Vato Gonzalez

Vato Gonzalez, the DJ and producer born Björn Franken, fused British garage and tech-house with Dutch touches to launch the style he named “Dirty House”. After more than ten years of gigs throughout the Netherlands, his Dirty House Mixtapes series gained traction on video platforms around 2007. He launched the Dirty House imprint in 2008 and secured a deal with Ministry of Sound in 2010, the same year the label put out the single “Badman Riddim”.