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 anoth….

I love disco and we sample it a lot for Duck Sauce. For me, that sound is kind of a new manifestation..

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 ….

I'm still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ..

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….

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..

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….

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….

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….

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….

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

I think whether dance music had exploded in America, I still would've been a DJ a long time. This is my first love..

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….

I'm one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I'm the only DJ that's scratching..

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….

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 techniq….

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

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

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 clos….

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 wok….

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 ….