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Danger Mouse Resurfacing With Underground Animals
« on: December 27, 2006, 01:01:12 AM »
As if he wasn't busy enough recording and touring with Gnarls Barkley and producing the new Damon Albarn band The Good, the Bad & the Queen, Danger Mouse has a new project up his sleeve. The artist will serve as the leader of a producers' collective dubbed the Underground Animals, who will release a compilation album in 2007 via Downtown/Atlantic. The participants will be brought to life courtesy of animation from Adult Swim.

"We have some very celebrated producers and some up-and-comers, all of whom are arranged around Danger," Downtown co-founder Josh Deutsch tells Billboard.com. "Everybody is producing under a pseudonym." For the introductory album, the idea is that each song will feature a different producer working with a different artist, but "there won't be a reveal as to which producer is doing a given track," Deutsch says.

"There will be an element of mystery about it -- certain producers will be retired," he continues. "And many of these people are some of the most famous producers out there. It will allow them to produce the kinds of records they wouldn't necessarily want to do without the benefit of a pseudonym. We've already had a really A-list rock guy wanting to do a hip-hop record."

And like animated band Gorillaz, Underground Animals will inhabit an online world where each member has a robust back story. "Ultimately this will turn into a brand where Underground Animals as a collective will produce an artist, and each different producer will produce one song by the same artist," Deutsch says. "It fits in for us as a model in trying to find really compelling content and new ways to introduce it to an audience."

Meanwhile, Gnarls Barkley is compiling material for the follow-up to its 2006 breakthrough "St. Elsewhere," which may be out before the end of 2007. "We've had a lot of discussions about bands that used to drop a record a year," Deutsch says. "A steady diet, as opposed to a giant event every three years, may be more consistent with some of the changes in the online world, in terms of distribution."

As "St. Elsewhere" speeds toward Grammy season (it is up for multiple awards, including album of the year), Downtown will launch a third single from the album, "Smiley Faces," early in the New Year.

This report is provided by Billboard.com
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