Dan the Automator
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Nakamura is a classically trained violinist and started DJing when he was a teenager.[2] He first gained fame producing Kool Keith's 1996 album Dr. Octagonecologyst.[3] Nakamura's studio, dubbed The Glue Factory, was a recording workshop for DJ Shadow, Latyrx and other artists on the Solesides label.[2]
Alongside Prince Paul, Nakamura formed the collaborative project Handsome Boy Modeling School in 1999, assuming the character Nathaniel Merriweather. In 1999, he joined with Del tha Funky Homosapien and Kid Koala to form Deltron 3030. He also produced Gorillaz's debut album[2] and is currently one half of Got a Girl, along with actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead.[4] Among his other current projects, he formed a band with Mike Patton called Crudo.
Discography
This list does not include singles, remixes or instrumental album versions.
- Music To be Murdered By (EP) (1989)
- A Better Tomorrow (1996)
- A Much Better Tomorrow (2000)
- Wanna Buy a Monkey? (2002)
- Dan the Automator Presents 2K7 (2006)
Production
- Dr. Octagonecologyst (Kool Keith) (1996)
- When I Was Born for the 7th Time (Cornershop) (1997)
- Bombay the Hard Way: Guns, Cars and Sitars (with DJ Shadow) (1998)
- So... How's Your Girl? (Handsome Boy Modeling School) (1999)
- Deltron 3030 (Deltron 3030) (2000)
- Gorillaz (Gorillaz) (2001)
- Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By (Lovage) (2001)
- Hey You. Yes You. (Ben Lee) (2002)
- Ruckus (Galactic) (2003)
- White People (Handsome Boy Modeling School) (2004)
- Decadence (Head Automatica) (2004)
- Peeping Tom (Peeping Tom) (2006)
- Naturally (Men Without Pants) (2008)
- The Love Album (Anaïs Croze) (2008)
- West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum (Kasabian) (2009)
- Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy (Dredg) (2011)
- Colour of the Trap (Miles Kane) (2011)
- Velociraptor! (Kasabian) (2011)
- Kinshasa One Two (DRC Music) (2011)
- Pillowfight (Pillowfight, duo with Emily Wells) (2013)
- Event 2 (Deltron 3030) (2013)
- I Love You But I Must Drive Off This Cliff Now (Got a Girl) (2014)
- Blood In, Blood Out (Exodus) (2014)
Single
- "Make The People Sway" – "One Big Trip"
- "Underdog" - Kasabian (co-produced with Serge Pizzorno)
References
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- Dan the Automator on Myspace
- Dan the Automator discography 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
- Waxpoetics' Automator Interview (by David Ma)
- Interview with R.U. Sirius
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- Living people
- American hip hop record producers
- American people of Japanese descent
- Hip hop musicians from San Francisco, California
- American musicians of Japanese descent
- Businesspeople from San Francisco, California
- Rappers from the San Francisco Bay Area
- San Francisco State University alumni
- Trip hop musicians
- Alternative hip hop musicians
