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Santigold backs blocked mixtape
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 8 June 2009
Despite the fact that she has been involved in similar projects herself, Santigold’s US label Downtown Music have taken a dim view of a new Santigold-sampling mixtape by Terry Urban called ‘Southerngold’. Urban apparently received a cease and desist letter from the label shortly before he was about to put the much anticipated mix online.
Urban told fans: “I’m not selling this, I’m not making a dime. I’m encouraging everyone to BUY Santigold’s album and I’m helping to expand her fan base to new markets. In addition, none of these songs are as they would appear on her actual album. EVERYTHING is remixed and redone so there is no competition with her actual in-stores album… It’s ironic that Downtown Records biggest group was signed due to a project with similar ambitions, Gnarls Barkley’s Danger Mouse with ‘The Grey Album'”.
Initial reports criticised Santigold herself, but she later issued a statement supporting Urban. She said: “Some kid just hit me up about this on MySpace. It was the first I ever heard about it. I’ve never heard anything about this DJ or this remix, and certainly did not send a cease and desist letter. I’m a supporter of mixtape culture and intend to get to the bottom of it”.
