New from Technodrome!

Hey folks, just popped on to leave an update on the band. They are currently giving away all of their songs seen on youtube; it comes in an album titled, The Youtube Sessions, and thanks to the oh so excellent website Bandcamp, you can download it in any format you want. This album of course has their pokemon covers, along with mega man 3, and some extra goodies.

http://technodrome.bandcamp.com/

Rock on!
~Dan

Why do we have Pikachu?

A question occurred to me a few days ago when I started to play Pokémon blue. Normally I play Pokémon in English – so I hadn’t thought that it would have been possible that the franchise would not translate all of the names. The fundamental thing to know would be that the names in Japanese are different. For example: Dragonite was Kairyu etc. So, the question is “Why?”

 

¿Por que Tenemos Pikachu?

Una pregunta que me occurio hace unos días cuando empece a jugar Pokémon azul. Normalmente juego Pokémon en ingles – así no me pensé que hubiera posible que la franquicia no traducirá todos de los nombres. Lo básico que sabia era que los nombres en japones eran diferentes. Por ejemplo: Dragonite era Kairyu etc. Así, la pregunta es: “¿Por que?”

Artists to Look Out for: Technodrome

Get ready to rock out to one of the newer VGM cover bands from Melbourne, Australia: Technodrome. If you expected a modest rendition of Mario and Zelda with some distortion, and maybe a good Pokemon cover to top it off. Well… you got it! But that would be understating these guys, so I’ll not only pull up their videos from youtube, but I’ll even give you an interview to show you all they have to offer.

When Things Shouldn’t Change: Pokemon GS

Well I’ll be talking about music as usual, of course this time my complaint is with one of the big sellers of this year: Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver. Now of course I will openly say that I was initially wary of this game because it was, in fact, my favorite out of the series, and I really did not want to be disappointed, nor to pay $40.  So naturally I did not buy it, but of course I checked out the music, and I was dismayed to find something that stopped far short of it’s potential.