Various Artists – An 8bc Tribute to The Smiths (2009)

8Bit Collective
Mediafire

9.3

/8-bit, Covers, Indie, Experimental electronica, Tracker music, Conceptual, Chiptune/

Comment: indeed, seven songs of an indie juggernaut are covered by different chiptune/8-bit/tracker musicians. More detailly, Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me, How Soon Is Now?, A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours, Bigmouth Strikes Again, The Headmaster Ritual, This Charming Man, and of course, the quintessential indie anthem There Is A Light That Never Goes Out are represented there. It veers away from a rigid, even abstract version of How Soon Is Now? by Joseph and His Talons to Lynit`s aesthetically very lush version of The Headmaster Ritual (the favorite of mine), or betaclubfieldtrip`s blissed-out version of Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me, or Matt Shogi`s chip-electro-dance version of This Charming Man. The versions of the rest of artists are more original-near, though very good, propulsive ones. However, the Mancunian legend will never be forgotten.