{"id":2692,"date":"2011-03-24T18:05:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T22:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=2692"},"modified":"2011-03-24T18:05:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T22:05:29","slug":"another-8-bit-version-of-dark-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2011\/03\/another-8-bit-version-of-dark-side\/","title":{"rendered":"(Another) 8-bit version of &#8220;Dark Side&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Didn&#8217;t See That One Coming Department, we got a heads up yesterday about another 8-bit redo of Pink Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;Dark Side of the Moon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joe Allen <\/strong>who runs<strong> Pterodactyl Squad<\/strong>, an online record label that freely distributes its music, all inspired by video games, tells us, &#8220;Each track has been handled by a different artist, forming an all-star cast from the chiptune scene, and the whole album flows together just like the original.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You might remember last April we told you about <strong>Brad Smith<\/strong>,  a then-27-year-old game programmer from Ontario, Canada, who had  re-recorded &#8220;Dark Side&#8221; using nothing but &#8217;80s-era video game sounds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe our version blows that one out of the water,&#8221; Allen boasts.<\/p>\n<p>Calling Mr. Smith: Have you received the challenge? And might we suggest &#8220;Animals&#8221; next?<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptesquad.com\/more\/pte030.html\">download Pterodactyl Squad&#8217;s version of &#8220;Dark Side of the Moon<\/a>&#8221; from the label&#8217;s Web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Didn&#8217;t See That One Coming Department, we got a heads up yesterday about another 8-bit redo of Pink Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;Dark Side of the Moon.&#8221; Joe Allen who runs Pterodactyl Squad, an online record label that freely distributes its music, all inspired by video games, tells us, &#8220;Each track has been handled by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise","category-recordings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2697,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions\/2697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}