They were one of the first to hire musicians to make game music back in the day, which is why Ninja Gaiden and Tecmo Super Bowl music has a full
drumkit with crazy fills and everything.
Simmons has released a new flagship
electronic drumkit named the SD2000 Mesh Head Electronic Drum Kit, which features expressive mesh drum pads, multi-zone crash and ride cymbals, wireless hi - hat foot controller and a sound module packed with vintage and contemporary acoustic kit sounds.
What's more sociable and energetic than beating the crap out of a
plastic drumkit with some friends while thrashing along to Tool's «Vicarious ``?
There's «Wrench and Numbers», which is essentially
a drumkit being hammered for a couple of minutes — it's an exercise in dramatic scoring (it's beautifully - judged in context) and weirdly listenable on the album, despite being far removed from much of the music around it.