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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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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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Feeling Goodness Integrity Personal Stand
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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Challenge Fun Heart Hip Hop Music Require
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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Adapt Component Essential Mood Oneself Play
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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Dance Explode Music Myself Thinking
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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Country Day Direction End Leadership Music Realization Wake Up
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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Download Listen Month Myself Play Radio Song
I’m one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I’m the only DJ that’s scratching.
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DJ Music Myself Style
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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Build City Connection Fans Life Myself
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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Craft Festival Game Kind Play Thinking Yourself
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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Music Myself Production Result Sound Training Work
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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Appreciation Genre Music Myself Open
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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Important Music Myself People Thinking Worth
One thing that I learned in recent years from working more with other people is this idea that part of a producer’s job is to make people comfortable and confident.
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Comfortable Confidence Learning People
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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Dislike DJ Production Set Sound Strong
Right now it feels like we’re playing a role, like me and a couple of my friends, in where popular culture is going. That’s a very rare thing in a person’s life to be able to be a part of that. It’s a responsibility I take seriously.
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Culture Myself Play Responsibility Right Serious
There’s a ton of amazing music that’s not getting heard.
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