NAME?
Doctor Rosen Rosen

HAVE YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A DOCTOR?
No, not always. When I was a kid I wanted to be a part of the "royal family," which was Michael Jackson, Prince, and Madonna. Unfortunately, I had no shot at being a part of any royal family, because I was 1/2 Jewish and lived in Idaho.

WHEN DID YOU KNOW YOU WANTED TO BE A DOCTOR?
In 1992 when Dr. Dre's The Chronic came out. That record was like nothing I had ever heard. The sonic formula sounded so fresh and amazing, mixing hard spare beats, melodic samples, slick bass lines, and nasty synths. I was 13 at the time, so the foul language and drug references definitely seemed cool too. I even had a marijuana hat like the one Snoop Dog wore in the Nuthin' But A G Thang video. I can't believe my folks let me wear that thing.

TELL ME ABOUT YOUR BACKGROUND.
I grew up in Hailey Idaho, which is a small town outside of the Sun Valley Ski Resort. My Mom is a teacher, my Dad is in the auto-parts business, and my older brother is a musician (He gave me my first sythesizer, which was a Yamaha DX-100; I still use it 20 years later). It was a great place to grow up - I snowboarded in the winter, skateboarded in the summer, and partied in canyons. For college, I went to the University Of Montana, where I snowboarded, skateboarded, and partied in canyons.

WHAT IS THE REASON FOR YOUR POOR GRADES SOPHOMORE YEAR?
I would have to blame the grades on a Tascam 4-Track Cassette recorder, an Alesis SR-16 Drum Machine, and Old English Malt Liquor.

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT EUTHANASIA?
Well, the Japanese are notoriously huge music fans, especially the youth population. I would love to tour there.

TELL ME ABOUT YOUR RESEARCH.
After college, I moved to New York City and started a band called The Handsome Public with my friend Vickers Bastard Gringo. We split vocal duties, I did all of the keyboards and production, and Vickers played guitar and made videos for our live shows. We called our sound rogue-pop, which was like a mix of Talking Heads + Danzig + Duran Duran + Justin Timberlake. One of my favorite moments was playing the Iceland Airwaves music festival.

WHERE WAS YOUR RESIDENCY?
At a really shady hip hop studio in New York. The hours were crazy and I never got paid, but there were some amazing producers coming through, so I stuck it out. I met Styles from the production team, Dangerous LLC, who was producing 50 Cent songs. He liked my stuff, gave me a CD with drum samples, and told me to get to work. That CD changed my life - I became obsessed with making hip-hop beats, and the next thing I knew, I was delivering my beats to G-Unit Records.

I UNDERSTAND YOU RECENTLY SET UP YOUR OWN PRACTICE?
After Living in NYC for 8 years, I decided to focus my concentration on producing, so I moved to Los Angeles and set up a studio (aka: The Lab) in my house. I dove into bootleg remixing, starting with a very dark remix of Britney Spears Womanizer that took off on the internet and put my name on the map. Just two months later, I got my first big break and was hired to do an official remix for Interscope records, remixing the Timbaland produced Scream by Chris Cornell. Everything has grown from there - I've been holed up in my lab working on tons of remixes, original productions, and my debut solo record.

WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN 10 YEARS?
In N Out Burger having lunch with Mariah Carey.

WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN 10 MINUTES?
In N Out Burger having lunch by myself.