Nacho Campillo: “The Tam Tam Go! recordings of the early days can’t be recovered unless we get into a big lawsuit”

“At that time, EMI shared the rights with a publisher. PRISA Group it was first called Nuesa, then Nova”. Nacho Campillo lists the steps to be followed to rank first among the most listened to. There were two forms of payment to sound in Los 40 Principales: “someone is giving up editorial rights; the publisher signed it and we signed it, but we refused, so the publisher transferred 20% to Nova”. They were then paid in kind or in cash (one million pesetas), as Nacho and Javier confirmed: “The companies paid, and because they were multinational they did it in a package where we all were.” The same operation consisted of a series of operations. free performances: “The company paid for the entire concert, including the musicians. It was a kind of bargaining chip for the group to be number one (what was called the Red Disc)”. But they realized this much later, not when they signed the publishing contract. “I remember this in songs Welcome (Miguel Ríos), 20% or 25% from Nova, PRISA. Yes, it was the quota to be number one,” said the journalist. Joaquin Guzman In an interview with Nacho Campillo Rockola FM Guzmán had worked as an announcer at PRISA for over a decade. M80 Radius. “When someone signed with a publisher, I warned them: ‘Be careful what you sign'”.

go over the numbers wet ridges with vocalist and songwriter, numbers show Nova has 20%, EMI 30% and Tam Tam Go! 50% to be split between Nacho (30%), Javier (12.5%) and Rafa (12.5%). “It was a very established thing back then,” Campillo says. “The record label told us that was the case. We were very belligerent from the beginning. We read the contracts, but we didn’t have much of an idea. We looked at and compared new contracts over time. And of course! They were putting some enormous sticks on us.” As for live shows, that 50% went to radio and broadcast.

Get Nacho Campillo accounts. accepts this they lost a lot of money in the case of 50% of their rights wet ridges and calculates that it could be several million pesetas (Javier prefers not to do this so as not to get angry). “I was aware of all this with my first solo album,” continues Nacho. “I started reviewing the contracts and thought it should be changed. Then MCA from Universal signed me. They offered me to do the editorial with them and I said no, I’d do it myself. The Mountain Kalao Songs With Isabel and from then on we started putting my entire repertoire out there, but Tam Tam Go! Tam Tam Go! “If we don’t make a big lawsuit to get the rights back from the first term, it can’t be taken back anyway,” he said.

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In 2016, BMG purchased Nova’s music catalogs from PRISA Radio. Comparing the information in the SGAE database, Sony Music Publishing Spain SL and BMG Forty Spain appear to be publishers, therefore the publishing rights wet ridges today it is owned by Sony Music. “We keep going the same way,” says Nacho. “We talked to lawyers to save them; They broke a lot of things: for example, there were no points and they lost their master’s degrees. Currently, lifetime leonine contracts have been outlawed and these editorial contracts are for 10 or 5 years. “They’re not illegal yet,” Javier points out now. “For someone to declare it illegal, you have to sue. There are articles that are unconstitutional. We are suing. We have a lawyer looking to see if we can retain all editorial rights. We’ve been for a year. But not just us, more groups will go”.

Paco Martín sold the Twins to DRO for 150 million pesetas in 1989. (forgiving the last 50). However, curiously, it fell into the hands of the DRO Group. Warner Music International in 1993. This series of purchases made Spanish mixedEdited by the Twins, owned by Warner. EMI disappeared in 2011 and Tam Tam Go! (Spanish romance, wet ridges And life and color), has been taken over by the Parlophone Label Group under Warner’s tutelage since 2013.

Argentine Facundo Domínguez, known as DJ Kun, released an adaptation in 2000. wet ridges – under the heading No money (crossing the river)– in the titled CD Crazy Torment With GASA, a label that Warner bought in 1993 for being part of the DRO Group with the Twins and DRO, “De hard times (Low Blows) in Latin Kilombo (1998), he was determined to have another Spanish adaptation for. Crazy Torment (2000) can only relate to this Spanish-speaking America, so this theme wet ridges [espaldas mojadas] borderline,” says DJ Kun via email to this medium. “I already had ideas – about preteenage– When I had to travel to San Antonio with my family from Mexico (but by plane) to legalize my status as an Argentine immigrant in Mexico. It was natural to involve mariachi so that Warner Mexico would react and broadcast me outside of Spain”.

Nacho Campillo, Full Tam Go for this “version”! received the corresponding 50% of royalties. According to Campillo estimates, DJ Kun is 10%, as he appears as a translator, but the Argentine artist offers other data: “When Warner contacted Chappell, a merger with EMI Music Publishing was in preparation, so they made it easy to assign the rights as an unusual 60% for me and my an adaptation with 40% for”. “He signed the contract with the publisher for a record 60%-40%. wet ridges only got 10%”, emphasizes Javier, backing up the data provided by his brother Nacho.

DJ Kun revealed that the company requested that the song not have the original title. Wet ridges. Facundo insisted on the title. crossing the river, but in the end it stayed no money. “No one was able to put me in contact with them. [Tam Tam Go!]; I was also intrigued by Nacho singing the song, but someone saw an opportunity to reunite the band and sign a deal. very snowy tour [una gira muy rentable]. I repeated this phenomenon two more times with Golpes Bajos and Radio Futura. hot schooluntil I left DRO East/West because I was fed up with them asking me for more versions to get their group back”. Continuing on the subject of rights, DJ Kun is excluded from the phonographic copyright agreement (7%), “The company has never had the rights to digitize or broadcast. streaming This disc”and to date, DRO East/West has not made any payments from this second album: “They always made excuses not to pay and today they don’t include me in their digital database to collect royalties. He licensed the single to a record label of prospective Mexican drug traffickers and they are not answering any calls.

In 2022, 32 years after its premiere on the radio formula, wet ridges Re-recorded by Tam Tam Go!, accompaniment this time mikel izalinside the disk after 30It was arranged by Mitik Records, directed by Aurelio Morata, bassist of Los Rebeldes and responsible for the career of Jaime Urrutia. with the new version wet ridges, phonographic rights belong to us and Mitik. But we’ve recorded the song a few times.” One of them is that they played it for the live show Warner was going to air in 2009 at the Teatro Romano in Mérida on September 20, 2008: bolero set on fire.

The summary of this story is Warner owns Tam Tam Go! recordings (phonographic catalog) and Sony songs (editor section). “Given the times available and the lack of information we have, we signed off on what we thought was best. If it had been in the past, I would never have signed it”, concludes Nacho Campillo. Supporting Nacho’s words, Javier ends with a similar statement, admitting that they can’t work when faced with outright rejection, and of course it might not sound like much. wet ridges on the radio.