![]() In its present incarnation, though, Bailey’s freshman effort is distant from that ideal. There are moments – like the middle of London Teeth, when DJ Rolando-style strings rub up against a simple, memorable vocal hook – when it’s possible to imagine a much better Drums of Death album than this. Witness his dodgy Bryan Ferry (via James Murphy again) impression on Modern Age. House music has a long tradition of theft, of course, but the targets Bailey chooses to plunder aren’t always so astute. Lonely Days works hard to be catchy, but the only bit that really sticks is the same one-note stab that propels RIP Groove’s speed garage classic, Double 99. But for every zombie shuffle forward, Generation Hexed seems to take at least one back. Heard in a quick radio burst or in a club, Won’t Be Long’s fusion of vintage hardcore and classic New York garage (hardly innovative, but done well here) will hit the spot, as will the 8-bit surge of Creak, and the cheesy-as-hell but sweet Voodoo Lovers (with Gonzales on ivory-tickling duties). Elsewhere, however, where the writing is weaker, the similarity of the sound feels more like redundancy. On a track like this (first heard two years ago) the explicitness of the influence doesn’t really get in the way of a decent pop song. Bailey’s vocal delivery on Science & Reason is redolent of LCD’s James Murphy’s incantatory style down to the last yelp, and that’s even before the cowbells kick in. Most prominent is the feel of downmarket LCD Soundsystem clinging to several tracks. For all the energy displayed on Generation Hexed, though, there’s a sense of derivativeness running throughout. Over the last two years Bailey has gained a reputation as a remixer and co-written tracks with Peaches and Hot Chip, these achievements coming about after he drew attention with his energetic live show. #8BIT DRUMMER 99 LIVES SERIES#In fact Drums of Death, part of the Hot Chip-linked Greco Roman label that’s grown out of an ongoing series of east London warehouse parties, is more about the gleaming snap and crackle of pop than the chopped and screwed gothwave micro-genre spearheaded by Salem and oOoOO. 8Bit Drummer is a drum machine loaded with classic 8bit drum sounds. And again note that I said that probably most people that tune into this network wouldn’t take issue with it.Given its name, Generation Hexed, and the voodoo-style death’s head face paint typically worn by its creator, Drums of Death (aka London-based Scotsman Colin Bailey), you’d be forgiven for thinking this debut album was part of the witch house scene. But whether WE take issue or not doesn’t change the fact that there definitely seem to be some touchy legal restrictions going on surrounding stuff like this. Similar to how no one could really do a videogame-related podcast back when most of the podcast members were employed by different video game related companies.Īnd again, I don’t think it might necessarily BE a problem. After, I do remember Brett showcasing music from Capcom’s Remember Me and Ghouls n’ Ghosts last year. So maybe it’s just Brett wanting to avoid bringing capcom related titles too much into attention.īut in neither case do said titles are the headline or main subject of the episode. Of course, I don’t really know, probably only Brett and those close to him knows. #8BIT DRUMMER 99 LIVES FREE#The best us listeners can do is speculate, and if this isn’t really the main issue and reason why we haven’t seen any Mega Man (Or for that matter, Resident Evil, Street Fighter, Devil May Cry, what have you) centric episodes… Then feel free to offer an alternate explanation, cause I can’t really think of anything else. Pokemon’s a good choice for Rocktober, there’s so much ground to cover! I must say that game publishers’ tendency to add reverb to Game Boy tunes on their respective CD soundtracks makes them sound even more epic. I think a good way to describe the “braaaaahhhh” intros to the Pokemon battle themes is by calling them “rolling intros.” It’s something Motoi Sakuraba does for nearly EVERY battle theme he’s ever done. See: Golden Sun, Star Ocean, Tales of Destiny, Beyond the Beyond, etc. In the case of the Pokemon games, these rolling intros tend to be super frenetic, and I love every single one of them. Listening to all that music again really, REALLY hit me in the feels. My brother and I were among the first in our elementary school to discover Pokemon in late ’98 and it just got HUGE afterwards. I remember the day we got our blue Game Boy Pocket and Pokemon Blue. It was an absolute addiction.įunny enough, after about a year or so after that I felt like I had “grown out of” Pokemon, not even caring for the release of Gold or Silver. ![]()
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