It is difficult to think about those games, whose soundtrack had a major impact on the entire generation compared to the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater Series. Popular music was a part of the Games for decades: Avoid traveling Attari was a particularly strange example for 2600, and the Use of Geet 2 by Blur in FIFA: Road to World Cup 98 was distinguished. But Tony Hawk Series was the first to use Goon In this way music, and for the suburbs and many children in the country, this was the first time he interacted with Punk.
The two -minute level structure of the cutting size was perfect to keep the music in the heart of the game, as much as the skating. Punk- or maybe hip hop or thrash- charging on each run was unwavering to skate, even for children who had never touched the board or went to a park.
In the recent ThPS celebration at Los Angeles, I spoke to some of the Tony Hawk Games music, celebrating both adjacent release of the new Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 remakes and The Ligi of the Soundtrack. What the legends of skating and music here had to say about their permanent heritage.
For the Hawk himself, all his objectives for the game came back to the one thing. “I felt that it was important to represent the culture of skating, and in my early days the culture of Skating was the initial punk rock music. Then the music department of the activities wanted to keep it balanced with new music, so they tilted towards the new punk at that time, and it is crazy to think that Goldfinger was new,” Hawk sat in his trailer. “In addition, only other voices that represent skating like hip hop. So music was important to me, but I did not think it was going to be something that would be a standalone hit, in the context of people, ‘Oh, we can’t wait to hear about the soundtrack for the game’.
This full cycle is coming now
Steve Cablero
Those elevated expectations mean pressure from updating the soundtrack to Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 + 4 – you are updating some people through indifferent glasses of about 25 years. This time Hawk was more involved in the soundtrack of his name. “I think it’s to do a lot, but I am proud of all the soundtracks including this new. I had more input this time, so I hope it meets expectations.”
Steve Cablero was a pro -skater, depicted as a playable character in sports and now, at the age of 60, is a song by his latest punk band Urethane which was painted on 3 + 4 soundtracks. When the original games were coming out, he was in a privileged position to take songs for the soundtrack which would also present in his skating video at the end of the game.
“Skateboarding is Gangar form,” he says, “and so when you have a part -run punk song, it really flows well. I have just chosen music that I thought I would go with my video part. For number two I asked for Millencolin, and 3 I brought Bodeser from Australia.
Lupay Fiysco is the artist behind the most famous skateboard hip hop track of all time: Kick, Push. It was first included on a departure from Tony Hawk’s downhill jam, pro skater and underground titles. Now it is now being painted in a main Pro Skater Soundtrack.
“It feels good,” says Fiasco. “Licensing companies are going to license. You allow them to do so when they want to do so,” he laughs. “No, a homi of tony. When the kick, the push came out first, he was one of the first skates of the note, who invited me to do the LA in an event, so it is like a full cycle position.”
One of the striking things about these conversations is how all the skaters and musicians in culture are placed down on Earth. Godfather of Freestyle Skateboarding, Rodney Mulene invented a shocking tricks, including kickflip – he also has a stunning wind of humility given all his achievements. According to him, the soundtrack is one of the main reasons why the game was so successful.
People search their music between the age of 9 or 10 by the age of 9 or 10, and many people found it at that time.
Tony Hawk
“They made something so permanent and special that it stood above everything,” says Mulene. “I think the way Tony included all those bands and music, the way he reached the outside culture – even if you didn’t skate, you appreciated Vibe. It explained the texture of the culture.
Of course, with all things that have a significant impact on culture, this is not just the case. It would have to find it at the right time at the right time at the right time, and Mulen said that during all the material for success, the Pro Skater of Tony Hawk was definitely in the right place at the right time. “All things have a magic era, okay? Music, a lot was happening in terms of everything.”
What is worth it, Hawk agrees that timing was therefore the effect of the soundtrack. “I think it introduced a generation that was impressive. People find their music until the age of 13, eg, at the age of 9 or 10, and at that time find their music among many people. Flag, agent orange, and that’s what I had heard that I was skating, and that is what I was associated with skating.”
While you can never go back and experience things that have changed you for the first time, this golden age of remake and remake means that those milleniels who fell in love with this music and culture at the right place and can see it again. Extended Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 + 4 Soundtrack also means that now-medium-age Millennials can discover even more new music, while artists like Cablero proved that we never need to stop finding and making new music.
Everything Y2K is coming back in fashion again, perhaps a whole new generation of children falls in love with punk music through videogame.
