Dan the Automator

Hip Hopalternative hip-hop productiontrip-hop innovatoranime-influenced experimental rapunderground beat-making

Dan "the Automator" Nakamura is a hip-hop producer most known for his work in the mid to late 1990s and early 2000s. Nakamura's most well-known production work includes The NBA 2K7 video game soundtrack, the commercially successful Dr. Octagon project with Kool Keith, and the widely successful anime influenced trip-hop project Gorillaz. He is also renowned in underground circles for spearheading the critically acclaimed underground projects Handsome

Influenced by: J Dilla, Madlib, DJ Shadow, Kool Keith

Active:
mid-1990s-present
Scene:
Bay Area hip-hop
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