★★★★★
Alain Macklovitch is a young dude with a musical career that already spans a decade and a half and has gone through several distinct phases. He started out as a baby-faced turntablist savant who won the most prestigious DJ competition in the world before he could legally drive a car...
- pitchfork.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
This is one of the best scratch DJ... no, hip-hop... no, all-music docs I've seen in a while. The reason being that MTL's biggest hip-hop export (who is, without question, one of the world's best DJs) appears to have had a video camera attached to him since he was 13...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
First, this is mixed perfectly. Though you'd expect nothing less from someone with A-Trak's turntable credentials, it bears mentioning because the best moments of this music he produces occur in the incredible transitions. Second, though there are flashes in the opening moments (his Bounce remix and Kid Sister's Life on TV), this isn't hip-hop, but rather an international flight through new and old electro, house, synth-pop and other genres that require a slimmer leather shoe to namedrop...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
This could be Internet-accelerated nostalgia talking, but A-Trak's first Dirty South Dance mix keeps sounding better the further 2007 disappears into the rearview. Bringing Southern bounce back to its bass roots by mashing it up with European electro-house? Somehow A-Trak made it work, mostly through sheer force of mixing skills and some surprisingly compatible beat selections...
- pitchfork.com
2010-06-10
★★★★★
A-Trak's career has been one of acclaim, prominence and creativity, and his FabricLive.45 mix plays almost as a musical biography of his career. A blend of electro-house, funk, pop, and basically everything imaginable in between, A-Trak leaves no genre untouched. It's almost unfair how one man can be so well-versed in all aspects of music and mixing so as to create a single, fluid mix that not only sounds clean, but makes you want to stop what you're doing a party. Daft Punk. Parliament...
- www.urb.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
The amalgamation of styles culled on A-Trak's first widely available CD after 15 years on the decks is a daring multi-sonic adventure to be judged on the cohesion and nuances of the mix, rather than a general assessment of the music. So even if one despises a particular track, there is still room for respect...
- www.urb.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Comb through A-Trak's bio and a portrait of preternatural technical skill, sly business acumen, and uncommon idealism emerges. He won the DMC World DJ Championships in 1997, at the age of 15, and he would go on to DJ for Kanye West at the height of his fame. He turned down an opportunity to DJ for Jay-Z on principle, out of loyalty to Kanye (although he would agree to handle musical direction for Hova's tour-- having cake, meet eating cake)...
- pitchfork.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
At their worst, mash-ups can come across as patronizing in-jokes, elbowing your sternum at how totally way-out crazy it is that two pieces of music from disparate genres can actually coexist in the same space...
- pitchfork.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Do hype machines dream of electro-bangers? Kanye West's touring DJ and Fools Gold Records' Field General A-Trak has sifted through the top remixes (and thousands of blog posts) from the last 18 months to patch together Infinity +1. Although that length of time is an eternity on the internet, this physical release claws fiercely to stay current...
- tinymixtapes.com
2009-06-08