Name: Laptop (AKA DJ Laptop AKA JP)
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Location: Riverview, Florida
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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). After my grandmother passed, I moved back up north. But now, I'm back in FL
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Equipment: A Compaq Presario V2000 Radeon and a Dell PC; with Virtual DJ 6, Adobe Audtion 1.5, FL Studio 6, and Soundforge 7.0. I don't really DJ.unless you count scratching with a mouse dj'ing. LOL. It's just a name that stuck with me. I'm in the process of learning how to scratch.
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Influences: J-Dilla, Pete Rock, "used to be Kanye West" (his music, not his rap.that is until he fell off and started that audio tune horseshit), 9th Wonder, Wu Tang, Team Sleep, Timbaland, Pharrell Williams, Nujabes, Fat Jon, DJ Premier, 9th Wonder, Gorillaz, Old School Soul, Old School Hip-Hop, and Japanese Anime
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Favorite Hip-Hop Album: J-Dilla's "Donuts," Wu Tang's "36 Chambers,"
Pharcyde's "Labcabincalifornia," Little Brother's the Minstrel Show, and Jay-Z's "Reasonable Doubt/Blue Print , Notorious BIG's Ready To Die, Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Thirstin Howl III - Skilligan's Island & Skillionare
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Goal for 2010: Finish My album (dedicated to my grandmother), get a turntable and practice scratching with something other than a mouse, share my music with the world
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