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Pimp Daddy Nash

Funked Up, Souled Out.

About Me

He sauntered onto the scene from somewhere in the Midwest, an international ne'er-do-well maintaining a low profile as he filled listening rooms with Brazilia flavored beats and leftfield sound pastiches. A persona became a gag, then a serio-comic myth. While the masses partied, he played. Constructed. For years, as the rules changed and the music changed, the magic left and came back as magic often does. Such is the way of the electronic alchemists and new beat adventurers, always searching for the New Jazz Science. Pimp Daddy Nash, a.k.a. Jon Curtis, is the scientist in question. The persona came about during the intitial organization of Eighth Dimension, an Orlando-based collective of adventurous alchemists from the fields of house music, hip-hop, underground rock and synth pop – a collective that provided a necessary antidote to Central Floridas's increasingly conformist rave culture. But while Q-Burns Abstract Message signed on with Astralwerks and DJ BMF ensures hip-hop don't stop on Tuesday nights as his ferociously popular Phat N' Jazzy night sprints toward a decade in existence, Pimp Daddy Nash rode out the Nineties with a single-minded pursuit of the electronic excellence. His music fit right in alongside the big beats, downtempos, noir-ish soundscapes and spy-themed samples that infiltrated electronic music in the mid-90s, and Pimp Daddy Nash found himself recording for Mephisto Records, Om Records, Delancey Street, FFRR, and World Domination for the duration of the decade. After signing to BMG in 2001 and being ceremoniously dropped less than a year later, PDN released his second full-length 'The New Jazz Science' under the safety of the Eighth Dimension umbrella. As we approach 2006, the Pimp finds himself back in the confines of his newly-rebuilt sonic laboratory preparing his third installment tentatively titled 'Funked Up, Souled Out'.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/26/2005
Band Website: eighthdimension.com/artists/pimpdaddy-nash
Band Members: Jon Curtis: Voice, Electronics, Van Gogh Espresso Vodka
Influences: Raymond Scott, Brian Eno, Vince Clarke, Dizzy Gillespie, Kraftwerk, James Brown
Sounds Like: Flip Flop Kerplop Squelchy Trip Hop
Record Label: Eighth Dimension
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Moving Shop

(Editor's Note)We are currently moving the PDN portal to Virb with completion slated for 4/1/07. The MySpace page will be maintained during the transition and for a few weeks afterward. Jon has not ...
Posted by Pimp Daddy Nash on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:39:00 PST

Come to the Dark Side...We Have Cookies!

Confession time again. (good cd title, that...)Rather bored tonight. Taking a break from the Mercy Machine remix, Didn't want to go out to the Peacock and, well, do the usual, so I decided against d...
Posted by Pimp Daddy Nash on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:20:00 PST

...it's sucking the life out of me...

Very odd day.(ed: Not again. Didn't we get enough of this at lunch?)Fave bit of outboard processing takes a crap. Threatened with naked pix of Bea Arthur. Wanted to make a video wearing nothing but...
Posted by Pimp Daddy Nash on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:33:00 PST

K-Fed Up.

Well, it seems like some of my staff decided to tell EVERYBODY about my birthday last night. I guess that was okay, but spamming the whole lot of you was probably not the best thing to do. Inquiries...
Posted by Pimp Daddy Nash on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:22:00 PST

...been down so long it looks like 7-Up to me...

Busy, busy, busy.Everything gets put on hold these days. Life at Full Sail has been over the top for the last two months. Get your own Department and all ..$@! breaks loose. Well, at least it's MY ...
Posted by Pimp Daddy Nash on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:36:00 PST

A Fistful of Mayonaisse

Work.Work, work, work.Freakin' work.Yeah, been a bit since I've had a few moments to have a good rant and rave session. For those of you who've been here before, enjoy the ride. For the newbies in t...
Posted by Pimp Daddy Nash on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 02:58:00 PST

Oooh. Aahhh.

New photo courtesy Commercials I Hate (myspace.com/commercialsihate)I'm sick of these ads here.Exploitation.Crap.Put this on Fox, Murdock.Billy Preston - later, bro. We'll miss ya.-pd fukkin n-...
Posted by Pimp Daddy Nash on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:41:00 PST

Another Day in Paradise...

Hello All...Been a bit, no? Well, tough. I'm back. Nyah.I just got back from a 'delightful' vacation in the midwest - namely, my hometown in Indiana. I try to get up there at least once a year to ...
Posted by Pimp Daddy Nash on Wed, 31 May 2006 06:41:00 PST

Good Night, John-Boy...

Got an email that my Choonz® are available on Wal-Mart's music download site.Wonder if I'll get paid in cheap products made by 12 year-olds in a Singapore sweatshop.Just thought I'd share the wealth.N...
Posted by Pimp Daddy Nash on Tue, 02 May 2006 08:41:00 PST

Never Mind Sandra Bullock, Here's The Sex Pistols!

Lately, I've had quite a few emails asking some pretty good questions like: 'Why do you like (insert name of some bit of music-making stuff here)?''What are your musical influences?' 'Do these socks m...
Posted by Pimp Daddy Nash on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 06:39:00 PST