Showing posts with label dr. octagon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dr. octagon. Show all posts
Saturday, November 28, 2015
Friday, November 20, 2015
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Dr. Octagon Fanatik-J Washington Post Article Screenshot
"The concert was billed as an appearance of Dr. Octagon, one of Keith's many alter egos, but he didn't plug his new album, "The Return of Dr. Octagon," giving credence to Internet rumors that the 2006 OCD Records disc is not an "authorized" release but a knockoff of an upcoming project that teams Keith with producer Fanatik-J."
Friday, November 13, 2015
Thursday, November 12, 2015
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
EASTBAY EXPRESS DR. OCTAGON FANATIK-J ARTICLE
"The day after OCD released its album, however, a parallel story emerged quietly on an Internet usergroup. A disgruntled small-time Los Angeles producer by the name of Fanatik J said he and Kool Keith had worked on a similar album four years before. He claimed the disc OCD released wasn't their creation, but an evil sibling. "I guess OCD is sowing lies everywhere, huh?" he wrote.
The true story serves as a cautionary tale. Fanatik J says he and Keith shopped around some Return of Doc Oc demos in 2002, and Keith subsequently signed a recording contract with country label CMH Records of Los Angeles without fully understanding what he was doing — its catalogue is full of hokey bluegrass and country covers of pop songs. Keith's contract, furthermore, gave CMH the right to remix his new album.
Fanatik wrote that he balked at the possibility of losing artistic control over remixes, and got into a two-year legal battle with the label to halt the record's release. Keith, meanwhile, gave them "some old vocal material" to fulfill his contract obligations, Fanatik wrote, whereupon CMH farmed out production to people who made "the fruity stuff they are using to run their scam."
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Monday, July 12, 2010
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Dr. Octagon Lawsuit
Press Release
Music Producer Files Lawsuit
Hillsborough Music Producer Fanatik-J files a lawsuit in Federal District Court (Northern District of California) against CMH Records, OCD International, Vitamin Records.
In 2003 music producer/guitar instructor Fanatik-J collaborated with celebrity rapper Kool Keith (aka Dr. Octagon) in Hollywood, California on a follow-up to the hit record "Dr. Octagon" (re-released on Spielberg's Dreamworks Records, 1996).
The original album, "Dr. Octagon", is widely considered by critics to be one of the most influential albums in the history of hip-hop music and it launched the internationally renowned careers of San Francisco super-producer Dan the Automator and the legendary San Francisco DJ, DJ Q-Bert. After the success of the Dr. Octagon album Kool Keith went on to appear on The Prodigy's multi-platinum smash-hit "Smack My B**ch Up" (released on Madonna's Maverick Records). The music video for this song was named MTV's "Most Controversial Video" of all time after it appeared in the #1 position on MTV's Most Controversial Videos television special.
By 2003 a much anticipated reprise of the "Dr. Octagon" album was in the works and Kool Keith selected local music producer Fanatik-J to co-write the songs and produce the album. Upon completion of the demo tracks Kool Keith signed a recording contract with Los Angeles' CMH Records and their subsidiary Vitamin Records. Kool Keith and Fanatik-J objected to clauses in the production contracts and Fanatik-J refused the use of his materials in the album. Fanatik-J retained the services of Los Angeles attorney Edward Shapiro and successfully blocked the release until the summer of 2006 when CMH Records, OCD International and Vitamin Records released the album with the inclusion of Fanatik-J's copyrighted materials. While the album went on to garner attention from MTV News, MTV 2, VH1 and Rolling Stone Magazine it was widely criticized on the Internet by fans and bloggers as being un-authentic. The East Bay Express' David Downs (Village Voice Media Group) made the claim to be the first to print allegations regarding the controversy surrounding "The Return of Dr. Octagon" and these allegations were subsequently reported on in the Washington Post (screen shot) and in other media outlets.
In the fall of 2007 Fanatik-J retained the services of San Mateo copyright attorney Ray .K Shahani and in late December of that year the pair filed a suit in United States District Court (case # C 07-06476 VRW-the honorable Vaughn R. Walker) alleging Copyright Infringement, Slander, Wire Fraud, Unfair Competition and RICO violations.
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