If you enjoy music of any kind the least bit, then you probably enjoy Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. Released back in 1973 the work holds up incredibly well today and is one of those rare things that persists regardless of time and is admired by people of across different backgrounds and generations. If all that wasn’t great enough, it turns out that DSotM makes for some incredibly good 8-bit music.

Created by Brad Smith, this version of Dark Side uses the Nintendo Entertainment System’s sound chip to distill the music down to 8-bit chiptunes. He used Famitracker to get the job done, as well as NSFplug. For those not familiar with the finer points of Nintendo music, NSF (NES Sound Format) is the standard format for Nintendo music and when used with an NSF player will give a very true playback of a Nintendo cartridge’s sound file (where, say, MIDI, will not).

Here is the first track from Brad Smith’s Moon8:

And the second, featuring the track “Time”. It’s probably the best track on Smith’s Moon8 album.

And finally the most famous, “Money”:

Definitely some of the best chiptunes we’ve heard in a while, but you really can’t get better source material. What is surprising is how well suited Pink Floyd seems for 8-bit music, but we’re guessing Smith’s expertise had something to do with this.

You can listen to all the tracks from this YouTube page. Alternatively, you can buy them from iTunes and CDbaby.

via NPR (really, no kidding).