So, there’s this Brooklyn-based art collective known as FAILE that teamed up with this other Brooklyn-based artist BAST to put on an art show together. Their idea was to create a show where not only do they redecorate old, upright video game machines, they also reprogram the machines to include brand new games. They christened the whole thing “Deluxx FLUXX Arcade 2010,” and it looks pretty fucking cool.
Now, if you’re a hardcore gamer like me, or even if you just enjoy the occasional game of Megaman, you know that most great video games have a great soundtrack that you can tap your toes to. So, I bet you’re wondering: “If all the games are re-programmed, then what happened to the great soundtracks that I can tap my toes to?!” Well, you can settle down, nerd, because a whole new set of soundtracks has been written, arranged, and digitized by Les Savy Fav’s own Seth Jabour, who turns in a danceable, synth-heavy (duh) soundtrack for each one of the newly-programmed games.
The art show opened in London but, via The World’s Best Ever, we’ve learned that the show is heading New York’s way and will run April 30 - May 27 at an abandoned store front on the Lower East Side. Now if only they could reprogram my editors so they’re not such assholes.
• FAILE: http://www.faile.net
• BAST: http://www.bastny.com
