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May 20th, 2009
After a disagreement with his record label, Gnarls Barkley member and super producer Danger Mouse has chosen to release his newest album as a blank CD-R. In a move that is sure to shake up the foundations of label/artist relationships, the controversial artist has bypassed a possible delay to release the new album with collaborator Sparklehorse called Dark Night of the Soul.
A statement on the album’s website reads: “Due to an ongoing dispute with [record label] EMI, Danger Mouse is unable to include music on the CD without fear of legal entanglement. Therefore, he has included a blank CD-R as an artefact to use however you see fit.”
Whether this infringes on copyright law and EMI’s ownership of the album has yet to be decided. But according to 17 U.S.C. 1008 in the U.S. Copyright Law, if the CD-R is considered a “royalty-paid music CD-R” fans can make copies of the album as long as the digital audio recording medium is for noncommercial use.
Danger Mouse first made a name for himself as a maverick and innovator back in 2004 when he released The Grey Album, a lawsuit-baiting mash-up of the Beatles ‘White Album’ with Jay-Z’s Black Album. Though the album never saw a commercial release, it became wildly successful through file-sharing sites and P2P networks and spawned a surplus of copycats.
Dark Night Of The Soul features guest vocals by Wayne Coyne (The Flaming Lips), James Mercer (The Shins), Julian Casablancas (The Strokes), Iggy Pop and ‘Twin Peaks’ director David Lynch, among others. Also included for the release is a 100-plus page book featuring photos by Lynch and an art installation set to run in Los Angeles beginning May 30.
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Posted on Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 at 3:16 pm by Cam and is filed under News.
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