8 Bit and Pixels - a Smashing Mashup

 Since I listen to industrial and I'm somewhat of a geek, I've recently been enjoying a new album by Mind.In.A.Box called R.E.T.R.O.  In it the band recreates a bunch of classic old games into modern synthpop/industrial.  It's a good album and you should check it out.  After a week of constantly switching between that and Destroid's Loundspeaker, I saw the now viral short film, PIXELS on Youtube.  It's a great short film by Patrick Jean in which New York gets invaded by pixels.  It is a rather geeky apocalyptic setting, so I really enjoyed it.  However that night, I was thinking about the film and this really catchy song from R.E.T.R.O, "8-Bit" kept running through my head.  It was then I realized I had no choice but to create a mashup! See the final result after the jump.  

I definitely don't want to infringe on either artist and claim any credit for the video--the film is by Patrick Jean and is a work of genius in itsself--see the original here.  The song is by one of my favourite bands, Mind.In.A.Box. I highly recommend listening to their first three albums in succession on a long road trip (they double both as musical albums and a sort of saga involving an agent named Black looking for some sort of mysterious cyber-punk character). I hope this mashup brings the some more publicity to this band, as they are relatively unknown outside of industrial circles and maybe Austria.  You can find the 8-Bit track here, or purchase the mp3 of the track straight from Amazon.