For those that do not own the DVD
and don't automatically recognize Jon's name, Egon and Jon
Doe put together a remix of "Looking Down the Barrel
of a Gun" which has been a fan favorite. If you have
ever been curious about how the remixes on the Beastie Boys
Video Anthology were selected or how they came into existence,
you are in the same company as beastiemania.com, who caught
up with Jon Doe and asked him to elaborate on how things
came together. "I didn't know them (the Beastie Boys)
personally at all. Basically I was brought into the fold
through Egon, my partner in crime while we were both living
in Nashville, TN. He had known Tick
for a while via college radio and what not. When the DVD
project began forming, Tick called Egon and Count Bass D,
a Nashville MC with whom Egon had previously DJ'd for and
also did a radio show with. Tick wanted to see if they were
interested in remixing a track each for the DVD. Egon ended
up going with "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun"
and Count Bass D picked "Hey Ladies." Egon didn't
really have all of his equipment set up and I had my studio
up and going full force, so he asked Tick if he could bring
me on to help with the remix. At the time, Egon and I had
been doing a lot of things collectively. He really looked
out for me and helped me be part of a very important and
large project. I was really excited."
Following their work on the Beastie Boys Video Anthology
DVD, Egon went on to work for Stones Throw Records in Los
Angeles, California. Jon Doe stayed in the deep south and
continued to work within hip hop music production. Currently,
Jon resides in Atlanta, GA, where he is a DJ and producer
for the Atlanta hip-hop group Prophetix, which consists
of MC's Eddie Meeks and Mello Melanin. Prophetix released
a 12" single in 2001 entitled "True Urban Grit
(T.U.G.)" b/w "Prophetionals" in late August
2001, which did extremely well in Japan and overseas, and
landed on radio shows such as Friday Night Flavas in LA,
Bobbito's CM Famalam Show and mix shows across the world.
Their new LP, "HIGH RISK," was released in August
of 2002. The album features MF DOOM, DJ
Cheapshot, and a host of others on the production side
of things. On the vocal side of things one can expect to
hear guest appearances from Scienz of Life, Stahhr Da F.E.M.C.E.E.
and the Lost-n-Found Dept. If you liked Jon's remix on the
DVD, you should definitely check out the Prophetix's website.
In addition to his work with Prophetix, Jon also still
DJs at clubs in the south and puts out mix tapes/CDs. Bringing
it back to the topic of the Beastie Boys, Jon speaks about
his work on the DVD: "Although we never met the Beasties,
or even talked to them, it would be nice, Hopefully that
will happen one day. Regardless, it was a great experience
which brought me great exposure and something I am very
proud to have been a part of. I never thought that when
I bought Licensed
to Ill at a Wal-Mart in 1986 that I would one day
be remixing a Beasties track. I still have a hard time comprehending
it sometimes!"
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