A-Trak
From label boss, hit producer, World Champion DJ, trendsetter, genre-mangling party-starter, to blogger extraordinaire, Alain Macklovitch, best known as A-Trak, embodies the full scope of the 21st Century musician-entrepreneur model. At the mere age of 29, A-Trak has had two distinct phases to his winding 11 year career. Stage one: after winning the World DMCs at age 15 (in 1997), he spent years as one of hip hop’s most renowned selectors. After taking over tour DJ duties for Kanye West in 2004, just as he was beginning to combine a bigger variety of sounds into his sets, A-Trak launched into stage two: becoming an undisputed icon for a generation of kids that worship hip hop and dance music alike, and commencing a worldwide boundary-blurring takeover. It all started very early, and developed very quickly, for A-Trak. As a young teenager in Montreal, he would scratch on one turntable for his brother (of Chromeo) Dave’s high school band. He begun practising, “with the discipline of a monk”, and after winning the Canadian, and later World, DMCs found himself an honorary member of Q-Bert’s legendary Skratch Piklz crew. He soon hooked up with DJ Craze and joined another famous scratch troupe, The Allies, and spent half a decade touring as hip hop’s hottest turntablist crew. Five years ago, after a chance meeting with Kanye West at a London in-store, A-Trak performed his first gig with the superstar, without a rehearsal, in front of 12,000 people – and from then on d...
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Ray Ban Vision
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Push (feat. Andrew Wyatt)
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Say Whoa
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Ray Ban Vision ft. CyHi Da Prynce
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Enter Ralph Wiggum
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Money Makin'
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Say Whoa (DJ Spinna Remix)
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We All Fall Down (feat. Jamie Lidell)
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Trizzy Turnt Up
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Disco Nap
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Frenchies Act A Fool
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Wampercycle
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We Don't Want No Goblins
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Intro
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Ray Ban Vision (feat. CyHi Da Prynce)
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Walk It Out Trizz
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Push - Radio Edit
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Say Whoa (Alex Gopher edit)
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How Low Can U Bake
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Hustlin' Huster
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Going Down On E
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MIA-roder
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Throw Some D's In Your Life
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She Got a Dum Donk
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Loonies To Blow
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Piss Test (feat. Juicy J & Dany Brown)
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Make The Trap Wile Out
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Time To Get Yummy
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Feeling For The Pack
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Whatever You Shoot
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Control (Kid Sister)
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Call That Girl Margherita
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Ice Cream On Blast
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Get On My Pony
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O Let's Overdo It
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Stuntin' Like My Guitar
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Vampires Going Ham
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Twerk That Driver
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Say Whoa (Boys Noize Remix)
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I Don't Like To Turn Around
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My Lovely Outro
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Carte Blanche ft. Kid Sister: Do! Do! Do!
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Knockin' Erol Down
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Say Whoa (Sinden Remix)
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Ain't I A Joker
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Donnis: Gone (DJ Craze remix)
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We All Fall Down
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Quitte La Piste (A-Trak ft. TTC)
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Out The Speakers
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Out The Speakers (feat. Rich Kidz)
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