The humble bedroom mirror is now considered the most important piece of equipment for all aspiring EDM DJs according to a DJ Mag poll of five hundred bedroom DJs.

A staggering fifty eight percent of DJs polled said they treasured their mirror over other “less important” items such as decks, mixers and sound systems.

“If you don’t look the part you’re never going to make it as an EDM DJ,” claimed Chad Wallace an eighteen year old DJ from Little Rock, Arkansas. “I’ve been DJing since I was eight or nine and I didn’t get a set of decks until I was sixteen and it hasn’t slowed my progress as an artist down one bit, once you develop a style as a DJ you can add the music later.”

“I can remember standing in front of the mirror as a kid waving my hands in the air to Darude Sandstorm,” recounted Wallace. “That’s when I knew I wanted to be a DJ and I’ve spent the last ten years perfecting my look, obviously I’ve upgraded mirrors a couple of times but without that hunk of polished glass I wouldn’t be where I am now.”

“Once I got my hand waving perfected I started working on my knob twisting,” continued Chad. “I’d put on some music and twist the shit out of the knobs on kitchen appliances, toys, my dads old stereo, basically any knobs I could find, for hours in front of the mirror. I always tried my best to make it look like I was actually controlling the music so knowing the tracks I was using was really important for me, that’s why I’d play the same songs over and over again, just like all my favouirite EDM DJs.”

“After that I knew I was ready to get decks and a mixer,” added Chad. “I still don’t really know what most of the buttons do but when I look at myself behind those decks, with my hands in the air, in my mirror I just know that all my hard work was worthwhile. Sometimes when the music really takes me I’ll even take my top off and flex. I know I’m not the complete article yet but I’m nearly there and I know it’s all thanks to my mirror.”

“I’d say my biggest DJ influences are Hardwell for the hair, Afrojack for getting the ladies and Kaskade for the clothes. Some day I hope I can look nearly as good as these guys behind the decks. Then I won’t even need a mirror anymore because I’ll be able to spend hours watching videos of myself on Youtube just like those guys definitely do.”

Other surprise inclusions on the list of equipment include cakes and cake baking materials, snapback baseball caps and ketamine.