an easy way to lose your way
When you play out a couple of times a week it can hard keeping your focus. You can drift into a semi-automatic routine; you know certain records will work in a certain order and you can end up djing by numbers.
It doesn’t help that some of the places you play may not be exactly condusive to a pure djing experience. Bad sound, overbearing bar managers, disinterested punters can all make it hard not to feel justified in phoning a gig in.
This can easy become a self-perpetuating circle as there is nothing more soul destroying than spending five hours feeling like a overpaid, under employed jukebox.
The best remedy to all this is to remember why you are djing in the first place. If you are any sort of dj then that has to involve a passion and a love of music. If you can cultivate that passion, even in challenging environments, then you will always be learning and be getting something from playing and in turn that will affect the people you are playing too.
So anyway here’s an excerpt form last night’s session (it’s live so it’s bit rough and ready).
Kelly’s comeback mix.
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tracklisting;
donna summer-I feel love/padded cell-konkorde lafayette/the more i get-teddy pendergrass (edit)/is it all over my face (kenny dope vocal mix)-loose joints/la stashe-blackjoy/get myself into it(prince language edit)-the rapture
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