Gorillaz - Spacemonkeyz Vs. Gorillaz: Laika Come Home
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Artist: GorillazEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2002-07-16
Music Label: Astralwerks
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- Spacemonkeyz Versus Gorillaz - Laika Come Home
- 19/2000 (Jungle Fresh)
- Slow Country (Strictly Rubbadub)
- Tomorrow Comes Today (Banana Baby)
- Man Research (Monkey Racket
- Punk (De-Punked)
- 5/4 (P.45)
- Starshine (Dub 09)
- Soundcheck (Gravity) (Crooked Dub)
- New Genius (Brother) (Mutant Genius)
- Re Hash (Come Again)
- Clint Eastwood (A Fistful Of Peanuts)
- M1A1 (Lil' Dub Chefin')
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Free Music Review: A Dub Masterpiece for Your Desert Island Collection
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a dub masterpiece, and much more. Not since the Mad Professor took on Massive Attack on No Protection has there been such a successful dubbing of a full CD.
But this CD goes beyond being an atmospheric dub chill-out. The opening track is a full-on reggae reworking of 19/2000 that is so successful that anyone not familiar with the original would swear it was written as a reggae piece. As well done as tracks like this and the reworking of Slow Country are, they are not what makes this CD so brilliant (and they may well be the biggest reason hardcore Gorillaz fans aren't that thrilled with this CD - they sound too much like yet another remix version of the original tracks).
The real genius of this CD is in tracks like Tomorrow Comes Today (Banana Baby) and Man Research (Monkey Racket). These are atmospheric and moody dub/trip hop pieces constructed from the essence of the original tracks. Normally, even an excellent dub piece like these would stretch one or two musical ideas into an extended soundscape. But these are full of musical ideas, twists and turns; and because of that, they work both as background chill-out music and as music to listen to for entertainment.
Space Monkeys production job on this is tight and awesome. Effects units have been tweaked to the point where the repeats aren't just musical, they are as dead on rhythmically as a drum machine. This attention to sonic detail breaths fresh life into dub clichés. This CD deserves a Grammy for both production and engineering. The playful humor and wit of the CD's title is reflected musically throughout the album.
Sadly this CD is unlikely to find its most appreciative audience. Gorillaz fans wanting more of the Brit-pop hip hop of the source album are going to be sorely disappointed. And dub fans are likely to dismiss it out of prejudice that the Gorillaz connection makes it a little too "major label" to take seriously. But this CD along with Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor's "No Protection" and Bill Laswell's "Radioaxiom" would make an awesome desert island collection (in more ways than one).
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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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