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Article: Another 'Grey' area of sampling: Danger Mouse steals beats from right traps
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 25, 2004
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DJ DANGER MOUSE
'the grey album'
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A new-era novelty that could only originate in the hinterlands of
the unruly Internet (or maybe a collegiate pot den at 5 in the
morning), DJ Danger Mouse's controversial "The Grey Album" sports a
wicked idea that boils down to simple black and white: snag
instrumental break beats from the Beatles' so-called "White Album"
and twist them into a cappella verses from Jay-Z's 2003 "Black
Album."
God knows what drove the British DJ down that pike -- or why he
didn't employ Metallica's or Prince's respective "Black Albums," or,
for that matter, Spinal Tap's -- but Danger Mouse's result is one of
the most audaciously compelling "mash-up" ...