What Exactly Do DJs Do Live?

When DJs play live, what exactly are they doing in their console? Pushing buttons? Cuing up iTunes? Frying pancakes? It's truly a mystery. To get to the bottom of the truth, I reached out to DJs and posed the question to them. Here's what they revealed about what DJs actually do.

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