Don Quixote's Christmas Bonanza

Don Quixote's Christmas Bonanza is a track commissioned for the compilation album "Swallow My Eggnog" from radio show hosts and musicians Kevin Ryder and Gene "Bean" Baxter by the KROQ-FM radio from Phase 1. The song consists of cranks, ominous whistles, and vocals by 2-D, with its only lyrics being him singing "Happy Radio" in falsetto.

On this compilation, a shorter version of the track was included instead, while the full track was featured on another compilation from the same year named "AIR Futures (Modern Rock December 2001)" by US radio programming competition and label AIR (Active Industry Research) from producer Jonas Cash.

This version, due to being even rarer and more obscure, had never surfaced on-line prior to February 21, 2019, when the full HQ version of this song was uploaded onto YouTube by user blueheaven and extracted by user Gisanh. This included a brief noise made by Damon Albarn at the beginning of the song, which was never included on the low-quality versions floating around prior, due to its position on the song changing from both versions.

Recording
When it was commissioned, it was meant to be rushed out for Christmas of that year, which gave Damon Albarn and his crew little time compared to their other songs to work on it, causing it to sound mostly incomplete and to only have one repeating lyric. They recorded this track during their break between the European and North American tours of Gorillaz' debut album, Gorillaz, when "911" was also recorded. Junior Dan delivered a smooth dub bass line for the track, Damon delivered also smooth piano lines, synthesizers and an echo soaked guitar alongside his vocals and Cass Browne only played sleigh bells and various lo-fi sounding percussion, without the usual drum set.

Trivia

 * The full version of the song has a lenght of 4:08, while the shorter version (also known as the "Radio Edit") has a lenght of 3:44.
 * The reason for the song's only lyric being "Happy Radio" is most likely due to the full name of the radio station which comissioned it at the time being "Happy Christmas KROQ Radio", making it easy both to come up with and to associate one with the other.
 * This song has never been publically discussed or mentioned by neither Damon Albarn or Jamie Hewlett.
 * On "Swallow My Eggnog", there is also a track titled "Clint Frostwood" by "Chillaz". The track is a Christmas parody of the Gorillaz single "Clint Eastwood", detailing the story of a character named Frosty the Snowman. Interestingly, the parody uses the same instrumental as Clint Eastwood, but without any chord progression, and is also much shorter, with a lenght of 2:41.