In the not so distant past…Peter-John, got evicted from his Toronto apartment and landed on the couch of producers, AG and DJ Cirkut. Armed with his guitar, backpack, and a skateboard, it was here, that the first chapter of Let’s Go To War began.
After weeks of planning to get together, the trio finally got into the studio and in a matter of days, came up with a handful of songs. This quickly led to a collaboration that proved to be sweeter than a mouthful of cotton candy. The combination of the trio’s musical influences gave birth to a sound hard to classify by even the most obnoxious of music bloggers.
Citing Bob Dylan, Outkast, Daft Punk, Alan Parsons Project, Herbie Hancock and Jay-Z as major influences, galvanized them as a band unwilling to appease the masses by being pigeonholed. Willing only to describe their music as digital confusion, LGTW’s sound can be attributed to who they are and what backgrounds they come from. A virtual Jackson Pollock of multiculturalism, they are a colorful canvas that spans from Jamaican to Jewish, Irish and Welsh. To them, like in life, the lines that separate genre and sound have become blurred.
In 2005, the band formerly known as Panic and the Rebels recorded their 1st LP, Captured By a Vision, and sold over 4,000 copies through live shows in Canada, Jamaica and the US…this included Reggae Sumfest, Edgefest, WakeStock and NXNE. The album received 4/5 STARS from NOW Magazine and was heralded by the Jamaican Star as being "an ingenious blend of rock, reggae vocals and percussion patterns reminiscent of the Ska movement of the Jamaican 60's." .
Hip-Hop, Electro, Reggae, and Folk quickly melt into something almost indistinguishable from one another. And it is in this murkiness where LGTW draws their inspiration and feels most comfortable. It is this refusal to compromise their music or appease the genre whores of the music industry that led them to the cry out, “Let’s Go To War” in frustration rather than in battle. This frustration gave birth to the group’s name, while doing exactly what Let’s Go To War hates doing, defining themselves. There was no name more fitting.
You may ask, what exactly are these guys fighting for? For them it is the inherent need to fight for control of what goes in and comes out their minds, their creativity, the freedom in their music, and most of all the ability to be themselves.
Let’s Go To War has toured with M.I.A., Chromeo, opened for Santogold and played V-Fest. With production for Britney Spears and remixes for The Music (Polydor), Jully Black, The Whip and The Carps under their belt, Let's Go To War are poised to take over minds and bodies quicker than L. Ron Hubbard...without firing a shot!
Band Members
DJ CirkutMinister of Peace sound Peter-JohnMinister of Love voice Together= Ministry of Truth noise
Website
www.myspace.com/letsgotowarmusic
