Occupation: Dj Birth: March 30, 1982
A few guys will get up there with turntables as purists, to play vinyl or whatever..
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….
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 ….
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….
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 ….
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 ….
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….
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….
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….
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..
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..
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..
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….
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,….
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 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.….
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….
I think whether dance music had exploded in America, I still would've been a DJ a long time. This is my first love..