Space Monkeys vs. Gorillaz: Laika Come Home

Gorillaz - Space Monkeys vs. Gorillaz: Laika Come Home

Space Monkeys vs. Gorillaz: Laika Come Home
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Artist: Gorillaz
Edition: Music CD
Format: Limited Edition
CD Release Date: 2002-07-16
Music Label: Astralwerks
Soundtracks:
  1. 19-2000 [Jungle Fresh]
  2. Slow Country [Strictly Rubbadub]
  3. Tomorrow Comes Today [Banana Baby]
  4. Man Research (Clapper) [Monkey Racket]
  5. Punk [De-Punked]
  6. 5/4 [P.45]
  7. Starshine [Dub 09]
  8. Sound Check (Gravity) [Crooked Dub]
  9. New Genius (Brother) [Mutant Genius]
  10. Re-Hash [Come Again]
  11. Clint Eastwood [A Fistful of Peanuts]
  12. M1 A1 [Lil' Dub Chefin']

Free Music Notes for Space Monkeys vs. Gorillaz: Laika Come Home

Free Music Review: The naysayers either have innate bias or don't get it....
Hit: 5 Stars

...and that's ok, too.
Let's review the flaws, first:
1) Its the same songs, AGAIN.
2) Its nothing like the source material.

OK, downsides listed. Perfectly respectable downsides, yes, we all already own these songs once or twice. However, true to roots dub, that's sort of the point and its well represented here. And, since it is well represented here, its nothing like the original rock songs, its not even like the hiphop songs, its dub.

You get dub (real dub, not electronic thumpathumpa crap) when a producer would take the source material and manipulate it to create fresh music for the sound systems. Vocals out, lead insturments out, rhythm in. Up the bass, up the drums, and let it roll. Punch in a riff, punch in a word, then out again and run the whole thing through more reverb than you can shake a stick at. That's what you've got here. And its not just dub, but its fantastically well done dub. Its an album that's tuned for raving Gorillaz fans, dub fans, and ideally for people who are both. Or will become both.

This may not be the record for you, thankfully Amazon provides you with sound samples. Use them. What you hear is what you get, so stop whining about how much it sucks cause its the same songs over again or because its a style you don't like.

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Sure, Gorillaz sounded original, but it was a pop project with all the constraints that went with it--can you imagine the six-minute remixed version of "Clint Eastwood" making it onto MTV? But that's exactly what makes Laika Come Home so good. It's a reimagined collection filled with bone-shaking dubscapes and enough reverb to transmit a message to the farthest edges of the universe. Listen to the "De-Punked" version of "Punk" with its meandering, decayed trumpet and computerized tweaks--hardly recognizable as the original--or the swinging old-school ska that crops ups on "5/4." The two-tone skank of "M1/A1" (with Terry Hall) sounds as if it should have been the original version, but the real killer tracks are those injected with dancehall vibes by DJ U Brown and Earl 16. Who says "you don't get paid for doing what you love?" Not Damon Albarn. --Caroline Butler

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