Video Game Music Party @ The Motor Room
Head on over to The Motor Room at Boundary Street Markets for a night of video game music courtesy of local powerhouse Boss Fight and Sydney’s The Consouls (first ever QLD show) on Friday November 27.
Boss Fight are a five piece powerhouse dedicated to game music, from any era and any platform. Armed with an array of electronic instruments, Boss Fight takes tunes you know from games you’ve loved and pumps them up, transforming them into larger-than-life flaming emblems of unspeakable power. Some obscure masterworks, some world-famous anthems for characters known and cherished around the globe, Boss Fight frenetically venerate game music, and only game music.
Gamers themselves, they take dexterity hard-won polishing the W,A,S and D keys and pummel instruments running signal chains so synthetic they’re utterly alien to anything else called music. Sure, a lot of game music was never meant to be played by humans, so Boss Fight tackles the rabid demands of 180 BPM plus badass mechanical ecstatica bringing it down into our very own realm of meat. You’ll get your ham hocks stamping as Boss Fight lays down some classic Nintendo beats.
The Consouls are a young, Sydney based ensemble that combine their two loves of jazz and video games to create a distinct sound that’s sure to satisfy musicians and gamers alike. Their quirky jazz arrangements of video game tunes is certainly a niche genre, but the sextet are well accustomed to playing traditional jazz music, funky grooves and hip hop inspired tracks. Drawing upon their love of the jazz tradition and applying it to a songbook that doesn’t often cross into the genre, their unique sound is sure to provide a treat unlike any other.