D-NOX

D-Nox (born 06 December 1975) is a German DJ/producer and 1 time DJ

Awards winner whose career in electronic music spans well over 25 years.

Everything started for him with the electronic scene in his hometown of

Düsseldorf in the early 90ties, branding his mark in the music community by

also being a part of the duo D-Nox & Beckers who are responsible for various

club hits since 2004 and are still currently releasing 16 years later on

prestigious labels such as Bedrock, Suara and Sudbeat to name a few, as well

as through D-Nox’s own record label Sprout Music.

D-Nox has brought his sound all around the world with his international

bookings as a DJ, keeping him constantly on the move with his travels every

weekend, through Europe, down to Australia, across the Americas, and around

Asia and Africa. D-Nox has an exceptionally outstanding career in Brazil where

he has his biggest fan community.

D-Nox was born in East Germany, but his family escaped to the West of

Germany before the wall went down in 1989. As a young boy, he fed his

interest in music by recording music on cassette tapes, as there was no way to

buy records in East Germany. It was only in the time that he and his family

moved to the West, that he got access to all the music which he had been

recording on tapes and this is when his real passion for collecting music was

born. In the early 90ties he started to go out and meet people from the

nightlife scene of his new hometown Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf has always played

an important role in the underground music scene. Many important bands

such as Kraftwerk come from Düsseldorf.

With the first money that D-Nox made after he had left school, he was able to

buy himself all of the important equipment needed to start the art of mixing

vinyl records.

Around 1992 was the first time he got booked to play in a nightclub and by

1993 he became a professional DJ. These early years made D-Nox one of the

most booked DJs in his region, with numerous gigs in his hometown and other

cities near by. In 2001 he started to work as A&R for the record label Tatsu.

This job taught him even more about the music scene and inspired him to start

his own record label Sprout Music in 2003.

In 2004 he met Beckers and both started the form the famous duo D-Nox &

Beckers which was responsible for many underground club hits such as „Jetlag

Slave“, „Memory Cell“, „Seven Hours“ and many others. In 2007 the duo D-Nox

& Beckers won the price for best selling progressive house artist

in Beatport.com and in 2010 the duo won the DJ award for best progressive

house artist.

D-Nox & Beckers have released 3 albums; in 2007 “Left Behind”, in 2009 “Big

City Lights” and in 2011 “Distance”. Since 2004 the duo have released more

than 50 EPs and made over 70 remixes. Until today, D-Nox & Beckers still

receive a lot of recognition and respect, and continue to play shows all around

the world together. But due D-Nox’s change of location in 2016 when he

moved to South America, he is now focusing again on his solo gigs, with

current shows booked in Germany, Belgium, Japan, Turkey, Israel, Australia,

Russia, Poland, Costa Rica, Hungary, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Argentina and

many more to follow.

Along with D-Nox’s change of location from Germany to South America, a few

new collaboration partnerships in the studio were formed. One of them

together with Victor Ruiz, one of the most demanded DJs of today. Together

Victor and D-Nox produced ‘Arise’ which was released on Sudbeat Recordings

in 2016, the label belonging to Hernan Cattaneo. This track became one of the

most played tracks in sets of DJ’s all around the world. They followed up this

release, with a second best seller in 2017 on Sudbeat from Victor Ruiz and D-

Nox, called ‚Pure’. Another new collaboration made with Stereo Underground,

a very well respect producer from Israel „Dolby“ has reached number 1 in

Beatport, the world wide leading digital store for DJs and was holding the top

position for over 3 month. The pandemic month have d-nox become way more

creative in his studio than he ever was before and his discography has just

grown bigger and bigger. Its is now over 20 years that D-Nox is traveling all

around the world and keeps on moving the dance floors.

By now, D-Nox and/or D-Nox & Beckers have played many mayor festivals such

as Rainbow Serpent, Ozora, Fusion, Tribe, Boom, ADE, Love Parade,

Tomorrowland, Lollapaloza, Loveland, Extrema to name a few and many

important clubs around the world, such as Womb, the Bow, Dedge, Pacha, The

Block, Warung, Stereo, Ame, and so on, stoking up gigs in over 70 countries,

this duo belongs to the most important underground dance music products

from Germany.