DJ Coaching Archives

January 24, 2025

Kolbe and DJing: Understanding Your Natural Drive

The Kolbe system is a psychometric tool that identifies how you naturally act under stress. In the world of DJing, 'stress' can be seen as the performance itself, and Kolbe helps understand a DJ's natural drive or reaction to stress. Unlike personality tests or assessments that measure skills, Kolbe focuses on your instinctive drives—what you’re naturally inclined to do and how you approach tasks. This 10-minute assessment offers profound insights into your unique strengths and working...

DJ Coaching

January 22, 2025

Morning Pages for Artists and DJs

As a DJ, it probably seems counterproductive and the opposite of playing out live, but writing is a powerful tool for creative clarity and professional growth. Sure, we can all crate dig and pull our sets together - that's a given. But we want to stand out in a noisy market and create different events and experiences. So, exploration via writing may make you think of samples from current events or include a track from a...

DJ Coaching

January 21, 2025

DJs and Chronotypes: Timing Your Career for Success

Have you ever considered how your natural body clock, or chronotype, affects your DJ performance? Chronotypes are the biological rhythms that determine whether you’re an early bird, a night owl, or somewhere in between. Recognising and aligning your work schedule with your chronotype can make a huge difference in your performance, especially in a field like DJing, where timing and finding that perfect track is everything. What Are Chronotypes? Chronotypes describe individual differences in our natural sleep-wake...

DJ Coaching, Music

January 20, 2025

Transactional Analysis: Psychology of DJs, Promoters and Audience

Transactional Analysis can transform your electronic music career. Over the past few years, I've been studying Transactional Analysis (TA) with a group of Polish psychologists, and it’s taught me some powerful lessons about what it means to operate as an Adult—not just in life but as a DJ. It's been impressive, and the global group of students and teachers has taught me this work is universal. Shout out to Alex Piotrowska, who has supported and pushed...

DJ Coaching

January 18, 2025

Can You Feel It – How Dance Music Conquered the World

In 2018, my wife and I watched a documentary that was so good that we ended up watching it twice. Can You Feel It - How Dance Music Conquered the World dives deep into the evolution of dance music (yes, I still call it that—a nod to my age!) through three perspectives: the music, the club, and the DJ. Directed by James Giles and Nico Wasserman, this 3-part series is a masterclass in storytelling, mapping...

DJ, DJ Coaching

January 13, 2025

Why More DJs Are Choosing Sobriety

Recently, I ran a night where I drank a little throughout the evening. By the time I hit the decks, I could tell I wasn’t at my best. Not that I was lary or a problem, but I just wasn’t as sharp as I could be. Since then, I’ve made a commitment: no alcohol at events I attend or arrange. It is SO alluring to have a drink, but I’m a better DJ without it...

DJ Coaching

January 10, 2025

The Art of the DJ: A Journey into Steve Lawler’s Career

I was happy to have the time to watch this documentary about Steve Lawler last Christmas, and I loved the honesty. In short, I like the stories about his early days because they demonstrate daily practice, an obsessive dedication to the art, gigging with a broad musical taste, and his own perception of his ego. I loved that his Dad got so involved at the start. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z-5FLbyrBmo Steve Lawler, a name synonymous with the grit and...

DJ Coaching

January 6, 2025

How DJs connect with their audience – effectively.

Scroll through Instagram and you’ll notice a familiar pattern: house music DJs and producers posting about their passion for music, their lifelong dedication to the craft, and how it’s been part of their identity since childhood.While genuine, these posts often miss the bigger opportunity—building real connections. Why? Because they focus on you, not your audience.Marketers know this well: it’s not enough to talk about your excitement for a product. The real win is showing...

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