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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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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
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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Goodness Interest Music Myself Play Record Sound Young
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Direction Follow Ideas Knowledge Myself Production Purity Skills Technical
I’m one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I’m the only DJ that’s scratching.
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