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A-Trak

(1982) Disc Jockey

39 quotes in 221 categories

A-Trak is a disc jockey.

Quick Facts About A-Trak

Born: March 30, 1982
Profession: Disc Jockey

About A-Trak

[Wikidata] Canadian DJ and record producer... | [Wikipedia] Alain Macklovitch, known professionally as A-Trak, is a Canadian DJ, record producer, and record executive. He came to prominence in the late 2000s as an international club DJ and remix artist, known for incorporating highly technical turntable skills and scratching into his genre-spanning work. He

Quotes by A-Trak

I have a radio show on Sirius XM. I put it up as a free download on my Soundcloud and on iTunes.…

Downloads

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There's a ton of amazing music that's not getting heard.

Amazing music

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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…

Big fan

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I like getting feedback from people who show a lot of potential, and it's exciting to witness to new talents developing and…

Exciting

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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…

America

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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…

Gears

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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…

Appreciate

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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…

Able

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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.

Disco

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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…

Challenges

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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…

Important

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When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.

Blogs

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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…

Mood

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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…

Able

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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…

Coming out

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

Djs

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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…

Art

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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.…

Bags

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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.

Can do

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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…

Dislike

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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…

Body

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There's a bit less elbow room and latitude to take it somewhere else, at least at festivals. In the club you can…

Bits

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When you know what you like and what you want and you're able to nudge things in the right direction, that's more…

Able

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At the end of the day, if I do a set at a festival and I only have an hour, which is…

Challenges

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I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren't necessarily trying…

Bits

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A-Trak by topic

Djs (12) Music (11) Stills (10) Song (10) Thinking (9) People (9) Play (8)