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Laika Come Home is a Gorillaz remix album released in July 2002. Unlike a typical remix album, it is done by just one group, Spacemonkeyz. It contains most of the songs from Gorillaz' first album, Gorillaz, but remixed in dub and reggae style. The album features Terry Hall, U Brown, Earl Sixteen and 2-D. One single, "Lil' Dub Chefin'", was released from the album on 22 July 2002, with moderate success. The limited edition was packed in digipak, featuring two hidden tracks. In 2004, the album was packaged with 2001's Gorillaz in a box set as part of EMI's "2CD Originals" collection. The album's title is a reference to Laika, the Soviet space dog, and the film Lassie Come Home. The album contains mixes of every song on the original album except "Double Bass", "Latin Simone (¿Que Pasa Contigo?)", and "Rock the House".

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Laika Come Home
Remix album by Spacemonkeyz vs Gorillaz
Released	1 July 2002
Recorded	2000–2002
Genre	Dub reggae
Length	75:44
Label	Parlophone/EMI (UK) Astralwerks/Caroline/Virgin/EMI Records (US)
Producer	Spacemonkeyz Gorillaz Dan the Automator
Gorillaz album chronology
G-Sides (2001) Laika Come Home (2002) Demon Days (2005)
Damon Albarn chronology
Mali Music (2002) Laika Come Home (2002) Democrazy (2003)
Singles from Laika Come Home
"Lil' Dub Chefin'" Released: 22 July 2002

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
NME	7/10[3]

Background

The Spacemonkeyz appear to be first referenced before the album in the "Tomorrow Comes Today" 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 one day we'll be in charge". The artwork is a famous piece of artwork by Banksy,[4] the visual artist who worked with Damon Albarn for Think Tank's artwork[5] and Demon Days producer Danger Mouse in an attack against Paris Hilton.[6] Before the release of the album, the mix of Tomorrow Comes Today (Bañana Baby) was released in the single of Tomorrow Comes Today in February 2002.

Track listing

Personnel

Musicians

• Damon Albarn – vocals (all tracks), piano (tracks 2–3), stylophone (track 2), melodica (tracks 3–4, 11), guitar (tracks 7–8, 10)
• Spacemonkeyz – instrumentation, programming, guitar, bass, drum programming
• Miho Hatori – additional vocals (tracks 1, 10)
• Tina Weymouth – additional vocals (track 1)
• Michael Smith – horn, horn arrangements (tracks 1–3, 5–6, 10–12), flute (track 11)
• Martin Shaw – horn (track 1)
• Dan Left Hand – bass (track 1)
• Jeff Scantlebury – percussion (tracks 1–3, 5–8, 10–12)
• Jaques Shythé – castanets (track 1)
• U Brown – vocals (tracks 2, 11)
• Dennis Rollins – horn (tracks 2–3, 5–6, 10–12)
• Dominic Glover – horn (tracks 2–3, 5–6, 10–12)
• Phil Soul – bass (tracks 2–4, 8, 10, 12)
• Earl Sixteen – vocals (tracks 3, 11)
• Stuart Zender – bass (tracks 3–4), clavinet (track 4)
• Pete Collins – incendiary device (track 5)
• Simon Katz – guitar (track 6), organ (track 12)
• Brian Pisce – strings (track 8)
• Terry Hall – vocals (track 12)

Technical

• Gorillaz – production
• Tom Girling – co-production, engineering, Pro Tools
• Jason Cox – co-production, engineering
• Dan Nakamura – production (tracks 1–6, 8–12)
• Spacemonkeyz – additional production, re-mixing
• Pete Collins – assistance

Artwork

• J.C. Hewlett – illustration
• Mat Wakeham – art direction
• Kate McLauchlan – design
• Roland Hamilton – monkey photos

Charts

Chart (2002)	Peak position
French Albums (SNEP)[7]	118
UK Albums (OCC)[8]	108
US Billboard 200[9]	156
US Top Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard)[10]	6

Release details

The album was released in various countries in July 2002.

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalogue
United Kingdom	1 July 2002	Parlophone	CD	540 3622
			2×LP	539 9821
Japan	3 July 2002	Toshiba-EMI	CD	TOCP-66045
United States	16 July 2002	Astralwerks	CD	ASW 40362
			CD digipak	ASW 40522

References

На других языках

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- [en] Laika Come Home

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[es] Laika Come Home

Laika Come Home es una compilación y reedición de los mejores temas del disco Gorillaz (2001), del grupo homónimo realizado por Spacemonkeyz. El disco no contiene ningún contenido multimedia extra para el computador, salvo los temas y un bonus Track:

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