Spinning records young, DJ Archie's journey to fame
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Oct 14, 2024
The inspiring story of DJ Archie, the world's youngest club DJ, and his unexpected rise to stardom.
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What types of music do you like
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Uh, John Bass. What else? House. What else
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Damage. Okay, I'm John Norbury. I'm DJ Archie's dad,
and he holds the record for the world youngest club DJ
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accident how this happened really he
watched me from two and a half to three
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years old and I was saying please don't
touch my equipment so I thought he was
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gonna break everything and one day he
turned all my equipment on when I was
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downstairs and I came upstairs and he
was mixing two songs together it was in
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time and I really couldn't get my
head round it I thought I'll show me
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my wife so I took out my phone and started video in him and I put that video on my social media and it
got quite a few views People seem to like it I create him a page for fun and from there we started adding
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some more videos so you can see him getting better
and better as I'm helping him and teaching him
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parts of the controller. Yeah it was purely by
accident. I think that if I'd have tried to make
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him to do it, you know, then put him in front of
the decks himself and tried to actually physically
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get him to do it, he probably wouldn't have done it. You know, so
he is a very deterrent. determined little boy and very observant
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He pretty much did everything himself to be fair. The D, the J, the A, the R, the C, the D, the J, the H, the I, the
E, the D, the J, the H, the I, the E, the D, the J, the A, the A, the C, the D, the J, the A, the A, the C, the D
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If this little boy doesn't inspire some of you
lot, to get into this game, I don't know what will
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The A, the A, the C, the D,
the J, the J, the A, the A
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This DJ is so funky, man. The Chief, the H, the A, the
E, the D, the C, the D, the Chay, the A, the A, the
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C, the D, the Chay, the Atee, the Aid, the D. Yeah, so to break the
Guinness World Record, Archie had to play for one hour on his own in a club
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that had a certain amount of people inside
it, and he had to be completely unaided
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He was four years old and, 130 days, which knocked, I think
it knocked around about nine months off the previous record
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I mean, he's played in front of some big crowds to
2,000 people plus, you know, when he was quite young
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but yeah, recently this is the biggest crowd that he'll play
to, you know, it's six, seven thousand people here today
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I probably get more nervous than Archie does.
Obviously because of his age, and he's been
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DJing now for so long and he's been playing to quite big audiences.
So yeah, I mean, I don't think he gets, he gets too nervous
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It just what he does and he just goes out and does it you know His timing you know for
his age is unbelievable You know the way that he cuts and manipulates the sound you know
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it's very different to that of an adult
because adults are generally confined by rules
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you know, things that should sound good,
but he does things that are quite intuitive
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and, you know, they sound really good. Continue Archie Aheem. Wicked. I hope that
he continues with it but I'm under no misconceptions that obviously children change
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and they change what they want to do. You might want to be
an world's youngest astronaut or something, I don't know
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Just something that he can look back on when
he's old enough and hopefully realize how good
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it is and how difficult it is to set a record
like that and also to do it at such an early age
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What do you like about being
a DJ? What's the most fun part
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Um, the songs
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