The debut album, Gorillaz, sold an impressive 6 million copies worldwide, making it the most successful album ever by a virtual group. The iconography was grabbed from everywhere - sci-fi, anime, rock videos - while the music was a hip hop-based cut-and-paste of poppy melodies, old horror movie themes, and any sonic style available. Their first outing, five years ago, remixed the whole idea of what a band could be. The band exists enough to make music, to produce videos, to remix, and to be remixed.Īlbarn (music) and Hewlett (art) are the spirit behind Gorillaz. The group inhabits Kong Studios, high on a mountain in Essex, northeast of London. Its four members (2D, Murdoc Niccals, Russel Hobbs, and Noodle), designed and drawn by Hewlett, are fictional. Not that it matters - Gorillaz is a virtual band. It fit on a single sheet of paper, but they've since lost it and wish they could remember what it said. Credit Illustration by Jamie Hewlett When they came up with the idea for Gorillaz, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett wrote a manifesto.
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