Happy to have Ashley on board as a DJ tutor! Ashley a.k.a. Otik has over 10 years experience as a DJ and has performed at notable events and venues such as Magnetic Fields Festival in India, Glastonbury Festival, OHM Berlin, Four Tet's All Dayer and Amnesia in Ibiza.

Check the post for more info on Ashley and details on how you can start working with Ashley to reach your goals!

We’re looking to expand this year and offer DJ lessons from more tutors on our website. As a DJ tutor, you’ll have the freedom to set your own prices and do lessons whenever you like. If you’re an experienced DJ and have previous teaching experience, or you’d like to start teaching and earn some extra cash, check the post for a link to fill out a quick form and let us know your background and experience.

If you’re a beginner DJ that’s looking to play your first gigs or parties on CDJs or other equipment using Rekordbox, you’ll most likely need to export your Rekordbox playlists to a USB first so you can access them on the other equipment.

The simplest way to export your playlists is to do a manual export. All you need to do is follow these four steps…

Buying and downloading digital music files is still the preferred and most reliable option for professional DJs. This post looks at 6 of the most popular websites for buying and downloading electronic music with both free and paid options.

I go through this process quite often with my students so I thought it would be helpful to make a video I can leave as a reference for anyone looking to book a studio at pirate studios for the first time, either to prepare for their first gigs, or to try out DJing and see whether it’s something they’d like to commit more time to.

I’m stoked to release the first edition of my Beginner’s Guide to DJing eBook! I’ve been putting this together over the past year and a half so I’m really happy to have it available and I hope it brings a lot of value to those starting out on their DJ journey. I’m giving away 100 copies of the eBook for free to celebrate the launch!

I’m happy to announce I’ve recently started working with the guys at Pirate.com on their Academy project.

All new students will receive:

• The first hour of studio hire for free in their first lesson

• A 50% discount code to use on a future studio booking of their choice

New releases from 2whales, Wreckless, S.P.Y, Zero T & Myth, Heft, Calyx & Teebee, Vektah, Logistics, Seba & more. Highlight for me this episode is a beautiful tune called ‘Inner Space’ by Melbourne producer Talix. There’s also a fair few tracks from Grey Code’s brilliant album ‘Renewal’, as well as favourites from Bredren and Particle.

New releases from SyRan, Bungle, Need For Mirrors, Alix Perez & DLR, DJ Andy & Acuna, Beatmool, Polaris & Ritual. Highlights for me this episode are the two title tracks from Bungle and Need for Mirrors’ latest EPs - Forms, and Vampires, respectively. Also featuring one of my all-time favourite drum & bass tunes, New Sensation by Avalon Rays.

With so much amazing music being released, I want to start sharing a lot more as well as get back to mixing regularly.

In this first episode, I go through my favourite releases of 2021, covering the spectrum of Drum & Bass as well as a few other bits and pieces from artists such as Bicep, who released one of my favourite albums last year.

This video is the first in a series aimed at helping beginner DJs develop an in-depth understanding of the essential concepts and techniques behind DJing.

I’m happy to announce that I have now launched new 1 day in person DJ courses in London. Due to hourly rate increases at the studios, but discounts on extended bookings, I’ve decided to offer these workshops to provide you guys a lot more value for money.

I just wanted to write this post to welcome everyone to my site, give an overview of what’s currently available and also an update on what’s in the works for future content.