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IPad Apps Produce Gorillaz Album
Having only just released their third studio album (‘Plastic Beach’), you’d think we’d not hear much from Gorillaz for the usual four to five years. But no, there’s talk of a new album before Christmas. Yup, this Christmas. With their collaboration with Daley the non-album single ‘Doncamatic’ currently attempting a bulrush on the winter charts, new content from the band isn’t entirely a surprise, but this particular brand of pop rock production music is really about to shake things up.
‘I’ve made in on an iPad’ band number one Damon Albarn told the NME ‘I fell in love with my iPad as soon as I got it, so I’ve made a completely different kind of record’. Currently on the tour launched by the third album with the entire Gorillaz production music, Albarn has been using down time between gigs and in transit to make what could very well turn out to be the first album created on the Apple tablet. Albarn has described the album as having a more ‘American’ sound, like ‘an English voice that has been put through a vocoder of America’. We suspect this sounds something like Hugh Laurie in House.
Albarn is also likely to be drawing on content originally created for ‘Carousel’ the album that became ‘Plastic Beach’. It’s also like that the ‘Doncamatic’ will feature. Supporting this, Albarn has previously claimed that he had enough hip hop production music for two quality albums.
So what apps is Albarn likely to be using? The big name on the app market is surely ‘AC-7 Pro’ which gives a full touch-controlled mixing deck with sliding faders and tweakable knobs. You can also scratch tracks with ‘Mixr’, record to multiple tracks with ‘StudioTrack’ and sequence audio with ‘Groovemaker’. Finally, the tablet even has its own Synthesizers, ‘Synth’ and ‘iELECTRIBE’. Of course, the iPad’s limited connectivity possibly makes lugging around your actual recordings a bit of a pain, and nothing can really beat a real studio record, but it’s fascinating to see portable technology advancing so fast!
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