March 2010
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The Dark Side of the Moon for NES
My last post was about people recreating video game music with real instruments. Here is someone doing the opposite.
Have you ever wondered what The Dark Side of the Moon would sound like if Pink Floyd had written it for the Nintendo Entertainment System instead of for a rock band? Me neither but luckily someone has. And even luckier for us, they decided to spend a lot of time and energy...
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Du-du Dun Du-du Dun Dun
Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. is one of the best series of video games ever produced—possibly even the best. And from beads to paintings and tattoos (I have one!) it’s also some of the games to have inspired the most creative fan art.
A lot of people seem to be especially fond of the music from the games. Here are 30 great renditions of the music from Super Mario Bros. 3’s world...
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Here's What You'll Be Dancing to this Summer
UK funky is ready to fill the gap between the now irrelevant UK garage, grime and house. It’s obviously inspired by US house, afrobeat and soca but it has some of the rawness of bassline and grime with rewinds, ragga MCs and, well, attitude.
Nobody seems to be able to define exactly which characteristics make funky what it is but it seems to have grown from UK garage, lost some of its...
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The Future Is Now
“The future is here—it’s just unevenly distributed.”
This quote is attributed to William Gibson and I think it’s supposed to explain why he went from writing science fiction novels to writing mystery novels like Pattern Recognition and Spook Country that seem sci-fi-ish but are set in the present time.
I have to say I agree with Gibson. Sure, I still don’t have a flying...