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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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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 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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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 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.
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There’s a ton of amazing music that’s not getting heard.
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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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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 one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I’m the only DJ that’s scratching.
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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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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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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 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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When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.
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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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At festivals you kind of have to play the game a bit and you have to play a lot of the big bangers but it’s to me it’s extra gratifying to be able to play the non-bangers and make it work. Because that’s still the craft of the DJ, I think.
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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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