"Rebound" is a song by Russian DJ and producer Arty with British producer Mat Zo. It was released by Anjunabeats as a digital download on 18 April 2011.[2]
The track was the 200th release of Anjunabeats,and thus considered to be a landmark release.[3] This track was featured in numerous trance compilations.[4][5] Later in 2013,the track was illegally sampled in will.i.am's studio album,#willpower.[6]
Composition and background
The track premiered in March 2011 by Above &Beyond as an ID.[7] Its name was revealed later in A State of Trance 2011[8] and confirmed in TATW 362 as the 200th release of anjunabeats.
In 2013,will.i.am sampled the song for his track "Let's Go" featuring Chris Brown.[9] Based on Arty &Mat Zo,will.i.am never cleared the track copyrights with label Anjunabeats,although Arty was listed in the track credits for "Let's Go".[10] From a tweet by Chris Brown,he stated that he didn't know of the track's original source and claimed that he performed the track due to a feature request.[9] will.i.am initially replied with "Who's Matzo?" on a YouTube comment to a listener who pointed out the original track.[9] Arty confirmed in a Facebook statement that he was never contacted by will.i.am's label,Interscope Records,for license agreements considering that the track was made in collaboration with Mat Zo.[11]
During his first official response on the case,he wrote that he contacted Arty after listening to "Rebound" and asked for a collaboration,in which Arty responded that he would be interested in one. Believing that Arty's response would be enough as an okay,will.i.am recorded a new version of the track for "Let's Go". He also stated that he was unaware that "Rebound" was co-created by Mat Zo.[10]
"You can't steal if you credited somebody. He and I communicated. ... It's not my fault he didn't tell me about the other guy. So who is to blame? I didn't know."
In a later interview with radio station KIIS-FM, will.i.am. admitted stealing from "Rebound" accidentally and that he was confused whether he ever had the rights to use "Rebound" for his song.[12] He stated, "Arty is a dope producer so I wrote this song to 'Rebound' this last year. I got in touch with Arty and showed it to him, did a different version to it 'cause I asked him [to] make it newer 'cause I don't just wanna take your song and rap over it. But he said that after a year's time, "we preferred writing over and using the [original] rebound. Something happened and the clearance... hopefully we resolved the issue".[6] He then contacted the song owners for negotiation,[13] in which the song was removed from the regular edition on his album #willpower and replaced on the deluxe edition with the song "Feelin' Myself".[14]
↑ "Will.i.am Steals From Arty, Mat Zo, Sandro Silva, Quintino, Mike Candys". Your EDM. 16 April 2013. Archived from the original on 7 September 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2018. Recent buzz on social media networks such as Twitter and Facebook has led to believe that Will's track "Let's go" is a blatant copy of the trance hit Rebound by Arty and Mat Zo.
↑ Raman, Kaavya (29 October 2015). "A Glorious Journey". HuffPost. Archived from the original on 26 February 2017. Retrieved 17 February 2018. "Rebound" was Anjunabeats' 200th single and was a three-time Webvote Winner on Above and Beyond's radio show.
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