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DJ Overconsumption
Hi DJTT, I come to you with a problem that I'm facing every day. I'm hoping that others on this community have the same problem and can share some of their strategies to overcome the issue if possible.

First I'll give you a bit of background about my current situation:
I've been DJing for around a year and a half, I've just finished acquiring the club standard setup for my home practising and I've started getting my face out around the town I live in. Music consumption is very much the most important thing in my life, I don't do any production but I'm so hyped up for so many releases from so many artists, and it is this trait which leads me to the problem:

I, as I'm sure all of you do, follow (literally) hundreds of producers through all sorts of ways and means, I'm also part of an online music discovery and recommendation community and I frequently go record shopping. The issue this lifestyle leads me into is that I'm trying to consume far too much music for my brain to possibly draw together in an organised way. I get so excited by all these new releases... like, 'it fuels my life' kinda excited... but because of this extreme rate of consumption I'm finding myself lost in a sea of awesome music, unable to remember the names of tracks, the way tracks build up and break down, whether there's a vocal hook which will make it hard to mix etc... perhaps the most challenging problem to overcome is when I have an event coming up, I'm looking at a Rekordbox library of thousands and thousands of songs and it's so hard to narrow anything down that is worth taking out.

I've read several threads on this site and Digital DJ Tips with helpful advice, so far I have attempted the following:
  • Switching to real vinyl only, but I found this impractical as only a select few local clubs have technics, and those that do aren't in the best shape
  • Creating various nested smart playlists that feed off of one another, allowing me to query my library for harmonic compatibility, common sounds etc - I still use these as they are really helpful, but they don't help me to learn my music any better, if anything this sort of thing encourages dependency on software
  • Limiting my downloads - like smoking, this is something I find very hard to give up, I get so excited by new tunes


So, down to you... what sort of things do you guys do to overcome these problems?

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