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
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!
Just in time for the release of Star Trek: Into Darkness, I thought it’d be fun to reach into an alternate universe and whip out a soundtrack from that mirror universe’s vastly superior library of Star Trek video games. (I make little secret of my opinion that a lot of licensed Trek games are big piles of steaming salt monster excrement.) In this other universe, virtually every movie and series has had a knockout video game based on it, with outstanding music from some of the big screen’s finest composers. Here, then, is an entire full-album-length chiptune tribute to the Star Trek universe from Kasatochi, free for download. … Read more
Oh, look over there – well, you know the drill by now. It’s Monday morning, Monday mornings suck, and drastic anti-suck measures must be taken by all available means. Hence: more Kasatochi.
Right-click to download kasatochi-ep1.zip (63mb)
Unlike prior Kasatochi downloads, this one is “EP length”; doing Kasatochi stuff could easily eat all of the time I have to put into the site and my other projects (like my dandy daily podcast), so it’s time to scale back to sane proportions. The good news: it’s all ’80s. (Yes, I know that technically the Gary Numan song is 1979. But hey! Gary Numan as chiptunes!) … Read more
Oh, look over there – Kasatochi is back!
Right-click to download kasatochi3.zip (158mb)
As promised last week, this collection is much more narrowly focused, on two of my favorite orchestral-prog-rock songwriters/performers/producers. Each gets equal time on this bunch of chiptune conversions, which finally comes in at under the record time of a CD-R.
The tracklisting may baffle those expecting to hear the heavy-radio-airplay hits. In many cases the available MIDI files of the songs in question just didn’t make for good chiptunes. I wasn’t even necessarily able to do my favorites! What a deal. Track listing after the jump. … Read more
Oh, look over there – Kasatochi is back!
Right-click to download kasatochi2.zip (174mb)
This is the second “album” of Kasatochi chiptune conversions for your amusement and bewilderment. Again, I slightly overshot the record time of a CD-R, because I couldn’t bear to leave anything out. (Is anyone really using 80 minutes as some kind of limit anymore, or does it all get crammed into an iPod at the end of the day? Obviously, if I’m converting mostly-’70s-and-’80s-favorites into something that sounds like it comes from an old video game system, I’m a little behind the times – you’ll have to let me know. For all I know, I’m supposed to stretch this out to fit on a C-90 cassette.) Track listing after the jump. … Read more
