DJ Laptop

Name: DJ Laptop ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------Location: Riverview, Florida ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------Bio: I was born May 84' in Long Island, New York. My grandparents raised me since birth--so all the old school soul I listen to and sample today are because of them. In 1999, my family moved to Riverview, Florida when I was 15 years old. I attended East Bay High School--graduating in 2002. Since I was a kid, I always had a passion for drawing cartoons. So in 2003, I attended the International Academy of Design and Technology. I dropped out in 2005 for financial reasons. So I was bored one day and decided to mess around with this program called Adobe Audition. My friends called my DJ Laptop as a joke since I made beats on my portable computer. Since then, that was what I went by. I even took what I learned in Art School and drew a form for my alter ego. DJ Laptop is a "Gorillaz" inspired animated group which consists of Laptop himself and his Japanese robot sidekick, Robo-Mothra (Mothra is the name of my cat from college). ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------Equipment: A Compaq Presario V2000 Radeon and a Dell PC; with Virtual DJ 6, Adobe Audtion 1.5, and Soundforge 7.0 ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Influences: J-Dilla, Pete Rock, Kanye West (his music, not his rap), 9th Wonder, Wu Tang, Team Sleep, DJ Shadow, Timbaland, Pharrell Williams, Nujabes, Fat Jon, Group Home, Gorillaz, Forces of Nature, everyone at Stonesthrow Records, Old School Soul, Old School Hip-Hop, Japanese Anime, and Western Animation ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Favorite Hip-Hop Album: J-Dilla's "Donuts," Wu Tang's "36 Chambers,"and Jay-Z's "Reasonable Doubt" ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------- Goal for 2008: Make beats for "The Graveyard Shift"...if Spilled Koolaid works out well, get a Nintendo Wii, get my girlfriend to stop listening to crap on the radio ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------- Upcoming Projects: Beatstreet Tape, and DJ Laptop's "Spilled Koolaid and Broken Equipment" ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------- Extended Network Banner made with MyBannerMaker.com! Click here to make your own!