The Types: Every Result Across Eight Quizzes

Every result across the eight DJ Diaries quizzes, ninety seven in all: twelve DJ types, twelve clubber types, twelve rooms, thirteen eras, twelve festivals, twelve sounds, twelve hip hop heads and twelve Seoul neighbourhoods. Each card opens the full result page, in English with a Korean version, with the records, rooms and reasoning behind it.

• What Kind of DJ Are You?
• What Kind of Clubber Are You?
• Your Perfect Venue and Trip
• Which Era of Dance Music Are You?
• What Festival Are You?
• Find Your Sound

What Kind of DJ Are You?

Thirty six questions, most of them not about music.

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  The BlueprintThe night is decided before you leave the house.Designed rarity: about 8%

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  The WeathervaneYou have no plan and you have never needed one.Designed rarity: about 14%

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  The DiggerThe hours before the gig are the part you actually enjoy.Designed rarity: about 9%

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  The CloserYou are built for the hour everyone else is scared of.Designed rarity: about 11%

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  The GlueYou would rather the night was good than that you were.Designed rarity: about 12%

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  The AntennaYou are playing the room that gets built in three years.Designed rarity: about 10%

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  The Long MemoryYou know exactly where every record you play came from.Designed rarity: about 4%

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  The BunkerPrepared, forward facing, and happiest a little apart from the scene.Designed rarity: about 5%

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  The Hard LeftNo plan, no compromise, and no interest in the middle.Designed rarity: about 8%

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  The FunctionYou read a brief as well as a room, and clients book you again.Designed rarity: about 7%

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  The Producer Behind the DecksThe set is a listening session for music that is not out yet.Designed rarity: about 6%

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  The Content DJThe set is filmed before it is played, and it is genuinely good.Designed rarity: about 5%

What Kind of Clubber Are You?

Thirty six questions about how you behave in a room you did not build.

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  The Early ShiftYou are in the room before it is a room.Designed rarity: about 8%

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  The Human ItineraryEveryone arrived on time because of you, and the night was better for it.Designed rarity: about 5%

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  The GhostCame alone, told nobody, and had a quietly brilliant night.Designed rarity: about 7%

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  The Outside TableYou do your best listening from just outside the room.Designed rarity: about 5%

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  The Long MemoryYou know what the room was before it was this.Designed rarity: about 11%

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  The First ListenThe second time is never as good, and you know why.Designed rarity: about 9%

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  The Peak HunterYou did not come for the first three hours, you came for the moment.Designed rarity: about 11%

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  The Willing PassengerYou went because they were going. That is a real reason.Designed rarity: about 12%

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  The Last TwentyStill there when the lights come up and the floor shrinks.Designed rarity: about 5%

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  The Sober ClubberOut until close, clear headed the whole way, and heard everything.Designed rarity: about 14%

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  The Daylight ShiftDoors at two, home by ten, and nothing missed.Designed rarity: about 6%

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  The VeteranFifty plus, still on the floor, and right about most of it.Designed rarity: about 7%

Your Perfect Venue and Trip

The room you would actually stay in, and how you would get there.

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  The Unmarked StairA basement with no sign, found because someone told you once.Designed rarity: about 13%

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  Last Call RooftopFour good hours, a hard curfew, and a view nobody asked for.Designed rarity: about 4%

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  The Four HundredProper rig, proper booking, and no mystery about any of it.Designed rarity: about 13%

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  The Sand StageDaylight, salt air, and a set you will happily remember wrong.Designed rarity: about 14%

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  The Listening RoomOne pair of speakers, no floor, and a gentle rule about talking.Designed rarity: about 8%

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  The All Night WarehouseEleven hours, one arc, and daylight at the far end.Designed rarity: about 10%

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  The River BoatFixed capacity, fixed hours, and a floor that commits early.Designed rarity: about 8%

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  The Ballroom BookingCarpet, chandeliers, a run sheet and a clean finish at midnight.Designed rarity: about 7%

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  One Good SpeakerYour local, a decent box in the corner, and nobody travelling anywhere.Designed rarity: about 8%

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  The Whisky BarTwenty seats, a serious back bar, and someone who will talk to you.Designed rarity: about 5%

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  The Morning RaveSix to ten in the morning, coffee, then work.Designed rarity: about 6%

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  The Members RoomA door you need a name for. Small, familiar and consistent.Designed rarity: about 5%

Which Era of Dance Music Are You?

Thirty six questions about lending things, being early, and what you refuse to throw out.

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  The Bronx Block Parties, 1973 to 1979Two copies of the same record, a lamp post for power, and the whole street invited.Designed rarity: about 8%

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  The Paradise Garage Years, New York, 1977 to 1987You do not want a set. You want to be let in.Designed rarity: about 9%

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  Chicago House, 1984 to 1987Simple machines, no permission, records out in two weeks.Designed rarity: about 10%

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  Detroit Techno, 1985 to 1992You are building for a city that has not been built yet.Designed rarity: about 9%

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  UK Acid House and Rave, 1988 to 1992The best nights are the ones nobody manages to control.Designed rarity: about 7%

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  Goa and the Psytrance Diaspora, 1990 to 1999One arc, all night, ending exactly at sunrise.Designed rarity: about 4%

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  Hardcore and Jungle, 1992 to 1994Faster, heavier, and onto the next thing in six weeks. Good.Designed rarity: about 6%

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  UK Garage and 2 Step, 1996 to 2001Dressed properly, out early, home late, no apologies.Designed rarity: about 7%

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  The Minimal and Blog House Split, 2003 to 2009Two answers to the same question, both played with total conviction.Designed rarity: about 9%

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  The EDM Festival Boom, 2010 to 2015The drop, the wristband, the main stage, and the biggest audience this music ever had.Designed rarity: about 4%

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  The Streaming and Algorithm Era, 2015 to nowEverything at once, in no order, and you find the good part first.Designed rarity: about 8%

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  Amapiano and Afro House, 2019 to nowSlow, wide and patient, and everywhere before anyone noticed it travel.Designed rarity: about 5%

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  The Lockdown Streams, 2020 to 2021The only room was a screen, and you made it count.Designed rarity: about 14%

What Festival Are You?

The site, the weather and the people you would actually put up with.

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  The Boutique ForestTwo thousand people, one stage, and no way to check your messages.Designed rarity: about 10%

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  The Main StageForty thousand people, pyro on the beat, a headliner you watch on a screen.Designed rarity: about 11%

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  The City FestivalAn urban site, a day ticket, and your own bed at the end of it.Designed rarity: about 12%

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  The Beach StageSand, a sunset, and salt on everything you own for a week.Designed rarity: about 10%

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  The Warehouse WeekenderIndoors, in winter, two days without seeing daylight on purpose.Designed rarity: about 8%

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  The Island CrossingA boat, one road, and no way out until it finishes.Designed rarity: about 7%

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  The Mountain SunriseAltitude, cold hands, and a set that ends when the light comes over the ridge.Designed rarity: about 8%

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  The Lanyard FestivalPanels by day, showcases by night, and everyone is wearing a name.Designed rarity: about 5%

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  The Legacy CrossoverA rock festival that grew a dance tent, and three generations in one field.Designed rarity: about 9%

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  The Day Party SeriesOne day, in daylight, finished by ten, and it happens again next month.Designed rarity: about 9%

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  The Desert GatheringDust, art, your own water, and no lineup poster at all.Designed rarity: about 5%

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  The LivestreamNo site, no queue, no weather, and you heard all of it.Designed rarity: about 7%

Find Your Sound

The records, the rooms and the tempo you would actually choose.

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  The Deep House SoulSix hours, one DJ, and a vocal that sounds like it came from a church.Designed rarity: about 8%

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  The Disco LoyalistStrings, a bass line that walks, and everyone you know on the floor.Designed rarity: about 6%

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  The Techno MonkA dark room, one long idea, and nobody needing to talk.Designed rarity: about 13%

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  The Warehouse Hard HitterFaster, harder, louder, and a kick drum you feel in your chest.Designed rarity: about 6%

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  The Garage Two StepperA skipping kick, a sweet vocal, and a room that moves from the hips.Designed rarity: about 7%

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  The Jungle RunnerChopped breaks at 170, bass you feel in your knees, and no time to think.Designed rarity: about 6%

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  The Trance BelieverThe breakdown, the build, and ten thousand hands in the air at once.Designed rarity: about 14%

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  The Ambient DrifterThe chill out room, a slow record, and nobody asking you to dance.Designed rarity: about 10%

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  The Bass ScientistHalf step, a sub bass you feel more than hear, and a lot of space.Designed rarity: about 9%

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  The Afro House MoverPercussion that never stops, a log drum, and a floor that sings.Designed rarity: about 7%

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  The Big Room MaximalistLasers, fireworks, and a drop that forty thousand people count down to together.Designed rarity: about 6%

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  The Hip Hop SoulA sample you half recognise, a hook the whole room knows, and the bass sitting just behind the beat.Designed rarity: about 8%

Where Should We Go Tonight?

Twelve Seoul neighbourhoods in four families, from Itaewon to the Han River, each with the rooms open now, the door and the last train. Take the quiz or read the full write-up.

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  ItaewonThe underground core. House, techno, disco and bass, from Cakeshop in the west to Soap in the east.Designed rarity: about 14%

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  Haebangchon & GyeongnidanThe hill start. Serious whisky, Korean spirits, a record bar or two, and Itaewon waiting at the bottom of the slope.Designed rarity: about 9%

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  HongdaeYoung, loud and cheap. Every genre on the strip, a few serious rooms off it, and a street that looks like New Year’s Eve every Friday.Designed rarity: about 15%

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  Hapjeong & SangsuHongdae’s other side. A concrete techno basement that runs past dawn and a funk and disco room for grown-ups, two stops from the strip.Designed rarity: about 7%

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  YeonnamWhere the night slows down without ending. Cocktails made properly, wine bars in small rooms, and one live room that punches above its size.Designed rarity: about 8%

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  Gangnam, Apgujeong & CheongdamThe look and the bottle. Big rooms, big-room EDM and hard techno, table service, and the strictest doors in the city.Designed rarity: about 9%

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  SeongsuOne serious basement and a lot of good bars, in a factory district the whole city is watching.Designed rarity: about 6%

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  Konkuk UniversityCheap beer, chicken skewers, arcade games and a street full of students letting a week out at once. Ends with tteokbokki at four.Designed rarity: about 6%

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  EuljiroRecords on proper decks, natural wine and makgeolli in old print-shop alleys, and no signs on the doors. Seoul drinking in its own language.Designed rarity: about 10%

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  Jongno 3-gaPojangmacha tents, the city’s oldest queer bar scene, and the cheapest good night in central Seoul.Designed rarity: about 5%

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  MullaeHot metal in the air, welding shops by day, and the city’s strangest bars and performance rooms between them. Bring cash.Designed rarity: about 4%

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  The Han RiverNot a club night. A convenience-store table, a speaker, the river, and the city doing its own light show.Designed rarity: about 7%

What Kind of Hip Hop Head Are You?

Thirty six questions, and not all of them about music.

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  The TurntablistTwo decks, one mixer, and hours nobody else will ever see.Designed rarity: about 9%

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  The Open FormatThree songs in four minutes, and the whole room singing the hook.Designed rarity: about 15%

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  The HypemanYou are the reason the second verse hit harder than the first.Designed rarity: about 6%

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  The Crate DiggerYou know the record the break came from, and the one before that.Designed rarity: about 8%

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  The Beat Tape ProducerHead nodding, not dancing, and a folder of loops nobody has heard.Designed rarity: about 5%

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  The Mixtape ArchivistYou still have the tape, the radio rip and the version they cleared later.Designed rarity: about 7%

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  The CypherGive you a circle and a break and the night is complete.Designed rarity: about 10%

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  The Trap FloorBass you feel in your chest and a drop you have been waiting all week for.Designed rarity: about 7%

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  The R&B Late ShiftThe night really starts when the tempo drops.Designed rarity: about 7%

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  The Lyric ListenerYou came to hear what was said, and you heard every word.Designed rarity: about 12%

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  The Battle JudgeSkill is the only thing you will clap for.Designed rarity: about 7%

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  The Scene LoyalistYou saw them in a room for sixty people, and you still buy the shirt.Designed rarity: about 7%