As we've been keeping an eye peeled on the Internets to see who out there is using Beaterator for PSP to exercise their inner Timbalands, Derrick Mays, Frankie Knuckles and Quincy Joneses - it's cool to see a few gaming journalists getting into the swing of things and pounding out some interesting stuff.

N'Gai Croal has been getting deeper and deeper into it since picking it up last week.  First with a quick and dirty demo on Thursday when he was "starting to get obsessed with Beaterator for PSP"; then delivering a full proper song Friday he calls "Superthud (what what)" ...  And Saturday woke up with the gumption to press on superproducing...

When I woke up this morning, I had no intention of making another Beaterator joint. I just wanted to charge my new PSP Go and redownload some of the games I had already purchased from the PlayStation store. But once I’d gotten Beaterator installed along with my first couple of musical efforts, I started listening to them…then I had to tinker…and by the time I looked up, two hours had gone by. Damn you, Rockstar.

Listen to the freshness that is N'Gai's "My 1st Groove (revised)" here:

Meantime, the editors at GamesRadar were inspired enough by the music-making modes of Beaterator to use it to create an EP's worth of original reworkings of classic videogame theme songs.   

... if you give us a music creator as excellent as Rockstar's Beaterator, of course we're going to recreate videogame tunes with it.  We're dependable like that.

Ha.  Check out their recreations here and see if you can name that tune for each of them.


... and finally (for now), the guys over at PALGN in Australia decided to post one of the songs they crafted while writing their review of Beaterator.  This is definitely the first Metal song that we have ever heard created using Beaterator and really is a testament to how powerful and versatile the music-making modes can be.