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Don’t imitate, just innovate!!

Random — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:31:27 +0000

Once again, chip- and micromusicians have been plagiarized. This time it's Laromlab aka Brandon Harrods who have been ripping off music by artists such as Crazy Q, Dubmood, Lotek Style and Dma-Sc (and released a full album with their songs!), but also Ikuma, Goto80 and myself... My song (Project24) was only used in a really shitty movie review podcast called "Popcast", but Laromlab clearly claimed in a myspace blog post that it was his composition. Read it here.

He has now posted an official excuse on his myspace page, but the ripped material, including the podcast episodes, are still floating around on the Internet.

To read the full story, and more detailed description of which songs have been plagiarize, please visit this page: http://technopolitan.se/~crazyq/dontcopythatfloppy/

Last.fm update

Random — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:37:30 +0000

I just received an e-mail from Last.fm Team:

we're still working on ways of separating artists with the same name, for the
mean time there will be no single control of the page by any one artist.
Sorry we can't help with this, but we do take the issue seriously and are
making progress on it.

Good news I suppose! Let's just wait and see what happens...

The Random War

Random — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:51:36 +0000

Random is a damn good artist name. Perhaps it's even too good, since at least six other artists other than me wants to use it. This can be slightly problematic sometimes, for several reasons which you can probably figure out yourself.

Recently there has been a small war going on between me and some other Randoms on Last.fm. It started with my picture being changed to a picture of five hopeless Austrian emopunk wretches sitting in a room looking very serious about life and their hairdos, and a few days later the Random page on Last.fm was pestered with (suprise, surprise!) a bunch of emopunk songs. Not acceptable.

It took a little work and some e-mails to change it back, and for the moment it's a bit of a compromise with two of my songs and two emopunk songs on the page, but I'm planning to put Operation Ruthless into action soon...