Joseph Capriati: "Today you shouldn't care if somebody plays with vinyl, CDJ or Traktor"

Joseph Capriati showed his stamina levels are second to none last month, rolling out a 25 hours and 30 minutes long marathon set to an enthralled crowd at Miami’s Heart Nightclub.

We spoke to the Italian DJ to pick his brain on how to to endure and curate such an impressive feat. Among the wisdom, Capriati challenged the elitism that runs through the digital vs analogue debate, saying they are equally worthy, and praising the positives of digital DJing.

He said: I didn't repeat a single track. Not one track. This is the great thing about Traktor because I use the CDJ like normal but I have a huge WAV folder on my computer so I don’t even need even USB or hard drive.

“It’s not about the program at all really. I don’t use sync, I use the pitch control always but whatever people want to do, they can. Today you shouldn't care if somebody plays with vinyl, CDJ or Traktor. I’ve played with vinyl in the past and CDs too. The great thing about Traktor is that you can see which tracks you’ve already played. It really helped me for the marathon and I didn’t repeat anything, not one track.

“I select a lot of music every week from promos and demos I get, you know, techno mainly. Here I chose groovy stuff. I picked house and tech-house so I had a lot of choice of music and it also really helped having some folders of stuff I’ve never played. I had a random folder arranged for a special occasion, mostly from Romanian minimal artists. It worked amazingly in the early evening 'til 6/7 pm.”

Read the full interview here.