About Us

Pirates booty was started as way for us to release the many mashups and bootlegs that we have written over the years. Our tracks have featured on mix cds and Dj sets around the world. We use bootlegs as a way of advancing our writing and production capabilities, we are always learning new techniques and ideas. We feel that making bootlegs can train a producer in the fine art of making tracks that rock a dance floor. The same is true that we bring production ideas into bootlegs that we have learned writing original material.

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Our Mission

As musicians and producers we have seen our own original works on various download sites and mashed up. Not everyone will agree with this but we feel that even though it is technically illegal for people to take our music and make it their own, we are proud of the fact that people have made something original out of it. If you have done so, then please let us hear it, we may even start playing out your version.

Many record labels are scared of the fact they are losing control, this is understandable, we however believe that tracks can blow up off the back of a bootleg. If you think about tracks like eminem's stan which launched dido into a whole new market she would have struggled to break into. If you think about all those classic funk collectors that learned about funk through hip hop then you see the pattern of why we are so open.

The sampling revolution took classic funk breaks and progressed music to what it is today.

We believe that bootlegs are the next natural progression for music. Why is it that so many tracks also release an instrumental and an accapella? Go back 10 years and hardly anyone did this. The simple answer is that record companies know what will happen if you give creative people the tools.

If a producer makes a hit single in the bedroom, then everyone wins, the record companies get a hit and still own the copyright, the producer makes a name for themselves and the original artist gets extra kudos, making the original more popular than ever. I have seen many tracks blow up again after someone has made a good bootleg, Especially when you see a creative DJ add the original back in.

There is another very good point to all this. When you consider how much it costs to advertise a track, we need to think about how much free advertising a bootleg raises. If a track is getting talked about, if everyone is trying to find it, it creates a massive amount of hype that labels can capitalize on. I remember back in the day when someone (DJ Hype?) released a junglist version of the Fugees - Ready or not. Everyone, and i mean everyone started playing the original again, giving life to a track that although massive, had passed its time.

We do not make excuses for what we do, If you own the copyright of any of the material we use, then contact us and we will happily remove the track(s). If you like our work then get in touch, we have already remixed various tracks and our work is much better when we get our hands on the original source material.

It is for this very reason that we ask labels to not only release the accapella and instrumental, but to make available the raw components of a track, even for paid download via sites like beatport. We believe this is the future of music, embrace it an grow.

We hope you enjoy what we do.

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