![]() ‘Aries’ featuring Peter Hook and Georgia (2020) One of both groups’ most successful songs ever (it entered charts around the world and won a Grammy), the slick cut of hip-hop infused alt-rock combines dreamy instrumentals with a funk-laced bassline and bouncing vocals from De La Soul. Nowadays De La Soul and Gorillaz are long-time collaborators, with the hip-hop trio appearing on 2010’s ‘Plastic Beach (on ‘Superfast Jellyfish’) and ‘Humanz’ (‘Momentz’), but the start of their beautiful musical relationship came back in 2005 with ‘Feel Good Inc.’. ‘Feel Good Inc.’ featuring De La Soul (2005) ![]() ![]() When it reached his preferred level, he claims, he said, in his distinctive accent, “it’s there”. ![]() He claims he was actually asking the engineer to turn the volume up, commenting “it’s coming up… it’s coming up” as it grew. It’s a good example of why you should always be recording, as Ryder’s distinctive vocal line of “It’s coming up, it’s coming up, it’s coming up / It’s dare” allegedly came about when he first put his headphones on in the studio before recording began. This classic Gorillaz smasher from second album ‘Demon Days’ boasts guest vocals from Roses Gabor (at the time going by Rosie Wilson) and Happy Mondays‘ Shaun Ryder. ![]() ‘Dare’ featuring Shaun Ryder and Roses Gabor (2005) Damon then realised that was quite a lot of vocals to fit into three-and-a-half minutes, so noted down all Jones ad-libs on scraps of paper, cut them up, and covered the studio floor with them – then pieced the song together with the parts that he felt worked best. The final version of ‘Charger’ is the results of Jones ad-libbing over the top of the instrumentals for four hours. ![]()
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