We at Total Gaming Network are more than thrilled to restart our Music in Gaming series today with our next featured band. Once more, we have paired up with Artwerk, a dedicated music label for Electronic Arts, to bring our community closer to the bands that you can hear in EA titles. Each month we will feature a new band on our site that has their music in all the latest EA games. Throughout the month the band is featured, we will stream exclusive tracks, offer free downloads when available, and conduct interviews with the bands. All of this is in an effort to connect the gamers to the bands and vice versa. So without further ado, we'd like to present this month's featured band:
Datarock
It starts with pink and green lazers criss-crossing the sky, billowing clouds of dry ice, and a spotlight picking out two hooded, beshaded figures. Above the EnormoStadium stage, a house-sized Commodore 64 scrolls out the words: "Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today, to give you DATAROCK."
"‘The Blog" is a nice opening," Fredrik Saroea, frontman of Norwegian dance-rockers Datarock is telling me. "Because it's almost apocalyptic, there's something grandiose about the sound."
Amidst a sensory overload of canned applause, nattering samples from nu-media godheads Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, and floating on elegiac Sign O' The Times-synths, Datarock announce their arrival in the Information Age in spine-tingling, anthemic form.
"We know this blog is long-awaited!" Fredrik bellows at a virtual stadium of cheering Datarock fans, "Just couldn't be done on C64s!" It's an attempt by technology-fetishists Datarock to romanticise the early utopian promise of the Internet, before it became something that people just took for granted and got annoyed by. It's total retrofuturism. It is the opening statement of a time-travelling album that ramraids the years 1975 through 1985 with the power of modern studio technology.
The band went on to have their music featured in FIFA Soccer 10, NBA Live 08, Madden NFL 08, FIFA Street 3, Need for Speed ProStreet, and FIFA Soccer 08. Their latest album, Red, was released earlier this year in June and includes the featured track The Pretender linked below.
Featured Track: The Pretender
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Here is where you, our beloved community comes into play! If you have any question you would like to see answered by Datarock, now is your chance to ask! We'll be collecting a number of questions to use in an interview with the band that will go up later this month. Don't be shy, ask away!
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