Anyone Can Drop a Banger. Almost Nobody Can Build a Night. ft. Mishell | EF EP 165

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Anyone can learn to drop a banger. Learning to actually build a night, to take a room from the very first record all the way through the peak to the close, is a completely different skill, and it's the one most artists skip. Mishell didn't. The Tel Aviv–born house and indie-dance artist came up playing all-night, open-to-close sets, and he'll tell you that's the only way you really understand what it means to be a DJ.

Host Olivia Mancuso sits down with him to get into the craft most people skip, how he grew his Mess Makers events into a community that sells a thousand tickets in twenty minutes, and why building a real career in this industry is a marathon, not an overnight thing.

What you'll take away:

• Why the all-night, open-to-close set is how you actually learn to DJ, and what you skip when you rush straight to the peak-time stuff
• How to read a room and take a crowd on a real journey, instead of blasting the same high energy from the first record
• How he scaled his Mess Makers brand to a thousand tickets in twenty minutes, with no lineup and no link
• Why you shouldn't chase money at the start of building an event or a brand, and what to invest in instead
• How analog gear helped him build a sound that's actually his, instead of sounding like everyone else
• Why there's no timeline, and how to build a career that lasts instead of a moment that fades

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👉 Video Editor/Audio Engineer: James Fixx