Similar trance tracks & rip-offs

[LostLegend]

That's an interesting find.

Out Of The Blue was released 02.03.1999 in Netherlands but recorded somewhere in 1998.

My money's on Ferry Corsten to be the first one (as he was a genius full of creativity in the 90's), although I still want to make a proper research about this.

Bit late to the discussion here, but OOTB was doing the rounds as a white label, then as a promo for a while before the 'official' release.
Not sure on the timeline, but I imagine if the full release was early 1999, then the white labels then promos would have been around 1998.

A&R was very aggressive on jumping on popular tunes back then, so I imagine a lot of these 'clones' may well have been at request of the labels to cash in on the OOTB hype by getting their similar tracks released before-hand.

I remember there being some controversy when Anjunabeats released the Rollerball - Albinoni track, which was based on Albinoni's adagio.
There was another track based off the same piece that beat the Rollerball track to the release and I remember Tony McGuinness getting quite annoyed about it. I cant remember the name of the tune, 'Epica' or something similar rings a bell - maybe someone can remember.

 

[Progrez]

Somehow he won a grammy with this track. Copies the voice of Justine Suissa Satellite then takes full ownership.

 

[nightslapper]

Somehow he won a grammy with this track. Copies the voice of Justine Suissa Satellite then takes full ownership.

pretty sure they must have sorted out the rights with Anjuna behind the scenes

as for how it won the Grammy, it's the same as with all these award$$$

 

[Uplifted]

Somehow he won a grammy with this track. Copies the voice of Justine Suissa Satellite then takes full ownership.

Speaking of Satellite:

Brennan Savage Feat. Killstation - Existential [2017] (starting from 1:07)

 

[Progrez]

OH GOD THAT'S HORRIBLE!!!

 

[mwthreex]

Somehow he won a grammy with this track. Copies the voice of Justine Suissa Satellite then takes full ownership.

Randy Katana also copied and pasted the acid riff from Pump Panel's 'Confusion' remix.

 

[Progrez]

Just like Randy Katana, who copied and pasted the acid riff from Pump Panel's 'Confusion' remix:

Operation Blade also copied that one too. It has the same exact riff.

 

[mwthreex]

the piano

 

[Z Dobrej Woli]

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[mwthreex]

01:46 suburban train
03:32 communication

 

[erevan]

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What's interesting is that Raz Nitzan (owner of Amsterdam Trance label) co-produced the track Armin van Buuren & Ana Criado - Down To Love. (it is credited on Spotify)

 

[mwthreex]

The Thrillseekers - Synaesthesia (En Motion Mix) (1999)


Nature One Allstars – Nature One Theme 98 (1998)



Accidental or inspired by ?

 

[trancearchives]

Released in 2005:



Released in 2006:

 

[facade1984]

some of these claims are a bit of a reach

 

[Pokkryshkin]

2006
2006

 

[nightslapper]

2006
2006

since it's not just the same melody but also the identical synth sound I presume this was just some arpegio preset for some popular hardware/software synth released somewhere around that time that was used by both producers in their productions without copying it one from another

 

[Z Dobrej Woli]

I will be probably really late to this train but a few days ago I bought „Temporarity” vinyl.

A track from 2008 sounds like this:



Two years later, we got this:

 

[nightslapper]

I will be probably really late to this train but a few days ago I bought „Temporarity” vinyl.

A track from 2008 sounds like this:



Two years later, we got this:

not even remotely similar cmon

 

[Magnus]

Plagiarizing and ripping off melodies has been going on forever. I remember many threads on the TranceAddict forums over the past 23 years calling out a lot of this. While most often nobody seems to care, there are those that do. I won't give names, but I know of many producers in this industry who have been called out by the original creators of vocal lines or melodies used in a new production without their permission. In most of these cases, if the producer tried to justify it, something many sadly did, legal action was threatened, and the content was removed in the final release.

Now with the advent of AI, we have a whole new world of plagiarism to deal with. Just yesterday, I became aware of a 2-month-old YouTube comment on my track "Magnus - First Born" informing me that Suno AI had apparently learned my song and was generating similar copies of it based on text prompts. I wrote that song for my son 14 years ago, so this made me sad.

I feel like creativity is all but dead. From now on, everyone will question if any artistic creation was assisted in part or in whole by AI. I don't like this new world we live in, and there's no going back.

 

[Jetflag]

Plagiarizing and ripping off melodies has been going on forever. I remember many threads on the TranceAddict forums over the past 23 years calling out a lot of this. While most often nobody seems to care, there are those that do. I won't give names, but I know of many producers in this industry who have been called out by the original creators of vocal lines or melodies used in a new production without their permission. In most of these cases, if the producer tried to justify it, something many sadly did, legal action was threatened, and the content was removed in the final release.

Now with the advent of AI, we have a whole new world of plagiarism to deal with. Just yesterday, I became aware of a 2-month-old YouTube comment on my track "Magnus - First Born" informing me that Suno AI had apparently learned my song and was generating similar copies of it based on text prompts. I wrote that song for my son 14 years ago, so this made me sad.

I feel like creativity is all but dead. From now on, everyone will question if any artistic creation was assisted in part or in whole by AI. I don't like this new world we live in, and there's no going back.

good to see you on the forum @Magnus.

we have, coïncidently, and entire thread tackling this topic

AI, procedural generation and other new music technologies - What does the future of music hold?

On a different note, the speed at which the quality of AI stem separation is improving is great for a serial bootlegger like me. Still not perfect but results are great for vocal extraction and nowhere near the amount of artifacts that there were previously. As I've been saying, AI's influence...

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