It’s been 10 years since Danger Mouse (Brian Burton) released The Grey Album, a mash-up of Jay-Z’s The Black Album and The Beatles White Album. That album led to Danger Mouse becoming a sought-after producer who has since produced albums for Gorillaz, Beck, and The Black Keys while also forming the groups Gnarls Barkley and Broken Bells.
Only time will tell if David Rees, creator of Get Your War On and host of Hulu’s Going Deep, will reach the same level of fame with his mash-up album, Aphex Swift. The album features the unlikely pairing of Taylor Swift‘s vocals with the sounds of Aphex Twin:
Oddly enough the whole thing works, even if it’s a bit tongue in cheek. On his Tumblr page, Rees explains why the two work so well together, “Aphex Twin is as big a romantic cornball as Taylor Swift,” and “Taylor Swift is as scary as Aphex Twin.”
No word from the “Swifties” yet, or from either artist. In 2004, EMI issued cease and desist orders to retailers carrying The Grey Album which actually led to more publicity for the album, and an online campaign to distribute and download the album.
Swift just released her latest album, 1989, today, and Aphex Twin released Syro in September.
