I found something good

For those music lovers out there, I found a neat album. It's called American Edit, mixed by Dean Gray. This guy took the Green Day album American Idiot and spliced it with songs from many different artists into a very pleasurable auditory experience. It's not heavy into techno, but sorta teases your ear with a rich palette of styles and familiar tunes at the same time. The best part: it's free. Dean Gray has put his incredibly original work on the internet for no commercial benefit.

I emphasize "original" because this is a lot of personal creativity on his part to make this music. The tracks themselves all use the Green Day songs as a base, but very little of them actually remain in the tune. The album is far from a replacement of the Green Day album, and does little but promote it's content.

However, it's not a great surprise that Warners is trying to censor the album by sending cease and desist orders and whatnot. I really think this is digging them into a hole. Mirrors are being put up around the web (search Google for dean gray american edit and check it out yourself) and the content they provide is being publicized by the "scandal" that has been created. Maybe this is Warner's way of selling more albums of Green Day: create a buzz about something they don't have to pay for, possibly get some money out of that, and get more people interested in the mashup album which drives more sales of American Idiot. Brilliant, I tell you.