DJ Danger Mouse - Definition and Overview

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DJ Danger Mouse (real name Brian Burton) came to prominence by remixing the Beatles' White Album and rapper Jay-Z's Black Album to make The Grey Album.

EMI, which releases Beatles records, has served cease and desist orders, due to copyright infringement, to the DJ, record shops stocking it and web sites (http://www.waxy.org/archive/2004/02/11/danger_m.shtml) which offered downloads of it. An Internet protest called Grey Tuesday followed.

Before the release of The Grey Album, Danger Mouse released a critically acclaimed album with Jemini entitled Ghetto Pop Life, released on Lex Records.

At present, he is helping to produce the forthcoming Gorillaz album.

External links

DJ Danger Mouse (http://djdangermouse.com/)
Grey Tuesday (http://www.greytuesday.org/)
Illegal-art.org: The Grey Album Download (http://www.illegal-art.org/audio/grey.html)
Cease and desist letter from EMI #1 (http://www.waxy.org/archive/2004/02/11/danger_m.shtml)
Cease and desist letter from EMI #2 (http://rantings.shaghaghi.net/archives/a_letter_a_day_early.html)

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