Dan the Man

One of my favorite musicians for the last few years is actually a producer and no he does not have an auto-tuner app. Dan Nakamura or better known as Dan the Automator has been working on albums since the late 80's. He produced the original Gorillaz album (which, I still think is the best of the three) however there are a lot of other projects that he has had his hand in. Here are my two favorite Dan the Automator projects:

Deltron 3030 - This is a concept album about a post-apocalyptic future in which rappers do battle throughout the solar system. Yes, it is bat-shit insane but it is amazingly good. Del the Funky Homosapien (Teren Delvon Jones or the Cousin of Ice Cube) is Deltron and it alsways hits me as an animated movie waiting to be created every time I hear it. 

Lovage - The quest for the ultimate make out album is the tongue in (other people's) cheek concept for this record but they succeed. Mike Patton (from countless projects, but best known from Faith No More) and Jennifer Charles (of Elysian Fields) are amazingly funny and sexy at the same time. Next time you want to get freaky, put that on the old Hi-Fi stereo.