05/09/2017 · 2:35 pm
No reboot of Mortal Kombat has come close to the cultural coup-de-grace of the original series from the 1990s. It doesn’t matter how many new “Fatalities” there are, or how much blood, or how realistic the fighters look. There’s still a crucial ingredient missing.
The techno.
If these words are screaming in your head right now, you know what I’m talking about.
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Filed under Bad Influences, Faint Signals, Nostalgic Obsessions, Thousand Listen Club, Worst Of All
Tagged as 1990s, 1992, 1994, 1995, Earthworm Jim, Killer Instinct, Lords of Acid, Mansion of Hidden Souls, Mortal Kombat, Nintendo, Paul W.S. Anderson, PlayStation, Praga Khan, Primal Rage, R.C. Pro-Am, rave, Resident Evil, rotoscope, Savannah, Sega, techno, video games
06/17/2016 · 1:29 pm
In 1997, electronica duo The Chemical Brothers released their second album, Dig Your Own Hole. It went on to be an extremely popular example of “big beat” music, and is included in numerous “Best Albums of All-Time” lists. I had a copy of the CD in my old car for so long the case turned into shardy shit.
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Tagged as 1990s, 1996, 1997, alternative music, Beastie Boys, Beth Orton, big beat, Britain, Chemical Brothers, drugs, Ed Simons, electronica, George Carlin, Janis Ian, Kinko's, Kool Herc, Lothar and the Hand People, Media Play, Men In Black, Mike Myers, Mike the Pod, MTV, music, music video, Noel Gallagher, Oasis, Radio Shack, rave, Saturday Night Live, Tom Rowlands, Will Smith
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