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Damon Albarn Records New Gorillaz Album on iPad

Graeme Flegenheimer, WireImage

Damon Albarn hopes to become the first person to record an album using an iPad. The prolific songwriter has been recording the new Gorillaz's album on the Apple device and hopes to have the follow-up to 'Plastic Beach' ready for release before Christmas.

Speaking of the new record Albarn told the NME, "I hope I'll be making the first record on an iPad. I fell in love with my iPad as soon as I got it, so I've made a completely different kind of record."

Written in "hotel rooms across America", the Gorillaz leader previously described the record as a "love letter to America". Elaborating on the American influence he said, "It sounds like an English voice that has been put through the vocoder of America. More American-sounding than Blur ... I'm going to try and put it out before Christmas."

As for his plans for next year Albarn was somewhat secretive, "I'm doing something next year about a subject that's really close to my heart. I'm not telling you what it is."

The mystery project could involve a trip to the Congo. In an interview with Australian magazine Rip It Up (via the Guardian), Gorillaz co-founder James Hewlett said, "Oxfam want us to go to Congo and see what's happening there and do a project based on that. I don't know what it is yet – -it will obviously be music and visuals – - but we'll have to experience it first and come back with an idea.

He added, "We're going with Oxfam, so they'll look after us –- hopefully we don't have our heads chopped off."

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Chappy62

Keep your iPad album when you are ready to go into a real studio and make some real music......I'll pay some real money. iPad album....AH HA HA HA HA!!!!! Moron

November 14 2010 at 1:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
The Big Guy

This music sounded very cheesey. The depth of the synth sounds could've been done on a crappy cassettte 4 track from the '80s If the next album is on an iPad will it sound worse than this? I hope not. There is a reason that Quincey Jones uses real studio's....it so the music has the highest quality available. Grilaza don't care about the quality of what they release, they just want to be trendy and be the first to release an iPad album. They certainly didn't care about how crappy the sound from "Sessions Video" was. All hype....no real real inovation here....thanks to the internet and home studios anybody can produce garbage...

November 14 2010 at 8:10 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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urajakass

quincy jones? really? He can't even find his ass underneath all the dinosaur bones and Michael Jacksons original skin, which seemed to have disappeared the last time Qj was relevant.

April 25 2011 at 9:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
uni

You are so great!!!!

November 12 2010 at 3:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply