Incredible!! The winning song "Now or Never by Barany Attila & No! End" is a Bootleg copies of existing songs!

I was first suspected in any number of views on youtube
in the first week of voting had about 1200
day before the end of voting, there were about 3000, at the end of voting 4000 views. One day 1000?
I think it was not exactly clear ... there are programs that allow tamping viewing on YouTube (using proxy etc. ..) so that it could be a massive vote ..
Especially now when there is still evidence of this ...
Hear what has to say Funkerman

Another proof:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uoXyniYxL8

This song was made much earlier ... Shame ... See the date ....

The song originally was set at Zippyshare 14.2.2010. !!!

http://www19.zippyshare.com/v/10698529/file.html

Later the song was just used and from it created "Now or Never".

QFT

Mmmmh its true, Atilla & No End fucked this contest!

I would like to hear funkerman and crews tougheds about this...

Youtube numbers are indeed, a little to high, probably proxy use yes..

@ Iskren

I understand your pissed ending on second place, i would be to
However its no use trying to find a fault so you can take first place!

If funkerman and his team decides to disqualify attila & no end , they should pick there personal winning track out of the other nine
and why are you talking about proxy, unless you know
what it does and how it works..maybe you used it yourself but not enough..
someone disagree iskren is a fag?

I not understand? I not write in my post I do not know anything about it. I not believe that it is possible.

This is an insult? No, I'm not gay. :) I use Googletranslate because I do not know enough English. Translation is not always correct.

This is disturbing yes, but the question is if Funkerman and his crew will turn the other cheek and let it slip or take action.

ProductionNine, don't throw shit at DJ Iskren if you're someone's else fanboy or contest hater simply because you haven't been noticed.

Sooner or later someone would've found out what Atilla and No End did, and frankly, why does it bother you? I'm pretty convinced you'd have moaned if you ended up very close to the first place and lost to some bootleg.
Name me only 1 good reason why the winning song shouldn't be banned from this contest and I'll name you 3 very good why it should if it isn't so obvious to you.

Also, I understand it hasn't been noticed sooner especially by Funkerman and his crew because they had lots of songs to listen to and who the hell would spare the time to do all that + do a research on every single artist that participated here. That doesn't mean this shouldn't be ignored.

This is really a shame right. like a famous win a contest that he was using elements already published poems, although as a rule expressly prohibited. Funkerman concerned should immediately disqualify

i think the rules were that you can't use samples that are someone elses...
this song was already their own song - so they had the rights to the song.
i don't think this was really published/released by anyone...which is why its a BOOTLEG...no?
if that is the case, then i don't think that its too much of a big deal...

Was it LAZY? Yes...was it illegal? I don't think so...

Can't see what youtube views have to do with winning, i just voted here on the site.. That's how these guys win, right?

It's a strong point tough, Attila & No!end remix does sound a lot like older No!end tracks.
Strings and Synth seem to come from No!end's 'In Love With' track. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8rEJMTRJuw

But the rythm section is not from that track, it sounds a lot like this: Compact Disco - I'm in Love (no!end remix) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8rEJMTRJuw

The second one got signed, but i'm not sure about the first one, think that really is a bootleg. And it's not a full copy of one track, they just used elements from more tracks and made it sound right. Don't know if that's illegal, i've heard more artists doing that in the past. (It kinda sounded like Funkadelic did it too in this contest)

Legal or not, it's not something to be proud of. (Lazy is a good term yeah) In my opinion, these guys shouldn't win.

The crowd decided they should win, but in that context the producers with the biggest crowd behind them are always winners.

so @productionNine: I agree with you, think the best would be if Funkerman/crew picked a winner. (I think there could be more, 4 tracks on an EP is a nice number and that way there are more listeners who get something they like). Oh and i do not agree Iskren is a fag, he's probably alright. But i do see hints of a little 'campaign' he's organizing to win, but that's just from what i'm seeing, doesn't make it true.

I wonder how many remixes were sent that aren't a copy of some other production... come on guys, we sure as hell can be more original, just try harder :)

Hi everybody,

we noticed the issue concerning the "Now or Never" track by Barany Attila & No! End, and are looking into it.
The issue has our full attention. We organized this contest to give new talent a chance to show their talent to a large audience. All parties involved want a fiar contest and a fair winner, including Flamingo Recordings.

All the facts and information are being gathered. We will get back on this asap.

grtn,
Pieter

Alright, great you are taking some action :)

Kinda shocked by this.. I've just been looking up all the artist that made it to the top 10 just to see what they usually make. You've heard Barany Attila & No!End, here are the others..

This is Dj Iskren: http://www.youtube.com/user/DJIskren
Now i posted something about his remix before. http://funkerman.com/forum/who-will-win-do-you-think and i started listening to his other tracks. It only got worse. I really do not think this is something for Funkerman's label. Sounds more like music for Eurovision Song Festival...

I kinda get the same feeling listening to Lee Elliott:
http://soundcloud.com/houseofelliott

Casimir was a nice production, but thanks to LocalDJ we know now that is was a 'copy' of Dj Tiesto's 'Escape Me' (Aviici;s Remix). Like his other production on his myspace tough, but it also sounds familliar: http://www.myspace.com/adamcasimir

Tamerlan & Djons was a solid House track. At first i was not sure if the piano in the break fit right, thought it was just an original production with the now or never vocals wacked over it later. but it worked, and the remix grew on me. They Also have more nice material on their Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/tamerlandjons and numerous of releases on beatport.

Didn't hear the name Rutger van Gelder much in the voting rounds.. Was a nice piano break in there. His artist name used to be ZenDuca: http://www.zenduca.com/ He's got some nice remixes on there but i don't think his version of Now Or Never had much chance.

It was a pleasure to hear Funkadelic's version, great energy but i really really resembled to his remix of the other remix contest, Automatic. Compare:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lol5AxlxTEc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlRSEaWht6Y
So not really original unfortunately...
He does have some other wicked wicked stuff tough, like his Topazz remix that's about to surface:http://soundcloud.com/funkadelic

Deep 'N Lazy is still one of my personal faves, very nice laidback production. And they have some more stuff that's worth listening, 'That man' for instance..http://soundcloud.com/deep-n-lazy

Was surprised to hear Midibyte's style in this competition, be he's a pro for sure. 'People Don't Dance No More' is a good example of what this guy can do:http://soundcloud.com/midibyte electronic goodness all the way!

The underdog definitely was Matthew Royal. Think his mix was very solid, guess the house crowd just isn't that much into dubstep. If you are into the whole dubstep thing tough: http://soundcloud.com/garthroyal

After this little study and judging by originality, consistency and phatness, i can only come up with these three as potential winners. (if Funkerman decides not to give the prize to Attila & No!End):

Tamerlan & Djons
Midibyte
Deep 'N Lazy

Did i just type all that text? i'm such a geek...

I do not understand why you are trying to belittle my work and now and earlier? I do not understand why are you doing, what benefit you got from that?

I'm not anywhere disparage the work of other participants, so I do not want to disparage my work!

I just pointed to the irregularity of the winners! And that's all!

@Rio - I'm hanging around on pretty much the same native forums as DJ Iskren, there's been no campaign whatsoever to help him have a distinct advantage. He merely "advertised" his track that was uploaded to YouTube and the Funkerman site itself should people decide to vote, nothing more, nothing less. :P I'm quite convinced everyone has done so. The same thing goes for this topic, he created the same one on native forums, not begging for support and such. Truth to be told, he would be a winner if someone managed to find out earlier about the truth behind Atilla's & No End's work and in majority's eyes he remains a winner even if the the crew hosting this contest decides otherwise should they consider Atilla/No End's remix violating their rules. All that is needed right now is to act accordingly against this violation and have them pick another winner either by re-casting votes or choosing themselves.

@Tech - I think you're being too suggestive here. At first I thought you were going to describe resemblances of various Top10 songs here and notice if someone has violated the rules but what you're doing is pushing your opinion. You've had your chances to express yourself, you were able to vote, now let the hosters decide without the influence of others. Keep in mind I do agree with a nice deal of your post, I just don't think this topic is for it.

Alright maybe that was a bit too much opinion ;) let's just wait for the Funkerman and crew to come up with an aswer then..

I happend to vote for the contest a couple of weeks ago, toughed lets see whats goin on over here.
Seeing this topic makes me sad:(

why cant artist be more original with there productions, i agree on your top 3 , Midibyte, Tamerlan & Djons & Deep 'N Lazy
i also agree on some one else saying to create an ep, pick 4 tracks from top 10 and you will get even more attention for your label.
however i dont see funkerman making 4 remixes:P ,

one thing is for sure, nobody wants to see atilla and no End win this contest lol, there's a hate thats growing and growing...
i'm starting to disslike the track more and more, knowing it was already made. it will be bad for flamingo releasing this tune in my opinion.

it will be a hard decision for the crew just to disqualify the guys, i think they will indeed just turn there heads and release it anyways
cant realy worry about it:P didnt even participate in contest

GoodLuck Funkerman!

lenni

Hi everybody,
this is a good theme... At first I am sorry for it and I understand that organizer of the contest cannot know all songs around the world. I was very happy to be in the contest, I was happy that somebody (The Funkerman) gives us the chance to work together with professionals. That´s the reason why I am sad now because copy of other songs cannot be in the contest at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am not sure if the winner did the copy, maybe he used to work with the same sample bank!

!!!!But this is not first case in this contest. Check another remix by Casimir!!!!! Casimir made a copy, REAL COPY of the track by Tiesto - Escape Me (Aviciis Remix At Night), he also wrote me in forum that he likes this melody so much so he did the remix similar... Where we are? :(

Original Track

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPOHihpSqps

Casimir copy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8ddf87vrFw

SO THE CASIMIR STOLE ONE PLACE IN THE CONTEST IN TOP 10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I am bored of all of it, because organizer maybe will be bothered so much that he is not going to make another Contest for honest producers!

I think that there are to much similar melodies in the dance music so I think we can be forgiving in some cases. I hope that we all will hear explication from ORGANIZER not only about winner but also about Casimir remix...

Sorry for this, really...

LocalDJ

Thank you very much for the support my friend Tech1ive ! And thx for HouseofHouse ;)
Cheers
Tamerlan

Hallo everyone.

we promissed to get back on the issue concerning the "Now or Never" track by Barany Attila & No! End.

We want to point out that competitors can only by disqualified based on violating the rules.

The "Now or Never" track by Barany Attila & No!End shows similarities with "No!End - In Love With". However, the track "In Love With" has not been signed or released. Therefore the copyrights of the samples are still owned by No!end, and can be used for other productions. So no rules have been violated, and therefore the submittion is "legal".

Funkerman and his team nominated the track by "Barany Attila & No! End" with the 9 other contestants, and after that it received the most public votes. The youtube views do not matter, they have nothing to do with the public vote, nor the selection process of the 10 finalists by Funkerman and his team.

The winner remains "Barany Attila & No! End".

Then good luck with having the same or larger pool of producers that would be willing to participate in future contests of yours, when bootlegs are better rewarded than an effort to create something unique.

Thanks for that comment Tech1ive, but the reality is i'm not a professional producer, at all. I turned 19 a few months ago, my room is my studio, i've been doing it for about 5 years now, electro nearly 2 now. Aiming for a professional career yes, but at the moment, i'm nothing but a broke-ass highschool student. Doing my thing, irritating 25 yo's in the business. :-)

This is, therefore, the final decision of the Team Funkerman? Ok...