Damon Albarn/Blur, Day 3

Tonight the third installment of our Damon Albarn series comes to us courtesy of the Gorillaz. Laika Comes Home is a remix album of the first Gorillaz album and for this reason it not strictly a Gorillaz release but billed as Gorillaz vs. Spacemonkeyz. I assume the Spacemonkeyz took part in the remixing, or at least were paid a royalty for any troubles their matchup caused them. The album was released in 2002 on Astralwerks Records.

While I never got into this highly successful (Did any of you see the opening of the last Grammy’s when they performed w/ Madonna?) side project, I really like Laika Comes Home because the remixes are deeply rooted in dub reggae which is a favorite of mine.

For the unaware's Gorillaz is an audio/visual project comprised of Albarn, Miho Hatori (of Cibo Matto), Tina Weymouth & Chris Frantz (of Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club), Dan “The Automator” and others (Dennis Hopper, Shaun Ryder, Debbie Harry, Kid Koala, Del The Funky Homosapien-some of these are names I never thought I would type and never hope to again). The visual aspect of the partnership consists of visual cartoonish images created by Jamie Hewlett. I imagine that his visuals are much more entertaining than watching the above musicians, with the exceptions of Ms. Weymouth and Dennis Hopper, but only because he is fucking nuts.

Gorillaz vs. Spacemonkeyz - 19/2000 (Jungle Fresh)
Gorillaz vs. Spacemonkeyz - Punk (De-Punked)

Tomorrow's feature will be The Good, The Bad & The Queen. 'Till then have a nice day.

P.S. Rumor's floating that Tom Waits will be at the 'Roo this summer.

P.P.S. Support your local record shops before their are none and you bitch about it.