Dean Driscoll - 2012 Predictions

If there was ever someone to ask about what's going to be going on in dance music in 2012, it's someone that digitally distributes music, lives in Berlin, used to manage Minus press, and has, in his time, worked at fabric. Introducing Dean Driscoll. 

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Describe yourself / what you do in one sentence: Formerly press manager for Richie Hawtin's Minus & Plus 8 labels, now of Berlin-based digital promo company Fatdrop and host of Disco&Mercy on the Digitally Imported tech house channel every 1st & 3rd Friday of the month at 3pm GMT - facebook.com/discoandmercy

Highlight of 2011:

Work: Plastikman Live 1.5 blowing people's minds. 

Personal: being asked by Beatport to be their second ever guest for their weekly live Ustream broadcast from the Berlin office.

Artists of 2012:



Huxley, Laura Jones, Jack Dixon, Kevin McPhee, Tale of Us, Matador

Label of 2012:

Smallville will continue to quietly be the best deep house label around; Rush Hour will solidify their position as a genuine powerhouse; Man Make Music to be 2012's breakthrough label.

Destination of 2012:

Same as always: Berghain/panoramabar - nowhere else will you see the best DJs in the world playing exactly what they want to play to an audience fully prepared to go where ever those DJs want to take them.

Party of 2012:

In early February, when my Brooklyn brother Evan Baggs makes his panoramabar debut on a Sunday with Cassy. Chaos reigns.

World event of 2012:

The Occupy movement to start initiating real change in the financial systems the world is now waking up to realise just does not work. I'm an optimist...