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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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Early Fun Music Myself Run Song Wake Up
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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End Fool Gold Grab Hear Label Music Myself
It’s always important to me to play something other DJs aren’t playing.
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Important Music Myself Play
I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren’t necessarily trying to hear that all the time.
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Kid Music Myself Scratch World
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
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’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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Inspirational Label Limitation Myself Potential Production
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
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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Manifestation Music New Sample Sound
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
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
A few guys will get up there with turntables as purists, to play vinyl or whatever.
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Genre Music Play Purity
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
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
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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Artist Change Music Myself Performance Rap Song Thinking
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

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