Spacemonkeyz vs Gorillaz : Lil’ Dub Chefin’

He’s a workshy fop, Damon Albarn. Not only does he get some cartoons to do his promotional work but, having got another band to squeeze the last pennies from the Gorillaz album, he sits back and watches the money flood in. So what do his primates do? Well, biting the hand that feeds them, the cheeky little monkeyz make Damon sound like a snivelling drunk next to guest vocalist Terry Hall’s nonchalant snarls. Principally, in rescuing ‘M1 A1’ from album-closing obscurity by tweaking it beyond recognition into mellow skanking dub, they’ve displaced the original motoring punky doodle for something that sounds more like Gorillaz than ever. And while such logic might defeat the object of the remix, it’s good stuff nonetheless.

Jim Alexander