Headphones around the World!

0:01 There were some Pioneer HDJ 2000

Alright guys, now first of all, quite important, let me just make sure the camera's alright, yep. While I was at the mobile beat show in Las Vegas, you know we did the live streaming etc. If you don't know what I'm on about then just do stuff. Look at videos and things like that. Well anyway, so packed up, got home and realised that I'd lost my headphones. There were some Pioneer HDJ 2000. And my first thought was that I'd left them where we did the live streaming and I contacted Marlene and she said she didn't have them. Now, of course, logically, the first thing you'd think is, oh, you know, they've been nicked. And my first thought was, but then again, it's like, well, what can you do? You know, you can't really do anything, can you? You know, there's no point saying, oh, excuse me, can you look for a set of headphones?

You haven't got a hope. But then, Marlene contacted me. She sent me a text saying she's found them. So, this video, okay, is... I think this is cool. And you can, I suppose in a sense, you can read into this, you can do what you want. But, right, this is called Headphones Around the World. Now this is wacky, but I want this to happen. Now Marlene, first of all, this is what I want you to do. I want you to give, not for give as in forever, but let Chris Andrews use those headphones for say two or three weeks, alright? Chris, do a couple of gig logs and I hope you better mate, alright? When you are better. If you're not better for a couple of weeks, keep them until you are better and then do some gig logs with those headphones. Then this is what I want you to do. I want you to pass them

2:21 To these guys here, Abstract and Steelo, alright?

To this guy here, Miles Productions, alright? So Miles, alright? This is cool, you'll understand, alright? Miles Productions. There is, and I'll put all the links to these guys. Now Miles, once you've had, this is cool, this is really cool. You do the same. You have the headphones for a month or so. Use them at gig logs and show them, alright? And then you, I want you then to pass them. To these guys here, Abstract and Steelo, alright? And then these guys, alright? I want you to use them for say a month, alright? Now, this is where it... Sorry, I'm pressing buttons here. This is where it'll get quite interesting, okay? Now, Abstract and Steelo. Use them, alright? Put them in gig logs, etc.

4:27 I hope you get it, alright?

And then what I want you to do, I want you to choose... Anywhere around the world, anywhere, someone you can trust and then you have them for say two or three weeks. Now the only proviso really is make sure they're in a decent box and they're not like just wrapped up in a plastic bag with a little sticky tape saying please send to, you know, because we want them in sort of good condition. So the idea right is this is headphones around the world. So these guys, Abstract and Stilo, will send them to someone who then will do Some more gig logs on them. And then that person, has to be trustworthy logically again, will pass them to someone else, and to someone else, and to someone else.

And then maybe in a year's time I'll get them back here. What I'd like you to do, okay, is every time you pass them to someone else, just put your card or something in there. So for example, Chris Andrews will put something of his, not a big item, a tiny small item, give that item to Miles.

And then Miles will keep that item. So that's a personal thing from Chris to Miles. And then Miles will do exactly... This is... It's beautiful. Think about it. It's good. It's joining people together. Then Miles will put something... Not necessarily personal like a dirty sock or something from some small little thing he's got on the mantelpiece, just something. And then he will pass that item to Abstract and Stilo. And then these guys will use the headphones, and then once they've used them, after two or three weeks, gig logs etc., put them in a box, send them to someone else, and then those guys will pass something on to the other people. I hope you get it, alright? So then eventually, maybe in a year's time, or...

I don't know how we work this. Yeah, that's right. What we'll do around about a year's time then, whoever's got them a year from now, send them back to me. Okay? And then they've been around the world. So I want them to travel around the world. So theoretically, you know, Marlene's got them, give them to Chris. Chris will give them to Miles. Miles will give them to Abstract and Stilo. They will pass them maybe to some guy in China or Japan or South Africa, South America, Europe, down the road. It doesn't matter. The whole idea is connecting people, OK? Now also, there will... You see, this is the way I work. There will be a little bit of every single DJ inside those headphones. It is really crazy, but it'll work. It's fun and it's a way of just me doing my wacky thing again. You've got to read into this because it's... Yeah, all right, you get it. Hopefully you do. So another thing I'd like you to do is when you use the headphones...

In one gig log, just put it as a video response underneath here, so then people can look at this video and watch underneath here. Don't start putting video responses of mum and dad going on holiday and your auntie, you know, just come back from an operation or stuff like that. Just the gig logs from you using the headphones. So theoretically after a year we could have, I don't know, 10, 15, 5, 2, no we wouldn't have 2, we would have a lot. I was only good at maths. Five and three is... That's why I do one, three, one, three. Actually, that's another thing. You know when you DJs, everyone, they've got the microphone, they go testing, one, two, one, two. Why don't you just do something like this? Just do testing, bananas, cakes, bananas, fritters. Something different because you know what? The crowd will look at you and think, that's actually different. And straight away it's just one, two, one, two. Forget it. Just do one, three, one, seven, five and eight, 42. Okay, I hope you get the general idea.

Practice and enjoy. This could be interesting. Thank you.

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