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Clams Casino (musician)
Michael Volpe (born May 12, 1987), known professionally as Clams Casino, is an American record producer and songwriter from Nutley, New Jersey. Volpe is currently signed to Columbia Records and Sony Music. He has produced tracks for artists such as ASAP Rocky, Lil B, Vince Staples, Joji, The Weeknd, and Mac Miller and has also remixed works by Big K.R.I.T., Washed Out, and Lana Del Rey. Career A resident of Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, Volpe got his start in music tinkering with keyboards while he was a student at Nutley High School. Volpe's official debut EP ''Rainforest'' was released through Tri Angle Records in 2011. His ''Instrumentals'' mixtape was released on March 7, 2011, followed by the release of ''Instrumentals 2'' on June 5, 2012 and ''Instrumentals 3'' in 2013. The mixtapes were distributed for free through his website. Volpe contributed a score for ''Locomotor'', a work choreographed by his cousin Stephen Petronio released in 2014. He released his debut stu ...
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Nutley, New Jersey
Nutley is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 30,143. What is now Nutley was originally incorporated as Franklin Township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 18, 1874, from portions of Belleville Township. Nutley was incorporated as a town on March 5, 1902, replacing Franklin Township.Snyder, John P''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606–1968'' Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 130 for Nutley, p. 128 for Franklin Township. Accessed June 1, 2012. In 1981, the town was one of seven Essex County municipalities to pass a referendum to become a township, joining four municipalities that had already made the change, of what would ultimately be more than a dozen Essex County municipalities to reclassify themselves as townships in order take advantage of federal revenue sharing policies that allocated townships a greater share of government ai ...
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Lil Peep
Gustav Elijah Åhr (November 1, 1996 – November 15, 2017), known professionally as Lil Peep, was an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He was a member of the emo rap collective GothBoiClique. Helping pioneer an emo revival-style of Rapping, rap and Rock music, rock music, Lil Peep has been credited as a leading figure of the mid–late 2010s emo rap scene and came to be an inspiration to outcasts and youth subcultures. Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to an American mother and a Swedish father and raised on Long Island, Åhr started releasing music on SoundCloud in 2013 under the name "Trap Goose", later changing his artist name to Lil Peep because his mother had called him "Peep" since he was a baby. He soon became popular on the platform with the release of his 2015 single "Star Shopping", and his popularity grew further with his release of mixtapes ''Lil Peep; Part One'' and Live Forever (Lil Peep mixtape), ''Live Forever'' later that year. In 2016, Lil Peep released ...
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32 Levels
''32 Levels'' is the debut studio album by American record producer Clams Casino. It was released on July 15, 2016, by Columbia Records. The album contains guest appearances from Lil B, ASAP Rocky, Vince Staples, Sam Dew, Mikky Ekko, Kelela, and Samuel T. Herring, among others. Critical reception ''32 Levels'' received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 76, based on 19 reviews. Writing for '' Exclaim!'', Stephen Carlick called the album "an adventurous but inconsistent affair". Track listing Notes * signifies a co-producer * signifies an additional producer * "Level 1" features vocals by Lil B * "Be Somebody" features vocals by Mikky Ekko, and additional vocals by Sterling Fox Brandon Lowry (born November 2, 1983), better known by his stage name Sterling Fox, is a songwriter, record producer and recording artist. He has wr ...
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Stephen Petronio
Stephen Petronio (born March 20, 1956) is an American choreographer, dancer, and the artistic director of New York City-based Stephen Petronio Company. Stephen Petronio was born in Newark, New Jersey. He grew up in nearby Nutley and graduated in 1974 from Nutley High School. He received a B.A. degree from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he began dancing in 1974. Prior to pursuing a career in dance, Petronio studied pre-medicine before being inspired by the dancing of Rudolf Nureyev and Steve Paxton, with whom he studied contact improvisation. From 1982 to 1987 he was a member of Channel Z, an improvisation performance ensemble based in New York City. Other members of the ensemble included Daniel Lepkoff, Diane Madden, Robin Feld, Randy Warschaw, Paul Langland, and Nina Martin. Petronio became the first male dancer of the Trisha Brown Company (1979 to 1986), and founded Stephen Petronio Company in 1984. He has gone on to build a unique and powerful language of ...
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Instrumentals (mixtape)
''Instrumentals'' is the debut mixtape of American record producer Clams Casino (musician), Clams Casino. It was self-released as a free music download, digital download on March 7, 2011. It features instrumentals of tracks that he produced for various rappers, including some bonus songs. In July 2011, ''Instrumentals'' was reissued by Type Records as a physical release. Music ''Instrumentals'' consists of Clams Casino's reconstructions of backing tracks he originally produced for rappers such as Lil B and Soulja Boy. An electronic music, electronic mixtape, it features illbient, glitch (music), glitchbeat, and chillwave styles. Some of the mixtape explores a more traditional hip hop music, hip hop sound. Its second half touches on bouncy basslines ("She's Hot"), dubstep-influenced, bass (sound), low-end grind (music genre), grind ("Brainwash by London"), and vocal loop (music), looping similar to the production of Kanye West ("Cold War"). ''Instrumentals'' appropriates Casino's p ...
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Nutley High School
Nutley High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school in the Township of Nutley, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Nutley Public Schools. The school's colors are maroon and gray. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1928.Nutley High School
Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed August 30, 2020.
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Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey
Hasbrouck Heights (pronounced HAZ-brook /ˈhæz.bɹʊk/) is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 11,842,DP-1 - Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 for Hasbrouck Heights borough, Bergen County, New Jersey
. Accessed March 5, 2013.

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Lana Del Rey
Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 21, 1985), known professionally as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer-songwriter. Her music is noted for its cinematic quality and exploration of tragic romance, glamour, and melancholia, with frequent references to contemporary pop culture and 1950s–1960s Americana. She is the recipient of various accolades, including two Brit Awards, two MTV Europe Music Awards, and a Satellite Award, in addition to nominations for six Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. ''Variety'' honored her at their Hitmakers Awards for being "one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 21st century." Raised in upstate New York, Del Rey moved to New York City in 2005 to pursue a music career. After numerous projects, including her self-titled debut studio album, Del Rey's breakthrough came in 2011 with the viral success of her single "Video Games"; she subsequently signed a recording contract with Polydor and Interscope. She achieved critical ...
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Washed Out
Ernest Weatherly Greene Jr. (born October 3, 1982), known professionally as Washed Out, is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. Commonly associated with the chillwave genre in the 2010s, Pitchfork dubbed him "the godfather of chillwave". Life and career Ernest Weatherly Greene Jr. was born on October 3, 1982, in Perry, Georgia, and currently lives in Atlanta. After earning an undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, he obtained a Master of Library and Information Science degree but was unable to find a job as a librarian. Greene moved back in with his parents and started producing songs in his bedroom studio, as well as working on recordings of dance music with Bedroom, a local band. During 2008 he recorded lo-fi rock music under the name Lee Weather, but the following summer he found more success with his new project, Washed Out. He was soon discovered by a number of influential music bloggers after they found his music on his Myspace page. His first ...
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Big K
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The Weeknd
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (born February 16, 1990), known professionally as the Weeknd, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. Known for his sonic versatility and dark lyricism, his music explores escapism, Romance (love), romance, and melancholia, and is often inspired by personal experiences. He has received List of awards and nominations received by the Weeknd, numerous accolades, including four Grammy Awards, a Latin Grammy Awards, Latin Grammy Award, 20 Billboard Music Awards, ''Billboard'' Music Awards, 17 Juno Awards, six American Music Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, and nominations for an Academy Awards, Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Awards, Primetime Emmy Award. Born and raised in Toronto, Tesfaye began his career in 2009 by anonymously releasing music on YouTube. Two years later, he co-founded the XO (record label), XO record label and released the mixtapes ''House of Balloons'', ''Thursday (album), Thursday'' and ''Echoes of Silence'', ...
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Joji (singer)
, known professionally as Joji and formerly for playing the characters Filthy Frank and Pink Guy, is a Japanese singer-songwriter, rapper, former comedian, and YouTuber. Miller's music has been described as a mix between R&B, lo-fi, and trip hop. Miller created "The Filthy Frank Show" on YouTube in 2011 shortly after moving to the United States, gaining recognition for playing oddball characters on the comedy channels TVFilthyFrank, TooDamnFilthy, and DizastaMusic. The channels, which featured comedy hip hop, rants, extreme challenges, and ukulele and dance performances, are noted for their shock humor and prolific virality. Miller's videos helped popularize the Harlem Shake, which contributed to the commercial success of Baauer's song of the same name which led to the production of memes and collaborations with YouTubers. As Pink Guy, Miller released two comedy studio albums and an extended play between 2014 and 2017. In late 2017, Miller ended "The Filthy Frank Show" to ...
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