Legendary south Auckland Hip Hop record label Dawn Raid are back in business! (Dawn Raid went into voluntary liquidation in April after experiencing financial difficulties). Brotha D and YDNA have new financial backing in the form of John Barnett (South Pacific Pictures) and Michael Stiassny (Vector Chairman) and have bought back the rights to Dawn Raid’s back catalogue and music publishing. It will be interesting to see what Dawn Raid will bring back to the game, it’s tough times in the music industry right now and record labels are increasingly becoming irrelevant.

I saw Mareko out in the mall yesterday (as you do) and he said that he’s back with Dawn Raid but was unsure about other artists. Also Savage’s ‘Swing’ is in the knew movie ‘Knocked Up‘, made by the director of ‘The 40 Year Old Virgin’, I remember YDNA bragging about it when we went to visit Dawn Raid’s office late last year.

It’s also interesting to note that the media was all over Dawn Raid’s “demise” two months ago but you’d be hard pressed to find anyone reporting the latest developments, all I could find was this article at RadioScope.

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