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Nero

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About Me

Nero is kickin' off DBZCREW with the help of some awesome hedz from the great west-coast... they've got a lot of cool stuff in store for the next month, so go check 'em out! -- Nero is Jonah Hakanson. An interesting specter on the horizon of electronic and dance music, Nero has engaged in many genres, experiments, and adventures. From his initiation to electronic music production as a child via his father's MIDI rig and synthesizers to his first deal with forward-thinking label Looq Records, Nero has proven his passion. In addition to Looq, Nero's work can be found on west coast labels Pacific Front and Akashik.

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Member Since: 6/1/2005
Band Website: akashik-records.com
Band Members: Jonah Hakanson... more at www.virb.com/nero
Influences: Sasha, Deadmau5, Cass&Mangan, Petter, Nick Fanciulli, James Holden, Zabielas, Tim Deluxe
Sounds Like: If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of the revolution. -Emma Goldman

Record Label: Looq , L2 , N:M, Pacific Front, Akashik
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Promoting 10-Commandments

1. Thou shalt not book thyself as headliner, for there is other talent, and if you can't find it, you don't know what's going on and you should move on.2. Thou shalt compensate thy DJs, for this will ...
Posted by Nero on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:38:00 PST

4 traits of contemporary Progressive house

If you don't know me terribly well, I tend to pick apart dance music, and I have a special interest in trends. With electronic stuff, a single trick, or method, is quickly picked up and rehashed a mil...
Posted by Nero on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:19:00 PST

Nero : Sound Collection

A batch of about 30 2min long sonic paintings.... my first attempt at purely conceptual music. Its not simply some artsy fartsy ploy either, these bits will also double as super useful bits for remix ...
Posted by Nero on Sat, 19 May 2007 12:45:00 PST

The Third Floor

A whole stinking album... how about that?
Posted by Nero on Thu, 03 May 2007 01:49:00 PST

The Acid House breakthrough

House and its derivatives in the late 80s was hot shit. I have no idea why no one can get that. We've been playing to the middle-emotions of "hipsterism" for so long. There's a level of creepy silline...
Posted by Nero on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:05:00 PST

New Concept Album with Aelphii

In the studio these days, while he's on sabbatical from Chicago, is Aelphii (Phred Beattie), and we've been working on tons of new stuff for an album... although we're not sure what to call it yet. Es...
Posted by Nero on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 01:52:00 PST

Shoe Horn

It used to be used make sure you could fit into your nice shoes without flexible enough fronts (tongues). However, some people may feel the overweening need to jump straight in and define "their voice...
Posted by Nero on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 11:33:00 PST

What Came out of K-Falls

If a person looks around them in terms of their dancing-fool friends they will see influences that sprouted from Detroit, L.A., New York, Philly, and Miami. You know, places with hard-knock lives and ...
Posted by Nero on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:53:00 PST

I make a lot more than prog-house

Not many of you would know, because its a big damn secret. I have been producing musicfor damn near 9 whole years now... most of those years, however, I didn't have a clue. Learning not only how to ex...
Posted by Nero on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:32:00 PST

Record Deals and Sporks

I'm not really sure what caused this...but early this summer, I slipped a track I had been working on to Looq Records, in SF, and they signed it, and then they wanted another, and they signed that, an...
Posted by Nero on Fri, 21 Oct 2005 03:08:00 PST