James Koga

Hometown: Irvine, CA

Major: Computer Science

I’m captivated by the art of sampling.  Hip hop producers integrate wildly different audio snippets, anything from an old R&B track to a presidential speech, into their own songs.  As a music producer myself, you can find me listening to my friend’s singing debut or splicing my favorite movie soundtrack trying to find different ways to chop, reverse, and speed up the audio samples in my next beat. 

Much like music production, I love finding different ways to use technology to combine my interests within entrepreneurship and music. Some of my more tangential interests include competing in fantasy football leagues, traveling for club swim meets, recreating dishes from foodie movies, and eating a good fried chicken sandwich.

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