At the end of the day, you cant get mad at pitchfork covering shitty releases.

oh great another chip covers album

Pitchfork did review the 8-Bit Operators Kraftwerk release back in '07.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/986 … kraftwerk/

the review sounds like it should be an '8' but as usual, like the Onion parody, it gets a '6.5',

wow they suck

bleo: HA

Not a cover, not chip music, but hilarious and worth posting here to lighten the mood.

No, not for me.  I like me some Radiohead.

Yeah me either

9h05t5 don't talk

I would gladly sit down and cover all of Daft Punk's "Human After All" but I am not a really good chip artist.

I would like these albums if they were done well, pitchfork or not. But if you were a really good chip artist you wouldn't make a radiohead cover album. Right? Most cover albums around here are comps, because one person would'nt want to spend that much time covering one artist, straight. You'd want to re-interpret them or something. Which would be uninteresting to Pitchfork, unless it was done by Beck.

You know, it's our fault for waiting for music press like pitchfork to throw us a bone when we know full well that they never have and never will understand electronic music (even the mainstream stuff). We have our own community, we are all self-made and we support each other, what's stopping us from doing our own music zine / blog dedicated to chip / experimental electronic / etc? If we had something like that we wouldn't need pitchfork.

And before anyone sugests that it's been done before, I do recall a couple times people tried to do chipmusic reviews and it was awful. Also if you are an artist in the scene you don't have that impartial journalistic integrity anyway. What I'm trying to say is, we should find our own music reviewers  that "get it" and support them.

↑↑↑ this ↑↑↑

Point missed yet again. 

There's a lot of people doing fakebit, for the most part it's just as appreciated as the authentic stuff. I love hundreds of fakebit songs.

This however, is on the low end of the spectrum in terms of fakebit quality, whether it be in sound design or actually even getting the covers right!  It reeks of laziness. 

Point #2 is that it blatantly cashes in on the novelty of OMG 8bit.  When this becomes something that defines 8bit music in popular culture, it just shows it as a lazy, poor sounding, novelty aesthetic when that couldn't be further from the truth.

This is lazy music being covered by lazy journalists

No one cares that these covers weren't created on actual hardware, they care that the covers are totally uninspired with regard to sound design and arrangement.  Also, that's what I care about too, but I don't actually care much.