I’m not afraid of breaking the rules”: Viral 67-year-old producer The Last DJ shares his essential techno tips [Video]

Nick Hayes, aka The Last DJ, is something of an internet phenomenon. Since retiring from the auto industry in 2023, the 67-year-old has embarked on a second career as a producer and DJ of tough, dancefloor-ready techno.

His posts across social media – where he creates and performs tracks using a simple hardware setup, mostly focused around Elektron’s Syntakt drum machine – have seen him amass a combined total of 360,000 followers.

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We’re big fans of Hayes’s videos, particularly of the way he wrings as many ideas as possible out of a single hardware instrument. Following our recent interview, we asked Hayes to boot up his trusty Syntakt and break out his famous notepad, …