Straight outta Birmingham, Alabama, COMPUTER CLUB makes brilliant electro tracks of giant proportions (so your playlist better make a lot of room). COMPUTER CLUB is alias of one Mike Diasio, better known as Gigantor, of Atlanta-based drum’n'bass group, Evol Intent. After Evol Intent established itself as one of America’s premier drum’n'bass talents, its three members have been making departures: First Evol Intent’s A.J. rechristened himself as Treasure Fingers and y’all have been shaking it across the dancefloor since. Next Evol Intent’s Knick embarked on a “Bangfest” with a friend, Rochester’s Kill The Noise, in Ludachrist (Big Stereo will put you up on Ludachrist, if you aren’t knowing). Lastly, Evol Intent’s Gigantor breaks apart to form COMPUTER CLUB.

The talent is huge, so expect good things from CC, first out of the gate is ‘Load Rocket’ which will be released through N.Y.’s System Recordings.

MP3: COMPUTER CLUB - Load Rocket

Presumably, the B-side to ‘Load Rocket’ will be ‘Flat Response’. Sit tight for that, and for now, partake in some cover action (of giant proportions), with COMPUTER CLUB’s electro take on new wave icons New Order big hit, ‘Bizzare Love Triangle’.

MP3: COMPUTER CLUB - Bizzare Love Triangle (New Order cover)

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The Under The Covers column returns! We’ve slowly been collecting more cover songs that run the gamut from awesome to odd to awful. All varieties are worth hearing! Listen in awe or disdainful laughter.

30 Seconds to Mars covers Kanye West’s ‘Stronger’ live on BBC Radio 1. This falls into the laughable category even though frontman Jared Leto delivers the vocals so earnestly. They saved the Daft Punk vocals, so don’t expect any. I’d be rolling if they tried.

MP3: 30 Seconds to Mars - Stronger (Kayne West cover)

Ontario’s hardcore rockers Fucked Up covering Justice’s ‘Stress’ a few months back. Fucking awesome.

MP3: Fucked Up - Stress (Justice cover)

File this under fantastic, I first heard do this Pink Floyd cover at last month’s Vegoose festival and was very impressed. Not many groups can come close to a classic, but the The Shins do.

MP3: The Shins - Breathe (Pink Floyd Cover)

The Lemonheads folk-rock version of Misfits‘ Danzig-era punk classic ‘Skulls’. Fucking ‘ardcore!

MP3: The Lemonheads - Skulls (Misfits cover)

And in that same vein, this Zwan (Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins fame’s 2001-2003 project) cover of Metal gods Iron Maiden on ‘Mark of the Beast’. Probably one of my favorite covers comes at you from the Spun soundtrack.

MP3: Zwan - Number of the Beast (Iron Maiden cover)

Next up, Lightspeed Champion covering The Beatles immortal John Lennon. Lightspeed Champion is Devonte Hynes or just “Dev”, formerly of thrash-rap-punk group Test Icicles. Test Icicles remains one of my favorite things ever. I seriously moaned and writhed while morning the death of the Test Icicles last year. But the musicians live on! Dev maintains a blog at TheWorldForgot.com, there he puts up a great many home recordings—quite different from Test Icicles, but great in a whole new way:

MP3: Lightspeed Champion - Better Off Dead (Elton John cover)

Ladytron getting sexy R’n'B’d out covering Tweet’s slut-anthem ‘Oops (Oh My)’. Y’all remember this original? With the Timbaland beat and Missy Elliot doin’ backup vocals? This cover appeared as a b-side on their ‘Evil’ single:

MP3: Ladytron - Oops (Oh My) (Tweet cover)

And, perhaps, saving the best for last, three Radiohead covers of The Smiths, New Order, and Björk in a recent live webcast on their Dead Air Space promoting their newest LP, In Rainbows:

MP3: Radiohead - The Headmaster Ritual (The Smiths cover)

MP3: Radiohead - Ceremony (New Order cover)

MP3: Radiohead - Unravel (Bjork cover)

The covers are king sized! We got covers for days so expect more ‘Under the Covers’ posts soon.

You want more now?! Peep our archive for the tag-word ‘Cover’.

Laromlab is a chiptune maestro. Chiptunes (also called “micro-music” and a few other cute titles) is music composed in a format whereby all the sounds are synthesized in realtime by a computer or video game console sound chip, instead of using sample-based synthesis. To understand and appreciate what that means, one needs only to have been a video game addict in the days of Commodore 64, Atari or the almighty Nintendo Entertainment System.

Laromlab makes sound the old fashioned way, with an Atari 1040STE, an Atari Falcon 030, & a Commodore 64. It’s only modern sequencing and arranging software that is used to bind all the different chip sounds together into a single track.

I’ve been a fan of Laromlab for a bit, but when he sent us these Daft Punk remixes (or what I’d consider covers), I knew I had to share:

MP3: Daft Punk - Around the World (Laromlab’s 2A03 Mix)
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MP3: Daft Punk - Aerodynamic (Laromlab’s NES Advantage Mix)
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How cool is that? It’s nostalgic, yet fresh!

Laromlab is currently signed to Mushpot Records and he’s got some nice original tracks on his MySpace that you ought to hear. 8-bits is more than enough to get funky.