A-Trak Quotes - Page 2

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• Traditionally, with a DJ set, you just go hear DJ that has a good reputation and let the DJ take you somewhere. It was up to the DJ what he wanted to play. Typically in dance music, people didn't know most of the songs a DJ played.

  A-Trak

  Song, Play, People

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Now I'm able to play on the main stage and play my own tracks and the crowd likes them. I feel like a lot the other DJs play a lot of the same songs, and not to knock them, but it's important to me to go up there and sort of sneak in a bunch of stuff the other guys aren't playing.

  A-Trak

  Song, Sneak In, Play

  Source: www.gq.com

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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.

  A-Trak

  People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  A-Trak

  Thinking, Games, Play

  Source: www.gq.com

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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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  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: www.gq.com

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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.

  A-Trak

  Appreciate, House, Guy

  Source: www.gq.com

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• 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.

  A-Trak

  Rap, Dirty, Trying

  Source: www.gq.com

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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.

  A-Trak

  Years, Play, America

  Source: www.gq.com

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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.

  A-Trak

  First Love, Thinking, America

  Source: www.gq.com

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• 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.

  A-Trak

  Song, Years, Justice

  Source: www.gq.com

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• 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.

  A-Trak

  Girl, Party, Thinking

  Source: www.gq.com

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• That was my challenge then, how to make scratching still fun for someone who didn't necessarily come to hear that. It was fun to develop that technique. And now in dance music - I'm still a hip-hop guy at heart, but I love dance music.

  A-Trak

  Fun, Heart, Hip Hop

  Source: www.gq.com

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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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  The End Of The Day, Trying, Gold

  Source: www.gq.com

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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.

  A-Trak

  Sound, Ears, Stuff

  Source: www.gq.com

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