LONGEST DJ SET ATTEMPT 100 HOURS - FED SQUARE MELBOURNE FEB 21st - 26th 2006

In February 2006, DJ Promo – who has played at famous UK superclubs including Ministry of Sound and Fabric,

plus a host of venues around the world – will attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for the longest DJ

set in history.

The existing record of 84 hours was set in February 2005 by a British DJ, Genix. DJ Promo, also from the UK,

intends to smash this by a full 16 hours – taking the record to a new total of 100 hours live, continuous mixing.

In order to successfully claim the title and set a new, official record, 35-year-old DJ Promo must adhere to the

following Guinness World Record (GWR) rules and regulations:

• Vinyl discs or CDs must be played throughout the attempt

• There must be no pauses longer than ten seconds between tunes

• No premixing (ie: pre-recorded sections on CD, or mastermixes on vinyl) is allowed

• No more than two turntables may be used (a third turntable, kept in reserve, may be used in the event

of mechanical failure of either of the other two turntables)

• No individual disc, and no piece of music, may be repeated within four hours

• A list of all the tunes played must be maintained

• The event must take place on stage in a club or similar venue, open to members of the public, and not

in a recording studio

• A dancing audience, even if it is a single individual, must be present throughout, but no audience

member may attend for more than four hours at a time

• A break of 15 minutes must be taken every eight hours

To achieve his 100-hour target, DJ Promo will spend more than 4 days on his feet at the decks, without sleep,

playing in the region of 1500 records back-to-back. The set will incorporate all genres of house music, from

jazzy vocal to tribal progressive, and a selection of his own tracks. The attempt will take place in a transparent

nightclub built especially for the occasion in Federation Square, Melbourne.

The event is being staged in a bid to raise funds for two Australian charities:

The Big Issue, which enables homeless people to take steps towards getting off the street; and

Challenge, which supports children and their families living with cancer and life-threatening blood disorders.

Genix, after setting the current record, described the days he spent at the decks as some of the most difficult

in his life.

"I found this a lot tougher than I could possibly have imagined,” he said. “After the first two days, I

thought I would do it with no problems at all. Then the third day became a lot tougher, with the lack of sleep

really starting to kick in. When Saturday came around, I didn’t know where I was. I didn’t even know how to

use all my equipment! If someone ever tries to break my new record, I will happily congratulate them. It’s such

a tough thing to do – I would personally never attempt anything like this again.”