Timbaland vs Tempest & GRG

Very short summary: The commercial pop piece "Do It" by Tim "Timbaland" Mosley for Nelly Furtado supposedly has its origins in the tracker module "Acidjazzed Evening" by the Finnish C64/Amiga demoscener Janne "Tempest" Suni. See Wikipedia for a more detailed summary. Or perhaps this YouTube video if you just want to hear the similarities between all the related songs.

Note: This is just a list of links somehow related to the fuss. Some information presented as factual may actually be speculation or just plain wrong (even if repeated in multiple sources).

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radio interview

• MP3 (comments at about 6:50)
• YouTube
• Textual transcript [wrapped lines]

mtv interview

• MTV news
• Repeaters: Contactmusic PR-Inside TeenMusic.com dose.ca The Post Chronicle WENN

news about the interviews

• VIBE.com
• Def Sounds
• Rap Basement
• Remix64
• C64.sk
• Sputinikmusic
• VORC
• Idolator
• Gulli (german computer underground portal)
• Kingsize Magazine (swedish hiphop magazine)
• Wildstyle Magazine (german hiphop magazine)
• (YLE link removed because they're changing the addresses all the time)

blogs

• The Thomas Crown Chronicles (fan blog)
• Timbalandchick (fan blog)
• UKScene (demoscene blog)
• prefix (music magazine blog)
• Hip Hop Street
• Scamwagon
• Daniel Holter
• Game Music 4 All
• Electronic Music 411
• Industrial Skeletronics
• Jatkuva funktio (fi)
• Rinku

forums

• Beat Club (timbaland fan forum)
• pouet.net (demoscene forum)
• ctgmusic (music forum)
• stealthunit.net (finnish music forum)
• Future Producers (music forum)
• mikseri.net (finnish music forum)
• Basso.fi (finnish music forum)
• Amiga.org (amiga forum)
• Lifesaver.net (finnish music forum)
• CSDb (c64 forum)
• The Something Awful Forums
• DVD Plaza Forums (finnish)
• Pingstate nro. 3 (finnish art forum)
• Gearslutz (music forum)
• Burning in the Spotlight (Nelly Furtado fan forum)
• prince.org
• UndergroundHipHop.com
• SOHH (hiphop forum)

other

• The first YouTube submission of the interview (unfortunately, the submitter systematically deletes all the critical comments and blocks their writers)
• Timbaland Question (youtube)

mainstream news sources

English

• Rolling Stone [older newsitem]
• XXL (hip hop magazine)
• MTV [VH1] [Asia] [Europe]
• Chocolate Magazine
• BreakingNews.ie (Ireland)
• Ireland Online (Ireland)
• Irish Examiner (Ireland)
• Evening Echo (Ireland)
• Mercury News (blog)
• WIRED news (magazine)
• WIRED news (blog)
• Commonwealth Times [mention in JC Chasez story] (a university student publication)

Finnish

• (YLE link removed because they're changing the addresses all the time)
• Iltalehti
• Ilta-Sanomat
• ITviikko
• Rumba
• Seiska
• NRJ
• Helsingin Sanomat / NYT-liite (scan)

Norwegian

• NRK
• Dagbladet
• Dagsavisen
• Kingsize
• Moox Mag

Other languages

• Stern (de)
• Heise (de)
• Rolling Stone (de)
• disorder.cl (es) (blog of a chilean magazine)
• YLE X3M (se)
• Festivalbar (it)
• MTV Chinese (cn)
• MTV Thailand (th)

in-depth articles

• Chris Abbott (C64Audio.com)
• eDome (fi+en)
• Timofonic (es) (blog)

web-only sources

Demoscene, C64 etc.

• Pouet (demoscene forum)
• Remix64 (C64 site) [discussion]
• C64.sk (C64 news site)
• C64Music (blog)
• CSDb (C64 forum)
• Amiga.org [another thread] (forum)
• MadTracker (forum)
• UKscene (blog)
• nosfe (blog)

Fan sites

• Burning in the Spotlight (Nelly Furtado fan forum)
• Beat Club [about MTV news] [something] (Timbaland fan forum)
• The Thomas Crown Chronicles (Timbaland fan blog)
• The Timbalandchick (blog)
• X Man Da Legend (blog)
• Andy The Dogcow (blog)

Technology & geek

• Somethingawful
• Digg [another]
• Slashdot
• Joystiq (gaming news)
• Ars Technica
• The Last Boss (gaming blog)
• Encyclopedia Dramatica
• Cult of the Dead Cow (forum of the hacker group)
• the millsberry cheat (blog)

Music & entertainment

• Side-Line [blog]
• ARTISTdirect
• Boombox
• Yahoo News
• EURweb
• SoundSlam
• Def Sounds
• Idolator
• AllHipHop
• AngryApe
• ctgmusic.com (forum)
• BreaksFM (forum)
• Anjunabeats (forum)
• UndergroundScene (forum)
• Gearslutz.com (forum)
• Renoise.com (forum)
• ReasonStation (forum)
• KVR Audio [another thread] (forum)
• tba [another entry] (blog)
• One Big Construction Site (blog)
• Surasshu Sound (music/games blog)
• Kriton Music (blog)
• pHinnweb (blog)
• Edie Finneran (blog)
• Future Producers (an old thread noticing Timbaland's SidStation)
• Beyondjazz.net (forum)
• Oh Word Collection (blog)
• J's Corner of Randomnessz (blog)

Wikipedia articles

• 2007 Timbaland plagiarism controversy [talk page]
• Timbaland [talk page]
• Loose (album)
• Do It
• 2007 in music
• Nelly Furtado
• German: Timbaland Loose (Album)
• Finnish: Timbaland
• Swedish: Timbaland
• French: Loose

Other/misc English web sources

• dose.ca (canadian news site)
• Wikinews
• PR inside
• james.lab6.com (blog)
• vzio (blog)
• you thought we wouldn't notice (blog)
• Slyck (file-sharing forum)
• ohnotheydidnt (big livejournal community)
• warsystems.hu (blog of a sociology researcher)
• acousticsounds.com (a summer 2006 review of 'loose')
• ordinalten (blog)
• Finland for Thought [earlier] (blog)

Finnish

• Findance (music news)
• Digitoday (tech news)
• Stara [another] [yet another] (entertainment news)
• MBNet (geek/tech news)
• Tehomylly (geek news)
• Sektori.com (tech/geek news)
• Vee.fi (music review forum)
• Basso (music forum)
• mikseri.net (music forum)
• Muusikoiden.net (music forum)
• Muropaketti (pc geek forum)
• Pakkotoisto.com (forum)
• Lifesaver.net (forum)
• Stealthunit.net (forum)
• Pimp My Content HKI (fi) (blog)
• Tärähdyksiä (blog)
• Demi.fi (forum of a teen girls' magazine)

Other languages

• Kulturo (no)
• Hip-Hop.no (no) (forum)
• polarBoing (no)
• Studio forum (se) (forum)
• Piratpartiet (se) (forum)
• ichigo:noterat (se) (blog)
• Magnus Blog (se) (blog)
• Gulli (de) [another]
• symlink (de)
• synthforum.nl (nl) (forum)
• fok (nl) (forum)
• 3voor12 (nl) (forum)
• Deepsounds (pl)
• PPA (pl) (forum)
• MyApple (pl) (forum)
• sugem (ru) (blog)
• hiphop news (ru) (blog)
• E-músicas (pt)
• Bizz (pt)
• patrinorama (gr)
• Music Box (gr)
• Infos Jeunes (fr)
• Showbizz.net (fr) [Matinternet]
• Web Rank Info (fr) (forum)
• Hardware.fr (fr) (forum)
• Dmagician (sk) (blog)
• SME (sk) (blog)
• Kataweb (it)
• Qbicweb (it)
• ikirsector (it) (forum)
• Altri Bit (it) (blog)
• newz.dk (dk)
• scene.ee (ee)
• notrax (jp) (music news site)
• hugi.is (is)
• slohiphop (sn) (forum)
• Yahoo News (es)
• applemt5 (th) (thai lifestyle blog)

videos and presentations

• Timbaland uncleared sample (youtube) - this is the best comparison video so far
• Producer Timbaland steals song from finnish musician (youtube) - this video started the big fuss
• Timbaland steals song - more proof!(youtube) - mod vs ringtone
• timbalandtempest.ytmnd.com
• Tempest's MOD being played with Amiga Octamed [with Amiga ProTracker] (youtube)
• GRG's version being played in SDI (youtube)
• Nelly Furtado performs Do It live in Februrary - WITHOUT THE SAMPLE (youtube)

audio

• Original MOD at modland.com
• Original MOD in original ZIP package at scene.org
• An MP3 conversion of the MOD [mirror] [mirror] [mirror]
• C64 version by Glenn Rune Gallefoss (PSID format)
• MP3 conversion of GRG's version [mirror] [mirror]
• HVSC update file indicating the inclusion of Acid_Jazz.sid
• Screen shot showing the copyright information integrated into Acid_Jazz.sid
• Texts and sample information extracted from the original MOD
• Preview clip of "Block Party" ringtone
• MP3 clip of "Do It" [mirror] [mirror]
• "Do It" clip at last.fm
• Original extracted from "Do It" (MP3)
• "Do it" ripoff demonstration (torrent posted on piratebay)

tempest

• Tempest's web site
• Tempest's page about Acidjazzed Evening
• CSDb

grg

• GRG's statement at C64.sk
• GRG's web site
• News at GRG's web site [updated Feb 03]
• Acidjazzed Evening controversy at GRG's personal web page
• SDI (GRG's C64 music software)
• GRG interviewed by NRK (no)
• GRG interviewed by Dagbladet (no)
• GRG's arrangement at CSDb
• CSDb
• HVSC

timbaland

• Official website
• Official fansite
• MySpace
• Timbaland with a Sidstation [video]

humor

Intentional humor

• timbaland_c64.jpg
• stealfromtimbalandor5.jpg
• timbaland000gr5.jpg
• stealfromfreemusicartishd3.jpg
• Tempest Euroviisuihin (fi)
• tempestland.jpg
• timpeland.jpg
• boozeland.jpg
• Pouet.net: Random Timbaland image thread
• timburglar.jpg [with texts]
• hTWvi.gif
• timbaland_hvsc.jpg
• Timbalame [pouet] [youtube] (C64 demo)
• Timbaland vs Janne Suni (demoscene-inspired music video on youtube)
• cluelessnews (misconceptions and errors collected into one "news article")
• eviltimbalandlolhp4.jpg
• thiefaland.jpg
• A collection of actual reviews of 'Do It'
• Katra (fi)
• Timbaland at CSDb
• Timbaland Question (youtube)

counterspeculations

Street Fighter 2 Turbo

• It has been rumored that Tempest actually plagiarized (or even sampled!) the music of this game. Can you find any similarities other than the use of slightly similar-sounding synth instruments and a generic arpeggio?
• The allegedly sampled part (MP3)
• Music in MIDI format
• Youtube video of the game (BLURi community: "it's from the character select screen")
• Sources spreading this rumor: SOHH SOHH Reasonstation YouTube (comments) BLURi BLURi Burning in the Spotlight freeipodguide.com howardforums.com

reheat by psp game news

The news about the new "Beaterator feat. Timbaland" game for PSP has revived the discussion.

• Madfinn
• PSP Fanboy
• Kotaku
• Joystiq
• Digg (another)
• PSP Updates
• The Last Boss ("Screw you Timblaland!")
• PlayThrough
• CrackMuzik
• These have the news but do not mention the case: totalvideogames.com vermontconnect.com computerandvideogames.com playstadium.dk pspfanblog.blogspot.com net-topix.com neverthefirst.com next-gen.biz playthrough.net gamernews.org gamespectrum.co.uk game-sector.co.uk progamenews.com maxconsole.net whudahexup.blogspot.com

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