Gang Gang Dance is an American experimental music band based in Manhattan, NY. The band is known for its distinctive sound which features synthesized electronics and percussion, plus the varied vocal styles of singer Lizzi Bougatsos. The band consists of Lizzi (vocals/percussion), Brian DeGraw (keys), Josh Diamond (guitar), Jesse Lee (drums), and Taka Imamura (vibes manager/muse/shaman/roadie). Tim DeWitt and Nathan Maddox were founding members of Gang Gang Dance. Tim Dewitt was the original drummer and Nathan Maddox was a vocalist. Maddox unfortunately was killed when he was struck by lightning while watching a thunderstorm on a rooftop in New York's Chinatown in 2002. "He had always wanted to be struck by lightning," DeGraw later wrote, "[and] when this particular storm rolled into the city, he made a point of going to the roof and offering himself to the sky, as he always did, and this time the sky obliged." The band seemed to gel and really start to take things a bit more "seriously" after the death. It was in 2004 that they released two LPs, but it wasn't until 2005 that they released their defining album. They recently released their newest album Eye Contact, this past May and this is "Mindkilla" from that album.
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