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Overcoming Personal Struggles & Temptations, Who is Hush Cut Through the Noise

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The life of an artist (both aspiring and professional) looks fun and glamorous from the outside. However, this glamorous environment that artists are exposed to is rife with temptations and distractions. If you don’t give importance to the right priorities, you can easily get lost in the noise. DJ and producer Who is Hush knows all too well what it means to come down from a high. Overcoming personal struggles and temptations, Who is Hush realized something had to give in order for his career to move forward. With 20 plus years in the music industry, he’s faced personal demons that often also chase many other industry members. He comes clean in kicking bad habits to regain focus and control of his life. Read more

8 Methods to Stay Focused in an ADD World

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Every time we hear a new tone, our brain receives a signal, causing us to immediately diverge from whatever task we are doing at that time. In today’s digital world, we have the ability to converse with those across the world instantaneously. With our many different electronic devices, we are always connected with family, friends, colleagues, significant others, and even brands and celebrities. By being on constant alert, our brain switches gear every single time we get a new notification.

Having become so obsessed with constant communication among each other, the average person can now recognize over 10 different notification sounds. Each time we hear a new ping or ding, our minds automatically shift focus to whatever app or program the sound is coming from. This can result in a great deal of stress and anxiety, ultimately causing us to lose focus on the task at hand.

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How to Get More Things Done in The Electronic Music Industry

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We hear it all the time or say it ourselves, “I’ve just been so busy!” or “I just need more time” but is anyone really that busy and what if we did have more time? Would we really accomplish more or actually get things done?

If Carl Cox and John Digweed have enough time to run a label and radio station and still come out with new music while touring the world and Donald Trump can find time to rant on Twitter and play golf, then maybe you aren’t managing your time effectively. We all have 24 hours in a day and 7 days in the week. Even if you work 10 hours a day and 7 days a week, you can sleep for 6, work out for an hour, and play basketball for another hour and still have another 8 hours left.

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Tips for Better Time Management for Promoters

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Promoters in the festival and nightlife industry are constantly handling a lot of tasks on a daily basis. Time management is an imperative skill they need to master in order to balance their professional and personal lives and ensure everything gets done. Being a promoter means being an entrepreneur and applying hands-on business skills to your job daily, oftentimes working around the clock dealing with tight deadlines and with multiple fires to extinguish to ensure everything at their event goes just right.

Below are some key time management tricks that will help you, as a promoter, get more done in less time:

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How To Balance A Day Job And A DJ/Producer Career

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The clock strikes 5 and everyone’s heading out for a good rest. Everyone but you! Well, you have to gather what’s left of your energy and get ready to go back to work for the rest of the night.

Nowadays, having multiple jobs is not unusual. Whether it’s for financial aid, gathering more experience, or working for the sake of doing what you love — spending most of your hours per day working can crack you up and trigger breakdowns.

Look at it this way: a nine-to-five job is already stressful enough so how much more energy does it take if you add DJing and music producing to the list? It can sometimes almost seem impossible to maintain your sanity. So how do you balance a day job and a DJ/production career?

We spoke to artists who have juggled day jobs and their music career when starting up and compiled a series of tips to bear in mind if you’re doing the same:

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