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.
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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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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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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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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I’m one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I’m the only DJ that’s scratching.
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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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It’s always important to me to play something other DJs aren’t playing.
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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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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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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 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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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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There’s a ton of amazing music that’s not getting heard.
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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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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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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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