{"id":8400,"date":"2016-02-04T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.videogamedj.com\/?p=8400"},"modified":"2016-02-03T22:19:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T03:19:32","slug":"12-days-of-magfest-eight-bit-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/12-days-of-magfest-eight-bit-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Days of MAGFest: Eight Bit Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>H<\/em>appy MAGFest, geeks! We\u2019re so stoked about this year\u2019s Music and Gaming Festival and to get you hype, we\u2019re going to feature some of the can\u2019t-miss musicians, artists and guests for the next two weeks. If there\u2019s anyone you think needs to be featured (including yourself, don\u2019t be shy!) drop me a line in the comments or on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/bethanneboyle\">Twitter<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nTo kick it off, let\u2019s check out Eight Bit Disaster. Five dudes hailing from North Carolina who describe themselves as \u201chigh energy, funk rock video game tribute band.\u201d Their sound is funky and tight, with a lot of ska and blues influence. The jazzy horns section and tight drums energize and re-imagine the video game soundtracks that played in the background of your childhood.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/track=658186894\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eightbitdisaster.bandcamp.com\/track\/covered-in-ash-morrowind\">Covered in Ash [Morrowind] by Eight Bit Disaster<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I particularly liked their track \u201cMr. Toad\u2019s Wild Ride\u201d, which you might remember from <i>Battletoads<\/i>. The funky guitar really comes through on that track. They re-imagine old school video game into danceable tunes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vRctpZQlhtc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>8BD is planning on releasing a new album for MAGFest and from what we\u2019re heard, it\u2019s super chill. The guys re-imagined the classic, haunting <i>Morrowind<\/i> soundtrack in their signature, space-age jazz style. You can check out a sample of the new album on <a href=\"https:\/\/eightbitdisaster.bandcamp.com\/track\/covered-in-ash-morrowind\">Bandcamp<\/a>. Don\u2019t miss these guys at MAGFest!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy MAGFest, geeks! We\u2019re so stoked about this year\u2019s Music and Gaming Festival and to get you hype, we\u2019re going to feature some of the can\u2019t-miss musicians, artists and guests for the next two weeks. If there\u2019s anyone you think needs to be featured (including yourself, don\u2019t be shy!) drop me a line in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/12-days-of-magfest-eight-bit-disaster\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">12 Days of MAGFest: Eight Bit Disaster<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":8403,"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":[10,4227,1506,1758,4229,55],"tags":[2143,4879,4878,3,57,609,101,1272,1243,35,11,4880,1056,188,30],"class_list":["post-8400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chiptune-music","category-conventions","category-events","category-features","category-festivals","category-music","tag-2143","tag-12-days-of-magfest","tag-8-bit-disaster","tag-8-bit","tag-8bit","tag-album","tag-awesome","tag-bandcamp","tag-chip-tunes","tag-chipmusic","tag-chiptune","tag-eight-bit-disaster","tag-magfest","tag-vgm","tag-video-game-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/a2462592756_10.jpg?fit=990%2C765&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\/8400","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\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8400"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8438,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400\/revisions\/8438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}