Tag: GORILLAZ

2010 has been a pretty packed year for tech. Streaming video came into its own with radically improved content choices and affordable living room hardware devices, Android and Apple's iOS dominated the cell phone market, the mobile app markets show no sign of slowing down and the iPad revealed a huge demand for tablets. We here at Switched have taken a look back over the past 12 months and each ...

When he wasn't playing shows on a recent American tour, Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn was using an iPad to record the band's latest album, 'The Fall.' To create the record, Albarn used about 20 different iPad apps, including: 'Speak It!,' 'SoundyThingie,' 'Mugician,' 'Solo Synth,' 'Funkbox,' 'Xenon,' 'Harmonizer,' 'BassLine' and more, according to TIME's Techland. Using the iPad, it took Albarn ...

Blur frontman, Gorillaz mastermind and all-around pop genius Damon Albarn is already hard at work on the next release for his cartoon band, while still touring behind its latest release 'Plastic Beach.' But, rather than lug around a Tascam Portastudio or install a recording area on the tour bus, Albarn has turned to his iPad to create his latest musical musings. He told NME, "I fell in love with ...

Music is all around us. It drifts in and out of our lives, piped into elevators, blasted through the stereo systems of passing cars, and idly played on our MP3 players as we go about our day. But how engaged are we with it? For something as remarkable as music, it can easily become another part of the auditory static of the everyday. While some people may take for granted the music in video ...