I think one of the biggest things that’s changed in terms of the rapport with the crowd is that now crowds come to hear our songs. We’re getting closer and closer to an artist performance.
A-TRAKI’m still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ.
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I worked with him for years. I still think Kanye [West] is one of the most important people in music in the last ten years.
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At the end of the day, Fool’s Gold is a label that, when I hear something I like, I try to grab it for the label. There’s a ton of great music coming out.
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There’s a ton of amazing music that’s not getting heard.
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There’s a lot of producers that are much more technical or gear-skilled than I am. But I have a pure idea of what I like and where I want to go and I follow that.
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The essential component of being a DJ is setting the mood; it’s playing to the context. So that if you’re not able to adapt from one context to another, then you’re not a DJ.
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It’s a good feeling to have something to stand for in any part of your life. It’s like personal integrity.
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It’s always important to me to play something other DJs aren’t playing.
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I’m not even a trained producer. I just keep following my ear and working on stuff until it sounds the way I like it.
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I’ve been doing it since I was prepubescent when I loved to scratch records and play good music. As it happens, you know I sort of fell into the mix. I really feel like I played a role in bringing dance music to America years ago.
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A few guys will get up there with turntables as purists, to play vinyl or whatever.
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When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.
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I love disco and we sample it a lot for Duck Sauce. For me, that sound is kind of a new manifestation.
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I have a radio show on Sirius XM. I put it up as a free download on my Soundcloud and on iTunes. That’s a portal for me once a month, to play songs I know aren’t getting played on that station the rest of the week.
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I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren’t necessarily trying to hear that all the time.
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I think whether dance music had exploded in America, I still would’ve been a DJ a long time. This is my first love.
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