The music industry has always been rife with allegations and problems that stem from uncredited work. However, no sub genre has ever been more afflicted by it than dance music. One of the biggest controversies to ever take the industry by storm is the entire ‘Ghost Production’ fiasco. The numerous amounts of producers that have been afflicted by it is just uncanny.
You’ve got new quick rising producers who shoot to fame on one week, only to have their spotlight taken away the next week with claims of ghost producer involvement. Or you have several well established producers and DJs shoot accusations at their peers and contemporaries back and forth.
Most recently, in an interview with Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1, Porter Robinson predominantly denied and discredited the act of ghost producing as a whole except for one signature “well known” dance track.
“It was a collaboration with a friend and then I took my name off it before it came out because it didn’t feel right for me. The end product wasn’t something I was happy with.”
This would mean that Porter Robinson, who collaborated with a friend on a very well known track, had his name removed from the final product as he wasn’t happy with the end result. Thereby leaving only the “good friend” as the sole producer on that track.
We, on the other hand, would love to know who that “good friend” is and what “well known” track he was referring to. But, like many others, this would be one EDM’s best kept secrets.
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