• A-Trak Genius Annotations: "Push" DJ Says He Introduced Kanye to Daft Punk

    The relationship between A-Trak and Kanye West goes a long way back. The "Push" DJ was Kanye's touring DJ back in the mid-2000s and scratched on 'Graduation' and 'Late Registration.' Adding to the intrigue, A-Trak went on Genius, the crowd-sourced lyric website that provides backstories and context for songs, to give his side of the story for how records were made when he was directly involved with Kanye, including the fact that he introduced Kanye to Daft Punk's music.

  • Holy Ship! Announces Dates for 2016 Voyages

    Holy Ship! just wrapped up its second weekend equipped with an unannounced visit from Kaskade who returned the favor to Skrillex for a surprise back-to-back set on the ship. With the dust still settling, Gary Richards, Hard, The Bowery Presents and Cloud 9 Adventures have not wasted any time locking down the dates for the two 2016 voyages.

  • Dust La Rock, Fool's Gold Records Co-Founder, Dead at 38

    Fool's Gold Records Co-Founder Dust La Rock, real name Joshua Prince, is dead. He was just 38-years-old. Prince co-founded the influential hip-hop and electronic music label Fool's Gold Records with A-Trak and Nick Catchdubs and worked as the art director and designer for the label, A-Trak and his Duck Sauce projects. He also did work for other artists as well. He was responsible for building the image that Fools Gold developed and its album release and physical designs. He also did work for major brands like Nike and Scion.

  • Kid Cudi Is Recording MOTM 3 With A-Trak, Emile Haynie, Plain Pat, Dot Da Genius

    Kid Cudi fans hold on to your seat because the man on the moon has some great news for you. He has sent out the bat signal to assemble his all-star team of producers to record Man On The Man 3. Fans have been waiting for quite some time for an update on the third edition of his celebrated album series. He sent out a series of tweets to the core of his producers and collaborators on the two previous editions, Emile Haynie, Plain Pat, A-Trak and Dot Da Genius to create MOTM 3.

  • Holy Ship! Setting Sail Across Mediterranean Soon According To Gary Richards

    Hard Events's Holy Ship! has become one dance music's premiere destinations for fans who want to party out at sea with their favorite DJs. Entering its fourth year, the dance cruise just completed its first journey from Miami with Djs like A-Trak, Pretty Lights, Laidback Luke, Flume, Duke Dumont, Rl Grime, Gorgon City and others were brought along for the four-day voyage. 2015 saw the cruise expand to two seafaring expeditions out of Miami, but according to an interview by Revolt with Gary Richards, the founder of Hard Events, which hosts Holy Ship!, the promoter has their sites on another market, Europe, specifically the Mediterranean.

  • A-Trak Looks Back on Hip-Hop in 2014 with New Op-Ed

    A-Trak has become associated with the dance music scene over the past few years, but his roots in hip-hop are deep. He started out as a hip-hop DJ, winning the DMC DJ Championships at age 15. He was Kanye West's touring disc jockey in 2004 and has been a frequent collaborator with other DJs and rappers like DJ Craze, Wale and Cam'ron. He recently penned a new editorial on Medium on the state of hip-hop and how he thinks the genre has shifted so rapidly over the past year in new and fascinating ways.The main shift has been the fact that the status quo in hip-hop has been challenged and it is being broken down. He uses "Yeezus" as his primary example, as "it broke formats of song structure and challenged the industry. One year later, the left field seeped out of the margins and into the mainstream."One of the primary ways the genre has shifted directions is a move online and how new types of sounds and artists are able to get a voice."More than ever, rap and tech go hand in hand. 2014 was the year of SoundCloud rap — why hasn't anybody pointed that out?" he said.His best example is Drake, who has found OVO rappers on SoundCloud and releases the bulk of his music through the platform.

  • Chromeo Show How They Made Album 'White Woman' [WATCH]

    Electronic funk/disco duo Chromeo comprised of David Macklovitch (Dave 1), brother to A-Trak, and Patrick Gemayel (P-Thugg) have been making noise for well over a decade, but it wasn't until their fourth artist album "White Woman" hit shelves this past May that things really started to take off. In conjunction with the album being released, the "Jealous" duo have released a video with Noisey, part of the Vice network, showing the long process of creating their album. They take fans behind the scenes into studios in New York and Los Angeles as they argue over minute details of vocals, writing sessions and learn about their influences as artists.
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