Space Monkeys Vs Gorillaz: Laika Come Home: Gorillaz: Amazon.ca: Music

1. 19/2000 (Jungle Fresh)

2. Slow Country (Strictly Rubbadub)

3. Tomorrow Comes Today (Banana Baby)

4. Man Research (Monkey Racket)

5. Punk (De-Punked)

6. 5/4 (P.45)

7. Starshine (Dub 09)

8. Soundcheck (Gravity) (Crooked Dub)

9. New Genius (Brother) (Mutant Genius)

10. Re Hash (Come Again)

11. Clint Eastwood (A Fisteful Of Peanuts)

12. M1A1 (Lil' Dub Chefin)

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Sure, Gorillaz sounded original, but it was a pop project with all the constraints that went with it--can you imagine the six-minute remixed version of "Clint Eastwood" making it onto MTV? But that's exactly what makes Laika Come Home so good. It's a reimagined collection filled with bone-shaking dubscapes and enough reverb to transmit a message to the farthest edges of the universe. Listen to the "De-Punked" version of "Punk" with its meandering, decayed trumpet and computerized tweaks--hardly recognizable as the original--or the swinging old-school ska that crops ups on "5/4." The two-tone skank of "M1/A1" (with Terry Hall) sounds as if it should have been the original version, but the real killer tracks are those injected with dancehall vibes by DJ U Brown and Earl 16. Who says "you don't get paid for doing what you love?" Not Damon Albarn. --Caroline Butler

Album Description

Japanese edition of 2002 'dub' album with Space Monkey's includes an exclusive enhanced element with two animated shorts, 'Jump The Gut' & 'Game Of Death', plus a postcard (for the first pressing). Digipak.

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5.0 out of 5 stars only if you a dub fan, Jun 25 2003

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yajdubuddah "yajarod" (cheboygan,michigan usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Laika Come Home (Ltd.Ed) (Audio CD)

i cant recomend this album to any gorillaz fan, god you all so dam pickey you love your blur and your gorillaz but no love for the spacemonkeys. if you are a old school new school dub fans this one is the freedom fighter. Featuring some of the sickest delays and reverb and cronicelly charged dope atmosphers. some songs are more old school dub then some more hypnotic never borring always changing. it only really features [d2] none of the other band is featured i think, it just says produced by gorillaz. the future sound of dub is features hear, stepp up the future is now dont be scared let it soak in, to breath in new life, sounds.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Gorillaz Get 'Planet of the Apes' Treatment, April 6 2004

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Matt Bailey (Northern Beaches, Sydney) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Space Monkeys Vs Gorillaz: Laika Come Home (Audio CD)

Obviously you're a Gorillaz fan, or you wouln't be researching this 3rd generation remix project.
If you prefered the pop/hip hop, up-beat feel of their debut album to the tracks with reggae/dub leanings, then run, run and hide!
Much like Tim Burton 're-imagined' Planet of the Apes, the Gorillaz debut has had it's bare bones removed and completely reworked, this time as a deep chill dub/reggae album, by a couple of guys calling themselves 'Space Monkeys'. Most of the songs are hardly recognisable, but who would want to buy the same album twice?
If I had found this within 12 months of getting the first album, I would have been annoyed and bitterly disappointed. Now, three years down the track, this is a surprise, a real gem and welcome listening.
Some of the feel from the debut has been completely inverted, like the fury of M1A1 converted to arms-in-the-air celebration and of course Punk is now De-Punked, while some of the spookier moments like Starshine and Soundcheck (Gravity) are dropped back to an almost X-Files torch waving creepiness.
On the whole this is a much more cohesive album, but with limited appeal to the public at large. You won't hear any of this on the radio.
I'd recommend this as great music at work (I'm in an art studio, so I guess that helps), a soundtrack to the comics of James Hewlitt or pumpin' at a back yard bar-be-que.
Let's just hope this collective project will realease some new music eventually.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Strong showing, Dec 27 2003

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afbg02 "afbg02" (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Space Monkeys Vs Gorillaz: Laika Come Home (Audio CD)

I first heard this album while in my friend's car. At the time, it sounded flat and, frankly, boring. The problem, as I later learned, was that I was listening to it in the car. With the engine running, I missed what this album's all about, those funky, cool, out-of-left-field tweeks and alterations of the original that make it a great dub album. After sitting in my apartment and having a little time to listen more carefully, this album has grown on me. This album is absolutely novel, you will probably not even recognize a few of the tracks at the first few listens. The sound is smooth, downtempo, beautiful, electronic.
That the Gorillaz source material holds up under this dub is no small recognition of its quality. That the dubbing has taken the material to such great new places speaks to the ability of the "Space Monkeys".
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5.0 out of 5 stars The naysayers either have innate bias or don't get it....
...and that's ok, too.
Let's review the flaws, first:
1) Its the same songs, AGAIN.
2) Its nothing like the source material.

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Published on Dec 19 2003 by Gary S. Fenstermacher

1.0 out of 5 stars Laika Come Home
Let's face it, you can't really improve Gorillaz music... and why would you WANT to de-punk "Punk"? I wouldn't reccomend this if you're a fan of Gorillaz music.