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Akira Shelton

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

About Me

Okay. let's see... Immersed in jazz, funk, R&B, 70's rock and gospel since I was born. Fell in love with hip-hop and was obssessed with it in my childhood (beatboxing, breakdancing, graffiti... the whole 9). Wanted to be in a rock band after watching early MTV. Started as a jazz musician on sax as at 11... Progressed to playing keys in my late teens/early 20's. Got into production in my early-mid 20's... Fell in love with deep house, electronica, industrial, broken beat and drum-n-bass... From there, it went to full-time production and songwriting. Now, I make a living at it! Peace and blessings...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/15/2005
Band Website: Coming soon!
Band Members: Me, myself, and I...
Influences: Music:Jazzanova, Aquanote, Sonar Kollectiv, Orfeu Soundtrack (off the chain), 4Hero, Zero7, Caetano Veloso, Domu, Naked Music, DKD, Bugz In The Attic (damn near everyone in their crew is tight), Mark de Clive-Lowe, Platinum Pied Pipers, Vikter Duplaix, Dillinja, Beck, Crystal Kay, Aphex Twin, Bjork, Portishead, Zap Mama, Jay Dilla, Slum Village, The Roots, Nas, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Digable Planets, Pharcyde, Slick Rick, Doug E. Fresh, Stetsasonic, Outkast, Ozomatli, Quincy Jones, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, Art Tatum, The Headhunters, Stevie Wonder, MJ, Prince, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Buena Vista Social Club, Buju Banton, Bob Marley, and infinitely more .......................................................... ...........................................Movies:City of God (a classic...), Orfeu, Behind The Sun, Bus 174, Whale Rider, Carandiru, What The Bleep Do We Know, Suspect Zero, Donnie Darko, The Twilight Samurai, Infernal Affairs, Fulltime Killer, Last Samurai, Hero, AI, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Five Deadly Venoms, The Princess Bride, Sometimes In April, and again, infinitely more ............................................................ ................................ Books:Siddartha (life changing...), His Dark Materials trilogy, The Tao of Pooh, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, The Science of Breath, Nile Valley Contributions, From The Browder File, Rich Dad Poor Dad, Children of the Matrix (this is some crazy sh!%), The Fractal Geometry of Nature, The Bible, Apocrypha, Dead Sea Scrolls, and anything else that provokes thought.
Sounds Like: Listen and tell me what u think... :-)
Record Label: Aktive Audioworks (Production Co. )
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Fatherhood...

It's amazing how life changes in the blink of an eye... Today, I became the father of a beautiful baby boy. Orion was born at 3:21pm, weighing 7lbs and 4oz., 20 in., and fully-aware of everything goin...
Posted by Akira Shelton on Fri, 30 Sep 2005 08:05:00 PST