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Thriller (Side-by-side Comparison)

I played this in memory of Michael Jackson, who is my all-time #1 musical inspiration, at Magfest 8.

What you are hearing is Michael Jackson’s original Thriller in one ear, and my own NES chiptune cover of Thriller in the other, with a tiny bit of bleed-through. The mash-up effect is a little jarring at first, but hopefully you will be amused by it when you hear things lining up. When I made the cover years ago, it never occurred to me to try this; I just did A/B comparisons a measure at a time, and got the details as close as possible by ear. This was the first time I’d ever heard the entire thing played in sync, and I just sat there for a while staring into space, thinking hard about lots of serious things.. before hitting play again and doing the “zombie hands” dance the whole way through.

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11 Responses to "Thriller (Side-by-side Comparison)"

  1. robsteele 20/06/2010 01:06:51

    I enjoyed hearing this at mag, even though i couldn’t really hear all the different times stuff matched up. Awesome that you released this! Now i can!

  2. jikooo 30/06/2010 12:06:12

    Yes! Fun! Good work! Thx for sharing.

  3. LionsPhil 15/07/2010 07:07:28

    Whoa, that’s impressively accurate. Good work.

  4. Tyco 19/07/2010 05:07:59

    Seriously, where were you when they made Moonwalker? You have done an immensely better job than the original developers did…

  5. dD2 24/08/2010 08:08:00

    Now if you can rip the vox and mix them in the chiptune, You’d rank up there in the “Epic” category!

  6. Moogle! 11/09/2010 05:09:27

    One day, you should totally do a Sega Genesis style Thriller cover.

  7. Gio32k 09/10/2010 06:10:57

    I like, I like! It’s awesome possum! Totally rad and a bag of chips.

  8. Patricia Launt 01/12/2010 01:12:51

    Insightful post=D Going to want a bit of time to think about the info=D

  9. Sly Kornell 07/12/2010 06:12:10

    Cool, man! Awesome work!

  10. Milan 15/01/2011 05:01:26

    What version is this? I remember a differenct cut. But the job with reproducing the song is amaizing. Attention to details is what I also do when remaking songs.

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