As we mentioned, Kind of Bloop is just the latest album to be released in the 8-bit covers genre - if you like your music as Mario intended, check this lot out. hah, same here! Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Last month, we saw the story of “Kind of Bloop”. For years, Ive wondered what chiptune jazz would sound like, but there are only a … Can't wait for the actual CD! DrumUltimA DrumUltimA Kirby (+1500) Contributors; 1,646 posts; Report post; Posted August 17, 2009. July 05, 2011 in Essays. Kudos to the team at Waxy. Into the Fray: My thoughts on the Jay Maisel and Andy Baio mess. It is worth checking out if you know what you are in for. A group of chiptune artists took it upon themselves to recreate the classic jazz album track by track, and the result is Kind of Bloop. Have you ever been listening to Kind of Blue and thought to yourself, “As much as I’m fond of Miles Davis, I really wonder what it would sound like if my NES had performed this music instead”? May 12, 2009 synthhead Music News 8-bit, 8-bit music, covers, jazz, lo fi, lo fi music, Miles Davis. Well, wonder no longer. For those that don’t know what 8-bit is and are wondering, I’ll explain. “Kind of Bloop” is an 8-bit tribute to jazz legend Miles Davis featuring covers by five chiptune musicians in honor of the 50th anniversary of the release of Kind of Blue. You need a masochistic desire to have something difficult to do," he says. Tech entrepreneur Andy Baio had put together a Chiptune tribute album of the classic Miles Davis work Kind of Blue.. Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue Posted 11 years ago Archive Kind of Bloop: Miles Davis for NES. Oh some one has done it now. You can leave a … (Fast) alle Urheberrechtsprobleme in einem Video: Andy Baio über die neue Prohibition. To many this sounds like blasphemy – and I have to admit that, despite being a raging technophile, my reaction to the album was ambivalent at best. Download. Coltrane on a C-64? Wow, it's even better than I imagined! ‘Kind of Blue’ is Miles Davis’ best known album. Any ideas about what happened to them? Miles Davis probably never played Nintendo. Launched as a Kickstarter project in April 2009, only two weeks after Kickstarter itself opened its doors, the album’s production was funded by 419 backers around the world. posted by abc123xyzinfinity at 3:31 PM on August 20, 2009 . This is one of the oldest forms of stop motion and is rarely used today. Very cute. Mingus on Amiga? Wow, it's even better than I imagined! MetaFilter's own waxpancake commissioned an 8-bit homage to the greatest album ever made. By: shmegegge. Find album release information for Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis - Various Artists on AllMusic Recommended Posts. Kind of Bloop August 20, 2009 1:05 PM Subscribe. Find it on Kind Of Bloop - An 8-bit tribute . Reply; new topic; Prev; 1; 2; Next; Page 2 of 2 . Kind of Bloop ~ Release by Andy Baio (see all versions of this release, 2 available) Overview; Disc IDs (0) Cover Art (1) Aliases; Tags; Details; Edit; Edit Relationships; Annotation. johnfoley 29 Jul 2012. Kind of Bloop is a chiptune project organized by Andy Baio that took each of the five songs on Kind of Blue and rendered them in the low-processing-power manner of early video games. This entry was posted on August 21, 2009 at 8:57 pm and is filed under Music and Culture, WTF with tags Jazz, Kind of Bloop, Kind of Blue, Miles Davis, Music and Culture. Coltrane on a C-64? Kind of Bloop. What those guys created was amazing. Pixelation is a form of stop motion that uses real people and real environments to create unreal videos. it took me an hour to post that. Pixelation . Will Kind Of Bloop join its predecessor as one of the ultimate collegiate make-out albums of all-time, or will it be a monstrous carbuncle on the face of an old friend? (All we need now is a Play Like Miles game using a Wii horn instrument) Here's a teaser @ Presented by Pterodactyl Squad, this features Rivers Cuomo and co's work "as you've never heard it before" (unless everything you hear goes through a GameBoy-izing filter, that is). slideshow. Kind of Bloop: Miles Davis as Video Game Music. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. this must be what music sounds like to Leisure Suit Larry. Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis, a Various Artists Album. Mingus on Amiga? This is about how I feel this morning... gnuconsulting 9 Nov 2013. Kind of Bloop is a chiptune tribute album by Andy Baio, based on Miles Davis' 1959 album, Kind of Blue. Pretty sweet so far . Andy Baio would agree as well, so he decided to commemorate the album’s 50th anniversary (back in 2009) with ‘Kind of Bloop: An 8-bit Tribute to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue”. Baio got promient chiptunes artists like Ast0r, Disasterpeace, and Shnabubula to create covers for the songs in ‘Kind of Blue’. 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. In 2010, Baio was sued by Jay Maisel, the photographer of the Kind of Blue cover art for copyright infringement, resulting in an out-of-court settlement for $32,500. 2 thoughts on “ 8-Bit Miles Davis: Kind Of Bloop ” korgi. but it seems like there's nowhere to find the whole thing on the internet. The process was very laborious. I bought a copy a few years ago but I lost my hard drive that had the album. By: abc123xyzinfinity. But he didn’t think about licensing the cover art from the original album, which he had used to commission an 8-bit pixel-art work for his CD’s cover. By Sam Ascher-Weiss, July 29, 2009 in Community. By: shmegegge. Abomination! For Kind of Bloop, he recorded himself playing "All Blues" on the piano. The concept struck a chord when it was casually announced on twitter, and backers who wanted a copy covered the music album's projected costs via Kickstarter within four hours. Find release reviews and credits for Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis - Various Artists on AllMusic - 2009 For background: Kind of Bloop is a remake of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue album, with the original five jazz songs redone as “chiptune” music — that is, as music that sounds like it might emanate from a video arcade circa 1984. Music by chiptune artists ast0r, Virt, Sergeeo, Shnabubula, and Disasterpeace. What would the pioneers of jazz sound like on a Nintendo Entertainment System? I just downloaded it. I'm sure some of you remember the 8-bit rendition of Kind of Blue titled "Kind of Bloop". Quote; Share this post. Think old skool Nintendo. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the release of Miles Davis's masterpiece Kind of Blue, Andy Baio got together with 5 chiptune artists to produce, "Kind of Bloop An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue".This is the entire album, recreated in 8-bit sound (you know like the music from your old NES and Sega games). Kind of Bloop. posted by felix betachat (27 comments total) 15 users marked this as a favorite . smrq 25 Jan 2013. This is an album release playboy:Andy Baio Writes:What would the pioneers of jazz sound like on a Nintendo Entertainment System? And he paid a bunch of crowdfunding investors in CDs. n/a; Digital File). Now it seems their website is down and I can't find anywhere else to buy another copy. From an 8-bit tribute to ‘Kind of Blue’––music for hep robot cats to stroke their wire-wool goatees to . SOURCE: MICHAEL RICCI August 20, 2009 Sign in to view read count . It's technically possible; the genre-bending, stereotype-defying jazz legend lived until 1991, six years after the first Nintendo Entertainment System was released in North America. Kind of Bloop is a somewhat daring experiment of the must-have Davis album. "You're making music with outdated computers. In his fascinating video presentation, Baio explains how he made “Kind of Bloop.” He properly licensed the music, which he was, he knew, not using under fair use. Kind of Bloop An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue. I was drawn to the contradiction between the textured, subdued emotion in Kind of Blue and the cold, mechanical tones of retro videogame music. Jay Maisel took the iconic photo of Miles Davis on the cover of Kind of Blue (I’m listening to “So What” right now). Whoever thought of calling a chiptune Miles Davis tribute album "Kind of Bloop" was a genius . By: philip-random. Released 17 August 2009 on n/a (catalog no. the greatest album ever made no, it isn't. There has been a lot of nasty stuff said about the situation between Jay Maisel and Andy Baio. Tweet; By adam . Thank you Miles, but your apotheosis is in another castle. Then he listened to the recording and figured out how to program it on the computer. 1 Comment If you love Miles Davis, and loved the Super Mario Brothers than this musical marriage of the two will blow your mind, or make your sides hurt from laughter. From the beginning, Kind of Bloop was a creative experiment. Coltrane on a C-64? Perhaps. Genres: Chiptune, Modal Jazz. Glad I'm a backer . The challenge was to see whether chiptune artists could create something highly improvisational, warm, and beautiful from the limited palette of 1980s game consoles. Kind of Bloop. Leave a comment with your thoughts! Well, the samples made me chuckle. Kind of Bloop is a chiptune tribute to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue, a track-by-track 8-bit reinterpretation of the bestselling jazz album of all time. Andy Baio, einer der Gründer des XOXO Festivals, hat kürzlich ein Video von einem Vortrag veröffentlicht, der in sehenswerten 30 Minuten noch einmal fast all jene Dinge auf den Punkt bringt, die im derzeitigen Urheberrecht grundlegend falsch laufen. Weezer 8-bit Weezer: The 8-bit Album. Mingus on Amiga? Similar to cutout animation, silhouette animation uses cardboard or some kind of flat material, but the objects are all black and the shot is depicted with silhouettes only. I'm curious about the whole 'Kind Of Bloop' project that took Miles Davis's album and then handed it over to several chiptune artists (Disasterpeace, Shnabubula, Jake Kaufman, etc.) The 8-bit sound album is available for purchase and download for only $5 from HERE. "Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis" is an exercise in imagination, asking what the pioneers of jazz music might have sounded like if their medium of choice had been 8-bit game consoles. What would the pioneers of jazz sound like on a Nintendo Entertainment System? chronologic 17 Jun 2013. Taken a classic and cover it in 8-bit it. Kind of Bloop, if you hadn’t guessed, is a reimagining of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue using the beeps and blips of 8-bit videogames. By Sam Ascher-Weiss, July 29, 2009 Sign in to view count. Their website is down and I ca n't find anywhere else to buy another copy ; posted August,! 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