Noisey: "Why do we let Will.i.am get away with being a douchebag?"
/Besides the snide remark made against Mat Zo and Arty's Rebound, I bet you'll laugh more than once after reading this article.
Anjunabeats releases statement on the Will.i.am/Mat Zo & Arty saga
/Anjunabeats has just released an official statement on Facebook regarding Will.i.am's use of Rebound by Mat Zo & Arty for Let's go (Feat. Chris Brown):
"Anjunabeats has today issued a short statement regarding the infringement of copyright on the Will.i.am track "Let's Go featuring Chris Brown". Here it is in full:
Anjunabeats is the record label behind Arty and Mat Zo and owns the master recording rights to their collaboration "Rebound." Mat Zo and Arty have been important members of the Anjunabeats family for a number of years and "Rebound" was one of the label's most popular releases in 2011.
As has been widely reported, a large section of "Rebound" was sampled on Will.i.am's track "Let's Go featuring Chris Brown" and this took place without the permission of Anjunabeats or Arty & Mat Zo.
Although Arty (but not Mat Zo) was credited in the sleeve notes, this is not the same as obtaining permission. To present someone else's work as your own, you need to seek permission, agree terms and file paperwork, which has not happened in this case.
We've remained silent on this issue until now but as a record label it is our obligation to protect our artists' interests and we felt it was necessary to respond to some of the inaccuracies that have been reported following Will.i.am's recent comments to Associated Press."
I wonder whether Will.i.am responds or will this statement by Anjunabeats signal the need to resolve this issue behind closed doors. I suspect the latter.
(VIA DAD)
Will.i.am admits to using parts of 'Rebound'
/Quoted from The Sun UK (Via Pop Justice):
“Arty is a dope producer so I wrote this song to Rebound this last year.“I got in touch with Arty and showed it to him... but something happened and hopefully we can resolve the issue.
“It’s sad that it’s turned into a fiasco but hopefully it’s resolved, because I’m a fan of those guys. I contacted them last year and we’re fixing it now.”
I hope so.
Did Arty give clearance to Will.i.am's new album? *Updated
/@moskahouse Well..I actually spoke to his producer and he said he cleared it with Arty. Seems he's getting producer credits and everything!
— Laidback Luke (@LaidbackLuke) April 17, 2013
@moskahouse I think it's wrong that Arty isn't telling the world he's actually a part of the record.
— Laidback Luke (@LaidbackLuke) April 17, 2013
@moskahouse I think so man, first thing I did was email his producer as he's a friend.
— Laidback Luke (@LaidbackLuke) April 17, 2013
@astateofchern I wrote the producer a long email about stealing, and he said Arty is getting producer credits and everything. It's cleared.
— Laidback Luke (@LaidbackLuke) April 17, 2013
@edm_ec @astateofchern I know and I was ready too. But I found out the real info. Seems all was cleared beforehand.
— Laidback Luke (@LaidbackLuke) April 17, 2013
Based on this alleged information from Laidback Luke, there now appears to be a disconnect with Arty's tweets from yesterday. I'm sure I'm not the only one who will be closely watching as this story unfolds.
Update:
Arty responded to Laidback Luke's tweets this morning:
@laidbackluke there is no official licence agreement, signed contract or anything else between me, Mat Zo, Anjunabeats and Interscope
— Arty (@arty_music) April 17, 2013
@laidbackluke it's only one wrong thing right now
— Arty (@arty_music) April 17, 2013
Laidback Luke later responded with:
@arty_music Alright, thx for your response. Seems we have your word against their's. I hope you will get the credit u deserve.
— Laidback Luke (@LaidbackLuke) April 17, 2013
Meanwhile Quintino has also taken to Twitter to shed light on will.i.am's Bang Bang track which contains similarities to Quintino/Sandro Silva's Epic:
To be clear .. @iamwill never asked me or sandro's permission to release his rip off ...
— QUINTINO (@QUINTINOO) April 17, 2013
Will.i.am vs. Deniz Koyu's 'Tung' and Arty's 'Kate': You decide
/The website EDMlounge has found more Will.i.am tracks that have similarities to popular EDM anthems. Listen to them below and you decide: (VIA @MonsterLum)
Will.i.am - Great Times Are Coming (Fast Forward to 3:20)
VS.
Deniz Koyu - Tung!
Will.i.am - #thatPOWER (ft. Justin Bieber) (Fast forward to 0:40)
VS.
Arty - Kate
