What Kind of DJ Are You? · Result
The Antenna
You are playing the room that gets built in three years.
Designed rarity: about 10% of takers
You hear things early, and you are right often enough that people have mostly stopped arguing with you. A good share of your bag tends to be unreleased, sent by people who trust your ears, and you play it into rooms that are not quite ready yet, on the fair assumption that they will be. You have often been among the first in your city to play things that later became normal, and by the time they did, you had already moved on.
You go out with a folder of new music and a few promos nobody else has, and you treat each gig as a chance to introduce the room to what is coming. You like serious systems, crowds that came to be surprised and slots long enough to explain something unfamiliar. Between gigs you are listening constantly, sorting the promising from the merely new.
Your strength
You are often eighteen months ahead, and you have the receipts.
Your blind spot
You may drop records at eight weeks that deserved a year to grow into.
Key takeaways
- You hear things early, and you have the receipts.
- Half the bag is unreleased, and the room catches up eventually.
- New and good are different tests, and your best records pass both.
Rooms to try in Seoul
- Cakeshop, Itaewon: The booking policy here has been eighteen months ahead of the city for a decade, and so are you.
- Faust, Itaewon: A techno room that will follow you into unreleased material when the system is used well.
Rooms to try around the world
- Nowadays, New York: A floor that has already heard the next thing and is waiting for the one after it.
- Elsewhere, New York: Rooms of different sizes on the same night, so a record too early for one has somewhere else to go.
- fabric, London: A crowd that arrives hoping to hear something it cannot yet name.
Your nearest types
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