Next Danger Mouse album to have no music

May 18th, 2009

Brandon

No this is NOT an artistic expression or how the music industry likes to call it, “career suicide.” However it is an innovated way for Danger Mouse to beat the system, so to speak, and a way for him to distribute his music to those die hard Mouse fans out there. Check it out:

EMI has told Danger Mouse that his latest CD won’t see the light of day due to “legal issues,” so he’s responding by releasing the disc as a blank CD-R in a jewel case with art and liner notes. Fans can just download the music off a P2P site and burn it to the CD-R.
Dark Night Of The Soul, a collaboration with rock group Sparklehorse, also features Iggy Pop and The Flaming Lips, along with artwork by David Lynch.
It has already been streamed online, but Billboard magazine said a “legal dispute” with EMI derailed the project…

“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.”He added that the album, which comes with a limited edition, “100+ page book” of David Lynch photographs inspired by the music “will now come with a blank, recordable CD-R”.

“All copies will be clearly labelled: ‘For Legal Reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will.’“

courtesy of thisis50.com

I like this move, but to be brutally honest I don’t think too many fans are going to buy into Danger Mouse’s new marketing tactic. Obviously the true fans of Danger Mouse, Gnarls Barkley and Danger Doom will rush out to buy the custom art work and case for their blank disk…but what casual fan is down with paying $15 for a CD-R? Haha.

Hats off to Danger Mouse for the creativity.