Say, I played one of those wiis the other day. Good fun, but i'm actually mentioning it for a reason. We were playing this table tennis game when, all of a sudden, this really good house beat drops. The music builds as you keep a rally going so you end up fighting to keep the beat and it leads to you getting really into it. What a great idea! More games should use music as a prize.
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How much of a tune is 'wearing my rolex'? Me and fellow wiley-phile oli are divided over it, but i'm strongly pro-rolex. So wiley can write a floor-filler! It's just so lovely to see wiley finally receiving success-he's everywhere i look/listen recently-that i dont really care how or why. It'll probably mean wiley turns into a dizzee, a person who's got to where he is on the back of mildly interested teenagers who go for the 'new thing' regardless of whether its high or low quality (essentially, people who bought nu-rave), but i dont think that matters. If wiley does get on top, it'll be amazing. Special things will happen (maybe scene kids will get into 2-step!). I think dizzee was never interested in being anything to do with grime and everything he did was an effort to break out and become a big rap star which he now has done. But everyone always goes on about how wiley is grime and so it'll be so interesting to see what he does if/when he's on t4 (it occured to me recently how often i refer to t4 in my blogs and reviews and genuinely worried me-it's cos i sort of see it as a perfect example of faceless, mediocre, cynical and uninterested music journalism).
One of the great things about wiley is this sense you always get listening to him that he's a great person who's just really trying. And so it's fantastic to go on youtube and see all these comments saying 'bigggggg' or hear him on radio 1, cos i know that something's finally happening that will be making wiley happy, after all these years of work and struggle.
But yeah, the songs amazing. And not such a sell-out as people claim. It's still pretty odd-just those four notes over and over and that incredibly simplistic beat. And i think in terms of style, it's pretty much a one off. The other stuff on the myspace is like the standard wiley riddims-weird, raw, clean-cut chaos. And it's all great stuff too. He's on a new high lately, you can hear the optimism in his voice, and i really really wish him well.
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I like the idea of games using music as a prize. imho the best example of this is the game Rez. The further you progress into a level the more the dance music in the background grows and grows until by the end of the level the music is a euphoric climax of sound.
im not anti wearing my rolex. it is good. i listen to it lots. but im just scared of ending up with an album of wearing my rolexes and rolex sweeps. and i wasnt impressed by his live performances of it. it didnt work on stage. nononono.
im quite particial to the agent x remix i really low the sublow bass in it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4BF5fg2nrY
Was just going to mention Rez! Well there goes my easy comment.
There's actually a whole genre of games that do this - "rhythm action games". Guitar Hero, most famously, but there's loads there are more artistically interesting. People seem to have binged on them in the noughties, but they'll be back. We are too much like animals for them not to.
Look for "Free the Beat" "Tranquility" or "Pteranodon".
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