Hell yes - if you are ever find yourselves at or near Athens, Georgia (or Atlanta, for that matter), double check to see if Contraband (or their main project, Cinemechanica) is playing. You definitely won't regret it.

Yes. I will regret it. Any band that plays music from the 8-bit era simply sucks. It was cute ten years ago. Now it's just plain dumb.



What's next? A band that make all their music to the rhythm of a game of PONG?

Electronica/House/Techno/etc... all sucks.



I remember when drugs use to enhance listening to music. Now you have to take drugs in order to listen to it. Modern music sucks. Enjoy.

I for one love this idea, who doesnt love to go rock out to one of the greatest games ever made?!?!?!

Oh shoosh ZeroCorpse...the Minibosses and 8-bit Weapon are awesome.

They should write a song called "Get you the hot bullets of shotgun to die"



That would seriously rock.

Oh... did anybody notice that the disclaimer said



"The Contra video game and it's music is a registered trademark of the KonOmi group"?

I wonder if they know how to play the 'Bionic Commando' music.

we spent more time in college playing contra then doing anything else, that game rocks! we had it down to about 30mins to beat the game, without the konomi code! i even beat it once without a single death. this needs to come out for XBL arcade!

Man, I think "the advantage" might be the hottest game rock band. 80's, they do bionic commando SO HOT.



check those dudes



www.theadvantageband.com

they have members of "hella", and "the eloi" as well.

I haven't listened to the music yet for "The Advantage" (I've got some errands to run right now)...but their website is fugly.

Yikes, I have to agree with Jago. That's one of the worst sites I've ever seen. I mean, really, that's worse than the crap from 1995. I'm gonna have to judge a book by its cover here and not even bother listening to them. If they can't even have a semi-decent site, how good could their music possibly be? And if you know them Bill, you might want to mention that people think their site is so bad they won't even listen to their music. Appearance goes a long way.

eh... Music: not so great. Playing: way better than me (I always thought Contra was ridiculously hard.)

Tim... "If they can't even have a semi-decent site, how good could their music possibly be? "



So if an accountant can't write a jingle for his business he must be a shitty accountant? Nice logic.... Do the Rolling Stones suck more because they weren't involved in the marketing/promotion? (you know, the jobs that OTHER people usually handle)



Maybe the reason their website is bad is because instead of dicking around with web design and php they are out in the studio rocking out like a *BAND* should.



....stupid....

Hey. Mike from Cinemechanica here. To be honest, we didn't even know this recording existed.... as much as we try and take any live performance pretty fucking seriously, we kinda dropped the ball on this show and didn't get to practice the Contra material very thoroughly beforehand. Bummer. I'm not to stoked about our tightness ... so we're going to post a stronger version ... both visually and musically ... asap for anybody interested.



Contraband is obviously kinda rediculous. Under a microscope it's certainly an easy target, but the fact remains that live ... we have a really, really good time laying it down. And conventionally.... lay it down we do. Reading some of the comments on here about it being "cute" and "cliche" and what not... well... um. We're definately not going for cute. It's full of loud. Furthermore, if having respect for the creativity exhibitied in using the sonically crippled NES as a musical platform is cliche or dated, well then I guess I'm a pretty cliche, dated dude. The music for Contra owns. Riffs all over the place.



For the record, we are all giant fans of the Advantage. Period. Way before we started. Yes much of Contraband is patterned on their style of interpreting 8-bit tunes, and I'll be the first person to tell them that should we cross paths. The long and the short of it is that we're just having a good time with it, and its role as a much needed, stress-free outlet ... much more so than cinemechanica proper... which is pretty much all business these days. If intersted, our new record is coming out in march and details aplenty lie at www.hellosirrecords.com.



woot.