Crispy D
http://www.myspace.com/crispyd
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
Born in Boston in 1984, This Amateur producer started recording in 1999. He found that having the benefits of spending his money from his jobs working retail on quality recording equipment would help him make connections with great artists to create music on another level. With absolutely no boundaries with the music recorded, the end result has crossed over to people thinking twice about specifically not liking a certain genre, but the recordings done by Crispy D and his fellow musicians and vocal artists, nay Sayers views on Hip-hop in a general perspective was changed from "rap sucks" to "I changed my mind". Since his start, Crispy D has recorded over 200 tracks and still going, on his quest for his on going perfection with the movement in Alternative Underground Hip-hop. In the future, in August of 2005, Crispy D will attend the New England Institute of Art. There, he will study Audio Production for the next two years. After words, he will either go for a Bachelor's degree or will start at the bottom of the food chain in the competitive corporate music industry and steadily move on up to becoming some "yes" name ... for now, his intrests are with working with his current fam base, and someday work with Kool Keith,Mr. Lif,MURSand other sucka free mc's.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
i wana play live... i'm just a studio rat that needs to break out of my cage and have a balance.
Your musical influences
El-P, Slick Rick, Mr. Lif, UltraMagnetic Mc's, Kool Keith, Dan the Automator, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Gangstarr, Rage Against the Machine, Dead Prez, Common, De La Soul, Prince Paul, Insight, Boogie Down Productions, Murs, Busta Rhymes, Little Brother, 9th Wonder, Souls of Mischief, Wes Montgomery, 311, Boards of Canada, The Police and Devo.
What equipment do you use?
Akai MPC 2000 Xl with zip disk and added 32 mb of RAM
Boss BR-532 Digital 4 track
Shure Condenser mic with Pop-filter
Boss dr-Groove sp-202 drum machine
and my computer programs include...
Acid 3, 4 and 5 Pro
Reason 3.0
Cool edit pro
fruity loops 3 and fruity loops 5 XXL producer edition
