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New NES-style Zelda arrangement album “BitShift” available to back on vinyl on Kickstarter

Human Sweat Records have launched a new Kickstarter campaign for the arrangement album “BitShift: The Cartridge Of Time”, which features NES-style takes on music from The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild and Tears Of The Kingdom. Multiple vinyl variants are available for backing.

The release will be a single LP available in three vinyl color variants – a “Luminous Stone” glow-in-the-dark colored vinyl variant, a “BitShift Portal” custom hand-poured colored vinyl variant (50 copies), and a “Dragon Eye” custom Wax Mage colored vinyl variant (25 copies).
It will be housed in a hand-numbered single-pocket jacket with new artwork by Studio Pants.

Prices start at £30 and up depending on the color variant. The campaign runs from now and until November 30, 2025. If successful it is scheduled to begin shipping in September, 2026. It can be backed via Kickstarter here.

BitShift: The Cartridge Of Time - Front, Glow-in-the-Dark variant
BitShift: The Cartridge Of Time - Front, Portal variant
BitShift: The Cartridge Of Time - Front, Wax Mage

Zelda arrangement album The Stable Trotters can now be backed on vinyl via Kickstarter

Giovanni Rotondo has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the The Legend Of Zelda arrangement album The Stable Trotters with several vinyl tiers. The album contains arrangements from various Zelda games in the style of the The Stable Trotters troupe from Tears Of The Kingdom.

The release will be a single LP available in three variants – a “Silent Princess” blue marble colored vinyl variant, a “Sundelion” yellow, red and black swirl “wax mage” variant, and a “Fairy Fountain” pink splatter “wax mage” variant.
It will be housed in a single-pocket jacket with new artwork Jae Sern. Each copy will be hand-numbered.

Some variants are unavailable now, but more may be made available at a later time.

Vinyl rewards start at £30 and the campaign runs until June 10, 2024. If successful rewards are set to ship out around December, 2024. It can be backed via Kickstarter here.

The Stable Trotters - Front
The Stable Trotters - Back

The 8-Bit Time Machine vinyl release now up for order

The 8-Bit Time Machine is a 2014 arrangement album of chiptune renditions of modern game music. It features tracks from the following games: Angry Birds, Battlefield 1942, Braid, Destiny, The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Portal, Super Mario Galaxy and Watch Dogs.

The release will be a single LP available in three variants – an “NES” black, silver and grey tricolor with red splatter (limited to 100 copies), a “Tri-Force” dark green on light green pinwheel with pink splatter (limited to 200 copies), and a “Time Warp” blue, red and purple swirl (limited to 200 copies, Respawned exclusive).
It will be housed in a single-pocket jacket with new artwork and include a double-sided insert.

It is priced at $25/£25 and is in-stock and shipping now. It is available to order via Enjoy The Ride here (unfortunately sold out as of this post), arranger Giovanni Rotondo from the UK here, and Respawned Records here.

The 8-Bit Time Machine - Front
The 8-Bit Time Machine - NES Variant
The 8-Bit Time Machine - Tri-Force Variant
The 8-Bit Time Machine - Time Warp Variant

Enjoy The Toons to release arrangement album The 8-Bit Time Paradox on vinyl

It was originally announced via an Indiegogo campaign from late last year, but now it’s gotten a proper announcement from Enjoy The Toons Records and a release date.

The 8-Bit Time Paradox is an arrangement album managed in large part by Giovanni Rotondo. It contains arrangements of music from Metroid, Breath Of The Wild, Final Fantasy VII, Ocarina Of Time, Mega Man, Titanfall 2, Shovel Knight, and Battlefield 1. The tracks are performed by several artists known for their video game music arrangements on Youtube and elsewhere on the internet.

The release will be a single LP housed in a GameBoy game-inspired single pocket jacket with art by Jeff Langevin. It will be available in three color variants – “cartridge” grey, “boss battle” purple-in-clear with white splatter, and “time paradox” purple smoke. The two former are limited to 200 copies each and the latter 100 copies.

The release is priced at $21 through Enjoy The Toons Records, and £23 through Giovanni Rotondo’s Bandcamp.

Orders open through Enjoy The Toons’ store here on May 5, 2018. It can already be ordered through Giovanni Rotondo’s Bandcamp here, which ships from the UK instead of the US.

The 8-Bit Time Paradox - Front The 8-Bit Time Paradox - Tracklist The 8-Bit Time Paradox - Records