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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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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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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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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 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’m one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I’m the only DJ that’s scratching.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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There’s a ton of amazing music that’s not getting heard.
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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 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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