Released to widespreadĬritical acclaim, the album remains a vivid and arresting epic unlikeĪny the genre has produced.When an 18-year-old Del Tha Funkee Homosapien came on the scene in 1991, hip-hop was still younger than he was, and without many defined blueprints. Protagonist of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. Penning anti-capitalist screeds with the same fervor as the unnamed Suites, Del the Funky Homosapien became Deltron, an aggrieved activist Opera scored by Nakamura’s brilliant amalgam of dark, lush stringĪrrangements, thunderous drums, and spaced-out synths. Set in the year 3030 (of course), Deltron 3030 is a dystopian rap Nakamura collaborated on two of the most influential records of the Rappers like Del the Funky Homosapien and El-P while mining the
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Octagonecologyst’s success, Nakamura made a series Originally released independently on Nakamura’s label Bulk Recordings, the album sold by the thousands at record shops in the Bay Area before Mo’ Wax and Dreamworks re-released it in the UK and the US respectively. While other producers sampled the same jazz and James Brown records, Nakamura went left, using eerie string arrangements, grinding guitars, skull-cracking drums, and scratches from world-renowned turntablist DJ Qbert to score Octagon’s lurid tales of rectal rebuilding and facial rearrangements. Octagonecologyst recalibrated the parameters of rap. Octagon-an intergalactic gynecologist and homicidal surgeon from Jupiter-Dr. York rap legend Kool Keith were working on the groundbreaking Dr.Ī sci-fi space odyssey narrated by Keith’s alter-ego Dr. Shadow’s seminal 1996 debut Endtroducing…. Label/crew Solesides to record, Nakamura assisted on records like DJ In addition to providing a space for artists from Bay Area The Glue Factory became home base for countless rappers and producers When the foam that he glued to the studio walls didn’t reduce the sound level upstairs, Nakamura wryly dubbed the noxious-smelling room the Glue Factory. In high school, he traded the violin for turntables, bought a drum machine, and built a studio in his parents’ basement.
Once he absorbed the pop and soul music of the late ’70s, he became enamored with rap groups like Run-DMC. Raised in San Francisco’s Sunset District neighborhood, Nakamura began playing music at just three years old, when his mother enrolled him in violin lessons. Whether collaborating with like-minded artists such as Del the Funky Homosapien and Damon Albarn or scoring films (e.g., 2019’s Booksmart), he has disregarded accepted convention and fleeting trends. A producer, composer, engineer, and DJ, Nakamura remains in constant motion, performing on stages around the world and lending his singular artistic vision to one endeavor after another. For over two decades, he has created progressive, genre-warping music on his terms. Dan “The Automator” Nakamura has never waited for approval or applause.
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