Dan the Automator
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| Birth name | Daniel Nakamura |
| Born | 1967[citation needed] |
| Origin | San Francisco, California |
| Genre(s) | Hip hop Trip hop Acid rap Space Rap |
| Occupation(s) | Producer, Arranger, Engineer, |
| Instrument(s) | Synthesizer |
| Years active | 1994 to present |
| Associated acts | Handsome Boy Modeling School Gorillaz Deltron 3030 Dr.Octagon Lovage Head Automatica Mike Patton DJ Quest |
Dan "the Automator" Nakamura (born Daniel Nakamura in San Francisco, California in 1967[citation needed]) is an American hip-hop and rap producer.
[edit] Life and career
Trained in classical violin as a child, Nakamura, who is Japanese American, was more attracted to early electronica and hip-hop. After dabbling as a DJ, he gave up on the skill and instead worked on musical production, taking on small gigs until getting his major break working with Kool Keith.
Nakamura's work tends to integrate significant amounts of overlooked 1970s and 1980s kitsch, cult classics, and B-grade 1990s television material. His work also tends to make heavy use of classical music and science fiction overtones and references, the latter with hip hop roots in the space jams of Parliament. Sci-fi also pops up in the hip hop oeuvres of RZA and Jedi Mind Tricks, among others, both in and out of collaborations with Dan the Automator.
Nakamura's best known production work includes Kool Keith's commercially successful Dr. Octagon project, and the widely successful trip hop/lo-fi project, Gorillaz. He is also renowned in underground circles for spearheading the critically acclaimed underground projects Handsome Boy Modeling School with Prince Paul; Deltron 3030 with Del tha Funkee Homosapien and Kid Koala; Head Automatica with Daryl Palumbo; Josh Haden; Lovage with Mike Patton and Jennifer Charles; and Peeping Tom with Mike Patton and Kid Koala.
He has also had production spots on the albums of several rock groups, most notably on the British group Cornershop's When I Was Born For The 7th Time, Blues Explosion albums ACME and Damage, Primal Scream's XTRMNTR and Little Barrie's Stand Your Ground.
Dan has recently created tracks for an Adidas advertisement campaign and started yet another band with Mike Patton called Crudo.[1]
[edit] Discography
This list does not include singles, remixes or instrumental album versions. For those discographies, see the article for the indicated band.
- Music To be Murdered By (EP) (1989)
- A Better Tomorrow (1996) (remastered and rereleased in 2000 as A Much Better Tomorrow)
- Dr. Octagon, Dr. Octagonecologyst (with Kool Keith and DJ Q-bert) (1996)
- Bombay the Hard Way: Guns, Cars and Sitars (with DJ Shadow) (1998)
- Handsome Boy Modeling School, So... How's Your Girl? (1999)
- Deltron 3030 (with Del tha Funkee Homosapien and Kid Koala) (2000)
- Gorillaz, Gorillaz (2001)
- Lovage, Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By (2001)
- Wanna Buy a Monkey? (2002)
- Galactic, Ruckus (2003)
- Handsome Boy Modeling School, White People (2004)
- Head Automatica, Decadence (with Daryl Palumbo of Glassjaw) (2004)
- 2K Sports Mixtape (Hosted By Clinton Sparks), (2006)
- Dan The Automator Presents 2K7, (2006)
- Peeping Tom, Peeping Tom (2006)
- Men without pants, Men without pants (2007)
- Ready for My Close-Up
Future/Unreleased albums
- Omakase (Presumed canceled)
- Deltron 3030, Deltron Event II (with Del tha Funkee Homosapien and Kid Koala) (Due 2008)
[edit] External links
- Dan the Automator at MySpace
- Dan the Automator at Discogs
- Slate article on demand for Dan the Automator in music projects
- Dan the Automator at Allmusic
- Dan the Automator page at Yahoo! Music
- Interview with R.U. Sirius
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