Occupation: Dj Birth: March 30, 1982
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,….
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..
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….
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.….
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..
It's a good feeling to have something to stand for in any part of your life. It's like personal integrity..
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 ….
I think whether dance music had exploded in America, I still would've been a DJ a long time. This is my first love..
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….
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 ….
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..
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 pe….
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..
A few guys will get up there with turntables as purists, to play vinyl or whatever..
At the end of the day, if I do a set at a festival and I only have an hour, which is kind of short for a DJ set, I know that I have to play at least ….
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….
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 ….
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….