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Pretty Eight Machine - an 8-Bit rendition of the Nine Inch Nails album.
Yeah, this is fantastic.
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 12:20 PM on June 17, 2012
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 12:20 PM on June 17, 2012
This completely destroys.
posted by resurrexit at 12:23 PM on June 17, 2012
posted by resurrexit at 12:23 PM on June 17, 2012
This makes me think of Mario in a long trenchcoat.
posted by mrzarquon at 12:28 PM on June 17, 2012 [3 favorites]
posted by mrzarquon at 12:28 PM on June 17, 2012 [3 favorites]
An instant purchase from me. I do love all these chiptune reinterpretations of albums
posted by Z303 at 12:55 PM on June 17, 2012
posted by Z303 at 12:55 PM on June 17, 2012
Sometimes awesomeness is as simple as algebra. "Why yes that would be amazing, and I would like it, and lo it is and I do."
posted by Alex404 at 1:21 PM on June 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by Alex404 at 1:21 PM on June 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
Oh this is great.
Meanwhile, it still blows my mind that Reznor made the (original) album at age 25. I mean, right up until I hear the lyrics.
posted by griphus at 1:42 PM on June 17, 2012 [11 favorites]
Meanwhile, it still blows my mind that Reznor made the (original) album at age 25. I mean, right up until I hear the lyrics.
posted by griphus at 1:42 PM on June 17, 2012 [11 favorites]
I'm sort of glad he stopped having lyrics, as he pretty much kept them that way and it was getting undignified. That said How To Destroy Angels is pretty much the same thing with a different singer and that still works.
posted by Artw at 1:50 PM on June 17, 2012 [2 favorites]
posted by Artw at 1:50 PM on June 17, 2012 [2 favorites]
Ahhhh, excellent! I wanted so badly to post this, but Mr. Phase is a close friend of mine (this album premiered on my wife's chiptune radio show, Noise Channel, last Thursday).. So much good stuff I could be showing you early, if not for the whole ban on buddy promotion. :( I've been struggling for a while to find chip-related things to post without a conflict of interest. Good thing you guys usually catch the important ones.
If anyone remembers the recent Radiohead 8-bit thing where I was like "bleh he's sort of pandering with Mario sound effects and doing inauthentic chip-soundalike MIDI covers" and pontificated semi-seriously on how it should be done "properly", THIS is what I'm talking about, making actual data that plays on the hardware itself, within the real limitations. And in his liner notes he talks at length (too much length) about the technical details, for anyone who wants to learn a bit more.
Also, of note, this same guy is responsible for MAGfest growing from a little motel-sized gaming convention to a major regional 10k+ con over the past decade, which anyone interested in chip music should seriously consider attending.
posted by jake at 1:59 PM on June 17, 2012 [8 favorites]
If anyone remembers the recent Radiohead 8-bit thing where I was like "bleh he's sort of pandering with Mario sound effects and doing inauthentic chip-soundalike MIDI covers" and pontificated semi-seriously on how it should be done "properly", THIS is what I'm talking about, making actual data that plays on the hardware itself, within the real limitations. And in his liner notes he talks at length (too much length) about the technical details, for anyone who wants to learn a bit more.
Also, of note, this same guy is responsible for MAGfest growing from a little motel-sized gaming convention to a major regional 10k+ con over the past decade, which anyone interested in chip music should seriously consider attending.
posted by jake at 1:59 PM on June 17, 2012 [8 favorites]
Very faithful, good work.
posted by jeffamaphone at 2:37 PM on June 17, 2012
posted by jeffamaphone at 2:37 PM on June 17, 2012
Awe. Some.
posted by hot_monster at 4:21 PM on June 17, 2012
posted by hot_monster at 4:21 PM on June 17, 2012
Normally I don't feel old despite hitting 41 next month. But this.
This just makes me feel old. Real old.
I dunno if actually listening to the tracks will change this feeling. (I'm on a bus, really not the environment for that.)
Old.
posted by egypturnash at 5:01 PM on June 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
This just makes me feel old. Real old.
I dunno if actually listening to the tracks will change this feeling. (I'm on a bus, really not the environment for that.)
Old.
posted by egypturnash at 5:01 PM on June 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
Meanwhile, it still blows my mind that Reznor made the (original) album at age 25. I mean, right up until I hear the lyrics.
The important thing to remember is that Pretty Hate Machine and it's related singles were mixed, engineered and produced by major studio rock stars like Adrian Sherwood and Flood. Flood is the same guy who worked on U2's Joshua Tree with Brian Eno, or Renegade Soundwave's Soundclash. Adrian Sherwood is a dub producer/engineer who later worked on stuff like Primal Scream and Pop Will Eat Itself among other things from the same era as PHM.
So, Reznor had major firepower in the studio for PHM. Flood helped do a lot of the programming for PHM, and if you look at their combined production histories it's like a list of the greatest some of the greatest hits of the 80s and 90s. Smashing Pumpkins. Nick Cave. Ministry. Marc Almond. New Order and more.
It would actually be more shocking if Pretty Hate Machine didn't eventually succeed as it did and become one of the best albums of the era despite those atrocious lyrics that only an angsty teenager going through their first breakup could love.
posted by loquacious at 5:35 PM on June 17, 2012 [3 favorites]
The important thing to remember is that Pretty Hate Machine and it's related singles were mixed, engineered and produced by major studio rock stars like Adrian Sherwood and Flood. Flood is the same guy who worked on U2's Joshua Tree with Brian Eno, or Renegade Soundwave's Soundclash. Adrian Sherwood is a dub producer/engineer who later worked on stuff like Primal Scream and Pop Will Eat Itself among other things from the same era as PHM.
So, Reznor had major firepower in the studio for PHM. Flood helped do a lot of the programming for PHM, and if you look at their combined production histories it's like a list of the greatest some of the greatest hits of the 80s and 90s. Smashing Pumpkins. Nick Cave. Ministry. Marc Almond. New Order and more.
It would actually be more shocking if Pretty Hate Machine didn't eventually succeed as it did and become one of the best albums of the era despite those atrocious lyrics that only an angsty teenager going through their first breakup could love.
posted by loquacious at 5:35 PM on June 17, 2012 [3 favorites]
With Teeth still seemed pretty self indulgent to me and he was defiantly a grown ass man by then.
posted by Artw at 10:37 PM on June 17, 2012
posted by Artw at 10:37 PM on June 17, 2012
And Dave Grohl plays drums on With Teeth!
posted by XhaustedProphet at 12:35 AM on June 18, 2012
posted by XhaustedProphet at 12:35 AM on June 18, 2012
As much as I want to like it, being a huge fan of the original, by the third track I was tuning out and by the fifth it was just so much staccato noise. I listened through but it was barely registering on my consciousness at the end. And I really like chiptune. My best guess as to what happened is that it's just too similar to the original, which I've listened to probably two or three hundred times, and so it just didn't register to my brain as something new and exciting to listen to.
I am disappointed, not in P8M, but in myself.
posted by seanmpuckett at 10:20 AM on June 18, 2012
I am disappointed, not in P8M, but in myself.
posted by seanmpuckett at 10:20 AM on June 18, 2012
Right, except for his last three albums, in which he got well beyond the teenage angst thing and was exploring overcoming addiction, a parallel future universe in which the fundamentalist conservatives had won (and reality was coming apart), and his own struggles with fame and need for both fame and privacy.
When The Slip came out, I was fascinated by the album's themes. I was dying to hear from Trent himself about them. I read practically every interview during that era, and all of them ignored the album's lyrics and cryptic artwork. Instead, they focused entirely on the fact that he released it for free. While that was a very bold move, I have still never gotten over this. I'm tired of people underestimating the man.
posted by JimBennett at 11:18 AM on June 18, 2012
When The Slip came out, I was fascinated by the album's themes. I was dying to hear from Trent himself about them. I read practically every interview during that era, and all of them ignored the album's lyrics and cryptic artwork. Instead, they focused entirely on the fact that he released it for free. While that was a very bold move, I have still never gotten over this. I'm tired of people underestimating the man.
posted by JimBennett at 11:18 AM on June 18, 2012
I've been listening to Ghosts a lot lately - its good work music.
Weirdly as he drops the lyrics and goes a little downtempo, and Brian Eno goes a little uptempo and aggressive, their respective sounds seem to be converging.
posted by Artw at 6:47 PM on June 19, 2012
Weirdly as he drops the lyrics and goes a little downtempo, and Brian Eno goes a little uptempo and aggressive, their respective sounds seem to be converging.
posted by Artw at 6:47 PM on June 19, 2012
This is sexy sex.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 9:35 PM on June 20, 2012
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 9:35 PM on June 20, 2012
Oh, is here a good spot for this?:
I got Pretty Hate Machine when it came out, on cassette, for my 14th birthday. From the boy I liked. I said "thank you, yes I am."
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 9:38 PM on June 20, 2012 [1 favorite]
I got Pretty Hate Machine when it came out, on cassette, for my 14th birthday. From the boy I liked. I said "thank you, yes I am."
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 9:38 PM on June 20, 2012 [1 favorite]
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