Where to begin when you’re trying to summarize all the important bullshit and highlights of the career of a flourishing prodigy? Oy. We’ll start here: Montreal, 1995. Alain “A-Trak” Macklovitch, age 13, invests his inherent Bar Mitzvah money in a set of turntables and a mixer and two years later effortlessly takes the title of 1997 DMC World Champion.. at age 15. Tone set? Okay.
Since then, he’s taken home 5 world turntablism championship titles (amongst many others); toured the globe with the likes of Q-Bert, Craze and Kanye West; founded 2007’s “most buzzworthy label,” Fool’s Gold whose mission is “dedicated to bringing you the crème de la crop in club music.”
This kid pretty much emerged from the depths of .. well, Montreal, and kind of took over the world of turntablism with so much ease, you’d think a caveman could do it.
ANYWAY, July 18th, A-Trak along with Treasure Fingers (Fool’s Gold, Evol Intent) and Theophilus London will be taking over Chop Suey (1325 E Madison, Seattle) for their 10,000 LB Hamburger Tour, with local acts, The Dowlz and OK Dave.
So, the moral of this story is: This is going to be a dope show with amazing talent and you should probably check them out.
Yep.
