paper buddha

My name is Gary Brotman (a.k.a. DJ Gary-O) and I’m an electronic music fanatic who has spent the majority of life either playing, spinning, listening to, or marketing music. I’m currently a Sr. Director on the Marketing and Artist Services team at an amazing music start-up called Topspin. Our aim is to do for direct-to-fan music marketing what ProTools did for music production. The folks I work with are an extremely talented bunch and they’re also a blast to hang with after work. The founder and former CEO of Digidesign, Peter Gotcher, is a Topspin co-founder (along with my good friend Shamal Ranasinghe) and chairman, and music visionary, Ian Rogers, is at the helm. I’ve had the pleasure of working with all three of these brilliant guys for almost a decade at Musicmatch, Yahoo! Music and now deep in the heart of the music biz at Topspin.

In a previous life I was a club and rave DJ and I’ve had the privilege of sharing the bill with a number of talented DJs and producers including DJ Dan, Derrick May, Doc Martin, Stacey Pullen, Jon Williams, Scott KardKiss, Gavin Hardkiss, Robbie Hardkiss, Derrick Carter, Graeme, Super DJ Dimitri, DJ Hardware, DRC, DJ Icey, DJ Duke, Eric Davenport, DJ Micro, James Christian, DJ Who, Terry Mullan, Freaky Chakra, Single Cell Orchestra, Carl Craig, Rabbit in the Moon, Mark E Quark, Wade Randolph Hampton, Rob Vaughan, Merritt, Britton, Michael Todd, Redeye, A1, Robert Taylor, and DJ Love, to name a few. I still spin records – mostly for fun when I have some free time, and I still get the occasional club booking here and there. I think I’ve become an even better DJ since spinning records became more of a hobby for me again instead of a way to pay the bills.

Paper Buddha is the name of a design I created in the early 1990s when I was a full-time DJ, a design that later became my logo. It’s also an homage to my first mass-produced mix tape.

Please don’t hesitate to drop me a line if you have any feedback you’d like to share.