A six year old DJ has claimed that children his age are turning their backs on conventional toys, like the jack-in-the-box, in order to play with more hi-tech DJing equipment.
Cameron Parker, a.k.a. DJ Squeak, claims to have been a DJ for as long as he can remember, a date which can be more accurately pinpointed to 12th February 2013 when his father bought the Traktor app for his iPad, and that there is an ever increasing number of DJs appearing in the school yard.
“Most of my friends are DJs,” claimed the youngster. “It’s really cool because even if no one in the class is fat or has a runny nose we still know who to bully, obviously by picking on the non-DJ kids,” he added.
Brian Broughton, a child psychologist, commented on the influx of child DJs, “Up until now DJing has usually been seen as an underground thing, most children wouldn’t have been exposed to any sort of DJing or its sub cultures until they were teenagers at the earliest.”
“But now were seeing DJing more and more in everyday life,” claimed Mr. Broughton. “With EDM, celebrity DJs and the likes of Martin Garrix and Aiden Jude we’re seeing DJing encroaching more and more into popular culture and all of a sudden children as young as four or five want to be DJs,” he continued.
“We’re seeing elitist attitudes and general snobbery starting to appear among child DJs at a very early age nowadays,” continued Broughton, “and these are very important character traits that all local DJs need to make it big on a very small scale.”
Cameron, who was given a Traktor Kontrol S2 for christmas, has built himself a fully functioning DJ booth out of Lego in his bedroom and hopes to try his hand at production if his dad can “find the Yamaha keyboard that’s been buried in the attic for the last fifteen years”.
