Many hospitals recommend a disinfection regimen combining antibacterial sprays with phat, phat beats.
Without pretending that I wholly remember the golden days of music television and its quaint stringing together of two-and-a-half to three-minute vignettes about… flannel, or whatever else people cared about in ’93 (OK Soda?), it’s still nice to see something like Wreck Fader come along. It’s a promotional game for an album of the same name by Dutch DJ Kypski, wherein you play a needle on a record which is presumably part of a live performance of “Wreck Fader,” possibly in turn happening inside a prison which is actually a toy donation box which is on the wing of a plane in the Twilight Zone (but the jury’s out on that bit). Also, for real: dust microbes trying to kill your music.
Lead programmer and conceptual designer Tim Groeneboom, via email, puts it more succinctly. “The concept of the game is the journey of a record player needle trough the grooves of vinyl record. The music is completely in sync with your position on the groove. So if you happen to bounce into obstacles, get dirty by spores or get attacked by microbes this will immediately affect the music you hear.”
Scratching the track will release electric pulses which obliterate spores, and Groeneboom also promises an endgame microbe called Masterfader that has a vested interest in destroying your DJ career. And, lest we forget this is a promotion for Kypski’s new single, Soundcloud comments for the “Wreck Fader” track also appear in-game.
While it’s hard to say just how much staying power the game will have (and that power will vary with your taste for the music), it certainly doesn’t look like the sort of cynical, slap-dash product one imagines when they hear “promotional tie-in”–quite the opposite, in fact. Wreck Fader is in App Store review now and will be available free on iOS and Android, with a planned release on October 16th.
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