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Backlash as EMI Hunts Down the Grey Album
An anonymous reader writes "DJ Danger Mouse's The Grey Album, a remix of Jay-Z's Black Album and the Beatles White Album has become a online music sensation, even getting reviewed in Rolling Stone though only 3,000 CDs were ever made. Now EMI, which controls the Beatles copyright, is trying to shut the album down. They've sent cease and desist letters to Danger Mouse, a handful of record stores, and websites that have hosted the songs. Wired News is reporting on the backlash that has ensued, led by anti-music industry group Downhill Battle, who insists that the major record labels are stifling creativity."
He's the greatest, He's fantastic,
Wherever there is danger he'll be there,
He's the ace, He's amazing,
He's the strongest, He's the quickest,
He's the best, Danger Mouse,
He's terrific, He's magnific,
He's the bravest secret agent in the world.
Danger Mouse, Danger Mouse,
Danger mouse.
I think that's all of it. Or maybe not. Crumbs, DM!
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Don't be stifling on my creativity, man.
Ah, how silly of me - I forgot about the great Tupperware Rights Act of 1978. That act will go down as Jimmy Carter's legacy.
"...led by anti-music industry group Downhill Battle, who insists that the major record labels are stifling creativity."
"anti-music industry group"? Is that
1. A group in an industry that makes anti-music?
2. An industry group that is against music?
3. A group that is against the music industry?
I guess you meant #3, but I prefer meaning #1. What does anti-music sound like? If music and anti-music meet, will they annhilate each other?
Eponymous Mallard
...Is hanging out with some mighty strange types these days...I mean Jay-Z? What has the ol' Lonely Hearts Club Band come to? Next it'll be human sacrifices, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria!
I had never heard of this album before this news story, but now that EMI has brought it to my attention, I downloaded it.
I kinda like it, and I'll probably end up making a few of my buddys listen to it.
Thanks for makign us aware of new music, EMI.
Downmix - The Artscene News Source!
Wait...the only true black album was the spinal tap record.
Whew! For a moment there, I thought DJ-DM mixed Spinal Tap's black album against the Beatles. Now *that* would be ugly!
"How," you ask? Well, imagine the lyrics of Big Bottom ("my baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo, I'd like to sink her with my pink torpedo" synch'ed to the tune of Rocky Raccoon. Scary stuff, I tell you!
Just the idea's enough to make me say: (Insert Dean_Scream_Remix.mp3 here)
So clearly big money should sign it first then "appear" to destroy it then have it released on a seconary label and watch the lemmings come buy.
James
Tools like Acid allow you to pull loops from songs, reorder them, remix them and resequence them into something entirely different.
Am I the only one who was trying to figure out who this band Acid was and why them allowing you to take sample from their songs made them tools?
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Damn!! I knew I should have checked to see if another member of the slashdot hive-mind had already said what I wanted to say.
But at least the rutabagas were original.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
No, it's because you're on Acid, Tool :P
He who laughs last is stuck in a time dilation bubble.
This has already been done. The group called themselves Oasis.