External links
- Omid Walizadeh on SoundCloud
- Omid on Mush Records
- Omid [ dead link ] on Alpha Pup Records
- Omid discography at Discogs
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Omid Walizadeh | |
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| Also known as | Omid, OD |
| Born | |
| Origin | Long Beach, California [1] |
| Genres | Instrumental hip hop Alternative hip hop |
| Occupation | Producer |
| Instruments | Sampler, synthesizer |
| Years active | 1998-present |
| Labels | Beneath the Surface Mush Records Alpha Pup Records |
| Website | Omid Walizadeh on SoundCloud |
Omid Walizadeh, also known as Omid or OD, is a hip hop producer based in Long Beach, California. [2] He has produced tracks for the likes of Freestyle Fellowship, [3] [4] Busdriver, [5] [6] 2Mex, [7] Subtitle, [8] and Awol One. [9]
Omid Walizadeh graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a bachelor's degree in recording arts. He has produced tracks since 1992. [10]
Inspired by the underground hip hop movement at the Good Life Cafe in the early 1990s, he released a collaborative album, Beneath the Surface, in 1998. It featured over 30 rappers, mainly from Los Angeles. [11] [12]
His solo debut album, Distant Drummer , was released on Beneath the Surface in 2002. [13] It was inspired by Dan Simmons' novel Hyperion , the music of Sun Ra, among other things. [10]
In 2003, he released the album, Monolith , on Mush Records. [14] It featured contributions from the likes of Abstract Rude, 2Mex, [15] Buck 65, [16] Luckyiam, Aceyalone, Murs, and Slug. [17] The title comes from Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2010: Odyssey Two . [18]
In 2007, he released the instrumental album, Afterwords 3, on Alpha Pup Records. [19]
He is the music supervisor of This Is the Life , a documentary film which chronicles the Good Life Cafe. [20] [21]
In 2013, he returned with Modern Persian Speech Sounds. [1]
In a 2003 interview, Omid Walizadeh talked about his music making process: "90% of my music is sample based, but I tweek and rearrange and change the samples to my bidding. Just taking a note here and a drum hit there and creating a whole different arrangement." [18]
He uses an Ensoniq ASR-10, Yamaha CS1x, and Pro Tools. [10]
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