“They say you get as long as you need to make your first album, but the second one you get a year!” jokes Cut Chemist.

No sweat, folks -- this scientist is ready: The Los Angeles native recorded hundreds of songs before selecting the final 12 for his Warner Bros. Records debut album, The Audience’s Listening. With that important breakthrough made, this celebrated DJ/producer has now got enough of his own solo material for several more albums, and volumes of inspiration to spare. Just try to stop him now.

Consider this: Cut Chemist’s hundreds of songs have been built with the assistance of thousands of rare, crazy, odd, eccentric and quite often unplaceable samples from other records, a truly global library that has been amassed from his extensive travels and dates back to sometime around 1977, when a young, pajama’d Lucas Macfadden was photographed asleep and snuggled up tight to his very own vinyl copy of Disney’s Haunted Mansion. Dedication from the early days.