Dan The Automator

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Dan the Automator

Background information
Birth name Daniel Nakamura
Born 1967[citation needed]
Origin San Francisco, California
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 producer.

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 violin 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; Peeping Tom with Mike Patton and Kid Koala; and Men Without Pants with Russell Simins.

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]

Discography

This list does not include singles, remixes or instrumental album versions. For those discographies, see the article for the indicated band.

Future/Unreleased albums

External links

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Gorillaz
2D · Murdoc Niccals · Noodle · Russel Hobbs
Albums and EPs
Remix and B-side compilations
DVDs
Singles
Other releases
Collaborators
Related articles
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