientated 12"s is a balance between peaktime A-Sides and more dubbed out B-Sides. With his special edits, Dixon opens up the tracks for household use. His shortened and stripped down versions make what is essentially DJ music more suitable for home listening. After having had a helping start with the first maxis by Jazzanova's Sonar Kollektiv, from now on Innervisions stands on its own feet and is run by Dixon and his partners in crime, Kristian Beyer and Frank Wiedemann from Ame. "Where We At" presents the current state of play of a highly regarded crew who are getting equal respect from purists, minimalists and freestylers alike. The goal is not to be obsessively futurist, rather comfortably balanced between the old and the new. Thereby they capture the essence of, for example, a Ron Trent or Chez Damier number translated into the present day, just as Atjazz does with his piece "For Real". One view of the future of Innervisions is delivered by the Parisian buddies I:Cube and Gilb'r (aka Chateau Flight) with their highly individual opener "Baroque". "Sleepy Hollow" by Berlin internet forum activist Stefan Goldmann who has already released on Classic, Josh Wink´s Ovum and Perlon, is currently being heralded as this year's "Rej".