A few guys will get up there with turntables as purists, to play vinyl or whatever.
A-TRAKI 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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That’s what a DJ is at the end of the day – someone who leads where the music goes. The only thing that’s changed is that in America, people have woken up in the last few years and realized it.
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There’s a ton of amazing music that’s not getting heard.
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Building the scene, going out and doing shows and connecting with the fans, cultivating the fanbase in all these cities. I’m very glad that it’s happening.
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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 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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There are things I like, there are things I strongly dislike. In my DJ sets and in my production I just gravitate towards what I like.
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That was my challenge then, how to make scratching still fun for someone who didn’t necessarily come to hear that. It was fun to develop that technique. And now in dance music – I’m still a hip-hop guy at heart, but I love dance music.
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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’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’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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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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When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.
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We have to wake up early and make songs everyday. I run my record label. You work at hours where your body isn’t designed to work. But it’s fun.
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My ears are open to all sorts of stuff. I appreciate some of the big electro house guys.I love their music but I also like a lot of the stuff coming out of the U.K. Future garage stuff. A lot of stuff like that.
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