Danger Mouse's 'Rome' is a fair tribute to that old Spaghetti Western sound, if you're into that kind of thing...

White, Jones, Danger Mouse and Luppi explore the sounds
of the Spaghetti Western in Rome.

Danger Mouse is arguably the most important producer of the last 10 years. After landing on the map with his Jay Z/Beatles mashup "The Grey Album," Danger Mouse has been the sound behind some pretty big records: The Gorillaz' Demon Days, Gnarles Barkley's St Elsewhere, Damon Albarn's The Good the Bad and the Queen, Beck's Modern Guilt and the Black Keys' breakthrough Attack & Release, not to mention his other projects like his collaboration with Sparklehorse and The Shins' James Mercer, Broken Bells.

What Danger Mouse has excelled at is giving these bands and other projects an amazing sound. Danger Mouse records have an unmistakable cinematic atmosphere -- they sound like big productions that fizzle and pop over the airwaves from some swinging hip time of the '60s of our imagination. In an era of constant nostalgia and digital recordings, it's a sound that lends these records a classic and timeless feel, a sort of audial legitimacy.