Crystal Castles in UK tour furore

o'wank

definately be doing leccy ballroom. they were great at the astoria 2/mean fiddler recently

to any enquiries on nicking other peoples tunes yet (Mother knows best being my favourite)?

http://gameboygenius.8bitcollective.com/wordpress/2008/05/06/crystal-castles-and-chip-music-copyright-infringements/

Just wondering. They were supposed to have responded to this a while back, but I haven't heard anything.

There's a video comparing a chip tunes track (by Lo-Bat) and a track off their myspace, it goes beyond sampling really.

http://www.vimeo.com/1018910

Especially as the original track was released under Creative Commons Non profit attribution (i think), pretty gash.

This + the t-shirt business and some other allegations of track theft has put me right off them.

In six months time, no-one will care

They've re-attributed that as Crystal Castles vs Lo-Bat on MySpace. And it never got a commercial release. So that's cheap and nasty, but (legally borderline) ok.

'Mother knows best' did get a commercial release (vinyl and Itunes), and that's a direct lift from Tizzy by Lo-Bat. And then there's the drum samples. You can see why the 8-bit community is pissed off.

Kind of shows them up as liars too. Didn't they say they installed an Atari chip in a keyboard to get those sounds?

They never coughed up any of that t-shirt cash either. Scummmmbagz!!

but upon arrival we were informed that the girl was ill and it would be a DJ set by that matey with the big nose. Great. She didn't look very bloody ill to me, flouncing about backstage with a can of Stella in her hand.

and wrong

their album but agree with you diver. the 'glitchy' stuff is pretty grating in parts.

"next time you want to see the band, anywhere, write me here".

I replied saying 'How about free entry to Reading festival?' tongue in cheek of course.
Ive still yet to get a reply.

but maybe the promoters told them to Fuck Off for blowing out the last gig?

Maybe if your total exposure to chiptunes is... well, pretty much just Crystal Castles.

The fact they're "borrowing" heavily from a scene they aren't even part of is quite sad.

(^5 for your username though)

whilst i still love the crystal castles album (but can't condone their actions), there are definitely better chiptuners around:

anamanaguchi
sabrepulse
firebrand boy

In what way? Have you only seen them and Razorlight live?

that I listened to them solidly for several days after I saw them recently in Manchester.

As to Razorlight - LOL - yes I did see them about 3 years ago supporting the Manics.

As other live acts, well possibly I don't have your breadth off taste, but I have been to 35 live concerts/gigs this year, including two DiS events, I am a member of the Halle Concert Society, and in two hours time I am seeing the opening acts at Primavera, as I am in beautiful warm, sunny Barcelona.