GLDN Strikes Out as Revealed Recordings Retroactively Credits "Skyline" to AXYS & PVLSE

This story is still developing as we gather responses from GLDN, Strike Nine, and Revealed Recordings. If you have any information to contribute to this, we encourage you to reach out to us on social media if you have proof (i.e. emails or screenshots.)

Update 1: In his Instagram stories, GLDN has claimed that Revealed did not reach out to him regarding the name-change for Skyline.

Update 2: We've been reached out to by one of Strike Nine's other ghost producers who has shown receipts that Strike Nine paid for the services rendered to this individual in a separate case other than the one discussed in this article. As this story continues to unfold, we're trying to work with Strike Nine in order to further verify the claims made in this article. This additional piece of information shows that Strike Nine has a paper trail of paying his ghosts. Another thing to keep in mind is that this is particularly high profile ghost producer, and so not paying him would have certainly been detrimental to Strike Nine's career. We'll update the post as we learn more information.

UPDATE 3: We reached out to Revealed Recordings and they issued the following statement: "On behalf of Revealed Recordings, here's our response: Revealed Recordings aims to provide a platform for fans, DJ's and talented producers. One of the most important things for us at Revealedrecordings.com is originality. When we discover people are stealing tracks from upcoming talent, this is a direct threat to everything we stand for and we will respond accordingly when we discover such activity.'"

As far as the EDM industry is concerned, there's not too much drama that bubbles its way outside of certain cliques and circles. However, many eyebrows were raised when Revealed Recordings made the unprecedented move to give credit to different artists over one year after release. The track in question? GLDN - Skyline. If you go onto Soundcloud now, you'll find that the track has been changed to AXYS & PVLSE - Skyline. We're going to try and explain what exactly happened in this exclusive piece made in partnership with EDM Reviewer. 

To get to the bottom of this story, we talked directly with AXYS as well as two other anonymous ghost producers who have previously sold tracks to the individuals in question: GLDN and Strike Nine. To best explain this story, we have to start right at the beginning.

Near the end of 2016, "Skyline" started off as a normal collaboration between AXYS and PVLSE with the intention of signing it to a decent label under their own names. However, once they had done all they could on the track, they didn't feel like it had the potential to get signed anywhere. They also lacked the budget to bring on a vocalist to take the track to the next level. Taking those two thoughts into consideration, both producers decided to sell the track. 

AXYS sent the track to his normal clients, one of them being Strike Nine. Strike Nine responded to the message and said he would get back to AXYS soon, but instead of following up to discuss payment and paperwork, Strike Nine appeared to have sent the track to GLDN. With no modifications whatsoever, GLDN changed the name of the file and sent it to Revealed Recordings as his own solo track.

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Here you can see almost everything what I did to make “Skyline”!✈️ Go check out whole track on @revealedrec ! #revealedrecordings #skyline - For infos of this copyright / artist issue, look at @edmreviewerofficial cc @theqrnetwork □

A post shared by AXYS (@itsaxys) on Feb 28, 2019 at 10:09am PST

There have been a lot of questions as to why the track was released by GLDN alone and without Strike Nine, who was the person who had stolen the track in the first place. To answer this, we have to look back at the history between these two. From our other sources, it's believed that GLDN is the one with the money and that he's been the one to pay for other ghost productions and perhaps even tour gigs in Asia. 

This is where things get a bit complicated, but this is an important detail to understanding this story. One of my sources for this piece was one of the two ghost producers who worked on the track, "Hammer" which was released as a collaboration between Strike Nine & Ravekid that was released on Cell Recordings. According to this source, he was paid for this track in full by GLDN. So this is an example of GLDN footing the bill to advance the career of what I can only assume is his close friend, Strike Nine. 

Back to "Skyline," it is believed that the reason Strike Nine stole this track from AXYS and PVLSE was to repay GLDN for the generosity he has shown Strike Nine over the years - a sort of thank-you gift. Because of Strike Nine's thievery, GLDN had his first release on Revealed Recording and it was credited as a solo venture.

"Skyline" was released under what was then the new Revealed Community and neither AXYS nor PVLSE realized that their track had been stolen until AXYS signed up for a Revealed Pro account in December 2018 and tried to submit Skyline as a release from AXYS & PVLSE. He was unable to upload the track to the website on account of Revealed's automated system which blocks songs that have already been released on the label. AXYS then Shazam'ed his track and that's when he found that his track had been stolen.  After the holidays had passed and work resumed at the Revealed Recordings offices, AXYS was able to get in touch with Stijn van Dijken and send over the proper proof to show that this was indeed his and PVLSE's track.

Mr. Dijken sided with AXYS and agreed to properly credit him and PVLSE for "Skyline" as you can clearly see by the new title on the Soundcloud listing. The other platforms have not been updated as of this writing because it involved more parties with the Spotify Team, however you will see that in the credits for "Skyline" on their platform, both AXYS and PVLSE's real names appear in the credits.

In the process of getting new paperwork in order for "Skyline," AXYS asked Mr. Dijken to reach out to GLDN to make sure everything was settled on paper. On February 24th, GLDN posted to his Instagram account that he had just signed a track to a Spinnin' Records sub-label.

For the story, we talked with another collaborator of Strike Nine who told us about how he didn't contribute much to the track they were all working on. Once it was released, the track also had to get taken off of Soundcloud because "someone" had botted the song and Revealed removed it from the platform. You can still listen to it on Spotify & YouTube but this just goes to show the character of Strike Nine as well as his "promotional practices."

The takeaway here is that the Revealed Team took this claim from AXYS very seriously and acted accordingly. I'm extremely happy to report that they are in the process of giving proper credit where it is due. Ghost production has been a part of this industry since the beginning and it is all well and good when the work is paid for. In this case, it wasn't and the label acted accordingly.

Unfortunately, this is not the end of the story. We are currently sorting out the details of the second half of this story to make sure we're reporting verified truths about the matter. 

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