A-Trak On How the 21st Century DJ Builds His Music Collection

In arecent sit - down with NPR , turntable prodigy and longtime Kanye West pardner DJ A - Trak gave an overview of Serato , a piece of software that lets DJs twist MP3s and other digital data file with an old - school turntable setup . The software , he explicate , offer a via media between the convenience of digital single file and the tactile experience of spin vinyl . But it also changed how disc jockey find new medicine :

Part of what made the permutation to digital faster and easier was I did a duad of bad file trades with a couple of disc jockey . You would contact up with another DJ and you had a concentrated drive with a certain amount of gig of mp3 , and just swap . Then dead you ’re like , ‘ Whoa , this guy rope just gave me a pamphlet of like 200 a capellas . ’ That ’s a groovy arsenal . And quickly one matter that became very apparent to me was that right as I begin doing a couple of these trades that in a matter of moment would quadruple the size of my birdsong library , I also started accumulating music in a lot of different genre .

Somewhere , some phonograph record label administrator just choked on his sandwich . [ NPR ]

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