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"Mega Beast!" Producer, NYC http://www.daybydayent.com/ http://www.dub-l.com/ Page 1 | 2 Lee: "Mega Beast Gathering", is ridiculous. I'm feelin' the way the first track on the album has one mc after another, no hook, just rhymin', spittin', poetry…What does this "Mega Beast Gathering" represent in terms of its role as an introduction to Day of the Mega Beast? DL: The Gathering is just one of those things that everyone talks about doing but never really gets done. A ridiculous amount of mc's on one track, a gathering of some of my colleagues and a dope song to listen to. L: Which verse stands out or crosses your mind first when you listen to the intro? DL: I think Jemini's verse is really great, Tribe Star's verse is crazy, Grimm, Wind n' Breez. I like everyone on it, it came out real nice. I was surprised myself, I didn't know if I could pull it off right. I always wanted to do something like this but it's intimidating. I had to make it hot. L: I read through the Vitamine Source Interview that this is a concept album. What other concept albums were you inspired by or do you admire? In what way does a concept album change your approach to the way you'd normally produce an album? DL: I always like albums that have a cohesive feel to them; I'm not really into direct story telling with a whole album, that's a little much. Every song has to be able to stand on it's own as a single when u do an album like this. I probably would say the Chronic albums and NWA albums are closer to the MEGA BEAST feel than anything. Masta Ace-Slaughter House, Tribe Called Quest-Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders, they kinda have a theme behind them but it doesn't take away from the songs. The MEGA BEAST story is little more complex to figure out than Prince Paul-Prince of Thieves or something like that but has some of the same idea. The MEGA BEAST's strory is personal to my life and a life of a person involved in music and creative businesses but lays under the music so not to turn a listener off. I want people to be able to write there own story when they listen. L: What other full projects are you credited with? Other than what you've done through Hip Hop production, which other songs come to mind first? DL: Well I mainly do hip hop records, except for the Controls-One Hundred album, which is female singing vocals over some hard ass beats. I have about 6 full lengths where I did most of the stuff on and sometimes all. The Controls "One Hundred", Aesop Rock "Music For Earthworms", Dub-L's "In Town", Chase Phoenix "Cut To The Chase", Ground Original with DJ JS-1 and Claimstake with DJ JS-1. C-Rayz Walz "Black Samurai EP", MF DOOM-Viktor Vaughn 2. I like a lot of tracks I've done that are out. I can also flip through old tapes all night and bug out on things nobody's ever heard before. L: Day of the Mega Beast, as an instrumental version, how would you interpret it? DL: The instrumental version is in the works. I haven't gotten it together yet but most likely will try to release it at least on cd. There's a lot of live instrumentation on the Mega B and some details that would pop out nicely. I'd connect the instrumentals to make the whole album flow as one. Some shit you could kick back to or play in the club late night, maybe bone to, ha. L: I rounded off somewhere between 25 to 30 people that are featured on this album. About how many people both behind the boards and on record, are involved in the development of this project? Considering the recording happened within a month, how much time went into preliminary planning? DL: I was the only person really involved in the making of the album, recording, mixing and all that. I have Lord Scotch on the artwork, my man Joe Lambert on the Mastering tip at Classic Sound NYC. I like to have full control over all aspects so I was pretty involved even with the artwork and mastering. Grimm and Azar from DAYBYDAY helped a lot of things move along also. I planned everything out in about 2 weeks and started recording. From then to the mastering session was about a month and a half. The main thing was to get to the MC's and figure out if you can pull it off or not. I actually ended up with to much stuff, I had a Positive K song I had to leave off which I'm going to do as a single now. Tribe Star had a crazy song called "Lovely Day" I had to leave off. It was so dope that I knew it would fit on any album. I recorded a song with Samson & Sajor also, which was dope, again a song that could be on any album or a single. A lot of heads came through and rocked it, much loverlyness to all-them.
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