ReMix

Gorillaz

www.gorillaz.com

Murdoc Nicalls

• Bass• Formed band• “Satanist hoodlum”

2D

• Vocals/keyboards• Aka Stu-Pot

(remored to be Stuart Tusspot)

• Both eyes damaged by Murdoc in separate accidents

Russel Hobbs

• Drums/percussion/ rap

• Possessed by spirits of his deceased hip-hop friends

• American expatriate

Noodle

• Guitar• 10-year old

Japanese girl• Arrived by FedEx

w/guitar in hand after the band placed an ad for a guitarist

Kong Studios

• Acquired in 1999 by Murdoc

• On a mountain in Essex, outside of London

• Haunted, situated in a cemetery

Damon Albarn

• Music• Lead singer of 90s

Britpop band Blur• Uses clips and

references from seemingly disparate sources to create the music

Jamie Hewlett

• Art• He and his

company, Zombie Flesh Eaters, create all of the animation

• Created Tank Girl comic in 1988

• Horror film imagery heavily drawn upon

2001-02 2004-present

Progression of Characters

John Oswald (b. 1953)

www.plunderphonics.com

Plunderphonic (1989)

• Dab audio file• From Michael

Jackson’s Bad• “Follows the format

of a video game: as it progresses levels of complexity and abstraction increase”

Pretender

• From Dolly Parton’s The Great Pretender (by Buck Ram)

• Dolly undergoes an “aural sex change”

audio file

Christian Marclay

• Turntable Artist• Sound Artist• Sculptor• Video Artist