http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n128y4LSsk
This is the teaser video for Kind of Bloop, an 8-bit tribute to Miles Davis’s classic jazz album Kind of Blue, released on the 50th anniversary of the album on August 17, 2009.
Music by chiptune artists ast0r, Virt, Sergeeo, Shnabubula, and Disasterpeace.
I was prepared to hate this album – but after listening to the previews at the album site, I’ve got to admit, it kind of swings.
Digital downloads will be available starting August 20th at the KindOfBloop site.
About the project:
What would the pioneers of jazz sound like on a Nintendo Entertainment System? Coltrane on a C-64? Mingus on Amiga? For years, I’ve wondered what “chiptune jazz” would sound like, but there are only a tiny handful of jazz covers ever made.
To satisfy my curiosity — and commemorate the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue” — I’ve asked five brilliant chiptune musicians to collaborate and reinvent the entire album in the 8-bit sound.
The lineup, in alphabetical order:
Ast0r (Chris J. Hampton)
Disasterpeace (Rich Vreeland)
Sergeeo (Sergio de Prado)
Shnabubula (Samuel Ascher-Weiss)
Virt (Jake Kaufman)
It sounds like the chiptune artists put a lot of effort in this, I'm hearing a lot of attention to detail in some of the programming. From the samples on the site it sounds like it's all NES style chipmusic though, no C64 unless I'm mistaken.
I <3 chiptune music so I look forward to it anyway. 🙂
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