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June 11, 2009

NY Times: Danger Mouse and the Complications of 'Dark Night of the Soul'...

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As part of that arrangement, EMI apparently ended up with global rights to certain subsequent recordings by Danger Mouse. But not all: Gnarls Barkley is signed to Downtown Records, with distribution by Atlantic. (Further complicating things, Tom Brown, the founder of Lex, said of Danger Mouse, “Ultimately he is signed to Lex Records.” But he would not elaborate.)

Lately EMI and Danger Mouse have been engaged in contentious renegotiation talks, these people say, although no new agreement has been reached, and Danger Mouse has pulled the music from “Dark Night of the Soul” because he feared he would be in breach of contract with EMI if he released the music through any other outlet.



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