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Article: Danger Mouse: so how did music producer Brian Burton go from mix-mastering the Beatles and Jay-Z in his bedroom to the front of the music industry rat race? With ingenuity, A little promiscuity, and one gigantic mouse suit.(MUSIC)(Interview)
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- August 1, 2008
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If music today has become a producer's medium--and some might argue that it has, with fractured audiences, disintegrating record labels, and increasing desperation for foul-weather hits to keep the whole thing afloat--then 31-year-old Brian Burton, a.k.a. Danger Mouse, might very well be the most prolific knob-twiddler around. Four years ago, Burton's The Grey Album, a homespun (and illegal) mash-up of the Beatles' "white" album (1968) and Jay-Z's The Black Album (2003), infamously announced his presence. Free, unofficially released, and available almost exclusively online, the songs were downloaded, file-shared, and bootlegged by the ...