I'm not one of those people who thinks popular music is "sacred," the way Hindus don't want anyone screwing around with their cows. By all means, screw around with whatever music you want. I eat a lot more vegetable korma than I do cow, but as far as I'm concerned, Beatles music is totally appropriate for rendering into ground protein on Danger Mouse's killing floor, and at my bitchiest, I'll say you've made a vast improvement. You don't get much less "rock-and-roll" than by enshrining music in
While I'm always impressed with the work Girl Talk does, I've always been slightly more impressed by artists like the Kleptones, who are able to take a single artist and turn their work into the backdrop for a sound collage.
Danger Mouse did it most famously with The Grey Album, combining the Beatles and Jay-Z into something that he's been able to turn into a career as a producer. The Kleptones' work on A Night At the Hip-Hopera (with Queen as their jump-off), as well as how they turned the Fla
