You totally hate BIT SHIFTER, right, because you’re a rebel, or whatever? That’s just because you haven’t listened to Shifter slowed down 800 percent. Now his new single “Reformat the Planet” is a 30-minute epic. And it sounds awesome. No, really.
Courtesy musician Reteris, who used the free program Paulstretch, this is “Reformat the Planet” made slower. Like, a lot slower—eight times slower, to be exact. And all of a sudden the not-bad piano pop track sounds like the climactic score to some kind of historical epic, or Dead Can Dance, or, like, Animal Collective, or something. It sounds like the ocean, but, like, in heaven, man. Plus, it’s 35 minutes long: