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The song ‘Lie Down In Darkness’ is named after a William Styron book, and the song, at least for me is a very emotional, sort of mournful, piece of symphonic, electronic music, my friend Joy Malcolm sings on it. 

Right before he died I got to hear William Styron speak at a Paris review dinner, he read from Lie Down In Darkness, I was watching him read and it was beautiful and emotional. I remember looking around to see if anyone else was having the same reaction I was having, and I looked around and it was all this jaded, cynical New Yorkers who were checking their blackberries or their iphones, and not paying attention. It made me so disappointed. I was thinking, here is William Styron, who is this remarkable writer and he is sort of bearing his soul and you could tell he didn’t have much longer to live and most of the people were not paying attention. But I feel really fortunate that I got to see him and meet him right before he died.


Lie Down In Darkness

Gorillaz - DARE

Catherine Warwick - Pollyanna (I Believe In You)

Collection of the best singles from the Gorillaz. I do not actually own any of this. Just have this in my possesion (as a product) and I put it up for you guys and girls. Enjoy!

Feel Good Inc.

Stylo

Classic Moby track, taken from his sixth studio album '18'. 

The track was featured as the theme music for all three of the Bourne films in various versions.

Watch the original music video here: http://www.moby.com/videos/18/extreme-ways

Extreme Ways

Classic Moby track from his fifth studio album, 'Play', released in 1999. The vinyl reissue is available to pre-order now: http://moby.la/playandbsidesSo 

The track was featured in 'The Beach', directed by Danny Boyle

Watch the official video here: http://www.moby.com/videos/2012/porcelain

Porcelain

Those Were The Days

Original single version: Hocus Pocus by Focus

Focus II

Hocus Pocus

Focus - Hocus Pocus

Gorillaz Plastic Beach Album Mix 2010

The Black Keys' new lp, Brothers, is out now. 

The Black Keys: Tighten Up

From the <a href="http://www.pub.gaga.com.au">Gaga Pub</a> catalogue. If you want to know more, check out our <a href="http://www.gaga.com.au">site</a>, follow us on <a href="http://www.twitter.com/gaga_music">Twitter</a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/GagaMusic">Facebook</a>, and <a href="http://eepurl.com/Vtm-">join our mailing list</a>. For all licensing enquiries, <a href="mailto:katie@gaga.com.au">get in touch with Katie</a>. 

The Black Keys: Lonely Boy

Gorillaz - Superfast Jellyfish (Mighty Mouse Remix)

Remix and additional production by Lulu Rouge and Stella Polaris Allstars

Natural Blues (Lulu Rouge vs. Stella Polaris Remix)

I got a call from Miles Leonard (President of Parlophone EMI Virgin) to talk about a project of Blur's Damon Albarn. It was called Gorillaz. Not a band as such, more of a collective of collaborators. They had inadvertently caught some heat, by way of a 2-Step Garage Remix of "Clint Eastwood". BBC Radio 1 weren't giving the original a lot of spins and decided (to keep in with its core audience) to do a radio edit of this popular dance mix. Since this version wasn't representative of what Gorillaz were about, EMI & Albarn initially weren't keen but relented to public demand. I was given a copy of all their demo's and unfinished/finished tracks for what was to be their debut album. The brief was "pick one that you can produce, remix or whatever into a hit single". I gave them all a listen and, nothing immediately screamed 'potential hit'. Regardless, I sent over a proposed budget for one song of their choosing. Things went quiet for a few weeks or so. I then got a call a few weeks later saying "Jamie Howlett has already started working on a video for the song "19-2000" - we'd really love it if you took that song and made into a hit". To my ears, it was a ropey durgy old demo lacking a great melody, let alone a big hook. After striking a deal with Miles, I agreed to do it. The fee (including production recording/mixing costs) wasn't what I wanted but he said "I promise I will make it up to you on another record". Well, 15 years later... He never did keep his promise! As far as creativity was concerned,  his exact words were "you have carte blanche to do whatever you want". What happened next was nightmare-ish 10 days....  [MORE TO FOLLOW]

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Gorillaz - 19-2000 (Soulchild Remix) [by Damien Mendis]

Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill

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Just collecting music I like. :)

Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill

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