01 Jay Dee Unreleased EP - Stakes Is High (Remix) De La Soul by STREETCORNERMUSIC published on 2014-05-03T07:59:25Z In 1997, Jay Dee was the still new kid on the block. With the success of singles like Runnin' (Pharcyde), and Stakes is High, he had his own undeniable sound, but the majors still weren't sold. This is proof of that. Jay was solicited by a lot of majors to do remixes for artists on their rosters. Time and time again, they would go with someone else. The joints he was coming up with were fucking nuts, but to no avail. In one case, he was led to believe that one of his mixes got thru, only to see another producers remix when the 12" showed up at Record Time. I told him fuck it I wanna put it out. I had never put a record out. Jay trusted me. Got an investor. Then I made a phone call. Chris Manak, aka Peanut Butter Wolf, was my rep at TRC distribution in California. I was working at Street Corner Music ordering records from him every week. I got the #'s from him. Sent the masters over and we had a record. The first pressing was on blue vinyl. Limited to 1500 copies. Gone. Second press was on green vinyl. Gone. I also learned to listen to test presses on multiple turntables. There was a skip in the middle of the fucking Woo Hah rmx that did NOT SKIP on my 1200. Swear to god I had the onlt 12 that could play that shit. It skipped on EVERY other 1200 turntable in the world. Fucked up. Check your test pressings on a few setups. But, that's fixed now. These records go for $100 plus on the internets these days. Remastered by Dave Cooley directly from a sealed blue copy. Why? Because the plates broke at the plant, and I lost the master in a flood 3 years later. That's why. Enjoy the Gift... Shoes Genre Jay Dee Comment by Profeta the UMMAH 2023-01-26T22:02:41Z Comment by 2cme ✪ This song always brings me such waves of nostalgia and feelings which allow me to reminisce so 2022-07-22T10:21:04Z Comment by Olivia Ferguson Yo!! This is magic to my ears 2021-04-10T01:59:38Z Comment by Aye Dee vibes....vibrations 2020-12-01T07:19:17Z Comment by natural selection [Я€aL$ing Tha 777th ✪] So chill, whilst i lived in Lisbon for 10 months this exact upload and a few others saved my ass from boredom 2020-11-06T08:31:14Z Comment by rruthlss Snear 🔥 2020-03-25T13:47:50Z Comment by FrancoArts Very Very good sound 2019-09-05T19:02:18Z Comment by LFO Uk Everything dilla touches is gold m8 2017-09-25T16:21:29Z Comment by Sinny Sin Smith tight relaxed mayne ;) 2016-10-05T18:04:26Z Comment by Konducta4LFE is the blue vinyl version of stakes is high mixed differntly than the green version? The Blue vinyl version sounds like the vocals are aggressive the green vinyl the vocals are more smooth? or is this just me? any help please 2015-06-18T01:13:44Z Comment by Kenneth Thompson True spittin science awesome... 2015-04-28T10:28:45Z Comment by BuggsMeany aka BiggOke VIIIIIBE...Vibration!!! 2014-09-30T02:58:40Z Comment by lamonte74 dope !! 2014-08-03T01:31:03Z Comment by UGLYFACE Jay Dee for the win 2014-06-10T23:37:37Z Comment by Ascension dilllaaa ma man... 2014-06-07T21:30:13Z Comment by Wulf Odinsson Amazing Story from shoes and Music from Dilla as always! 2014-05-04T03:00:41Z Comment by Mic Checkmate Bangin! 2014-05-03T17:57:29Z Comment by Atamone <3 2014-05-03T17:44:27Z Comment by SPACELY This is incredible... Thank you for this. 2014-05-03T13:33:23Z Comment by Retrospective For Love love <3 2014-05-03T13:21:03Z Comment by Lyrics (BX) Smooth & Hard at the same time. R.I.P. J Dilla (Dilla Dawg). 2014-05-03T10:43:07Z Comment by WNDRFL Gooood... 2014-05-03T10:37:00Z Comment by ES | PR Thanks for this 2014-05-03T10:07:18Z Comment by HEELZ! Love you 2014-05-03T09:36:53Z