Same here !. Im 49, and used to be a Resident club DJ in my 20's but gave that up over 15yrs ago. Now thanks to @laidbackluke im relearning all over again following in his footsteps all the way. And just like you loving every minute of it. Thank you Luke for everything you do for us !. Your fans appreciate it.

What do you mean "go pro"? If you mean Main Stage EDC pro. That's not a pro DJ, that's a performer, an artist, a showman-woman. All that matters is you love music and you love to play music in a way where it means something to you. You're not worried about the light show being right, or the stage being set, or grabbing the mic and standing on the DJ booth, or when the pyro hits, you're just playing music cause you love it and you would play it for 1 person, 100 people or 10,000 people, that makes you a DJ.

@@neffectmusic8484 Yeah, no. I just mean I have no intention to make it my profession. I'm perfectly happy being an enthusiastic hobbyist.

@@neffectmusic8484 I appreciate the sentiment, though. It was very nice of you to say that to a complete stranger on KZfaq of all places.

@@dj_paultuk7052 Interesting. I was a radio and strip club DJ during and immediately following college. Of course, those jobs were more about talking (picture a 120# white kid with a Barry White voice) than spinning records, but still.

keep going man, its gonna be a long and fun journey

I hope you have a great time, I also hope that you can grow enough to see the mistakes are more valuable than the successes. Nothing is greater than connecting to the crowd and having them all go "OHHHHH!" in unison as you drop a track they love. That said, knowing when it is not working and understanding why it isn't will do more for you in the long run. Being a DJ is amazing, but there are more DJ's out that of my caliber than of Luke's (by caliber I don't mean skill, I mean pay scale... its simply a matter of fortune/luck/opportunity that separates the Club from the Festival) MOVING the floor and adding value is all that matters, and often what we feel is a technical error is the MOMENT things happened in and the mistake is a bonus in some way. I once his play, while my second chancel was up and the crossfader was in the middle. I was playing "Not Exactly by Deadmau5" and was cuing up 'Sunglasses at Night by Cory Heart" as someone had made a request. Anyway as I was grooving on my own in my little world making a "remix" in CUE (mistakes and all) I had someone ask me "WHAT SONG IS THIS" I pulled down my earphone to hear them and then I leaned it was playing live. SO shit happened, and I ran with it. Mistakes are awesome.

+Thomas Button Good for you yo! lol imma give you a little inspiration. I've had situations where 10, 20 YEARS later people would come up to me and mention a jam i dj'd that long ago. man sometimes i even forget i dj'd that event and i have gather my memories. Yeah a lot of fun times. Yo, i hope you have similar luck and more. Enjoy the ride!

Thank you everyone for your inspiring comments. (It's making me less nervous and more excited for the future.)

Thomas Button well, welcome to the club man. It’s one of the hardest most enjoyable additions to live with:) You will be like a crack fiend looking for a dance floor to play to soon enough. Ha. Record your set. Post it to Mixcloud and share the link. Let us hear you live.

PrinceMorganti this comment made me lol because I was talking to my friend that streams apex if I would be able to stream my set and he said yeah but there is rules or something. I’m very interested in starting to do it. How’s it going for you if you don’t mind me asking?

@@yelerice it's going ok. The set up was the hardest part.

Just put as music or irl. Jovian does it every day

James mcconnon who’s Jovian?

@@jamesmcconnon2 correct. I put it under music.

If you think he’s one of the few real proper djs left, you’re looking in all the wrong places

haha yeah DJing in Japan is nuts! I'm just starting out here and it's really surprising to find people all over the world who have DJ'd in Tokyo!

If you want to ask Luke a question, you need to do it on Twitter. It may take a while, but he will reply to you.

Hey! I can tell you how I organize my music, I optimized it for quickly finding the next track to play with a simple search. Feel free to use any of these for your collection: 1 I make sure every song has the correct year, that way I can play some classic 90s or 2000 tracks depending on the age of the crowd. 2 I also organize it by genre, I focus on the main genres (House, Techno) and most popular sub-genres (Deep House, Tech House, ...), if there are even more sub-genres in a song I put these in the Comment field (so they come up during a search) 3 I put the "feeling" of a song in the comment field, (Summer feeling, chill feeling, dark vibe, ...) so I can find similar songs 4 I put the "type" of song in the comment field, I use [B] for 'banger', which are tracks that will make the dancefloor move but are not 'known' songs, I use [H] for 'hits', those are songs that everyone knows and also will make people move, if I need some more engagement I can easily search for those. 5 I put the energy level in the "track number" field, level 4 and 5 are for music where you just can start dancing to (most of the time Deep house falls into this), normal dancing is 6 and 7 (house, disco, ...), wild dancing is 8-9 (elektro house, trance, drum and bass, ...), and if it goes even harder then there is 10. This energy level I use when I want to go from one genre to another to make sure I don't make huge energy jumps, and you can also use it to make sure you don't play too many super high energy tracks after another so that the crowd doesn't get super tired of all the dancing.