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Elijah

@eli1ah

11 days

& @AniefiokEkp ‘Where We Come From’ in conversation for @RoundhouseLDN 🟨

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if London didn't get the Olympics East would still look like 2005 Grime videos

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If you think DJs are the coolest people in the world I’ll let you know this. Sometimes you don’t get great line ups because they can’t come to an agreement of where the names go on a JPEG they post to the internet.

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As music lovers we over rate how much we think the average person cares about music, art and artists by a lot

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What’s the biggest “I’m him” performance ever?

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If you love music you should learn how to dj 🟨🎚️🟨

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2 years

More DJs

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the djs arent worse now, the lights are on, you are sitting at home, you arent drunk and you are 41.

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2 years

If you play two tunes everyone heard 1000 times here’s one way to make it fun @djqmusic

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Infrastructural challenges in Electronic Music: 1. Any scene tied to legacy formats ideas are too slow for this fast world we live in. Your vinyl EP takes 4 months to come back from the plant. Profit from any money made takes 6 months to come back for you to be able to reinvest.

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First slide of my lecture at SOAS today

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My take on Skrillex, Fred Again…, Four Tet wave that everyone can learn from: 1. Work with your friends that you enjoy working with 2. Over deliver on the live experience 3. Keep surprising people on the music drops

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3 years

Words from @FourTet for today’s 🟨🖊

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‘The art of DJing’ is a pseudoscience

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Words from @FourTet for 🟨🖊

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Thanks to Little Simz for breaking convention releasing an album on a Monday in December. WHY NOT

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more people casually djing is good for music

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1 year

Mad beat. Great colours too. Kids in the ends rapping might find their way back to Jungle soon I swear

TMC Music Connoisseur 🇯🇲 Els Stan.

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1 year

My 17 year old cousin sent this to me, he said that everybody in his college has been listening to this on repeat. It’s crazy how much drills changed since I was in college

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Very sick. This instrumental still sounds like the future 18 years on

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CORTEIZ x NIKE RULESTHEWORLD.

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The whole infrastructure of electronic music is set up for a world that doesn’t exist anymore

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A history of things DJs have hated 1980 - Present

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Management is the craziest role in the music industry

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When a scene is alive + when a scene dies

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Sometimes they are right there

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3 years

Encourage young people around you doing stuff you don’t understand to keep at it. I’ve seen my two childhood hobbies become Olympic Sports - Taekwondo & Skateboarding. I’ve seen Grime go from pirate radio to headlining the largest festival in the U.K + Drill on an Asda advert.

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3 years

FAQ: Agents. Agent's don't 'get you bookings'. It's a better view to see an agent as a manager of the live side of your work. You produce the demand, and they help build a strategy and value around it. -- This thread is more DJ specific but hopefully it helps

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If you love music you should learn how to dj

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Me waking up my future children on clean the house sunday

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If MCs follow Skepta lead in releasing the acapellas to some of their songs another wave of producer discovery will happen

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An iteration of this should be the CDJ4000

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🖤⬛️

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A reminder

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We are only just scratching the surface of the possibilities of real diversity in club culture can be. Wonderful 🖤💛

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I brought out my baba to open my debut @boilerroomtv set with me. It made no sense to curate the first SWANA line up in UK history without baba on oud🥹❤️.

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How different would U.K. music be if the wealthiest artists funded some of the most exciting artists with no strings? Sizeable grants like £100,000 - so they have a stipend for living, studio and creating their first project that they can own fully?

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VIP - variation in production from producer of the original Edit - variation in production not from producer of the original Remix - Commissioned original production with existing track by new or same artist. Bootleg - Non commissioned original production with existing track Mash

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there should only be 3 line up orders 1. Headliner [then a-z] 2. All A-Z 3. How much people are getting paid top down. Its not complicated. Stuff takes 1 min of brain power

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no more paw patrol. u need to get to a boiler room

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IRL 🟨 London September?

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You don’t need a marketing plan

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1 year

The CDJ is such a bizarre device that DJs criticise other DJs for using its features.

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2 years

I wish the RBMA model got replicated by many more brands. All the short term efforts are not gonna cut it.

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A reminder from 2021

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Don’t say your excited about your new tune dropping. Too obvious. Be honest. Say you aren’t sure about it. Say you don’t give a shit how many other people like it you are feeling it. Say you have been needlessly adjusting things nobody will ever notice for months

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3 years

A good feature for any electronic music magazine this year would be - Who really made [insert track] - and a story about why it's not credited to them.

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Pro tip don’t model your career on people that released music before the internet

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We are more likely to see clubs set up boiler room style and surround the dj before putting the person in a corner of the room not many people can see.

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If you don’t document your ting properly you can’t expect anyone to understand your journey

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PRS for Music, Report Live Performance

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The special thing about this time is everyone knew it was special at the time

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Skepta cantando "Shutdown" em Londres. Surreal a energia da plateia 🤯🇬🇧

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Your favourite DJs

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it will be hard for you to create a fan base if you haven't been a real fan of anything yourself

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1 year

uk needs more black bands - I already know why this formation doesn't happen much - There's prob an interesting intersection between punk, grime, jungle, rap and jazz that a band can bring together - black rock stars in england would scare certain people and thats fun

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Most of DJ Twitter is 40 year old DJs asking why 18 year old ravers don’t know songs that came out 20 years ago

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I disconnect djing (playing with music) from being a dj (working in music) - people think djing is the second one not realising they can have this joy by themselves in a room with no quest for more djing in the house with friends and family.

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@eli1ah Whats your reasoning here?

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Some Londoners think about nightlife as something that needs to be good by default, not made good by themselves or the way they engage with it.

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Forget every year London is the greatest in the summer

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I’d recommend finding a therapist before trying to find an agent or manager

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The reason I tell people making art that have no desire to be global pop stars to get jobs / other work is so you have some sort of secure base that allows you to create what you want, even if it's less of it, and slower. Full time (broke/miserable) artist isn't the one.

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DJs and Wrestlers

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I love that in my timeline I can see sugababes thanking four tet for playing overload

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I’m sure if you told the people that were djing in London in the year 2000 that people would want to still be hearing those songs 22 years later they would have thought you you were mad but here we are.

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How it gets written about you would think grime and dubstep happened in two completely diff eras in two different places. It was living side by side. There should have been a lot more crossover. Grateful for DJs like Plastician, Kode 9 and Tubby that bridged the gap always.

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3 years

Rethinking @Bandcamp Friday

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2 years

Classic song. British R&B would be so much further along if it ran alongside UK club sounds.

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The pop dance music we deserve.

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The questions I get asked the most with me adding some extra context to establish how difficult the question you are really asking is

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Yes

Cralias / Dj Animebby

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ruff sqwad > the beatles

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Two opposing philosophies lyrically going back to back. This is one of the most important moments in Grime ever captured. Im glad these two had massive success since. Songs could never really capture this kind of energy. Big up Logan

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My 9th year managing Flava D today. I did this under a pseudonym for most of the time as at the start I didn’t think people would take me seriously and I didn’t want my own artistic endeavours / opinions to be crossed over with hers. I’ve learned a lot this way.

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🟨 starter pack

phuture collective 🎧

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Four labels that inspired you to be who you are today.

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no audience - no risk no risk - no gain no gain - just vibes just vibes - audience comes audience comes - feels like risk dont take risk - no vibes no vibes - no gain back to no audience start over again

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Say what you want about the music, but the diversity of successes that people are having that started in Grime is inspiring. Radio, TV, Netflix, Theatre, Restaurants, Books, Gaming, Tech it's quite mad.

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Your niche isn’t as big as your timeline makes it feel

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These really need to be set free. R.I.P to Virgil Abloh on the design. Transparency in DJ culture in physical form.

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4 months

The idea that a good album only is one that has crafted like a film is one of these foolish notions that costs artists a lot of time, energy and money. You put 10 bangers that have no narrative link on an album. This is still a good album.

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guest list policy 2024

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3 years

I’m going to write a list of 300 songs from British Music History the man dem can sample for the next decade of bangers so we can stop using rinsed Garage songs

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2 years

Whenever you see 'Special Guest' with another random DJ name at the bottom of a flyer it took 25 extra unnecessary emails to organise the line up.

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All DJs don’t need to produce songs but if you want to have a bigger contribution than just playing in clubs you should build environments where interesting things can happen or find ways of funding interesting artists and projects.

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I bought this 17 years ago

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100 people in the room > 1000 likes

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3 years

An optimistic view of what the next decade of Black British Music can be. Some predictions and dreamy situations 🧵

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3 years

🟨🖊🖤💛🙏🏾

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3 months

Multidisciplinary is like a pro wrestler and rapper not really a producer + dj

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3 years

What is real?

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1 year

The famous people are still telling you to just work hard in 2023. Anyone that has really analysed why they have had any level of success knows it wasn’t just hard work.

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🌍🟨🖊