INTERVIEW: 'Go Ghetto Tiger' - Hold on To These Up and Comers or, Be Their Roadie Why Don't Ya

I've been following this band called Go Ghetto Tiger. These guys have recently been featured in Nerve Magazine, CBC, the Georgia Straight, among other media. So, for the curious and hungry music lover, read on for some first-hand dirt on this group.

GGT loves to fuse bass and synth along with playful drum loops, samples and melodic vocals which sometimes parallel and sometimes (yes!) surpass their influences, including MJ and Prince, Mike Doughty, Soul Coughing, The Faint, By A Thread, Fantomas, Skinny Puppy, Daft Punk, among others. They often love to intersect sharp melodies with a plethora of percussive instrumentals, sparking a unitary and resistant sound. By using spooky electronic babblings they somehow manage to effect it's exact opposite, building up into delicate grooves reflective of Prince, or Skinny Puppy. As lovers of bass, t