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What was this song I heard?

contessa — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:33:43 -0800

Help me figure out the name/artist of the 8-bit techno snippet played on All Things Considered today. ...And before it's suggested, I did search the NPR site, because I know they list the songs they play between segments.

Not this one, though!

It was played at the tail end of "President's Comments on Economy Examined." I listened to all the songs on the rundown page and...nada. Help?

Celebrity Pixel Art?

stevil — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:02:18 -0800

Who created those 8-bit pixel art graphics of many famous characters? This was a big blogosphere thing maybe 2 or 3 years ago? An artist created this huge number of blocky front-view representations of all sorts of famous people and it was almost a game to see if you could figure out who it was. And the fun part was that you COULD tell who they were, even though they were really minimal. I remember some of them were individual characters (I'm figuring Star Wars characters) and some were groups (I remember Kiss and Guns 'n Roses).

I looked here and boingboing under any variation of 8-bit, pixel-art, icon, celebrity, etc. and I can't find it.

I think this even ended up in the mainstream media at one point. I'm sure this is an easy one but my mind is totally blank and my Google-mojo seems to have left me.

More 8-bit music?

mcsweetie — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:02:16 -0800

Request for music recommendations! I'm looking for more music similar to Beck's Hell Yes EP and bands like Treewave and old school Nintendo music, but not campy "hey, I sampled a video game!" type stuff like Richard D. James's Powerpill Pacman. You know, stuff that's true to the SID chip and isn't kitschy and maybe has some vocals. Whacha got?