8-Bit Jesus: Full Album Release
20 12 2008
Just in time for Christmas, it’s the full version of 8-Bit Jesus: Classic Christmas Songs in the Style of Classic NES Games. This full release contains 18 tracks total, including improved variations of a few of the original nine! Please be sure to check out the new amazing cover art for the full release, designed by Jude Buffum.
*EDIT: To listen to the full album right now, please visit the official 8-Bit Jesus page. You can also download the original teaser from this post.
Awesome tunes; hope your dog pulls through.
A defining moment of the holiday season. Kudos, Doctor Octoroc!
So, you did Guardian Legend. I love you. I hope your dog pulls through though, but hey, great tunes, man. Keep it rockin’ Doctoc Octoroc.
Thank you for all of your hard work with these! Hope the vet can figure out what is happening with Ein.
Awesome, thanks again for the kick’n tunes!
Thank you for getting this out before Christmas. It sounds great!
http://www.infendo.com/music/another-8bit-holiday-album-by-dr-octoroc/
You are awesome, you made my night last night.
There was nowhere on the donation page to enter my address. Do I need to email it to you so you can mail out my CD?
I made a point to link to your album on my blog.
I hope your dog pulls through.
Merry Christmas!
It’s not much, but I did send $5 your way. Good luck with Ein!
Aww, still no Ice Climber?
But seriously, I hope your dog makes it. You’re not the only one to have had pet troubles.
Just stumbled upon this album, truly amazing. I already made my “Amazingly Awkward Christmas Album Vol. 4″ but you will make next years cut for sure! It is my gift of interesting Christmas music to those who are close to me.
Great work! Extremely impressed, really made my day! Donated without hesitation ,well worth the money. Good luck with everything in life and I look forward to any new stuff you end up creating. Youve got a new fan!
Amazing tracks btw
I’ll be able to donate about at least $20ish tomorrow. Need to head to the bank first & then will be able to donate. Hope your dog pulls through ok!
Wow soooooooo good! I have been waiting forever for something this good. The metroid one is oh so delightful! WOW!!!!!!!!
I donated, because this is mega-awesome. Quick question: I’m pretty sure the address on my PayPal is old, where can I email/message you my current one?
Hey, wonderful job on the album, I love it.
And best of luck with your puppy! I threw $15 your way to help out. Merry Christmas guys.
Well done, good sir!
This is wonderful. You went above and beyond the call by stylizing them.
8-bit Jesus: Retrofrikismos Navideños…
Doctor Octoroc nos sorprende con este elaborado album navideño, descargable desde internet, llamado 8-Bit Jesus, que contiene canciones de Navidad de 8bits interpretadas al estilo de un juego concreto de la NES, por ejemplo, escuchad los hilarantes: …
Neat!
I would’ve appreciated a torrent, though.
Beautiful stuff! As soon as I can I will be picking up a physical copy of this. Thanks so much for making this available.
Awesome stuff!
totally awesome…you made my day…
Wow. Great job at capturing the essence of the individual sound engines. I think that Faxanadu is my favorite.
Sweet album. I’ve considered donating, but I have one important question: will the CD I receive be sourced from MP3 or from lossless? It would be worth the $15 to me to have a lossless copy of this album, but I have serious issues paying money for MP3 distortion. I do not purchase MP3 on technical principles.
A huge thanks to all the great feedback!
Guy Chapman - Thanks for the props, dude. I have the blogging ocmmunity to thank for the initial, and continuing, popularity of the album.
Evan C - Thanks for your support, and I definitely have some future projects in the works right now - 80’s shows, for one, is a focus of a 2-disc set I’d like to release by May 2009. These tracks will likely be a little longer, as well.
Nemo - Sorry about not having the torrent available. I did consider that possibility the first time my server overloaded. I have a few reasons for not making one available, but mainly because I wanted to be able to track downloads, and I would prefer users to come to my site initially to get the files. Once a torrent is out there, it’s out of my control. With the mirrors, I know who has the source files, so I don’t have to worry about that.
Benjamin - I will be rendering the tracks as .WAV files before I send the tracks to be copied. Obviously, the download would not make much sense with the lossless source files, as people would be downloading the files all day. Initially, I was going to produce these myself, but based on the number of copies I plan on sending out, I have decided to have them professionally duplicated, which means better quality packaging, copying and, yes, lossless audio. Thank you for mentioning that, as I’m sure others are curious about the sound quality as well.
great, but my family hates how harsh sounding it is. therefore pretty useless… :’(
Fantastic, man, fantastic. Each of them have that little bit of magic, tho I have to say Kraid gave me the warm fuzzies.
Really great music. I donated the $15 without hesitation; can’t wait for the physical copy!
Sorry Jews, but your Messiah is in another manger.
Giz - this isn’t exactly a family album, so no hard feelings.
Christmas - Funny you should mention that, since I’m Jewish…and so was Jesus. Either way, thanks for the hilarious comment.
I’m taking this one home to the folks!
I mentioned your album on my blog, bubblegumandbibles.blogspot.com. Check it out if you get a second!
I put these on my iPod this morning and brought it to work. My co-worker and I played it in store for about an hour. Got a few customers that knew the classic 8-bit sound, and they asked where I got it from. So, you’ve got a few more downloads, and hopefully donations as well, coming your way.
Again, wonderful job. Each one has the classic sound of the actual game its from, and that’s my favorite feature.
Kraid, Rest Ye Merry Mother Brain, Have Yourself A Final Little Fantasy, & Carol of the Belmonts are definitely my favorites.
Hey, Doctor O! Love this stuff! Keep it up! To ease the awful woes of hurting, swollen bandwidth, I have made an upload and post to my blog, Seventy Two Pin Connector. Feel free to link to us and list us as a mirror for this amazing album! Keep it real!
-Tom
72PC
http://seventytwopinconnector.com/2008/12/23/battletunes-special-full-album-8-bit-jesus-by-doctor-octorok/
Yeah, it’s GeekMas Time !
Beautiful. This is gonna make my christmas eve (along with playing my old nes games at my parent’s house).
Brilliant. Utterly brilliant. Must buy and make lossless rips!
This is awesome! Go, man, go!
Hope Ein is better soon.
Great job, stylistically and technically! Terrific work!!!
Hey I could totally mirror these files for you on my site, I’ve got more than enough bandwidth. Send me an email or check my site or something.
Oh, didn’t see you already have four mirrors…
Regardless. :p
Very nice! Are you using MidiNES?
BADASS!! Best… Christmas… album… EVAR!!!
Tubular! Ultra radical!
Wow. But what I really wanna ask is…
How?
This is so righteous. Makes me wanna shoot pellets at those yellow helmets with marijuana-influenced eyeballs.
You’re a kind soul, mister doctorroctoroc, and you’re moniker isn’t half bad, either. Merry Christmas!
Now here is some Christmas music that won’t drive me crazy after hearing it all day every day during the holidays. Very cool, thanks for making it!
Is it too late to get a physical copy? These sound amazing!
Okay, so I don’t know if Kotaku has hit you up yet, but I just sent a tip off to them, and they usually get TONS of feed into their blog - so expect more donations and more downloads
And after Christmas, expect $15 from me - keep up the AWESOME work!
Congrats for a job well done!
Merry xmas!
If victory had a sound and it came out of a nintendo, it would sound something like this.
Wicked sweet.
Epic win!
Dr. Octoroc,
This is some really amazing stuff and I’m quite impressed. Would you mind telling me what software you used to make this? Maybe Nerdtracker? I’m looking for a Linux NSF composer and I thought you may know of one. Here’s to hoping! I could always run NT in DosBox, but…lol you know.
Thanks!
Ben
Your tunes rock! they are awesome… oh… also merry christmas from mexico!!! really you must do more like this!
I forgot to ask… but… can I put your album in my blog?…
Just did my paypal thing.
I hope that my readership helped you out. I don’t know if they did, but I hope so! (It’s a quite modest readership, to be sure.) Keep us all updated on future CDs/downloads, as well as how Ein manages!
-OD
Keep on great working! “นายเจ๋งมาก” (You so cool man!)
You are amazing. Your music is great! This is going right over the fireplace (after I donate, of course).
I love that these are neither arrangements, nor mash-ups, but, rather, a compositional middle ground between classic NES chiptunes and traditional Xmas songs.
Thoroughly spectacular album.
This is undoubtedly the best thing I’ve ever heard.
My brother came home for Christmas and had this playing on his phone during his visit. I overheard the song and asked which Castlevania it was from, since I didn’t recognize the particular piece. He laughed and told me it was “Carol of the Belmonts” from a Christmas album called 8-Bit Jesus.
I am a huge Castlevania fan. You so perfectly combined the sound of the classic games with the tunes of the classic carols into something entirely unique- I honestly thought it was from a Castlevania game! Incredible work with the album!
Great album. Hope your dog is OK.
The Metroid and Guardian Legend tunes were great. Also loved the Faxanadu tune. That was one of my favorite NES games. Maybe for next year you can pick up Battle of Olympus.
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Please upload it to last.fm
WAT EEN KANKER ZOOI!!! FTW!!!
Great idea for music! I love the track titles. Good luck with Ein!
Happy New Year, Jeff
This is truly great…will probably become a holiday tradition at my place; I give you my kudos!
~Marilyn Roxie
EPIC WIN!
And umm… yeah… i wish id be able to donate :/
But anyways great job! You’re one of those ppl that deceive being at the top but look much cooler where they are. Keep at it! ^_^
This is amazing! Thanks.
Absolutely loved the album. My family even listened to it while opening presents.
I thought you might enjoy the fact that I was bumping 8-bit Jesus in my patrol car. I wonder if I was the only cop to do that? I even played it when I was transporting prisoners. Their responses were hilarious (”Is this music from Pong?” or “What the fuck is this shit?”). Genius!
amazing to hearing it while driving…
an album to all family
BEST ALBUM EVER. I’m sooooo glad I downloaded it. It really is some of the best stuff I’ve ever heard. I love you. : ^ )
Excellent and inventive. My kid (a gaming freak) is going to think I’m a hero for bringing this home! Thanks!!!
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