01.18.2007 RAPPER STEALS COMMODORE 64 MUSIC

Timothy Z. Mosley, better known as millionaire hip hop music artist Timbaland, has been producing music for over a decade now, with three albums and dozens of collaborative singles under his bastardly belt. Why is he such an asshole? Let's backtrack to the year 2000 when an original Amiga module audio track entitled Acidjazzed Evening was composed by Janne Suni, a.k.a. Tempest, a Finnish demoscener (dudes and dudettes who use computers to make visual and audio art) who won first place in an Oldskool Music competition. Then the song was remixed with Suni's permission by Glenn Rune Gallefoss, a.k.a GRG, for the Commodore 64 - the gaming system that was mother of many beloved games of our youth. Hundreds of midi techno geeks orgasmed at the tune, but it was sadly forgotten.

Then, in June of last year, Nelly Furtado released the album Loose, featuring the track Do It with tunes produced by Timbaland, using his previous Block Party (what an original name!) cell phone music that went by unnoticed. Thousands of people orgasmed at the tune this time, and it was again forgotten, but months later the Internet has finally caught on. The YouTube above is fairly shitty in quality, so if you're up for some awesome music then feel free to prove it to yourself:

• Legally download Janne Suni's Acidjazzed Evening here.
• C64 remake mp3 can be heard here.
• Legal, yet obnoxious pop-up 30 second preview can be found here on Amazon.

I'm listening to the Nelly Furtado song right now and it's painfully obvious how much of a clone this is of the Commodore64 remake. Sux 2BU Janne Suni, but it's good to be us - at least Timbaland being a dastardly dick enabled more of us to discover the great Acidjazz Evening song. Thanks to YTMND user GeckoYamori for bringing this to the public's attention. His YTMND includes much better audio quality proof of the Timbaland's thievery.

Update: Timbaland is now working with Rockstar Games on a PSP game called Beaterator. No thanks, asshole.