Duke thinks so.. Listen for yourself here:
Duke Dumont has claimed that ZHU has stolen the title, hook and vibe of one of his demos on his new single which we posted yesterday on Soundplate.
For reference, here is the ZHU track:
and here is Duke Dumont’s demo:
A demo i wrote 11 months ago for my album@ZHUmusic going to give you the benefit of the doubt, but the writer on your new record stole it. pic.twitter.com/m0mxFGTeK9
— Duke Dumont (@DukeDumont) March 15, 2017
Recorded July 2016 @ZHUmusic .. pic.twitter.com/VSwPVEr7YI
— Duke Dumont (@DukeDumont) March 15, 2017
To our ears, and to most people on Twitter, the two tracks sound nothing alike. Apart from the title it’s hard to find any similarities between the two tracks, and lets be honest they are not the first people to call a track Nightcrawler:
We have not reached out to either artist for comment, but so far the only response from ZHU’s camp has been this photo:
— ZHU (@ZHUmusic) March 16, 2017
It seems that most of listeners on Twitter and siding with ZHU this time as the tracks are pretty different but has DUke Dumont got a point?
What do you think? A rip off or not? Hit us up on Twitter and let us know!