As a kid, I was heavy into art. I would draw comics and at the same time listen to the radio. I used to listen to WBLS and WRKS faithfully. While drawing, I used to get distracted by the Hip Hop music being played on the radio, and started to daydream all the time, dreaming about being in the studio while the records were being made, dreaming about making the music. Hence, the name The Dreamer. I tried after high school getting into Berklee College Of Music in Boston, Ma but found it to be quite expensive. So I attended The Institute Of Audio Research. While attending the course, I simultaneously interned at Green Street Recording Studios as an assistant engineer; working with Pete Rock, DJ Muggs, Eric Sadler and one of the most known engineers at the time, Rod Hui. I went to Green Street after looking at the credits of a few of Public Enemy's recordings, they primarily recorded there. Green Street was only two rooms, and I wanted to go to a major Hip Hop studio. So, I landed a position at Unique Recording Studios. At Unique it's everything you can ask for. In the heart of Times Square, five rooms, all the top engineers (Tony Smalios, George Karras, Angela Piva to name a few...). Not to mention as much Hip Hop sessions as you can ask for. From Mobb Deep working with Havoc, to Wu-Tang Clan with the Rza, to producers like Easy Mo Bee, Clark Kent, S.I.D., Minnesota, Lord Jamar, Diamond D, and groups like Junior Mafia. The only problem was I didn't have equipment. So after working 6 years of 100 hour work-weeks at Green Street, Unique, House Of Hits and Soundtracks Studios, I left to work in retail. Now I have the Akai MPC 4000, the Triton Extreme, the E-MU Proteus 2000, the Motif ES rack and the Fantom XR... all running through the DIGI 002 Factory running Pro Tools 7.0. Then in 1999 I opened my production company called "The Forgotten Ones" in the Boogie Down Bronx, the birthplace of Hip Hop music, dedicated to all the producers who resurrect dead records that people forgot about, so all the samples we use are all the forgotten ones (Get It?). Now it's time to bring the pain.
