Hand Clapper is the demo of the song Man Research (Clapper), from Gorillaz' self titled album and the 4th track on the Demoz LP from the Gorillaz 20th Anniversary Boxset.

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Recording and Information

Hand Clapper was written around 1999 and it's one of the first Gorillaz demos made by Damon Albarn, around the same time other demos, such as Acoustic 2 and Bill Murray were also being written. Albarn used the same machine to record the demos for the tracks from the Blur album 13,^[1] such as I Got Law, which would later evolve into Tomorrow Comes Today.

The track was first made available through combined multitrack stems on different rooms of the Kong Studios' Phase 1 website, and could be heard on 2-D, Murdoc, Noodle and Russel's computers, separatly. The song had not been fully released until almost 20 years later, when it was featured on the Demoz LP from the Gorillaz 20th Anniversary Boxset, where the full version of the song was included alongside 4 other previously unreleased demo tracks.

The song mostly consists of electric guitars, a keyboard and clapping, with sparse vocals and some eletronic sounds on it. While the version from the Phase 1 Kong Studios website was fully instrumental, the full version featured on the Demoz LP has 2-D's vocals on it. The website version, apart from being at a much lower audio quality, was also shorter, with a lenght of 2:13, while the full official one has a lenght of 2:58.

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Trivia

• It is the Gorillaz song to have had the longest time gap from being first featured somewhere incompletly in separate parts to being officially released on its entirety so far.
  • The only other song from the Phase 1 Kong Studios website to not have had been fully released to this day is Gor Beaten, the demo for a Damon Albarn song named Bar Beaten.

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