Dan "The Automator" Nakamura laughs when he recalls how his DJ career ended before it really began. Fifteen years ago, as a high school student, DJing was all Nakamura wanted to do. He was learning how to spin records and make his own pause tapes and drum-machine beats, the kind all fledgling hip-hop producers begin with. The San Francisco native had already fallen in love with hip-hop, a passion ignited by the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight." "It wasn't the only thing in my world," he remembers. "I just thought that was the coolest... More >>>