Daxson

Daxson is the trance alias of British producer Dan Dobson, originally from the north-east of the UK and now based in Manchester. He had been releasing music under his own name when he sent the track "Skygarden" to Markus Schulz for the 2016 Transmission set; Schulz responded by suggesting a dedicated alias and a home on his Coldharbour Recordings imprint. The Daxson project launched in 2017 and has been the primary outlet ever since. His catalogue runs through Coldharbour and parent label Black Hole Recordings, with additional releases through Future Sound of Egypt. The 2018 single "Blackcard" — fusing melodic trance with tougher techno elements — was an early signature track, and his debut artist album Face the Future arrived on Coldharbour in September 2022 as an 18-track set spanning uplifting, vocal, progressive and tech-trance modes, with collaborators including Sue McLaren and Numa. He holds a long-running residency at Rong Events, one of the UK's leading trance nights, and has played Creamfields, Transmission, Dreamstate, EDC Las Vegas, UNTOLD, Ministry of Sound, Luminosity, and the Groove Cruise circuit. Within the Coldharbour ecosystem Daxson sits as one of the next-generation names that Markus Schulz has publicly identified as core to the label's modern direction, alongside Davey Asprey and the wider Coldharbour roster. His position in the broader UK trance scene is on the more melodic-leaning end of the tech-trance crossover, distinct from the Subculture / Pure Trance 140 BPM lane but adjacent to it through shared event circuits and producer networks.