Apple Juice Kid | |
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Birth name | Stephen Levitin |
Occupation(s) | Producer, DJ, drummer |
Associated acts | Wale, Camp Lo, Azealia Banks |
Website | www |
Stephen Levitin (aka Apple Juice Kid) is an American [1] record producer. Apple Juice Kid's production has been heard on songs by Mos Def, Azealia Banks, [2] [3] Wale, Camp Lo [4] and MC Lyte. He has released several jazz remix albums with support from Okayplayer including Miles Davis Remixed and Frank Sinatra Remixed. [5] [6]
Apple Juice Kid is also a DJ and a drummer. He has been a guest DJ on Mark Ronson's East Village Radio. He has performed as a drummer in the studio with Timbaland, and on stage with The Foreign Exchange and The Jungle Brothers. [7] [8] Deepak Chopra interviewed Stephen for his One World program.
Levitin co-founded the Emmy Award winning Beat Making Lab, which began as a class in the Music Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [9] His latest projects include DJing, releasing records on VP Records, Ultra Records and developing Beat Making Labs internationally with the support of Apple and PBS. [10] [11] [12] [13]
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