Timbaland ripped track from a demoscener

[KrazyKatz]

I think it should be possible to start an online petition to put that bozo in his place. The only thing is sometimes negative feedback actually makes losers like these more popular... Its a tough one.

[residentgrey]

Timbaland  interview

Thanks to Nullsleep at vorc.com for posting it.

[bucky]

Timbaland  interview

Thanks to Nullsleep at vorc.com for posting it.

Nice. Transcipt is here too-
http://www.zxdemo.org/extra/timbaland_radio_transcript.txt

"And you have a listen. And it say, C-64, Commodore 64. I don't know. You know what I'm saying? So, I like it. I found it. I got sounds upon sounds upon sound. I don't know what's public domain and what's not. Some stuff don't say."

He's essentially admiting to taking it without permision, but is excusing it by saying it doesn't matter
-- Some of the justification being that he's from America and doesn't having anything to do with Finland, and that it is from a videogame.

I don't know anything about how this could all play out from a legal standpoint, but what he says sounds pretty damn incriminating. Heheh, whoooops.

There's an interesting grey area with regards to sampling. When does it cross the line to become stealing? I think it is easier to be pissed at Timbaland because most people into chiptunes probably aren't into his music... but what do the same people think of this- http://palmsout.blogspot.com/2007/02/sample-wednesday-27-daft-punk.html

I'm sure 99.9% of people here have no qualms with sampling here and there... As an example, the beastie boys have used loads of samples in a  bunch of their albums. But they serve as sorts of transitional bits and effects, nothing the main music is based off of. No problem there. But if we agree that the line is crossed when an entire musical segment is sampled in a hit tune without payment to the original composers/ performers, I'm interested in seeing what you'd think about someone like daftpunk doing it.

In their defense though, they at least credited their sources in their liner notes (apparantly), which might make/break the moral difference between the kind of stuff they do and what Timbaland did. "Cola Bottle Baby" IS a huge part of "Harder Better Faster Stronger" afterall.

I guess that and Timbaland's attitude in the interview sucks anyways.

http://www.fairlight.fi/tempest/acidjazzed_evening/
^Tempest has an official site on this whole debacle. Best of luck to him in this whole mess.

edit: And the wikipedia entry is also very well written. Has tons of sources and quotes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_Jazzed_Evening
The entry on similar cases looks hopefull for Tempest.

[SoundCrafter]

And somehow the bastard's still a final nominee for the IDMAs...