Crowned the youngest ever DMC World DJ Champion at the tender age of 15, A-Trak (known to his mates as Alain Macklovich) went on to bag the other two major DJ competition titles too – the IMF and Vestax before the age of 18. So it's fair to say he's a bit of demon on the turntables.

Canadian-born A-Trak switched from battling and to give other DJs a chance at taking a title, he hit clubs instead, bagging global slots playing with Q-Bert’s Invisibl Skratch Piklz and Craze and the Allies. In 2004 A-Trak met Kanye West in London and ended up becoming his personal tour DJ.

In 2007 he founded Fool's Gold records, taking his DJing ethos of merging all aspects of club music; electro, hip-hop, rock and house. If it made people dance, it got the Trizzy seal of approval. Through the label, A-Trak has released hits with Kid Sister, The Count and Sinden, Crookers and Bag Raiders.

A-Trak released an EP called Dirty South Dance in 2007 that showcased the best of his massive back-catalogue of remixes, including MSTRKRFT and Boys Noize. He also scored a world-wide smash with his own tune Barbra Streisand, produced under the name of Duck Sauce, the dance duo he formed with Armand Van Helden.

Red Bull Studios welcomed A-Trak in November 2010, when he took the chance of a whistle-stop tour in London to tweak some of his remixes for Robyn, Jamie Lidell and Kanye. He told us: “I don't have a blueprint or formula with what I do at all. I'm not even really technically trained, I just follow my ears.

And who better to judge the Red Bull Thr3style 2010 DJ battle as he was in town? A-Trak took the years of competing himself to turn all Simon Cowell and judge the best the UK could offer, as well as showing them how it could be done in blistering live performance at KOKO.

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