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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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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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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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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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When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.
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There’s a ton of amazing music that’s not getting heard.
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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’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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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’m one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I’m the only DJ that’s scratching.
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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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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’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 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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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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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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