http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDMGXZL6-f8
I've written before on the idea of genre mixing — a relatively modern idea — and The Go! Team is a wonderful example of that. It's garage rock full of sampling, but there are chants, hip-hop, soundtracks, classical, guitar rock, even Bollywood. In short, every track is a high-energy theme song to some terrible 1980s action movie, and it's fun.
Moreover, the production is lo-fi — so lo-fi that it's often impossible to tell what's been performed by one of the band's three drummers and what's been sampled from an old movie. So is the timbre a nostalgic homage to the 70s, or an actual copy from it? Is sampling a form of homage? I know lots of these tracks contain samples, but at a certain point it doesn't matter, and I think The Go! Team reaches that point. Finding out now that one of the riffs was a sample wouldn't be elucidating, it would be frustrating. Even if it's sampled, it's still original.
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