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