When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.

I think whether dance music had exploded in America, I still would've been a DJ a long time. This is my first love.

There are producers that have been my friends for many years that I'm still a big fan of, from Boyz Noize to solo acts. Justice. It really varies. All the way to like...sometimes I'll just find some dude out of Chicago that makes a great house song. I'm feeling a lot of the deep house stuff, Jamie Jones.

I'm one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I'm the only DJ that's scratching.

My ears are open to all sorts of stuff. I appreciate some of the big electro house guys.I love their music but I also like a lot of the stuff coming out of the U.K. Future garage stuff. A lot of stuff like that.

There's a bit less elbow room and latitude to take it somewhere else, at least at festivals. In the club you can do whatever you want but at festivals, especially Ultra, nowadays the crowd wants to hear our songs.

A few guys will get up there with turntables as purists, to play vinyl or whatever.