Joe and I were talking last week about the new musical fad of creating original works of music using the 8-bit synth built in to the original Nintendo (aka chiptunes). He had some chiptunes on his iPod, some unlistenable and some oddly compelling. Today I ran across an entire album of covers of pop tunes done by chiptunes artists. Some of these are just sort of novel, but the cover of ‘Karma Police‘ is mesmerizing. (I’m sure by now Last.fm has totally ratted me out for listening to it 25 times.) I know that the first link for the record is totally glutted by now so I’m going to go out on a limb and make it available here. It’ll be on BT soon enough as well, I’m sure.

NESCover (67.8MB RAR Archive)

01 REM - Losing My Religion
02 Europe - Final Countdown
03 Radiohead - Karma Police
04 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
05 Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
06 Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
07 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
08 Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
09 Slayer - Angel of Death
10 David Pomeranz - Nothing’s Gonna Stop Me Now
11 Coldplay - Yellow
12 Rick James - Superfreak
13 Semisonic - Closing Time
14 (Silence)
15 Hidden NESmix Intro
16 Zero Wing (Opening Theme) (4×4 Remix)
17 Tetris (Music A) (Piano Practice)

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