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*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
Released the very same day as (What's the Story) Morning Glory? kicking off the great battle of the Britpop bands, though Oasis bristled at that name.
*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
The Cure's Robert Smith appears on 'Strange Timez,' the Song Machine project’s first song. Stereogum writes: "Hearing [Robert's] voice together with [Damon] Albarn’s is a trip — two icons of UK alternative music coming together for the first time." bit.ly
*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
Fronted by Robert Smith. From the bands 6th studio album.
*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
Lol Tolhurst is a founding member and former drummer and keyboardist of The Cure. Peter Edward Clarke (Budgie) is the ex-Siouxsie and the Banshees drummer. Jacknife Lee is a producer (The Cars, U2, R.E.M., the Killers, etc.). Their collaborative debut album is "Los Angeles."
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And recognize that voice? That's LCD Soundystem's James Murphy on the vocals.
*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
And LCD Soundsystem is famously fronted by James Murphy.
Here’s a fun fact about the song “Tribulations” by LCD Soundsystem. The last minute of the song fits perfectly over the intro to “Blue Monday” by New Order. Knowing James Murphy’s music history fetish, it’s difficult to believe the overlay is coincidence.
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*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
Remixed by James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem and DFA Records.
James Murphy first worked with Gorillaz in 2005 alongside Tim Goldsworthy on a remix of the single DARE under the DFA duo, titled DARE (DFA Remix).
Tune in to Drive Time this Friday for TGRIF-6 Degrees Edition! It's going to be bananas!
*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
In 2012, James Murphy collaborated with Gorillaz and OutKast's André 3000 on “DoYaThing,” asingle made to promote the Gorillaz Converse collection. It was released in February 2012 with two different versions; the shorter radio edit and the explicit 13-minute version. Murphy appeared in the music video for the song as the Baboon Postman.
*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
Outkast consists of the duo Andre 3000 and Big Boi.
George Clinton guests on this track.
*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
George Clinton was featured on that last track with OutKast.
"“Atomic Dog” was a seismic moment whose reverberations are still felt today. And it launched Clinton’s comeback after a fallow period." Read about the song that relaunched George Clinton's career: ig.ft.com
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*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
This song features George Clinton!
*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
Big Grams is Outkast member Big Boi, and electronic duo Phantogram
The 2015 EP 'Big Grams' is the result of their collaboration.
The collab started when Big Boi saw Phantogram's video for "Mouthful of Diamonds" in a pop-up ad and then shared the song on his website.
*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
Phantogram was part of the Big Grams collaboration with Big Boi.
*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
"Charger" is a song by British virtual band Gorillaz, released on their fifth studio album Humanz. It features guest vocals by Grace Jones.
According to Albarn, he and Jones had met several times before recording "Charger" together: "I'd met her once in her nightclub, where I made the mistake of saying she looked like Little Red Riding Hood because she was wearing a red cape. She turned around and said 'Little Black Riding Hood,' and turned back. I didn't speak to her again."
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*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
Grace Jones appeared on "Charger" by Gorillaz.
*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
Grace Jones appeared in the movie A View to a Kill.
*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
The video for Herbie Hancock was directed by Godley and Creme.
*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
features jazz legend Herbie Hancock on electric piano and Thundercat on bass.
*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
Features Thundercat!
Pick up the deluxe version this Saturday at Record Store Day!
*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
Fronted by Damon Albarn who also is also a member of Gorillaz.
*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
Dominic Matheson, better known as Dom Dolla, is an Australian house music producer.
*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
Connected by Tame Impala appearing on the previous Gorillaz track.
*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
Dave Fridmann produced MGMT and this Flaming Lips album.
*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
Benjamin Curtis played keyboards on the previous Interpol album and was a producer on this album along with Justin Meldal-Johnsen.
*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
Justin Meldal-Johnsen produced this.
*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
From a live session with Troy Nelson.
Metric have also worked with Justin Meldal-Johnsen.
*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
DJ Troy hosted them live on KEXP last year! Check it out via our YouTube channel www.youtube.com
In terms of emotional impact, a pinnacle on 'Land Of Sleeper' is "The Weatherman". Replete with devotional rapture and radiant intensity, the band’s attack slowed down to a mantric and mesmeric crawl, it marks a collaboration with the ululatory tones of Bonnacons Of Doom vocalist Kate Smith and a choir including Richard Dawson and Sally Pilkington.
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*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
Kate Smith, who sang on "The Weatherman" by Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, was in a band called Bonnacons of Doom with Sam Wiehl from Forest Swords.
*6 Degrees: The Battle of Britpop
“Butterfly Effect” is part industrial electronica, part bleak greyscale pop, shifting Forest Swords' world deeper into murkier, more paranoid territory, with a previously-unheard vocal sample by the legendary singer-songwriter Neneh Cherry.