team9

Team9 is the name of English-Australian producer Neil Mason. Most of his work is unauthorized mashups. Team9 formed in 1997 as a five-piece band and released two albums, Gas and Air in 1999 and My Tape Machine in 2002. Originally playing guitar-based pop, by 2002 Team9 were incorporating samples, loops and synths into their production. Having slowly evolved over three years into a one-man outfit, Team9 played in the web based bootleg scene for a number of years before getting more involved in late 2004. Throughout 2005, Team9 featured on Live 105 and Indie 103 in the US, Qui FM and NRJ in France, BBC Radio 1 and the Remix and Rinse shows on XFM in the UK. They have also had tracks featured in magazines such as Blender, Spin, NME, Zoo and GQ. 2005 finished with Team9 collaborating on a highly popular and well-received Green Day mashup album titled American Edit under the alias Dean Gray, a collaboration with San Francisco's Party Ben. Within ten days, Warner Music sent Party Ben and Team9 a cease and desist order, whereupon the album was removed from the American Edit site. The resulting media coverage from MTV, NME, NBC and the blogosphere spawned a protest day dubbed Dean Gray Tuesday...

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