LISTEN: JOSH STAFFORD’S VIDEOGAME MIXTAPE SONGS TO FRAG BY
Released as part of Yewknee’s ongoing Summer Mix Series — which opened up the floor for anyone to curate and upload their own MP3 mixtape (I still have yet to make my own, though you do have me to thank for the Pavement song on the Texas-themed tape) — Josh Stafford’s Songs To Frag By is most notable for not going the easy route and solely mixing in chiptunes/converted NES soundtracks.
A few of those are, of course, represented (see: the requisite YMCK), but Stafford did an excellent job of digging up songs from the game/music periphery, starting all the way back with Buckner & Garcia’s Do The Donkey Kong (the lesser-heard sibling of early 80s standby Pac-Man Fever), to the Mega Man rock-opera-concepts of The Protomen, to Del the Funky Homosapien’s name dropping hip-hop “classic” Proto Culture, to the open and closer tracks from Offworld favorite Mario-remaking one-man-band XOC.
The full tracklist:
01 Super Mario World Course Clear – XOC
02 Bit Rate Variations in B-Flat (Girl) – Beck
03 Super Mario Land (Radio Version) – Ambassadors of Funk feat. M.C. Mario
04 Mega Man 2 (Title Theme) – Year 200X
05 II B Unrest In the House of Light – The Protomen
06 Do the Donkey Kong – Buckner & Garcia
07 Technology Boy – Bachelorette
08 Sabita Tobirano Daihachi Tengoku – YMCK
09 Punch em Out – Swell +N remixes
10 Where’s My F_ing Genesis – Charles Hamilton
11 Khaos Unique Proto Culture – Del The Funky Homosapien
12 The Legend of Zelda Tribute – Swell Session vs Koji Kondo
13 Tetris – Powerglove
14 Super Mario World Death Game Over – XOC
If not the best games-related mixtape made, it’s at least one of the most novel. [via Yewknee]
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GLORIOUS RETRO CARNAGE: WYLD FILE’S HALLUCINOGENIC VIDEO FOR BECK’S ‘BAD CARTRIDGE’
Just officially uploaded by Audio Dregs co-founder Eric Mast (in case you missed it on, say, the early video UMD), the video for Paza’s 8-bit remix of Beck’s ‘E-Pro’ — a project Mast took on as Wyld File, his collaborative company with art collective Paper Rad.
Mast, more commonly known by his pseudonym E*Rock, is the brother of Evan Mast, most recognizable as the marginally less hirsute half of Ratatat and 100% of Offworld (and Flashbang) favorite E*vax.
For more excellent — but infinitely less games-ey — Friday morning watching, see E*Rock’s video for Ratatat’s Cherry and those at the Ratatat site linked above. Or, more appropriately, ‘Kiptok’s fan-video below for Ratatat’s Imperials, which interprets the song’s brilliant over/under-water hook via glitched-up footage of Ecco, Sonic and Mario.
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