Kentucky Fried Wankers

Seems that I am forced to make clear that this is _not_ an aprils fools postIt came to my attention yestarday that a cunt called Laromlab (Brandon Harrod) from Kentucky, has built his whole image on stealing songs from me and my friends CrazyQ & DMA-SC. Not only did he fake his discography, put out youtube films where he explains how he composes his music, wich he dont, he pressed play on a sid-emulated tracker on a laptop and said he mix everything live and talked about his mixer and how he wants to “control his sound”. Not only did he sign himself to a label with this stolen music, a label who pressed his stolen music on an album and created a big internet hype around him on blogs, and not only did he get american radios to play his stolen music, he also performed the songs live and did a tour!!! Thanks for the heads up from Crazyq, I contacted his label and they are on their way to remove all traces of that this dick ever existed. As if this was not enough, the song he stole was a song I made back in 2001, re-released on YMrockerz 2003. That means I was 16 when I composed it, couldnt he have tried to steal something of actual quality atleast? shiezz.
Edit, the conclusion:
On behalf of Mushpot Records and affiliated artists: Upon discovery of copyright issues as well as a breach of contract regarding Laromlab/Brandon Harrod, and his recently released self-titled album, I had no choice but to immediately halt digital distribution and disable all purchase links. The matter resulted in the separation of Laromlab from the Mushpot catalogue. As a person who is heavily invested on both sides of the music industry, I do not condone plagiarism and will not tolerate such behavior. I am taking steps to communicate with the offended parties. As far as I could gather, here are the original track names and artists that make up the Laromlab album: Laromlab Original Title Artist 1 Rock!! Hard!! Nightvision CrazyQ 2 Mission for Glory Haschkaka Dubmood 3 C: Dancer Cybernetic Dancer DMA-SC 4 Phat and Phunky Pt. 1 Phat and Phunky Pt. 1 CrazyQ 5 Zipp Zapp Zip Zap Space Attack CrazyQ 6 They're back!!! Return of the Fighters DMA-SC 7 Sid Attax Atari Attacks CrazyQ 8 Return of Da Stomp Local Hero CrazyQ 9 Punk Funk Pink Phunk Monster CrazyQ 10 Nightdrive Stars of the Night DMA-SC 11 T-girl Dancing T-Girl Lotek Style 12 (Hidden) Hiapoe DMA-SC I manufactured Laromlab with the belief that Harrod was indeed the sole copyright holder. I regret any inconvenience this has caused. Best, Jenn de la Vega Mushpot Records Mushpot@gmail.com 4/1/2008
April 1, 2008 at 9:58 am
Damn!
That is some fucked up shit right there…. Sue his ass! What a complete artard…. good thing you at least found out about it.
I suggest you start at least some sort of campaign about him and his theft, showing the mentioned youtube videos and commenting whose songs he’s actually talking about, etc. Disinformation is best fought with information!
April 1, 2008 at 4:28 pm
I’m writing a story about this. Can you email me so I can ask you a few questions?
April 2, 2008 at 5:35 am
Yeah, Brandon’s my friend and I had no idea. This is bullshit and he’s owning up to it.
“holy shit, the guys are not only wankers, they are religious wankers… that explains the stupidity. Read the robot cowboy appology, he talks about deamons. haha… oh humanity.”
I know your pissed and so am I, but I’d appreciate it if you would keep you’re anger on him and leave me out of it. I’m not apologizing for anything as I had no knowledge of this before Brandon told me himself and gave me the ym rockerz album link, which makes the plagiarism obvious. If I had found out before all of this, I would have exposed him myself. My statement is mainly to distance myself from Laromlab as I want to keep the good faith of the contacts I made while on tour with him. I have worked far to hard on my robotcowboy project to let this kill a future tour.
In clarification, I used the word “deamons” as a metaphor for whatever reason made him do it, because I will never understand. No I am not religious, Jesus Campers creep me out.
- Dan Wilcox
April 2, 2008 at 5:04 pm
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April 2, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Jeez, first I thought this was an april fools joke. Sad that this story is true … :/
April 8, 2008 at 7:41 pm
unbelievable! but dont worry…pretty soon your ass will be as famous as kanye, and this shit will never happen again.
April 18, 2008 at 2:39 pm
argh… thief is sux…!
wish u be famous dubmood