BIOGRAPHY
Duck Sauce. The boys who brought flavor back to dance music, no MSGs. A-Trak and Armand Van Helden, hirsute style icons and pan-generational DJ geniuses, combining forces to craft the most infectious anthems they can think of. New York City like drippy marker tags and 4AM hotdogs, funkier than the Statue Of Liberty's tit sweat. Of course, the 200 million (and counting) humans who watched their iconic "Barbra Streisand," "Big Bad Wolf" and "aNYway" videos already know. The duck-billed throngs pogoing thru their triumphant world-wide festival sets already know. The celebs watching 'em stunt like Bill & Ted in Wu Wear on the Grammy red carpet already know! And now, DS are back to remind the world - and own your entire summer - with "It's You," their insanely catchy new single and (literally) hair-raising music video. This silly symphony sets the stage for the full-length Duck Sauce album, Quack, a musical epic on the level of Sgt. Pepper, Jesus Christ Superstar, and the Funkmaster Flex bomb drop. Don't say we didn't warn you. Birds fly high, quack is back.
"In the decade since he won the 1997 DMC World DJ Championship at a prodigious 15 years of age, A-Trak has turned the art of turntablism back toward its original party-rocking focus – the dude can scratch and beat-juggle, but he’s just as skilled at maintaining momentum and crafting seamless segues. " – Pitchfork
Very few DJs can jump from club sets to high-profile festival performances, to Kanye West's larger-than-life stadium shows with ease.
In today’s DJ culture, A-Trak holds a truly unique place. He and partner Nick Catchdubs founded America’s most trendsetting new label,
Fool’s Gold, launching the careers of artists such as Kid Sister and Kid Cudi.
Fool’s Gold’s mission to merge all aspects of club music was already outlined in Trizzy’s original mixtape manifesto,
Dirty South Dance, which set the tone for his own production. He is now one of the most sought-after remixers in electronic music,
and his remixes for the likes of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Boys Noize have become undeniable mainstays in DJ sets the world over.
2009 saw the release of two critically acclaimed DJ mixes, Infinity +1 and Fabriclive 45, as well as the birth of Duck Sauce,
his collaboration with Armand Van Helden. The duo’s radio smash “aNYway” cemented itself as the dance anthem of the year,
A-Trak’s first true chart-topper with two videos in international rotation and across-the-board support from Pete Tong to Busy P,
David Guetta to 2manydjs. Duck Sauce's 2010 follow up “Barbra Streisand” was even bigger, a whistling pop sensation that accumulated over 10 million YouTube views of its star-studded video while hitting platinum heights around the globe. They even covered it on X-Factor!
Not bad for a kid whom many viewed as a 90's turntablism prodigy. After taking home every DJ title known to man before he could shave,
A-Trak toured the world, first alongside Q-Bert's Invisibl Skratch Piklz and then with Craze and the Allies. In 2004,
he was hand-picked by Kanye to be his tour DJ. A near decade of youthful meanderings was captured on his acclaimed DVD Sunglasses Is A Must.
Somewhere along the line, A-Trak also became a new-school sartorial icon, collaborating with Nike, New Era, Kidrobot, Zoo York and pretty much every designer worth his salt. And all the while, his brother morphed into the lead singing lothario in the acclaimed electro-pop sensation Chromeo.
The last couple of years have seen Trizzy headlining tours and festival stages the world over.
Add to that scratching on Common's classic Be, Kanye's Late Registration and Graduation, Kid Cudi's Man On The Moon and Drake's Thank Me Later,
as well as producing Kid Sister's debut album Ultraviolet, collaborations with the likes of Lupe Fiasco and Laidback Luke,
and original releases with Stones Throw and Kitsune.
After years of schlepping vinyl, accumulating air miles and dressing smart, A-Trak has finally become the man to call to make the kids dance.
Ask him and he’ll tell you that this is the moment he’s been waiting for his whole career.
"In the decade since he won the 1997 DMC World DJ Championship at a prodigious 15 years of age, A-Trak has turned the art of turntablism back toward its original party-rocking focus – the dude can scratch and beat-juggle, but he’s just as skilled at maintaining momentum and crafting seamless segues. " – Pitchfork
New York City based Grammy Award nominated DJ/Producer/Remixer. Produced multiple top 40 hits on the UK pop charts including
“U Don’t Know Me” (UK pop charts #1), Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden “Bonkers” (UK pop charts #1),
Duck Sauce “Barbra Streisand” (UK pop charts #3), “Koochy” (UK pop charts #4),
“My My My” (UK pop charts #12), Armand Van Helden & A-Trak Present Duck Sauce “aNYway”, “I Want Your Soul”, “NYC Beat”, “Flowerz”,
“Hear My Name”, “Why Can’t You Free Some Time?”, “Ultrafunkula”, “Witch Doctor”, and “Funk Phenomena”.
Produced full length artist albums ‘Enter The Meatmarket’, ‘2 Future 4 U’, ‘Killing Puritans’, ‘Gandhi Khan’, ‘Nympho’, and ‘Ghettoblaster’.
Mixed compilations ‘Live From Ya Mutha’s House’, ‘Get Up’, ‘Repro’, ‘New York: A Mix Odyssey’, and ‘New York: A Mix Odyssey 2’.
Remixed platinum artists including Rolling Stones, Katy Perry, P. Diddy, Janet Jackson, Britney Spears, and Tori Amos (UK pop charts #1).
Headlined clubs, festivals, and special events around the world as a DJ.
