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Skate games have often been a starting point for both culture and music. “No one can really agree what a skate game should sound like. She doesn’t want her role to stop at creating Skatebird, she wants the acknowledgment of the cultural shift to be a first step in welcoming new potential skaters to the fold. “Those bands represent an aspect of classic skate culture, but things like ska were laughed at back then, people sort of said it’s dead, it’s just “ironic”, like no! Ska is, and always has been alive and really quite cool, and that’s another aspect of modern skate culture we’re trying to channel.”įox was keen to express the importance of music on the development of a culture like the one she knows and loves. So why those bands? Are they modern enough? Fox says she chose the bands because of how they seamlessly blend the old and new, opening a new avenue of connection between two halves of the same coin. We Are The Union is very heavily ska-influenced, Illicit Nature is kind of… a modern take on punk, Grave Danger is… surf rock? Skate rock? Well, they’re really awesome.” “In consciously avoiding that older sound we ended up with licensed music from We Are The Union, Illicit Nature, Grave Danger, and HolyWOW.

Throughout the game, players can find tapes of original music that was written for the game by several modern artists on the scene, and of that, Fox is very proud. Like it was their manager or something, this was made to appeal to Thrasher magazine or whatever.” You do see videos that have classic punk, but it always comes off like they weren’t the ones making the music choices. “I’ve been following the career of some of the newer skate kids online and the music choices they’re making are very influenced by SoundCloud rap, it’s not “classic” punk. I don't know anything about this but it's awesome: a fairytale heelflip in Brazil by #RayssaLeal (via /uZgshHYMMT “The “skate fairy” went viral in the mid-teens, skating around wearing a little pink tutu, and this year she’s at the Olympics, and that’s kick-ass! That’s awesome! And that is modern skate culture.” Then that’s targeting more current skate kids.”įox credits her interest in real-life skate culture and its development over the years for the ease with which she settled into creating this new generation of game. Or you ground in any of the more modern genres. “In terms of skate games, there are two kinds,” she says with some authority, “Either you roll hard on ‘skatepunk’ or certain kinds of hip hop, and that points you dead in the mid-nineties, dead in the middle of that culture, which is pretty exclusive.

The developers of skating games seem to find it hard to tear themselves away from the ‘retro’ angle that the culture readily provides, the pop-punk and Tony Hawk vibes endlessly recycled due to their ubiquity with the genre. Megan Fox, the creator of Skatebird, says this was very much a conscious decision, and it was always her intention to modernise through music – arguably one of the most important facets of skate culture.

That, and it’s about a skateboarding bird. Skatebird was conceived within this culture, and fed from its roots, growing to encompass something of the more inclusive and progressive elements of skate culture.

#Skatebird physical release full

Skateparks are full of kids of all genders having a go, the culture is wide and all-encompassing, and skating groups around the world have been responsible for some incredible community and social projects. Times have changed, and the modern skate scene is one of the most inclusive and encouraging environments a person could wish for.

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As fun and as irreverent and as cohesive as this culture was… it was also most commonly the solitary preserve of white, twenty-something-year-old men. So pervasive is the image that you’re probably already getting the whiff of baggy jeans, pop-punk, and fish-eye lens coming to you on the breeze. When I say ‘90s skate culture, you know exactly what I mean.