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About
Matt Kane, also known as Pirata or MKB, is a software engineer, college radio DJ, amateur maker of foods, musician, and capoeirista.
MKB stands for Matt Kane's Brain, a moniker used across many media since 1996. MKB's musical career began in 1990 when he began taking flute lessons in school. Towards the end of high school, Matt became interested in electronic music. At a benefit concert in 1998 he performed his first electronic work, a lackluster cover of Underworld's "Born Slippy.NUXX" in front of a bewildered and bored crowd far more interested in the punk rock bands on the bill. Undeterred, Matt did not sell his keyboard and instead continued acquiring cheap electronic crap in hopes of one day becoming a superstar techno producer. He eventually bought some turntables and learned how to not trainwreck too badly when playing a sizable subset the best techno records in the world.
Matt's radio career began at the University of Rhode Island in 2000 at WRIU in Kingston, RI. His first program was the Jive Turkey, a weekly program on WRIU's training station, broadcast only on the campus cable television network. WRIU soon promoted him to FM soon, where he changed the show's name to The Hydrogen Economy. This continued until 2006, when Matt moved to the Boston area. In 2007, broadcasts resumed, this time on WZBC in Newton, MA. Currently, regular broadcasts are on hiatus.
Matt Kane is also a dashing yet mild-mannered software engineer. Here is his resume.
In his other other life, Matt is also known as Pirata, a capoeirista training with Contra Mestre Marquinho Coreba under Mestre Mão Branca. You can find more information on capoeira here.
MKB stands for Matt Kane's Brain, a moniker used across many media since 1996. MKB's musical career began in 1990 when he began taking flute lessons in school. Towards the end of high school, Matt became interested in electronic music. At a benefit concert in 1998 he performed his first electronic work, a lackluster cover of Underworld's "Born Slippy.NUXX" in front of a bewildered and bored crowd far more interested in the punk rock bands on the bill. Undeterred, Matt did not sell his keyboard and instead continued acquiring cheap electronic crap in hopes of one day becoming a superstar techno producer. He eventually bought some turntables and learned how to not trainwreck too badly when playing a sizable subset the best techno records in the world.
Matt's radio career began at the University of Rhode Island in 2000 at WRIU in Kingston, RI. His first program was the Jive Turkey, a weekly program on WRIU's training station, broadcast only on the campus cable television network. WRIU soon promoted him to FM soon, where he changed the show's name to The Hydrogen Economy. This continued until 2006, when Matt moved to the Boston area. In 2007, broadcasts resumed, this time on WZBC in Newton, MA. Currently, regular broadcasts are on hiatus.
Matt Kane is also a dashing yet mild-mannered software engineer. Here is his resume.
In his other other life, Matt is also known as Pirata, a capoeirista training with Contra Mestre Marquinho Coreba under Mestre Mão Branca. You can find more information on capoeira here.
