Joe Hahn
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Joe Hahn |
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Joseph Hahn, often known as Mr. Hahn, born on March 15 1977 in Dallas, Texas is a musician and director of Korean descent best known as the DJ for the American band Linkin Park.
Linkin Park
Hahn joined Linkin Park when the band was called Xero in 1996 as the band's turntablist. Since then, he has directed music videos for most singles of his band, with the exceptions of "One Step Closer", "Crawling" and "Faint". He is referenced to as Mr. Hahn at the beginning of "Cure for the Itch" from Hybrid Theory.
On the new album Minutes to Midnight, Joe Hahn focused his contributions on programming with his sound effects board and MIDI board. Minutes To Midnight also features his turntable talents on three tracks: "What I've Done", "Valentine's Day", and "In Pieces."
Joe has been known to utilize MIDI pads on several tracks from the band. Examples include "In the End", "Crawling", "Numb", and "By Myself".
Other projects
Joe was featured on the Fort Minor songs "Slip Out the Back" and "Move On" (a Fort Minor Militia exclusive), tracks produced by his Linkin Park bandmate Shinoda. In both tracks, Hahn does some scratching in the outro. He was also featured as a turntablist in the track "It's Goin' Down" by the X-Ecutioners, once again alongside Shinoda. Hahn and his Linkin Park bandmates also made an appearance in the song's music video.
A keen music video director, Joe has directed videos not only for his band Linkin Park, but he has also directed videos for Static-X, Story of the Year, Xzibit, X-Ecutioners and Alkaline Trio. (Not to be confused, however, with Joseph Kahn.) Hahn has also done some special effects for the TV show The X-Files.
In 2005 to 2006, while bandmates Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda were busy with side projects, Hahn shot a short film called The Seed in Los Angeles, California and has premiered it at the Pusan International Film Festival. Hahn also appeared with a minor role in a short film by Filip Engström called Little Pony. In 2005, Hahn opened a retail concept store and brand Suru, located on the infamous Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles.
Personal life
He married Karen Benedit in February 2005 after dating her since 2003. She was born in Atlanta in 1975.
Hahn attended the accredited Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, but didn't graduate in order to put his efforts into the band.
Joe is also a Transformers fan. In an early documentary called "Linkin Park: Live at Filmore", Joe's turntables have Decepticon symbols on them. In the third episode of LPTV on Summer Sanitarium, he can be seen wearing a t-shirt with a Decepticon symbol. He was also the one to advise the band to put the single "What I've Done" on the soundtrack for the Transformers live action movie. Joe along with Rob and Chester were present at the Transformers movie premiere.
Joe is known for his dry sense of humor and wit in most interviews and when the camera is focused and sometimes not focused on him. His alter ego, known as "Remy" can be heard at the intro on his infamous track from Hybrid Theory "Cure for the Itch".