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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Er, drum and bass. What else? House. What else
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Garage. I'm John Norbury, I'm DJ Archie's dad, and he holds the record for the world's youngest club DJ
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How did you come to DJ? It's purely by accident how this happened really
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He watched me from two and a half to three years old, and I was saying
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please don't touch my equipment, because I thought he was going to break everything. And one day, he turned all my equipment on when I was downstairs
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and I came upstairs, and he was mixing two songs together. How did you get started
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It was in time, and I really couldn't get my head around it. How did you get started
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I thought I'd show my wife, so I took out my phone and started videoing him. And I put that video on my social media, and it got quite a few views
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People seemed to like it, I'll create him a page for fun. And from there, we started adding some more videos, so you can see him getting better and better
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as I'm helping him and teaching him parts of the controller. It was purely by accident. I think that if I'd have tried to make him to do it
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and put him in front of the decks himself, and tried to actually physically get him to do it
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he probably wouldn't have done it. He's a very determined little boy, and very observant
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He pretty much did everything himself, to be fair. 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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This beat is so funky, man! To break the Guinness World Record, Archie had to play for one hour on his own
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in a club that had a certain amount of people inside it
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And he had to be completely unaided. He was four years old, and 130 days
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which knocked about nine months off the previous record. He's played in front of some big crowds, 2,000 people plus, when he was quite young
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but recently this is the biggest crowd that he'll play to. It's 6,000, 7,000 people here today
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I probably get more nervous than Archie does, obviously because of his age
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and he's been DJing now for so long, and he's been playing to quite big audiences
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I don't think he gets too nervous. It's just what he does, and he just goes out and does it
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His timing for his age is unbelievable. The way that he cuts and manipulates the sound is very different to that of an adult
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because adults are generally confined by rules, things that should sound good
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but he does things that are quite intuitive, and they sound really good
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Salute Archie! Wicked. I hope that he continues with it, but I'm under no misconceptions
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Obviously children change, and they change what they want to do. He might want to be the 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
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and hopefully realise how good it is, and how difficult it is to set a record like that
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and also to do it at such an early age. What do you like about being a DJ? What's the most fun part
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The songs
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