What are you up to tonight? If you’re DJ Smokin, you’re at The Empire Hotel in Sydney’s King Cross and just a few hours away from breaking the record — 120 hours and 19 minutes. He’s aiming for 168 hours (7 days straight) and there are some tricky rules to keep things interesting.
You can’t play the same song within a four hour window, though he’s aiming to not repeat anything. Also: no USB sticks/hard drives – CDs only. Thankfully there’s no limit on caffeine or Red Bull (and I’m told he gets 5 minutes to run to the loo each hour).
That much sleep deprivation without, err, “help” – damn.
We wish you all the best Joe! – Thanks Shawn! [DJTechTools and InTheMix]
Ron
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 5:12 PMBloody mean attempt, drugs is the only thing keeping this dude going.
spk
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 5:50 PMno drugs..
DarthDVD
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 5:13 PMAnd i thought my sleeping habits are bad.
SmileySmoke
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 5:23 PMthats crazy.. long time without sleep.
he even started off bald and clean shaven :| :D
Xuchiex
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 5:39 PMActually the only drugs his taking is caffeine there was an interview on triple j stating he wasn’t going to take drugs and by drugs i mean cocaine speed and so on
Andrew
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 7:46 PMLol play a song that goes for an hour and have a nap
J-rod
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 8:47 PMI wonder if his set would be available to download afterwards
Joe
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 8:53 PMI heard about this dude. I wondered how he was going.
anthome
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 12:24 AMholy crap he’s still going (just saw him eat a burger)
Pres
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 12:35 AMwhy bother excluding usb’s and hard drives if you’re going to allow cd’s?
Daniel
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 12:51 AMcd’s are the old(er) skool way of dj’ing. You actually have to flip a cd magazine and find the cd and pick a track and load it. Rather than just hit ‘shuffle’ on a terabyte drive of music.
mango
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 7:31 AMWell if you hit the shuffle button, theres a possibility of playing the same song again within that 4 hour period. IMO i reckon it would be harder using MP3′s as theres a higher chance of playing the same song since its easy to lose track and harder to manage, where as with CD’s when that disc is done you can discard it and not touch it again.
Blake
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 9:51 AMUse windows media player, add a TB of music into a playlist, press the shuffle list button a few times til you’re happy with the order, play in that order with random disabled, no chance of hitting the same song twice.
morgs
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 3:24 AMwell hes using a laptop for something…
mango
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 8:28 AMThe smoke has been extinguished!
Troy
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 11:18 AMWell, did he break the record? The feed is offline so I’m assuming its over
mango
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 11:32 AMYeah he did! I saw him leave at 6am this morning. He lasted just over 130 hours!
Spock
Saturday, December 24, 2011 at 2:31 AMToo bad that DJ’s universally suck. Honestly, the world’s most pointless profession.