When you know what you like and what you want and you're able to nudge things in the … - A-Trak

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The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects. . . what they thus lost they have never got back.

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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 profitable than ever, because there's so much information out there. Everything's saturated. Tastemaker is probably the most overused word, but I still think it's important.

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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.

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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.

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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 towards what I like.

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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.

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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 do whatever you want but at festivals, especially Ultra, nowadays the crowd wants to hear our songs.

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