Sorry for the lack of bloggage. And the lack of tunes. Here’s a blog entry with some free tunes attached.
1 – Whip It
2 – Lovesong
3 – Walking On Sunshine
4 – IGY
5 – Heat Of The Moment
6 – Danger Zone
7 – Tainted Love
8 – 1999
To be fair, this is not a franchise that’s short on awesome video game music, but with this release, Kasatochi rolls the tape back a bit and beeps up the music of the three movies of the original trilogy, with an emphasis on the first one. Yes, there will be a prequel trilogy album; no, I’m not sure exactly when just yet.
Go grab it from the dedicated Kasatochi page; you can see the track listing after the jump. … Read more
So you just can’t get enough of Kasatochi, and you need something to do? Fine, fine, but not tonight. How about today? How about an Expansion Pack EP of chiptune covers centered on a particular group whose sound has always been on the electronic side of things? This ought to be interesting. It might even breathe some new life into things, or it might annoy some fans of said group, who harbor a kind of strange love for everything they do. There’s only one way to find out. … Read more
Not really enough content to be considered an EP, but here’s an amusingly-timed mini-collection (all of three tracks!) of soundtrack tributes for your enjoyment. I’m sure you can figure out the theme while you go grab it from the dedicated Kasatochi page.
Kasatochi is back yet again, this time with a full-CD-length collection of tunes that doesn’t slow down a whole lot. This one also has the first cover that’s actually fairly recent (check out track 6!).
Next week you’ll get another EP, and the following week another full-length download for the soundtrack fans out there. And you will enjoy it [waves hand in the air cryptically]. And somewhere in there may be a surprise.
In the meantime, let’s look at this track list, shall we? … Read more
It’s Friday! It’s actually a nice day! There should be music to mark this occasion! Bleepy music, preferably. Fear not, Kasatochi has you covered for the second time in a week.
1 – Heart Of Glass
2 – Le Freak
3 – Carpet Crawlers
4 – Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough
5 – Magic Man
6 – Theme from Shaft
Kasatochi has already done collections themed to specific eras, artists, and even TV/movie franchises, and it will continue to do collections with those themes. But this collection of chiptune covers centers on a specific album. Namely, one of the best albums ever to hit our ears. It’s not intended to be a replacement or a remix of that album, but is instead just a fun attempt to reinterpret it all through the sonic filter of late ’80s video game systems. What would it sound like if the Fab Four had done video game music? Well, it might have sounded like this. … Read more
So I’ve been listening to the recently remastered, reissued and expanded version of the soundtrack of the Star Trek: The Next Generation two-parter The Best Of Both Worlds lately. Wonderful stuff. The original 1991 release of that soundtrack was one of the first compact discs I ever bought, even though I didn’t have a CD player at the time. What I did have was two worn-out cassettes I’d bought (because I was listening to it that much), and a job at a radio station that afforded me access to a CD player and a cassette deck that would allow me to make as many tape copies as I needed (so I could wear them out too).
In listening to the reissue, with its crisper sound, I was struck by how, if ever there was a point in ST:TNG’s normally staid musical landscape (though not by the composers’ choice) where they needed to break out of the producer-imposed box and use some blaster beam, this was it. So I tried a few subtle amendments to a few key points in the soundtrack from part one. (During the infamous cliffhanger music, however, I was a bit less than subtle. There’s nothing about that cue that’s subtle.)
Listen and enjoy!
[audio:https://www.thelogbook.com/earl/podcast/beamofbothworlds.mp3]
If you’ve been following my other music project at all, you’re in for a treat next week. Not only will the next Kasatochi release land with a resounding digitized thud on Monday, but it will be joined by a similar effort from Rhindle The Red, so you’ll be getting twice the hits-to-bits treatment that you would get on a typical Monday. (Let’s face it – Mondays suck so hard, it’s not a bad idea to call for backup.)
In both cases, both Kasatochi and Rhindle will be embarking on an interesting experiment: each release will turn an entire classic album into chiptunes, from the first track to the last, in 
the original running order. Suffice to say, if you like either of the groups in question, you’ll probably get at least a chuckle out of this. Further full-album chiptune conversions are also in the works, though how many more depends on how well these go down. Be here Monday – chances are, you already know the track listings! … Read more
When I embarked on my little musical joke a little over a month ago, I wasn’t anticipating that it’d gain the kind of traction that it has. And here’s the proof: between Facebook, Twitter and e-mails I’ve received, you have here in your little virtual hands an entire EP of listener requests. And believe me when I tell you that I had no idea how this was going to turn out. 😆
Right-click to download kasatochi-req1.zip (76mb) … Read more
Monday is looking, at least here at theLogBook.com’s World Domination Headquarters, like a dreary, stormy, rainy and occasionally tornadic mess. Yuck. Only one thing for it: covers of some of the most ridiculously hummable, sunny tunes out there from a master of the craft of songwriting, reduced to bleeps and bloops by Kasatochi!
