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A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

QUARANTINE RADIO *Engineers Edition* with Leslie Brathwaite, Alex Tumay and Anthony Cruz

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

Music

4.8817 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Today on Episode 47 of Quarantine Radio, we make calls from our Upper West Side apartment to celebrated audio engineers Leslie Brathwaite, Alex Tumay and Anthony Cruz! First we jump on the phone with legendary mix engineer and multiple-Grammy Award winner Leslie Brathwaite to discuss his work with TLC, Beyonce, The Carters, Pharrell, Outkast, Jeezy, Lil Uzi Vert, Jack Harlow, Madonna, Cardi B and more, how he rests his ears and his soul, his relationships with artists and executives, what album made him sit up straight and open his eyes, what he believes sets Michael Jackson's Thriller album apart from the rest, the incredible creativity he's applying to his mixing environment since quarantine went into effect, the bird that attacked him while we were recording this very episode, and so much more! Then we call to the Lower East Side to catch up with the great Alex Tumay to discuss his bout with COVID-19, how crippling it was, his efforts in combating it, how it's changed the way he operates even after recovering, how it effected his work, why he and Kenny Beats collaborate so perfectly together, what a terrific experience it was to mix with 40 and PartyNextDoor on his latest project, and so much more! And finally we dial up Meek Mills' personal engineer Anthony Cruz to break down how he's spent the last two months, how fatherhood has been treating him, what it was like when he and Meek first listened to Jay Electronica's album in the studio, being a resource for artists who are at home learning to engineer themselves, trying to skip out on Zoom birthday parties, order studio equipment to his in-law's place and much more!

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0:00.0

Hey Jeff.

0:01.9

Hey Eric.

0:02.6

How are you?

0:02.9

I'm pretty good.

0:03.5

How are you?

0:04.0

Doing well, thank you.

0:04.8

First of all, I want to shout out our friend Tommy Battle.

0:07.3

The photographer, our photographer.

0:08.9

Yes, one of our photographers, one of our great friends who is living out there in Brooklyn right now.

0:13.8

And shout out to Tommy and his whole family.

0:15.7

They're doing great. But I do want to say, Tommy texted us before and he was like, listen, on top of COVID-19 being

0:24.2

out there in the world, on top of earthquakes going on in various cities, on top of killer bees

0:31.4

really happening in this world, what are they, monster hornets?

0:34.7

No.

0:35.6

Monster hornets.

0:36.2

No, they're murder hornets.

0:37.4

Even worse. Yeah. Murder hornets. Monster hornets. No, they're murder hornets. Murder, even worse.

0:38.5

Yeah.

0:38.8

Murder hornets.

0:39.5

Monster hornets.

0:40.4

I don't know.

0:41.3

That's like Larry Johnson in, uh, in space jam.

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