While prepping for Figgy’s live debut, I went through his entire catalogue on SoundCloud, come to find half of it missing. SoundCloud has been more stringent on allowing sampled and remixed tracks recently, giving the major labels access to directly pull songs and even accounts from their service – Figgy was close to getting banned.
SoundCloud more recently introduced its Go premium service that includes offline, ad-free listening and a deal with the major labels that’ll increase their catalogue to compete with Spotify (it’s still in the works). What’s under the radar is that this deal may stop take downs for sampled and remixed songs and instead become a source of income for the labels – not that anyone gives a shit.
What we should give a shit about is producers will be able to keep their remixed and sampled songs on SoundCloud, probably at the cost of an ad. But at least we’ll get to use them for playlists. Until then, we’ve had Goldroom fill the void.
Figgy + Goldroom tracklist
Figgy – Do It Like Us
Alpine – Hands (Goldroom Remix)
Figgy – Can’t Hide
Goldroom – Only You Can Show Me (feat. Mereki)
Figgy – All That I Need
Goldroom – Adalita (feat. Chela)
Figgy – Lover In U
Wunder Wunder – Coastline (Goldroom Remix)
