Team Stereo - Smells Like Team Spirit - CD (2011)

1) “It has two or more members”
TEAM STEREO has even five: Kai, Önder, Markus, Chrisse, and Alex. They are possibly known from other bands, for example THAT VERY TIME I SAW, PHONEY 14, ALOH JET, or GUNS VS. TELEKINESIS and they love “Emo-stuff from the nineties” or Dave Grohl.

2) “Its members contribute their respective competences, within interdependent roles, towards shared goals”
Chrisse sings and works for a well-known music distributor. Önder plays bass and is the resident DJ at Ratinger Hof in Düsseldorf. Markus can be located behind the drums and is owner of a small recording studio. Alex and Kai both play guitar and founded Redfield Records over ten years ago.

3) “It has a team identity, which is distinct from its members' individual identities”
TEAM STEREO do not produce that highly polished 5.1-Dolby-Surround- Sound but it is also not a one-dimensional clash that will find your ears. It is just good music. Loud and fast, nice and gentle, major and minor and of course it comes in STEREO.

4) “It has established ways of communicating both within the team and with external teams and groups”
“We play music and talk in equal parts”, TEAM STEREO describe their way of working. They do that in Kais basement “surrounded by big and small rodents”. Who is going to join in this conversation has to listen to their mini-album first.

5) “Its structure is explicit, task and goal oriented, organized and purposeful”
Up to now TEAM STEREO only played about ten shows, but collectively all band members have a good few hundred shows under their belt. Trial of efficiency passed with flying colours.