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, featuring British singer

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. It was released as a single on 21 November 2010 via digital download,iTunes Store
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's Disc Rotary Electric Auto Rhythm Machine Donca Matic DA-20. Released in 1963, it was the first

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manufactured by Korg. A later version of this machine can be seen built onto the right side of the contraption behind Daley in the music video. The song, alongside the Joker remix are included as bonus tracks on the French CD reissue of ''

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Music video

The music video premiered worldwide on 15 November 2010 on

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. The video features a live-action Daley in a one-man submarine, on his journey to join Gorillaz and the rest of the collaborators on Plastic Beach.News - World premiere of the NEW GORILLAZ VIDEO Doncamatic on MySpace
. Gorillaz.com. Retrieved on 16 November 2010. 2-D, dressed as a sailor, can be seen on a small screen inside the submarine whenever "talk to me" is sung in the song, as if he is trying to contact Daley. Daley travels all around the ocean to find Plastic Beach, seeing different kinds of fish, such as the Superfast Jellyfish seen in the " On Melancholy Hill", " Stylo", and "

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" music videos. He also finds the wreckage of the M. Harriet. At the end of the video, he travels around the island underwater and rises up on the surface, finally arriving at Plastic Beach.

Track listing

Personnel

– lead vocals *

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– background vocals, synthesizers, drum programming, sampled loops *Geoff Pesche – mastering engineer *Jason Cox – mixing engineer * Stephen Sedgwick – engineering, programming

Charts

References

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