Michael Volpe (born May 12, 1987), known professionally as Clams Casino, is an American
record producer
A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure.Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as ...
and
songwriter
A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music gen ...
from
Nutley, New Jersey. Volpe is currently signed to
Columbia Records
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and
Sony Music
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. He has produced tracks for artists such as
ASAP Rocky
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,
Lil B
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,
Vince Staples
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Staples rose to pr ...
,
Joji,
The Weeknd
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, and
Mac Miller
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and has also remixed works by
Big K.R.I.T.
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,
Washed Out
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, and
Lana Del Rey
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.
Career
A resident of
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,[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 Sch ...]
.
Volpe's official debut EP ''Rainforest'' was released through
Tri Angle Records in 2011. His ''
Instrumentals
A backing track is an audio recording on audiotape, CD or a digital recording medium or a MIDI recording of synthesized instruments, sometimes of purely rhythmic accompaniment, often of a rhythm section or other accompaniment parts that live mus ...
'' 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
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 ...
released in 2014. He released his debut studio album ''
32 Levels'' through
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Sony. It was founded on Janua ...
in 2016. He followed it up with his ''Instrumentals 4'' mixtape, released in 2017.
In April 2020, Clams Casino cleared the
Imogen Heap
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Heap classically trained in piano, cello and clarinet starting at a ...
sample for his instrumental "I'm God", which first appeared on Lil B's 2009 album ''6 Kiss''. The song remains his most popular, with over 25 million views on YouTube.
Musical style
Volpe's music has been described as "
ringing
Ringing may mean:
Vibrations
* Ringing (signal), unwanted oscillation of a signal, leading to ringing artifacts
* Vibration of a harmonic oscillator
** Bell ringing
* Ringing (telephony), the sound of a telephone bell
* Ringing (medicine), a ri ...
together conventional hip-hop drums, a sensitive ear for off-to-the-side melodies, and an overdose of oddly moving atmosphere."
Discography
Studio albums
Extended plays
Mixtapes
Compilations
Singles
As lead artist
As featured artist
References
External links
Official Web siteOfficial Facebook page*
*
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1987 births
Living people
American electronic musicians
American hip hop record producers
American people of Italian descent
Columbia Records artists
East Coast hip hop musicians
Musicians from New Jersey
Nutley High School alumni
People from Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey
People from Nutley, New Jersey
Trip hop musicians