Omid Walizadeh

Omid Walizadeh
Also known as Omid, OD
Born Chicago, Illinois[1]
Origin Long Beach, California[1]
Genres Instrumental hip hop
Alternative hip hop
Occupation(s) Producer
Instruments Sampler, synthesizer
Years active 1998-present
Labels Beneath the Surface
Mush Records
Alpha Pup Records
Associated acts Project Blowed
Website Omid Walizadeh on SoundCloud

Omid Walizadeh, also known as Omid or OD, is an underground hip hop producer based in Long Beach, California.[2] He has produced tracks for Freestyle Fellowship,[3][4] Busdriver,[5][6] 2Mex,[7] Subtitle,[8] and Awol One,[9] among others.

History

Omid graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a bachelor's degree in recording arts. He has produced tracks since 1992.[10]

Inspired by the underground hip hop movement at the Good Life Cafe in the early 1990s, Omid released a collaborative album, Beneath the Surface, in 1998. It features over 30 rappers, mainly from Los Angeles.[11][12]

The solo debut album, Distant Drummer, was released on Beneath the Surface in 2002.[13] It was inspired by Dan Simmons' novel Hyperion, the music of Sun Ra, among other things.[10]

In 2003, Omid released the album, Monolith, on Mush Records.[14] It features contributions from Abstract Rude, 2Mex,[15] Buck 65,[16] Luckyiam, Aceyalone, Murs, and Slug,[17] among others. The title comes from Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2010: Odyssey Two.[18]

Omid released the instrumental album, Afterwords 3, on Alpha Pup Records in 2007.[19]

He is the music supervisor of This Is the Life, a documentary film which chronicles the Good Life Cafe.[20][21]

Omid returned with Modern Persian Speech Sounds in 2013.[1]

Style and influences

In a 2003 interview, Omid talked about his music making process: "90% of my music is sample based, but I tweek and rearrange and change the samples to my bidding. Just taking a note here and a drum hit there and creating a whole different arrangement."[18]

Omid uses an Ensoniq ASR-10, Yamaha CS1x, and Pro Tools.[10]

Discography

Albums

Singles

Productions

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Jeff Weiss (December 25, 2013). "Omid Mines Music From the Streets Of Iran". LA Weekly.
  2. ↑ Jessica Holland (February 9, 2014). "Omid Walizadeh's new album mixes hip-hop with music from the pre-Iranian Revolution era". The National.
  3. ↑ Sam Chennault (July 14, 2002). "Freestyle Fellowship: Shockadoom". Pitchfork Media.
  4. ↑ Thomas Quinlan (October 18, 2011). "Freestyle Fellowship - The Promise". Exclaim!.
  5. ↑ Rollie Pemberton (March 8, 2005). "Busdriver - Fear Of A Black Tangent". Stylus Magazine.
  6. ↑ Daniel Levin Becker (August 12, 2009). "Busdriver - Jhelli Beam". Dusted Magazine.
  7. ↑ Steve 'Flash' Juon (May 4, 2004). "2Mex - 2Mex - Paladin Creative/Image Entertainment". Rap Reviews.
  8. ↑ Erik Otis (October 25, 2011). "Giovanni Marks aka Subtitle drops an exclusive mix with Sound Colour Vibration". Sound Colour Vibration.
  9. ↑ Thomas Quinlan (July 2004). "Awol One - Selftitled". Exclaim!.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Tadah (January 13, 2002). "Omid Interview 2002". Urban Smarts.
  11. ↑ "Earth Night in Long Beach". Reality Sandwich. April 22, 2011.
  12. ↑ "Interviews: OD / Omid". Erasoul. Summer 2002.
  13. ↑ DJ Anna (March 26, 2003). "Distant Drummer". XLR8R.
  14. ↑ "OMID Monolith". The Milk Factory. December 2003.
  15. ↑ J-23 (January 10, 2004). "Omid - Monolith". Hip Hop DX.
  16. ↑ Jennifer Kelly (December 10, 2003). "Omid: Monolith". Splendid Magazine.
  17. ↑ Rollie Pemberton (November 18, 2003). "Omid: Monolith". Pitchfork Media.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Tadah (September 1, 2003). "Omid Interview 2003". Urban Smarts.
  19. ↑ "Alpha Pup fall slate: edIT, Daedelus, Carlos Nino". Plug One. September 11, 2007.
  20. ↑ Billyjam (March 9, 2009). "AMOEBA'S MONDAY MOVIES @ SPACE 15TWENTY: THIS IS THE LIFE". Amoeba.
  21. ↑ Andrew Barker (March 10, 2009). "This Is the Life". Variety.

External links