Since 2010 he's mostly retired from DJ'ing, and has worked in the art and publishing worlds, curating exhibitions and authoring 5 books focused on various aspects of pop & counter culture.

[1][3] DB Burkeman is considered one of the early pioneers of electronic music, responsible for exposing the genre to a wider audience in the U.S.

[3][4] From 1992 till around 2005 DB was known in the U.S. for pushing and promoting the more musical and deeper side of Drum & Bass,[4][5] first with in 1992 his hardcore Breakbeat club NASA at The Shelter,[5] (featured in the Larry Clark film Kids[6] then with Gary Pini by launching Sm:)e communications for Profile Records and releasing the first Jungle singles and compilations in the U.S,[5] as well as signing DJ Dara, thus kick starting his artist career.

[4] It was the first record store solely devoted to Drum & Bass in the U.S.[7] In 2006 Breakbeat Science was responsible for the first compilation in the U.S. of the burgeoning genre of Dubstep.

Now retired from being a club and rave DJ, he worked in the music industry as A&R for AM Only, then Paradigm Talent Agency, also acting as their creative director, curating the art in all four of their U.S. offices till 2021.

He & Rich Browd used Kickstarter to self-publish "The Sm;)e Book" in 2021, focused on the re-appropriation of the Smiley face, and they are currently working on a second volume.

1983 After having had "an epiphany listening to Evil Eddie Richards & Colin Faver" at the Camden Palace Theater, he got himself a job DJing at Stocks, "a ridiculous yuppie & Arab club" on the Kings Road, learning the skills he needed as he worked.

During this era DB was also hired by The Rolling Stones office to play several private events, including Jade Jagger's 16th birthday party, several of Tina Turner's birthday parties, and the Rolling Stones’ own Grammy "Lifetime Achievement Award" event at the Roof Garden Club on Kensington High St. 1985 DB was hired as one of the main resident DJ's for the new London location of Peter Gatien’s Limelight club.

1989 Early in his New York City career, DB established weekly or monthly DJ residencies at the hot clubs of the day, including MARS, MK, Palladium, Nell’s, and Red Zone.

DB and close London friend Dorian Chinner decided to work independently to create better events and make more money.

1991 In 1991, DB co-produced the "Best Of Techno Volume One" compilation with Gary Pini, which included such artists as Moby & Richie Hawtin.

In 1993 Gary Pini and DB were responsible for getting Robot Wars started by convincing Profile records to back the project, originally conceived by ex-Industrial Light & Magic model maker Mark Thorpe, they staged the first live events in San Francisco.

During this time, Pini and DB also became integral to the start of Robot Wars, before it became the hit British TV show.

Through a relationship formed with German Techno musicians Air Liquide by releasing their music on Sm:)e, DB was invited to become a partner in their Temple Records store in 1994.

While he began to DJ around the U.S., DB befriended Paul Morris, a fellow Londoner then at university in Gainesville, FL.

1996 DB and Dara, along with Paul Morris, opened the first Drum & Bass-only record shop, Breakbeat Science, on 9th street in the East Village of NYC.

1997 Due to the sudden chart success of electronic music in the U.S. with acts such as The Prodigy & Fatboy Slim, the major record labels all wanted their own "Electronica" imprint.

1998 Andrew Goldstone and DB were given a label deal at Warner Brothers called F-111, named after a painting that they both loved by the artist James Rosenquist.

In 2007 he released an artist album project called "Deep" with partner Stakka under the name Ror-Shak, focusing on pushing the limits on the more musical side of the D&B.

[8] In 2007, DJ DB was quoted in an essay was published in the book "Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs" edited by Phil Freeman.

DB had been collecting stickers since the 80's via punk rock & skate boarding, he and a partner (Monica LoCasio) created a history book, "Stickers- from Punk Rock to Contemporary Art" AKA Stuck-Up Piece Of Crap (for Rizzoli Publishing) on the subject of stickers, artists who've used the medium and their effect on popular culture.