PAUL ABRAMSON - VAN RICHTER RECORDS is illegally selling Malhavoc's music, and with the support of i-tunes !!!

I do not support selling digital music files, but what pisses me off even more is when scumbags sell the music who have ZERO CONNECTION to the bands!!

if I am remembering correctly,  around 8 years ago, a website was illegally selling Overthrow's music and Nick Sagias had no idea who it was, how they got away with it., or how to stop it.

These days, with supposedly more laws to protect artists, none of that matters if large companies / corporations are making a buck or two off you, and you get NOTHING. they don't care, unless you have the money for lawyers to make them suffer and pay you what they owe plus damages.

anyways, here are some posts Jimi and his friends / fans made on Facebook....
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Jimi LaMort
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Just got this email from iTunes....
Hello James,
We have been in touch with our provider and they disagree with your claim. Please work with our provider directly to resolve your concern at the email address provided in the attached spreadsheet in the column titled Comments. We hope this will be resolved amicably.

Artist: Malhavoc
Provider: Van Richter Records
Playlist Title: Premeditated Murder (re-release)
Apple ID: 1024396651
UPC: 785668002121
Territories of Assertion:The World
Territories Available: The World
Action Taken: Parties in Touch
Reason: Provider Asserts rights
Comment: Please contact Paul Abramson
Issues: Artwork, Composition, Sound Recording
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• Susana Mezz This is quite awful frown emoticon There has to be a way to stop that jerk

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• Jimi LaMort Yeah, and it's called $$$$. I have talked to lawyers but it is gonna cost money i don't have just to start the process.

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• Michael Shayne Guerin So obviously everyone in the industrial scene needs to immediately not support that label any more, for one.

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• Jimi LaMort I don't think anyone did, as he has over a decade long history of fuckin' bands over. People obviously are supporting this scumbag without even knowing it. Anyone who bought my music on iTunes won't have any idea they are buying from Van Richter, that's how criminals get away with it.

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• Jimi LaMort but yeah i definitely call for a boycott of Van Richter!!!

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• Heiki Sillaste Van Richter were always sleaze. Ripped off everyone on their label.

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• Russ Manten Why not set up a GoFundMe or something. Aside from Malhavoc, you've been DJing long enough that there has to be a shit ton of people willing to help get some legal fees covered.

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• Charles G. Watson This is offensive.

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• Justitia Lux I agree with setting up a GoFundMe page! You'd be surprised how much that can help. People get hundreds of offers of INTERNAL ORGANS if they really need 'em ffs when they start a page like that. Do it. People know you. And like you.

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• Jimi LaMort I don't just wanna cease and desist letter. I want him to pay for all my legal fees and and for all the damage he's done and that is not gonna be cheap.

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• Heiki Sillaste Not my business really, but DHI got fucked over by the same asshole label.

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• Jimi LaMort I know he thinks that i will contact him and we will work something out together as that would be the least expensive thing to do. NO FUCKING WAY IN HELL IS THAT GONNA HAPPEN>

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• Jimi LaMort Yeah, Heiki, in 2004 Van Richter approached me with a contract and i saw DHI was on his label so i talked to Will and he warned me about the douche. I politely told him i wasn't interested and the scumbag started sending me all this hate mail till i blocked his email address.

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• Christian Lisso That's terrible :(((

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• Michael Myre GoFundMe can't hurt. You'd be surprised. And if lucky enough, you might attract other artists that have been ripped off too. Do it!

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• Mike Gibbs Ripped of DHI too. Fuck that douche.

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• Johnny Larocque Class action against them funded by GoFundMe or something. Attract other fucked artists. More muscle that way.

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• Wendy Forsythe BRUTAL....

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• Steven Cannon Wait, Malhavoc was never on that label... I do remember a few of his bands, I'm surprised he's still around...

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  Mathieu Ouellet When I ran a malhavoc website, I was contacted by Van Richter; first time April 20 1998; they asked me your email - I didn't know it. They contacted me again in January 2003. I may have forwarded that to you. In May 2004 they contacted you and me (both in the To: list) saying they hadn't received a package from you and asking whether you were still interested in releasing new and catalog records in the states. In Jan 2005 I got some marketing plan/advertisement from them, shortly followed by an all caps request to provide your "March 29 One Sheet" ASAP. Received more self-promoting crap on Feb 2 2005. Sep 2005 got another email, which you got too, quite abusive and insulting in tone saying that they were pissed off at you. Then in on June 20, 2010, I got another email from them to you expressing their interest in distributing The Release through Lazarus on itunes.
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Mathieu Ouellet I kept all emails if you need them, the guy's name is Paul Abramson

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Jimi LaMort Yes, i would love all those emails Mathieu.

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Jamie Low I would donate something to a gofundme account... i think you should start one... seriously.

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 https://www.facebook.com/malhavoc

MALHAVOC shared Jimi LaMort's post.

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Can you believe this shit? Beyond ridiculous.

Jimi LaMort

Just got this email from iTunes....
Hello James,
We have been in touch with our provider and they disagree with your claim. Please work with our provider directly to resolve your concern at the email address provided in the attached spreadsheet in the column titled Comments. We hope this will be resolved amicably.

Artist: Malhavoc
Provider: Van Richter Records
Playlist Title: Premeditated Murder (re-release)
Apple ID: 1024396651
UPC: 785668002121
Territories of Assertion:The World
Territories Available: The World
Action Taken: Parties in Touch
Reason: Provider Asserts rights
Comment: Please contact Paul Abramson
Issues: Artwork, Composition, Sound Recording

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July 29 at 12:53am

The iTunes Mystery solved, but far from over….looks like an old stalker is back in my life. I cannot believe iTunes deals with this lifelong criminal. I should go to the press with this!! I also need an American Lawyer.




MALHAVOC

We know know who is illegally selling my music on iTunes, a man who needs no introduction as he has harassed and stalked MALAVOC for years now and has finally stepped over the line with this most recent act!!
PAUL ABRAMSON - VAN RICHTER RECORDS!!!!!!
This guy is totally fucking insane so how the hell does he have an account with iTunes/Apple??


I see a few of you are friends with this total piece of shit!!
Please tell me why and do any of you actually know this prick for real?
I need a lawyer pronto!!

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• Shane Lange Malhavoc never released anything on this label, right? How could it have any right to digital at all?

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• Jimi LaMort Exactly. I sent a strongly worded reply to Apple/iTunes asking if they even ask anyone selling stuff on their sites for proof of copyright or proof they even have a legitimate business. This is totally insane that some nutball i've had previous run-ins with before, could just put my music up for sale on a legitimate(?) site like iTunes. Totally ridiculous!!

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• Jimi LaMort The internet is still the perfect home for criminals. It seems even the big boys don't care to follow any laws or standards today. Apple/iTunes went as far to tell me to sort this out with this insane person i tried to black and keep out of my life since harassing emails i received back in 2005!!!

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• Shane Lange I haven't looked at their terms for a while but I think it's standard that the artist/label is understood to be claiming ownership of a recording's copyright when they enter their agreement with iTunes, so he's in breach of contract on that front and he's obviously infringed, so it shouldn't be much of a fight.

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• Monica Lotz Crazy

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• Shane Lange (And I hope they look into all of the releases he's uploaded; who knows how many other artists are being exploited?)

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• Jimi LaMort I now see he is still selling DHI catalog illegally to this day. Will Skol of DHI warned me about this nutball back in 2004!! It's kinda scary to see that after all these years Skol/DHI still haven't stopped him from selling their stuff. That is why am i hoping a bunch of us can come together and put an end to this guy "business".

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• Shane Lange That should work in your favour then, you'd have a lot more leverage in a collective suit and the burden of legal costs is reduced. like emoticon

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• Joe Adams I started reading this, and got half way through... You said nut ball.
  ...I thought Van Sphincter.

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• Steve Dooley Hopefully you get all this shit sorted out and dealt with correctly. That is some shady shit for sure!

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• Monte Hill Shall we deluge his FB page with complaints?!

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• Jimi LaMort I doubt that will do much as he already told Apple/iTunes he has the rights to my music. That took a lot of balls to do and now i find Apple just as guilty as this nitwit. You would think when they get a complaint they would look into it.

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  Steve Dooley It seems to me that if he had the rights to your music, itunes would want some sort of proof/documentation that it he does in fact have the rights to your music. Otherwise, it seems itunes is setting themsleves up for potential lawsuits. It makes me wonder if they've got other similar cases to your own pending. I would think itunes would run a little more professionally than that. It sounds like they're thinking, "Well, this guy says he's legit, so he must be legit."
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Jimi LaMort I am read articles before about iTunes selling software and music without insuring the provider has the rights. This definitely isn't a one off case. From my research it seems they still isn't any set in stone laws pertaining to digital sales. It still the wild wild west out there on the interweb. You would think by now there would be something in place to prevent this obvious crime.

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Monte Hill If they can come after everyday people for illegally downloading songs....they can certainly go after people posting and making money on copyright protected material that doesn't belong to them.

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Jimi LaMort Yeah, i expect a lot better from a mega-corp like Apple.

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Monte Hill A friend of mine has suggested approaching SOCAN about it....don't know if that would help.

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Jimi LaMort Called SOCAN they have nothing to do with internet digital sales.

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Monte Hill WOW.

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wrong information, but what else do you expect from metal archives?

I know the mistakes they typed about this, and so do many of you, but that website run by idiots (eg. years ago, they deleted almost all of the NWOBHM bands from its listings saying they weren't metal ...) , WHERE AND WHAT is their proof  for all of  this ???
One day when a proper book by the band is written, metal archives can copy everything (without false information admitted) , if it is ever revised / modified by the next guy at that site scoring brownie points like all m.a. dickheads. 


http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Malhavoc/19854

Shrine

EP

1988

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Malhavoc/Shrine/317339

Shrine

Malhavoc

Type:EP

Release date:1988

Catalog ID:N/A

Label:Independent

Format:Unknown

Reviews:None yet

• Songs
• Lineup
• Reviews
• Additional notes

1.	Age of Dark Renaissance/Urbain Grandier	06:01
2.	Attack from the Sepulcher	04:33
3.	Empirical Minds	06:48
4.	Dunwich Horror	05:46
5.	Dread	06:46
6.	Trial and Error: 1) Of Reanimators and Immortals 2) From Beyond 3) Deathtrance	05:43
		35:37

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• Additional notes

Track #4 based on a H.P. Lovecraft story
Track #2 is a tribute to film director George Romero

Songs written at times as follows:
Oct/Nov 1985: #1b
Mar/Apr 1986: #2
Apr/May 1986: #4
May/Jun 1986: #1a
Nov/Jan 1987: #3
Feb/Mar 1987: #5
Jun 1987:#6b-c
Aug 1987: #6a

Tracks 1, 2 and 4 previously featured (as different versions) on the "Age of the Dark Renaissance" demo (1986)

Recording information:

Recorded summer 1988 at Reaction Studios, Toronto, Canada

ANY one interested ?

A lot of people thought it was cool back then, but Evil Annihilator never reprinted them... he also left a box (or boxes?) of the 1986 demo cassettes sitting where they were reproduced.for the band... I wonder if he ever did pay for them- and pick them up, or did that business sell them off themselves or to other bands to re-record their demos over them?

The bottom photo, the part of the supposed contract with Satan by Catholic priest Urbain Grandier, was on the back of the MALHAVOC 1987 "Age of the..." t-shirt.
If you don't have a problem with that design on the back, there's probably a ton of shops out there that could help replicate the old shirt for us.
Never looked into making shirts before, but always see bootleg shirts being sold online.
so
How hard can it be?
Haven't filled out my income tax yet, but should have enough dough from it.

At least with me, this is not for profit, or I will just get them done and get reimbursed later from the band if they want to sell these shirts themselves through their web-store.
Personally , I do not really trust selling online as so many thieving bastards are out there.(Could be the reason why eBay and Paypal are now separating from their previous tight venture).

Through me, it is strictly cash, money order or trades, unless there is something more reliable than those fuckwads at Paypal.?


OK,
so leave a comment if interested.
I am going to look into this for myself, but am not printing many extras.

grabbed these pics again

OK, grabbed these pics again and they look much clearer now.

and no...the bottom pic is / was not, a band member, but was part of the original fanbase at ILDIKO'S.
:D

Digital transfer from 1986 master tapes... I hope this means vinyl !!

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Jimi LaMort
About to transfer the two Malhavoc AGE OF THE DARK RENAISSANCE reels from back in 1986. Recorded in my parents basement, i still think it's one of the best recordings i did and tonight i get to bring it into the modern world. or so i hope….
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  So...we have started working on the re-master of this...let's hope the tapes are still in good condition! — with Johnny Carss and Jimi LaMort.

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Dear Mr.Lamort

I am an Executive Accountant with the Department of finance of 
mineral resources and energy for http://malhavocfans.blogspot.com.

If you would be willing to send me one dollar a day, 

the future would be much brighter! 

(check your private messages on Youtube, I dont have your email address, 

and I no longer use facebook for messages.

Somebody stick a rusty knife into that site).

Thanks for recently posting the photo from Ildiko's 

Sorry about the poor quality below, and I enlarged it too after getting it off facebook.
Thanks James for sharing.

"Artist: Malhavoc, Album: Get Down, Song: Discipline"

Got mentioned in a article I don't think I ever seen before, so that's cool.
Glad Malhavoc on FaceBook pointed it out.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Artist: Malhavoc, Album: Get Down, Song: Discipline

"I need control, I got control, I'm never gonna let it go."  Malhavoc were an industrial metal band from Toronto, Ontario.  They endured a number of member changes over the years but their leader and constant member was a man named, James Cavalluzo (aka Jimi LaMort).  The band was always seen as pioneers of the industrial rock sound since their inception during the 80's.  However, Malhavoc's 1994 release, Get Down, was a pivotal release for the band as well as the genre.  It was nominated for a Juno and if you were listening to alternative rock back during the early nineties, you likely heard a few tracks being played off this album.

Read the full thing here
http://raisedoncanadianradio.blogspot.ca/2012/04/artist-malhavoc-album-get-down-song.html