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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: Chad on September 08, 2009, 05:07:47 AM
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Dubcnn had the honor and privilege of getting an exclusive interview with Lara Lavi, the new owner of Death Row Records. As many of you know, WIDEawake/Death Row just released Dr. Dre’s The Chronic – Re-Lit, packaged with 7 unreleased Death Row songs and a DVD titled From The Vault earlier this week. So, in true Dubcnn fashion, it’s only right that we catch up with Lara Lavi to discuss her feelings about the aforementioned release, how much involvement Dr. Dre may have had, her thoughts on Daz and the Neu-Ro situation, as well as what the plans are for the future releases of former Death Row artists like Lady of Rage, Crooked I, Danny Boy and even MC Hammer.
We also talk about the upcoming Snoop Doggy Dogg – The Death Row Lost Sessions release, which is scheduled to drop in October, what WIDEawake/Death Row is actually able to release of Dr. Dre material, and the break down of what the company’s new ownership entails. You definitely don’t want to miss out on this exclusive interview!
http://www.dubcnn.com/interviews/laralavi/ (http://www.dubcnn.com/interviews/laralavi/)
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Great job my man..
would really like to know if they could release a DVD of all the performances from the Death Row acts during the early 90s to about 96 in HQ..
would really like too see a HQ performance of Snoop doin Gin & Juice @ the AMA's, HQ of their performance on "The Show", at the Apollo, SNL and maybe some performance by 2pac, Lady Of Rage and so on..
would be nice, but again props
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Thanks, i'll check this out right now.
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Wow, she says she talked to Soopafly about some songs. Apparently there's some unreleased Soopafly in the vaults, that's good news!
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Big Up Man ... :o
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I hope they release a DVD with all of the Death Row music videos.
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No word on Sam Sneed?
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Thx for the interview
Brian Gardner and Bernie Grundman to master all future releases = great news
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Propz for the interview
No word on Sam Sneed?
Yea, I've noticed it. Hope the album sampler of Street Scholars that was featured on one of Dante's projects gonna leak sometime.. 8)
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No word on Jewell ?
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Jewell is pretty much confirmed, they already dropped some of her tracks so I guess their is no problem. but damn lol did anyone else notice Suge got fucked in teh ass hard? I mean not even referring 2 him by name. Damn he doesn't get any production credit, when infact he did help with a lot of classic tracks. Oh well, guess that's what the fat nigga gets, Karmas a bastard.
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Damn he doesn't get any production credit, when infact he did help with a lot of classic tracks. Oh well, guess that's what the fat nigga gets, Karmas a bastard.
What the fuck do you mean by this shit?
No word on Sam Sneed?
Yea, I've noticed it. Hope the album sampler of Street Scholars that was featured on one of Dante's projects gonna leak sometime
I asked about this in another thread, does anybody have this or y'all just speakin' about somethin' that ain't nobody even heard?
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great interview, we should be expecting some 2pac stuff soon then,hopfully that if afeni agrees
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Hope Daz sees the interview here, that Death Row tour stuff sounds nice!
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damn this sounds cool but somebody could ask about nate dogg ?? don't forget he was a pioneer at death row..
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great interview, we should be expecting some 2pac stuff soon then,hopfully that if afeni agrees
Wouldn't count on it, Afeni propably wants to rape it with Gucci Mane & Souljah Boy to get more crackmoney.
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well done Chad & Jonathan :)
when i first heard about Wideawake i was very skeptical, but it turned out that the company kept it's word 8)
sure, there are no Chronic leftovers on Re-lit, but that's not their fault.
i know that some people on here thought that it was a stupid move to put out another Chronic version as the first release of the "new" death row,
but from a marketing point of view it's quite smart. if Wideawake came with a "smaller" release, such as a Crooked I album, Danny Boy album etc. they would have had a worse start.
to have a Snoop Dogg release as a followup only makes sense, as he really blew up after The Chronic.
Jewell is pretty much confirmed, they already dropped some of her tracks so I guess their is no problem. but damn lol did anyone else notice Suge got fucked in teh ass hard? I mean not even referring 2 him by name. Damn he doesn't get any production credit, when infact he did help with a lot of classic tracks. Oh well, guess that's what the fat nigga gets, Karmas a bastard.
he gets credit for what he has done, not for stuff that he hasn't done, sounds fair to me.
i don't see how he's getting fucked, as he let the company go bankrupt in the first place.
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well done Chad & Jonathan :)
when i first heard about Wideawake i was very skeptical, but it turned out that the company kept it's word 8)
sure, there are no Chronic leftovers on Re-lit, but that's not their fault.
i know that some people on here thought that it was a stupid move to put out another Chronic version as the first release of the "new" death row,
but from a marketing point of view it's quite smart. if Wideawake came with a "smaller" release, such as a Crooked I album, Danny Boy album etc. they would have had a worse start.
to have a Snoop Dogg release as a followup only makes sense, as he really blew up after The Chronic.
Agreed....i just hope they don't get discouraged if some of their smaller releases don't move major units. As much as we all would hate to admit it, death row albums from Crooked I, Lady of Rage, Jewell, CPO, etc. are not going to move big units. I hope after their first small release doesn't sell real well that they don't just give up on everything. As much as I love to hear the unreleased Snoop and eventually 2Pac, i hope they don't continue to fall back on those two after the other releases don't sell real well like the original death row recrods used to do.
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Thx for the interview
Brian Gardner and Bernie Grundman to master all future releases = great news
Yup!
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Thx for the interview
Brian Gardner and Bernie Grundman to master all future releases = great news
indeed, especially Big Bass
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great interview, we should be expecting some 2pac stuff soon then,hopfully that if afeni agrees
Wouldn't count on it, Afeni propably wants to rape it with Gucci Mane & Souljah Boy to get more crackmoney.
lol
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great interview, we should be expecting some 2pac stuff soon then,hopfully that if afeni agrees
Wouldn't count on it, Afeni propably wants to rape it with Gucci Mane & Souljah Boy to get more crackmoney.
lol
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great intreview, big bass--thats some great news!!
lol suge aka previous owner....he really fucked up
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Good news to hear the artists will get paid.
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so the re-lit bonus tracks were mastered? wow
whoever did that did about as good a job as the guy who did joe budden's escape route ep or whatever it was
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thanks for the interview. Sounds like a lot of promise and I like what I have seen so far. I will continue to support as long as they drop quality projects.
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if they're releasing a doggystyle re-lit why are they releasing doggystyle on this lost sessions disk? doggystyle would be perfect for a doggystyle reissue. oh well i want it sooner and not stuck on some dvd so its all good.
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Damn he doesn't get any production credit, when infact he did help with a lot of classic tracks. Oh well, guess that's what the fat nigga gets, Karmas a bastard.
What the fuck do you mean by this shit?
No word on Sam Sneed?
Yea, I've noticed it. Hope the album sampler of Street Scholars that was featured on one of Dante's projects gonna leak sometime
I asked about this in another thread, does anybody have this or y'all just speakin' about somethin' that ain't nobody even heard?
I've read the info that leaked from 2Pac forum and it says the sampler was featured on Vault Access Vol. 2:
Sam Sneed - Street Scholars [Demo Clips]
--01 Intro.mp3
--02 Hollywood.mp3
--03 Drug Related.mp3
--04 The Heist.mp3
--05 Lady Heroin.mp3
--06 Lookin' For.mp3
--07 The Zone.mp3
--08 It's So Hot.mp3
--09 Street Scholars.mp3
--10 Confessions.mp3
--11 Lyrical Assassins.mp3
Bonus
------Slaves (2008).mp3 (A song recorded this year)
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damn, throw U Better Recognize somewhere in the middle of that album, blueberry somewhere and then the remix to U Better Recognize at the end and im sure this would of been a classic album, i wish someone coulda asked about Sneeds album in this interview, maybe they will say something about it someday.
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damn this sounds cool but somebody could ask about nate dogg ?? don't forget he was a pioneer at death row..
Real talk. I'd love to see his Death Row album officially released, and any other songs that he did over there.
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well done Chad & Jonathan :)
when i first heard about Wideawake i was very skeptical, but it turned out that the company kept it's word 8)
sure, there are no Chronic leftovers on Re-lit, but that's not their fault.
i know that some people on here thought that it was a stupid move to put out another Chronic version as the first release of the "new" death row,
but from a marketing point of view it's quite smart. if Wideawake came with a "smaller" release, such as a Crooked I album, Danny Boy album etc. they would have had a worse start.
to have a Snoop Dogg release as a followup only makes sense, as he really blew up after The Chronic.
Agreed....i just hope they don't get discouraged if some of their smaller releases don't move major units. As much as we all would hate to admit it, death row albums from Crooked I, Lady of Rage, Jewell, CPO, etc. are not going to move big units. I hope after their first small release doesn't sell real well that they don't just give up on everything. As much as I love to hear the unreleased Snoop and eventually 2Pac, i hope they don't continue to fall back on those two after the other releases don't sell real well like the original death row recrods used to do.
yeah that would be quite weak
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well done Chad & Jonathan :)
when i first heard about Wideawake i was very skeptical, but it turned out that the company kept it's word 8)
sure, there are no Chronic leftovers on Re-lit, but that's not their fault.
i know that some people on here thought that it was a stupid move to put out another Chronic version as the first release of the "new" death row,
but from a marketing point of view it's quite smart. if Wideawake came with a "smaller" release, such as a Crooked I album, Danny Boy album etc. they would have had a worse start.
to have a Snoop Dogg release as a followup only makes sense, as he really blew up after The Chronic.
Agreed....i just hope they don't get discouraged if some of their smaller releases don't move major units. As much as we all would hate to admit it, death row albums from Crooked I, Lady of Rage, Jewell, CPO, etc. are not going to move big units. I hope after their first small release doesn't sell real well that they don't just give up on everything. As much as I love to hear the unreleased Snoop and eventually 2Pac, i hope they don't continue to fall back on those two after the other releases don't sell real well like the original death row recrods used to do.
yeah that would be quite weak
Given the fact they have a ENTIRE vault full of albums and stuff, They wouldn't just automatically going back into submission. Chances are they'll just whore out the tracks to every game,movie and cell phone ring tone. You know like now lol except no real releases. Maybe Digital....but yeah be a bad business decision to let the name and all the prerecorded tracks go to waste.
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well done Chad & Jonathan :)
when i first heard about Wideawake i was very skeptical, but it turned out that the company kept it's word 8)
sure, there are no Chronic leftovers on Re-lit, but that's not their fault.
i know that some people on here thought that it was a stupid move to put out another Chronic version as the first release of the "new" death row,
but from a marketing point of view it's quite smart. if Wideawake came with a "smaller" release, such as a Crooked I album, Danny Boy album etc. they would have had a worse start.
to have a Snoop Dogg release as a followup only makes sense, as he really blew up after The Chronic.
Agreed....i just hope they don't get discouraged if some of their smaller releases don't move major units. As much as we all would hate to admit it, death row albums from Crooked I, Lady of Rage, Jewell, CPO, etc. are not going to move big units. I hope after their first small release doesn't sell real well that they don't just give up on everything.
Do you really think that they could do that? I think they were aware of every detail of this business when they were to buy Death Row. They spent so much money to do that therefore they will try to get as much as possible from releasing The Vault. No reason to panic ;)
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if anybody was going to stop those releases from happening, it would be disgruntled artists.
so much shyt fans miss out on because of inhouse business politics
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well done Chad & Jonathan :)
when i first heard about Wideawake i was very skeptical, but it turned out that the company kept it's word 8)
sure, there are no Chronic leftovers on Re-lit, but that's not their fault.
i know that some people on here thought that it was a stupid move to put out another Chronic version as the first release of the "new" death row,
but from a marketing point of view it's quite smart. if Wideawake came with a "smaller" release, such as a Crooked I album, Danny Boy album etc. they would have had a worse start.
to have a Snoop Dogg release as a followup only makes sense, as he really blew up after The Chronic.
Agreed....i just hope they don't get discouraged if some of their smaller releases don't move major units. As much as we all would hate to admit it, death row albums from Crooked I, Lady of Rage, Jewell, CPO, etc. are not going to move big units. I hope after their first small release doesn't sell real well that they don't just give up on everything.
Do you really think that they could do that? I think they were aware of every detail of this business when they were to buy Death Row. They spent so much money to do that therefore they will try to get as much as possible from releasing The Vault. No reason to panic ;)
good point
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well done Chad & Jonathan :)
when i first heard about Wideawake i was very skeptical, but it turned out that the company kept it's word 8)
sure, there are no Chronic leftovers on Re-lit, but that's not their fault.
i know that some people on here thought that it was a stupid move to put out another Chronic version as the first release of the "new" death row,
but from a marketing point of view it's quite smart. if Wideawake came with a "smaller" release, such as a Crooked I album, Danny Boy album etc. they would have had a worse start.
to have a Snoop Dogg release as a followup only makes sense, as he really blew up after The Chronic.
Agreed....i just hope they don't get discouraged if some of their smaller releases don't move major units. As much as we all would hate to admit it, death row albums from Crooked I, Lady of Rage, Jewell, CPO, etc. are not going to move big units. I hope after their first small release doesn't sell real well that they don't just give up on everything.
Do you really think that they could do that? I think they were aware of every detail of this business when they were to buy Death Row. They spent so much money to do that therefore they will try to get as much as possible from releasing The Vault. No reason to panic ;)
good point
Yeah, i'm not too worried....i just hope they didn't overestimate how much some of these releases will sell. Most of the kids i know nowadays have no interest in this old death row stuff. I personally think it's a great...i bought the clean and dirty version of the new Chronic, so i hope they don't give up....BTW, their new movie they are working on Death Row: Saigon does not look very good. The preview looked weak IMO.
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You know, with all this talk of ALL THIS UNRELEASED MATERIAL, that Wideawake is free and open to use, as long as it's under Suges publishing, there's one question that I've been asking myself the past few days;
Why didn't Suge put out any of this stuff himself?
If Wideawake can put out all these planned projects, with the original music, why then when Suge put out those Snoop DMW albums, and DPG 2002 crap, why did he remix them? Why wasn't Suge putting out his own version of "Deathrow: Shit You Never Heard" as opposed to "Deathrows Greatest Hits vol. 8?"
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You know, with all this talk of ALL THIS UNRELEASED MATERIAL, that Wideawake is free and open to use, as long as it's under Suges publishing, there's one question that I've been asking myself the past few days;
Why didn't Suge put out any of this stuff himself?
If Wideawake can put out all these planned projects, with the original music, why then when Suge put out those Snoop DMW albums, and DPG 2002 crap, why did he remix them? Why wasn't Suge putting out his own version of "Deathrow: Shit You Never Heard" as opposed to "Deathrows Greatest Hits vol. 8?"
Cause suge was a retard, but lets look at it like this.
2pac OGs were all given to Amaru aside from a few under contract.
Dr. Dre stop Suge from releasing any of his stuff.
Nearly every other artist threaten lawsuits when it came to suge. He didn't give anyone royalties, only ones were he DIDN'T need to was stuff already released.
You also have to remember Suge was in jail at lot after he came back and Renamed it Tha Row. He also had problems find distributers for albums, and people just refused to work with the label. IMO he never captlized off a lot of stuff, and he drove the label into debt. When he filed for Chapter 11 he wouldn't lose masterers, but the company was so broken down by then it didn't matter.
He went to jail right after 2pac died, dre was gone the label just went to shit nearly instant. He couldn't recover and the legal battles really took a toll on the label. He Remixed tracks supposedly to update them and to compare and leech of The rappers Current Releases. Dead Man walkin - No limit Top Dog, 2002 album to DPs current release.
The last REAL release was Kurupts album Against THe grain, but Kurupt removed tracks off the album, and Knoch didn't give it proper promotion and DEATH ROW actually told people to not buy it cause the track list was altered..
The mismanagement was just extremely bad. If that night in vegas would of never happened, The entire labels situation would be different. It still get fucked up cause Suges Rackateering charges, but it wouldn't of died out the way it did. IMO releasing everything now, is a good way to bring the label back and hopefully along the line actually sign new west coast acts and maybe try and bring back the West coast sound.
IMO he just really wasn't a good business man when the problems started to arise. People were constantly suing over Masters and royatlies, also he did stupid shit. Like Leak snoop's album and stuff. Plus former artist and employees were stealing masters and leaking them.
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so the re-lit bonus tracks were mastered? wow
Nope. They were NOT mastered... or mixed. It's absolutely mortifying, and completely unacceptable.
John Payne was in charge of track selection and post-production for Re Lit, same with the free Vault downloadable tracks from deathrowmusic.com. He failed on both counts. When it came time for him to submit the bonus music to WIDEawake he stalled, then waited until the absolute last minute. At that point they reviewed what he submitted and to their horror the audio quality was terrible and the track selection was mediocre. But it was too late and the music had to go to press. When asked who [the fuck!] prepared these records, John Jayne informed WIDEawake he mixed them and mastered them ..............(speechless).
That hack isn't a mixing engineer, he isn't a mastering engineer, he's an incompetent over-the-hill recording engineer who has no business in senior management at WIDEawake and people should probably write letters telling them so.
It's so sick and sad it's almost funny. Funny in that insanely hysterical, can't-fucking-believe-that-happened kind of way.
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You know, with all this talk of ALL THIS UNRELEASED MATERIAL, that Wideawake is free and open to use, as long as it's under Suges publishing, there's one question that I've been asking myself the past few days;
Why didn't Suge put out any of this stuff himself?
If Wideawake can put out all these planned projects, with the original music, why then when Suge put out those Snoop DMW albums, and DPG 2002 crap, why did he remix them? Why wasn't Suge putting out his own version of "Deathrow: Shit You Never Heard" as opposed to "Deathrows Greatest Hits vol. 8?"
A few reasons...Suge was obsessed with making sure anything that was released on the row went at least platinum. Eventually he took a chance with Rage, Michelle, and Daz, but once he saw they weren't selling well, he went back to what sold (2Pac, Dre Snoop) in the form of weak compilations. Secondly, Suge became obsessed with dissing people, namely Dre and Snoop/DPG. So he only wanted to put artists out that would diss them, which many wouldn't do. He couldn't release Dre's stuff, and he wasn't interested in old Snoop stuff. The only reason DMW got released was to try and hurt is record sales of Tha Last Meal, which came out at the same time. And DMW was obviously a diss with the pictures of snoop in a coffin on the back and the liner notes, and the title of the album. Suge got to the point where he didn't care about sales or anything, all he wanted to do was hurt Snoop/Dre. Then once all his other artists starting leaving, he didn't want to release any of their stuff either, since he was pouting about that. Only reason kurupt's Against The Grain got released was because he was going to diss the hell out of DPG, but at the last minute, Kurupt pulled all the dis tracks behind Suge's back, and it was too late.
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so the re-lit bonus tracks were mastered? wow
Nope. They were NOT mastered... or mixed. It's absolutely mortifying, and completely unacceptable.
John Payne was in charge of track selection and post-production for Re Lit, same with the free Vault downloadable tracks from deathrowmusic.com. He failed on both counts. When it came time for him to submit the bonus music to WIDEawake he stalled, then waited until the absolute last minute. At that point they reviewed what he submitted and to their horror the audio quality was terrible and the track selection was mediocre. But it was too late and the music had to go to press. When asked who [the fuck!] prepared these records, John Jayne informed WIDEawake he mixed them and mastered them ..............(speechless).
That hack isn't a mixing engineer, he isn't a mastering engineer, he's an incompetent over-the-hill recording engineer who has no business in senior management at WIDEawake and people should probably write letters telling them so.
It's so sick and sad it's almost funny. Funny in that insanely hysterical, can't-fucking-believe-that-happened kind of way.
That's deep...
Although, I've heard the same story from a couple sources now. Really unfortunate. It's just little things like that which get me worried about the future of this company.
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Nope. They were NOT mastered... or mixed. It's absolutely mortifying, and completely unacceptable.
John Payne was in charge of track selection and post-production for Re Lit, same with the free Vault downloadable tracks from deathrowmusic.com. He failed on both counts. When it came time for him to submit the bonus music to WIDEawake he stalled, then waited until the absolute last minute. At that point they reviewed what he submitted and to their horror the audio quality was terrible and the track selection was mediocre. But it was too late and the music had to go to press. When asked who [the fuck!] prepared these records, John Jayne informed WIDEawake he mixed them and mastered them ..............(speechless).
That hack isn't a mixing engineer, he isn't a mastering engineer, he's an incompetent over-the-hill recording engineer who has no business in senior management at WIDEawake and people should probably write letters telling them so.
It's so sick and sad it's almost funny. Funny in that insanely hysterical, can't-fucking-believe-that-happened kind of way.
sad if what u said is true
John Payne is not a mastering engineer but i know he mixed Deep Cover
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She said Brian Big Bass Gardner would be mixing and mastering all future releases
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That's deep...
Although, I've heard the same story from a couple sources now. Really unfortunate. It's just little things like that which get me worried about the future of this company.
Yes, it's very disconcerting. WIDEawake is fully aware of the problem with John and the quality control which is why you're seeing Lara mention the new policy about using Bernie Grundman's facilities in post-production on all future releases. It isn't Lara's fault though, she was appalled when she heard the bonus material and since then she's been stymied by WIDEawake's Chairman in any attempt to "restructure" the current management.
She's the CEO and founder of that company. They have their hands in a lot not just Death Row, which is why they appointed John to oversee Death Row directly as Vice President. It's a real problem, he's fucking incompetent.
She said Brian Big Bass Gardner would be mixing and mastering all future releases
Which is a step in the right direction to be sure, but it's only a part of the equation. Brian is a mastering engineer, albeit the best Rap/Hip-Hop mastering engineer, but a mastering engineer none the less. These records also need to be professionally mixed down by industry leading mixing engineers like Tommy D.
Brian Gardner is so talented and experienced that hopefully if he notices problems with the audio upon receiving it he'll say something to Lara who can in turn implement a new "company policy" with respect to mixing.
God help us if John is insisting on mixing this Snoop record. If he fucks up "Doggystyle" the same way he fucked up "Poor Young Dave" I'll fly to Toronto and beat him to death myself. I'll also loose all faith in this company's ability to manage a record.
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all the bonus material on chronic relit sounded absolutely terrible, like it'd been recorded off an ancient dat tape in low quality.
that 'smoke on' track from the clean edition was pretty much unlistenable.
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so the re-lit bonus tracks were mastered? wow
Nope. They were NOT mastered... or mixed. It's absolutely mortifying, and completely unacceptable.
John Payne was in charge of track selection and post-production for Re Lit, same with the free Vault downloadable tracks from deathrowmusic.com. He failed on both counts. When it came time for him to submit the bonus music to WIDEawake he stalled, then waited until the absolute last minute. At that point they reviewed what he submitted and to their horror the audio quality was terrible and the track selection was mediocre. But it was too late and the music had to go to press. When asked who [the fuck!] prepared these records, John Jayne informed WIDEawake he mixed them and mastered them ..............(speechless).
That hack isn't a mixing engineer, he isn't a mastering engineer, he's an incompetent over-the-hill recording engineer who has no business in senior management at WIDEawake and people should probably write letters telling them so.
It's so sick and sad it's almost funny. Funny in that insanely hysterical, can't-fucking-believe-that-happened kind of way.
Interesting info. I tend to think this must be true, given Lara Lavi's cryptic statement about John Payne only doing the mixing and mastering for Chronic: Re-Lit. Her answer sounded overly diplomatic and at the time I read it, it didn't seem to make a lot of sense. After all, that was one of the reasons they supposedly hired John Payne to begin with.
After reading this, however, it makes a little more sense. I remember before they had released any material, Lara Lavi talking in an interview about how they really wanted to focus on remastering everything better than it had previously been. Personally, I don't have much of an ear for good or bad mixing. But I've seen several people's posts saying that the mixing of the bonus tracks on Chronic: Re-Lit was not well executed. If that's truly the case, they're obviously not going to keep him on (at least in that capacity) when one of their focuses was supposed to be professional remastering.
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if thats the case, then get rid of john payne.
i would much prefer bernie grundman & Brian Big Bass Gardner handle the mastering and mixing, since they were doing it for deathrow back in the day, and obviously were very good at what they do.
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wow, some of you are talking about the bonus material like it is cassette tape rips of a radio recording. Shit sounded fine to me. I only listened to the bonus material on my computer, but I turn it up loud and it sounds fine.
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That's deep...
Although, I've heard the same story from a couple sources now. Really unfortunate. It's just little things like that which get me worried about the future of this company.
Yes, it's very disconcerting. WIDEawake is fully aware of the problem with John and the quality control which is why you're seeing Lara mention the new policy about using Bernie Grundman's facilities in post-production on all future releases. It isn't Lara's fault though, she was appalled when she heard the bonus material and since then she's been stymied by WIDEawake's Chairman in any attempt to "restructure" the current management.
She's the CEO and founder of that company. They have their hands in a lot not just Death Row, which is why they appointed John to oversee Death Row directly as Vice President. It's a real problem, he's fucking incompetent.
She said Brian Big Bass Gardner would be mixing and mastering all future releases
Which is a step in the right direction to be sure, but it's only a part of the equation. Brian is a mastering engineer, albeit the best Rap/Hip-Hop mastering engineer, but a mastering engineer none the less. These records also need to be professionally mixed down by industry leading mixing engineers like Tommy D.
Brian Gardner is so talented and experienced that hopefully if he notices problems with the audio upon receiving it he'll say something to Lara who can in turn implement a new "company policy" with respect to mixing.
God help us if John is insisting on mixing this Snoop record. If he fucks up "Doggystyle" the same way he fucked up "Poor Young Dave" I'll fly to Toronto and beat him to death myself. I'll also loose all faith in this company's ability to manage a record.
LMAO
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all the bonus material on chronic relit sounded absolutely terrible, like it'd been recorded off an ancient dat tape in low quality.
that 'smoke on' track from the clean edition was pretty much unlistenable.
you're a sound expert, but Poor young dave is definitely a lot better quality than this:
http://www.youtube.com/v/j7msF87zMgg
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Dubcnn had the honor and privilege of getting an exclusive interview with Lara Lavi, the new owner of Death Row Records. As many of you know, WIDEawake/Death Row just released Dr. Dre’s The Chronic – Re-Lit, packaged with 7 unreleased Death Row songs and a DVD titled From The Vault earlier this week. So, in true Dubcnn fashion, it’s only right that we catch up with Lara Lavi to discuss her feelings about the aforementioned release, how much involvement Dr. Dre may have had, her thoughts on Daz and the Neu-Ro situation, as well as what the plans are for the future releases of former Death Row artists like Lady of Rage, Crooked I, Danny Boy and even MC Hammer.
We also talk about the upcoming Snoop Doggy Dogg – The Death Row Lost Sessions release, which is scheduled to drop in October, what WIDEawake/Death Row is actually able to release of Dr. Dre material, and the break down of what the company’s new ownership entails. You definitely don’t want to miss out on this exclusive interview!
http://www.dubcnn.com/interviews/laralavi/ (http://www.dubcnn.com/interviews/laralavi/)
good interview, lara lavi sounds like she's on a level, that was very informative, hopefully a lot of unreleased shit gets release, for real and artists get paid accordinly
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all the bonus material on chronic relit sounded absolutely terrible, like it'd been recorded off an ancient dat tape in low quality.
that 'smoke on' track from the clean edition was pretty much unlistenable.
you're a sound expert, but Poor young dave is definitely a lot better quality than this:
http://www.youtube.com/v/j7msF87zMgg
Yeah. To be honest, I thought the bonus tracks sounded fine. But as I said before, I don't really have an ear for good remastering or mixing. Obviously there are people on this forum that are much more into sound quality than a lot of us. And I trust that they do know what they're talking about. But to me, average joe listener, I thought it sounded pretty good. I guess the important thing is the people at Wideawake are taking steps to correct the problem. Hopefully, for the people who notice things like this, the Snoop Doggy Dogg album will be an improvement.
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all the bonus material on chronic relit sounded absolutely terrible, like it'd been recorded off an ancient dat tape in low quality.
that 'smoke on' track from the clean edition was pretty much unlistenable.
you're a sound expert, but Poor young dave is definitely a lot better quality than this:
http://www.youtube.com/v/j7msF87zMgg
Yeah. To be honest, I thought the bonus tracks sounded fine. But as I said before, I don't really have an ear for good remastering or mixing. Obviously there are people on this forum that are much more into sound quality than a lot of us. And I trust that they do know what they're talking about. But to me, average joe listener, I thought it sounded pretty good. I guess the important thing is the people at Wideawake are taking steps to correct the problem. Hopefully, for the people who notice things like this, the Snoop Doggy Dogg album will be an improvement.
yeah i wonder whether Wideawake is going to do anything about the mistake on the DVD ( the same version of Dre Day is on there, twice).
not that it's a huge problem for me.
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Regardless of whether they actually can release it, have WideAwake said if they are in possession of any Helter Skelter or Chronic II tracks?
And as far as we know, what are the Dr. Dre outtakes we know of from Death Row?
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on the booklet of re-lit snoop doggy dogg is several times mispelled as "snoop doggy dog" damn that's fucked up !! they should fix that cause it's unprofesional. that's the first thing i saw when i opened the cd damn can't they read the booklet before printed it????
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Regardless of whether they actually can release it, have WideAwake said if they are in possession of any Helter Skelter or Chronic II tracks?
And as far as we know, what are the Dr. Dre outtakes we know of from Death Row?
According to the asset pdf's they are only in possession of three Dre songs from the Helter Skelter album--presumably the only ones that were actually recorded. 1) Natural Born Kilaz, 2) Can't See Me, 3) Endonesia. There is also a dat listed simply as "dre/sam/cube" so my guess is as good as yours there.
As far as Chronic II it appears they don't a have a single song from it.
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Well I heard some of the Promos were sold in auctions when it came to The Chronic 2, but My Life, California Love (og) and a couple of others should still be in the vaults.
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Regardless of whether they actually can release it, have WideAwake said if they are in possession of any Helter Skelter or Chronic II tracks?
And as far as we know, what are the Dr. Dre outtakes we know of from Death Row?
According to the asset pdf's they are only in possession of three Dre songs from the Helter Skelter album--presumably the only ones that were actually recorded. 1) Natural Born Kilaz, 2) Can't See Me, 3) Endonesia. There is also a dat listed simply as "dre/sam/cube" so my guess is as good as yours there.
As far as Chronic II it appears they don't a have a single song from it.
May I ask if you could post the the asset pdf's, as i've never seen it before. And now thinking about it, I doubt there is any Chronic II stuff in the vaults due to it being recorded at Dre's house. So yeah, anyways if I could check out those pdf's that would be awesome. And also, what era is the song "OG to BG" by Dre and Tha Dogg Pound from?
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i hope they release the 2pac one nation album in its original format, production and whatever, how pac wanted it to be released