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I've always been a producer - that's how I see myself first. The DJing came second as a way for me to be able to perform.
I'm trying to always do new things because if you stay behind and fight the future, you are just going to be left behind.
Letting off ammunition in every direction, Allah is my only protection. But wait a minute, Saddam Hussein prays the same.
At one point, I took a year off just to listen to music and really digest it. I listened to everything you could imagine.
I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels.
When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.
I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
Sometimes I will slow down the beat for one bar on purpose, just to see if the rapper can adapt his flow and stay on beat.
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 used the name Diplo at one show when I was really young, and it just stuck. I never meant to keep it. But it's kinda cool.
I made an electronic record in the vein of Cluster. I was programming synthesizers and drum machines and that sort of thing.
Dilla was a John Coltrane-type dude. He was always on a higher level. He inspired my music to become looser and more soulful.
Artists should be self-aware of their work and their potential places in people's lives and make their decisions accordingly.
Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
I search for records that I've found on YouTube. If I can't get the record it doesn't matter to me, I'll bump the YouTube rip.
I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.
I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's just what it's been.
Sometimes I get more of a mainstream crowd that just is not moving to what I'm playing. I have to have crossover secret weapons.
I don't really inject the rock 'n' roll thing, what I take from rock 'n' roll is probably the melodies and the musical behind it.
I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
I was referencing the Bible: "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" But I'm not religious. I just thought it was a good title.
Our records are commodities. We're looking to make a sale. The radio stations are looking to get the advertising dollars. The end.
For me there are two types of country: There's the shoot-yourself-in-the-head country, and then there's really good country music.
I'm a person who has always been clear about my love of music and vocal about trying to live in a way that lends itself to health.
It's great to surprise people. If you do the same thing all over again, which people expect you to do, they're going to get bored.
I like 'Elle' magazine. I love things online, like when all the big brands have a fashion show, I like to see the new collections.
As a personality, I'm not one that likes to be center stage. It's not about me, it's about the music. I just want people to listen.
It's not easy to sound like Dilla, but you can make beats like Dilla with your computer, so that's why everybody sounds like Dilla.
I'm not sure if I'll make the Europeans feel bad, but I'll say it like this: The U.S. crowd is even better than the European crowd.
House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain't playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That's hip-hop.
I'm seeing people float further and further away from the idea and the culture that we tried to create, and it really pisses me off.
My life is now a constant assessment of whether what's happening in real life is more entertaining than what's happening on my phone.
New York feels like the whole city is into dance music. That's not how it felt when I was younger. There was more of a hipster scene.
The great thing about the electronic music scene is that everybody can be part of it either by dancing, DJing, or organizing a party.
When I first walked through the doors of Rex Club, I realized that I didn't have to travel to raves outside the city to enjoy techno.
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.
I'm a believer in the nap. I don't care what it is. 15 minutes. Five hours. If you know someone's going to come back and come to work.
K-pop is a weird term because K-pop has everything - rap records - it's very pop-sounding; there are really boy-band-sounding records.
My pops had me at the studio since I was born. That's why I got into music. He would let me go up on the controls and mess with stuff.
Of course I would love to have another track as big as 'Animals,' but 'Animals' became big also because of luck, the timing, and hype.
To me a lot of electronic music out there is too serious. I'm a bit fed up with DJs who take themselves too seriously and don't smile.
Our soul should be a mirror of Christ; we should reflect every feature: for every grace in Christ there should be a counterpart in us.
Radio has always been pictures of the mind; for me, the essence of radio has always been voices that talk to me and don't patronise me.
Without a strategy, an organization is like a ship without a rudder, going around in circles. It's like a tramp; it has no place to go.
As an artist, sometimes you'd rather not do the interview. You might feel the interviewer isn't educated on you... or what you're about.
Since the day I got in radio at the age of 15, I always wanted everyone with ears listening to me. I don't know how to narrow that down.
For me, I don't feel all the pressure. I make music, and I release it because I like it myself and I want my friends to hear it from me.
That's how I'm able to work and move between so many different genres - I want to be part of what's happening, I want to make new things.
Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture.
Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.