Have you ever wondered what Dark Side of the Moon would sound like if Pink Floyd had written it for NES, instead of for a rock band?



When videogame producer Brad Smith was a kid, he noticed something about his parentsâ old vinyl copy of Pink Floydâs Dark Side of the Moon: The pulsing, looping, synthesized sounds of tunes like âOn the Runâ sounded like theyâd come straight out of the videogames he was obsessed with. âIt surprised me to hear something that sounded close to my games coming from my parentsâ stereoâ



Now Smith, 27, has put the finishing touches on MOON8, a cover version of the entire album created with instruments that mimic the sound hardware of the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System. Smithâs offbeat riff on rock gospel belongs to the chiptune sub-genre of electronic music. Such songs are produced on the audio chips of retro electronics, or in software that emulates the old-school hardware.



Listen to MOON8 and youâll feel the soul of the decades-old songs come alive through Smithâs machine-made sounds.



Side One

01 Speak to Me

02 Breathe

03 On the Run

04 Time

05 Breathe Reprise

06 The Great Gig in the Sky



Side Two

07 Money

08 Us And Them

09 Any Colour You Like

10 Brain Damage

11 Eclipse



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Huge thanks for Famitracker, which was used to sequence the whole thing. The sound was rendered with NSFplug. Final editing was done with Audacity. No expansion chips were used; this album works entirely within the limits of the standard North American NES.



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