{"id":6462,"date":"2013-12-16T16:15:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T21:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.videogamedj.com\/?p=6462"},"modified":"2014-11-05T13:03:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T18:03:21","slug":"absrdst-boss-beats-a-mega-man-edm-concept-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/absrdst-boss-beats-a-mega-man-edm-concept-album\/","title":{"rendered":"ABSRDST &#8211; Boss Beats, a Mega Man EDM concept album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.videogamedj.com\/absrdst-boss-beats-a-diverse-edm-tribute-to-mega-man\/absrdst-boss-beats-aaa-2000x2000\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6463\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6463\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/absrdst-boss-beats-a-mega-man-edm-concept-album\/absrdst-boss-beats-aaa-2000x2000\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ABSRDST-Boss-Beats-AAA-2000x2000.jpg?fit=2000%2C2000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2000,2000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ABSRDST &#8211; Boss Beats album cover\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ABSRDST-Boss-Beats-AAA-2000x2000.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ABSRDST-Boss-Beats-AAA-2000x2000.jpg?fit=474%2C474&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6463\" alt=\"ABSRDST - Boss Beats album cover\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.videogamedj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ABSRDST-Boss-Beats-AAA-2000x2000-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ABSRDST-Boss-Beats-AAA-2000x2000.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ABSRDST-Boss-Beats-AAA-2000x2000.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ABSRDST-Boss-Beats-AAA-2000x2000.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ABSRDST-Boss-Beats-AAA-2000x2000.jpg?resize=2000%2C2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ABSRDST-Boss-Beats-AAA-2000x2000.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ABSRDST-Boss-Beats-AAA-2000x2000.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s finally here, nearly a year of work culminates in the last <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamechops.com\">GameChops<\/a> release for the year. It&#8217;s from ABSRDST, who was a featured artist on <a title=\"Grimecraft \u2013 POK\u00c9P\" href=\"http:\/\/www.videogamedj.com\/grimecraft-pokep\/\">Grimecraft&#8217;s POK\u00c9P<\/a> a few weeks back. <a href=\"http:\/\/music.gamechops.com\/album\/boss-beats\">BOSS BEATS<\/a> is a full-length tribute to the Mega Man series by Capcom, a fitting end to the blue bomber&#8217;s 25th anniversary year.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">ABSRDST (pronounced Absurd-est) reimagines the Mega Man soundtrack in a dazzling display of modern music production. From classic house, to retro chiptune, to futuristic bass music, ABSRDST shows his versatility as a producer while paying tribute to some of the most memorable music from Capcom\u2019s classic series.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The tracklist includes compositions from Mega Man 2, 9, 10 and X6, originally composed by Takashi Tateishi, Manami Matsumae, Naoto Tanaka and Yu Shimoda. ABSRDST worked closely with Manami Matsumae herself on the remix of her composition. As with all GameChops albums, the songs contained within are covers and all necessary licenses have been obtained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>BOSS BEATS is now available for pre-order for $7:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/music.gamechops.com\/album\/boss-beats\">http:\/\/music.gamechops.com\/album\/boss-beats<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>About GameChops:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GameChops is a record label founded by performer and producer Dj CUTMAN. It is the first label in the world to focus on producing and licensing Electronic Dance Music (EDM) cover songs from video games. GameChops has been awarded the #1 spot on Bandcamp three times this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s finally here, nearly a year of work culminates in the last GameChops release for the year. It&#8217;s from ABSRDST, who was a featured artist on Grimecraft&#8217;s POK\u00c9P a few weeks back. BOSS BEATS is a full-length tribute to the Mega Man series by Capcom, a fitting end to the blue bomber&#8217;s 25th anniversary year. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/absrdst-boss-beats-a-mega-man-edm-concept-album\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ABSRDST &#8211; Boss Beats, a Mega Man EDM concept album<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1582,3177,1758,33,55],"tags":[2621,3514,3523,609,1567,1002,3515,3366,78,3519,3502,3516,21,905,89,96,3518,3513,3517,3435,3521,3316,3520,188,3522],"class_list":["post-6462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-albums","category-dance-music","category-features","category-game-music-vgm","category-music","tag-absrdst","tag-absrdst-remix","tag-absurdest","tag-album","tag-edm","tag-gamechops","tag-gamechops-album","tag-manami-matsumae","tag-mega-man","tag-mega-man-edm","tag-mega-man-remix","tag-mega-man-remix-album","tag-megaman","tag-megaman-10","tag-megaman-2","tag-megaman-9","tag-megaman-edm","tag-megaman-remix","tag-megaman-remix-album","tag-megaman-x6","tag-naoto-tanaka","tag-remix-album","tag-takashi-tateishi","tag-vgm","tag-yu-shimoda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bossbeats8color1.png?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6462"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6487,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6462\/revisions\/6487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}