Run dmc dj a-trak biography

There was never a day that went by without me practicing. The amount of practicing for these battles is comparable to a gymnastics routine. I brought my turntables to practice in the hotel room the whole day before and the morning of the battle. I used my first Gemini mixer for three years. The Gemini crossfader was really rough and I would have to put WD in the crossfader all the time to loosen it up.

I learned a lot about hardware store products. My first Vestax mixer had a funny shape, like a cash register, and the knobs were too small, but they said it was made for scratching. Kid Koala was also living in Montreal and he was using that mixer. He was more experienced than me so he would show me things he would do to hack that mixer and make it better.

He even showed me how to travel with some of the equipment, like how he used to pack his needles and things like that. Back then it was artisanal. Then I got the better Vestax mixer that Q-Bert and those guys helped develop. It changed my back too. Vestax was mostly known for its mixers but they made two turntables that were really cool.

There was the Vestax PDX that had a straight tonearm. After all the romanticizing of the S-curve, everybody was saying, actually the straight tonearm skips even less. I had to use it in a competition that was organized by Vestax. It worked fine. Vestax made this other turntable, Controller One. I bought it and never used it and it turned out to be really rare and worth a lot of money.

I have one in a box in my storage. You can set your root notes so it allows you to control a tone.

Run dmc dj a-trak biography

I did a tour for my Sunglasses Is A Must documentary. This was the first time I did a tour that went into ticketed venues where bands would normally play. It was still new to treat DJs like a band and it was a way for me to break into the next level. Two of my friends and myself went on the road. We brought our own turntables, in the back of a Dodge Caravan, and drove around North America for a month.

We would show up at the venue, ask for a banquet table and set up all our stuff on top. That was the last time I carried my turntables somewhere. Once EDM broke down doors and DJing became bigger just a few short years after that tour, the infrastructure changed. Access to equipment, access to staff, to sponsorship, budgeting, everything changed.

I just figured it out by myself. Everything grew from there. The s were discontinued in Three 6 Mafia ft. I can still recite the lyrics. I remember when Justice, Erol and Boys Noize were the only ones to have this. I heard Xavier play it at a Coachella side-party and thought, "what IS this? The king of simplicity. It's so badass. He was always futuristic, and it's as if he reinvented his futurism constantly.

This was one of the first songs that I heard that made hip-hop sound electronic - obviously with the help of a Bangalter sample. If you didn't live in New York when it came out, it might have fallen below the radar. The beat is insane yet simple, and what I like best is his flows, his lazy timing. I like to think that the 'delivery' is a double entendre, although I never verified this.

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