Crystal Castles have been accused by a number of high profile Chip-tune artists (yeah I had no idea either) of ripping them off.
More specifically, remixing their songs without crediting them and for commercial gain.
From wikipedia:
"In mid-2008, Crystal Castles became focal in several plagiarism disputes. Pitchfork Media and The Torontoist published stories about Crystal Castles' use of Trevor Brown's artwork without permission. The image, depicting a black-eyed Madonna,[23][7] was used by the band on merchandise, after being found on an "old flyer, without credit", with the hope "that the artist might reveal themselves and make contact".[7] The band were also alleged to have plagiarised several songs from the chiptune community, including "Insecticon", which shares similarity with a song by Lo-bat called, "My Little Droid Needs a Hand", and were accused of "stealing the beat" from Covox's "Sunday", in the song "Love and Caring"."
Weird.
Anyway more posts soon, I swear, its all gone a bit quietly recently as I procastinate for exams and revision, etc.
Saturday, 17 May 2008
Crystal Castles rip off?
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