Around the World (Beat Ink song)

"Around the World"
Song by Beat Ink
Released	December 1, 2007 (2007-12-01)
Recorded	December 1, 2007
Genre	Underground hip hop, Indie hip hop, World music
Length	3:46
Label	Self-released, CD Baby (owner)
Writer	Beat Ink, Alex Christensen, Peter Könemann, Alexei Potechin, Sergei Zukow
Producer	Beat Ink (concept), Alex Christensen (sample)

Around the World is a song concept produced and recorded by local producer Beat Ink on December 1, 2007 and released on the same day. The song heavily samples (and its melody is almost entirely based on) ATC's Around The World (La La La La La) and uses modern, 2000s-style drumbeats. With over 4 languages and over 70 recorded versions from various artists in the world, it is the largest and culturally diverse remix version and sampling of Pesenka and ATC's Around the World. Label CD Baby had secured and current owns the rights to the entire song concept, including the original instrumental and all vocal versions.

Background

It is unknown much about the life of local producer Beat Ink; the facts that he used a 2000s-style beat for his song concept "Around the World" and about half of all performers came from the USA would mean he could have come from somewhere in East Coast USA, with dreams to become a music producer at a young age. Today, Beat Ink, like the defunct band ATC, remains isolated from the rest of the world.

Around the World's sample, ATC's Around The World (La La La La La), was produced and recorded by Alex Christensen on December 1, 1999 at RNT Studios, Sweden and first released on May 9, 2000 and performed well in the European and US charts from 2000 to 2002 (reaching #1 in Germany in Summer 2000), but never entered the charts of other continents of the world, due to ATC's limited popularity. The Eurodance and Trance song, which features vocals from German pop group ATC, is an international cover of Ruki Vverh!'s Pesenka (1998), a Russian Eurodance song. By mid-2003, the song had declined and lost in global popularity due to ATC's disbandment, rendering it completely independent from the public forever. It would later be used for various covers, remixes and other versions after its release. The song sample spent its early years without being sampled until sometime in 2007. In late 2007, unknown local producer Beat Ink started finding various song samples for his concept. Then on December 1, 2007, after listening to ATC's Around The World (7 and half years after release), he took that sample and used it into his song concept after convincing it. He chose to produce the song concept because the song sample is thought to be 'the best' and people worldwide (including 'ATC' and 'Around The World' fans) enjoyed listening to it a lot since its release in 2000. On that night, he finalized what would be the hip-hop version of ATC's Around The World (and he named that song after the ATC song of the same name excluding 5 La's) and shared it to other producers and artists who opted to record their version of that song. The first version using Beat Ink's Around the World was first released on MySpace on May 14, 2008^[1] and on YouTube on June 17, 2008.^[2] The song concept also spanned several versions from The Emsee, Chris Webby, 89 Enterprizement, Oregonized and more artists from parts of the world.

Composition

Around the World is a remix song concept convinced and produced by local producer Beat Ink on December 1, 2007. It features the sample of ATC's Around The World (La La La La La) (2000), in which its melody is based on. The low-pitch and slow tempo variant of the sample could be heard since its release in May 2000, and it can be heard on YouTube or used via audio editing software today. During production of his song concept, Beat Ink slowed down the sample to 0.7274x or -27.26% from ATC's original speed, mixed up some melody loop parts (a mixed melody part at the end of first verse sounds like that of a part from BeFour's Magic Melody) and used his rare and unique drum kit influenced by mid-2000s/new school music, running at 96 beats per minute. The sample is used into intro, melody, chorus and mid-song elements. The low-pitched vocals of ATC are heard in intro, chorus and outro elements of the sample as its original version. The drumbeats used by Beat Ink are heard from the time mark of 0:25 to 3:25 (3 minutes). Beat Ink's Around the World, in its final version, features a 25-second intro, 3 40-second verses, 3 20-second choruses and a 21-second outro for the total length of 3 minutes and 46 seconds. The song concept starts with a fade-in intro, goes to the verse followed by the chorus, then 2 more same verse-chorus parts follow and goes to a fade-out outro before the end. The song's lyrical content varies depending on any artist who recorded their vocals on it. The song concept's overall production matched the style of mid-2000s music.

Versions

Around the World saw releases of all its versions on MySpace and YouTube spanning from May 2008 and on. The song is performed in over 70 versions (or possibly up to 100 versions) and about 4 languages: English, French, Spanish and German. While half of the versions are performed by artists from United States, other artists who performed in the latter half come from Canada, France, Germany and other parts of the world, making it the largest and culturally diverse song concept ever recorded. All versions can be found on YouTube, Google Search and MySpace. There are collective mixes featuring all versions of Around the World.^[3]^[4]

Notable versions include:

The Space Boyz - Around The World (May 14, 2008)^[5]
Dirty Dizzle - Around the World (June 17, 2008)^[6]
Audible - All Around The World (December 1, 2008)^[7]
A French version^[8]
The Emsee - Around the World (January 17, 2009)^[9]
Chris Webby - La La La (April 17, 2009)
Roger Kue - Hello World (July 13, 2009)^[10]
Isma Effet - Releve La Tete (July 17, 2009)^[11]
A Spanish version^[12]
A German version^[13]
Tattoo Feathers feat. Sype & D Lee - Lala (March 31, 2011)^[14]
Certifyde Dan & Dflo - Which World (February 9, 2012)^[15]
Oregonized - Around the World (July 23, 2012)^[16]

Note: to find all those versions, go to Google Video and search 'around the world the emsee emusic/google play', 'around the world oregonized emusic' or 'lala sype d lee emusic'. You can add the year next to 'emusic' (2008 or other year, up to 2015). There, you can find versions or videos on YouTube that contain the content information of the same song name. Besides YouTube, go to MySpace and search 'around the world' or 'all around the world'. There, you can find the versions that use the same song concept (around time of 3:48 and years 2008 or 2009).

Trivia

The song, in most versions, is best known for using some lyrics about geography and travel and tourism, in connection with its title name. While the ATC version only appeared in Europe, Australia and North America, the Beat Ink concept is spread to other parts of the world thanks to some diverse artists from there. The place names mentioned in most versions are:

New York (USA), Tokyo (Japan), Paris (France), Brazil, United States, United Kingdom of Great Britain, Italy, Germany, Mexico, Cuba, Portugal, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Russia, Amsterdam (Netherlands), Bangkok (Thailand), Jamaica, Hawaii (USA), Canada, Burma, Philippines, Egypt, Iran, Scotland (UK), Zimbabwe, Singapore, Alaska (USA), Colombia, Spain, Hong Kong, Australia, France, etc. (25 out of 196 countries of the world were mentioned.)

There are moods and themes of this song regarding its instrumental form and versions.

Miscellaneous

There is a restored instrumental with Beat Ink's original drumbeats and no vocals.^[17] According to YouTube, CD Baby currently owns the rights to the song concept, meaning it acts as both a publisher and recording owner of that song. The reason for that is because of the song's musical composition; its emphasis is most likely the sampled melody, based on the ATC version, and optionally the Beat Ink-built drumbeats and/or the vocal recordings.

Similarities/differences between ATC and Beat Ink versions of Around the World:

ATC version is of Eurodance genre and has a fast tempo, while the Beat Ink one is of hip-hop genre and has a slower tempo.
The Beat Ink concept, in its instrumental and all versions, allows more empty/record-able verses (3 in total) than the ATC version.
The song's melody (which is its emphasis) has almost the same sound as the ATC version, but it goes in a low-pitch and slow-tempo form.
The song concept has its strong, rare and unique drumbeat kit and some mixed melody parts not found in the ATC version or its other remixes or samplings.

The pros/hits of the song Around the World are:

Beat Ink successfully sampled the ATC version for his song concept without facing copyright issues from the sample's owners/labels (as the band ATC no longer exists). He was the first to slow down the sample, in which its low-pitch and slow-tempo variant had no signs of copyright yet. The song was not copyrighted until 3 artists, The Emsee, 89 Enterprizement and Oregonized had the label CD Baby to secure the ownership rights to the song before release of their versions. Chris Webby or some other artists did not copyright their versions because CD Baby did that for them.
Because the song is of hip-hop genre, the lyrical element of all versions focuses almost entirely on rapping, while a few versions have some singing elements.
Even if heard and known, the song would be the most perfect and superior of all remixes and samplings of Ruki Vverh's Pesenka and ATC's Around the World.
The vocal recording of this song is male-dominated (95-99% of vocals from all versions are from all male artists), with the lyrics of most versions using mature content and/or strong language.
The song was recorded in over 70 (or up to 100) versions and over 4 languages by artists from select parts of the world (About 50% of them are from the United States), making it larger and more diverse than that of the ATC version.
The lyrics of all versions are vastly diverse and address certain topics such as travel and tourism, personal life, sociopolitical issues, crime life, various cultures and more.
The only most popular version of this song is Chris Webby's La La La, which has about 12-15 million views in all its videos on YouTube. The rest of all versions remain either independent or underground from the public.

The cons/misses of that song are:

The band ATC was never involved in this remix concept and/or other samplings/versions due to its disbandment in 2003.
The song concept never matched the impact and success of its sample because it was deemed underground and unknown at time of its release.
The original instrumental was never released to the public worldwide as it is considered ultra rare and difficult to find (most people in the world do not know how to find that song). The reason for that was because Beat Ink chose to keep his song a secret and only shared it to other artists who opted to recorded their vocals to that song.
Unlike the ATC version, the song never entered any major global chart after its release.
Despite that the ATC version had only female lead vocals (even in slow-speed variant) and the word 'girl' or 'lady' was mentioned in most versions, the song was never recorded by any female lead artist in the world because it's male-dominated.
As of now, there are more people in the world who know the ATC version better than the Beat Ink concept, making the song still unknown to the public.
The song was never officially remixed or remade by any other producer.
Despite that some countries such as Japan, Singapore, Eygpt, Iran, Colombia and more were mentioned in lyrics of some versions, the song was never recorded by artists from those countries. Also, some native languages were never used in any version of the song concept.
Although the vocals of ATC are heard in some elements, almost none of the verse lyrics of all versions matched the same ones as the ATC version (only Chris Webby sings the vocables in his version).
There was never an official music video of the song concept planned and made (unlike the sample), although some versions had it unofficially.
The song was never performed or exhibited in live concerts worldwide (only Chris Webby performs his version in his select live concerts).
Both original artists of Around the World, ATC and Beat Ink, had left the music scene soon after at different times, therefore both versions are independent songs now.

Overall, the song concept could be given a rating between 5 and 8 out of 10, depending on how well you know that song.

References

External links

Restored instrumental at YouTube
Collective mix part 1 at YouTube
Collective mix part 2 at YouTube
Sample's pitch and tempo used in Around the World
Sample details at whosampled.com

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