Become the Unique DJ Thats Begging to Get out and Break New Boundaries

0:01 Welcome to the kitchen

Right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the kitchen. And yes, before you say anything, it is a bit messy and untidy, but then again, this kitchen is used every single day. This kitchen is used for the, I suppose, for cooking and feeding and stuff like that. I'm not the sort of person who will pick up a phone and order a meal and then chuck it in the bin. No, Could change your life forever. This isn't clickbait, this is just absolute common sense and it is related to DJing. In fact, this video is about DJing but I'm going to give some analogies. Now let's go back many years and even probably now. Witchcraft. It was one of those things that, and this is all relevant trust me, this is one of those things that you talk about or you read in books and you think oh my goodness I'd never like to get involved with that, it's in films etc but if we break it down very simply it is about someone, something, some entity

Controlling people's minds, whether that be through EBGB or basically just what they say. They're someone high up and because they're high up you believe them and the masses believe them and all of a sudden you have this not so much mass hysteria but everyone ends up being like sheep unfollowing someone or something that's told you what to do because they've said it's for your benefit. Now, what the hell has that got to do with DJing? Right, well, down here somewhere, I mean, all right, yeah, here it is. It's a box. I mean, it's a fairy box. It's watching powder. But if you imagine you and all the other DJs around the world are in that box, you're thinking, what are you on about? Well, let's just look at it from this perspective.

2:11 Other DJs and they follow what

Most DJs today do not think outside of the box. All they do is they look at other DJs and they follow what they're doing. They follow trends, they follow styles. Most DJs do not think outside the box. Now let's go back not many years, let's go back sort of five, six, seven years. There was always that one person, that one sort of artist that brought out a track that was just revolutionary, that just made sense. It was a track that just made you think, wow, this is different. And then guess what happened? Everyone would copy them. And the trouble is when everyone copies you or copies them, it becomes the normal. So what I'm trying to explain here is, again, back to what I talked about at the beginning of the video. Everyone follows. Everyone follows the big person. So there are DJs out there who are high up in the food chain, in the DJ food chain.

And you aspire to them. You want to be like them. But then again, you can't be like them because you are not them. You will never be them. There will only be one of that DJ. So why don't you think outside the box and become yourself? Become a DJ that you want to be and not like him or her. So of course you're probably thinking now, well that's all well and good, but how do I do it? What can I do? Now this is the key here and this is where you have to start thinking outside of the box. Now first of all, I'm going to give you some tips here. Okay, I'm going to give you a little bit of advice and work around the advice. Now you may watch, like I do, lots of DJ videos and most of them now the DJ will be using some form of laptop and if you look at the DJ

4:55 They're almost mesmerised on this screen

It doesn't matter where that laptop is, alright? During their set, they will be gawping at that screen practically all the time. It's almost as though they have to look at it. But if you think about it, just think pure, pure logic. And I can relate to something here. Very simply, that will confirm what I'm about to tell you. Once you're playing a track, it's not going to go anywhere. It's not going to magically disappear or jump off the turntable. If you're using virtual vinyl or you're using just a controller and then you drag and drop your next track and you put it on the deck and you're forming a mix, it's not going to disappear unless of course there's a problem with your laptop. But yet, still to this day, DJs have to look at the controller. They're almost mesmerised on this screen. And here is what I'm all about.

Alright, I'm going to relate now to maybe the 80s when a DJ would have some vinyl turntables. Now if you think about it, you've got your vinyl turntable and you're doing a mix, you don't see DJs constantly looking at the piece of vinyl going round and around because it's there, it's not going to go anywhere. The DJs would concentrate more maybe on the mixer and the crowd so that It's really important to concentrate on the crowd. So one of, I suppose these points I'd like to put over to you is if you are a DJ and most DJs now will be using a controller and a laptop, then try to use the laptop as less as you can. Try not to look at it all the time, okay? This is so important because you're missing out on the key to a good set.

And that is getting vibe and energy from the crowd. Now, that may be a slightly new subject anyway. But again, that in a way is sort of thinking outside of the box because you're not now following the norm, just gawping at a screen. And if you're the sort of DJ who's got a screen right in front of you, then you're an absolute frigging idiot. Because the only thing that should be in front of you... Is the crowd not some big screen? Because you're basically saying to the crowd, up yours, not interested in you because I'm looking at a screen. Move it away or if it does have to be in front of you, put it below eye level so you can see the crowd. Or better still, put it to the side. Even better still, close the damn thing, alright? Just, I don't know. Anyway, the next thing is to think about you as a DJ.

7:08 Of the old school DJs, you

How are you dressed? What do you wear? You know, I mean, you've only got to look at some of the old school DJs, you know, like Deadmau5, who had the big hat on. I mean, that was revolutionary. And of course now people associate him, her, whatever it is, I don't know, with this big eared kind of DJ. All right, that's what they are. Now, if you can get some kind of trend. Then you might not even have to be such a fantastic DJ, but you will be different. You'll be unique. You see what I'm trying to get through to you in this video, the term thinking outside of the box is to think differently, not follow everybody else, not copy everybody else. Be yourself. And if you can be yourself internally and just

Just concentrate on yourself and what you can achieve, then there's nothing stopping you doing and being anything. Absolutely anything. Alright? Now I have waffled on a bit, I must admit, but if this video was slightly inspirational, let me know. If you thought I was talking a load of crap, let me know. If you want to know the price of cheese now to Mongolia, find out, let me know. But please, it would be great to have a comment from you. Maybe not now, but maybe in six months or a year's time when you maybe you watch this video and thought I've got a really good idea how I can change my DJ setup. How I can change my lighting rig, how I can change my kit, how I can change how I look, how I can change how I present myself, how I can change the music I play, the styles I play. Think about that, alright? And let me know. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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