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Listen: Gorillaz/LCDSoundsystem/Andre 3000collaboration

Wed 15th Feb, 2012 in International News

Gorillaz, James Murphy, and Andre 3000 – it’s not just a list of your favourite musicians anymore now it’s also the lineup on the new track DoYaThing.

The dream collaboration is the latest collaboration in Converse’s “Three Artists. One Song” promotional three-way following the cuts released by Matt and Kim, Soulja Boy and Andrew W.K; Best Coast, Kid Cudi and Vampire Weekend production guru Rostam Batmanglij; and N.E.R.D., Santogold and Julian Casablancas.

According to The Sun, DoYaThing features Damon Albarn rapping the opening two verses before Murphy sings a chorus before Andre takes over “singing and rapping in impressive fashion”.

The track will come accompanied by a video by Gorillaz’s Jamie Hewlett has that includes “a baboon in a martial arts outfit and a masked topless bloke.” A 12-minute explicit version of the track is also rumoured for release once Converse has wrung all the promotional goodness out of the collaboration.

DoYaThing will be released by next week, but for now you can hear a teaser of the tune right here:

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grattan

grattan said on the 16th Feb, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AsMa-G93iQ

batdan

batdan said on the 16th Feb, 2012

the converse product placement was a bit bold.

sarcasm_mister

sarcasm_mister said on the 23rd Feb, 2012

Full Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqK28DkS-Ig

alternative link in case that gets pulled down. http://www.listenbeforeyoubuy.net/listen/listen-gorillaz-doyathing-ft-andre-3000-and-james-murphy/

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 23rd Feb, 2012

It's so fucking good.

sarcasm_mister

sarcasm_mister said on the 23rd Feb, 2012

Albarn: "If we'd have had two weeks, we could have made a whole record."

When Damon Albarn, James Murphy, and André 3000 holed up in Albarn's London studio for three days last fall to create a new song for Converse's "Three Artists. One Song" series, the trio didn't really have a master plan in mind. "Music inspired by a shoe is quite a hard thing to get your head around," says Albarn, who got involved after his Gorillaz partner Jamie Hewlett created four designs for the sneaker company's spring collection. "It's got to be quite abstract."

And it turns out the blissfully nonsensical four-and-a-half-minute robo-funk track "DoYaThing"-- now available at Converse's site-- isn't the only thing this unlikely group recorded together, as Albarn and Murphy both told us in recent interviews...

The track is actually an appetizer for a decidedly more insane 12-minute version that will debut on the official Gorillaz website in the coming weeks. The extended take of "DoYaThing" is marked by a huffing build-up reminiscent of LCD Soundsystem classics like "Yeah" while André goes totally off script with an ad-libbed, one-take vocal centering around the simple-yet-effective phrase: "I'm the shit!"

Both Albarn and Murphy stressed that the extended "DoYaThing"-- which was recorded live in a fit of spontaneous inspiration on their last day in the studio together-- is the best representation of their collaboration. "That's the story of what happened over the course of those three days," says Albarn, talking about the 12-minute piece. "It's a nice narrative."

The Gorillaz-style animated video for the edited "DoYaThing", which is set to premiere on Converse's site February 29.

sarcasm_mister

sarcasm_mister said on the 25th Feb, 2012

http://blogs.1077theend.com/endmusicdiscovery/2012/02/23/end-music-discovery-gorillaz-james-murphy-andre-3000-do-ya-thing-13-minute-version/ - the 13min version :D

sarcasm_mister

sarcasm_mister said on the 29th Feb, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNeF30RverQ