DJs the rock stars of today

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I made and we are back with fox lifestyle I'm -- -- always glad to have you here on the show where we talk about.

Of course things and lifestyle -- so we just.

Heard about movies we heard about the amazing crest and predictions and now -- -- talk about DJ and learning how to be a scratch DJ I wanna make sure that I.

Call that correctly scratch DJ academy is actually something that's out there where you can learn how to do this.

Joining us here on so we have rob principal honored to have -- say that principi principi.

I added an out they go rob a founder CEO of scratch music group incorporated we can find you on Twitter.

At your handle you have to -- scratch academy and -- rob underscore brits think that's right -- so we'll look forward to adding -- -- to our Twitter feed OK so.

A lot of people these days go to parties go to weddings go there whenever -- and you see this.

You know the scratching DJ isn't that it is it's not necessarily comeback is this is -- an art form Millie furlong time.

Yeah I mean the DJ.

It it's not a fad or trend it's been -- that's been with us -- decades and decades and decades there's been a resurgence of interest in it lately.

Because of music festival scene in the technology.

And so much has changed it's just.

People can now access music so easily than they tried before to be able to have 5000 songs on something the size of of a credit card just makes music so democratize and easily accessible that some more people are empowered to become DJ's.

When you go to the big music festivals like when you go along clues you know as your other big events they're actually -- -- -- bands bands and then there's like a DJ -- right that's right.

-- DJ's are today's rock stars ubiquitous in our culture and that's exactly why founded -- music group and scratch DJ academy really was to lower the barrier to entry for people interest in the art form.

But also to consolidate a very fragmented space and -- -- noticed that.

And -- jays really are everywhere in our culture but the barrier to entry for learning was extremely high.

And there was no marquee brand or consolidations space that's why we found -- the company to address that.

So in terms of the barrier being so high with the academy the demand to learn outweighed the supply teachers where did you go to learn right it just was no place to go.

So -- lower that barrier to entry in the equipment was expensive and now it's become less expensive but hard to navigate.

So we.

Have conquering curriculums liberty -- -- instructors we've locations in New York Miami LA -- -- anyone in Chicago with our partners that school of audio.

Engineering SA and we're really excited about that we teach about 50000 people how to DJ each year while at how many -- in its class.

Our our class sizes range anywhere from ten to twenty people and we have about ten to twenty set ups -- location.

And we get individual instruction we have amazing teachers that teach classes.

And we have about fifteen different course offerings -- academy certification programs -- wanna ones mixing classes scratching classes.

Music production classes certification programs.

It's a lot for people to get at all I wanna say it's it's not as easy as it looks.

It is absolutely not we -- I'm I'm glad you said that everyone thinks -- must be easy just -- wanna put one -- on after the next we teach the turn tables as an instrument.

Do you Jesus musicians and we're not there to teach you to tell you what to paint where there to teach you how to paint -- so -- really about what people's music interest is and we just help them learn the instrument and learn how to be a teacher.

And these DJ is make a lot of money.

We want to put up us some numbers for you -- if you're thinking about this for career this is nothing to shake a stick at we've got the highest -- in the world here's our list.

The highest PDT in the world earning 22 -- again.

DJ's are now proud to go home until their mothers that they do this for a living -- it has changed you didn't really has -- that's right.

It's just amazing the demand for this art form in the consumption of it has just gone.

Incrementally.

Up and now we benefited from that.

-- looking at the top five top pay -- point 2000015 million.

1413.

Twelve million dollars.

I mean I -- I think I would imagine these are for the big event.

-- are there for the -- the festivals now that's Coachella is in the electric daisy carnival's in the -- loses in the Bonner is.

They've just taken off and the interest in them has skyrocketed.

Ultra music fest which is down in Miami sold 200000 tickets think 73 days before the actual events started.

Swedish house mafia sold -- the guard in an eleven minutes.

Right and then that would -- the average amount earned we want to go out weddings can because -- anxiety if you don't -- -- -- vessels still weddings are very.

Lucrative that's right we actually have a winning division called scratch weddings and not -- scratch when these dot com and we are the first national service in the 2.3 billion dollar wedding music market.

And its people he really care about music music defines an event will there -- -- corporate event or a wedding but music is what sets memory.

It's wow this is really exciting and I know that we have a lot of people out there who are.

Interested and that's not just you know -- it's fun to do.

But now we know it can be -- career now we know that we can go somewhere.

-- academy -- and learn through it and we're gonna get to learn and our other small studio.

We actually have a special -- you know the studio really show you where we have our.

Musicians.

As you say these -- the new rock stars.

We're going to be talking with TJ Mazzone myself my -- scratch and DJ at academy you're going to be going over there in the studio just -- second.

A we're gonna just switch gears and go over there -- don't go anywhere we'll be right back.

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