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Altair

Altair

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Okay, so:

At the beginning of this year, I discovered that one of my managers at work (a credit card company) owns a nightclub in town, oriented predominately towards house and techno - but with the occasional bit of trance too. One thing led to another, I bought a DDJ-FLX4 and started practicing with it, and over the last two months he's let me come in during downtime to practice mixing on his CDJs, in the hope that I could play there some time next year. And I swear to God I'm not making up any of the following:

Last night, I went out to that club before they opened to practice again (remembering everything but my headphones; thank Christ he had a cheap pair for me to use but I'm not forgetting those again!) And this time, a woman who's a friend of manager/owner was there to watch me mix. From what I know she has a party brand with a strong connection to trance, moved to Canada from Hong Kong a year ago, and is trying to organize such events here now. I decided to start off on a progressive footing for my debut, so she watched me play a set that included some cuts from the first 7 ISoS volumes, and sprinklings of artists like Airwave, Simon Templar, et. al.

After I stopped playing (so the actual deep and tech house DJs of the night could start up), she told me that she loved my track selection and that she hasn't seen anyone represent this progressive trance sound locally yet; most everyone's just doing the commercial stuff. And it was then I learned that she wants me to play a progressive trance headliner slot at her upcoming event, in only three weeks!!!!!

Again, I'm not bullshitting here. The owner/manager and the promoter both believe in my sound THAT MUCH; apparently they never give headliner slots to first timers. The plan is that I'll be the third of four DJs that night (deep house/prog. house/prog. trance/uplifting trance), so I'll be playing to the full crowd after they've showed up!

Plus, I also got to sample my own music on their sound system, including my most recent track, and owner/manager, who is also in a tech/deep house DJ duo with his producer-brother, vouched for how good it sounded.

Fuck me, I feel so blessed. It just feels so surreal. I don't know exactly what the future holds, but I think I can safely say that next year will be a lot more interesting than this one. Hopefully less lonely too - this year I had to let go of the friend I was in love with for years, because she couldn't love me back the way I needed her to.
 
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Altair said:
Okay, so:

At the beginning of this year, I discovered that one of my managers at work (a credit card company) owns a nightclub in town, oriented predominately towards house and techno - but with the occasional bit of trance too. One thing led to another, I bought a DDJ-FLX4 and started practicing with it, and over the last two months he's let me come in during downtime to practice mixing on his CDJs, in the hope that I could play there some time next year. And I swear to God I'm not making up any of the following:

Last night, I went out to that club before they opened to practice again (remembering everything but my headphones; thank Christ he had a cheap pair for me to use but I'm not forgetting those again!) And this time, a woman who's a friend of manager/owner was there to watch me mix. From what I know she has a party brand with a strong connection to trance, moved to Canada from Hong Kong a year ago, and is trying to organize such events here now. I decided to start off on a progressive footing for my debut, so she watched me play a set that included some cuts from the first 7 ISoS volumes, and sprinklings of artists like Airwave, Simon Templar, et. al.

After I stopped playing (so the actual deep and tech house DJs of the night could start up), she told me that she loved my track selection and that she hasn't seen anyone represent this progressive trance sound locally yet; most everyone's just doing the commercial stuff. And it was then I learned that she wants me to play a progressive trance headliner slot at her upcoming event, in only three weeks!!!!!

Again, I'm not bullshitting here. The owner/manager and the promoter both believe in my sound THAT MUCH; apparently they never give headliner slots to first timers. The plan is that I'll be the third of four DJs that night (deep house/prog. house/prog. trance/uplifting trance), so I'll be playing to the full crowd after they've showed up!

Plus, I also got to sample my own music on their sound system, including my most recent track, and owner/manager, who is also in a tech/deep house DJ duo with his producer-brother, vouched for how good it sounded.

Fuck me, I feel so blessed. It just feels so surreal. I don't know exactly what the future holds, but I think I can safely say that next year will be a lot more interesting than this one. Hopefully less lonely too - this year I had to let go of the friend I was in love with for years, because she couldn't love me back the way I needed her to.
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dood, congrats!


and I love that title of your latest 😄

Brilliant
 
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Altair

Altair

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Jetflag said:
dood, congrats!


and I love that title of your latest 😄

Brilliant
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Maybe if you continue to flatter me I'll throw this in the setlist 😏

And also! I met a guy who claims to be best friends with Maor Levi, apparently having opened for him, Above & Beyond and others in the past. Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself, but I feel like I'm about to play in the big leagues!
 
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Altair said:
Okay, so:

At the beginning of this year, I discovered that one of my managers at work (a credit card company) owns a nightclub in town, oriented predominately towards house and techno - but with the occasional bit of trance too. One thing led to another, I bought a DDJ-FLX4 and started practicing with it, and over the last two months he's let me come in during downtime to practice mixing on his CDJs, in the hope that I could play there some time next year. And I swear to God I'm not making up any of the following:

Last night, I went out to that club before they opened to practice again (remembering everything but my headphones; thank Christ he had a cheap pair for me to use but I'm not forgetting those again!) And this time, a woman who's a friend of manager/owner was there to watch me mix. From what I know she has a party brand with a strong connection to trance, moved to Canada from Hong Kong a year ago, and is trying to organize such events here now. I decided to start off on a progressive footing for my debut, so she watched me play a set that included some cuts from the first 7 ISoS volumes, and sprinklings of artists like Airwave, Simon Templar, et. al.

After I stopped playing (so the actual deep and tech house DJs of the night could start up), she told me that she loved my track selection and that she hasn't seen anyone represent this progressive trance sound locally yet; most everyone's just doing the commercial stuff. And it was then I learned that she wants me to play a progressive trance headliner slot at her upcoming event, in only three weeks!!!!!

Again, I'm not bullshitting here. The owner/manager and the promoter both believe in my sound THAT MUCH; apparently they never give headliner slots to first timers. The plan is that I'll be the third of four DJs that night (deep house/prog. house/prog. trance/uplifting trance), so I'll be playing to the full crowd after they've showed up!

Plus, I also got to sample my own music on their sound system, including my most recent track, and owner/manager, who is also in a tech/deep house DJ duo with his producer-brother, vouched for how good it sounded.

Fuck me, I feel so blessed. It just feels so surreal. I don't know exactly what the future holds, but I think I can safely say that next year will be a lot more interesting than this one. Hopefully less lonely too - this year I had to let go of the friend I was in love with for years, because she couldn't love me back the way I needed her to.
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Good looks fam, nice work indeed
 
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Altair said:
Okay, so:

At the beginning of this year, I discovered that one of my managers at work (a credit card company) owns a nightclub in town, oriented predominately towards house and techno - but with the occasional bit of trance too. One thing led to another, I bought a DDJ-FLX4 and started practicing with it, and over the last two months he's let me come in during downtime to practice mixing on his CDJs, in the hope that I could play there some time next year. And I swear to God I'm not making up any of the following:

Last night, I went out to that club before they opened to practice again (remembering everything but my headphones; thank Christ he had a cheap pair for me to use but I'm not forgetting those again!) And this time, a woman who's a friend of manager/owner was there to watch me mix. From what I know she has a party brand with a strong connection to trance, moved to Canada from Hong Kong a year ago, and is trying to organize such events here now. I decided to start off on a progressive footing for my debut, so she watched me play a set that included some cuts from the first 7 ISoS volumes, and sprinklings of artists like Airwave, Simon Templar, et. al.

After I stopped playing (so the actual deep and tech house DJs of the night could start up), she told me that she loved my track selection and that she hasn't seen anyone represent this progressive trance sound locally yet; most everyone's just doing the commercial stuff. And it was then I learned that she wants me to play a progressive trance headliner slot at her upcoming event, in only three weeks!!!!!

Again, I'm not bullshitting here. The owner/manager and the promoter both believe in my sound THAT MUCH; apparently they never give headliner slots to first timers. The plan is that I'll be the third of four DJs that night (deep house/prog. house/prog. trance/uplifting trance), so I'll be playing to the full crowd after they've showed up!

Plus, I also got to sample my own music on their sound system, including my most recent track, and owner/manager, who is also in a tech/deep house DJ duo with his producer-brother, vouched for how good it sounded.

Fuck me, I feel so blessed. It just feels so surreal. I don't know exactly what the future holds, but I think I can safely say that next year will be a lot more interesting than this one. Hopefully less lonely too - this year I had to let go of the friend I was in love with for years, because she couldn't love me back the way I needed her to.
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Love this. Go get it 🤙🏻
 
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Happy New Years everyone!! We may not always agree on everything but we are one.
 

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