This band was formed in the midst of the proliferation of idol groups, and many so-called powerhouse British musicians who were not used to idol groups "lowering" the standard of the British music industry, and was dominated by Blur vocalist Damon Albarn, who was a stealthy behind-the-scenes advocate, and manga founder Jamie Hewlett, the author of the famous cartoon character Tang Girl. Jamie Hewlett together with the creation of four strong urban hip-hop colors of the kid composed of.

The production team also includes producer Dan "The Automator" Nakamura (formerly of PrimalScream, DepecheMode, DeLaSoul, etc.), who is one of San Francisco's most popular Japanese hip-hop artists, DeLaSoul, etc.). New York indie band CiboMato's Japanese-American frontwoman Miho Hatori, US and Western Rap sensation DelTheFunkyHomosapien, Cuban jazz vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer, and post-punk pioneers TalkingHeads mainstay Tina Frantz.

Music style is primarily music of the Hip-Hop, Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Rap, with some tracks incorporating Jamaican reggae, traditional Cuban love songs and British punk rock

The members are cartoon characters, but all have their own personality traits:

Band members: ChakaKhan

Vocalist - 2DBirthplace - CrawleyAge - 31 (1977)

Long, disheveled and charmingly handsome vocalist 2D - who specializes in playing the keyboards - has always been the quietest of the crowd. However, the unfathomable black hole in his eyes caused by blindness exudes a powerful, mysterious odor that has attracted many female fans, and has even led to the emergence of his support group, which has set up a fan-only website on the Internet called "Love 2 Deep Love Too Deep.

Features-blind black eyes and hedgehog-like hair

Hobbies-collecting pictures of beautiful women.

Musical Influences- ButorphanolTartrate painkillers, British electro-pop sensation HumanLeague

Frontman Phil Oakey, horror-movie sensation LucioFulci

Bandmates-Noodle

Bandmates. p>Guitarist - NoodleBirthplace - Osaka, JapanAge - 17 (1991)

Noodle, the cute Asian sister guitarist, is a 17-year-old Easterner who always wears a pop hat with a built-in radio. Noodle, a 17 year-old Easterner, always wears a pop hat with a built-in radio, and is full of mysterious oriental flavor. Although she can only speak one word of English, "Noodle," she is very good at guitar skills and kickboxing. What's even more amazing is that she has excellent Chinese boxing skills.

Features - Pink eyes that never open

Hobbies - Collecting Powerpuff Girls, electronic chickens, pocket monsters, yo-yos

Musical Influences - Japanese haiku, Lao Tzu, BonJovi guitarists. RichieSambora

Band member: Murdoc

Leader/bassist-Devil Birthplace-Stoke-on-Trent, England, pottery center (childhood playmate of pop king Robbie Williams)Age-34 (1966.6.)

Band member. 6.6.1966)

Optimistic, smart, cool bassist Murdoc - the unassuming leader of the Gorillaz - is in fact the most thoughtful of all the Gorillaz, and his self-taught bass playing and song-writing skills have made him a dominant force at the helm of the group.

The band has been in the midst of a series of major tournaments in the past few years, and the band is now in the midst of a new era.

As the spokesman for Gorillaz, fans can also feel his dominance.

Features - A mouth full of viper green fangs and a pair of red cross-eyes

Hobbies - Kicking the shit out of D

Musical Influences - Black Sabbath, Dub Music, Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson, and his favorite idol - Satan

This is the first time he's been in a band that's been around since the beginning of time. Icon - Satan

Band Member: Russel

Drummer - LoboBirthplace - New York, NY, USAAge - 25 (1975)

Hip-hop black dawg, Russell, is a great drummer.

Hip-Hop drummer Russell, who plays the drums well, is a fan of Hip-Hop and Rap and other black cultures,

But he has received good knowledge and behavioral upbringing in an aristocratic school, and he treats people courteously and speaks in a gentle and refined manner, which has also made many of his female friends feel a sense of security from the real life of the glamorous from his steady character.

Characteristics - excessive shock causing both eyes to roll over

Hobbies - fitness and eating (currently the owner of the "Karolyi Multi-Purpose Aerobics Center" in suburban London)

Musical influences -Black racist preacher Louis Farrakhan, who championed the Nation of Islam, and R&B soul divas

With such distinctive personalities and hobbies, it's only natural that there's an odd teaming up going on:

The Gorillaz began with one man, bad boy Murdoc, and their formation came about through a "fateful" encounter between vocalist 2D and leader Murdoc.

Originally known as Stubbs, 2D works at Uncle Norm's every weekend because he has a penchant for keyboard instruments.

And Murdoc and his companions, in order to realize their musical dreams, plan with his BB gang to make music with the robbed synthesiser instruments, and so in a desperate attempt to rob a synthesiser, he and his doggies drive a car into the Uncle Norm's store to rob it .

But he didn't expect to hit Stubbs standing in the doorway, which resulted in Stubbs being blinded in his left eye and suffering a concussion that caused his memory to deteriorate.

Murdoc was sentenced to 30,000 hours of forced labor and to care for Stubbs until he recovered.

One day Murdoc was driving a confused Stubbs back to the hospital for a review when, on a whim, he did a 360-degree slalom that sent Stubbs through the windshield like a javelin into a safety island. Stubbs was blinded in his right eye, but he was lucky enough to regain consciousness, and since then he has regarded Murdoc as a lifesaver and renamed him 2D (2 Damage).

And Murdoc's explosive driving skills turned the lives of these two enemies around 180 degrees - Murdoc realized that 2D could play synthesiser, and that the music he played had pop potential, so he made the appropriate decision to enlist 2D as a member of his band.

All that was needed was a drummer and a guitarist, and it was all set.

Then came the next name on the band's roster - drummer Russel, a New York City hip hopper who worked at a Soho record store in London, England. Murdoc met him one day at Gollum's Records, a hip-hop shop in Soho, and the two of them got to talking.

When Murdoc found out that Russell was a B-Boy drummer who specialized in funk rhythms, Murdoc invited him to join the group, and Russell agreed to do so in order to realize his dream. Russell said that he had an incredible power in his heart that made him create funky rhythms.

The band placed an advertisement for guitarists in the NME magazine. Noodle comes out and talks non-stop, his hands simultaneously pointing the strings back and forth on the guitar's handle, and the trio, dumbfounded by Noodle's nonsensical introductory remarks, nods their heads and lets the mysterious figure join them.

The Gorillaz, comprising Murdoc, 2D, Russell and Noodle, were formed and made their debut in Camden at the end of 1998, where their fierce, brutal punk rock immediately attracted the attention of EMI Records, who signed them to a record deal. Their self-titled debut album, released in April 2001, features New York hip-hop, Jamaican reggae dub, traditional Cuban love songs and British punk rock. Murdoc's desperate attempts to fulfill their musical dreams have finally been realized, and they're set to usher in a new era of music with notes that intertwine the virtual and the real.

Gorillaz's self-titled debut album features a dizzying array of styles, from Cuban Buena Vista Social

Club veteran Ibrahim Ferrer's Latin Simone to Cibo Matto's Miho

Hatoraz, a band that has been around since the beginning of the last decade, is a great example of a band that is not just about the music of the past, but about the music of the future, too.

Hatori and Tom Tom Club's Tina Weymouth sang 〈19-2000〉, and their debut album 〈Clint Eastwood〉recaptured the glory of Blur's best days, while 〈5/4〉 fulfilled Damon Albarn's wish for Lo-Fi, and 〈Tomorrow Comes Today〉is the same Post-Punk as The Cure, and Punk〉is 3-Chord Punk to the end, a complete '77 feel. The closing track, 'M1A1', takes us back to the glory days of the German duo D.A.F. in the 1980s, with the fast-paced 'Clint Eastwood' as the Hidden Track

And the lead singer, 2D, is none other than Damon Albarn, who has a plodding, languid Blur

Music Video tomorrow comes today comes in a simpler form. The video is semi-animated (only some parts of the organs are animated)

The video is a 2D cartoon, but even though it's semi-animated, it still inherits the usual detailed movements of European and American animation, even the mouths match the style.

And clint eastwood, with the name of a director, but the music and its is no relationship, two-dimensional animation with a three-dimensional background, about the drummer imagined monsters and gorillas out of the big wipe destruction, NOODLE little sister is still in the middle of the great show legs and feet

Personally, I think that in this either music or painting, animation are digitalized.

Personally, I think that in this age of digitalization of music, paintings and anime, it's only natural that a virtual band would appear in this form.

The band not only adds a new approach to music style, the elements are so diverse, and even the modeling is so peculiar, with character, and even the story is so wild, unimaginable. They are very virtual, but the creators have given them a very flesh-and-blood characterization.

They appeared, not only attracted a lot of anime fans, become the object of their painting imitation, even some of the younger generation of the band is also interested in trying this cartoon as a form of endorsement, in some music forums on behalf of the band's image of the cartoon modeling, can be seen whether they are in the field of music or the field of animation is a certain milestone role. As for the development after the fight? In an era where music and anime creators can use data to communicate and collaborate over the Internet, it remains to be seen whether this form of collaboration will be a flash in the pan or become a common phenomenon.

Behind the scenes of virtual band Gorillas ZT

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Written by Shiraishi

It's been just a couple of years since the word "virtual" suddenly became a fashionable term, with virtual realities, virtual communities, virtual lives, virtual hosts, and virtual romances... ..... Just last year, a "virtual band" called Gorillaz (Street Fighter) also appeared on the scene, and quickly became popular, becoming a landscape of the European and American music scene.

To be more precise, Gorillaz is a cartoon band, with all four members appearing as purely American cartoon characters. Not only do they perform passionately on MTV, but they also make occasional TV appearances, such as when they were nominated for and then blatantly announced that they were withdrawing from the Mercury Prize, the British recording industry's grand prize. Of course much of the success Gorillaz have enjoyed can be attributed to their music, which combines elements of rock, reggae (a style of music originating in Jamaica), hip-hop, Lo-Fi, etc., along with lazy vocals, moderate decadence and somewhat innocent mischief, and a heavenly lack of inhibition that makes Gorillaz's music full of quirky charm." Whenever I hear their music, I am inexplicably happy, and the joy comes from the bottom of my heart," said a friend of the author, expressing her love for Gorillaz's music. The high quality of her music has naturally led to commercial success, with music media such as MTV and Radio 1 spreading the word that not only was Gorillaz's self-titled album a hit in Europe and the United States, but the single "Clint Eastwood" was named one of the most influential singles of the year.

So how did such a virtual band come to be? Behind the huge success is an elite group of producers. The two masterminds at the center of the project are Blur frontman Damon Albarn and comic book guru Jamie Hewlett, author of "Tank Girl," and I don't think I need to tell you too much about Blur, a band that has made a piece of British music history. Damon and Jamie lived in the same apartment building, and when their ideas sparked, Gorillaz was born. Gorillaz was born.

The Gorillaz production process works like this: Damon writes the music, Jamie listens to the demos and draws inspiration from them to design each character. Once the characters have been created, the story behind each one is written. Music is Gorillaz's guiding light.

Studio 13's new assembly line

In 1999, Damon Albarn set up a private studio in West London for the production of Blur's album 13, naming it after the album's title, and Tom Girling and Jason Cox became Studio 13's resident session musicians. Tom Girling and Jason Cox became resident session musicians at Studio 13. Over the years, they worked on the album 13 and a number of blur's other singles, as well as several movie soundtracks by Damon. And when the Gorillaz's project came to fruition, Sudio 13 again became the production base for the Gorillaz's musical parts.

Once upon a time, when Blur was making albums, the band members would get together, write the songs and lyrics, arrange the arrangements and record them, and even if there were impromptu gigs in the midst of the creative process, they'd come back and get the music done just the same. Today, Gorillaz's music is produced in a very different way, with an Apple computer equipped with Logic Audio making all the difference. Recording engineer Tom says, "We're no longer working in the linear mode of the old tape recorder. Logic Audio has given us a lot of convenient features, but it's also taken us into another abyss. In this open-ended audio editing environment, you never know when you're 'done', you just have to keep editing, revising and experimenting. Damon seems to prefer this way of working, though."

Jason, another session musician, says: "What happens exactly is that, for example, we write four melodies for a song at the same tempo, and then we put them together in Logic, pulling a line from here, tuning a line from there, collaging them together, and then listening to them over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again."

Usually a song starts with a demo Damon makes at home on a four-track machine, usually with just Damon's vocals, a drum machine loop, and one or two tracks of guitar backing. The guys then put that into Logic Audio as the base material and started adding to it and fleshing it out, and Tom and Jason, who are also record producers, worked with Damon to create the Gorillaz music.

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"Clint Eastwood"

The hit single "Clint Eastwood" is arguably the only song on the album that wasn't done in this cut-and-paste free-for-all.The original material on Logic included Damon's vocals, guitars, and drum machine beats, and then the addition of a few other instrumental parts and made substitutions for the rap parts. Although the song has been cut and pasted together a bit, it remains true to the original version.

There are no real drums on "Clint Eastwood," and all of the drum beats come from a drum machine and sample loops, which the producers just EQ'd and tweaked. The bass parts come from analog synths Moog Rogue and Roland's JV source. The strings came from a single string source, the Solina String Ensemble.

Perhaps because of Logic's overpowering and freewheeling nonlinear editing, when a lot of new material was added to Clint Eastwood, the three guys didn't know what to make of the final version. how to decide on the final version, so they invited hip-hop producer Dan The Automator to join them, Jason says: "We've all heard this song too many times, so we needed someone new, someone with new ears, someone who could say, OK, that's it!"

Dan, Damon, Tom and Jason first worked together for two weeks at Studio 13 before migrating en masse to Jamaica's G-Jam Studio, a tiny studio nestled on the Jamaican seafront, with a glass window looking out onto a beautiful beach." We came here looking for a pure Reggae feel, but apparently we came to the wrong place to get the job done." Jason said." Our productivity here is like being on vacation, we go to the beach every day after breakfast, then come back to work for a while, eat, go to the beach, come back to work, go to the beach ......"

The lyrics to "Clint Eastwood" were done in Jamaica and the title was "stolen" from the song Clint Eastwood is a famous Hollywood filmmaker. The title doesn't really have much to do with the lyrics, it just feels "Americanized".

Damon's vocals were recorded using Neumann's TLM170 microphones and Neve 1073 amplifiers in Logic audio, and the harmonies were produced using Damon's vocals, but passed through a Boss Voice Transformer to give the effect of a large number of voices singing together. The chorus was also created using Damon's lead vocals. Tom and Jason added more effects to the vocals during the downmix, including inverted reverb and EQ'd delays.

External producer Dan also added his own musical touch to the single, with Jason praising, "We used a lot of loops, but it was Dan who really made them work with the song."

Dan modified the drums, adding a track of drums and snare drums, and he traveled to the U.S. to re-record a rap for the song. re-recorded the rap. The scrubs in the song came from Dan's good friend, Canadian scrubber Kid Koala, who happened to be in Jamaica at the time, so Dan went and invited him to come and record a scrub performance, which was edited by Logic and added to the song.

MTV sound

After the music was done, the work of session musicians Tom and Jason continued: Gorillaz were a virtual band whose only appearance was on a TV screen, and the production of MTV was crucial. The label spared no expense in this regard, as the music videos for the first two singles, "Clint Eastwood" and "19/2000," were produced to the standards of an animated movie, and it fell to Tom and Jason to add the sound effects to the music videos.

So Jason complained, "You know, '19/2000' uses over 460 sound effects, which we've never done before, and we ended up having to listen to the library CDs day by day and pick out the ones we needed. The whole sound effects library is about 40 CDs with over 30,000 sound effects, and we were pretty much working 20 hours a day."

Tom says: "The vast majority of the sound effects inside the music clips come from the sound effects CDs, but there are a few that we recorded ourselves, such as the car sounds, which actually came from Jamie's beloved car, and we pulled a wire out into the street and recorded them."

After a few months of work, the Gorillaz, a virtual band, were finally able to shine on TV and radio and achieve an impressive record on the music charts. On the other hand, Jamie, the comic book guru, was instrumental in making the Gorillaz members his new idols for kids and adults alike, and many fans, who never even thought of the Gorillaz as avatars, wrote letters to the Gorillaz asking for posters and autographs. The future, however, is perhaps the biggest unknown for Gorillaz - how will the virtual band evolve, as Damon and Jamie are already planning a tour for Gorillaz using projection and 3D technology, and how will Gorillaz meet these challenges?

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Directed by John Harlacher

Starring Sebastian Montoya

Rick Poli

Larry Swansen

Donald Silva

Gates Leonard

Norm Golden

Barbara (V) King

Jennifer Boutell

Brian (XIX) King

Will Brunson

Premiere:2007- 02-17

Length:105 minutes

Genre:Fantasy Horror Suspense Sci-Fi

Region:United States

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