Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[This young man is very serious about the Mortal Kombat theme, as well as the accordion]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/20/this-young-man-is-very-serious-about-the-mortal-kombat-theme-as/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/20/this-young-man-is-very-serious-about-the-mortal-kombat-theme-as/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/20/this-young-man-is-very-serious-about-the-mortal-kombat-theme-as/#comments The young gentleman seen here is clearly both a talented accordion player and a very serious Mortal Kombat fan. After seeing him featured on Reddit, however, we didn't expect to find so many contemporaries! Apparently accordion and MK go together like ninjas and ... MK. Who knew?!

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Over the weekend, Nintendo continued posting new videos of new Wii Music instruments. Above, the accordion, which is like Thor's hammer Mjolnir, but for Weird Al. Only the worthy can pick up the accordion, but those who can wield it are transformed instantly into Weird Al Yankovic. Due to technical and licensing constraints, only the sound-producing capabilities of the accordion are reproduced in Wii Music.

After the break, videos featuring simulated taiko, clarinet, and conga drums. We think that of all the instruments, the ones involving drumming look silliest when there's no actual instruments. The model just kind of punches the air like one of those action figures whose arms swing out when you squeeze their legs. But we must admit that Wii Music's taiko sounds pretty cool.

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How have we gone this long without doing a Tetris music, you might ask? Well, truth be told, the whole idea seemed a little uninteresting to us. While we can't deny the inherent catchiness of the classic puzzler theme, most of the hundreds of video covers of the tune on YouTube are simple transcriptions for the piano or guitar. Booooring.

So for this week, we've dug up some traditional Tetris music played on some less-than-traditional musical instruments. Please enjoy these clips of the Tetris theme as performed on accordion, mandolin and the human head. That's right... the human head.

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