Mike Gao was only a child when he witnessed the bloodbath of the Tiananmen Square Massacre and escaped China. His grandfather, a leading voice of Constitutionalism in China, was jailed for sympathizing with the movement for democracy. He left for Japan, learning the language and soaking in the culture before immigrating to the United States. A music technology researcher with multiple beat battle wins and a successful iPhone app for detecting beat-boxing (Vocal Beater), Mike Gao is a Los Angeles beat scene secret.

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