Amal Nemer – Passion, Persistence, and the Power of Music on the Virtual Sessions 10/24/25

From her studio in Miami to stages across the world, Amal Nemer brings an undeniable energy and emotional connection to her craft. In this conversation, she shares her journey from architecture to music, explaining how her creative instincts and love for sound led her to become a DJ and producer known for blending Arabic roots with modern tech house grooves. Her breakout came in 2021 with her debut track, signed by the legendary Nervous Records, which unexpectedly launched her career into motion.

 

Amal reflects on her early fears of performing live, recalling her trembling hands during her first show and how pushing through that fear became transformative. She credits her dedication, discipline, and belief in finishing every project as key to her evolution as an artist. Her music, often inspired by emotion and nostalgia, channels both her cultural background and her personal experiences. Tracks like Burning embody her philosophy that music has the power to heal, uplift, and unite people beyond language barriers.

 

Discussing her process, Amal emphasizes living life as an essential ingredient for creativity. Yoga, paddle sports, and time with friends help her recharge and remain grounded. She believes consistency, self-discipline, and living in the moment are vital to sustaining happiness and artistic flow.

 

Looking ahead, Amal’s ambition continues to grow, from her Manifest events to sharing stages with icons like Carl Cox. Her message to fans is clear: keep creating, never give up, and always chase joy through your passion.

 

Topics

0:12 – Early influences, Body Language Festival, and first shows
2:02 – Love for 70s and 80s classics and the magic of timeless music
5:39 – Battling creative blocks and staying focused
9:02 – Transitioning from architecture to full-time music
11:46 – How her debut track and “Burning” shaped her career
15:12 – The universal emotion behind music and connection
19:33 – Family influences and performing at her parents’ wedding
22:55 – Long sets vs. festival sets and storytelling through sound
30:30 – Overcoming technical challenges and learning vinyl mixing
37:47 – Collaborations, Carl Cox, and staying inspired through change

Connect with Amal Nemer

Instagram: @amal.nemer

[Darran]
Hello everyone, welcome back to another episode of the DJ Sessions presents the Virtual Sessions. I’m your host, Darran, and right now I’m sitting in the virtual studios in Seattle, Washington, coming in all the way on the other side of North America on the East Coast in Miami. We have Amal Nemer with us today.

How are you doing today, Amal?

[Amal Nemer]
Hey, Darran, I’m doing great. Super happy to be here with you.

[Darran]
Yeah, absolutely. I want to thank, give a shout out to the Relentless Beats team and your team for helping set up this interview today. I know you’re super excited because you’re going to be headed out our way here within the next few hours, 10 hours, whatever time frame zone it’s going to fly you out here.

And you’re going to be in Arizona at Body Language. I believe it’s, that’s in Phoenix, correct? Yeah.

It should be Phoenix. Yeah. I love the city.

Been down there a number of times and love those Relentless Beats shows. Is this your first Relentless Beats show you’re doing with them?

[Amal Nemer]
I believe so, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I think so. I mean, unless I’m confused, because maybe like once I didn’t know the promoter or something, but I believe this is the first, yeah.

[Darran]
Yeah, well, you know, they are one of the top leaders in the industry of putting on shows with, I believe, over 500 events a year. I just did an interview with Thomas and Ryan not too long ago, and I’m working very closely with them. We’re super excited to be, being a part of that partnership with Relentless Beats.

So congratulations on that. You just had a new single released, Ain’t Nobody, coming out.

[Amal Nemer]
It’s better, yeah.

[Darran]
You know, that’s exactly what just popped in my head. I love it when guests do that on my show and they say something or they do something like, how do they know what I’m thinking? And nobody knows the questions I’m gonna ask.

And I was just gonna say, that takes me back to my old school days of break dancing and the movie Breaking, Break In, Break In, not Breaking.

[Amal Nemer]
What was the original done? I didn’t did my research, but that track is like, yeah, like way back.

[Darran]
I just dated myself. If I was listening to that as a kid, watching the movie Breaking, which came out in the 80s. I don’t think, if I’m gonna get murdered if I don’t get this right.

[Amal Nemer]
I don’t know why I like music when I wasn’t even born. There’s something about like, I don’t know, music from the 80s, 70s, that one of my tracks is called No Control. It’s from the track of Self Control, like in the night, no control.

I love- Ooh, that’s a good one. That era was like amazing for music, for real.

[Darran]
Yeah, it’s, I don’t know if, I guess, I mean, obviously there was music before I was born. I do like music, listening to music that was not when I was born. But I think my musical tastes are vast in that nature.

And I love, the one thing I love about electronic music though, is you can listen to a well-produced track from 35 years ago, and say, was that just produced yesterday? It kind of gets a little bit of a timelessness to it that can transcend. And I think that’s, when you have people looking for new music, yes, there’s so much music being put out there now, so many tracks being put out there now with the accessibility of being able to produce and all that fun stuff, is that going back and reviving what people would call the classics, and they’re like, well, where did that come from?

Or hearing somebody go back and remix a classic, and it gets a new breath of life to it, is just amazing.

[Amal Nemer]
For me, a classic never should die. Never.

[Darran]
Yeah.

[Amal Nemer]
I mean, there’s this track that I still, like, I hear it and I get the same nostalgia. It’s called, Take On Me. Like, it’s really famous.

And when I hear that track, I say, like, wow, those people knew what they were doing. And they were making music with the huge computers and the stuff, like, super complicated to make just one sound. And it’s like, wow.

Now it’s easier, but there’s something about, like, when the exclusivity, when you don’t get something like that easy that makes them, I don’t know, more valuable in time or something like that. Yeah.

[Darran]
Yeah, you know, I grew up kind of with a lot of synthesizers and equipment and gear around myself, brothers being in the band, and I was kind of the, call me the geek. They were more analog, like guitars and bass and drums and things of that nature. I was more the synthesizer, rack mount, keyboard guy, kid, because I was like, you could hit a button and it would go, meow, meow.

Not like I was making a cat meow.

[Amal Nemer]
And then the cables that you had to put one cable on.

[Darran]
Yeah, you had to put all the cables.

[Amal Nemer]
There’s still, like, some machines that use that technology. And the sound is, it is completely different. Like, I have two synthesizers here in my studio, and when I use them, the sound is completely different.

The thing is that I’m traveling too much these days, so, and I don’t wanna, like, I’m obsessed with producing, so it’s a good thing that I have everything in my laptop, because it eased my obsession for creating music, yeah.

[Darran]
Well, yeah, and the ability to grab plugins and, you know, basically build up all those things digitally. You know, you put it on a hard drive, put it and take it with you. You can take, be the laptop producer setup, put a great set of headphones in and do studio productions on the road.

You know, do you ever get fed up with making and playing, making music, playing music? And what do you do when you kind of hit that kind of roadblock or writer’s block or creation block, I guess it would be called, not really a writer’s block, but do you have a mantra or anything that you do to get out of that, to reset yourself, to put yourself back in the zone?

[Amal Nemer]
I mean, people tell us or say that I should stop and take a break. That doesn’t work for me. Like, I just sleep, because sleeping is, like, so important for me.

And I come back in the morning, like, without touching my cell phone in the morning, without any electronic, only my computer and my brain just go directly to the project. And I’m the kind of person that I don’t start a project until I finish one. So, I finish a song to start a new one and that, like, keeps me fresh.

You know, because if I open, like, many projects and never finish one, it gets my head messy. So, I just focus on finishing one song and then move to the other. Even if I don’t love the song I’m finishing, I don’t know if I’m, like, maniac or something like that, like, but I need to finish the song before going to the other one.

And sleeping always helps me. Of course, taking a break does help, but not for too long, because you miss the rush, the fire.

[Darran]
Well, you know, one of those things that you said that I follow, or did follow, I kind of got a little bit busier once I came back to the microphone and sat back in this chair again, was the fact of waking up and the first thing that I do not do is grab my cell phone, go to the computer, start checking emails. I mean, I do do some minor little tasks that set me up for the day, but I’m not waking up and putting the cell phone in my hand for 35 minutes and scrolling through socials.

[Amal Nemer]
I actually organize my life so I can turn on my phone at 11 a.m. or 12. You know, something like that. Depending on the day or how busy I am, I usually grab my phone at 11 a.m. You’re not gonna find me in the morning. I wake up like at seven or 7.30 tops and I wake up directly to my studio. But also, another thing that really helps me out is I go and live my life. You know, when I get too robotic or too obsessive, like working, working, working, because I like this so much that it doesn’t feel like work, I forget that to create and to make music, you actually have to feel and live.

And you know, like music is created through experiences. So if you want people to feel something with the thing that you’re creating, you gotta live, you gotta know the emotions. You know, so yeah, the excitement.

And I go and live my life a little bit when I’m like blocked and then something pops out.

[Darran]
Absolutely dope. I’ve been there burnt out a few times over the past 30 years of doing this entertainment game. And you know, I have a hard stop at five o’clock.

You know, I now, I used to have a start at 9 a.m. I didn’t touch the computer, sit down until 9 a.m., had a hard stop at five o’clock. If I didn’t finish it, it goes in the note card to do the project tomorrow or research tomorrow. Although when you’re in business though, you’re always, your brain is always working on something new.

[Amal Nemer]
It’s hard for me to think of something besides the music. Like it really, it’s my entire life. And I’ve never been happier, actually.

So yeah, besides like having like healthy habits, like going to the gym, you know, exercise, paddle, yoga, I do many things. The music, it’s like the main thing in my brain every single day and I love it. But as I’m telling you, I also gotta go and you know, be a human.

That helps the career, that helps everybody.

[Darran]
Well, you started this journey not too long ago as a DJ in Miami, you know, in 2000. I mean, what a year to start a career in entertainment. But you know, you’re pushing it through.

Five years later, you were kind of local and DJ producer and now you’re a touring DJ producer. Have you gone, obviously you’re doing North America. Have you gone nationwide?

I’m sorry, international yet? And are you looking to go international?

[Amal Nemer]
I’ve been to Dubai already, Ibiza, Madrid. All the fun spots. Indonesia, Bali, Colombia.

I just did Mexico. I have been many places.

[Darran]
I take that as a big yes.

[Amal Nemer]
Yes, I never like even imagined because I was like the kind of person, I wasn’t like scared to travel or anything like that. It’s just that it wasn’t like something I had on mind that it was like going to happen. It just happened and I was enjoying it.

And my biggest worry, it was that I was going to be away from my studio doing the things that I love the most that is actually making music. When I play and when I show the tracks, it’s wow. But when I make the tracks, it’s like super wow as well.

I need both things for my mental health. So I believe that I will always do music because I haven’t found anything in life that makes me this happy.

[Darran]
That is awesome. They say you find something you love doing and find a way to get paid doing it, then you have happiness in that sense. But some people, I mean, it’s not an easy career path to choose that of an entertainment professional.

Sometimes you need that big break and a break or something that happens that take you from here. Oh my gosh, I was here yesterday and sometimes you don’t even get a chance to look back. I know if I look back on everything I’ve done, I mean, if I just went to watch my own episodes, 2,700 past episodes of this series alone.

[Amal Nemer]
That’s 20, how many episodes?

[Darran]
2,700.

[Amal Nemer]
Congrats.

[Darran]
Yeah, thank you. But if I had to spend one hour watching each one of them, just putting them on in the background and did like five a day, it’s still taking like almost a year and a half to get through all my, that’d be every day I’d have to listen to five hours of my own content a day. And I’m like, wow, we’re getting ramped up here to do a lot more as well, which is awesome.

But what do you consider your biggest break that launched your DJ producer career? Is there a definable moment that said, I was here and I remember being here and then I did this. Was there anything or was it a culmination of things that launched you?

[Amal Nemer]
Honestly, it all started with the first track. Like I did my first track playing during, after COVID it was ends of 2020, beginnings of 21. So we can say, yeah, like from the 21.

So I just made the track and I named it after my mom and I did a track that it has like my Arabic roots on it. And I just did it for fun and I showed it to my friends, like really scared and they loved it. And then Nervous Records, that is a label that I admire and respect a lot, they signed it.

And I had no idea that it was kind of a big deal, like for being the first track. I just, I was just happy. I never like, I never even imagined to play in front of one person because it was something really, really personal.

I used to record my sets and when like hear them when I was cleaning the house and showering, I say like, wow, this sounds like the people in the nightclub, so dope. And I was like, this sounds like that, but I will never present myself in front of other people because I was, first of all, I’m an architect, my work ethic was different and my family wasn’t like loving the club culture and all this stuff. So it was like something personal.

And I never imagined that I could even make a life out of it. No idea. So the break point was at the beginning that the first track got signed and then the shows just started to happen.

My friend like forced me to have my first show and I did it. I said like, hey, why not? And it was like completely two hours of my hand shaking because I was like so scared that people were there watching me.

I was praying for nobody to come. And I always say like, wow, I was totally wrong. We need people for the show.

But I was praying for like nobody to come and it’s like crazy because it just happened like unexpected. And then like one of the tracks that really got hype up that is called Burning, that track happened because I was feeling sad. It was the first track that I did to express an emotion through music.

And I had like two years producing by then and I never used my emotions to make music. I used my memories, but no actual feelings. And when I played that track for the first time to a crowd and I just sung the lyrics and I felt the beat, I felt the release of the sadness that I had.

And that was like magical, healing, spiritual. I don’t know how to call it, but that track literally fixed my broken heart at that moment. And since then I said like, wow, music has like a really true healing power that I just want to keep making and enforcing.

And I want to share this with other people. So whenever they come to see me and to dance, they leave like released, they leave like happy, like with a weight out of their shoulders.

[Darran]
You know, and that’s something I do also, going back to that whole universal appeal to electronic music, that it can transcend language barriers. It can transcend and get into an emotional experience where you can have somebody standing next to you who doesn’t speak the same language, but you’re experiencing the exact same feeling of the song and feeling the emotion that the person has put into that song and then bringing both people to tears or bringing both people to joy. And they’re like, I can’t believe, I feel that with that uplifting energy of that.

[Amal Nemer]
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I play Arabic tracks, nobody understand them, but they get happy and they jump with the track. And many of the comments that I get after my shows is like, your music is good, but the fact that you never stop smiling, it makes my day happy.

And that’s what I really want to transmit. Like for me, music is joy. Music is being present there.

I mean, like I don’t touch the phone in the morning because my mind gets like so distracted during the day. And when I do music is the time that I’m really present there and my people is present there. Whoever comes to see me, they’re present there in the moment and I love it.

Because it’s like meditation in groups, something like that.

[Darran]
You know, one of the things that has been a topic of conversation, when you mentioned the phone theory and the disconnection from the phone, a lot of people are literally growing up with phones in their hands. The generation that’s coming into the clubs now kind of do not know what it’s like to not have a mobile device in their hands.

[Amal Nemer]
When I don’t have my phone in my hands, like I’m in that group too.

[Darran]
Yeah.

[Amal Nemer]
I do my effort to just at least in the morning, my brain has a break from it because it does consume, like I’m dealing with that too. I think everybody, because like we’ve got social media and it’s like super fun. I love it.

Like me, I love it. And we got like so many ways to connect with other people just here. So I get super anxious when I don’t have my phone, but I’m working on that because I know that it’s taking my mind away from the here and the now.

[Darran]
And that’s one of the things that some of the bigger nightclubs, I actually experienced this. I bring this up in shows a lot. Being in Berlin last year, that I went to a club and was for the first time I’d ever been to a club where they put stickers over the cameras on my phone and said, hey, don’t remove the stickers from your phone or we’ll kick you out of the club.

And it wasn’t anything crazy going on in the club necessarily, but I just, I’m not a person, I do video for a living. The last thing I want to do is be watching a show in a house night or something for trans, I’d be like, you know that for like during the set. So what’s your, I actually was watching you going to your website and saw there was a really great video playing in the background.

There were, I only saw a couple phones in the air there. I didn’t see that many. And everyone was rocking out and having a great time.

[Amal Nemer]
When like I see phones in my show when I play like a track that is like on release and you have my vocal on it, I see the people, but then I don’t know, I feel the connection. I do my best to connect with people and we all jump together and we all go crazy together. And I put like some classic vocal and then I put only groove.

And I don’t know, I’m just so present in the moment that I think whatever you do, you’re like a fountain of energy for the other people around you. So yeah, I think it all connects. I think we are a mirror from everybody.

So yeah, I don’t know if I’m like too deep or something like that, but that’s my point of view on life. I think everything around you is just a mirror of what you have inside you.

[Darran]
And you know, when it comes to mirroring or influences, who has been one of your biggest influences when it comes to your career and why?

[Amal Nemer]
It’s like everybody influence, like besides myself and what I really like, I love Solomon. Like it has nothing to do with my sound. He’s like techno and melodic and all this stuff.

But the way he does whatever he wants, it’s amazing for me. Like he really knows what he’s doing and why he’s doing it. And he really makes you feel something when he’s playing.

So I love that side of Solomon. I like an Argentinian guy. Like he’s definitely my sound.

His name is like J-Deliz. He’s amazing. And he’s also like, you can see his passion.

And I love that about him. But the rest, I mean, let me think. I think those are my top two people or influences.

And on Lifestyle, I would say my mom and dad. Yeah, those guys are amazing.

[Darran]
Do they dance to your music?

[Amal Nemer]
They dance to my music.

[Darran]
Do they dance to your music? Go ahead.

[Amal Nemer]
They’re actually like, they’re getting remarried on November 7th, 50 years of marriage.

[Darran]
Wow.

[Amal Nemer]
Yeah, at the beginning, I’m Arabic. So they were like, no, Arabic women, they don’t do that. They don’t do this.

You know, and all the culture things. But now they’re so proud of me and everything I’ve done. So they asked me to play a one hour set in their wedding.

And I have made the entire set with like tracks that I have made, Arabic tracks, edits, like from their childhoods and stuff like that to my sound. So it’s gonna be dope. It’s gonna be the November 7th.

And it’s gonna be like fire tech house tracks with Arabic vocals.

[Darran]
That is awesome.

[Amal Nemer]
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m so excited for that date. I’m gonna record it and put it on SoundCloud maybe.

[Darran]
Here’s a question in your opinion. Do you feel that dance music sounds better at night? Or would you consider yourself more of a nighttime?

Or do you like to get that beach early sunset feeling or the new daybreak kind of theory on? Where do you say it maybe sounds better at?

[Amal Nemer]
Depending on like, if I play at daytime, I’m afternoon or noon and then at night, say it’s sad. You will think I have like multiple personalities disorder. Because I think there’s music for each time I’m placed.

And I really connect that with the environment. I like drums. I like percussion.

I like tech house. I like dry groove. So depending on the, like afters, I play.

I love to play at afters because the music is like more soft, but groovy and percussive. And I don’t know, I think each set time has a vibe. And I like to play every night.

If you leave me for a 24 hour sets, I will be happy. Like putting out from in the morning, maybe like some trumpets. And then, I don’t know.

I love every hour. Even I think the opening acts are art because you cannot go too crazy. You gotta make people fall in love with you.

And I think the openers are like decide how the party is gonna go in my opinion. So I really, I think the opening acts are special and you gotta know how to do them.

[Darran]
Yeah, they do say that, I’ve read something not too long ago that the art of the opening set is being lost because they just want, it’s bang, bang, bang, the whole way show go through rather than set the tone, set the tone and then click the show, go.

[Amal Nemer]
I think it’s a little bit easier when the party’s already going because you’re just, boom, boom, boom, boom. But making people fall in love with you and start dancing and start beginning everything, I think it’s a little bit harder, but it’s nice. I like to open as well.

So just leave me with the mixer and I’ll figure it out.

[Darran]
And do you prefer DJing at larger scale festivals or more intimate nightclub environments? Going, let’s say intimate being 500 or maybe a thousand, 500 or less, large scale, maybe 1500 or more.

[Amal Nemer]
It depends, like festivals is like an honor and it’s so dope because like everybody’s there, but usually festivals are like one hour long sets and I really like long sets because you can develop better the story, everything and you can develop, like longer sets allows me to show, I told you that I make a lot of music. So imagine, like I do make a lot of music. Like I got at least 230 originals and like 196 edits.

So, and I like to play music from other artists because I think it makes a combination perfect. So I really like long sets. And in festival, you don’t have that.

You have a great visuals and great show and everything. But yeah, I don’t know. The nightclubs is like, the connection with people is different because you got them like all here and that feeling’s brutal.

I like both, but yeah, nightclubs are like.

[Darran]
Yeah, and you brought something really irrelevant point there about being able to have enough time to tell a story. I recently was looking at some sets that we recorded for our show the other day and one of the DJs had sent me his set list, which was 12 songs for one hour. I’m like, that’s what I grew up with.

12, 14 songs in an hour. Okay, tell the story. These other new guys, they’re new.

They’re awesome. They’re great. But they played 31 different tracks, 34 different tracks in an hour.

And I’m like, okay. And so, you know.

[Amal Nemer]
No, you gotta respect the track. You gotta leave the track sound. Like you really gotta, I wouldn’t be able to do a back to back with somebody that is changing the track just when it started, no.

You gotta, like the brain really get lost in the track and the repetition of the same sound. So I get lost in a set by really getting into it the same sound once and again. And I like to keep it and mix it and blend it with other, but maintaining the same sound that makes you get lost in the music and lose the notion of time.

And if you wanna play in an hour set, like 35 tracks, you’re not gonna make that. Like, it’s gonna be overwhelming. Like, no, no, no.

[Darran]
I didn’t say anything bad about it. I was just, when I went to get the set list, I’m like, the cool thing was it didn’t sound to me, well, I’m driving a truck around, our mobile studio around while I’m doing this. So I’m not really paying attention to the whole, everything that’s going on.

But it sounded like it came out great. I mean, it blended well. It was there.

But, you know, it was just, I heard that a lot of people aren’t producing tracks. They aren’t making six-minute, seven-minute tracks anymore. They’re making three-minute tracks.

And three-and-a-half minute, or almost where I grew up, listen, it was radio playable.

[Amal Nemer]
Music from before, I even have tracks that last 11 minutes. Crazy. Like, that, I get it.

Like, it’s evolving. Because when I started, I used to do like six, seven-minute tracks. And right now, my tracks are lasting 4.30 or 5 tops. But they’re entertaining, the whole. So I don’t mind that the tracks are getting shorter. But I do think that, I don’t know, that I like, the guests love everything I just said in a set.

So, yeah. But I bet there’s people that nailed it. Everybody got their ways.

And I think every way is beautiful. It’s just my personal taste.

[Darran]
Now, you kind of already answered this next question a little bit earlier in the show. I was gonna ask you, do you become a different person when you get onstage? And are you a different person when you’re offstage?

But it doesn’t sound like you are. It sounds like you’re kind of, I’m happy, happy, and I wanna smile. And I’m happy, happy.

And if the audience is happy, happy, then I’m happy, happy. And I get offstage, and I’m happy, happy.

[Amal Nemer]
I’m gonna confess. I tried to do more serious face sets. But I can’t.

When it drops, it’s like somebody’s tickling me. I like it so much that I gotta smile. So, I tried it because maybe it looks cooler, you know, the serious face.

I just can’t, bro. I can’t. So, yeah, it’s kind of the same personality, but not the same sound.

It depends. I get strong. I get harder beats.

Or then I get soft, and I get, it depends on the hour and what I’m doing. But like the story I’m telling you, I also have to have these hype moments, like really hard. And then a moment of rest or something like that.

Like break and chill, and then go hard again. And do it like life, like a rollercoaster. Something like that.

[Darran]
I don’t, a lot of people confuse me and think that I’m, because I do a show called The DJ Sessions, that I must be a DJ myself. And I’m not. I only play one on TV.

But when I get up on stage, and I kind of like play around, and I’m just messing around, you know, I dance, I smile, I engage. I’m there. But I’m not DJing.

It’s kind of like a faux pas, inside joke, that if you ever see Darran on the decks, just know he literally is the DJ that presses the play button, and then stands around and goes, ah, ah, ah, ah. You know, but it comes from, you know, when I first started the show, we were doing live streaming, and the DJs, they were so serious, or they didn’t have, we were in a studio, and they didn’t have an audience to bounce any emotion or feeling off, to feel if what they were playing was having an effect, other than the chatroom. And what can you get, really, from a chatroom?

And this is in 2009. So I would have to be on the side, dancing for four hours, bouncing up and around, like setting the tone of the show, going, it really is popping off over here. And you can tell, because you’re watching me dance, and I do this for four hours, with four different DJs dancing next to me on the show, to kind of set the tone for the stage.

You know, of course, when you’re in a nightclub, you can read the crowd, you can hear, you know, you’re on a much louder system than in your headphones, or in your studio. So, you know, that energy definitely translates around, and it’s great. I can feel that you bring that to the stage when you’re performing, and that’s awesome.

[Amal Nemer]
The only moment that you’re gonna seem like you have a crazy face, is when something isn’t working properly. Like when the sound system is not, how it’s supposed to be when the CDJs are not, like, connected the way they’re supposed to be connected, or they’re Air Max, or something like that, because I’m really delicate with equipment, right? Because I like to do a good show, and I prepare myself a lot to do a good show, and when something is, like, it’s out of my hands, and I wanna do this good show, it gets into my nerves.

So that’s gonna be the only moment that you see me with a serious face, is because something isn’t working properly, and it’s getting in my nerves. But the rest of them, always like, and I cannot help it.

[Darran]
And like I just said earlier in the show, it’s happened a couple times already, it’s almost like that next question was set up to happen, and you didn’t know it was coming up, because my next question was gonna be, what’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to you on stage? And I’m like, I need an answer to that. Thank you for reading my mind.

Thank you for reading my mind. I don’t know. You know, that’s just, what is the worst thing that’s ever happened to you on stage that you’ve had to recuperate, recover from?

[Amal Nemer]
I mean, that, what else? Let me think of a crazy experience on stage. Some drunk guy, like, jumping in, like on, like I had to remove him, and that, when the equipment is not working properly, that’s like the worst thing that could happen to me.

Or the monitors are returning bad, because I, like for me to be able to enjoy, and give to the people a proper show, I gotta be listening good, and I gotta be like in my zone, you know, with the equipment and everything. When I was beginning though, something happened that it was like, a really learning experience. So I had one of my first shows, I wasn’t a pro at all.

Remember that my first track was randomly signed by a big label, so everything started to happen really fast. So I had a show in New York, and I was so excited, my first show, I had like three months play, and I said like, yeah, my first show. And then when I went to the show in New York, the mixer was analog.

So it was like really, really old for vinyls, and I had no idea that it was like something different, or something like that. I was expecting the control that I had in my house, because I didn’t even have the chance to buy like expensive, a CDJ or something like that. No, I had like a little controller, and I was expecting the same.

And it was this mixer that you had to turn with the, do the rotary, I don’t know how to call it, but it was like a really, really, really old mixer that I had no idea how to use. So I saw it, and I prayed, because I had nothing else to do, and the CDJs were like the first CDJs, and it was like super weird for me, I was so new. And I nailed the show.

I don’t know how I made it work, but after that, I took vinyls lesson, because I said like, this is never gonna happen to me. I gotta have the information if I wanna do these like seriously and properly. So I learned how to play in vinyl after that experience, and because I wanted to get my ear better, because you gotta figure out the time and all the stuff, and I said like, wow, this is really gonna help me.

So I went to the Always, and I learned how to play in vinyl, but that experience was like terrifying. Imagine it’s like one of your first shows, you’re super excited, people is there, and you didn’t want anybody to see you at the beginning, and then you have people watching you with a thing that you don’t know how to use.

[Darran]
So. Yeah, wow, wow, I could not, that would, and it wasn’t necessarily just, I’m just surprised that you’re, they didn’t, my question would be is, was there a writer involved, or was it?

[Amal Nemer]
No, I didn’t even know what a manager was. I had no idea of anything. I just knew that I liked to play, and they were telling me to play in New York, and all my friends were like, yeah, you’re gonna play in New York, and I said like, yeah, and when I go there, I don’t know how to use this.

So, it was like, wow. But I figure out, and it was an hour and a half of my hard here, the gear thing, and then people were like trying to talk to me, and I was like, you know, just trying to figure out, just looking at the mixer. It was a really, really old mixer with some, like one of the first Pioneer CDJ that, so that night was a learning night, a really long and learning night, that hour and a half, it felt like three, four hours, it was like seven hours.

[Darran]
And then probably the night you learned the importance of having a writer and a tech check before you took off. Yeah. What equipment do you have?

No, I’m getting started opening up, working with a new venue spot here in Seattle, and one of the things that, you know, after all being backstage, around, being around, you know, working with all the promoters and wonderful companies that I’ve worked with over the years is being able to put that, this is our house equipment, this is our house gear. You know, so you weren’t caught off guard, anyone should know this. Or when I book somebody, it’s like that automatic email is going right back to them saying, this is our house equipment, this is our house gear.

[Amal Nemer]
I was so clueless that I think even if they told me that, I wouldn’t have checked it, because I was like so, yeah, yeah, clueless, that’s the word, like I, you know, in the happy Wonderland place, I’m like, yeah, I’m gonna have a show, and I wasn’t like even checking the things. The name of the mixer, I don’t know it, but like until now, that was the only time that I saw the mixer, because it was, it was not the song or anything like that, it was like the buttons were literally this big, and you had to roll them. So, pretty old, I don’t know, I’ll do the Google search after, after, yeah.

[Darran]
Yeah, no, it wasn’t faders up and down, it was the dials.

[Amal Nemer]
Exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you know what I’m talking about.

[Darran]
Yeah, I keep my ear to the ground on some stuff.

[Amal Nemer]
Yeah, I’m impressed that you’re not a DJ, honestly.

[Darran]
No, I mean, I own DJ gear, because I do a DJ show to have DJs play on in case like something happened, because back in the day when I started the show, I didn’t own any DJ gear, I had cameras, I could do video production all day long, but a DJ show, I had to borrow a lot of gear from my friends, you know, I think we started by using the CDJ 1000s, the MK3 1000s. So, it was just CDs that everyone would put in there. And then, you know, as we upgraded with my friend Sergi, he got the 2000s, and we used those for a number of years.

And then I looked at the 3000s, I’m like, do I really need to do that? So, I got an RX1 and an RR, because they’re nice, compact, and anyone can play on them. I have, anyone around the world, you know Pioneer, you can play on them.

So, I got that just to have some standardized equipment, and say, this is what I have, because we work in a lot of tight places, but people get it, you know, they’re usually record boxed, which is awesome. I can pop in a drive now, and boop, let’s go, you know. But looking at getting 3000s, or the new 3000s, I’m like, I would, they collect dust.

[Amal Nemer]
And the newer ones right now.

[Darran]
Yeah, the X series, I mean, yeah, if I had 10, 15 grand laying around just to go, okay, cool, let me buy these. And then I’d probably be able to rent them out.

[Amal Nemer]
I think I’m gonna stay with them for a bit.

[Darran]
Yeah.

[Amal Nemer]
Yeah.

[Darran]
I mean, they’re probably, I wouldn’t doubt their reliability, and they’re a great piece of machinery. You know, it’s just for what we do, I don’t, we’re not booking anyone big yet. I leave that up to all my promoter contacts that I know.

Like Relentless Beats, I let them have all the gear requests and the rider requests. We just get there, we film, and do our thing. Speaking of doing stuff for a long time and seeing technology change over the years, not necessarily shifting and focusing on technology per se, but you know, Carl Cox has been doing this DJ producing thing for, I mean, he just turned 63 this year.

And he’s still rocking major festivals, kicking ass out there, doing his thing. Do you see yourself still DJing and producing at the age of 63?

[Amal Nemer]
I mean, I just told you that when I don’t produce for two days, I get like sad. So, yeah, I will always make sure, I’m playing with Carl Cox, by the way. I’m really excited.

Yeah, yeah, he’s a legend. And yeah, definitely. I never see myself stopping from this because I haven’t found something that really makes me happy, like making music is making me.

And so, yeah, I will continue with this. I always make sure to get the last version of Ableton and if there ever comes another software that becomes more popular, I’m gonna make sure to play on there. And I already know all the specs and the things from the new CDJ for whenever I play in it.

So, yeah, yeah, I always see myself updating.

[Darran]
What show are you gonna be playing with Carl at?

[Amal Nemer]
It’s called Moon Landing in Tampa. It’s November 1st.

[Darran]
Okay.

[Amal Nemer]
I’m opening for him and closing for him. So, it’s gonna be a dope show.

[Darran]
Awesome.

[Amal Nemer]
That’s gonna be the personality of really strong music.

[Darran]
Congratulations on that. He definitely is, like I said, is one of those people we’re still, I’m still working on getting him on the show. Yeah.

That will happen within the next six months.

[Amal Nemer]
I think the information that he has is really valuable because I did my research when I was starting on this music career. I always like to know history. I always like to learn and stuff.

I know about the computers of how they used to make the electronic music before. I studied how Carl, he really started making the DJ the full person. So, do you remember the DJ used to be hiding in the club?

[Darran]
Oh, yeah, absolutely.

[Amal Nemer]
And he was the pioneer of moving the DJ to the middle of the room and actually like mixing the things. So, yeah, playing with him is like, he’s a legend.

[Darran]
He’s- Yeah, I had the honor to be in a pretty much a closed room seminar with him at ADE in 2022. And at that time he was talking about reinventing himself again. And he even sighed or kind of rolled his eyes saying, yes, it’s me.

I’m reinventing myself again and doing something new. I’m not sure if he’s, I saw this on the billing for Dreamfields last year, Carl played there, I believe. And his new thing is kind of a hybrid DJ set where he’s actually creating music on the fly, but he’ll have one CDJ and a laptop there.

I don’t know if he’s doing that for the event or if that’s his normal thing now, but he can do either one or the other. But that was what he was saying is I’m making a different, you’ll never see me play the same show twice because I’m making music on the fly. And then yes, it’s coming from a computer, but if the crowd’s feeling this, I can go with this and this song and make it completely brand new and go live with it.

And I was like, that’s awesome.

[Amal Nemer]
I saw him performing a show in Ibiza this year. Not live, but I saw him like on videos. He was doing that.

He’s really a fantastic legend. I think that part of never being really satisfied and always looking for more is the excitement of life. I’m happy where I am right now, but I wanna keep improving.

I got the need of always present new original tracks in every single show I play. So in every single show that you come to see me, you can come to one today and another one tomorrow, I gotta have at least three new originals. So I always spend a bunch of time making music and producing and producing and producing because I like excitement.

Because if I don’t get excited, I think the people is not gonna get excited. And if I listen to a track too many times, I get bored of it because I get bored of things easily. So yeah, that fact of always has something that personally excites you, it’s gonna transmit to the people.

[Darran]
And one of the things you touched on, if you don’t make music for two days, you kind of get recluse, you get a little sad and stuff. Nowadays, there used to be kind of what’s called the retiring age in a profession. Oh, we just thought Carl’s still doing it, he’s 63 years old.

Is he gonna retire from this industry? Is it gonna suck him back? Hey, Carl, you’re 80, get up on the decks.

Is there a retirement age? Or do you see some memes pop up from time to time of saying, I’m 51, just turned 51. And they’re like, hey, if you’re over 35, you shouldn’t be on the dance floor.

And it’s like, please, no, I don’t think that. So, it’s just, yeah, that retiring question that you don’t have to nowadays because you can just keep doing this forever and ever and ever. And there’s always gonna be new technologies in a sense coming out to say, oh, wow, I’m gonna go do this in virtual reality now.

[Amal Nemer]
I mean, I don’t know the future. I know what you’re gonna ask me and I answer upfront. But to be honest with you, I don’t know where I’m gonna be in 20 years or something.

I have my expectation of life. But I’m always a person that thinks of the future. If you see my habits, I train every single day, I eat clean, I have two years without drinking, stuff like that, it’s my personal decision.

But I really take care of myself because I wanna be healthy in the future. So, I’m a person that really thinks of the future. And from what I have been seeing is that the people that retire, they can be good today and they can be super bad in a year.

Because when you stop doing things and when you stop having goals, it’s like, what are you here for? From the things that I see from the outside. So, I’m a person that will always want to have goals, even if it’s short-term goals, long-term goals.

I started this career like four years ago and I was like 26, I’m 30 now. And I did my research because everybody I met, it was like 15 years old when they started. Or 14 years old, 12 years old.

Or the father was a musician. My family has nothing to do with music. So, I named Solomon because he started like at 28, 27.

He started late than what normally people start. And look at him right now. So, I don’t want age to never be something that I really care in my life to do the things that I really want to do.

And I will stop when I really feel that this doesn’t fulfill me anymore. But I don’t have an age for anything. I just live today, the present, and I make sure to be happy every single day.

[Darran]
If you could, going back a little bit more towards event questions and things of that nature, though, if you could host an event without any limitations, you got the Black American Express card, don’t gotta worry about paying it off, what are five things you would want to have at that event?

[Amal Nemer]
Okay, let’s say my party’s called Manifest. Let’s say that I make Manifest without no limit on the budget.

[Darran]
No limit on budget.

[Amal Nemer]
Bro, I would definitely make sure to have fireworks at every single moment, a lot of fireworks with things in the sky saying, first, the name of the party, Manifest, and stuff like, we don’t know how to give up, stuff like that. It really makes people motivated, stuff like that. And then I will have a really incredible, unbelievable laser show.

And I will have a huge snake that, okay, this one, it’s the third one.

[Darran]
Actually, I’m gonna combine the first two into laser light show all into one, pyrotechnics, I’m gonna put that all in one, so you get another one.

[Amal Nemer]
Then have cryo in there. Pyro? Cryo.

[Darran]
Cryo?

[Amal Nemer]
Yeah. Then the CO2.

[Darran]
Yeah, I got you, cryo, cryo, cryo, I got you.

[Amal Nemer]
Yeah, the CO2, the one that- CO2s, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I will have a huge, huge snake head coming down on the middle of the thing.

Maybe it could be a universe, Ibiza or something like that. That wouldn’t have the amount of people that I would like, but that would do the work if it’s just for one day. So yeah, a huge snake head from the roof, pointing, moving the head, three heads it could have, with red eyes, a snake that looks at you, and from there, it comes a cryo, from the snake head.

What else? I will give, of course, everybody merch. Everybody, I will give people to, yeah, many gifts.

That’s another one. And then, let me see, I need to think it through. What else?

I dream about this. Like, this question should be, I just wanna make sure. The gift, the snake, the cryo, the place.

I will hire Solomon.

[Darran]
Awesome. You know, it’s funny. It’s a very interesting question to find out what people would do when they have no worry about budget.

Safety, whole nother thing. Budget, you know, it definitely comes down to find out what people would do.

[Amal Nemer]
I mean, it’s- I will also have a hot air balloon for people to go in and yeah, stuff like this. And then, roller coasters.

[Darran]
But, you know, to think about that, you know, you think about, somebody once told me a long time ago when they were dating somebody, they’d say, okay, what kind of house do you see yourself living in? And the person who describes their house would describe, basically, the description of their house is how they view life, you know? And if you, you know, say, you know, and not necessarily how they view life.

It’s not a judgment on their life. It’s just, do they have big goals and aspirations? I want to live in a 100-person, 100-room mansion and have an island and have hot air balloons and jet skis and everything around the place.

[Amal Nemer]
Or- I want to live in Santa Claus.

[Darran]
Everybody, like, I really- Yeah, or some people might just say, hey, I’d like to just have a nice little bungalow, two-bedroom place in a remote area and have fresh water and, you know, and chill. And that, you know, that’d be for them. It’s a very interesting question to find out what people want, what their dream event would look like.

And I’m glad you did, again, once again, you did something and said something about a question I was just going to bring up next right after that was you mentioned having merch. And how important is it to have merchandise? Because I really went to your website, saw you had some cool stuff.

I got some questions about that because we need to revamp our merch store. Okay. So we’re going to talk about that a little bit after show, but long story short, how important is merchandise to have for artists?

[Amal Nemer]
I read a book that it says the most important thing in life are the hosts. Like Indian people treat the host as the king, you know? So whenever you come to an event of mine, my host is the king and I would like to treat my host cool.

And sometimes I don’t like to, like it’s necessary to sell the merch, but sometimes you can just give it to people. I mean, like a memory is going to stay in your brain forever but if you were the teacher of an event you love, that means something like for longer time. And I think the most important thing that you always got to have on mind is to stay in people’s life as long as you can of course, if you’re a good memory, you know?

So you go to manifest, you had the night of your life, then they give you a shirt. You see that shirt, you’re going to want to go to the next manifest because you’re seeing the shirt, you’re remembering those memories, the happiness with your friends and stuff like that. So yeah, I think merch is important if you want to be remembered like for at least a little bit longer.

[Darran]
I know I have a few shirt, I have a very strict policy if I don’t wear other people’s logos on things that I do, I have like five or six logo. Of course I’ll wear a DJ sessions logo.

[Amal Nemer]
Okay.

[Darran]
You know, but I wear Apple logo because I used to work for Apple. I wear, there was an event that I was part of up here in the Pacific Northwest called Cascadia and I would get volunteer shirts all the time. It was those volunteer shirts that I would walk around town in and people said, oh, that’s a Cascadia volunteer shirt.

I remember I was there at that one. You know, and all the magic that happened at those events, you know, were just really awesome. So your translation to yes, having that memory that you can trigger somebody else’s memory by seeing it, then you’re like, you get re-triggered by not only knowing you’re wearing it, but then they bring it up.

[Amal Nemer]
Nervous, the ones that signed my first record. I always wear their t-shirt with proud, you know, it’s people that did good in my life. So I wanna bring them home.

So yeah, merch is important, 100%.

[Darran]
Yeah, and it can start out, it doesn’t, I mean, if somebody was just starting out, there are ways to have an online merch store without investing in a bunch of inventory anymore. My dad, I grew up with my dad owning a screen printing business. So, I mean, we were there with screen printing machines in the house, printing shirts, you know, before online ordering became a really big sensation.

And I mean, our online store, I think we’re running through Cafe Press right now, but I’m definitely looking to change that. That note, no hate to Cafe Press, but we wanna get a little bit more fashionable than just the basic stuff that’s out there. So we’re really looking at revamping our merch store.

I do think that’s a very key component. Also having your own domain name, your own website is I think very key. I tell a lot of artists, if you’re gonna brand yourself, go out there and get your domain name.

Also trademark your name. If you’re not just gonna do it at the state level, check it in the national database, check it against other, if there’s somebody else out there, if you’re not using your real name as a DJ.

[Amal Nemer]
It’s weird enough, so I didn’t have to do much.

[Darran]
I don’t think I would really go out on the billing as Darran Bruce. Darran Bruce is playing, that’s cool. Who’s Darran Bruce?

I don’t know. But if I say, hey, I’m the DJ Sessions. Oh, it’s the DJ Sessions.

[Amal Nemer]
Yeah. And I still cannot believe that you’re not a DJ. That is, it blew my mind.

[Darran]
Yeah, now after weeks or months of touring and doing all this stuff, I know you wanna get back to your studio. That’s one of your key things to do. But what do you like to do when you get home to relax?

Not studio time, but take that personal time. Are there any activities, hobbies that you find that really help you gravitate and keep you centered to your musical mantra that you have?

[Amal Nemer]
Yeah, yoga is a really important part of my life. Going to the beach. My family is really in Venezuela.

So here in Miami where I live, my family is my friends. So I always like to coach bass with my friends that reminds me, I don’t know, how to have a good time besides the music and stuff like that. And I go to paddle.

I do to like mental health and to keep my energy and everything, I gotta do like six gym sessions a week. So I’m really like, I think I have a lot of energy and if I don’t burn it out, I get like anxious. So yeah, I always need to do physical activities.

I play paddle, I do yoga, I go to the beach. I do everything that I can to enjoy nature. And I like to go to parties.

I really like to go to parties, yeah.

[Darran]
Definitely know about going to parties. And I do know a little bit about yoga. My personal trainer, she’s in the yoga and I really, I went to, I’ve been to a few different types of sessions with her.

One was kind of more of a healing session. I’ve done the hot yoga stuff. I look at those people in the class and I’m like, how the hell do you bend that far?

And my only thing is I don’t know all the moves and know what to do. So half my time is spent trying to watch what other people are doing. And like, am I doing it right?

Okay, my neck’s like bent way over here, but it shouldn’t be bent.

[Amal Nemer]
If I’m honest, it took me the first three months or four months to actually enjoy yoga. The first two months I was like, wow, this is not an hour. This is like 12 hours.

It was like super long. And I was like, when is this gonna end? And I was doing my best to not check my phone, to check the time, you know, to really disconnect.

But now it just flows easily. But I had to force myself the first three months and then I started enjoying it and then I understood. But at the beginning I didn’t, like I was so, it was hard for me to stay quiet.

Now I’m like good at it, except when I’m playing. And I’m playing, I’m like jumping all over. But yeah, yoga really taught me about like mental strength and about like the things that I was telling you.

I do all of this because my mind flies. And I’m like, I wouldn’t be having a conversation with you and be like not paying attention at all. So yoga helps my mind to really listen and to be in the moment and then not touching my phone in the morning and all the exercise I do.

I think there’s a name for that. I don’t really think I have something. I was just really distracted and my mind was like all over the place.

ADHD, I don’t think I have, I don’t know. Oh yeah, I don’t know. But all these things really helped me to, like for real, it was so embarrassing.

Somebody was telling me like a story looking in my eyes and I was looking at that person and my mind wasn’t there. I was like not listening to that person at all. And it feels like horrible when I had to answer because I was like, what was he saying?

It was horrible, it was horrible. Because I had to do interviews like this. So I had to fix this, you know?

And right now Darran, I can’t pay attention to you.

[Darran]
Yay, awesome. You know, if Hollywood were to make a movie about your life, who would you pick as the main actor, actress? Anne Hathaway.

Anne Hathaway?

[Amal Nemer]
Yeah.

[Darran]
You know, I’m totally seeing that right now.

[Amal Nemer]
I love her.

[Darran]
Wow. Aren’t they making a Devil Wears Prada 2?

[Amal Nemer]
Ah yeah, of course I’m gonna see it.

[Darran]
Yeah, I thought I heard something that was going into production. I just watched it recently with a friend of mine and really liked that one. I think she also did, we watched a movie recently, was the one with her and Robert De Niro, where Robert De Niro- That movie’s beautiful, The Internship.

The Internship, yeah, that was a really fun one too.

[Amal Nemer]
Yeah, The Internship, that movie’s so beautiful, especially because I have some weird love for like older people or something like that, like in my town, when I had like free time, I used to go to the, how do you call it? The old people houses?

[Darran]
Retirement facilities.

[Amal Nemer]
Retirement facilities, yeah. And I would just like spend time with them and hear to their stories and just like play games or like cards or something like that. Maybe it was because I was really attached to my grandmother and she like, when she passed away, it was really hard on me or I don’t know, it’s just that I think they have so much culture in them and I like to learn.

So they’re like the perfect fountain. I like classic themes. You see the song that I just released?

So yeah, that movie really got me because of that. When I saw that, and it’s what I’m talking about, the goals, you know, he needed a new goal in his life and he went for it and he nailed it and yeah. Yeah, that movie.

[Darran]
Exactly. Yeah, that is something that leaving a legacy behind or working with a younger generation or people, it just in general is that you get to share ideas, collaborations and learn other things rather than just being all in yourself. I had to realize the other day I was counting it up and I have a team of like 14 different people that do all different jobs that not one of them crosses over to the other, like website designer, app designer, marketing consultant, PR person and all this stuff.

And I’m like, I didn’t realize until I put them all in and going, but all these, if this wouldn’t be happening, I couldn’t just have one person doing it all and their experiences that come with that and valuing those experiences. And even the generations before me that have done this industry and been in this business and the new generation of kids coming up and that you get to kind of rear and mold. I was on a podcast interview the other day and it was, these guys were like, you’re cool, you’re awesome.

I’m like, but you got 182 episodes. So you’re kicking ass and you’re doing a good job. It’s just really cool.

And I got to share with them this kind of segment that Kevin Smith had done on me a long time ago. If you know the actor, comedian, Kevin Smith, he played in the movie Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob. If you know that them, it was really funny guy, kind of geek nerd person.

He’s really awesome. And they just were like, oh my God, that’s so cool. He did that for you on one of his shows.

And I’m like, ah, it was kind of cool. Just kind of geeking out and stuff, but geeking with geeks. But hey, I know you’re a busy person.

We’ve got to get you back to what you’re doing because I know you’ve got a show coming up.

[Amal Nemer]
Kevin Smith, no, I don’t know him.

[Darran]
You don’t know who Kevin Smith is? That’s okay.

[Amal Nemer]
That’s okay. I’m gonna culture myself after this.

[Darran]
Yeah, he’s pretty funny guy. Him and Jay and Silent Bob, they played in a number of movies together, doing stuff, writer, comedian, host, a bunch of stuff.

[Amal Nemer]
I’m gonna do the research, I promise.

[Darran]
He does. But is there anything else you want to let our DJ Sessions fans know about before we let you get going?

[Amal Nemer]
I mean, about me, I think a random thing that I could say is like, you never know the only thing that is gonna guarantee you a better life if you keep going and keep doing what you love. And you never look, just never stop. Like, don’t look for the best, don’t look for perfection, just never stop.

And eventually it’s gonna come up.

[Darran]
You know, they say that it takes 10,000 hours of doing something to become a master at that particular thing. I definitely have more than 10,000 hours. And it sounds like you put a lot of time and effort in.

I mean, I don’t want to go through the math, but if we calculated, okay, this many days, you’re working on being a master. You already are a master of what you’re doing. And congratulations on the success that you’ve had in a short amount of time, too.

Like you said, you didn’t start this off 15 years ago. You know, this is just something.

[Amal Nemer]
I think it helps to not have expectations. You do it out of love. And then eventually things that are meant for you are gonna happen.

[Darran]
And if people want to go see you and smile tomorrow night, they’re gonna be going to Phoenix, Arizona for that body language show with Relentless Beats. Again, super excited to hear you be playing down there. And you know, where’s the best place people can go to find out more information about you and what you have going on?

[Amal Nemer]
I will say my Instagram.

[Darran]
Okay, that’s it right there. I always point the wrong way.

[Amal Nemer]
That Instagram.

[Darran]
That Instagram. And spell it out for us just so our DJ Sessions fans know that way it’ll go into the transcription.

[Amal Nemer]
What?

[Darran]
Your Instagram.

[Amal Nemer]
Yeah, A-M-A-L dot N-E-M-E-R.

[Darran]
Awesome. A-M-A-L dot N-E-M-E-R. I’m gonna get this right.

[Amal Nemer]
What’s my name again?

[Darran]
I’m gonna say this. I’m not gonna murder it. It’s Amal Nemer.

[Amal Nemer]
Yeah, you got it, you got it.

[Darran]
Coming in from Miami. Thank you very much for being on the show today. We’ll definitely be following up with you and what you’ve got going on with your career.

Super excited to have you here today and really appreciate it. Thank you, Darran. You’re welcome.

On that note, don’t forget to go to our website, thedjsessions.com, right there. Check us out. All our social media is there.

700 news stories. Oh, there’s gonna be a bunch of Relentless Beat shows up on that website as well. Live interviews just like this.

Exclusive mixes and more at thedjsessions.com. Got a lot of stuff coming out for you. Got a big press release coming out with some new stuff too.

So we’re super excited for all that and more is at thedjsessions.com. Hi, I’m your host, Darran, coming to you from Seattle, Washington. That’s Amal Nemer.

Yeah, got it right. For The DJ Sessions. And remember, on The DJ Sessions, the music never stops.