Posts on Brother Kaif

Hello World

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:53:05 +0000

It’s been a long time coming, but I’ve finally gotten round to putting together a site for my DJ work. Whilst I am a backend engineer by trade, my frontend skills are rubbish, so this did push me out of my comfort zone a bit. There’s probably more tweaks that I’ll make over time, but for now, it should do the job.

For the mega-geeks that are interested, here’s the tech stack and tooling used:

Practice Mix - 20260319

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:39:01 +0000

Another practice mix coming towards the end of the second term at the Cre8tiv® DJ Skills course at Midi Music Company in Deptford, London.

This was a pretty big one as it’s the first time using DJay Pro. It was a big job to migrate my library across but I’m happy I moved to it. This is the first proper set I’ve done with it so I’m still getting used to it. There are a couple of ropey transitions at the start but I’m pretty happy with it overall.

Practice Mix - 20260121

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:16:52 +0000

I recently came back from a trip to South Africa and immersed myself in the amazing Cape Town music scene. This mix contains only tracks that I heard during my time in the city. This is well out of my comfort zone of wall to wall Jungle/D&B, but I really wanted to challenge myself and learn a new genre. Cape Town is a place very close to my heart having been a previous resident of it (hopefully I’ll live there again in the future!). This mix is a way for me to show my appreciation of “The Mother City”.

Practice Mix - 20251204

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:32:46 +0000

The final set of the term as part of the Cre8tiv® DJ Skills course at Midi Music Company in Deptford, London. Tried out a different approach to marking the tracks up so hopefully the timings are a bit better on the transitions with this one. Messed up a couple of the mixes a bit, but overall, pretty happy with how it turned out.

Practice Mix - 20251127

Sat, 29 Nov 2025 19:51:38 +0000

A practice mix as part of the Cre8tiv® DJ Skills course at Midi Music Company in Deptford, London. No prep work, just had to wing it. Also includes a failed attempt at a spinback right at the end.

Practice Mix - 20251123

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:04:05 +0000

A homework mix as part of the Cre8tiv® DJ Skills course at Midi Music Company in Deptford, London. This mix focuses on tracks around about the 175bpm range and was focused on practicing transitions.