German DJ and producer Dixon has today announced that he is to remix the entire life’s work of Ludwig van Beethoven.
The announcement was made just days after the Innervisions boss went to a Halloween party dressed as the Bonn born composer in Berlin on Friday night.
“It was a real inspiration for me to spend a few hours dressed as Beethoven on Friday night,” revealed Dixon in an interview with German newspaper Bild earlier today.
“I really wanted to do something to honour the man, I was thinking of completely changing my look and dressing as Beethoven on a more regular, or even a permanent, basis,” continued Dixon, “but as a trend setting DJ with hair so good you could set your watch by it that just wouldn’t have been practical and as a German practicality is very important to me so I decided to remix his entire life’s work instead.”
“It’s quite a big commitment,” explained the steely gazed DJ. “There’s probably about thirty years worth of work involved in remixing his most famous works, not to mention some of his more obscure pieces but I really think it’ll be worth it.”
“We’re constantly trying to create a nicer, more melodic sound here at Innervisions,” explained Dixon. “So by taking on the works of probably the most influential composer of his generation we feel that we’ve finally found something worthy of our time, apart from posing, talking about obscure 1980’s electro pop bands and acting mysterious.”
“Can you just imagine being in Watergate at eight o’clock on a Sunday morning and hearing Piano Sonata No. 8 or Bagatelle in A Minor coming out of their sound system?” he asked before instantaneously answering with, “It would be totally amazing.”
“I have no doubt that Beethoven would have been one of the biggest electronic music producers in the world had he been born two hundred years later,” claimed Dixon with genuine sincerity.
“It’s just a real pity that him and Steve Aoki weren’t born in each other’s place,” continued the DJ bizarrely. “That way Beethoven would be alive today and making some really great techno, while Aoki most likely would have been burnt at the stake as a which had he been born in the eighteenth century.”
“Now that’s a world I’d really like to live in.”
Dixon’s remixes of Ludwig van Beethoven will be released regularly on Innervisions for the next forty five years.
