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Nakamura is a major figure in the somewhat higher-brow rap underground that developed while mainstream hip-hop integrated its successful gangsta image with the also-popular Miami Bass party-jam style, with heavy borrowing from its ignored soul (music) music roots. Avenues of rap which pursued more introspective, creative, and esoteric angles became brushed aside, admired only by fans with more eclectic musical tastes and appreciation for dense lyrical constructions and obscure or off-beat musical inspirations.

Nakamura's work tends to integrate significant amounts of overlooked 1970s and 1980s kitsch, cult classics, B-grade 1990s television material. Even more oddly for the hip-hop scene, his work also tends to make heavy use of science fiction overtones and references, as well as classical music, both rather intellectual themes which would be anathema to most stereotypical rap music.

He was trained in classical violin as a child, but was more attracted to early electronica and hip-hop. After dabbling as a DJ, he gave up on the skill and instead worked on musical production, taking on small gigs until getting his major break working with Kool Keith.

Nakamura's most well-known production work includes Kool Keith's commercially successful Dr. Octagon project, and the widely successful trip-hop/ lo-fiLo-fi — from "Low Fidelity" — describes a sound recording which contains unwanted artifacts, like distortion, or noise, or a recording which has a limited frequency response. This stands in contrast to high fidelity or "hi-fi". In digital audio lo-fi usua project GorillazGorillaz is a loose pop music collective or supergroup, comprising Blur frontman Damon Albarn, hip hop artist Dan the Automator, turntablist Kid Koala, cartoonist Jamie Hewlett, Cibo Matto vocalist Miho Hatori and their collaborators (who have included Ta. He is also renowned in underground circles for spearheading the critically acclaimed underground projects Handsome Boy Modeling SchoolHandsome Boy Modeling School is a hip-hop collaboration between Dan the Automator and Prince Paul. In 1999, they released the concept album So, How's Your Girl which was loosely based on an episode of the Chris Elliott sitcom Get a Life entitled "Handsome with Prince PaulOriginally a member of the self-proclaimed hip hop band Stetsasonic, Prince Paul a. Chest Rockwell, produced De La Soul's 1989 debut album Three Feet High and Rising''. After two more albums, he left them, putting together two solo projects: Psychoanalysi, Deltron 3030Deltron 3030 is a super-group of artists, noted below. Deltron 3030 is a concept album set in the year 3030. It is an album that tells of Deltron Zero's fight against huge corporations that rule the universe. It can also be viewed as a more hip hop-orient with Del Tha Funkee HomosapienDel Tha Funkee Homosapien aka Del The Funky Homosapien, aka. almost any phonetical approximation) was born Teren Delvon Jones 1972 August 12, in Oakland, California, USA. He was a part of his cousin Ice Cube's backing band Da Lench Mob. Discography I Wish and Kid KoalaEric San (born 1975 in Vancouver, Canada), who records under the name Kid Koala is a Montreal, Quebec based DJ and turntablist. He is signed to the British Ninja Tune record label and also tours and performs with a jam band, Bullfrog. He has also made app, and Lovage with Mike Patton, Kid Koala, and Jennifer Charles among others.