Tracatak took up spinning at the early age of 15. He started out as a hip hop DJ playing at local teen clubs. He was the typical hip hop scratch DJ, which is where his DJ name came from – “to attack the tracks.” He did this for a few years until he was old enough to go to night clubs. This is where he discovered electronic music which opened his eyes to a whole new world of dance music. He was instantly inspired by the dance floor grooves and the mixing style of the progressive house DJs. But it wasn’t until he stumbled across some hardcore techno records at a local record store that he realized what he wanted to pursue. After hearing this new sound he was immediately hooked and this changed his whole focus as a DJ.

Over the years Tracatak’s sound has gone through many phases. His first love of hardcore was newstyle hardcore, but as time went on and he refined his style, he found himself being drawn to the darker hardcore styles. His love of zombies and monsters kept him interested in the darkcore and doomcore records coming out. During that time he also began delving into producing. It was at that point that he decided to move to NYC to team up with Jen Mas of Vitus Productions.

As time went on, Tracatak was fueled to continue creating new sounds of his own. He became more enamored with slower techier hardcore tracks and spent extensive time trying to emulate those sounds in his studio. It was then that he discovered the techno subgenre schranz. He felt that form of hard techno went hand-in-hand with the hardcore he was producing and from that point forward he found himself creating music that was a cross between the two styles.

Currently his sound contains elements of hardcore, techno, and industrial. And when he's on the decks he'll either drop a high energy techno or schranz set, or a darkcore and doomcore set, and sometimes a bit of both! He likes to play for the crowd, and will either spin to get the dance floor grooving, or drop tracks that will satisfy even the most elitist hardcore enthusiasts. Either way he's got a style of his own and he aims to please across a broad spectrum audience.  So be on the lookout for the future sounds of Tracatak (also known as the “Doom Raider") either from the Industrial Strength label or right here from us at Vitus!

For more info on this artist check out his Myspace page:

www.Myspace.com/Tracatak

Tracatak shares graphic artist duties with Jen Mas and is also the Drumasheenz label artist, for more information check out their website:

www.Drumasheenz.com