Starshine (Phi Life Cypher Version)



Starshine (Phi Life Cypher Version) (also known as Starshine ft Gorillaz) is an early, alternative and "un-mastered, un-mixed, un-released" version of Starshine featuring hip hop group Phi-Life Cypher that was uploaded to their official SoundCloud on March 3, 2011,undefined being previously unreleased, as the title suggests, with guest vocals by Si Phili and Life MC from the same group.

Recording and Information
According to them, the track dates back to early 2001 recording sessionsundefined and was meant to be the original version of the song, before it was discarded and reworked into the album version, featuring more instrumental-only parts and exclusively 2-D's vocals, only to be released by Phi-Life Cypher ten years later, being left unmastered and unmixed. Despite the rap verses being removed in production of the final song, they were later adapted into the songs "The Sounder" and PLC's live version of "Rock The House", both made in collaboration with them during the Live at the Forum in 2001, explaining some of the huge similarities between the three songs.

Trivia

 * This track is one of the four Gorillaz songs to contain a reference to Star Wars, alongside "The Sounder" and "Clint Eastwood" (both the Phi Life Cypher Version and the Demon Detour Live Version from early Phase 2), the last one being the only to not have its rap done by Si Phili and Life MC, and instead by Jamal Grey.
 * It is the only official alternative version of a Phase 1 song to have not been first released by Gorillaz themselves, and instead by the song's featured artists.
 * The date which the group said the version to date back to is most likely wrong, as by March 2001 the debut album, Gorillaz, had already released, and the other song Phi-Life Cypher recorded with the band before the release of the self-titled album, "Clint Eastwood (Phi Life Cypher Version)", dated from early 2000 instead.