More and more these days the music scene is receiving new acts that are all about the mix of yesterday and today. And by mix I mean the remix. Lead by amazing DJs like Greg Gillis aka Girl Talk, who I saw in February and was flawlessly dope, acts have started to realizes that music is not only about what you do, but about how you can morph what others have done.
In this vain is the Brighton based The Go! Team. Formed by Ian Parton in 2000 as an attempt to fuse Sonic Youth style guitars, double dutch chants, and car chase music. What he got was a band whose music is most compared to theme songs, cheerleader chants, early hip hop and 70’s funk.
What he also got was the band's 2004 debut Thunder, Lightning, Strike. While touring with Franz Ferdinand Parton recruited more members to flesh out the live show and in doing so evolved the band away from the record and into its current state.
Their new album Proof of Youth is a slamming, bumping, and grinding non-stop ride. It feels like the cast of the Electric Company doing hip hop funk. It is every Saturday morning cartoon theme song you ever wished played in the club, and until acts like Girl Talk are more readily available, The Go! Team is the closest thing to the mixed and remixed music populating the current indie scene available to the masses. Plus their lead singer's name is Ninja; you just can’t argue with that.
In this vain is the Brighton based The Go! Team. Formed by Ian Parton in 2000 as an attempt to fuse Sonic Youth style guitars, double dutch chants, and car chase music. What he got was a band whose music is most compared to theme songs, cheerleader chants, early hip hop and 70’s funk.
What he also got was the band's 2004 debut Thunder, Lightning, Strike. While touring with Franz Ferdinand Parton recruited more members to flesh out the live show and in doing so evolved the band away from the record and into its current state.
Their new album Proof of Youth is a slamming, bumping, and grinding non-stop ride. It feels like the cast of the Electric Company doing hip hop funk. It is every Saturday morning cartoon theme song you ever wished played in the club, and until acts like Girl Talk are more readily available, The Go! Team is the closest thing to the mixed and remixed music populating the current indie scene available to the masses. Plus their lead singer's name is Ninja; you just can’t argue with that.
