[’Nother update 08-11: I just wandered back to his blog to download music and found that the side bar on the left of his blog contains links to pages where he organizes his downloadable portfolio. Nice :) Also, amid his blog is a link to his Professional Contact/Portfolio page, which itself I think has more (other?) music - I dunno, I’m using an automatic downloader to grab the music files :) but indicating that he has done a lot of scores to imagined, nonexistent games he made up. Ha ha! That’s insane! That’s awesome!]

[Update: a commenter corrects a mistaken fact; this musician didn’t do the original original music on CONTRA; he did a lot of fan remixes of it. The rest of this is apparently correct.]

I just found this blog of a guy (by Googling the author and title of a file I nabbed from my brother; a chiptunes version of “Thriller”, in this post) who does freelance video-game music, including chiptunes (NES style). Apparently he worked on the original CONTRA, a huge (as in popular) Nintendo game; and he’s doing music for a new installment in the series fashioned closely after the old platform style. Awesome. Anyway his page of new chiptunes has awesome stuff, free for downloading and sharing with restrictions that wouldn’t affect most people.

So here’s his chiptunes version of Michael Jackson’s tune “Thriller” (this song is also at his page for downloading). Weird. Awesome.

(download mp3, ~4MB)

I think I’m going to be downloading and enjoying a lot of his work :)