Does anyone hete feels the same way?
After a break of about 20 years, I started DJing again about two years ago. I always try not to just string together the obvious standard tracks, but to include as many new or lesser-known songs as possible. Sure, there are older tracks thrown in now and then, but I usually put the sets together quite individually and really put a lot of effort into the flow and track selection. The feedback has actually been consistently positive. Even so, I always have this thought in the back of my mind that it might be boring for others – simply because I’ve listened to the tracks so often myself by now. At some point, you know every kick, every break, every vocal line by heart and, as a result, you lose a bit of a feel for just how ‘fresh’ the whole thing actually still is to other ears. And although I know rationally that most people probably don’t know my music collection at all, it still sometimes feels as though everyone else knows the tracks inside out just as well as I do. Do you feel the same way? That by constantly listening to your own music, you completely lose perspective on just how new or exciting it actually still is for others?