Whenever video games and any other form of entertainment collide, what usually results is something along the lines of crustified spew. Just more reason for me to ready the buckets when a promo CD of
Music For an Accelerated Culture arrived on my desk recently. Precluding my typical reaction of total disaffection was the name of the band:
Hadouken!If you're still in the dark regarding the reference (you
do play video games, right?), hadouken is the maneuver made famous by Ken and Ryu from the
Street Fighter series in which they thrust their hands forward and unleashed a fireball toward their enemies. Admittedly, not a very clever name for a band, but definitely novel enough. Hell, it got me to pop the CD in for a listen.
While I'm not really into the whole techno/grime (don't ask, just
read) music scene, Hadouken!'s music ain't half bad. The band actually remixes sounds from old Game Boy games into their beats—the jumping sound from Mario in
Super Mario Land is very evident in one song. It even elicited a response of, "Hmm, that's not making me want to murder you that much for playing it loudly," from our even more jaded editors. Score!
Take a listen, then think back to when
↓↘→P meant you didn't have any more to care about than pumping quarters into an arcade machine.
