Student Spotlight: From Imposter Syndrome To New Year’s Eve Magic

One of our Access All Areas subscribers needs to take their bedroom set-up on the road for a 50th birthday party (and, we strongly suspect, more where that came from). We see this question all the time: how do you convert a bedroom set-up into something you can actually use for DJing parties? This marks…

Digital DJ Tips is proud to announce its latest major DJ course, Ferry Corsten’s Trance Mixing Masterclass. This brand-new course releases in just a few weeks and covers everything you need to know about how to successfully DJ with trance music and other heavy melodic genres. What’s Inside? There has never been a trance DJing…

Halloween is a huge night for DJs and (in some places) the biggest night of the year. So picking a few songs to give your sets that Halloween vibe is definitely a good idea. Ahead of Halloween 2025, we did a quick poll of our team here at the Digital DJ Tips school to find…

What is a DJ download pool? Should you join one? Are they only for professional DJs? Are they even legal, and how can you tell? Is this how DJs find easy-to-mix versions of songs? We answer those questions (and more) in this guide, followed by our recommendations for the best DJ download pools you can…

I co-ran a club called Tangled in Manchester through the 1990s and into the 2000s – right through the trance boom years. I was a resident DJ and founder for 12 years, and recently I dug out a book the team made about the club to remind myself what those years were like. With our…

A student asked me recently if it’s possible to learn DJing using nothing but software – just an app running on a laptop, tablet or phone, with no hardware, no controllers, nothing else plugged in. It’s a fair question, and one that more people are asking as DJ software gets increasingly capable. There are plenty…