Dancefloor Magic vol. 6 .a remix appreciation post

You may get noticed I can be very cautious when it comes to dance music. I can't hack trance, need to be in a wood at 4 a.m to enjoy most techno and I notice the "electro" that's come out over the preceding few years completely innocent of any form of medicine at all. I walked into The Subs gig at a festival, got frightened and walked out. Music for zombies in neon shades.

Gorillaz at the O! Arena on Spoonfed - Things to do in London

Damon Alban is stressful to make over the world. First there was Blur, one of the most successful bands of the '90s, and now Gorillaz, one of the most exciting popular groups of the '00s. He's also a founding member of the supergroup who produced the album The Good, The Bad and The Queen, and now he's planning to pass a figure in the Congo with Gorillaz co-founder Jamie Hewlett.

Gorillaz Bring Out Big Guns Including Bobby Womack For London 0! .

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Gorillaz played their biggest-ever UK headlining gig to date last night at the 23,000-capacity London O2 Arena - the beginning of two dates at the enormodome. Calling on a horde of guest stars from their final album, 'Plastic Beach,' as good as a few cohorts from years back, Damon Albarn and chums treated the interview to a two-hour set, illustrated throughout with Jamie Hewlett's iconic animations on a huge screen behind the stage.

New Gorillaz Album Being Made on iPad

Luddite" Albarn says the album will be set in time for Christmas. The closed nature of the iPad and the trouble in printing or transferring files without a jailbreak has led many a pundit to conclude that iPads just are not any commodity for content creation. However, this has been proven wrong time and time again, with people using iPads for everything from writing to photo editing to DJing. While there are clearly many things best and more easily done on a notebook or desktop computer, the rest of mobility makes the iPad stand out for masses with limited space and travelers. Damon Albarn created Gorillaz in 1998 when he was life with Jamie Hewlett, the artist behind Tank Girl. Intended as a comment on MTV culture, the "isthmus" is made up of Hewlett's cartoon characters playing music by Albarn and several other musicians. Albarn spent the final few months on tour fronting a hot set with half of the members of the Clash: guitarist Mick Jones and bassist Paul Simonon. In an audience with NME, he revealed that he's been using his new iPad to go on "a studio album made in hotel rooms across America" while on tour. "I've made it on an iPad," he said. "I promise I'll be making the low book on an iPad." Calling himself a "technophobe and Luddite," he nevertheless says he "fell in bed with my iPad as shortly as I got it," and "made a wholly different sort of record." Albarn, who's also the principal vocalist for the Britpop band Blur, says the new Gorillaz album will be "more American-sounding than Blur. like an English voice that has been put through the vocoder of America." Albarn says he plans to nail the album, which will be the band's fourth, by Christmas. The third Gorillaz album Plastic Beach was only released in March, five days after Demon Days which featured the hit "Feel Good, Inc." Amusingly, Albarn's public embrace of the iPad comes at the same clock that Microsoft is using Gorillaz for heavy marketing for Internet Explorer 9. Source: Electronista

FWWeekly's Coverage of LSIFF: Dark and Disturbing Times

Wow, the 2nd day of LSIFF sure served up a lot of angst and outright horror. Primarily I'm thinking of the shorts program that started off the evening. The Wonder Hospital is a disquieting Dali-esque animated Korean film around a daughter who goes into a hospital for cosmetic surgery and has it go very wrong indeed. That was followed up by Pinched, another animated film (this one from the U.S.

Josh's Bloggamathing: Gorillaz: Fan Rant

Gorillaz: Fan Rant

People, (By which I mean YouTube comment posters and my sister, .Nouns barely classed as "People") Have been talking and complaining about how the "New Gorillaz" is dissimilar from the "Old Gorillaz". I have news for you, folks: Gorillaz is a project, not a band. I have been a fan since 1999, my firstfavouriteband and even up there.

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metabolism in 1998, have seen their animated ways capture the fascination of a public thirsty for music that is fresh while garnering admiration from peers clamoring to escape realties` confines and joint in the collective.

Touring with Gorillaz on this Run To Plastic Beach World Tour are N.E.R.D. The beat makers from Virginia Beach are promoting their upcoming record Nothing. Led by Pharrell Williams, N.E.R.D`s rousing set included cuts off the new album as good as favorites. And while club hits like Rockstar and Lapdance got the girls screaming and shakin` their asses it was the new material that impressed and showed the band`s growth. Pharrell has graduated from simply relying on his swagger and sex appeal in his execution to displaying capabilities as both songwriter and vocalist. No more was this evident than on new tracks God Blame Us All and I See The Light.

It was time for the chief dish. An impressive and slick stage setup was the delicious eye candy with which Gorillaz` grand performance satisfied. A giant screen showcased videos depicting the animated adventures of virtual band members 2D, Murdoc, Noodle and Russel while below it huge neon letters spelt out the bands name, serving as a background for a massive myriad of music makers. Some of the folks joining Albarn onstage included an eight piece string section, a brass section, four back up vocalists, a 5 piece middle eastern outfit, cameos from hip hop legends De La Soul, Soul singer Bobby Womack and Little Dragon vocalist Yukimi Nagano, not to mention reunited former Clash members Mick Jones and Paul Simonon on guitar and bass respectively.

The medicine and animation, playing out in beautiful synchronicity created a vibrant energy that lasted all night long. The opening rhymings of Snoop Dogg on Welcome To The Creation of The Plastic Beach. Stylo; featuring Bobby Womack on vocals and an ass kicking high speed chasing Bruce Willis on the big screen. White Flag; assisted by some incredible instrumentation from the Arab American players Albarn claimed joined Gorillaz on a gig in Damascus. The mysterious Empire Ants and the great Dirty Harry. The set showcased the sleight of Albarn`s composition while Hewlett`s accompanying animated universe allowed for that foundation to make out and feeling each of the thousands of Rogers Arena patrons in attendance.

With Gorillaz, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett have created a grammy winning and platinum selling conceptual form of art. The Flight To Plastic Beach World Tour is redefining what the concert going experience can be. In a word, to experience Gorillaz is to be entertained.

Gavin Reid

The Gorillaz at Rogers Arena

To see the Gorillaz live is to see more than just a band doing a concert but to share in an experience. The Gorillaz exist on varying levels of optical and harmonic realities making it easily to leave which you are suppose to be enjoying as enjoying one or some is enjoying them all.

The Gorillaz took Vancouver on a jaunt to Plastic Beach with a performance that brought their virtual experience to life.