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Low-Bit Music

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Citing an elegant introduction from [Wikiola: The music business resource Wiki]:

Low bit (short for low bitrate, also known as lobit) is a musical aesthetic characterized by lossy data compression artifacts caused by encoding songs at low bitrates. Artists making low-bit music believe that if a song is good, it can be appreciated at any bitrate or on any speakers.

A subset of the low-bit modality is the iconic chiptune, which is a style of electronic music made using programmable synthesizers. From about the mid 1970s onward, chiptune compositions would accompany most electronic games, and the genre arguably passed into a renaissance in the 1980s. Hardware-based music was implemented on a variety of systems throughout the decades, with many of those having graduated into electronic heaven by now.

One surviving and ever-popular format is the so-called MIDI file, which is the native home to the Doom soundtrack among many others. MIDI compositions can be played as-is on any worthwhile modern media playerm, and many (literally, tens of thousands) popular pieces from culture have been transcribed (and thus approximated) in MIDI format.

Collected here are a few highly-acclaimed tracks from the golden age of 8- and 16-bit music, along with whatever else tastefully fits. When the original quality of the composition suffers too greatly by converting to MIDI, good old MP3 comes to the rescue.

Bach, J. S.

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J. S. Bach

  1. Concerto for Three Harpsichords in D minor - Sequenced by Marcelo Copia M. (1998)

Doom

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Doom

  1. Level 1
  2. Level 2
  3. Level 3
  4. Level 4
  5. Level 5
  6. Level 6
  7. Level 7
  8. Level 8
  9. Level 9

Doom 2

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Doom 2

  1. Title
  2. Level 1 - Entryway (Petersen)
  3. Level 2 - Underhalls (McGee; exit to secret level; Xbox only)
  4. Level 3 - The Gantlet (McGee)
  5. Level 4 - The Focus (McGee)
  6. Level 5 - The Waste Tunnels (McGee)
  7. Level 6 - The Crusher (McGee)
  8. Level 7 - Dead Simple (Petersen and McGee)
  9. Level 8 - Tricks and Traps (Petersen)
  10. Level 9 - The Pit (Petersen)
  11. Level 10 - Refueling Base (Petersen and Hall)
  12. Level 11 - 'O' of Destruction!1 (Romero)
  13. Level 12 - The Factory (Petersen)
  14. Level 13 - Downtown (Petersen)
  15. Level 14 - The Inmost Dens (McGee)
  16. Level 15 - Industrial Zone (Romero; exit to secret level)
  17. Level 16 - Suburbs (Petersen)
  18. Level 17 - Tenements (Romero)
  19. Level 18 - The Courtyard (Petersen)
  20. Level 19 - The Citadel (Petersen)
  21. Level 20 - Gotcha! (Romero)
  22. Level 21 - Nirvana (Petersen)
  23. Level 22 - The Catacombs (McGee)
  24. Level 23 - Barrels o' Fun (Petersen)
  25. Level 24 - The Chasm (Petersen)
  26. Level 25 - Bloodfalls (Green)
  27. Level 26 - The Abandoned Mines (Romero)
  28. Level 27 - Monster Condo (Petersen)
  29. Level 28 - The Spirit World (Petersen)
  30. Level 29 - The Living End (Romero)
  31. Level 30 - Icon of Sin (Petersen)
  32. Level 31 - Wolfenstein2 (Petersen, exit to super secret level)
  33. Level 32 - Grosse2 (Inspired from Wolfenstein 3D - Ultimate Conquest (E3M9/E6M9 music))
  34. Intermission
  35. Endgame

Follin, T. J.

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Silver Surfer for NES

Ko0x

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Starlight Sugar Moon

Metallica

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Kill 'Em All

  1. Hit The Lights
  2. The Four Horsemen
  3. Motorbreath
  4. Jump In The Fire
  5. (Anesthesia) - Pulling Teeth
  6. Whiplash
  7. Phantom Lord
  8. No Remorse
  9. Seek and Destroy
  10. Metal Militia

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Ride the Lightning

  1. Fight Fire With Fire
  2. Ride The Lightning
  3. For Whom The Bell Tolls
  4. Fade To Black
  5. Trapped Under Ice
  6. Escape
  7. Creeping Death
  8. The Call Of Ktulu

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Master of Puppets

  1. Battery
  2. Master Of Puppets
  3. The Thing That Should Not Be
  4. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
  5. Disposable Heroes
  6. Leper Messiah
  7. Orion
  8. Damage Inc

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...And Justice for All

  1. Blackened
  2. And Justice For All
  3. Eye Of The Beholder
  4. One
  5. The Shortest Straw
  6. Harvester Of Sorrow
  7. The Frayed Ends Of Sanity
  8. To Live Is To Die
  9. Dyers Eve

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Black Album

  1. Enter Sandman
  2. Sad But True
  3. Holier Than Thou
  4. The Unforgiven
  5. Wherever I May Roam
  6. Don't Tread On Me
  7. Through The Never
  8. Nothing Else Matters
  9. Of Wolf And Man
  10. God That Failed
  11. My Friend Of Misery
  12. Struggle Within

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Load

  1. Aint My Bitch
  2. Until It Sleeps
  3. 2x4
  4. The House That Jack Built
  5. King Nothing
  6. Hero Of The Day
  7. Bleeding Me
  8. Cure
  9. Poor Twisted Me
  10. Wasting My Hate
  11. Mama Said
  12. The Thorn Within
  13. Ronnie
  14. The Outlaw Torn

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Reload

  1. Fuel
  2. The Memory Remains
  3. Devils Dance
  4. The Unforgiven II
  5. Better Than You
  6. Slither
  7. Carpe Diem Baby
  8. Bad Seed
  9. Where The Wild Things Are
  10. Prince Charming
  11. Low Man's Lyric
  12. Attitude
  13. Fixxxer

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Garage Inc. Disc 1

  1. Free Speech For The Dumb
  2. It's Electric
  3. Sabbra Cadabra
  4. Turn The Page
  5. Die Die My Darling
  6. Loverman
  7. Mercyful Fate
  8. Astronomy
  9. Whiskey In The Jar
  10. Tuesday's Gone
  11. The More I See

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Garage Inc. Disc 2

  1. Helpless
  2. The Small Hours
  3. The Wait
  4. Crash Course In Brain Surgery
  5. Last Care Green Hell
  6. Am I Evil
  7. Blitzkrieg
  8. Breadfan
  9. The Prince
  10. Stone Cold Crazy
  11. So What
  12. Killing Time
  13. Overkill
  14. Damage Case
  15. Stone Dead Forever
  16. Too Late Too Late

Pantera

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I am the Night


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Power Metal


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Cowboys from Hell

  1. Cowboys from Hell
  2. Primal Concrete Sledge
  3. Psycho Holiday
  4. Heresy
  5. Cemetary-Gates
  6. Domination
  7. Shattered
  8. Clash with Reality
  9. Medicine-Man
  10. Message-in-Blood
  11. The-Sleep
  12. Art-of-Shredding

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Vulgar Display of Power

  1. Mouth for War
  2. A New Level
  3. Walk
  4. Fucking Hostile
  5. This Love
  6. Rise
  7. No Good (Attack the Radical)
  8. Live in a Hole
  9. Regular People Conceit
  10. By Demons be Driven
  11. Hollow

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Far Beyond Driven

  1. Strength Beyond Strength
  2. Becoming
  3. 5 Minutes Alone
  4. I'm Broken
  5. Good Friends and a Bottle of Pills
  6. Hard Lines Sunken Cheeks
  7. Slaughtered
  8. 25 Years
  9. Shedding Skin
  10. Use My Third Arm
  11. Throes of Rejection
  12. Planet Caravan

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The Great Southern Trendkill

  1. The Great Southern Trendkill
  2. War Nerve
  3. Drag the Waters
  4. 10s
  5. 13 Steps to Nowhere
  6. Suicide Note Part 1
  7. Suicide Note Part 2
  8. Living Through Me (Hell's Wrath)
  9. Floods
  10. The Underground America
  11. Sandblasted Skin

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Reinventing the Steel

  1. Hellbound
  2. Goddamn Electric
  3. Yesterday Don't Mean Shit
  4. Yove Got to Belong to It
  5. Revolution is My Name
  6. Death Rattle
  7. We'll Grind That Axe for a Long Time
  8. Uplift

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