Spinnin’ Records Accidentally Released An Infected Mushroom Remix As New Oliver Heldens
Spinnin’ took a pretty legendary L yesterday. The record which has come under fire the last few years for hosting ghost productions and signing artists who lack production credibility made a serious mistake. Oliver Heldens released, ‘Alien Technology’ as Hi-Lo alongside Alok off the label and things got a little hairy when a distribution mistake was made.
‘Alien Technology’ has been a highly desired tracks for weeks now. We even noted that it was becoming a main stay in Helden’s tracks long before it’s release. So upon it’s release, fans were a bit confused to hear something totally different. That is because on Spotify and Apple Music, Spinnin’ pushed a new remix of Infected Mushroom and WARRIORS’ collaboration from 2007 titled ‘Becoming Insane’ from as Heldens’ ‘Alien Technology’.
The error stood for quite awhile before it was later rectified. So when you are going about your day and make an awkward mistake just remember that their is some guy in Spinnin’ Records distribution office who pushed a new remix of a 10 year old track as new Oliver Heldens.
Same Name, Two Completely Different Songs
The mix-up boiled down to a metadata mess on Spinnin’s distribution end, not anything wrong with the actual music. Mixmag was first to catch the story and pointed out that the real HI-LO & Alok collab was already sitting live on Heldeep Records’ own SoundCloud the whole time, so anyone who wanted the correct track could still find it there while Spotify and Apple Music briefly served up a decade-old psytrance cut instead. That’s about as strange a distribution error as this genre has seen — a brand new collab swapped out for a 2007 Infected Mushroom and WARRIORS remix that most listeners had probably never heard of.
Once Spinnin’ sorted out the file swap, ‘Alien Technology’ went back to being correctly credited everywhere, and the whole saga became more of a funny footnote than a real controversy. If anything, it probably sent a few curious fans down a rabbit hole to check out ‘Becoming Insane’ for the first time, which isn’t the worst outcome for a decade-old track that got an accidental viral moment.
