Avalon Emerson

Avalon Emerson

Raised in Arizona, Avalon started to make, release, and play music in San Francisco before moving to Berlin in 2014. In 2016, she released one of Resident Advisor’s Top 10 Tracks of the Decade, “The Frontier,” an emotive and colorful techno song that became a hit thanks to Avalon’s ear-catching melody. Since then, she has toured the world’s most famous clubs and festivals and remixed the likes of Slowdive, Robyn, Four Tet, Lena Platonos, and more.

In 2019, she launched her own international series of events named 9000 Dreams, which entailed all-night-long solo marathon DJ sets and club lineups that she curated. This is in addition to the steady stream of original music she has issued on various respected electronic music labels like AD 93 (FKA Whities) and Ghostly International imprint Spectral Sound. She released her entry into the esteemed DJ-Kicks series in 2020. Avalon’s selections reflect a deep knowledge of house, techno, new wave, EBM, and rave, as well as the experience of an adaptable selector.

Her style transcends the confines of time or genre by recontextualizing dance music from previous eras among contemporary sounds and her own productions and edits. In the past few years, she has become a regular across all floors of Berlin’s famous Berghain nightclub and played at major festivals like Coachella and Pitchfork.

Avalon Emerson at DGTL
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