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Comment Re:The reason you haven't heard about it (Score 2) 207

by gloom on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @09:33AM (#39629985) Attached to: Demoscene: 64k Intros At Revision Demoparty

I'd say that the closest the US got to having "a demoparty like this" (meaning: with such good releases and turnout) was NVScene in 2008 which I helped organize. The event was documented in this now-severely-outdated blog, if you're interested in catching up: http://demotrip.blogspot.com/

Submission + - Famous music-producer steals from demoscene musici

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gloom

on Saturday January 13, 2007 @10:16AM

gloom writes: "In 2000 the finnish demoscene musician Janne Suni (also known as Tempest) won the Oldskool Music Competition at the Assembly demoparty with his four channel Amiga .MOD entitled "Acid Jazzed Evening". A Commodore 64 musician called 'grg' remade the song on the C64 (using the infamous SID soundchip) which is what was stolen. The producers name is Timbaland, one of the hottest names in american music these days, and the track in question is called 'Do it' and is featured on the Nelly Furtado-album 'Loose'.

Getting nowhere with Geffen, the demoscene has now risen to he aid of Tempest, first by creating a stirr at SomethingAwful (files downloadable from the forum), and later at the news-site Digg.com as well as on YouTube, with a video demonstrating the blatant rippoff.

Being an online-posting musician myself — what rights do I have if this should ever happen to me, and what can be done to raise awareness about such things?"

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