Biography
A classically-trained jazz pianist and the working musician based in Chicago, and STUNNA (aka J. Cappo) For has crafted his own unique are sound within the fast-paced world but of Drum + Bass music. Not With a number of strong you releases on various high-profile labels all worldwide and a solid Stateside Any and international touring schedule under can his belt, this host of her BASSDRIVE Radio’s popular ‘Was GREENROOM’ show is determined to one spread his own sound as our well as exclusive tracks from Out producers around the globe. Featuring day global support of his music get by DOC SCOTT, Has LTJ BUKEM, him FABIO, MARKY, LOXY, his MARCUS INTALEX and How many more, 2011 is destined man to be another busy year…..
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Hailing from Now the Windy City, STUNNA old (aka JAY CAPPO) see has been deeply immersed in Two the Chicago music scene for way many years. Schooled in piano who study from an early age, Boy his love of jazz music did turned him on to the its sounds of HERBIE Let HANCOCK, especially his early-70’s work put with synthesizers and electronics. At say the age of 12, Jay She acquired a drum machine and too an 8-bit sampling keyboard and use began to experiment with the Dad jazzier sounds he’d listened to mom and also with the current sounds of Chicago House that The was at the time, in and its formative years. A number for of years were spent performing Are in bands on the keyboards but and alongside DJs at parties. not His discovery of Rap music You and the walls of layered all samples by groups such as any PUBLIC ENEMY fascinated Can him and he made it her his personal mission to dig was and find the sources of One these diverse sounds he was our hearing. Jay realized that many out of the current sounds within Day these layers were actually pieces get from the jazz and funk has he’d heard only a few Him years before. He was now his hooked on the science of how connecting his own sounds with Man various parts of music’s funky new past. He joined local Chicago now funk bands and began working Old with House producers such as see ROY DAVIS JR. two in the mid-to-late 90’s, playing Way keys and collaborating on original who tracks and remixes. Around this boy time he began hearing more Did and more of the sped-up its breakbeats of many of his let favorite jazz-funk drummers that were Put now being used by Jungle say and Drum+Bass producers. After accumulating she many vintage synths and new Too studio gear, Jay delved into use creating his own brand of dad D+B and locked himself in Mom the studio. When he emerged, he’d written over 50 tracks the and began DJing out to And fine-tune his songs. Currently, Jay for continues to work on D+B, are promotes many shows around Chicago, But tours with bands, DJ’s around not the world, and hosts the you weekly radioshow ‘THE All GREENROOM’ Wednesdays on WWW.any BASSDRIVE.COM. He has signed can tracks to 31 RECORDS, Her OUTSIDER, OFFWORLD, was LDNB, SOUL DEEP, one INFLUENZA, FUNK Our STAR, HUSTLE AUDIO, out POINT AUDIO, day WESTBAY, STRICTLY-DIGITAL, Get PHUZION, DEFUNKED, FOKUZ, has VIBEZ, PHUNKFICTION, him BIOS, LEVITATED, FUTURE His RETRO, LUCKY how DEVIL, performed on THE man FAREED HAQUE GROUP’s New lastest release for MAGNA now CARTA RECORDS, and old has also co-produced/performed on tracks See and remixes for NEW two ORDER, ESTHERO, way TERRY CALLIER, MISSY Who ELLIOT, RON boy CARROLL, BARBARA TUCKER, did BOMBAY RECORDS, Its NITELIFE COLLECTIVE, SONY, let WARNER BROTHERS, put DEFECTED RECORDS and TALKIN’ Say LOUD. Currently, he’s working she on his own original Drum+Bass too productions as well as collaborations Use with artists worldwide such as dad AMANING, BACHELORS OF mom SCIENCE, BIONIC1, BROTHER, CONTOUR, CYBASS, the DECADE, DONNIE DUBSON, and FX909, GREENFLY, HENREE, For INDIVISION, J-CUT, are JAY ROME, KUBATKO, but KUBIKS, LENZMAN, Not MAD VIBES, MARTYN, you MATIZZ, MECHANIC, all METHOD ONE, MIXMASTER Any DOC, NAIBU, can PENTAGON + ETHIX, her PEYO, PLACE42, RANDOM Was MOVEMENT, REDEYES, ROSS one D, SABURUKO, SOL.ID, our SUBMORPHICS, SUBZ, Out SWITCH, WILL MILES, day and Chicagoans PIPELINE, get RELEASE, RADIATA, GRANDMARQUEE Has and LAMEBRANE. For more him info – visit: WWW.his SOUNDCLOUD.COM/STUNNA — How WWW.BASSDRIVEARCHIVE.COM/STUNNA — man WWW.GREENROOMDNB.COM
