{"id":12636,"date":"2018-04-11T10:40:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T08:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xceed.me\/blog\/?p=12636"},"modified":"2021-03-26T12:41:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T10:41:50","slug":"which-is-the-longest-dj-set-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xceed.me\/blog\/en\/which-is-the-longest-dj-set-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the 10 longest DJ sets ever seen in the history of electronic music"},"content":{"rendered":"

When a DJ is proposed to perform at any event, one of the first questions he asks is: “How much time will I have to play?” In recent years, some festivals and clubs have opted to compress the duration of the performances in order to be able to agglomerate more names in the same time and, ultimately, expand their line-up. A lot of people (including artists and promoters) have talked about this in the industry.<\/p>\n

For some DJs, this is a big challenge, since it forces the artist to curate much more the musical selection and to make difficult decisions when preparing a tracklist. On the other side, other artists consider that acting shortly prevents narrating an elaborate story, since in an hour or an hour and a half there is not enough space for going “up and down<\/strong>“. In general, artists consider that a 3-hours set is ideal<\/strong> to convey their message to the audience. Do you think it’s long? Probably it seems a joke for the guys we are gonna mention below. They are just heroes<\/strong>, artists who have extended their actions to unimaginable limits that escape the rational understanding of any human being.<\/p>\n

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In summer of 2016, Space Ibiza said goodbye to its audience with its most iconic party, Music Is Revolution by Carl Cox<\/a>. The famous British DJ performed for 9 hours<\/strong>, mixing vinyl from past decades with the latest releases of the best labels of today. Another Briton, Erol Alkan<\/a>, ended up playing for 10 hours<\/strong> in 2013 at his last annual marathon session in Easter. Ben Klock<\/a> played techno for 12 hours<\/strong> in Berghain helped by bananas, giving the last of them to a clubber who ended up selling it on the net. Marco Carola<\/a> and Dubfire<\/a> doubled that. Both were for 24 hours<\/strong> on the stage at the Romanian festival Sunwaves. That mark was also achieved by UK Garage selector DJ EZ. Unfortunately, none of them is within the top-10.<\/p>\n

10. Joseph Capriati (25 hours)<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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The Italian Joseph Capriati<\/a> went to Miami’s Heart Nightclub with the intention of marking one of the longest sets of his career, but never imagined that it would has reached those mad levels. It was November 2017. It started on a Saturday night and ended on Monday, 25 hours and 30 minutes later.<\/p>\n

9. Danny Tenaglia (30 hours)<\/strong><\/h3>\n