Against the background of the proliferation of idol groups and many so-called powerful British musicians who don't like idol groups to "lower" the standard of British music, this band is composed of four kids with strong urban hip-hop colors, which are composed of the lead singer of "Blurred" and the author of the famous anime character "Miss Tang".

And their production team also includes producer-Dan "Dan" the automator "Nakamura, a famous Japanese hip-hop teacher in San Francisco (who has worked with bands such as PrimalScream, DepecheMode and DeLaSoul). MihoHatori, the Japanese female lead singer of new york indie band CiboMato, DelTheFunkyHomosapien, the American western rapper, IbrahimFerrer, the Cuban jazz singer, and TinaFrantz, the main member of the post-punk pioneer band TalkingHeads.

The music style is mainly hip-hop, alternative pop/rock, alternative rap, and some are mixed with Jamaican reggae, Cuban traditional love songs and even British punk rock.

Although several members are cartoon characters, they all have their own personality characteristics:

Band member: Chakahan

Lead singer -2D birthplace-Crawley age -3 1 year (1977)

The lead singer 2D, a slender, decadent and charming handsome guy, is always the most silent one in the crowd. However, his black hole eyes, which have become unfathomable due to blindness, exude a strong and fascinating mystery, attracting the attention of many female fans, and even his support club has appeared, and a special website for fans of "Love 2 is too deep" has been established online.

Features-blind black eyes, hedgehog-like hair.

Hobby-collecting pictures of Boba beauties.

Music influence-butorphanol tartrate painkiller, British electronic pop band HumanLeague

Lead singer PhilOakey and horror film director LucioFulci

Band member: Noodles

Guitarist-Xiaomian birthplace-Osaka, Japan Age-17 years old (199 1)

Noodle, a lovely Asian guitarist-Noodle, a Japanese girl who is only 17 years old, always wears a popular helmet with a built-in radio. Although she can only speak English "Noodle" with mysterious oriental flavor, her guitar skills and boxing skills are very good. What's more amazing is that she has excellent China boxing skills.

Features-a pair of phoenix eyes that can never be opened

Hobbies-collecting flying policewomen, electronic chickens, Pokemon and yo-yo toys.

Music influence-Japanese haiku, Lao Zi and BonJovi guitarist RichieSambora

Band member: Murdoch

Head of delegation/bassist-birthplace of the devil-Stoke (childhood playmate of robbie williams, the king of pop), a ceramic center on the Trent River in England, aged 34 (1966.6.6).

Murdoch, a smart, optimistic and cool bass player, is unkempt. In fact, he is the most thoughtful and sensitive head of Street Fighter.

Excellent bass playing skills and song writing skills, which were developed by self-study, made him a helmsman who commanded the whole group.

As the spokesman of Street Fighter, fans can also feel his arrogant dominance.

Features-green teeth like poisonous snakes, a pair of red eyes.

Hobby-flat D.

Music influence-Black Sabbath, Dub music, DennisWilson, the drummer of the beach boy, and Satan, the most admired idol.

Band member: Russell

Drummer-Luo Pang's birthplace-new york, USA -25 years old (1975)

Russell- Hip-Hop is a black lout drummer who plays drums well and advocates hip-hop and rap.

However, he received a good knowledge and behavior education from an aristocratic school. His polite manners and gentle manners also made many female friends feel the real security of flashy life from his calm personality.

Features-excessive prominence leads to white eyes.

Hobbies-fitness and diet (currently the owner of "Kaleri Multifunctional Aerobic Fitness Center" in the suburbs of London)

Music influence-black racist priest LouisFarrakhan, R&; Best soul actress

Since there are such distinctive personality characteristics and hobbies, there is naturally a very simple team building process:

Everything about the street fighter band started with one person, and he was the bad boy Murdoch. Their composition comes from the "fatal" encounter between lead singer 2D and leader Murdoch.

2D, formerly known as Stuber, has a special interest in keyboard instruments and works in Uncle Norm's musical instrument chain store every weekend.

In order to realize the dream of music, Murdoc, his companions and his BB gang intend to make music by using the robbed synthetic instruments, so they and his dog party took the risk of grabbing a synthesizer and drove into Uncle Nome's shop to rob it.

But I didn't expect to bump into Stuber standing at the door. As a result, Stuber hit his left eye, and his memory deteriorated due to concussion.

Murdoch, who caused the accident, was finally sentenced by the court to 30 thousand hours of hard labor, while taking care of Stuber until he recovered.

One day, when Murdoch returned to the hospital with a confused Stuber, he made a 360-degree invincible turn on a whim. At that time, Stuber broke through the windshield and ran straight into the safety island like a javelin thrown hard. This time, Stuber was blind in his right eye, but he was lucky to regain consciousness. From then on, he regarded Murdoch as a savior and renamed it 2D (Secondary Injury).

Murdoch's terrible driving skills turned the lives of these two enemies 180 degrees. -murdock realized that 2D used to play synthesizers, and the music he played had the potential to be popular, so he made a very appropriate decision to make 2D Luo Zhi a member of his band.

As long as we find the drummer and guitarist again, everything will be solved.

Then the next name on the band list-drummer Russell. This hip-hop friend from new york, USA, works in a Soho record store in London, England. One day, Murdoch met him in the "Gollum Record Store" which specializes in hip-hop music in Soho, and they had a good chat.

When Murdoc learned that Russell was a B-Boy drummer who was good at funk rhythm, he actively invited him to join the group. In order to realize his dream, Russell immediately agreed to join. Russel said that there was an incredible power in his heart that made him create a fashionable rhythm.

In order to find his hand, they wrote in the British magazine NME? I advertised for his hand, but I didn't expect them to get a Japanese package, and a Japanese doll face of 10 years old jumped out! As soon as the noodles came out, they kept talking, and their hands were still plucking the strings back and forth on the guitar handle. The stupefied three people nodded to let the mysterious figure join under the unreasonable opening remarks of noodles.

The street fighter band composed of Murdoch, 2D, Russell and Noodles was formally established. They gave their first public performance in Camden at the end of 1998. The fierce and rough punk rock immediately caught the attention of EMI record companies and signed a record contract with them. From their first album of the same name released in April, 20001year, you can even hear new york black hip hop, Jamaican reggae dubbing, Cuban traditional love songs or British punk rock. At the beginning, Murdoc's goal of realizing his dream of music was finally realized, and they will also create a new era of music through the interweaving of virtual and real notes.

Street Fighter's first album of the same name has a variety of song styles, and he discovered Buena Vista Social in Cuba for some time.

Ibrahim Ferrer, the "elder" of the club, sang an old Spanish song "Latin Simone", and once he invited Miho from Cibo Matto.

Tina Weymouth from Hatori Tom Tom Club sang "19-2000". As for the first album "Clint Eastwood", it regained the glory of the most glorious period of "The blur", and "5/4" realized Damon Albarn's wish to be a Lo-Fi forever. By "Tomorrow Comes Today", it has become a cured post-punk, and "Punk" has reached the end of 3-chord punk, and it is completely 77 years old. At the end of "M 1A 1", the preface actually takes us back to the days of German duo D.A.F in 1980s, and adds Allegro Clint Eastwood as a hidden track.

The lead singer 2D is DamonAlbarn with big and lazy vagueness.

The "Tomorrow Comes Today" in the MV is relatively simple, and the live video is semi-animated (only the part of the organ is dynamic).

Formal two-dimensional comics, but even semi-animation, inherited the meticulous movements and even mouth-shaped styles in European and American animation.

Clint Eastwood used a director's name, but music had nothing to do with it. Two-dimensional animation and three-dimensional background are about the monster gorilla imagined by the drummer coming out to eliminate the damage, and NOODLE's little sister is still showing her legs and feet.

Personally, in this digital age of music, painting and animation, it is natural for virtual bands to appear in this form.

The band has not only added new styles to its music style, but also diversified elements. Moreover, its shape is so strange and has its own personality, and even its story is so imaginative and unimaginable. It is very virtual, but it also gives the creator extremely distinctive personality characteristics.

Their appearance not only attracted anime fans, but also became the object of their painting imitation. Even some younger bands are eager to try this form of endorsement with cartoons, and put cartoon shapes representing their own band image on some music forums, which shows that they have certain milestone significance in both the music field and the animation field. As for the development after the fight? In this era when music and animation creation can communicate and cooperate with data through the Internet, it remains to be seen whether this form is a flash in the pan or a common phenomenon.

Behind-the-scenes story of virtual band ZT Gorilla

Turn to Chinese musical instruments

Text/Baishi

It is these two years that the word "virtual" suddenly becomes a very fashionable vocabulary, such as virtual reality, virtual community, virtual life, virtual host and virtual love. Just last year, a "virtual band" named Street Fighter (Street Fighter) also appeared in BLACKPINK, which quickly became popular and became a landscape in European and American music circles.

Accurately speaking, Street Fighter should be regarded as a comic band, and all four members appear as pure American comic images. They will not only perform passionately on MTV, but also express their opinions on TV from time to time. For example, after being nominated, they will publicly announce their withdrawal from the competition for the Mercury Award in the British recording industry. Of course, the success of the street fighter band is largely attributed to their music, which combines elements of rock, reggae (a music style originated in Jamaica), hip-hop, Lo-Fi, etc. Coupled with lazy singing, moderate decadence and some naive pranks, as well as unrestrained, this makes the music of Street Fighter band full of strange charm. "Whenever I hear their music, I will be inexplicably happy and happy from the heart." A friend of the author expressed her love for the music of Street Fighter. High quality music will naturally bring great commercial success. With the spread of MTV, Radio 1 and other music media, not only Street Fighter's album of the same name sold well in Europe and America, but Clint Eastwood was also rated as one of the most influential singles of the year.

So how did such a virtual band come into being? Behind the great success, there is naturally an elite production team. The names of two planning cores should be familiar to everyone, namely Damon Albarn, the lead singer of The blur, and Jamie Hewlett, the cartoonist and author of Tank Girl. I don't think it's necessary to introduce Blur, a band that has created a history in British music. Damon, the soul figure, is one of the greatest musical geniuses in Britain in 10. "Tank Girl" is a popular cartoon in Europe and America, and its popularity can rival Batman and Superman, among which the heroine is the idol of many boys. Damon and Jamie lived in the same apartment building. When their ideas had a wonderful spark, Street Fighter was born.

The production process of the street fighter band is like this. First, Damon created the music part. After completing some samples, Jamie listens and draws inspiration from them, conceiving and designing each The Band Characters. When The Band Characters's image design is completed, write the story behind everyone. Music is the navigation light of Street Fighter.

13 studio new work assembly line

1999, in order to make Blur's album 13, Damon Albarn set up a private recording studio in west London and named the album after it. Tom Girling and Jason Cox later became resident sound engineers in 13 studio. In the past few years, they have produced the album "13" and other singles "Blurred Here", as well as several films with Damon as the soundtrack. When the plan of Street Fighter Band was implemented, Sudio 13 became the production base of the music part of Street Fighter Band.

In the past, when Blur made an album, all the band members got together, wrote songs, wrote lyrics, arranged and recorded. Even though there was an impromptu performance during the creation, they got together and finished the music after they came back. Today, the music of the street fighter band is created in a completely different way from the past. An Apple computer with Logic Audio has brought great changes to everything. Recording engineer Tom said, "We no longer work in the linear mode of the previous tape recorder. Logical acoustics has brought us many very convenient functions, but it has also brought us into another abyss. In this open audio editing environment, you never know when it will be' finished', but you must constantly edit, modify and experiment. But Damon seems to prefer this way of working. "

Jason, another sound engineer, said, "The specific situation is like this. For example, we wrote four melodies with the same rhythm for a song, and then we logically combined these melodies, drew a sentence from here, tuned a sentence from there, combined them together, and then listened and revised them constantly, and finally became a song. "

Usually, a song begins with a demo made by Damon with his family's four-channel machine. Generally, there is only Damon's lead singer, a circulating drum set and one or two guitars to accompany him. Then everyone put these as basic materials into logical audio, and began to polish it, constantly making the music complete and full. Tom and Jason are also record producers. Together with Damon, they created the music of Street Fighter.

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Clint Eastwood.

The hit single "Clint Eastwood" is the only song in the album that has not been finished in this way of free cutting and collage. The original materials in Logic include Damon's lead singer, the rhythm of guitar and drum set, and then some other instrumental parts are added to replace the rap part. Although the song was cut and pasted a little, it still kept the general picture of the original.

There are no real drums in Clint Eastwood. All drum rhythms come from drum machines and sampling cycles. Several producers just added some EQ and other adjustments to it. The bass part comes from the JV sound source of analog synthesizers Moorogue and Roland. Strings come from a string sound source-sorina String Ensemble.

Perhaps because of the powerful and free nonlinear editing method of Logic, when Clint Eastwood added a lot of new materials, the three people didn't know how to determine the final version, so they invited Dan The Automator, a hip-hop producer, to join their team. Jason said: "We have heard this song too many times, so we need new people and new ears. He needs to say: OK, that's it!" "

Dan, Damon, Tom and Jason worked together in 13 studio for two weeks, and then moved to G-Jam studio in Jamaica. G-Jam is a small recording studio located at the seaside of Jamaica, and you can see the beautiful beach through the glass window. "We came here to find the feeling of pure reggae music, but obviously we came to the wrong place. This place is not suitable for this job." Jason said. "Our work efficiency here is no different from holidays. After breakfast every day, we go to the seaside, then come back to work for a while, eat, go to the seaside, then come back to work, and then go to the seaside ... "

Clint Eastwood's lyrics were written in Jamaica and titled "Stole" Clint Eastwood, a famous Hollywood filmmaker. In fact, the title of this song has little to do with the theme of the lyrics. Everyone just thinks that this song gives people a very "American" feeling.

Damon's lead singer was recorded with Neumann's TLM 170 microphone and Never1073 voice playback, and recorded with Logic audio. The harmony part was also made by Damon's lead singer, but after the Boss voice changer, the effect of singing together was obtained. Of course, Tom and Jason also add more effects to the human voice when they mix down, including the reverberation after inversion and the delay of EQ.

Dan, an external producer, also added a lot of color to this single, adding his own musical elements. Jason praised: "Although we also use a lot of loops, it is Dan who really combines these loops with songs."

Danxiu changed the drum set, added a drum set and a track of snare drum Jr., and went to the United States to re-record the rap for this song. The sound of disc rubbing in the song came from Dan's good friend, Canadian disc rubbing master Kid Koala, who happened to be in Jamaica at that time, so Dan invited him to record a disc rubbing performance, which was edited by Luo Ji and added to the song.

MTV sound effect

After the music part is completed, the work of recording engineers Tom and Jason is still not over. Street Fighter is a virtual band, and the only way for them to appear on the TV screen, so the production of MTV becomes the key. In this regard, record companies spare no effort. Clint Eastwood and 19/2000, two music short films featuring single songs, are both made according to the standards of animated films. As a result, the task of adding sound effects to music videos fell to Tom and Jason.

So Jason complained bitterly: "You know, the song 19/2000 has more than 460 sound effects. We have never done such a job, we can only listen to those CDs from the library day after day and choose what we need from them. The entire sound library has about 40 CDs and more than 30,000 sound effects, and we work almost 20 hours a day. "

Tom said: "Most of the sound effects in the short music videos come from audio discs, but some of them are recorded by ourselves, such as the sound of cars. In fact, they all came from Jamie's car. We drew a line in the street and recorded them. "

After several months' efforts, the virtual band Street Fighter finally made its debut on TV and radio, and achieved impressive results in the music charts. On the other hand, Jamie, the master of comics, contributed a lot. The street fighter band members in his works have also become new idols for adults and children. Many fans have never even regarded Street Fighter as a virtual character. They wrote to the street fighter band, asking for posters and signatures. However, in the future, perhaps the street fighter band will face the biggest unknown. How will this virtual band develop? Damon and Jamie plan to visit Street Fighter with projection and 3D technology. How the street fighter band will cope with these challenges, let's wait and see!

film

An urchin, a street urchin

Director: John Haracci.

Starring: Sebastian Montoya

Rick Li Po

Larry swanson

Donald Silva

Gates Leonard

Norm king

Barbara king

Jennifer Bartl

Brian King

Will brunson

Premiere: 2007-02- 17

Length: 105 minutes

Type: fantasy horror suspense science fiction

Region: USA

abstract

The dusty streets of new york are a very different world.

The urchin went deep into the dark corner of the city, which was a refuge for the homeless. There, a child met an old man and they got together, although they were different in that strange and psychedelic black fantasy.

Children have embarked on the road of exploration in the Five big noble. He must protect his new friend and a young girl, Julia …/movie/38047.