Studio Engineer/Producer Donald ‘Tixie’ Dixon Has Died
The music industry is mourning the death of well-known producer and engineer Donald ‘Tixie’ Dixon who passed away on Thursday after a long battle with cancer.
When contacted, Reggae star Anthony B acknowledged the producer’s death. Anthony appeared on the Tuff Links Records’ Mind and Soul riddim last October, which was mixed and mastered by Tixie.
“I heard yesterday, I am very sad,” he told DancehallMag.
Another source told DancehallMag that he heard about Tixie’s death but had been surprised because he hadn’t known that he was sick.
“He had been doing chemotherapy, and I didn’t even know he was sick until I spoke to him on the phone and he could barely speak and his son took the phone and say ‘Daddy really sick right now”. This is tragic, my condolences to his family,” the source said.
Tixie developed a tight bond with artists while he worked as an engineer at Anchor Recording studio.
He produced the tracks What’s Up and Legendary on Sizzla’s Blaze Up The Chalwa album for Jet Star/Kings of Kings. Dixon mixed Sizzla’s The Messiah in 2013. He produced Sizzla’s songs like Love Being Together for his own True Love Records imprint. He did audio production on Sizzla’s Life in 2004, and mixed and did engineering work on Sizzla’s 2010 Crucial Times album.
On Instagram today, Sizzla wrote, “Great engineer Tixie R.I.P nuff works you do fah wi as artistes in this music industry,” alongside a photo of himself and Tixie.
Tixie was the engineer and the mixing engineer on Lady G’s Rated G.
He was the vocal engineer on Junior Kelly’s Urban Poet in 2015. He did engineering work on Bunny Wailer’s Communication for Solomonic.
He was the engineer on Gun Shot which appeared on Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday (Roman Reloaded) album, featuring Beenie Man.
He also did engineering work on Mighty Diamonds / Anthony B – Pass The Kutchie (7″) and on Bounty Killer’s The Best Of Bounty Killer.