The Go! Team: Thunder, Lightning, Strike
CML call number: CD/ROCK/Go!
Tony Ware wrote in the Boston Phoenix, 3/17/06: "[T]he Go! Team, a Brighton-based British sextet … emerged in 2004. … The original Go! Team featured Ian Parton, who cobbled together the group's cut-and-paste Thunder, Lightning, Strike (Sony) from nicked LP samples and his own multi-instrumental additions. Parton then solicited collaborators, a 50/50 male-female mix of instrument swappers willing to perform high kicks. … [Guitarist/drummer Sam Dook says,] '… I think as long as a song can be reduced to a melody that gets in your head, you can put chaos all around that.' Indeed, the multinational, co-ed Team's amalgam encompasses sassy electro-soul, windswept country, smeared guitar sneers, block-party hip-hop, piano ballads, and brassy double-dutch chants. … [A] Go! Team song is built around buoyant, almost vertigo-inducing loops. … The result is a band who are on the absolute cutting edge of cut-and-paste pomo pop with songs full of nostalgic bits that bring comfort and familiarity to the mix. … Parton has created what amount to mash-ups before DJs even get a chance to chop up his material."
Tony Ware wrote in the Boston Phoenix, 3/17/06: "[T]he Go! Team, a Brighton-based British sextet … emerged in 2004. … The original Go! Team featured Ian Parton, who cobbled together the group's cut-and-paste Thunder, Lightning, Strike (Sony) from nicked LP samples and his own multi-instrumental additions. Parton then solicited collaborators, a 50/50 male-female mix of instrument swappers willing to perform high kicks. … [Guitarist/drummer Sam Dook says,] '… I think as long as a song can be reduced to a melody that gets in your head, you can put chaos all around that.' Indeed, the multinational, co-ed Team's amalgam encompasses sassy electro-soul, windswept country, smeared guitar sneers, block-party hip-hop, piano ballads, and brassy double-dutch chants. … [A] Go! Team song is built around buoyant, almost vertigo-inducing loops. … The result is a band who are on the absolute cutting edge of cut-and-paste pomo pop with songs full of nostalgic bits that bring comfort and familiarity to the mix. … Parton has created what amount to mash-ups before DJs even get a chance to chop up his material."
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