There’s a ton of amazing music that’s not getting heard.
A-TRAKIt’s always important to me to play something other DJs aren’t playing.
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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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When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.
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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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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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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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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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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’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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I’m one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I’m the only DJ that’s scratching.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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