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<title><![CDATA[Grey Album]]></title>
<link>http://theimportantthings.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/grey-album/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>T.O</dc:creator>
<guid>http://theimportantthings.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/grey-album/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure you have all heard of The Grey Album. If not, I suggest you do a little research. Any]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[facing the (free) music]]></title>
<link>http://worldofmusichome.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/facing-the-free-music/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Cheryl</dc:creator>
<guid>http://worldofmusichome.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/facing-the-free-music/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s take a look at a couple of scenarios, in the context of our new world of music copyright]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Let&#8217;s take a look at a couple of scenarios, in the context of our new world of music copyright awareness and enforcement:</p>
<p>#1 &#8211; Vienna, 1774: Ever listen to the middle &#8211; &#8220;Andante ma Adagio&#8221; -  movement of Mozart&#8217;s Bassoon Concerto? I mean <em>really</em> listen. It&#8217;s there, and it&#8217;s not even very subtle: this melody, written when the composer was just 18, was RE-used as the melody for his gorgeous aria, <em>Porgi Amor</em> from <em>The Marriage of Figaro</em> 12 years later.</p>
<p>Legal? Of course, this is Mozart borrowing from himself. Handel did it, Vivaldi did it, and they&#8217;re in in good company with countless others through the centuries all the way to today.</p>
<p>#2 &#8211; Vienna, 1782: Early springtime, and Mozart was preparing for a series of upcoming concerts for Lent. One of the new pieces to be premiered was his A Major Piano Concerto (#12), K414. While writing the work, he learned of the Jan. 1st death of his good friend, Johann Christian Bach. As a special tribute to his former mentor, Mozart borrowed one of J.C. Bach&#8217;s own melodies (from the opera <em>La Calamita de Cuori</em>) and used the theme as the basis for the new concerto&#8217;s poignant second movement.</p>
<p>Legal? Probably not. These days a reckless stunt like that could land Mozart in court, paying for representation to respond to &#8220;cease and decist&#8221; notifications, and having to create a defense for his unauthorized use of J.C.&#8217;s tune.</p>
<p>The world&#8217;s view of these things has changed much since Mozart&#8217;s time, in hugely significant ways that can&#8217;t be underestimated for their potential to change the course of today&#8217;s music. Borrowing isn&#8217;t &#8220;borrowing&#8221; anymore, it&#8217;s sampling, sometimes of original melodies and other times entire pieces of another artist&#8217;s recorded material. Intent, financial gain, and artistic control all figure into the larger conversation. Musical creativity is governed by strict copyright laws and it&#8217;s a hot point of contention on many fronts in today&#8217;s music scene.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/10/23/01" target="_blank">On The Media</a> dedicated their most recent program to a fascinating, in-depth exploration of the issues around these music laws.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Must</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">hear</span> this program, my friends.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Remixtaríza y deja vivir]]></title>
<link>http://lasuperadicta.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/37/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lasuperadicta</dc:creator>
<guid>http://lasuperadicta.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/37/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Fijarse en lo que hace el otro es de las cosas más comunes que ha hecho el hombre desde la prehistor]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Fijarse en lo que hace el otro es de las cosas más comunes que ha hecho el hombre desde la prehistoria. Esta fijación, puede ser únicamente por curiosidad o llegar a ser el impulso de copia. Desde el acto de mirar lo que escribe el tío que está sentado a nuestro lado en el bus (que puede llegar a ser interesante) hasta influenciarse del estilo del artista que te gusta.</p>
<p>Siempre ha sido así. Miramos lo que hace el resto y si nos gusta, y queremos lo hacemos igual, o parecido. Lo que pasa, es que Internet ha facilitado mucho este proceso. El hipermedio, pone al alcance de todo el mundo información, diseños, ideas que si no fuese por él, puede que jamás sabríamos de ellas. En esta situación, el riesgo de ser copiado se multiplica por mil. Es aquí cuando entra el juego el copyright, la propiedad intelectual y su aplicación.</p>
<p>Todo esto para decir que, el otro día en clase, me llamó la atención un video que nos enseñó el profesor sobre un personaje que hizo un remix de una canción de los<strong> Beatles</strong>, metiéndole al rapero<strong> Jay-Z</strong>. Puede llegar a sonar raro e incluso extravagante, pero hasta ahí todo normal. La curiosidad es que el creador de este remix,  el artista <strong>Danger Mouse </strong>el año 2004 utilizó el tema de los Beatles sin consultarlo con la discográfica<strong> EMI</strong>. Ésta exigía los derechos de autor de “su” grupo, pero<strong> Danger Mouse</strong> se negó a pagarlo. En principio él creó este tema para compartirlo entre sus amigos, pero pronto empezó a correr por Internet, hasta convertirse en un éxito. El 24 de Febrero del 2004 se proclamó el <strong>Grey Tuesday</strong>, como el día de la desobediencia electrónica. Protestando sobre las censuras de<strong> EMI</strong> hacia los artistas que usan temas sin su licencia,  ese día se pudo bajar el CD de <strong>The Grey Album</strong> gratis las 24 horas del día en varias páginas que se ofrecieron voluntarias.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dangermousesite.com/"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-43" title="danger mouse" src="http://lasuperadicta.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/danger-mouse2.jpg" alt="danger mouse" width="500" height="332" /></a></p>
<p><strong>The Grey Album</strong>, el polémico álbum de <strong>Danger Mouse</strong> utiliza una versión a capella de un tema de <strong>The Black Album</strong> del cantante<strong> Jay-Z </strong>y lo integra a una multitud de muestras (no autorizada por <strong>EMI</strong>) del álbum comúnmente conocido <strong>The White Album</strong> de los Beatles. Por otro lado, <strong>The Grey Video</strong> es un remix del videoclip de <strong>A Hard Day’s Night </strong>de los<strong> Beatles </strong>y varios temas de éstos, con intervenciones de <strong>Jay-Z</strong> y su tema <strong>Encore</strong>. El video está muy conseguido y la verdad es que ver a <strong>John Lennon </strong>hacer bearkdance no tiene precio.</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/JbXLp2z6xL4&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/JbXLp2z6xL4&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>En estos tiempos que corren, es muy complicado controlar que se cumplan los derechos de autor y se paguen todas las licencias. Pero en este caso, EMI no se va a arruinar porque usen algún temilla de uno de sus tropecientos mil grupos ¿No? Por cierto, mezclar a los poperos de los <strong>Beatles</strong> con el raperazo <strong>Jay- Z </strong>dan un remix bastante surrealista (¡pero que suena genial!) y me ha hecho pensar en un remix de<strong> 2 Many DJ&#8217;s</strong> en el que juntan en el tema <strong>Smells like Booty</strong> de <strong>Nirvana </strong>y las <strong>Destiny&#8217;s Child</strong>. La verdad esque es genial y no tiene desperdicio. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrpB4VOUuc8" target="_blank">Compruébalo tu mismo</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/2manymashups"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-47" title="2 many DJs" src="http://lasuperadicta.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/2manydjs_060112040036117_wideweb__300x305.jpg" alt="2 many DJs" width="300" height="305" /></a></p>
<p>Remixtaríza y deja vivir, amigo.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Yet Another Jay-Z Mashup]]></title>
<link>http://highwaythirtyfive.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/yet-another-jay-z-mashup/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jamie</dc:creator>
<guid>http://highwaythirtyfive.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/yet-another-jay-z-mashup/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[With great lyrics all around the album, its no wonder so many albums mashups of Jay-Z&#8217;s Black ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Can't Buy Me Love]]></title>
<link>http://oldrope.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/cant-buy-me-love/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>oldrope</dc:creator>
<guid>http://oldrope.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/cant-buy-me-love/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Note: This post was written over a week ago, but for some reason did not make it online. The opening]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Music Video Monday: 99 Problems Grey Album version]]></title>
<link>http://billsquire.com/2009/09/14/music-video-monday-99-problems-grey-album-version/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Bill Squire</dc:creator>
<guid>http://billsquire.com/2009/09/14/music-video-monday-99-problems-grey-album-version/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Danger Mouse mixed The Beatles White Album with Jay &#8211; Z&#8217;s Black album to make The Grey A]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Danger Mouse mixed The Beatles White Album with Jay &#8211; Z&#8217;s Black album to make The Grey Album.<span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/Lpxr3smvGcw&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/Lpxr3smvGcw&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>You can still watch the video above on youtube. Here is another version the song is good but the video quality is kind of shitty.</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/2JRVY6O9oyo&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/2JRVY6O9oyo&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[4Free - Dangermouse - The Grey Album]]></title>
<link>http://drseussjuice.com/2009/08/28/4free-dangermouse-the-grey-album/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>L.A.</dc:creator>
<guid>http://drseussjuice.com/2009/08/28/4free-dangermouse-the-grey-album/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[of course we can&#8217;t forget the Dangermouse classic, The Grey Album!  download 4Free!  from Wiki]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://stereo.lu/grey/grey_album.zip" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2933" title="The Grey Album" src="http://drseussjuice.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/the-grey-album.jpg" alt="The Grey Album" width="447" height="447" /></a></p>
<p>of course we can&#8217;t forget the Dangermouse classic, The Grey Album!  <a href="http://stereo.lu/grey/grey_album.zip" target="_blank">download 4Free</a>!  from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grey_Album" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Grey Album is a <a title="Mashup (music)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_%28music%29" target="_blank">mashup</a> album by <a title="Danger Mouse" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Mouse" target="_blank">Danger Mouse</a>, <a title="2004 in music" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_in_music" target="_blank">released in 2004</a>. It uses an <a title="A cappella" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_cappella" target="_blank">a cappella</a> version of rapper <a title="Jay-Z" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay-Z" target="_blank">Jay-Z</a>&#8217;s <a title="The Black Album (Jay-Z album)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Album_%28Jay-Z_album%29" target="_blank">The Black Album</a> and couples it with instrumentals created from a multitude of unauthorized <a title="Sampling (music)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_%28music%29" target="_blank">samples</a> from <a title="The Beatles" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles" target="_blank">The Beatles</a>&#8216; <a title="LP album" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LP_album" target="_blank">LP</a> <a title="The Beatles (album)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_%28album%29" target="_blank">The Beatles</a> (more commonly known as The White Album). The Grey Album gained notoriety due to the response by <a title="EMI" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMI" target="_blank">EMI</a> in attempting to halt its distribution.</p></blockquote>
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<title><![CDATA[Beat Of The Day (Omer Saar feat The Pharcyde, Notorius BIG And De La Soul) ]]></title>
<link>http://boozeburgersandbeats.com/2009/08/23/beat-of-the-day-omer-saar-feat-the-pharcyde-notorius-big-and-de-la-soul/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mheusler</dc:creator>
<guid>http://boozeburgersandbeats.com/2009/08/23/beat-of-the-day-omer-saar-feat-the-pharcyde-notorius-big-and-de-la-soul/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Omer Saar is a producer who followed and possibly owned the wave the wave that followed entire remix]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Brand:Ambiances Magnètiques 05|David Lynch + The Interview Project + Dark Night of the Soul + Fox Bat Strategy: A Tribute to Dave Jaurequi.]]></title>
<link>http://markeneu.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/brandambiances-magnetiques-05david-lynch-the-interview-project-fox-bat-strategy-a-tribute-to-dave-jaurequi/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>suono</dc:creator>
<guid>http://markeneu.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/brandambiances-magnetiques-05david-lynch-the-interview-project-fox-bat-strategy-a-tribute-to-dave-jaurequi/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Se lo considera un director oscuro, o al menos uno capaz filmar la oscuridad para volverla aterrador]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Se lo considera un director oscuro, o al menos uno capaz filmar la oscuridad para volverla aterradoramente visible. El New York Times lo definió alguna vez como “un Norman Rockwell psicópata”, en referencia al ilustrador de las familias felices de Coca-Cola. Un retratista del interior norteamericano, que supo espejar en varias de sus películas la imagen deforme del american way of life. Si lo siniestro es aquella suerte de espanto que afecta las cosas conocidas y familiares, la obra de David Lynch supo capturarlo como pocos. Blue Velvet escarba en las redes de una pequeña comunidad a partir de una oreja tirada en un baldío (preámbulo a la violación espiada desde un armario que viene después), Corazón Salvaje es una road movie con alusiones al viaje iniciático de Dorothy del Mago de Oz, pero sumándole el embarazo y las torturas psicológicas, la serie Twin Peaks muestra un apacible pueblo de pinos, montañas y tartas de frambuesas donde el asesinato de una adolescente destapa el perfil macabro de cada uno de sus habitantes. Incluso en Una historia sencilla, la más “light” de sus películas, lo cotidiano empieza a volverse inquietante. A simple vista, un viejito de lo más tierno (Richard Farnsworth poco antes de pegarse un tiro a causa de su cáncer terminal) logra atravesar Estados Unidos sobre una podadora de pasto para visitar a su hermano enfermo, con el que no habla desde hace años. Simple, simpático y emotivo. Pero resulta que el viejo vive con su hija, que tiene una especie de retraso mental y a quien le sacaron, a su vez, la tenencia de sus propios hijos. Resulta que al ir de Estado en Estado, el hombre va viendo cosas: una mujer desequilibrada que atropella ciervos en la ruta, una adolescente embarazada que camina sin rumbo, un cura taciturno que vive atrás de un cementerio&#8230; Acaso por haberse criado en Missoula, Montana, cuna de los indios sioux llamada por muchos “la América profunda”, Lynch suele alejar sus historias de las megaciudades para rondar siempre en torno del bosque, las carreteras, las comunidades aparentemente tranquilas. Y en <a href="http://interviewproject.davidlynch.com/www/">Interview Project</a>, su nuevo proyecto, ronda los mismos lugares: un equipo de filmación recorrió 20.000 millas alrededor de los Estados Unidos, durante 70 días, para entrevistar a personas encontradas al costado de la ruta, en los bares, las montañas, los pueblos dormidos. Esos pequeños espacios que a Lynch tanto le gustan, tal vez porque esconden los más grandes secretos.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">En Atrapa el pez dorado (Mondadori, 2008), un híbrido genérico donde conviven la meditación trascendental, la biografía y las reflexiones sobre su propia obra, el director asegura (entre otras cosas) que ya está aburrido del cine como formato, del celuloide, más bien. Demasiado esfuerzo, mucha complicación. De ahí su apuesta a las nuevas tecnologías para seguir produciendo arte: desde haber filmado Imperio, su última película, en video digital, hasta la transformación de su página web (<a href="http://www.davidlynch.com/">www.davidlynch.com</a>) en una suerte de usina creativa donde colgar sus “experimentos” y ofrecer sus productos. Una serie de cortos para Internet titulada Dumb Land, una sitcom surrealista con conejos (Rabbits), y el corto en digital Darkened Room, deudor del terror japonés, fueron algunos resultados de su decisión. Pero Interview Project marca una diferencia con todo lo visto hasta acá. Se trata de vidas contadas en primera persona, en un lapso que va de los tres a los cinco minutos. Retratos de gente común que se renuevan cada tres días. Nada más. Algo tan sencillo, tan concreto, que la pregunta se cae de madura: ¿es esto “lyncheano”? ¿Puede considerarse parte de su obra? La diferencia abismal que hay con una película como Imperio, donde el argumento se retuerce sobre sí mismo hasta que hay que entregarse y dejar de intentar entender, impone el desconcierto. Muchos dijeron que la complejidad de su trama hace que Carretera perdida y El camino de los sueños parezcan cuentos cerrados, pero si Imperio es, en el mejor de los casos, el universo de una mujer desesperada (con todo lo inexplicable y terrible y pesadillesco que eso conlleva): ¿qué resto queda? ¿Qué podía seguir después de una película tan extrema que prácticamente no resiste el análisis? “Trataré de seguir investigando, de experimentar. Tras Imperio no sabemos, ni siquiera yo, qué esperar”, había dicho Lynch al respecto. Y sin embargo, la aparente incongruencia de ese final festivo con música de Nina Simone parecía anunciarnos que no todo era oscuridad. Después de tres horas de escenas terribles, los actores haciendo un playback de “Sinnerman” muestran, en el punto más álgido y retorcido, que es necesario regresar a lo simple.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1201" title="The Interview Project" src="http://markeneu.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/the-interview-project.jpg" alt="The Interview Project" width="400" height="426" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">“La gente cuenta sus historias. Es tan fascinante mirarlos hablar, conocerlos. Es algo humano, no pueden quedarse afuera de eso”, arenga un entusiasmado David Lynch, al presentar Interview Project desde su página web. El “conócete a ti mismo” del Pez Dorado dejando paso al “conoce al otro”. La prioridad es darle lugar al relato liso, la narración más elemental. Claro que no es tan fácil hacer las obsesiones a un lado, y una vez más estas historias están en los márgenes de Estados Unidos. En California, por ejemplo, la entrevista que inaugura el ciclo muestra a un hombre al costado de la ruta. Música y cámara en movimiento para pasar las montañas, los pastizales, los pintorescos trenes colorados. Se ve el asfalto gris, las líneas amarillas que quedan atrás, algunas casas. Y después él. Se llama Jess y está sentado sobre una mochila. El bastón que se apoya contra el alambrado sugiere que necesita ayuda para incorporarse, aunque nunca se lo ve de pie ni se habla del tema. Tiene anteojos negros, gorra con visera, barba canosa y tupida. Con un inglés algo cerrado, cuenta que estuvo dos años en Vietnam, que su mujer se llevó a sus hijos, que no pudo ver a su padre antes de que muriese, que no se animó a sacar a su madre del geriátrico. Por momentos, la cámara busca el contexto donde esto sucede: las palmeras que enmarcan el cartel de “Needles, California”, dos camiones que se cruzan a lo lejos, las casas bajas de alrededor, un letrero viejo y borroso que cuelga del alambrado. El manejo del sonido, los encuadres particulares, los planos cerrados y las fugas al paisaje en los momentos clave del relato no sólo dan dinamismo sino que muestran que David Lynch sigue ahí, monitoreándolo todo. Y lo mismo pasa con Tommie Holliday, un hombre de 54 años al que encontraron en Kingdam, Arizona, en el estacionamiento de un Centro de Adultos. El plano lo muestra de pie, delante de su camioneta rosa. Cuando explica que no puede ver al amor de su vida porque ella mató a su ex novio con una ametralladora, un repentino fundido a negro con sonido de balas y varios puntos blancos revela la potencia creativa del proyecto. Después el relato sigue, un helicóptero pasa por detrás. También está Kee, un integrante de la comunidad Navajo que, rodeado de enormes montañas rojizas, habla del descubrimiento de su sexualidad, de la adolescencia travestida, las depresiones, la vergüenza, qué cosas pedía y todavía le pide a Dios. A su alrededor, sólo un águila atravesando el cielo celeste y sin nubes.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">La idea es que las entrevistas se vayan acumulando en la página, donde una infografía en la que se “pinchan” las caras de los entrevistados ya empieza a delinear un mapa humano de los Estados Unidos. Interview Project no es más que eso: una red de relatos orales que seguirá creciendo de acá a fin de año. Como en una espiral, Lynch decidió que era tiempo de ir en busca de todo ese material que posiblemente inspiró varias de sus ficciones. Acaso el espejo más nítido del verdadero interior norteamericano.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1326" title="Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - Dark night of the soul" src="http://markeneu.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/dangermousesparklehorse-darknightof.jpg" alt="Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - Dark night of the soul" width="400" height="400" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Un sobre sin remitente, con un extraño poster dentro. Aunque está diseñado como si fuese de una película, con una inquietante foto ilustrando un título traducible como Oscura noche del alma. Los nombres que figuran, en cambio, remiten a la música: Iggy Pop, Suzanne Vega, The Flaming Lips, Frank Black (de los Pixies), Julian Casablancas (de The Strokes), entre otros. La única excepción es la de un director que podría tranquilamente estar detrás de una película con semejante título –y afiche–, y que bien podría comenzar tal como empezó toda esta historia, con un sobre sin remitente con un extraño poster dentro.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Así es como precisa la prensa musical norteamericana que dio comienzo la misteriosa historia detrás del álbum firmado por un bizarro supergrupo integrado por el productor Danger Mouse, el indie Sparklehorse y el director David Lynch, y que está llamado a ser uno de los indudables protagonistas musicales de esta primera mitad de este año. Aunque más no sea por el hecho de que hay un afiche y un libro vinculado al trabajo, pero el disco brilla por su ausencia. O por su vacío. Ya que las dos versiones en las que se puede conseguir el sorprendente <a href="http://rs95.rapidshare.com/files/230702849/DM___S.rar">&#8220;Dark night of the soul&#8221;</a>–afiche y libro–, están acompañadas por un disco virgen que le advierte al potencial comprador del paquete: “Por razones legales, este disco no contiene música. Úselo como le parezca”. Tanto el libro como el poster ostentan fotos del director de Twin Peaks y Terciopelo azul. Y la música, que en un principio fue puesta online a través de la radio pública norteamericana y hoy da vueltas libremente por Internet, sale de la imaginación –y el talento– de un personaje indie y torturado como Mark Linkous (el nombre detrás de Sparklehorse) y una extraña estrella oscura de la producción discográfica en esta época tan online, llamado Brian Burton, pero más conocido como Danger Mouse, el cerebro detrás del megaéxito del dúo Gnarls Barkley, entre otras cosas. Un caballo y un ratón, digamos. Acompañados en ciertas fotos de prensa por un Lynch, ya que al buen David sólo es posible definirlo con su propio nombre.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1328" title="David Lynch + Danger Mouse + Sparklehorse" src="http://markeneu.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/dark-night-of-the-soul.jpg" alt="David Lynch + Danger Mouse + Sparklehorse" width="400" height="500" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">La sinuosa historia detrás de Dark night of the soul comienza con el regreso al estudio de grabación de Mark Linkous, después de una depresión que asegura que le duró cinco años, los que distan entre la edición de It’s a Wonderful Life (2001), su tercer disco, y el siguiente, Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain (2006), para el que conoció a Danger Mouse. “Por entonces había estado mucho tiempo sin entrar a un estudio ni salir de gira, así que lo único que pensaba era en conseguir algún ingreso como para pagar las cuentas”, recuerda Linkous.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Oriundo de Virginia pero instalado en Carolina del Norte, Linkous es un cantautor oculto detrás del nombre de un grupo unipersonal, fanático de Cormac McCarthy, al que considera vocero de la parte más peligrosa y fantasmagórica del sur norteamericano profundo, que suele percibirse también en sus canciones. Apenas apareció su álbum debut en 1995 bajo el nombre de Sparklehorse, Linkous salió de gira detrás de su sorpresivo hit alternativo “Someday I Will Treat You Good”, pero sufrió un terrible accidente apenas empezó su gira europea, que casi lo deja paralítico. Dos discos más tarde, en los que colaboraron desde P.J. Harvey hasta Tom Waits, Linkous cayó en ese pozo depresivo –en el que apenas si produjo el debut del proyecto A Camp de Nina Persson (The Cardigans) y uno de su ídolo Daniel Johnston– del que lo ayudó a salir su encuentro con Danger Mouse. O en realidad con The Grey Album (2005), el polémico disco que puso a Brian Burton en el mapa musical.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Sampleando el Album Blanco de los Beatles, y usando esos pedazos para musicalizar la voz del rapper Jay-Z en su Black Album, Burton construyó un disco de consumo reducido, que –gracias a Internet– se transformó en un fenómeno que terminó con una amenaza de juicio por parte de EMI, la propietaria de los derechos de las grabaciones de Los Beatles. Pero el affaire fue el comienzo de la carrera de Burton bajo el nombre de Modest Mouse, que empezó produciendo el disco Demon Dayz (2005) de Gorillaz y terminó formando el exitosísimo dúo Gnarls Barkley junto a Cee-Lo, cantante de Goodie Mob. En el medio fue que recibió el llamado de Linkous, del que se confesó fan, y muy rápidamente ambos trabajaron en algunas canciones para ese disco que sacó a Sparklehorse del limbo. Eran canciones pop que no encajaban en el álbum anterior”, explica Linkous. Pero de ese encuentro también quedaron algunos temas que él no podía cantar –“Estaban en otro registro”–, y empezaron a pensar en que otros vocalistas invitados podían cumplir ese rol. “Todo empezó cuando le mandamos un tema al cantante de Super Furry Animals y nos lo devolvió transformado en ‘Just war’, el segundo tema del disco. Ahí empezó a tomar forma Dark night of the soul”, explicó Linkous.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">A partir de ese momento, Linkous y Burton empezaron a trabajar en su proyecto a largo plazo, grabando los temas en el estudio de Burton, y convocando a sus amigos para que los cantasen. Cuando parecía estar listo, Burton tuvo la idea de llamar a David Lynch. “Sé que no estás haciendo videos, pero podrías sacar algunas fotos para ilustrar el disco”, ha dicho el director que fue la propuesta. Pero Lynch dobló la apuesta, y además de las dos jornadas nocturnas sacando el centenar de fotos que acompañan el lanzamiento del disco, decidió cantar en dos temas. “Las letras salen del mismo lugar de donde salen las fotos”, explicó Lynch. “Uno escucha la música, entra en clima, y aparecen las letras. Es algo casi surrealista, donde uno se engaña a sí mismo para terminar consiguiendo algo”. Cuando tuvieron listo el proyecto, que Danger Mouse asegura haber pagado de su bolsillo –su sello, Capitol, nunca se interesó demasiado–, surgieron los problemas legales que obligaron a concebir el golpe final que terminó haciendo de Dark night of the soul un proyecto único: el disco vacío. De haber publicado el disco, Capitol podría haberlo acusado de romper su contrato, y como está en camino a renegociarlo, Danger Mouse eligió una opción que hace que todo el mundo vincule este disco con el Grey Album. “La diferencia es que entonces yo sabía que lo que estaba haciendo era ilegal, pero pensaba que no iba a tener ningún tipo de difusión”, intentó explicar Danger Mouse. Una ingenuidad que no existe para Dark night of the soul, un proyecto oscuro pero al mismo tiempo mágico, en el que una selección de artistas de lujo ponen su grano de arena para un álbum inquietante, y que está maravillosamente en sincro con los tiempos online actuales. “Al cambiar del vinilo al casete, los formatos musicales se fueron reduciendo. Con el MP3, prácticamente ha desaparecido”, explica Burton. “Con el libro y las fotos de Lynch, quise volver a una época en la que el packaging era una fantasía visual sobre la música, y creaba un misterio que el público buscaba develar”. Pero quien mejor explica la unión del conejo, el caballo y el Lynch es Linkous: “Siempre hice exactamente lo que quise con mis discos, pero nadie en la discográfica sabía qué hacer con ellos. Ahora podemos hacer lo que queramos, y Brian sabe bien cómo vender discos de una manera subversiva”.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1197" title="David Lynch - Fox Bat Strategy A Tribute to Dave Jaurequi" src="http://markeneu.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/david-lynch-fox-bat-strategy-a-tribute-to-dave-jaurequi.jpg" alt="David Lynch - Fox Bat Strategy A Tribute to Dave Jaurequi" width="400" height="400" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Sin descanso. Sólo ha pasado un mes desde la puesta en circulación de los frutos físicos de “Dark Night Of The Soul”, el inicio de “The Interview Project”, y la puesta en circulación del video “Shot In The Back Of The Head” hecho a medida para el tema de Moby, y el inefable David Lynch ya viene capitaneando un nuevo proyecto. <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?joz44jromly">“Fox Bat Strategy: A Tribute to Dave Jaurequi”</a> es, como su nombre indica, una colección de canciones escritas por el propio Lynch, y cantadas por el fallecido guitarrista devenido cantante a pedido de Lynch, Dave Jaurequi, líder de la banda que supo musicalizar la “precuela” (antes de que se inventara el termino) cinematográfica de Twin Peaks, “Fire Walk With Me”, para el director del jopo rebelde.  </p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Y como con sus películas, con cada nueva escucha, aumentan las preguntas, las ganas de saber más sobre los personajes del muy sombrío “Fox Bat Strategy”. De vuelta al desierto, el disco es una obra triste, íntima y reflexiva que exige tiempo al oyente, de esas que necesitan varias escuchas para entrar del todo en su mundo. Los habituales perdedores se han convertido en amargos antihéroes, cansados y heridos, sin apenas tiempo para fiestas. Comienza fuerte, un lamento, que en ningún momento da un respiro, avanzado con la tensión de una buena novela negra, hasta que culmina en una canción espectral, casi una nana, en la que no cuesta imaginar el enorme cielo estrellado que cubre el desierto. “Fox Bat Strategy”, se parece más a “Sed De Mal”: una fascinante virguería en blanco y negro, situada en la frontera de y llena, plagada de tipos malos que van a la búsqueda, o simplemente huyendo, de vete a saber qué.</p>
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<link>http://counter-force.com/2009/07/07/the-dark-side-comes-in-any-colour-you-like/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Marco Sparks</dc:creator>
<guid>http://counter-force.com/2009/07/07/the-dark-side-comes-in-any-colour-you-like/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m fascinated by human perception, especially of art, as the human eye takes two separate thi]]></description>
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<p>I&#8217;m fascinated by human perception, especially of art, as the human eye takes two separate things and combines them, giving them new special meaning. Sometimes it&#8217;s on purpose, a mashup, like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adbusting">adbusting</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gray_Album"><em>The Grey Album</em></a>, but sometimes it&#8217;s not, like the accidental synchronicity of combining <em>The Wizard Of Oz</em> with <a href="http://counter-force.com/2009/07/02/the-lunatic-is-on-the-grass/">Pink Floyd&#8217;s classic <em>The Dark Side Of The Moon</em></a>.</p>
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<p>I love the idea that human beings live somewhere in the meaty subspace between synchronicity and <a href="http://counterforce.tumblr.com/post/129958855/the-conscious-mind-allows-itself-to-be-trained">apophenia</a>.</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/KmCfvcfHwKA&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/KmCfvcfHwKA&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>But the question of just what&#8217;s going on as you play the Pink Floyd album along with the film and the way things line up eerily has been around since the 90s, with <a href="http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1773/does-the-music-in-pink-floyds-em-dark-side-of-the-moon-em-coincide-with-the-action-of-em-the-wizard-of-oz-em">hundreds of examples of odd connections noted by people</a>. At one point, Turner Classic Movies, which owns the broadcast rights to the film, even aired <a href="http://somethingintellectual.tumblr.com/post/136120752/how-can-you-talk-if-you-havent-got-a-brain"><em>Wizard Of Oz</em></a> with <em>Dark Side</em> as the alternate soundtrack.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="All that big quad sound!" src="http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac86/noirconrad/ParsonsBigQuadSound.jpg" alt="" width="429" height="242" /><em>Engineer Alan Parsons mixing the album in great big quadrophonic sound.</em></p>
<p>&#8220;It was an American radio guy who pointed it out to me. It&#8217;s such a non-starter, a complete load of eyewash. I tried it for the first time about two years ago. One of my fiancee&#8217;s kids had a copy of the video, and I thought I had see what it was all about. I was very disappointed. The only thing I noticed was that the line &#8220;balanced on the biggest wave&#8221; came up when Dorothy was kind of tightrope walking along a fence. One of the things any audio professional will tell you is that the scope for the drift between the video and the record is enormous; it could be anything up to twenty seconds by the time the record&#8217;s finished. And anyway, if you play any record with the sound turned down on the TV, you will find things that work.&#8221;</p>
<p>-Alan Parsons, the engineer on <em>Dark Side</em>, about the supposed synchronicity.</p>
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<p>No matter the coincidence versus the intent, I like the way our brains work, either looking for or <a href="http://counterforce.tumblr.com/post/99066032/the-pixies-wave-of-mutilation-uk-surf-using">creating connections</a> in things, <a href="http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/">giving added contextual meaning</a>, trying to make the universe more special to us. Sometimes it goes horribly wrong, but sometimes we do find things, little bits of weird magic to call our own. And let&#8217;s face it, this bit of film/music weird is so much more cheery than <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_(1939_film)#The_Hanging_Muchkin">the urban legend about the munchkin hanging himself</a> in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4gh6BEPN8Q">the background of <em>The Wizard Of Oz</em></a>, right?</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="The lunatic is on the grass. And in a brain eclipse inside a psychedelic great big prism-y gig in the sky." src="http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac86/noirconrad/DorothyTriangular.png" alt="" width="400" height="350" /></p>
<p>Now, if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I&#8217;m off to see the Wizard &#8211; the wonderful Wizard &#8211; on the dark side of the moon&#8230;</p>
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<link>http://boxset.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/why-killers-always-try-the-psychose-shower-scene/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Nawakette</dc:creator>
<guid>http://boxset.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/why-killers-always-try-the-psychose-shower-scene/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Après de longues et éprouvantes révision -plus éprouvantes que les exams même-, je peux enfin m]]></description>
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<p>Après de longues et éprouvantes révision -plus éprouvantes que les exams même-, je peux enfin m&#8217;étendre les doigts de pied en éventail sans me sentir coupable.</p>
<p>Hier <strong>Reda Allali </strong>(chanteur de Hoba Hoba) faisait remarquer à la radio que <em>&#8220;Le Rock&#8217;n'Roll n&#8217;a plus de nationalité. Il n&#8217;est plus anglais, ni américain&#8221;</em>. Jusque là pas de quoi allumer un pétard. Il ajoute : <em>&#8220;Preuve en est les bréziliens <strong>Tito and Tarantula</strong> et leur Rock crasseux. Fermez les yeux et imaginez vous de grosses motos double cylindres, des bonshommes à moustaches et de longues routes cheminant dans le désert.&#8221; </em>L&#8217;aspect motard et veste en cuir est pas visible dans tous leurx morceaux par contre. Il faut recourir à <a href="http://www.myspace.com/httpwwwmyspacecomtitospace">leur Myspace </a>vu que je n&#8217;arrive pas à trouver des vidéos correctes sur Youtube.</p>
<p>Finalement c&#8217;est rassurant de voir qu&#8217;un peu partout dans le monde le virus du rock commence à se propager. Peut être pas aussi vite que la grippe porcine mais ça avance.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Pour les gens qui sont enfermés dans un abri nucléaire sur la planète Mars mais qui ont quand même l&#8217;accès internet pour atterrir sur mon blog, jetez un oeil à <strong>Dark Night of The Soul</strong> le dernier album de <strong>Danger Mouse</strong>. Tout le monde parle de leur tentative de &#8220;révolutionner la vente  de disques&#8221;. En effet la totalité de l&#8217;album est téléchargeable gratuitement <a href="http://www.pingpong.fr/page%20DNOTS.html">ici</a>. Et histoire de pouvoir se payer ses lunettes de soleil class le gars met en vente une pochette d&#8217;album contenant un CD vierge (à vous de graver) et un livre de photos d&#8217;une centaine de pages. L&#8217;ensemble est plutôt sympa et on compte la participation de <strong>Julian Casablancas</strong> (le génialissime chanteur des Strokes), <strong>Iggy Pop</strong> et <strong>The Flaming Lips.</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3bRY_oGO_0">Little Girl &#8211; Danger Mouse &#38; Sparklehorse et Julian Casablancas</a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUyV9QCnwKM&#38;feature=PlayList&#38;p=7B405CF2D368D7C1&#38;index=0"><br />
Just War &#8211; Danger Mouse &#38; Sparklehorse et Gruff Rhys</a><br />
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<p>Pour ceux que ça intéresse Danger Mouse avait également sorti un album pirate à présent introuvable <em><strong>The Grey Album</strong></em> remix du <strong><em>Black Album</em> de Jay-Z</strong> et du <strong><em>White Album</em> des Beatles</strong>. Jay-Z est plutôt cool mais la major détenant les droits d&#8217;auteur des Beatles a pris ça assez mal. Danger Mouse est également le producteur de <strong>Gorillaz</strong> et du <strong><em>Modern Guilt</em> de Beck</strong> entre autres.</p>
<p>Petite playlist du moment : <a href="http://www.playlist.com/playlist/16797014283">click click</a><br />
Des trucs à peu près énergiques parce que c&#8217;est l&#8217;été, des trucs plus relax parce qu&#8217;il faut bien faire bronzette, un peu de Eels et de Nouvelle Vague pour fêter leur nouvel album réspectif&#8230;</p>
<p>img <a href="http://secret-tape.tumblr.com/">+</a> <a href="http://love-vintage.blogspot.com/">+</a></p>
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<link>http://yurg.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/gcbc/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>yurg</dc:creator>
<guid>http://yurg.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/gcbc/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dopo il successo del Pirate Party alle elezioni europee è doveroso ripescare un documentario danese ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Dopo il successo del <a href="http://punto-informatico.it/2639379/PI/News/pirati-sbarcano-europa.aspx">Pirate Party alle elezioni europee</a> è doveroso ripescare un documentario danese realizzato per il Danish National Broadcasting Television network.</p>
<p>Il documentario in questione è <strong>Good Copy Bad Copy</strong> uno dei film più riusciti e interessanti dedicati alle tematiche del copyright e ai cambiamenti culturali, tecnologici ed economici al centro delle dinamiche di remix e delle pratiche di file sharing.</p>
<p>Il documentario, realizzato da Andreas Johnsen, Ralf Christensen, e Henrik Moltke, ospita gli interventi di attivisti, rappresentanti delle industrie culturali e artisti tra i quali <a href="http://www.myspace.com/girltalk">Girl Talk</a> e <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Mouse">Danger Mouse</a> (autore di uno dei <a href="http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/dangermouse/greyalbum/">mashup musicali</a> più noti) <a href="http://www.lessig.org/blog/">Lawrence Lessing</a>, Dan Glickman CEO dell&#8217;MPAA e Tiamo e Anakata di The Pirate Bay.</p>
<p>Uno degli aspetti più stimolanti di GCBC è la proposta di modelli di business alternativi a quelli copyright-oriented.</p>
<p>Il fenomeno del <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecno_brega">Techno Brega</a> (di cui si è già parlato <a href="http://yurg.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/techno-brega/">qui</a>), ad esempio, dimostra come possa esistere un mercato musicale basato su un modello in cui l&#8217;idea di copyright sostanzialmente non esiste.</p>
<p>Invece, il caso di <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nollywood">Nollywood</a> (l&#8217;industria cinematografica Nigeriana), che ha adottato sistemi di produzione estremamente veloci grazie alla completa digitalizzazione delle fasi di lavorazione e all&#8217;adozione del direct-to-video, ha permesso di superare le tradizionali finestre distributive favorendo un business model in grado di proporre un&#8217;alternativa efficace alle annose frizioni tra la normativa sul copyright e le nuove possibilità offerte dalle tecnologie digitali.</p>
<p>Good Copy Bad Copy è apparso inizialmente su The Pirate Bay nel 2007 ed è stato successivamente distribuito con licenza creative commons. E&#8217; possibile vederlo su Blip.tv e <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4323661317653995812">GoogleVideo</a> o ottenere il torrent per il download sul <a href="http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/download">sito dedicato</a>. </p>
<p>Ecco la versione integrale. Buona visione.</p>
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<p>Se vi è piaciuto potete fare una <a href="http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/download">donazione</a> in denaro dimostrando che il file sharing può essere economicamente interessante.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Next Generation.]]></title>
<link>http://counter-force.com/2009/06/08/the-next-generation/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Marco Sparks</dc:creator>
<guid>http://counter-force.com/2009/06/08/the-next-generation/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite internet cartoons is Garfield Minus Garfield, which you had to have heard of by n]]></description>
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<p>One of my favorite internet cartoons is <a href="http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/"><strong>Garfield Minus Garfield</strong></a>, which you had to have heard of by now. If you somehow havent&#8217;, and if the title doesn&#8217;t explain itself, then&#8230;</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="The places the mind goes to when you are just this bored." src="http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll71/eschasonic/GarfieldWithoutGarfield13.jpg" alt="" width="441" height="126" /></p>
<p>&#8220;Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quite American suburb.&#8221; That&#8217;s how the site describes him, and it&#8217;s a brilliant study, or alternate take on a beloved classic.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" title="The pain of Jon Arbuckle hits you hard." src="http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll71/eschasonic/GarfieldWithoutGarfield12.jpg" alt="" width="445" height="123" /></p>
<p>I&#8217;m not against the idea of remixes or mash ups or anything like that in theory. Sometimes they&#8217;re good. Sometimes they&#8217;re brilliant. Sometimes they&#8217;re smelly fountains of crap. But I feel that <em>sometimes</em> &#8211; and the keyword here is obviously sometimes &#8211; they can be an amazingly interesting new form of exploring art. A new art of their own.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" title="This is pretty much me every morning." src="http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll71/eschasonic/GarfieldWithoutGarfield14.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="133" /></p>
<p>Recently I discovered the works of two guys named <a href="http://www.jandrewedits.com/">Jan Van den Hemel</a> and <a href="http://andrewhussie.blogspot.com/2009/02/star-trek-edits.html">Andrew Hussie</a> who&#8217;ve done some work re-editing and creating something new out of old episodes of <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation</em>. By basically taking bits of pieces from throughout the show and remixing them into something new, they&#8217;ve created a kind of hilarious and filthy new thing. It&#8217;s the <em>Sealab 2021</em> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grey_Album"><em>The Grey Album</em></a> treatment and it&#8217;s&#8230; just perfect. The episodes are short, most just over a minute but none longer than four minutes, and there&#8217;s about 25 or so of them now. If you watch them all, there&#8217;s kind of a contuing story, when the edit series cares about it, but usually, it doesn&#8217;t. Here&#8217;s just a few of my favorites to brighten your day, starting with episode 9, &#8220;A Fistful Of Explosions.&#8221;</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/EnPIPOaRUFg&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/EnPIPOaRUFg&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>And then episode 10, &#8220;It&#8217;s Not Lupus.&#8221;</p>
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<p>And episode 12, &#8220;Bridge Buffoonery.&#8221;</p>
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<p>And last, but not least, of what I&#8217;d like to share with you, episode 15, &#8220;That Jean-Luc Picard.&#8221; I hope you enjoy and if you need more of a chuckle, I&#8217;d check the edits&#8217; creator&#8217;s websites or their youtube page for more of the videos.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Another nail in the coffin of the CD industry....]]></title>
<link>http://willworkforsoup.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/another-nail-in-the-coffin-of-the-cd-industry/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 15:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>willworkforsoup</dc:creator>
<guid>http://willworkforsoup.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/another-nail-in-the-coffin-of-the-cd-industry/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This could be one of the smartest music marketing “Stunts” for a while ~ hell I’m impressed: and as ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Mouse"><img src="http://willworkforsoup.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/dangermouse_l2.jpg?w=240&#038;h=320" alt="dangermouse_l2.jpg" width="240" height="320" /></a></p>
<p>This could be one of the smartest music marketing “<em>Stunts</em>” for a while ~ hell I’m impressed: and as a regular readers know ~ that aint easy!</p>
<p>It simply ~ takes what is happening in council estates all up n down the country &#38; owns it in an irreverent way: simple, bold &#38; clever</p>
<p>Danger Mouse is [<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/245">interview w/ Charlie Rose</a></span>] the DJ who got <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090515/1154504899.shtml">quite a lot of attention</a></span> a few years back for creating one of the very first <em>mainstream</em> mashups &#8212; mixing the Beatle&#8217;s <em>The White Album</em> with Jay-Z&#8217;s <em>The Black Album</em> to create the rather unique <em>The Grey Album</em>.   Now he&#8217;s set to get a wole lot more attention from the record labels. <br />
DJ Danger Mouse has another album that he&#8217;s been working on, in association with Mark Linkous (of Sparklehorse). Yet, due to ongoing legal troubles with EMI, he can&#8217;t actually release the music. So he&#8217;s come up with a rather creative solution. Found via <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://twitter.com/dubber/statuses/1805039934">Andrew Dubber</a></span>, the news is that the next album will be <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://www.thetripwire.com/uncategorized/2009/05/14/update-dark-was-the-night-of-soul-to-be-released-as-a-blank-cdr-due-to-legal-reasons/">released as album artwork with a </a></span><em>blank recordable CD</em>.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Mouse"><img src="http://willworkforsoup.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/dark-jpg2.jpeg?w=312&#038;h=446" alt="dark-jpg2.jpeg" width="312" height="446" /></a></p>
<p>There is no music on it. Because if there were music on it, it would get him in more trouble with EMI. Yet, if you have that blank CD and all the artwork, you certainly could (not that they&#8217;re suggesting you do&#8230;) find that music elsewhere and burn it to the CD. The statement from Danger Mouse reads</p>
<p>“<em>Danger Mouse&#8217;s new project Dark Night Of The Soul consists of an album length piece of music by Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse and a host of guest vocalists, along with a collection of original David Lynch photography inspired by and based on the music.</em><br />
<em>The photographs, which provide a visual narrative for the music, are compiled in a limited edition, hand numbered 100+ page book which will now come with a blank, recordable CD-R. All copies will be clearly labeled: &#8216;For Legal Reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will.&#8217;<br />
Due to an ongoing dispute with EMI, Danger Mouse is unable to release the recorded music for Dark Night Of The Soul without fear of being sued by EMI.<br />
Danger Mouse remains hugely proud of Dark Night Of The Soul and hopes that people lucky enough to hear the music, by whatever means, are as excited by it as he is.”</em></p>
<p>In some ways, this is reminiscent of what the band Green Day did many years ago, offering up <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5654.cfm">blank CDs with artwork</a></span> for fans who had downloaded the music from unauthorized sources. Yet, in this case, it&#8217;s even more interesting since there are <em>no</em> authorized sources at all for the music. It&#8217;ll be fun to see how EMI reacts.</p>
<p><strong>Update</strong>: Meanwhile, the folks at NPR alert us to the fact that they&#8217;re <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104129585">hosting a streaming version of the album</a></span> for anyone who wants to hear it.</p>
<p><em>Quotes stolen from</em>: <a href="http://www.9to5mac.com/dangermouse-emi-CD-R">9to5Mac</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Lawrence Lessig, The Colbert Remixes and Where We Go From Here]]></title>
<link>http://evolvingmusic.mixmatchmusic.com/2009/02/04/lawrence-lessig-the-colbert-remixes-and-where-we-go-from-here/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ACtual</dc:creator>
<guid>http://evolvingmusic.mixmatchmusic.com/2009/02/04/lawrence-lessig-the-colbert-remixes-and-where-we-go-from-here/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Early in January, Comedy Central&#8217;s Stephen Colbert sat down with Lawrence Lessig. The intervie]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Early in January, Comedy Central&#8217;s <a href="http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2009/01/09/colbert-debates-copyright-law-with-lawrence-lessig/" target="_blank" class="xLink">Stephen Colbert sat down with Lawrence Lessig</a>. The interview was typical Colbert tongue-in-cheek, but good for a laugh. For those of you not closely following the implosion of the music industry and subsequent recreation as a more inclusive forum, <a href="http://www.lessig.org/blog" target="_blank" class="xLink">Lessig</a> is the author of <em>Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy</em>, a book that examines methods of creating revenue out of creative work. The example Lessig used while talking to Colbert was Flickr which allows users to post pictures which Flickr can then create revenue from. But Lessig&#8217;s primary argument is that the war on Peer-to-Peer file sharing has failed (he&#8217;ll get no argument here) and that the copyright laws are outdated with the vast number of increasing ways people can share, remix and alter original work while making something new. In a way, every blog does this. This post in itself is a remix of two interviews, the functions of two websites and my arrangement of these facts with my thoughts. It&#8217;s about as close as I come to making music. The DIY explosion in music is part of the culture that has helped spawn mash-ups like Danger Mouse&#8217;s <em>Grey Album</em> (The Beatles&#8217; <em>White Album</em>/Jay-Z&#8217;s <em>Black Album</em>) and AmpLive&#8217;s <a href="http://evolvingmusic.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/pot-of-gold/"><em>Rainydayz Remixes</em></a> (<a href="http://evolvingmusic.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/amplive-interview/">AmpLive remixing Radiohead</a>&#8217;s <em>In Rainbows</em>.) The point is that technology and the rapidly evolving music industry need to find common ground with artists, and not just other musicians, but all artists, as the mixed media medium is something that can only grow from here.</p>
<p>Well, when Colbert was very specific about becoming &#8220;possibly litigious&#8221; should anyone take portions of his interview and remix it with a dance beat, he had to do so knowing full-well that someone would. He wasn&#8217;t disappointed as two days later, internet upstart <a href="http://www.indabamusic.com/contests/show/colbert" target="_blank" class="xLink">IndabaMusic jumped into the fray with a full site devoted to remixing the Colbert/Lessig interview</a>. But it didn&#8217;t end there, did it? With Colbert, how could it? Never being one to avoid an opportunity to poke fun at himself, <a href="http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2009/01/22/colbert-fires-back-at-remixers/" target="_blank" class="xLink">Colbert remixed a video of his own work to a pulsing dance beat</a>, and told the remixers to lay off again, to of course encourage them to remix more. Enter <a href="http://www.hulu.com/watch/55853/the-colbert-report-mon-feb-2-2009" target="_blank" class="xLink">Dan Zaccagnino, head of Indaba who had an interview on Colbert the other night</a> (interview at 14m in) to talk about the remix culture. Of course, these types of remixes are nothing new over at <a href="http://www.mixmatchmusic.com/" target="_blank" class="xLink">MixMatchMusic</a>, which has had success with their <a href="http://remixwizard.mixmatchmusic.com/" target="_blank" class="xLink">Remix Wizard</a>. While the Indaba/Colbert remix contest is excellent, it is Indaba based. MMM&#8217;s Remix Wizard is a free widget that can be set up and used by any artist on their website to host remix promotions. It doesn&#8217;t even need to have anything to do with music, as evidenced by <a href="http://www.remixsarahpalin.com/" target="_blank" class="xLink">Remix Sarah Palin</a>.</p>
<p>While Colbert&#8217;s thoughts in the interviews with Lessig and Zaccagnino are clearly meant to be humorous, they serve a larger purpose in that these episodes help create buzz for a rapidly growing and increasingly important segment of the music industry: collaborative pieces brought about through alternative means. Indaba has managed to create a large community of musicians from around the world who are engaging in internet based musical collaboration, and this is a huge first step in breaking down barriers within the recording industry.</p>
<p>But with every broken barrier comes the question of the next frontier. While Colbert asked Zaccagnino what happens to girlfriends breaking up bands if the musicians collaborate on the internet, he failed in his attempts at humor to get to the root of the issue, namely monetization of content. While not many musicians will actively think internet collaboration as a means to avoid break-ups with their significant others, a most serious topic of interest to them is how they can profit from their work. No artist likes the idea of losing control over their work, but if knowing that the usage of their work by others would create tangible income for them, the concept of collaboration and other artists who liked them enough to mix them with their own pieces becomes a much more appealing, and therefore widespread trend. As with the foresight of their DIY remix widgets, MixMatchMusic provides the ability for artists to monetize collaboratively made songs, as well as contribute stems to their social sample library to <a href="http://www.mixmatchmusic.com/legal" target="_blank" class="xLink">earn royalties</a>.</p>
<p>The monetization of artist work and internet collaboration is the next step in the rebuilding of the music industry. As fans become more involved with the artists because they are part of a shared internet workspace, the desire to support an artist will increase. Add to that <a href="http://evolvingmusic.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/remix-culture-is-exploding/">the ability to remix their favorite artist&#8217;s work, and the fan interaction with the music becomes uncaged</a>. Forget making a mixtape for a friend. Imagine taking your favorite songs and <a href="http://evolvingmusic.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/girl-talk-interview/">going Girl Talk on them</a>. This interest and desire to support the artist would in turn funnel revenue back to the musicians.</p>
<p>The recording industry would say that this has been the goal of their war on file sharing, but <a href="http://evolvingmusic.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/riaa-screws-musicians/">that is an outrageous lie as most artists never see a dime</a> of the few settlements the RIAA succeeds in obtaining. Little wonder then that <a href="http://evolvingmusic.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/riaa-backs-down-and-out/">the RIAA is backing down</a>. In fact, one could argue that the backlash against the recording industry has been fueled by the consumer perspective that the artists aren&#8217;t seeing the profits they should. Furthermore, as revenue streams move away from the major labels and into the artists&#8217; pockets, the majors will be forced to work with both musicians and consumers on more viable distribution and revenue models.</p>
<p>But forget about the money and the labels and the upheaval in the industry. How will this help music evolve? As more artists turn to internet collaboration because their work is safe and profitable, the inevitable evolution of genres and musical landscapes will grow exponentially. Think The Beatles and Jay-Z were cool? What happens when you can take a French hip-hopper&#8217;s lyrics, a tribal drum beat from a musician in Africa, a flute melody from Tokyo and a guitar piece from Columbus, Ohio, and add it to your piano piece from the comfort of your home and computer?  Sure, you could make money, but look at what your collaboration has created musically. When internet collaboration is monetized and all-inclusive, the community becomes the music industry, and the listeners become the musicians.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[By Carlos Moutinho]]></title>
<link>http://musicadodia.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/by-carlos-moutinho/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>musicadodia</dc:creator>
<guid>http://musicadodia.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/by-carlos-moutinho/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jay-z vs Beatles by Dj Danger Mouse &#8211; Change Clothes The Grey Album is an album by Danger Mous]]></description>
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<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/GreyAlbum.gif" alt="Jay-z vs Beatles by DJ Danger Mouse" width="188" height="188" /><br />
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<p align="justify">The Grey Album is an album by Danger Mouse, released in 2004. It uses an a cappella version of rapper Jay-Z&#8217;s The Black Album and couples it with instrumentals created from a multitude of unauthorized samples from The Beatles (more commonly known as The White Album). The Grey Album gained notoriety due to the response by EMI in attempting to halt its distribution.</p>
<p>Next: Rudolfo Nobre</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Top 5 of the Last 5 - Documentary.]]></title>
<link>http://iambillyg.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/top-5-of-the-last-5-documentary/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>billyG</dc:creator>
<guid>http://iambillyg.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/top-5-of-the-last-5-documentary/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Part five of six. Is it Friday already? Fuck me, time flies when you&#8217;re busy with real work. A]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Sound Of Danger Mouse]]></title>
<link>http://digitaldj.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/the-sound-of-danger-mouse/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>dolphinblog</dc:creator>
<guid>http://digitaldj.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/the-sound-of-danger-mouse/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Danger Mouse is one of the most creative minds in the music industry right now: He formed Gnarls Bar]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><span class="advancedserach"><strong><em><span style="font-size:small;">Danger Mouse is one of the most creative minds in the music industry right now: He formed Gnarls Barkley with Cee-Lo Green  and produced their hit albums St. Elsewhere and The Odd Couple. He produced the second Gorillaz album, 2005&#8217;s Demon Days, as well as Beck&#8217;s 2008 record, Modern Guilt. He has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the Producer of the Year category and mashed up Jay-Z and The Beatles&#8230;and even made music for Cartoon Network!</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p><img class="alignnone" src="http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/shop_image/uploads/Image/dm1.jpg" alt="Danger Mouse" /></p>
<p>Danger Mouse first gained attention in 2004, when his revolutionary &#8220;The Grey Album&#8221; gained great reviews and no little amount of controversy&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://digitaldj.wordpress.com/shop_image/uploads/Image/GreyAlbum.jpg"><span style="color:#005a9c;">&#8220;The Grey Album&#8221;</span></a> was a mash-up of Jay-Z&#8217;s &#8220;Black Album&#8221; and The Beatles&#8217; &#8220;White Album&#8221;, and was released in limited quantities to a few outlets only. However, it created a massive amount of controversy when EMI, copyright holder of The Beatles, ordered Danger Mouse and retailers carrying the album to cease distribution.</p>
<p>The amount of attention The Grey Album received caused EMI to act. Danger Mouse never asked permission to use The Beatles&#8217; material, and intended to produce a limited production run of 3,000 copies. Jay-Z&#8217;s material, on the other hand, was commercially released in a cappella form. Although the work was copyrighted, it was released for the implicit purpose of encouraging mashups and remixes.</p>
<p>The album quickly became extremely popular and well-distributed over the Internet because of the surrounding publicity, and the music world quickly realized how talenteded Danger Mouse was.</p>
<p>In 2005, Danger Mouse produced the second Gorillaz album &#8220;Demon Days&#8221;, giving Damon Albarn&#8217;s side project  its biggest chart success.</p>
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<p><em>Danger Mouse (left) and his Gnarls Barkley mate, Cee-Lo</em></td>
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<p>As as as producing albums for alternative artists who seek a more original sound (including albums for Sparklehorse, The Rapture, Black Keys and, this year, Beck&#8217;s &#8216;Modern Guilt&#8217; album) Danger Mouse is the other half of Gnarls Barkley and produced both their albums, which were huge hits worldwide.</p>
<p>Danger Mouse explain what inspires him:</p>
<p>&#8220;Woody Allen was an auteur: he did his Thing, and that particular Thing was completely his own,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That&#8217;s what I decided to do with music. I want to create a director&#8217;s role within music&#8230;I have to be in control of the project I&#8217;m doing. I can create different kinds of musical worlds, but the artist needs the desire to go into that world&#8230;. Musically, there is no one who has the career I want. That&#8217;s why I have to use film directors as a model.&#8221;</p>
<p><em><strong>So&#8230;what sort of gear does he use? Here&#8217;s a look at some of the tools he uses to unleash his creativity</strong></em>:</p>
<p>His favourite keyboards are the <strong>Korg MS-2000</strong> and <strong>Roland Saturn 09</strong> &#8211; both discontinued, and  both considered classics. For those who love the warmth of vintage synths, the <a href="http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/?page=shop/flypage&#38;product_id=3432"><strong><span style="color:#005a9c;">Korg MicroKorg</span></strong></a> is a worthy successor to the MS-2000, because it features the same DSP analogue modelling system as the Korg MS-2000 and, indeed, in recent years has become somewhat of a new classic in its own right.</p>
<p>As for software, DM has used <a href="http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/page/shop/flypage/product_id/37533"><strong><span style="color:#005a9c;">Digidesign Pro Tools</span></strong></a> and <a href="http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/page/shop/flypage/product_id/33408"><strong><span style="color:#005a9c;">Apple Logic</span></strong></a> in other people&#8217;s studios, but he prefers <a href="http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/page/shop/flypage/product_id/13925"><strong><span style="color:#005a9c;">Sony Acid Pro</span></strong></a> at home. <em>“I used to use old samplers and a lot of old drum machines and samplers, and then I made a switch years back,”</em> DM says. <em>“I basically use that program now in the same way I used those.”</em></p>
<p>About the Acid Pro, he says: <em>&#8220;I started using Acid a lot because it&#8217;s pretty basic. It&#8217;s more about the person using it than the program itself.”</em></p>
<p>Although DM buys a new PC every year, it&#8217;s not to increase his processing power. “I use very basic PCs,” he says. “I don&#8217;t have any special soundcards or anything. The reason I get a new one every year is because there always winds up being some fucked-up virus or some kind of crash, or something ends up broken on it, so I wind up getting a new one all the time.”</p>
<p>Danger Mouse also loves his vintage <strong>E-mu SP-1200</strong> Sampler/ Drum-Machine. The SP-1200 was THE drum machine &#38; sampler combo of legendary status among old school rap and hip hop artists from the eighties and nineties. It is similar to today&#8217;s <a href="http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/page/shop/flypage/product_id/15339"><strong><span style="color:#005a9c;">Akai MPC samplers</span></strong></a> &#8211; it is a sampler plus drum machine.</p>
<p>Three of his main pieces of gear, live with Gnarls Barkley, are an Wurlitzer organ, a Korg Micro Preset  and a Yamaha SHS-10 keyboard.</p>
<p>Other gear he&#8217;s used include a Roland XP-60 keyboard and Ensoniq ASR-X sampler.</p>
<p>Of course, as a skilled DJ, Danger Mouse also has his favourite choice of turntables, the <a href="http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/page/shop/flypage/product_id/7998"><strong><span style="color:#005a9c;">Technics SL-1200</span></strong></a>, Back in 2004 he did prestigious DJ sets at the Coachella and Lollapalooza festivals in the USA, and besides the Technics turntables, he also used two <a href="http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/page/shop/flypage/product_id/12046"><strong><span style="color:#005a9c;">Pioneer CDJ-1000</span></strong></a>. Danger Mouse, even back then, confessed to be more of a studio person, and had to pick his gear carefully, to find something he could trust. <em>&#8220;I don’t want to use computers live. I’m just so afraid of getting locked up on stage. For me, that would ruin it. I’m so young in terms of performing in front of people.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><strong>Danger Mouse Beat-Making Tips:</strong></p>
<p>Though generally he tries to keep some mystery  regarding his projects and studio setup, in a 2005 interview he gave a few clues to his beat-making process.</p>
<p><strong>Double up:</strong> <em>“I&#8217;m kind of a fanatic about my drums and spend a lot of time on them,”</em> DM says. <em>“There&#8217;s a specific way I do them almost every time, whether it&#8217;s the Gorillaz record or anything, really. You want something to sound live without too much reverb or without all of them sounding the same on each track. There are no live-played drums on here, but I definitely double my kicks and snares up. I usually use more than one or two, even though it doesn&#8217;t sound like it, necessarily.”<br />
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<strong>Crunchy, sandy snares on his track “Old School”:</strong> <em>“That whole break was messed around with, and it makes it sound very much like a shaker,”</em> DM says. <em>“It&#8217;s a way of making it sound rhythmically like there&#8217;s no space in between any of the drums — and a way of hiding a lot of mess that was in the sample. If you just had a typical kick, hi-hat, snare, you&#8217;d have a lot of space in between; then, the sample would start to distract you. So on that one, there&#8217;s no space. It makes [the snare] sound like it came from the same place as the samples and the drums — like one big recording.”<br />
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<strong>Really piling it on for “The Mask”:</strong> <em>“That&#8217;s a lot of crazy different drums,”</em> DM says. <em>“That&#8217;s about four breaks in one — four parts of four different pieces. There&#8217;s a kick that I got from somewhere, a drum roll, a snare … and then the pattern was just kind of one I put together. And you keep thinking it&#8217;s going to actually break into something else a little bit easier to nod your head to, but it just kind of keeps the tension. It&#8217;s as complicated as can be. It&#8217;s probably my favorite beat on the record.”<br />
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<p><strong>Danger Mouse Links</strong>:</p>
<p><a href="void(0);/*1215535360969*/"><strong><span style="color:#005a9c;">Danger Mouse Myspace Page</span></strong></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.myspace.com/gnarlsbarkley"><span style="color:#005a9c;">Gnarls Barkley Myspace Page</span></a></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://remixmag.com/mag/remix_looney_tunes/"><strong><span style="color:#005a9c;">Remix Mag Interview</span></strong></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://remixmag.com/mag/remix_danger_mouse/"><span style="color:#005a9c;">Another Remix Mag interview</span></a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.djtimes.com/issues/2004/08/_features_index_08_2004.htm"><span style="color:#005a9c;">DJ Times Interview</span></a></strong></p>
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<description><![CDATA[This came off the Dj Danger Mouse&#8217;s mashup mixtape &#8221; The Grey Album&#8221; that I mentio]]></description>
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<p>This came off the Dj Danger Mouse&#8217;s mashup mixtape &#8221; The Grey Album&#8221; that I mentioned in my previous post. Its a mashup between Jay Z&#8217;s &#8220;Black album&#8221; and The Beatles &#8220;White album&#8221;. Hence the title GREY album. Its very well produced and very creative. To read more about the artist and album with a list of tracks click <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Album">here</a></div>
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<description><![CDATA[Before Danger Mouse was making hits with Cee-Lo he did some amazing things with an a cappella versio]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Before <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Mouse">Danger Mouse</a> was <a href="http://www.gnarlsbarkley.com/">making hits with Cee-Lo</a> he did some amazing things with an a cappella version of Jay-Z&#8217;s <i>The Black Album</i> and a multitude of unauthorized samples from The Beatles. The result was the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grey_Album">Grey Album</a>, which was quickly squashed by <i>The Man</i>. But luckily you can still find some nuggets to enjoy, like <a href="http://hypem.com/track/514881">December 4th</a>.</p>
<p>Bonus link: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/magazine/18barkley.html">Chuck Klosterman on Danger Mouse</a>.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[En 2004, el DJ y productor norteamericano Danger Mouse lanzó un disco en el que utilizaba una versió]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>En 2004, el DJ y productor norteamericano <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Mouse" target="_blank">Danger Mouse</a> lanzó un disco en el que utilizaba una versión a capella del The Black Album de Jay-Z y numerosos <i>samples</i> del White Album de los Beatles. Se llamó The Grey Album.</p>
<p>El siguiente vídeo es una muestra de cómo quedó el experimento. Tiene dos momentos especialmente memorables: Ringo Starr pinchando y John Lennon bailando <i>breakdance</i>.</p>
<p>Impresionante cómo se puede jugar con las imágenes.</p>
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