Did trance ever have any "scandals?"

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the best thing to do imo is what @Hensmon said...Respect the (original) Authors wishes.

I'm currently in the situation of having a track of mine bootleg remixed....(Now, personally... when I came across it I fucking loved what he did with it.
Hell I even contacted the label asking the guy being send the Stems and said label signing the track to be released, full 50/50 royalties to the remixer. )

I'm also currently in the situation of approaching/trying to contact an artist who's track I've bootleg remixed. Its the least you can do. Thusfar has not had the time or grace to give me a reply so i'll probably give it a week before freebie-ing it. But if he contacts me and sais "no, I hate this, take it off" yeah I will in a heartbeat.
 
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Jetflag said:
the best thing to do imo is what @Hensmon said...Respect the (original) Authors wishes.

I'm currently in the situation of having a track of mine bootleg remixed....(Now, personally... when I came across it I fucking loved what he did with it.
Hell I even contacted the label asking the guy being send the Stems and said label signing the track to be released, full 50/50 royalties to the remixer. )

I'm also currently in the situation of approaching/trying to contact an artist who's track I've bootleg remixed. Its the least you can do. Thusfar has not had the time or grace to give me a reply so i'll probably give it a week before freebie-ing it. But if he contacts me and sais "no, I hate this, take it off" yeah I will in a heartbeat.
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I finally checked out this remix of '69 Ways', and it's not available on official streaming platforms, so, I’m curious why 'Airwave' thinks 'Tiesto' is making money off it. personally, I think it's good that all tracklists include the original artist name and original track title. imho 'Airwave' should instead focus his efforts on releasing all of his music under a clever publishing agency and putting it all on bandcamp..
 
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I looked at the view counts of 69 ways on YT,and the biggest videoa are something like 66k and 38k,whereas the Tiesto vid has 12k - so i dont know where he has got 'millions' of streams from,you wont be making hardly any money from it anyway.

Most producers have been elated that Tiesto has supported their older tracks recently whereas Airwave has been the opposite,i remember Tiesto was a massive supporter of him back in the day - brilliant memories of 69 Ways on the Magik CD's - aswelll as Escape From Nowhere,and others.

Laurent to me has a massive chip on his shoulder that he should be earning a lot more revenue from his classic tracks,and that is right - but its partly his fault,he couldve done a lot more with his Youtube channel,which hardly has any views or subscribers - not even 5K,which is ridiculous when a lot of fans views him as one of the best Trance producers ever.

Im not sure if this is from not ever having a strong PR or management team behind me - and also the way he claimed Bonzai did him over years ago.

On another note,you can play or release 'Cover' tracks,as long as they dont have any original material in. You dont need permission from the original artist.
 
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I saw Oakie trainwreck through almost an entire set at crasher Birmingham back in the day. He basically played a goa set but I was in the gents at one point and heard a guy say in all seriousness "why hasn't he played starry eyed surprise yet". I'd hardly call that a scandal though, it happens to pretty much everyone sometimes
 
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Deadmau5 (successfully) prohibiting Marcus Schössow from playing at a gig they both showed up to. Deadmau5 came clean about it.
 
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I would say the biggest scandal is old fans vs new fans and former artist that's a scandal in itself. Also, the fact a lot of tracks are not made how they made in the past as well. Also, those musicians don't want to make what they used to make or can't be bothered teaching people who want to learn as well. Most tracks are made rigidly making them all sound the same and mono no matter what bpm they are under.
 
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I remember something very intense during the years 2010 and 2012, in some forums it was said that a house / techno DJ exposed Armin van Buuren, Armada Music and Beatport for fraud for 3 or 4 years. He said he spoke with a DJ from Armada Musica... and asked him how many copies he sold weekly... and that he was really surprised that Armada Musica's trance wasn't selling copies... I remember it was a scandal that knocked Armada Music out of the main top 100 music charts in the blink of an eye.

Sorry if it was written out, it's just that it really impacted me and was immediately apparent.
 
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Jetflag said:
I'm also currently in the situation of approaching/trying to contact an artist who's track I've bootleg remixed. Its the least you can do. Thusfar has not had the time or grace to give me a reply so i'll probably give it a week before freebie-ing it. But if he contacts me and sais "no, I hate this, take it off" yeah I will in a heartbeat.
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update: my man got back to me and loved the remix/didn't have a problem playing it/putting it out there given I posted a link to the original.
 
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Iirc Airwave had beef with certain high-powered people in the trance scene back in the day, which is why his career never really took off. He wrote about it on his tranceaddict account.
Interestingly enough, when I linked to his account here in trancefix (not sure if on this new site or in the old site), he deleted his entire account
 
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remember soundlift going going off on dj/label owners about ripping him off. getting paid nothing because it didnt sell then when he wanted to put a tune on a compilation cd he was being charged something like 600 quid
 
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