![]() “I don’t think that deep into it, or else it becomes work.” But over a decade’s time, he’s put in a lot of man-hours, becoming an accomplished producer. Even now he intends for music to remain a hobby. “I don’t think I’ve ever thought, Yeah, I want to be a professional musician,” he says. In spite of his hometown acclaim, he approached composing without ambition. Everybody liked it.” But Volpe was getting bad grades and smoking a lot of weed. “Our friends’ older brothers thought it was funny and cool. They made about ten songs, burned them to CDs and circulated them in class. “I make a lot of goofy, stupid stuff,” he says about his beats, which he’d have his friends rap over after school. He started listening to mainstream hip-hop around 1998 and during his freshman year of high school, bought a sampler so he could start messing around with production. For the last two years he’s been studying to become an assistant physical therapist, completing some of his residency at the hospital where he was born.Īs a kid, Volpe played drums and dabbled with the stand-up bass. Gold-framed pictures of Volpe hang in the front room. You can do anything.” He lives with his mother, her friend from college and two small dogs in a nice, partially carpeted house with a straightforward lawn. ![]() “An hour away from the beach, an hour away from mountains out west. “My town is ten to fifteen minutes from the city,” he says. Mike Volpe, better known as producer Clams Casino, has spent his whole life in Nutley, New Jersey. ![]()
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