The not-DJ

There is this thing about music, really like music, i enjoy discovering (hah daft punk reference get it) and branching around, who produced this, where they sampled this from

idk

i just love music, always did, cds are one of my favorite phisical mediums currently, minidisc my forever love.

Radio was my first way into music, i grew up in the late 90s, early 2000s and radio was the source of music, before pirating was a thing in my life, radio was a source of endless tapes, new releases, discoveries and fun in general, better than tv. not sure what year exaclty, but i was grounded because i did something dumb, i was banned from tv, no tv, for like a couple of months or so

radio was not banned, so i poured myself to it, the box of tapes that was my uncle's

yeah, jamiroquai, still have that tape

house from the 80s

pop from the 90s

classical

whatever

i just enjoyed it, and while some stuff was literal music to my ears some other was not that much, some stuff i learned to appreciate it over time.

Anyways 2025 happens, and i my now boyfriend appears in my life, he is  DJ, a producer, someone who makes sounds and music his life.

so of course i went deeper just because im close

and so i was like, teach me how to dj

and so he did, he is doing still of course, but yeah, i'm still learning

developing my own techniques and my own workflow

i got a software shown and was like, ok i like this

i got hardware shown and i got one Allen & heath K2, and the mouse, and the keyboard

the workflow works for me

i was scared of big machines

until i was more confortable by practicing, still need more of that but i got in.

This whole music mixing world is interesting, it's hard, beatmaching is an interesting skill, kinda hard when you "look" at it, but easier when you actually use the proper sense you need for it, ears, sound, and feeling.

Anyways, this is a thing about nothing, it's a post about what i feel

and what i feel is just the music, and the enjoyment and the love about doing something your partner loves and explains to you like he would do to anyone else, but at the same time applies love, partner love.

I have my first "gig" at this furry AD thing this weekend, and it's maybe not the ambient i was expecting for my "first" but it's the one i will probably thrive for now so why not.

anyways, try it, try the shit you are scared to do, maybe you are good at it, maybe you suck, maybe it will take 1000 hours before you are good at it, i hope it works for me, and i have the advantage and the privilege of doing this because i want to, not because i need to, so i can give it all the time in the world but slowly, if you can, and you have a thing that you maybe will love, why not, try it.

worst case scenario you learned something