Was the idea for “Kind of Bloop” inspired by the 50th anniversary of the album?
Andy Baio: On Kickstarter you can do projects up to three months, and it ended up just kind of being serendipity, lining up the release date with the 50th anniversary. I’d had the idea years ago of covering the standards of bebop or cool jazz, doing “Take Five” as a chiptune, and periodically I would look to see if anybody had done chiptune jazz. Every time I would go look I would find nothing. I couldn’t believe it. Then on one of these rounds of searching, I actually found a track. It was part of a Japanese chiptune competition called “Famicompo.” It was John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” by this guy Sergio de Prado in Spain. I listened to it, and I thought, this shows a lot of potential. This is very cool. Would you say that a personal appreciation for jazz music was an important factor in your deciding to organize this album project? My relationship with jazz is very similar to my relationship with chiptunes. I’m an admirer and I love both genres, but I’m not an obsessive hardcore fan.
