Laika Come Home is a Gorillaz

Gorillaz

Gorillaz is an English musical project created in 1998 by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. This project consists of Gorillaz music itself and an extensive fictional universe depicting a "virtual band" of cartoon characters...

 remix album

Remix album

A remix album is an album consisting mostly of remixes or re-recorded versions of a music artists' earlier released material.One of the earliest remix albums was 1971's Aerial Pandemonium Ballet by Harry Nilsson, which was released by Nilsson after the successes of Everybody's Talkin and The Point!...

 released in July 2002 (see 2002 in music

2002 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2002.-Events:*February 3 – U2 perform during the halftime show for Super Bowl XXXVI...

). Unlike a typical remix album, it is done by just one group, Spacemonkeyz

Spacemonkeyz

Spacemonkeyz were a musical group consisting of Darren Galea, Richie Stevens and Gavin Dodds. They came together when Galea created a dub remix of the Gorillaz' "Tomorrow Comes Today" , which Gorillaz founder Damon Albarn liked so much that he asked Galea to remix the...

. It contains most of the songs from the Gorillaz' first album, Gorillaz

Gorillaz (album)

Gorillaz is the debut album by the British virtual band Gorillaz, released in March 2001. It includes the singles "Clint Eastwood", "19-2000", "Rock the House" and "Tomorrow Comes Today"...

, but remixed in dub

Dub music

Dub is a genre of music which grew out of reggae music in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre, though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae...

 and reggae

Reggae

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 style. The album features Terry Hall

Terry Hall (singer)

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, U Brown

U Brown

U Brown aka New Roy, Hugh Brown, Nuroy is a reggae deejay who released eleven albums between 1976 and 1984.-Biography:...

, Earl 16 and 2D

2D (Gorillaz)

The fictional character Stuart Pot , better known by his stage name 2-D, also simply spelled as 2D, is a member of the British virtual band Gorillaz...

. One single, "Lil' Dub Chefin'

Lil' Dub Chefin'

"Lil' Dub Chefin" is a single by the Spacemonkeyz vs Gorillaz, from the 2002 Gorillaz remix album Laika Come Home. It is a remix of the Gorillaz' song "M1A1". The song's title is a joke on the UK restaurant chain Little Chef. The music video features the Spacemonkeyz. On Celebrity Takedown, the...

", was released from the album on 22 July 2002, with moderate success. In 2004, the album was packaged with 2001's Gorillaz

Gorillaz (album)

Gorillaz is the debut album by the British virtual band Gorillaz, released in March 2001. It includes the singles "Clint Eastwood", "19-2000", "Rock the House" and "Tomorrow Comes Today"...

in a limited edition

Special edition

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 box set as part of EMI

EMI

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's "2CD Originals" collection. The album's title is a reference to Laika

Laika

Laika was a Soviet space dog that became the first animal to orbit the Earth – as well as the first animal to die in orbit.As little was known about the impact of spaceflight on living creatures at the time of Laika's mission, and the technology to de-orbit had not yet been developed, there...

, the Soviet space dog, and the film Lassie Come Home

Lassie Come Home

Lassie Come Home is a 1943 MGM film starring Roddy McDowall and canine actor, Pal, in a story about the profound bond between Yorkshire boy Joe Carraclough and his rough collie, Lassie. The film was directed by Fred M. Wilcox from a screenplay by Hugo Butler based upon the 1940 novel Lassie...

. The album contains mixes of every song on the original album except "Double Bass", "Latin Simone (¿Que Pasa Contigo?)" , and "Rock the House

Rock the House

"Rock the House" is a song from the Gorillaz self-titled debut album, Gorillaz. It was released as the third single from the album in October 2001. It peaked at #18 on the UK Singles Chart. The song is one of the more hip hop-oriented songs on the album, along with "Clint Eastwood"...

".

Track listing

1. "19/2000" ("Jungle Fresh") – 5:27
2. "Slow Country" ("Strictly Rubbadub") – 3:40
3. "Tomorrow Comes Today" ("Bañana Baby") – 5:28
4. "Man Research" ("Monkey Racket") – 5:56
5. "Punk" ("De-Punked") – 5:19
6. "5/4" ("P.45") – 4:25
7. "Starshine" ("Dub Ø9") – 5:16
8. "Sound Check (Gravity)" ("Crooked Dub") – 5:31
9. "New Genius (Brother)" ("Mutant Genius") – 5:01
10. "Re-Hash" ("Come Again") – 6:03
11. "Clint Eastwood" ("A Fistful of Peanuts") – 5:52
12. "M1 A1" ("Lil' Dub Chefin'
    Lil' Dub Chefin'
    "Lil' Dub Chefin" is a single by the Spacemonkeyz vs Gorillaz, from the 2002 Gorillaz remix album Laika Come Home. It is a remix of the Gorillaz' song "M1A1". The song's title is a joke on the UK restaurant chain Little Chef. The music video features the Spacemonkeyz. On Celebrity Takedown, the...
    
    ") – 11:20
13. "Spacemonkeyz Theme" (Hidden Track) - 5:19

Limited Edition Digipak Bonus Tracks

14. "Slow Country (More Rubba Dub)" – 5:14

15. "Clint Eastwood (More Peanuts)" – 6:39

Backgrounds

The Spacemonkeyz appear to be first referenced before the album in the "Tomorrow Comes Today

Tomorrow Comes Today

Tomorrow Comes Today was the first release by British alternative band Gorillaz, issued as an EP in November 2000. The first three songs from the EP ended up on their debut album, however, 'Latin Simone' was heavily edited, and dubbed into Spanish, for the album release. The new version was sung by...

" video. During the video, in the background, a poster can be seen with three pictures of monkeys with spacesuits and the caption "Laugh now but someday we'll be in charge". The artwork is a famous piece of artwork by Banksy

Banksy

Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique...

, the visual artist who worked with Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn is an English singer-songwriter and record producer who has been involved in many high profile projects, coming to prominence as the frontman and primary songwriter of Britpop band Blur...

 for Think Tank's artwork and Demon Days

Demon Days

Demon Days is the second studio album by British virtual band Gorillaz, released in May 2005. The album features contributions from De La Soul, Neneh Cherry, Martina Topley-Bird, Roots Manuva, MF DOOM, Ike Turner, Bootie Brown of the Pharcyde, Shaun Ryder, Dennis Hopper, the London Community Gospel...

 producer Dangermouse

DangerMouse

Danger Mouse is a British animated television series which was produced by Cosgrove Hall Films for Thames Television. It features the eponymous Danger Mouse, an English mouse who works as a superhero/secret agent. The show is a loose parody of British spy fiction, particularly James Bond and the...

 in an attack against Paris Hilton

Paris Hilton

Paris Whitney Hilton is an American businesswoman, heiress, and socialite. She is a great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton . Hilton is known for her controversial participation in a sex tape in 2003, and appearance on the television series The Simple Life alongside fellow socialite and childhood...

. While the band were on hiatus in Beverly Hills, after touring for their debut album, they took a break from writing a script for their unfinished movie to appear at the Isle of MTV concert off the coast. After the show, Murdoc

Murdoc (Gorillaz)

The fictional character Murdoc Faust Niccals is a musician, member of the virtual band Gorillaz. He provides bass, and is the self-proclaimed leader of the band.-Biography :Voice actor and bassist for the band Phil Cornwell voices him...

 was asked to sign a record he didn't recognize, which turned out to be the Spacemonkeyz album. It appears that 2D

2D (Gorillaz)

The fictional character Stuart Pot , better known by his stage name 2-D, also simply spelled as 2D, is a member of the British virtual band Gorillaz...

 never locked Kong Studios up properly before leaving on tour, and the three chimps entered and hijacked the master tapes in an attempt to contact Laika herself, who is supposedly their leader. After discovering the record, Gorillaz shot one or two photos with the monkeys and then they disappeared. Murdoc is still angry at them for doing the album, despite the extra income he gets from it. He maintains that Dr. Wurzel, his archenemy, is behind the incident and complains about getting monkey feces out of the carpets at Kong.

Chart positions

Chart (2002)	Peak position
US Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	156
US Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Dance/Electronic Albums	6
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	108

Release details

The album was released in various countries in July 2002.

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalogue
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	1 July 2002	Parlophone Parlophone Parlophone is a record label that was founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon. The British branch was formed in 1923 as "Parlophone" which developed a reputation in the 1920s as a leading jazz label. It was acquired in 1927 by the Columbia Graphophone Company which...	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...	540 3622
			2×LP LP album The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...	539 9821
Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...	3 July 2002	Toshiba-EMI	CD	TOCP-66045
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	16 July 2002	Astralwerks Astralwerks Astralwerks is a New York-based record label that releases primarily electronic music. It is owned by Virgin Records/EMI and distributed by Caroline Distribution in the United States....	CD	ASW 40362
			CD digipak Digipak Digipak is a patented style of CD, DVD or BD packaging, and is a registered trademark of AGI World Ltd., an Atlas Holdings company.-Features:...	ASW 40522