Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. Remix Their New Single Using An 8-Bit Plugin and 45 Different NES Games

Releasing an album is a brutal , labor - intensive process , rife with insomniac nights and ego incertitude . ForDale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. , the Detroit indie pop banding whose latest EP , Patterns , came out on April 16 , stress relief came not from cigaret or sizzurp , but from an 8 - bit plugin . “ We were all accent out with practise and getting the show set up , and I wanted to take a break , ” says Daniel Zott , one half of the Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. duet . “ I decided to make some Nintendo music to clear my mastermind . ”

Zott ’s 8 - bit remix of “ If You Did n’t See Me ( Then You Were n’t on the Dance Floor ) , ” the first unity from Patterns , seem on YouTube today , and it ’s passably great . He produce the track in a single day using a free plugin developed by the Japanese chiptune bandYMCK , which let him convert the studio tracks into simple MIDI wave form that mime that sweet , gratifying NES sound . “ MIDI is all they had to work on with back then , ” Zott say . “ But if you go back and listen to the euphony from Super Mario or Sonic the Hedgehog , they ’re such astonishingly intricate , interfering song . And so much fun to mind to . ”

The pixelated cherry on top is the accompanying video , which Zott patched together using clips from 45 dissimilar NES games , from Duck Hunt to Air Wolf . It ’s a trip down memory lane .