27/08/2026
5 ways to dig so you stop sounding like the other forty DJs on the lineup.
Sounding like yourself is the hardest part of this job, and the least talked about.
Everyone has access to the same new releases now. Same charts, same front page, same forty tracks landing every Friday. So if you dig where everybody digs, you will sound like everybody. It is not a talent problem. It is a habit problem.
The five in here are the ones that actually work. Start from a record you already love and follow it back to its label. Set the filter to 2010 and go backwards. Read the tracklist of that set from 2007 you have heard about for years. Spend an hour in a genre sitting right next to yours and bring one record home with you.
None of it is fast. That is the whole point. The hours you put into digging are the only part of your set nobody can copy, and they stay yours forever.
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