For some songs, he got no "publishing rights". That means he didn't get paid as the songwriter. He still got royalties as the artist as I recreated the master samples. If I hadn't done that, he might not have made as much money. The bottom line is, if you sample someone else's recording, you are not, in the eyes of the law, doing much work and so most of the money will go to the sample owners.

@@KevinMcKayDJ damn. I see. And out of the let's 100% royalties an artist could get , how many % are those songwriters royalties and how many % are the artists playing on the master (like in Mylo's case on your example). Like 80-20?50-50?90-10? I guess if you are a DJ playing a lot u can bank on the fame of having a number one dance record ans forget the single sales money if u sample someone?

@@zz.158 Songwriting rights were worth more in the 90s and 00s. Now it's maybe 20% of the total. I always think its better to maximise the income in all of your streams, that's why I fought to get Mylo as much of a share as possible. He had an amazing deal, I paid him over £1M in royalties.

It's nothing to do with the label. I was running the label. After we made the album a success, he wanted to get out of his deal. My understanding is that he didn't think he owed the label (me and my partner at the time) anything. We obviously disagreed with that and it took a few years in court to sort out. But since 2012, he's been free to do what he wanted. He's just chosen not to.

@@KevinMcKayDJ I see. I have been an artist(indie) manager for a few years, so he probably didn't understand clearly that the label invests in the artists and the artists must pay back all the costs (studio time, equipment,promo,etc) and you had maybe a deal that he had to release a minimum of X album with you or during an X length of time. I see. So he's been free and hasnt released anything since 2012,thats a terrible news. He was so talented.You produced also his album right?You would say that the quality of the album is 50-50 both of your talent or is more his talent or yours?Because I heard your remix and I can hear your sound into his album. The way you rearranged for example Elvis Presley 's remix sounds like Mylo had done it kind of. I understand that a producer has a very big role in the quality success of a record.(Of course there must be some alchemy between the artist and the producer)

@@zz.158 Haha, he understood what he signed, I don't think he liked it though. With the Mylo album, he wrote the songs and I made the finished versions. Sometimes, they have more of me in the sound, sometimes more of him. Some songs didn't need much, others needed a lot.

Thanks mate!

It is not. Sorry. I just make these for fun.

Nice one Marc! Thank you for the kind words.

We did get a new singer to do it. I’m talking about the sample from a publishing point of view.

@@KevinMcKayDJ Thanks for clarifying that. Just starting the Passman book now, I've got a lot to learn.

@@mattsmith1440 No worries, I usually like to feature singers but in some situations, like this one, where they are making a sound-a-like of a sample, they don't want to be featured, so we leave the release - in this case - with just Norman and I as the artists.

Sometimes! Just depends on which clubs want to book me

Thanks Yazied!

Yeaaay everytime dude💯