Born into a music loving family, Hawk was surrounded by sounds of his father’s jazz record collection and his mother’s classical guitar playing from an early age. He spent his college years running his own recording studio and producing hip-hop acts in the San Francisco, Bay Area. Then, he went to his first rave and got hooked on electronic dance music. He played the LA club circuit for years as a DJ and performing live electronic music whenever possible. Being in LA helped him to get his progressive dance music into the right hands and his tracks have been featured in numerous films and television shows. A firm believer of the saying, “share the knowledge”, Hawk has published several books about music production and teaches music production courses at Berkleemusic.com. You can read his music production blog at http://erikhawkins.berkleemusicblogs.com. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.