8-Bit Tribute To Miles Davis 2009-05-14 by Meatplow | 15 Comments | Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis
"About this 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)
To create this album, I hope to raise $2,000 to pay royalties, pay the artists, and print CDs. Legally releasing cover songs requires paying mechanical licenses to the song publishers through the Harry Fox Agency, totaling about $420 for every 250 downloads and a $75 processing fee. I'll be using the remainder to print a very limited run of CDs for Kickstarter backers, and split the rest evenly among the five musicians for their painstaking work. (This is a labor of love for me, so I won't be keeping a dime.)
I hope to have the entire album download ready for Kind of Blue's 50th birthday on August 17. (Printing and shipping CDs will take longer.)
All project backers will get exclusive first access to the album download before anyone else in the world, and exclusive updates during the album's creation. Backers donating $30 or more will receive an extremely limited-edition CD, printed only for this Kickstarter project. Once the August 1 deadline is reached, the CD will never be sold again!
Track Listing (Tentative):
1. So What - Ast0r
2. Freddie Freeloader - Virt
3. Blue in Green - Sergeeo
4. All Blues - Shnabubula
5. Flamenco Sketches - Disasterpeace
Thank you so much for being a part of this. Let me know if you have any questions in the comments."
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/waxpancake/kind-of-bloop-an-8-bit-tribute-to-miles-davis
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Tagged: Miles Davis
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Incredible project. I am tempted to donate.
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Chiptune Miles Davis? Very interesting indeed....
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Fuckin sweet.
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ew.
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This is the greatest story I've read in weeks.
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Sweet idea, hopefully it turns out as well as it sounds it will.
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Why? Fucking why?
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I love the contrast in opinions here.
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Haha, this sounds atrocious.
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you'd definitely have to be a fan to begin with. I'd love to hear this
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This could be amazing.
Or, as is more likely, a total and utter massacre of one of the greatest Jazz album's of all time (and my personal favourite.)This Message Edited On 05.14.09
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this is going to be fun to listen to at least
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give the link to donate?
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Let us know. This is very cool and original. Kudos to you sir. Kind of Blue done this way? Word. Now all you need to do next is Bitches brew and we have ourselves a new genre.
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