Dan The Automator

Years Active: 90, 2000

Genres: Rap, Pop/Rock, Electronic, R&B

Styles: Alternative Rap, Hip-Hop/Urban, Hip-Hop/Urban, Underground Rap, Left-Field Hip-Hop, Alternative Dance, Dance, Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Club/Dance, Trip-Hop, Electronica

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Dan "The Automator" Nakamura is a San Francisco-based hip-hop producer whose work with "Kool" Keith Thornton on the latter's Dr. Octagon project shot him to unlikely acclaim in 1996. With a series of ever more elaborate conceptual projects since then, Nakamura's wildly imaginative productions and offbeat sense of humor made him one of the leading figures in the underground renaissance of alternative rap in the late '90s. A classically trained violinist in his younger days, Nakamura instead fell in love with Kraftwerk and old-school hip-hop, as ...

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