DJ Buddy Holly: Sci‑Fi Chronicles & The Controllerism Archive

Title White Linen, Train Wrecks, and the Cables I Miss By DJ WhoYouThink I’ve been DJing for exactly one year. Twelve months ago I was steaming oat milk and pretending I liked small talk. Now I’m closing the coffee shop at 3 p.m., going home to my tiny studio apartment, and practicing transitions on my beginner controller until my neighbors text me passive aggressive smiley faces. I just got back from Burning Man. Out there, nothing is hidden. The sound system isn’t pretending to be a decorative accent. The cables snake across the dust like veins. CDJs sit out in the open like instruments, not secrets. The DJ is part engineer, part shaman, part sleep deprived wizard. You see everything. You feel everything. And it sounds massive. Now I’m at a wedding. The speakers are wrapped in white linen. Not just clean. Wrapped. Like they’re attending the ceremony too. The DJ booth is hidden behind a facade that looks like a minimalist IKEA altar. There’s a wicker basket with fake greenery and mayb...

  What Traditionalism Really Means When You Came Up in the 80s By DJ Jay Quellen — 80s Hip‑Hop Specialist Lately I’ve been hearing a lot of DJs defend “traditionalism,” and honestly, it’s refreshing. Any time the culture starts talking about fundamentals again, that’s a good sign. But I’m from the 80s — the park‑jam era, the tape‑deck era, the “borrow your cousin’s belt‑drives and hope they don’t skip” era. So when I hear people talk about “DJ traditionalism,” I agree with the spirit of what they’re saying… but I’m talking about a much older version of it. A version built before the battle era, before the hamster switch, before the DJ became a performer in the spotlight. My traditionalism comes from the foundation. Let me break down what that means. 1. Traditionalism Started Before the DJ Was a Showman A lot of today’s defenders of traditionalism point to the...