Pink Floyd released their progressive rock classicThe Dark Side of the Moonin 1973, a decade before Nintendo launched the Nintendo Entertainment System in Japan. But what would the album sound like if, say, Koji Kondo had used it as a score for an NES game?
Videogame programmer Brad Smith has done just that: he has remixedTDSotMusing only the 8-bit sounds available on an NES sound chip. He calls itMOON8, and it’s available for download (with appropriately low-resolution album art) on hisWeb site— not as ten discrete tracks, but as “side one” and “side two,” just like the original vinyl release ofTDSotM. You can also check out the album as aplaylist of six YouTube videos.
I’m a huge fan of the original record, and I really enjoyed this lo-fi remix — Smith did a particularly great job of rendering Clare Torrey’s soaring vocal solo in NES form. Maybe we’ll hear some of it at Blipfest 2010!
