Category: Danger Mouse

To celebrate the upcoming release of the new 33 1/3 on Danger Mouse, author Charles Fairchild discusses five key dynamics responsible for The Grey Album for Danger Mouse Week. One of the things that always surprises me about the critical commentary on sample-based music is how little the idea of tradition has played in our understanding of it. Maybe it is just a fusty old word that we don’t have any time for given how new and shiny we are supposed to be all the time. But a tradition is…

To celebrate the upcoming release of the new 33 1/3 on Danger Mouse, author Charles Fairchild discusses five key dynamics responsible for The Grey Album for Danger Mouse Week. For some reason, a lot of people thought The Grey Album was the work of a rebel. The general tone of much of the response to it was that he was somehow attacking or mocking both Jay-Z and The Beatles while taking a few subversive shots at the music industry for good measure. This was especially true in academic circles where…

To celebrate the upcoming release of the new 33 1/3 on Danger Mouse, author Charles Fairchild discusses five key dynamics responsible for The Grey Album for Danger Mouse Week. One of the underlying themes of the book on The Grey Album is to try to make some sense of what has happened to the music industry over last ten years or so. While a decade is at best an arbitrary measure of change over time, it still helps. My point is to understand the context into which this album entered…