The second me and Damon hit the studio together, we hit it off. I thought it was going to sell Blur numbers. You have creative license to do what you think it’s about from there.’”ĭan The Automator: “I didn’t think it was going to sell millions of records. So I’m like, ‘OK, and what else? That’s it? I’m supposed to write something with just that?’ He’s like, ‘Just be creative. And there’s a ghost living in his head of a dead friend I believe or something like that. He told me the song came from the point of view of Russel. “Dan gave me very little information to work with. He kind of kept pushing like, ‘You know you could do it in 30 minutes.’ Which he’s right. “So late at night, we’d already finished recording and stuff, and I didn’t want to do nothing else. Could you clean up these lyrics for this song I got on this Gorillaz project?’ I was like, ‘Man, take me home, dude.’ At the last minute, he was like, ‘I kind of need you to do something for me. So, we were finishing up Deltron, and was supposed to be taking me home to the other side of the bridge. He was simultaneously working on the Gorillaz project. But a lot of reggae influences creeped into my work, and probably more of the alt-y space stuff crept its way into the Gorillaz.”ĭel The Funky Homosapien: “Me and Dan was finishing up the first Deltron album.

I think the heaviest influence the Gorillaz had on me is a lot of reggae. There’s some truth to the sense that the Gorillaz sound, the Deltron sound were being developed at the same time, so there’s some overlap. “When I got to Gorillaz, there were demos. He had called me up and said, ‘Would you be interested in kind of this new project?’ I was a big fan of Blur and whatnot, so I went from Germany right to London. I was on Handsome Boy Modeling School’s promo tour. Dan The Automator: “I was in Germany, and Damon tried to find me.

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