Mad Motivating - A-Trak @ ‘97 DMC World finals
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Talk about pushing things forward - A-Trak won the DMC World Championships when he was 15 (and when he looked like he was 11.) Maybe it’s actually discouraging to figure that a Candian barely out of his tweens could crush 98% of the DJs in the entire world, but man…it’s inspiring what a few years of dedication and practice can do.
Even though it’s his only solo DMC title, A-Trak hardly fell off after his’97 World victory, in case you didn’t know. He went on to win pretty much every single major DJ competition by the time he was 20, co-founded the Allies, and now turns tables for Kanye West. A DMC success story if there ever was one.
Interesting side-note about this routine: see that piece of white paper sitting on top of the mixer cables? A-Trak wrote his skratch patterns down so he’d remember which ones to do and in what order. Not like skratch notation, but like: “chirp, flare, transform, flare, etc.”
Crazy.
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