Thunder, Lightning, Strike

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Thunder, Lightning, Strike is the debut studio album by English band The Go! Team. It was initially released on label Memphis Industries on 13 September 2004, but was reworked to avoid legal issues with sample, and re-released in October 2005. The album was the project of founder member Ian Parton, who over the course of 2003 recorded demos and musical ideas after work onto many dozens of cassettes using a lo-fi 4-track recorder, and titled each tape with a potential song name idea. Each track on the album was created by combining five or six different ideas from this large assortment of tape, trying out different chorus sections from one with the verse section of another, to give the music an overall feeling of constantly switching radio channel. 'Get It Together' was the first track Parton created where he felt he'd got the juxtaposition of differing styles within one song right, giving him the template and direction for the rest of the album. Recording took place in both the garage and kitchen of Parton's parents' house in Swansea while they were away on holiday, with him playing all live instruments himself (as at that time there were no other members of the band). The album was co-produced by his sound engineer brother Gareth Parton, who helped Ian set up the makeshift home recording facility in Wale, and later mixed the tracks at The Fortress Studios and Bluestone in London. .

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