Jane's Addiction supremo Perry Farrell has hooked-up with 50 Cent and Kelly Rowland for collaborations on his new group Satellite Party's debut album 'Ultra Payloaded'. The flamboyant star will be releasing the album independently too, for the first time in his career, after clashing with record label Columbia over the environmental concerns that he expressed regarding the production of CDs.
He said: "What I wanted to do with Columbia, which they didn't agree to, was to be a completely digital artist. And the reason they didn't want to do it, if I could tell you the truth, is because they have an overhead and they really need to sell those CDs and they need to sell them at a certain cost. I had worked out a way that they could do it, but it wasn't good enough for them, so now I've gone independent. I just use Columbia for distribution. But next time I put out any music, it will be completely digital".
Farrell's stand marks the latest in a number of environmental projects from the singer after he made Lollapalooza carbon neutral this year. Indeed, Farrell claims that he sees this new band as something of a revolutionary project, saying: "I've set this up because I want to be touring with this project for ten years. By the end of the ten years, I'm expecting the world to change completely and we're going to celebrate".