Dark Culture
Heartbreak into output
Heart is broken. How do I productivity-max for eventual stunting? That was the actual question, asked the morning after, with...
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music
Guides
Curation as product
Curation is not a playlist. It’s a product discipline. The lineup is the product. The brand is the trust that...
Scene
There are a million highly skilled bedroom DJs who will never see the light of day
There are a million highly skilled bedroom DJs who will never see the light of day. Not because they lack...
Scene
The smoking ban changed the music
There is a theory — developed from observing dancefloor behavior across two countries — that smoking bans on dancefloors directly...
Scene
Why photographers should never be on the dancefloor
A photographer with a flash on the dancefloor is a violation of the space. Not a minor inconvenience — a...
Guides
Hardware live sets as programming differentiator
Every underground lineup in NYC looks the same: eight DJs playing CDJs for an hour each. The programming blurs together....
BTS
Music file quality: why we check every DJ’s library
Before any DJ plays a SLIST event, we verify their music library. This is not a suggestion. It is a...
Dark Culture
I learned to DJ so I could avoid socializing
That is the most attractive thing about DJing for me — being part of the party without having to socialize...
BTS
We cut a DJ’s set after 15 minutes
Fifteen minutes into a set, the decision was already made. The DJ was playing YouTube-ripped tracks through a sound system...
Dark Culture
Dark taste vs dark culture
Dark culture is the aesthetic category. Goth, industrial, darkwave — it existed as a named genre well before techno absorbed...