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Danger Mouse, the notorious DJ who created a mashup of the Beatle’s The White Album along with Jay-Z‘s The Black Album to make the unique The Grey Album, is about to release a new album in collaboration with Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse.

However, because of continuous legal issues with EMI, he cannot actually release the music. The solution he has come up with is fairly ingenious.  The next album he releases will feature nothing more than artwork and a blank CD-R.

That’s right, you get a blank, recordable disk.

There will be no music on it whatsoever, otherwise, he could get sued.  Still, if you have artwork and blank CD-R, you could always just find someplace that has the music and burn the CD yourself.

The official statement from Danger Mouse:

Danger Mouse’s new project Dark Night Of The Soul consists of an album length piece of music by Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse and a host of guest vocalists, along with a collection of original David Lynch photography inspired by and based on the music.

The photographs, which provide a visual narrative for the music, are compiled in a limited edition, hand numbered 100+ page book which will now come with a blank, recordable CD-R. All copies will be clearly labeled: ‘For Legal Reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will.’

Due to an ongoing dispute with EMI, Danger Mouse is unable to release the recorded music for Dark Night Of The Soul without fear of being sued by EMI.

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.

We say, Danger Mouse gets a “A” for creativity!

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