https://youtu.be/iG9dc8yJQ4w?is=qdtUUIAKBogrIglR

Man talking facts. He might be the shittest, wettest Spider-Man, may never have touched a set of decks in his life, but this man has been on enough self-contemplative benders in Berlin to have learned the truth of the circle jerk.

Just received my first DJ set up, super excited to learn to mix, do you guys have any good youtube videos on how to learn?

Happy jerking!

https://www.reddit.com/r/DJs/comments/1vxiwbl/considering_hanging_up_my_headphones/

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I've been DJing for a long time, getting close to 30 years now. Music, DJ/Selector culture and underground electronic music culture has been a core interest of mine for a long time. Still an avid searcher and consumer of music, I go out of my way to (hopefully) play music people may not have heard before. But my gigs have not been bringing me much joy lately. I just dont feel like I have been connecting to audiences or I'm with the wrong audiences. Even the music it seems they want to hear largely feels very re-hashed and uninspiring to me a lot of the time. I know this is probably just part of getting older and being into music for so long, but Ive seen the genre cycles come and go multiple times now and its not often I'm running into many original sounding ideas these days. Even the new takes on old ideas are getting beaten to death in the digital age. The cycles used to get fresh takes with new technology but that hasn't been nearly as true lately and if AI is that new technology... for music, no thanks.

I was never a fully fledged touring DJ/Producer but I have played on several continents and put out music via the relationships built by my passion for the culture and event production. One reason I never fully pursued it is I met a lot of my contemporaries in the business and saw the struggle it was to make it as a mid-level DJ, especially living in America (my European friends seemed to have some more opportunities in the zones of music that I like). The top 1% do exceptionally well, like most things I suppose, but most of the people making a living at that level are not doing things I ever aspired to. Might sound weird to many people, but my idea of DJing and artistry has little to do with playing at big festivals or massive clubs with giant light shows and stages. That part of the scene turns me off for the most part. I have even turned down gigs at events like EDC in the past, perhaps to my own detriment.

I'm also increasingly finding it difficult to be around party culture. But that is a key piece of the industry obviously. Listening to drunk or drugged up people ramble on endlessly about how they're born to make music and just got Ableton and started "producing", which 9 times out of 10 is total bullshit and they will never put in the actual work to make anything. And to be completely honest, some of the better shows we've put on were basically designed to cater to people on drugs. Why? Because people in that state eat it up and think you're an amazing DJ in those environments, even if you don't play your best set that night. It's really a great way to grow an audience in this industry if you know how create a good event for that. Many big DJs careers are built on this. I'm not even anti-drug, I had fun in my younger days and don't judge people who can enjoy it recreationally and maintain a happy life still, I just don't have much room in my life for it now. But there are a lot of lost souls in the party world and are often hard to relate to if you're not high yourself. On top of that, a lot of the industry takes place late at night, which is just harder to participate in as adult life sets in. That starts to limit opportunities. I sometimes wonder if my not being into drugs is a connection I'm missing with the audience.

I guess this is mostly a rant but was wondering if anybody else feels similarly or had bouts with this kind of thing. I love finding music and mixing records together. I still do it at home weekly no matter how much I'm gigging. And there is little chance I'd ever stop searching for music that hits me the right way. I'm not expecting to be a globe trotting DJ at this point. But I'd like to still play music and connect with like minded people at the right kinds of events. But maybe parties just aren't for me anymore and what is a DJ without a party?

Besides James Hype I dont think there is a bigger douchebag in the industry.

They went full....

The rig is nearly complete