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Kind of Bloop

· Andre Hoffmann · in Culture
Fifty years ago, Miles Davis legendary Kind of Blue was released. Kind of Bloop is a hommage to the Album in 8-Bit Sound. Before I heard it I was fearing the worst since chiptune remakes tend to add an infantile and unsophisticated timbre (is it just me?), a quality highly arguably in Jazz. I would like to say that those guys prevented the worst and that alone is a highly seldom judgement you will hear from me when it comes to that kind of musical modification. So why do I mention this in the blog anyway? For a couple of reasons: Kind of Blue is one of my favourite Jazz albums, along with Keith Jarretts Köln Concert and Dave Brubeck Quartet's Time Out. And yes, I took my chance right now to write about something totally different from what is normal for this blog. Second reason is, I noticed a lot of interesting (in it's neutral meaning) chiptune hommages lately, i.e. this one for Daft Punk and one for Weezer. Note the crude but ironic cover for the latter.

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