March 17, 2026
Music Can Shift Your Mood in Minutes — This Is How DJs Make It Happen!
What makes a DJ set more than just music?
DJ and entrepreneur Jude Wellington shares how the craft of mixing turns separate tracks into one emotional journey. From timing and transitions to reading the room, Jude explains how great DJs shape energy in real time and why music can change the mood of an entire crowd within seconds.
🧠 What you will learn:
- Why rhythm and shared music experiences trigger strong dopamine responses
- How DJs build momentum by blending songs into one continuous story
- The difference between authentic creative energy and social media validation
- How community helps creators stay confident through criticism and doubt
🔑 Key takeaways:
- Music can regulate mood and create powerful collective experiences
- Creativity grows when feedback becomes information instead of judgment
- Resilience often begins with finding an outlet that turns pain into expression
Listen now to Jude Wellington’s insights on music, resilience, and the psychology of sound.
Watch on YouTube or subscribe to YoggNation’s Spirit of Gratitude podcast for conversations that turn creativity and life lessons into practical inspiration.
00:00 - Welcome And Guest Introduction
02:36 - Vinyl Nostalgia And DJ Origins
05:21 - The Hidden Art Of Mixing
10:38 - DJs At Weddings And Conferences
15:40 - Dopamine And The EDM Revolution
20:55 - Social Media Feedback And Mindset
24:30 - Belief Builds Discipline And Growth
27:25 - Bullying Stories And Kindness
30:00 - Teaching Kids DJ Confidence
32:05 - Favorite Records And AI Apollo
33:20 - Gratitude Takeaways And Closing
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Welcome to the Young Navage and the Spirit of Gratitude Podcast on the OneTogens platform.
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Hello, friends.
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My name is Jogash Patel, and this podcast explores the themes of blowing self-awareness and the power of our inner spirit, including the silent battles we all face.
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Join me every week as I invite high-profile guests as we explore how adversity shapes us, how gratitude lifts us, and how we can all uncover the inner strength that we all have within ourselves.
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Join the conversation.
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I appreciate you listening in.
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Music has always been touted as the language of the soul.
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My next guest, Jude Wellington, is part of the global DJ culture scene who's been spinning records ever since he was a teenager.
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Jude's passion began with the new candidation of genres like modern rock and the new wave scene from the 1980s.
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Duran Duran and Depechmont, I hope.
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He's got a very unique perspective to music and what sound can do to the human spirit.
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He's building a business around the DJ culture that blends event experiences, design, and education around one core message.
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Believe in the power of you.
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In today's episode, we unpack how music can impact burnout, adversity, and the chemistry of how we feel.
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With gratitude, welcome to the podcast, Jude.
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Thank you, Yogesh.
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I really appreciate it.
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It is an honor to be here.
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I've seen so much of what you have done in this spirit of gratitude that you have offered so many of us.
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So it's an honor to be here.
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Thank you.
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I think the honor comes back in the fact that we both appreciate Duran, Duran, and Bapesh Mud.
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I loved those days.
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I'm telling you, it was nothing like 80s rock.
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We're products of Gen X, and I think the best music generation there out there.
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And what you are looking at are my techniques, SL1200s, that I used to take with me up to Lake Tahoe and spin in front of about 600 kids spinning Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, uh ABC, and all these amazing new wave tracks.
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Yes, these have come with me everywhere.
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These are my babies right here.
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I just am so glad that I'm able to bring this back because vinyl has all of a sudden become so popular, and I'm so happy that I'm able to share this story with people.
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Well, let's go back.
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You mentioned vinyl.
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And as a DJ, what is something that people perhaps do not know or don't appreciate the value of what it is being a DJ?
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I think the most important thing that people don't know is the art of mixing.
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And because you hear songs one after another, but then when you hear songs that are actually blended together, so that means you know the beat per minute, you know uh a little bit of the tone and the melody and um the key that it's in.
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Back then we didn't quite understand that, but once it starts to develop this story between one song to the next song to the next song, people start to understand something a little bit different.
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It's almost like a journey, as opposed to, hey, that's a really cool playlist, and yes, there's great emotion that goes along with today's playlists that you can create.
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But back then, you didn't really have that, right?
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Until you started to hear these DJs on the radio station.
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So that's what did it to me.
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I mean, I didn't really understand how much I fell in love with the art of mixing, because in Reno, there weren't any radio stations that were actually mixing music together until you came into the Bay Area.
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Now, this is mixing one track above the other, correct?
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This is one track with another, right?
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So you have you have certain beats that you now know that this other song, once you bring it in, those beats actually go together from a BPM standpoint and from a melody standpoint.
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So you have to know when to bring that song that you're you that you're mixing in and when to bring out the song that you're mixing out of.
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And that takes a little practice.
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And when people start to hear it, they all of a sudden feel a little different.
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They're like, hey, that was really cool how they blended those two tracks together.
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And so when you don't know how to mix songs together, you're kind of in a little bit of a question, like, how did they do that?
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Right?
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That's me.
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And then you have folks who are so like geeked out over it, they want to know more.
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It's like I need to know exactly how they did this.
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And that's what happened to me.
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Interesting.
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Is that the same as you spend perhaps at a conference, at a wedding, at a rave, or even at a club?
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So today that that understanding is, I think, more widely understood, right?
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Before when I started, no one really had that appreciation of mixing music together.
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As a matter of fact, when I started in the wedding industry, when I moved to the Bay Area, I uh I was slightly offended that I couldn't mix music at weddings because the person who I was working with, he's like, you don't really need to do that.
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It's really about one song after the next, as long as they like what you're playing and they're allowed to make requests.
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And that took a little learning curve for me.
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And so conferences back then didn't have any DJs, they usually had maybe bands at a party.
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They didn't have anything to get the crowd going during registration or anything like that, or during any kind of hype before a keynote.
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None of that existed back then.
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Now it is so important because it raises the energy in the room and it increases the dopamine levels in people who really feel that it helps them kind of get fired up for you know a conference.
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Wedding DJs today must know how to mix music together.
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You didn't really need to have that experience back then, but today couples are so used to seeing YouTube videos or going to you know shows, clubs, festivals, all of these, all of these elements now have DJs that are mixing music together.
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So we've now understood how important blended music is today versus 40 years ago.
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And this is beyond just having music soothe the soul.
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Looks like there's a few extra dimensions to this as well.
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There is.
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When when music that you are um, you know, if you have this preference of a certain style of music, right?
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You have the whole hip-hop DJ culture, right?
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Then you have me, who is this sort of hybrid of modern rock uh new wave music that's mixed together, as well as hip-hop music, as well as other genres like freestyle and Miami bass, all of those um genres do something to people.
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Once they realize this feeling that they've got going through them, something changes.
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They're like You're talking about the dopamine effect, correct?
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Absolutely.
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Yes, yes.
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Tell me about that.
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The dopamine levels increase when your body starts to feel this happiness, and happiness can come from many many sources.
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Music for for some reason brings us more collectively together that brings that happiness factor.
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So you go to big concerts and everyone is gathering and they're all raising their hands.
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Today, that concert could be a DJ spinning for two hours, right?
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And that is so different than what it was decades ago, and it is this dopamine effect that these DJs have on millions and millions of people now.
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They're able, through one specific genre called EDM, it's the electronic dance music category, that has revolutionized how popular the DJ culture has been globally.
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We're talking it's it's over a$13 billion industry by itself, by way of all these different festivals and these DJs who are turning into megastars and the way they're producing and mixing their music together has built such a following, and it is because of what it's doing to each of us, raising these dopamine levels, feeling like we're a part of a community, and and seeing this joy that everyone is experiencing as the music starts to escalate in its tone and its energy, and then we're all at the same place at the same time, feeling that same energy, it's um very hard to replicate and it's incredibly special.
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We have DJs like you, Calvin Harris, David Getta, and Afrojack to thank for, correct?
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If I could be in the company of those names, it it is an absolute honor.
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But you are right.
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Yes, yes.
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And you know, David Getta is is one of those uh names that have been around for a very, very long time.
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But Paul Okenfold was the was the DJ that kicked it off for me.
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And uh his mixes were the beginning of that EDM scene, but there's other local DJs that really were very much underground.
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And what I liked about the underground DJ scene, because I am that kind of person, I'm very much an underground music um enthusiast.
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This one DJ called Tom Thump in San Francisco put out this beautiful CD called Pantone.
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And it's just a blend of jazz with a little bit of like electro lounge with a little bit of this international kind of house style music.
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My wife and I, to this day, when we hear that CD, we just go back in time of how memorable it was for us to enjoy that that kind of music.
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So well, and there's also an element of music thing therapy in as well as dopamine.
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So I wanted to ask you, how is the difference of music affecting dopamine as opposed to social media?
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That we're all we all do the scroll, right?
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There's the garbage that's on there.
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I don't think that dopamine level is the level of happiness on social media as compared to music.
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But can you tell me the differences in both?
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Yeah, so I know that the the the social media scene for DJs, uh, for many of them, they like seeing the number of followers that appreciate what they're creating and and putting out there, but also there is commentary as well.
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And when DJs get feedback, good or bad, it changes their overall feeling.
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Sometimes the dopamine levels do disappear because there's some kind of criticism that's going on within within their music that they're creating.
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And how does one actually deal with that?
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That's part of the reason I think it's important for us as a community to continue to come together because sometimes that hard work that you put in when you have people that are commenting on social might do something to you, and you don't want it to affect your ability to create.
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Sometimes DJs feel like, oh man, I really don't want to hear that negative comment anymore.
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No, those types of comments are only there just for you to learn from.
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That's it.
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That's it.
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Everything about what we do in this culture is about being a community, and they may come across sharing something because they want something more from you, right?
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And if you look at it from that aspect, maybe it gives you just that little extra to give in your next set.
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Um but it can get really, really, really big.
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Like some of these DJ shows, this last one that I noticed had 9.5 million views.
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I mean, it's just astounding what people are are gravitating to.
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Um, and but it looks like this within this DJ scene and this culture, the real product is energy, no?
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It is, it is.
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It is all about the energy.
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And whether you are a bedroom DJ, right, you're there by yourself, you're you're creating something that you feel good about, and it's now being broadcasted to the world, and next thing you know, all these people really enjoy that vibe that you're creating.
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So energy is the vibration that now is coming out, and it's it's it's acting as like a as a as a glue, it's bringing us together.
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And so on that note, how is what you're doing and what you're building within the DJ culture scene affecting what the purpose and your message is is around believing the power of you.
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So help me understand the connections between what you do and that message.
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Yeah, so going through it myself, right?
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This is this all comes from my own personal experience as being in this culture for so many decades and still enjoying what I enjoy.
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However, there are elements to how you want to increase or adapt or evolve this passion that you have into something that's more meaningful.
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And sometimes meaning to a DJ could be I just want to be a bedroom DJ, but I really want to get good at some other craft.
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But I get stuck and I feel like I just want to give up.
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And that's where the belief needs to come in, right?
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You need to know So what you're saying is music can help you open doors to uh get unstuck?
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Yes, uh, I think so.
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I think so.
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You the more you experiment, the more you put yourself in a position to just be vulnerable to understanding certain styles of music or certain um uh mixes that other DJs are are are preparing.
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You know, you're listening, but you're you're learning from it as well.
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Some may say that, oh man, if I could only be like a Calvin Harris, or if I can only be like a David Guetta, those aspirations sometimes can hurt because it takes so much work to be at that superstar, megastar level, right?
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And you keep beating yourself up because you're not getting the kind of traction that you've wanted to get, and you're working so hard at it.
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And these steps that may seem as failure to you are not, they are only learning lessons, and you have to know that with your belief comes repetition, comes discipline, right?
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You have to have those, and on top of that is your faith.
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You've got to believe that you are doing everything right, you are following the steps, and you just have to keep going.
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And that's the message that I want to share with not just the EDM community, but with every single community within DJ culture.
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I wouldn't even say that, Jude.
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I think it's the message to the general population.
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I agree.
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I mean, I think what you're doing is you're adding the element of music into how that can influence a person and change them.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Yes, yes, you're right.
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So I'm very curious, Jude.
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The tagline for this podcast is how adversity builds shapes or how adversity shapes character and and overcomes and helps you overcome.
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The bullying that you endured as a child when you were young, how does that influence and infect you today?
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Or how did that?
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Oh, it did.
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Yeah, it did.
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Uh being only one of four kids of color when I when I moved from New York to Reno, Nevada in 1978 in middle school, you can't even imagine the bullying and the ignorance, really.
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It's just pure, pure, they don't know who this person is.
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Like, who are you?
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India, where's that?
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You know, type of thing.
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And they've called Do they call you Gandhi?
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No, worse.
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Much worse than that.
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That would have been a compliment.
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Yeah, yeah.
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That would have been a they called me Gandhi.
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Oh, yeah, no, they they uh no, they've they've said some very hurtful, very painful things.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And all I could do is somehow in me, I just have this n natural tendency just to be kind to others, right?
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I that that's just who I am.
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I'm I I don't know any other way but to just kind of be that guy, right?
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Like, okay, whatever, you know, and just walk away.
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Other kids recognize that, and next thing you know, they're standing up for me.
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Like, don't be calling him names like that.
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I'm gonna come after you if I hear that name again.
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And I didn't even expect it, right?
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Um, I just I just wanted my own style and my own way of communicating and dealing with these kids to be my own.
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And throughout all of this, music still played a very big part of it.
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I don't I you know in Indian culture, music is so important.
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So the Indian parties that you know our parents put on, all the different, you know, we had Bollywood music going on and on and on.
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And I remember when Saturday Night Fever, the movie, came out.
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Of course, we had the the the album and we played it over and over and over again.
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And my brother and I, we had these dance routines that we would goof around with, and we were just goofing around.
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Next thing you know, my mom is like, No, you need to dance for us.
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So embarrassing, you know, those were those were some fun, fun, crazy embarrassing times.
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But uh the bullying part, um it, it, it really, it really uh changed how I view people who just don't know, you know, and the word ignorance is is it's it's a it's the word, but sometimes it feels a little too harsh.
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And I I give people sort of the benefit of the doubt.
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If you really come across as like one of those people, then I can already feel that there's no there's no way I'm gonna invest any time to try and develop a relationship with you, you know, right?
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Because you are who you are, and um, I know I can share that with other kids today that are going through some of that.
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You know, I'm uh I'm uh we are a sponsor at our youngest daughter's high school in Hayward, and we do all their events for them, and I can see some of the stuff that goes on over there, and I just always let them know that you you be the best version of who you are at all times, and that will in the long run turn out to be the best thing for you.
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Yeah, and and certainly music is the other side of the coin word is therapy.
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Yes, absolutely.
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As a matter of fact, I teach these kids at Hayward High how to how to DJ.
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I donated my old DJ equipment to the leadership team over there, and year over year I have all these new kids that are like, Mr.
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Jude, you gotta teach me how to DJ.
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And I love it.
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It's just so great.
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So great to see them come out of their shell when the music is on.
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All of a sudden, they turn into this person full of confidence, right?
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Once they've practiced their set.
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It's amazing.
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Well, speaking of sense, tell me about your set.
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I mean, it looks like it's very nostalgic.
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I wouldn't say eclectic, but nostalgic for sure.
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It is, yeah.
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So this is like the one of the first generations of the standard uh turntables that DJs used at nightclubs.
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So this is the Techniques SL 1200 MK2.
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There's so many versions, so many versions of it.
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But one of the most important features of this is the torque, right?
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So you have this Is that the VG VG VG?
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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Yes, yes.
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And um, that was very important.
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And it's really important when you're blending tracks together, because when you are queuing up, right, you want that song to hit as soon as you let that record go, right?
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And that same concept actually applies to all the digital equipment that's out there today.
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And this is just a very simple two-channel mixer because that's all I really wanted.
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But this actually sits on a DJ console that I designed and have a local manufacturer in Hayward build it specifically for me.
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And we've launched a design lab to share what I've done because so many DJs want to try and do something that represents their brand as well.
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And so we can customize DJ consoles for these DJs or producers or you know, venues where they want their uh branded DJ console because looks really matter today, and that's what I'm I'm I'm set up right here in my living room.
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I have just this beautiful background, and this is my opportunity to really try and put together some really fun um DJ sets of my own, but I also want to interview other DJs, get their story, understand the journey that they're gonna take us on, and then they'll get behind the decks and pull a beautiful set together that represents kind of the story that they told us about in the interview.
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Interesting.
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So, what are your favorite tracks?
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What are my favorite tracks?
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Well, tell your story.
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So it started with this guy right here.
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So this is this is the 12-inch version of ABC Be Near Me, the Munich, the Munich mix, the Munich disco mix.
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And when I heard that, this is a modern rock, really cool dance club track that set me off like you would not believe.
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And that was my all-time favorite when I played it in Tahoe in front of all these kids, they just went crazy.
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They absolutely loved it because it had a great sound to it, dance vibe to it.
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And then I would I would mix it, I would mix it with this guy.
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This is craft work, Tour de France.
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And mind you, this went through a rainstorm and all of that.
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That's why part of this like disappeared.
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But you mix that song, ABC, with this.
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It is one of those, you know, like amazing dopamine.
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Like, I just love when I mix those tracks together.
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Then I started to understand that it's not just about mixing music, you know, song after song after song.
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You can kind of change things up.
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And kind of what so what I really wanted to do, and because of YouTube and their copyright, you know, rules that they have, we can't really play these tracks, but we'll drop the links for these songs when it's when it's time, and uh you'll you'll really enjoy it.
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Um, the the last song that I really wanted to end this interview with, right, is this guy right here.
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