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A hacked Game Boy, compliment battles, video games and Mr Blobby: the rise of UK nerdcore
The geekiest edge of the British music underground is fuelled by the 90s, featuring a ZX Spectrum Noel Edmonds, a Blobby-themed grindcore band, and a lady who performs the script to Theme Hospital
“The show starts with the Spectrum loading screen, then a pixelated Edmonds tells the crowd he’s responsible for every celebrity death, political decision and major disaster of the last 40 years. “I’d got the second golden age of hip-hop in the early 90s when Snoop Dogg, Nas and Wu-Tang Clan dropped their seminal records,” explains 45-year-old Philadelphia-born Raheem Jarbo AKA Mega Ran over Zoom from LAX airport as he waits for his delayed flight to London. He quit teaching in 2011 when Capcom offered him a gig to write music for Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge.
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