PRACTICE SESSION JOURNAL: ALICE
Published October 30, 2024
Meet some of the people who use our offer of free Open Practice Sessions on Tuesdays as a place to practice and build up their skills.
Presenting: ALICE (they/them)
For how long have you been DJing?
A bit over 2 years now.
What genres of music do you prefer?
I prefer to play house, ukg and disco when DJ’ing, but I also love ambient, IDM and other kinds of experimental, electronic music.
What did you practise today?
I have a gig coming up, and had to practise for that since I will be playing some stuff that’s outside of my comfort zone. To give an example: I had to practise and find new ways to transition songs that have big BPM gaps, which I usually don’t do.
What worked well for you today?
A lot of the stuff I wanted to practise went surprisingly well, and I learned some new stuff too. I loved having CB for myself as well as it made me feel very safe, and I could fuck up and experiment as much as I wanted and needed. I just felt really in-the-zone today. Locked in, focused. It was nice.
Based on today’s practice do you have any notes to yourself?
That I’m definetly still learing and that’s ok. I’ve gotten really far over the past 2 years, but I’ve still got a long road ahead of me, and a million more things to learn. I can’t wait, honestly.
What’s your hope and dreams for the future of the electronic music scene?
More focus on the music and energy, rather than the DJ. It’s a very personal dream tho, and I could imagine some DJ’s love having more attention put on them. I just think it’s boring and puts an unnecessary spotlight on them. Most DJ’s aren’t performers so don’t expect them to visually perform.
I also hope that homophobic, transphobic, racist and any other types of hateful speech leaves the scene. Most people would love to (and possibly do) believe that hateful speech isn’t apart of their prefered group of electronic music. Yet it definetly still exists and being ignorant about it makes it worse. I remember seeing a clip of a pretty popular male DJ (don’t remember who it was) doing some crazy stuff at some festival, but every single comment was focused on how much they hated his nail polish. This needs to stop. Let people be who they are.
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