8-Bitting Sleeping At Last

For as long as it had been decided that hipness and irony could co-exist artists (and wannabe artists) have retrofitted their work to not only make it appear older, but to make it appear nostalgically older.  This has made photo-filtering apps like Instagram insanely popular.  Swedish electro-disco musician Johan Agebjorn released a track only available on 3.5" floppy disc.  Google Maps turned the earth into a Nintendo playground this past April Fool's Day.  All for the aesthetic thrill of reveling in the imperfections of old technology.  When done well the results can be startlingly beautiful.  When done unwell... then you just fuzzed out a perfectly good photograph of your dog.

To my infinite amusement, Sleeping At Last just posted four "8-bit" tracks up on NoiseTrade.  Now solely the project of frontman Ryan O'Neal, the Illinois-based Sleeping At Last is one of the few remaining active remnants from when emo ruled the world a dozen years ago.  Normally the music is soft and introspective, but these remixed songs play like the soundtrack to a lost Zelda game.

This is retrofitting done well.

For comparative/contrasting purposes the original versions of the songs are included in the free(!) download.

I don't know how long this whole thing will be up.  However long a "limited time" is.  Check it while you can.

Cheap Links Are Less Time-Consuming Than The Alternative

Suddenly I found myself typing up a blog post about the women's liberation movement as reflected (or, as I'm finding, UNreflected) by 1960s girl-group pop music. It's going to take a few days. I totally meant to write about something else, but now it is what it is and I'll have to finish it.

But not right now because I'm sleepy.

In the meantime, check out my review of Jurassic Park (timely, I know) as well as all the other wonderful reviews written by our ragtag club of amateur film reviewers.
"Jurassic Park: Ah, Ah, Ahh."

NoiseTrade is offering up Storyboards, the 11-song 2009 album by Sleeping At Last, for the cheap price of FREE. But only for a short time. It's a good collection of weepy songs. Check it out.
https://www.noisetrade.com/sleepingatlast

In fact there's a lot of good stuff dangling around at NoiseTrade.com, so if you've got some time you should explore the site.


I feel like there's something else.

I ate all the cookies.

Goodnight.