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Ladies Night Patrol
...This Wednesday feel the beat with DJ YOGI is here to SPOIL you all..
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So Ladies be here & SPOIL your self!!! (Drinks on the house for Ladies till 10:30 P:M)
* Insight about DJ YOGI
A soft spoken and well-mannered, God fearing, teetotaller bloke. The regulars call him Yogi or Yogs.
In a world where here today gone tomorrow, is the norm DJ Yogi says: “Challenge is a good thing. It makes me improve myself and get creative with my music. If I am unable to hold the interest of the crowd, I see it as my failure. ‘Touch wood' nothing like that has ever happened with me.”
Yogi's tryst with music happened when as a summer intern he was working at Illusion, a music store. His job was to make music collection on request from customers. This was when he developed a different bond with music. “It was more than just listening and enjoying music. During the same time I got an opportunity to play at Pyramids, I was doing my Intermediate,” recollects Yogi.
Yogi grew up in Tanzania and when he returned with his parents to India they had to take a call between Mumbai and Hyderabad. “I was around five. Dad decided to settle down in Hyderabad and since then we never thought of leaving the city,” he says.
Career choice
An MBA in finance, Yogi had to take a call between pursuing a career in finance and DJying. If he took the job up he would have to relocate and so he instead decided to stick on to being a DJ. “It was 1996 when I first did my gig. There was no console, we played on normal CD players and that was quite a learning experience,” he smiles.
It was his friend and colleague Ajay, who gave his first break at Pyramids and since then Yogi has been playing almost every night. In the process he grew plump and slowly felt a huge gap building up between him and his parents. “From 1999 to 2004 I don't remember when I slept well. I played from 8.30 p.m. to 11.45 p.m. at Passport and then would rush to Treasure Island, where parties used to happen till sunrise. During this time I was also pursuing my MBA finance and though I topped my batch, I didn't realise, all this was distancing me from my parents. My night shifts started worrying them. Rumours of DJs being involved in drugs shook up my parents,” he recollects.
As if someone was listening to Yogi's prayers, Touch happened. The club in Banjara Hills hired him as their official DJ and he was entrusted with the task of rocking the club with his music. Rock it did, the erstwhile owners left no stone unturned to pull in the celebrity strings. Coupled with that was Yogi's music. “Touch was my biggest challenge. I had to cater to the concept of ‘Page 3' which was new to the city. I was to play to crowd which was new to me and it meant proving my worth,” he says. Yogi stuck on with the club even after his former owners sold the place.
“Things changed with my new employer after a couple of years and I decided to move on. This time around the challenge was to prove myself at Excess, the club at Novotel. And no sooner had the club started I managed to keep the crowds engrossed with my music.” But he stresses, “no matter what happened. Touch will always be my favourite place. We grew up together.”
Times have changed, Yogi now shuffles between handling his father's pharmaceutical business, playing music and being a good son. “I work for my dad during the day, once back my dog gives me company and in the evening it's a game of football for me. I had to lose weight and start taking care of my health. Night shifts did take a toll on me. I began with jogging and then took to playing football. I dress up more maturely and keep my hair short as I have to deal with people in government offices for my father's business,” he laughs.
Yogi says, his new routine and approach to life has bridged the gap between him and parents and he is loving every minute he spends at home and his new mantra of life is “Use the force”.
Yogi must have changed his looks but the genre of his music he plays is still unadulterated. He started with house, eclectic and futuristic sound and has managed to stay away from commercial sound as far as possible.
“There is nothing wrong with commercial music, it's just not my music. On demand I play that too, but most of the time I refrain myself. The idea is to get people used to all sorts of music from various DJs,” he explains.
And that could be the reason why he has had the opportunity of playing in almost all celebrated clubs in the country.
So People come & Spoil yourself enjoying like Never Before only @ SPOIL from 8:00 Pm Onwards.
Cheers,
Spoil the Lounge
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