Last Friday I played from 01h30 to 06h30 in the upstairs studio room at UMI in the centre of Brussels for the Azi Chuicho crew

For some reason (no I’m not getting married) I have the age-old wedding rhyme “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue” in my head, so I’m going to claim that this is a suitable metaphor for a good DJ set. It’s really not that far-fetched. A good set is a meeting point for tunes that each have very different personal stories behind them, but are all united by the fact those stories converge on a single point: you, the DJ-to-be. With the auspicious inclusion of these different record bag elements — old faithfuls, new finds, recommendations from trusted friends, some nuances of emotion (my interpretation of ‘blue’ here) — a set is given the opportunity to tell the dancefloor something of the DJ as a person. I wrote about just such an experience after the second time I played at Pbar, here.