Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Sleep (8-bit)

I'm not the creator of this cover, it's a reupload of the original video that was deleted.

[@eduardo4792]

They don't sleep anymore on the koopa beach

[@generalvic8250]

Dude no joke, you made me laugh hard as fuck while depressed.

[@ronaldmcdonald8168]

😥

[@hotuish]

Correction: they don’t sleep anymore on the koopa beach.

[@salehalmalki]

Indeed

[@eduardo4792]

@@hotuish cierto

[@pavolsobota7233]

8:09 boss enters second phase

[@Rhizzome]

ZING! 🔥

[@gzh460728053]

They don' sleep on the disk anymore...

[@KrysztoffDorion]

lift your pixelated fingers like antenna's

[@munozkidd8659]

I don’t know who did this or why, but they obviously put a ton of effort into it and it’s awesome.

[@caseyfrechette]

Having listened to the original hundreds of if not a thousand or more times, the level of attention to detail in the transposition here, including the development of atmosphere and dynamics and in particular percussion hits...it really builds up an atmosphere and soundscape that seems to show its medium as kind of an interesting one for the song and the genre--however, it is sort of easy to imagine the actual members of GYBE! being kind of horrified that this exists. I think they endeavor to be sort of a raw and human experience. I could be way off base. But I agree that it is an awesome cover either way and I am glad that the absolute lunatic who bothered to put it together suffers whatever madness caused them to do so. Lol

[@ombrapunx6571]

Thank You Mario But Our Princess Is in Another Castle.

[@sebfarmar5804]

Thank you Mario, but our princess doesn't sleep on the beaches anymore...

[@tombus7671]

even in 8bit, the part at 17:05 makes my heart wrench

[@anmts5565]

to me this part has always felt like hope after the rest of the song was some tragic event or something, it makes me quite happy

[@The_Room_2_Doggys_Revenge]

​@@anmts5565agree! To me the whole album sounds like a movie : after Static (the villain taking over), Sleep starts kinda depressing but the hero comes back around that time

[@anmts5565]

@@The_Room_2_Doggys_Revenge that’s such a good way of describing it

[@scmsecuritycrackmalwares783]

@@anmts5565 you have good imagination, now i will think to this

[@TheSnowBrosQc]

@@The_Room_2_Doggys_Revenge I see this album in 4 stage of life ( each song ) Storm - Is like the Beginning of life, feels so smooth and enjoyable. At the second phase ( the jungle phase i called it ) is like the start of your teenage years, you’re experiencing and sometimes fails. The end of the song idk what to say about that it is beautiful but i dont know how to compare it Static - huge part of my feelings is anxiety, being lost and hardly being violated by the music that screams into your ears, i compare that as the real life slapping into your face at the age of 18-20 Storm ( my fav )- this song is commonly compared as a roller coaster, and I couldn’t agreed more and this is like your 25-40, your life is a roller coaster. LATH - the beginning of this song are little kids singing little nursery rhyme and this is when you will have kids, listening them enjoy life. After that is just like your 50-90, you just listen peacefully thr song like you live your life peacefully Plus i like the way the album ends, on a switch noise like you just been switch to off That’s it

[@krumby3460]

at first i thought "why would you do this" but it honestly sounds really good, this is amazing :)

[@MylesMarrero]

I think this just goes to show how incredible the composition of this song is. Even with barebones instrumentation like this, it sounds wonderful.

[@NikoliBearcrusher]

Oh my god the rabbit hole this just sent me down. How.... How could I have let this band slip through my fingers for over two decades? How is this the first I've EVER heard of this band? My god all the music I've listened to in my life and this somehow eluded me. Monheim is one of the greatest things I've ever heard and that alone is at least 20 years old. Wow. Unreal. I'm super disappointed in myself, this music is fantastic. And the 8bit cover here is very good too. Wow, thanks for the re-upload my friend. I can't imagine how much longer I would have missed out if you hadn't done that.

[@egdirro]

Just in time for a brand new album.

[@soleilforgeron590]

If you want to try a little of a different flavour of post rock, that is with much more electronic elements, check out Kashiwa Daisuke.

[@brydon10]

Best group around man. Glad you found them. Allelujah Don't Bend Ascend will blow your mind, as will their other albums. New album that just came out is great too.

[@ericbeal7284]

At least you found it :)

[@jothamread]

Funny, also, gratz, and welcome.

[@mguloy971]

i cannot imagine the level of effort that went into this, it's way too good

[@TheGreatWhiteNope]

I love this song. First heard it on Brave New Waves on CBC radio.

[@Qwertyuiopaz]

They seriously played the whole song on CBC??

[@emmarossignol4445]

Man probably deleted the channel to get away from all the people asking him to do more of these...

[@iowa9114]

God even the 8 bit version gives me goosebumps

[@inquisitorialllama638]

Great work man. The sad ending in an old school game.

[@koolkat123]

This is incredible. It's not just simply transporting a midi file and changing the sounds to chiptunes obviously, or running it through a filter. Somebody really put an effort into making this well.

[@broy8172]

i've been looking up bands with "chiptune" or "8-bit" attached on youtube a lot this year and this takes the cake for most surprising find. honorable mention to the guy who did all of Stereolab's Emperor Tomato Ketchup in chiptune

[@robp1245]

It's rare to see a YT video with no dislikes! Awesome job

[@ballcracker-qg5ml]

It's God's blessing that this showed up in my recommended :3

[@Anthony-em3sb]

oh shit same pfp

[@Kongjie57]

"In the small hours when the acid stench of existence rises like sewer gas from everything created, the emptiness of life seems more terrible than its misery" -- Connolly

[@jeremyestrada3041]

Thanks for making this available again. You’re doing the lords work.

[@mikepackenham]

I absolutely love this.

[@MutantHunt]

So around 12:00 I heard the ghost of the original recording and I was, momentarily, haunted away from all things in this dream being built as I sleep on the beach. This shit is perfect

[@douglasferreira5082]

8:11 and on is progressive Aphex Twin

[@ericbeal7284]

Even this gives me the chills lol

[@BEEE-F]

This is amazing! I love it.

[@captainchapan]

I love this so much! Props to whoever it was who made it!

[@onm7864]

Oh thank you so much for the reupload! I don't know why they removed it..

[@monsieurcintre8800]

Je n'aurai jamais imaginé dire ça mais... C'est franchement magnifique o.O !

[@darabennett4316]

Now i know what it would have sounded like if my favorite band had had an early Nintendo Game built around them. SLEEP is in my Top 3 Favorite GY!BE songs. Incredible job.💜🤘

[@jgrutza]

This was surprisingly amazing.

[@mattcrafty]

This is the combination that I didn't know I needed

[@TheSnoClan]

That is just awesome!

[@mr.zaiked3058]

WOW IT´S SO INCREDIBLE!!!

[@spinkinggyro7779]

I think this cover uses the VRC6 chip, so it’s technically not 8-bit in the traditional sense. Doesn’t change how much this rocks though.

[@atta6495]

Beauty and sublime

[@alb2620]

This is so great!

[@amedeomajer3110]

Oh Jesus this is amazing!! I want it in a game so much !!

[@disjointedhoudini]

the second part of Broken windows locks of love pt. III is sooooo good

[@ashtonyoung]

I can't believe this exists. I love it

[@tobypreston9991]

thank you so much

[@EcoMythos]

they don't download anymore on the floppy disk

[@baleadamuncher]

this is incredible

[@semerset]

It deserves more attention

[@aidanmca4177]

Wow I was confused when I first clicked on this but as soon as it started I loved it, I love how even the little drum pattern changes are kept. Please do mother* = redeemer (youtube seems to delete comments with swears now)

[@eduardovargas3814]

I think that some passages of this version would have matched perfectly with some specific moments of more than one iconic classic JRPG from the end of the last century.

[@jedanimates]

thank you for your service kind stranger :)))

[@somethingelse9598]

amazing

[@WillImrie]

Awesome 👌 ❤

[@egdirro]

Amazing

[@sonikkuffffff]

nice

[@phew9418]

Very nice

[@NothingYouHaventReadBefore]

Amazing holy shit

[@shiobuzz3724]

Perfect

[@salehalmalki]

هذا اثبات قادسبيدو باند ليجنيد بكل الاحوال راح يصدمك

[@mehmet5389]

i like it

[@neetrain]

underrated

[@tster266]

Holy shit

[@jothamread]

Fuck me this is gorgeous

[@bearelease]

aw my heart and lungs...

[@colonelgraff9198]

Somewhere there exists a MIDI file of this

[@renatocfrancisco]

crying in 8-bits

[@SylvainBerube]

I was curious about how you would recreate the part at 15:38 : pretty good job, thanks a lot!

[@zealousidealdog]

I wanna play an Atari game with this music.

[@rafaelgabrielgarlinidal-bo9496]

I love you

[@benwagner4741]

cool

[@Aoi_Haru763]

Well ... yeah, why not?!

[@kylersperry8104]

Ok, I'm super curious who is the original creator? Why was this beautiful rendition ripped from the internet before???

[@Xis6Xis6Xis6]

I have the same question too. I'm wondering if it's the channel "8 Bit Universe".

[@kryptos6922]

Someone by the name of "Baphomet," who also made a cover of Moya in this style much earlier. Like someone else said, probably deleted their channel because they were constantly being hounded and pressured to make more covers of [insert song name here] in nearly every single comment. Rest of the channel had little to do with this stuff iirc

[@AleatoricSatan]

zero dislikes, as it's meant to be

[@aidanmca4177]

Someone always has to jinx it

[@AleatoricSatan]

@@aidanmca4177 who is more fit for the art of jinx, than one named satan?

[@ikejime77]

wow

[@georgesabitpol]

Would have been nice to play castelvania with that

[@p0l1p0k3t]

earthbound apocalypse

[@shravanbk2100]

Who made this?

[@lanej9325]

Who is the original creator? I need a name.

[@smugism1685]

What happened to the original video?

[@d3formation]

obviously it was deleted, I don't know exactly why.

[@Xis6Xis6Xis6]

@@d3formation So who's the original uploader? Is it 8 Bit Universe?

[@antonaanton2722]

охуенно

[@galathain6140]

final fantasy dark

[@heathens_swill]

They don't sleep on the beach anymore....

[@guilhermecruz951]

Octavarium? lol

[@danieloconnor4638]

huh

[@Mnckq1]

بديع

[@peytonwarren1936]

There’s no way this is 8-bit right? I thought you could only have three tracks going at one time.

[@Chewdog79]

Track might sound better than the real ..

[@Anguloose]

nuh uh