A-Trak on Traktor and a Holy Ship! Scratch Session

A few weeks ago, I was checking out Kirill’s (of KirillWasHere.com) photos of A-Trak spinning before for Swedish House Mafia at Madison Square Garden, and noticed that he was using Traktor control records! For those who don’t know, Traktor is the direct competition to Serato Scratch Live (my DJing software of choice). 

If you look closely at the photo above, you can see what I’m talking about, and you get a real solid view of his records and laptop in THIS photo. Also, check out the video. Considering A-Trak has been one of Serato’s biggest supporters from the beginning, and likely had some influence on my choosing Serato over competing software at the time, I couldn’t keep my mouth shut. I brought it up in the Serato forum, which has been quite active on the subject (400 posts in 2 weeks!). I brought it up purely out of curiosity and to see what people thought

Anyway, someone just posted a video of A-Trak, DJ Craze, and Laidback Luke teaching Luke how to scratch aboard Holy Ship in thhat thread which was very amusing, and will definitely interest you if you’ve just read this far.

Oh, and the song that comes in at 4:11? I was wondering too, it’s called “Cut Dick” by Mr. Oizo. Funky as hell.