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It’s always important to me to play something other DJs aren’t playing.

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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 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
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
Building the scene, going out and doing shows and connecting with the fans, cultivating the fanbase in all these cities. I’m very glad that it’s happening.
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Build City Connection Fans Life Myself
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
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
It’s always important to me to play something other DJs aren’t playing.
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Important Music Myself Play
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
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
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
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
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
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
When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.
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Check Dance Music Myself Rap Video Wake Up
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

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