Mortal Kombat Appreciation Thread and turntablism

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Posted by Lira on May-06-2005 16:28:

Mortal Kombat Appreciation Thread and turntablism

Really - if there's anything that should be glorified in the 90's that would be Mortal Kombat. Much more than a game, the impact of Mortal Kombat in modern civilisation should never be overlooked.

It all started in 1991, when some cooky Japanese game developers came out with the brilliant idea of releasing Street Fighter II. The hand-drawn characters and all their charisma was childish but it had come up with concepts that gave it the honourable title of "grandfather" of all fighting games. And for this we should all be grateful. The same way Chicago had played 10 years earlier with the toys the magical Japs from Roland had created (giving birth to Acid House and even House itself), an art movement was about to emerge. It would all come with the glory of one game: Mortal Kombat, from Midway Games.

Much more realistic than Street Fighter and extremely exaggerated, it was like those old Martial Art movies taken to a bizarre extreme. Nothing made sense whatsoever. Characters bleeding 10 litres of soup every round, fatalities and a pointless plot. It was just perfect. When Midway (from Chicago, naturally) introduced the world to their latest game, they couldn't ever imagine how they would change the lives of millions worldwide.

Soon there was the film and the soundtrack. Radios everywhere were airing some strange tune with the sounds from a video game. Who could've imagined? We've never heard a tune saying "Ryu, Zangief, Blanka", probably because of Street Fighter's pokemon-like atmosphere. Mortal Kombat, on the other hand, gathered geeks and thugs and had their speaker blast words like "Flawless victory, Liu Kang, I win". Soon there was no distinction. The violence was a call for peace and fun. The soundtrack also introduced the somewhat harder side of electronic music to zillions of laymen.

First Chicago came up with House music. Then there was Mortal Kombat. Soon we also had E.R. as their legacy, but it had little impact to EDM (other than having Orbital in one of the chapters), so I won't mention it here.

So this thread is dedicated to Mortal Kombat: the game, the films and the soundtracks. In all their glory.

Posted by UWM on May-06-2005 16:30:

Posted by jonSun on May-06-2005 16:34:

Chicago House Music.

Posted by Aiwendil on May-06-2005 16:48:

hey, i think this guy likes mortal kombat.

but i like street fighter more. and i think by far the best use of a street fighter sample i've heard was in this set where akakabe McPowns some McPowser: http://www.dmcworld.com/technics/ar...attle1-100k.wvx

YOU LOSE!

Posted by jonze on May-06-2005 16:51:

quote:
Originally posted by UWM

flawless victory

Posted by Allied Nations on May-06-2005 16:51:

Re: Mortal Kombat Appreciation Thread and how Chicago saved the world

quote:
Originally posted by Lira

The violence was a call for peace and fun.

+1

Posted by Massive84 on May-06-2005 16:59:

OMG that scorpion picture is so ACE!

Posted by UWM on May-06-2005 17:00:

quote:
Originally posted by Aiwendil
hey, i think this guy likes mortal kombat.

but i like street fighter more. and i think by far the best use of a street fighter sample i've heard was in this set where akakabe McPowns some McPowser: http://www.dmcworld.com/technics/ar...attle1-100k.wvx

YOU LOSE!

I'll be the first to admit I don't know much about true turntablism, but do they use those marks on their records as reference points for all their trickery?

And as an addendum to my post - the second 90 seconds of Akakabe is unreal.

Posted by A.J. on May-06-2005 17:13:

quote:
Originally posted by Aiwendil
hey, i think this guy likes mortal kombat.

but i like street fighter more. and i think by far the best use of a street fighter sample i've heard was in this set where akakabe McPowns some McPowser: http://www.dmcworld.com/technics/ar...attle1-100k.wvx

YOU LOSE!

Holy shit!

That is possibly one of the most awesome things that i have ever seen.

Posted by Pjotr G on May-06-2005 17:18:

quote:
Originally posted by UWM
I'll be the first to admit I don't know much about true turntablism, but do they use those marks on their records as reference points for all their trickery?

The stickers indicate the starting point of used samples.

Posted by Subey on May-06-2005 17:20:

Street Fighter II is a second generation fighter, and as such can't be considered a grandfather of the genre.

The Grandfather of the genre is the 8bit game Bruce Lee. Where many an hour was spent battling as either the Green Sumo thing, Bruce Lee, or the Black Ninja in PvP battles.

I suspect Lira's bias is because the Mortal Kombat soundtrack introduced him to Halcyon!

Posted by Aiwendil on May-06-2005 17:23:

that vid is kind of funny in that that was the final round, and akakabe won the competition for that year. you'd think Silk Kuts would have been better if he made it to the final round. but he obviously choked in the last half of the battle.

Posted by Scottaculous on May-06-2005 17:24:

Streetfighter 4 Life!

Posted by verndogs on May-06-2005 17:26:

Posted by Lira on May-06-2005 17:28:

quote:
Originally posted by Aiwendil
hey, i think this guy likes mortal kombat.

I was listening to the Mortal Kombat theme and got carried away

Anyway, that�s some nice turntablism - I was just a bit disappointed because I thought there would be a "Hadouken" somewhere

Posted by Lira on May-06-2005 17:33:

quote:
Originally posted by Subey
I suspect Lira's bias is because the Mortal Kombat soundtrack introduced him to Halcyon!

Hehe, actually, I did know Halcyon before I heard the compilation, as I recall it. However, if there's a song in the soundtrack that did change my life, that's "Shauna Imrei - Two telephone calls and one air raid". It's been a favourite of mine for years.

Posted by Scottaculous on May-06-2005 17:43:

quote:
Originally posted by Lira
Anyway, that�s some nice turntablism - I was just a bit disappointed because I thought there would be a "Hadouken" somewhere

Me too. The Empire Strikes Back melody by changing the pitch of the record was pretty sweet though. The Japanese guy totally owned the Brit.

Posted by mezzir on May-06-2005 18:16:

hhahahahhaa
in the first round of the two, right at the end of the first guy the announcer yells 'TIIIIIIIIME!'
and i reeeeeeally thought at first that it was the guy using a sample from star trek: "KHAAAAAAAN!'
that woulda been so pimp
morevidsorstfu

Posted by Lira on May-06-2005 18:19:

quote:
Originally posted by mezzir
morevidsorstfu

http://www.dmcworld.com/technics/ar...2004/videos.asp

Posted by mezzir on May-06-2005 18:20:

quote:
Originally posted by Lira
http://www.dmcworld.com/technics/ar...2004/videos.asp

Posted by Lira on May-06-2005 18:23:

quote:
Originally posted by Scottaculous
Me too. The Empire Strikes Back melody by changing the pitch of the record was pretty sweet though. The Japanese guy totally owned the Brit.

Wasn't that the Funeral March? (I don't know the name in English - in Portuguese we call it "Marcha F�nebre")

Posted by mezzir on May-06-2005 19:29:

quote:
Originally posted by Lira
Wasn't that the Funeral March? (I don't know the name in English - in Portuguese we call it "Marcha F�nebre")

yup
imperial march (from star wars) was probably composed to be slightly similar to evoke the same feelings

Posted by noikeee on May-06-2005 21:59:

quote:
Originally posted by Scottaculous
Me too. The Empire Strikes Back melody by changing the pitch of the record was pretty sweet though.

yeah, that was the coolest part

Posted by AlphaStarred on May-06-2005 22:08:

Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter are all very well, but Killer Instinct was a game and a half!

Posted by Aiwendil on May-06-2005 22:16:

http://www.dmcworld.com/technics2005/video.asp

basically the same thing lira posted but with a little more info.

i suggest Dopey's 2003 winning set...the crazy shit he does with the turntable power off.