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Article: Dada-soul duo's metier tailor-made for Burton.(Beyond hip-hop)(Gnarls Barkley and Brian Burton )(Brief article)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- August 31, 2006
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While he's best known to mainstream audiences as one-half of dada-soul duo Gnarls Barkley, Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton has tweaked the musical realm from behind the scenes for years. The first producer to craft an overground mashup LP--"The Grey Album," a dizzying juxtaposition of the Beatles' "White Album" and Jay-Z's "Black Album"--he also played a major role in the success of the Gorillaz, in which he served as primary sonic architect.
Gnarls Barkley, his collaboration with Atlanta-bred rapper Cee-Lo Green, has resulted in one of the year's top-selling LPs, "St. Elsewhere," and the heavily downloaded single "Crazy"--the first downloadonly song to reach No. 1 ...