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Ruchir Kulkarni, DJ and music producer, @ruchirkulkarni

I have been DJing since 2007. So, when Dua Lipa played my Levitating X Woh Ladki Jo mashup onstage last month, it was almost two decades of work coming to fruition. The past week has been overwhelming, with messages pouring in from all around the world. The original playback singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya also thanked me for giving his song a new lease of life. Creating a mashup is more complex than just snipping and pasting two songs together. My process starts from singing the idea to myself multiple times before I find the sweet spot. I then check if the two songs can be pitched up or down to match their keys. My mantra is to not tweak a song to the extent where it loses its character.