Latest A-Trak Quotes from Interviews

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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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  Mood

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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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  Integrity, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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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  People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I've talked to people who say that their music and their creative work is a much needed and appreciated escape, where they don't have to think about the state of the world; they're not even thinking about themselves so much. They're not trying to express their own experiences of that day or relationship strife or anything.

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  Thinking, People, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I like getting feedback from people who show a lot of potential, and it's exciting to witness to new talents developing and bourgeoning. I always try to stay around the newest stuff, I don't like to stay with something that's kind of old or approaching it.

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  People, Trying, Talent

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• 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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  Cities, Fans, Going Out

  Source: www.gq.com

• When I started Fool's Gold and producing consistent records that were like electro beats with rapping on it that was experimental and weird. I made a mixtape called Dirty South Dance where I put rap vocals over dance music. That was literally an experiment. Now all these rappers are rapping on dance music. This is something I've been trying to build for a while.

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  Rap, Dirty, Trying

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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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  First Love, Thinking, America

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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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  Years, Play, America

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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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  Couple, Responsibility, Culture

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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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  Running, Song, Fun

  Source: www.gq.com

• The lifestyle is strenuous on the body, but it's stimulating to the senses and the mind. So there's a give and take. There are days the flights knock me out, where I feel like the human punching bag that is being on planes every other day. I think people sort of glorify it, like "Oh, you're at parties and there's booze and girls." But it's still work.

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  Girl, Party, Thinking

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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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  Years, America, People

  Source: www.gq.com

• When you know what you like and what you want and you're able to nudge things in the right direction, that's more profitable than ever, because there's so much information out there. Everything's saturated. Tastemaker is probably the most overused word, but I still think it's important.

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  Thinking, Important, Want

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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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  Ideas, Gears, Want

  Source: www.gq.com

• I think that's becoming the key to where the whole idea of art and culture are going nowadays anyway, is the idea of curation. Knowing what you like. That's sort of the future right now. Molding something, whether it be a roster on a label, or your blog, or a song, or your DJ set.

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  Song, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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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  Djs, Productions, Dislike

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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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  Sound, Ears, Stuff

  Source: www.gq.com

• What's amazing about a DJ set is when you're able to re-appropriate a song or give purpose to a song that people didn't really think it was supposed to have. Give it this sort of hidden power by playing it before this song and after that one. That it fits into this logic and it goes farther than you thought it could go.

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  Song, Thinking, People

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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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  Hip Hop, Labels, Hips

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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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  Thinking, Games, Play

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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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  Ducks, Sound, Sauce

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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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  The End Of The Day, Trying, Gold

  Source: www.gq.com

• There are producers that have been my friends for many years that I'm still a big fan of, from Boyz Noize to solo acts. Justice. It really varies. All the way to like...sometimes I'll just find some dude out of Chicago that makes a great house song. I'm feeling a lot of the deep house stuff, Jamie Jones.

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  Song, Years, Justice

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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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  Song, Play, Months

  Source: www.gq.com