#koraba

Kuchek Koraba [ca 2009]. I smell a copyright predator here, trying to eat up other artists’ work. This tune is well known at least since 2009, as played by Ali Pysik. There are more tunes, recently listed as played by Ork Shabla. All with this stupid “3-2-1 break down” sample at the beginning, but those tunes were around before (without that sample).

Believe SAS, the licensing company, has a Wikipedia entry mentioning multiple cases of fraudulent copyright claims by Believe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Believe_Digital

Bulgarian music like Kuchek has traditionally been a (local) community thing. Musicians or DJs have made money by playing at local events like weddings. There was no real market for vinyl, CD or digital sales. But the popularity of Kuchek and related styles has grown immensely, with some promo vids on Youtube getting 15 million views or more. Looks like this made some other folks very greedy…

Somebody more knowledgeable than me needs to investigate this.