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| author | (quasar) nebula <qznebula@protonmail.com> | 2023-09-27 13:59:22 -0300 |
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| committer | (quasar) nebula <qznebula@protonmail.com> | 2023-09-27 13:59:22 -0300 |
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diff --git a/album/a-viral-medium-vol-1.yaml b/album/a-viral-medium-vol-1.yaml index 3db723e..8f97615 100644 --- a/album/a-viral-medium-vol-1.yaml +++ b/album/a-viral-medium-vol-1.yaml @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ URLs: - https://aviralmedium.bandcamp.com/track/viron - https://soundcloud.com/aviralmedium/1-viron?in=aviralmedium/sets/volume1 Commentary: |- - <i>Eldritchdraaks:</i> + <i>Eldritchdraaks:</i> (comic director) meant to sound like an old pc booting up and the noises it's making start to sound like a tune --- Track: Geocaching @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ URLs: - https://aviralmedium.bandcamp.com/track/news - https://soundcloud.com/aviralmedium/5-news?in=aviralmedium/sets/volume1 Commentary: |- - <i>Eldritchdraaks:</i> + <i>Eldritchdraaks:</i> (comic director) News came from a scrapped idea of two news anchors going head to head, a jester and a juggalo. --- Track: Dead Silence diff --git a/album/alternia.yaml b/album/alternia.yaml index 20a8886..ccafad3 100644 --- a/album/alternia.yaml +++ b/album/alternia.yaml @@ -433,15 +433,16 @@ Commentary: |- (UU's Theme) ????????????? <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor) - thanks to an emailer working with Monckat for helping find the original artwork for this track! - here's the original art put up on the wiki for this track, by foreverFlummoxed: - <i>foreverFlummoxed:</i> + Thanks to an emailer working with Monckat for helping find the original artwork for this track! + Here's the original art put up on the wiki for this track, by foreverFlummoxed: + <i>foreverFlummoxed:</i> (alternate art) <img src="media/misc/the-thirteenth-hour-ff.jpg" width="300"> <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor) - and here's another piece by Monckat: - <i>Monckat:</i> + And here's another piece by Monckat: + <i>Monckat:</i> (alternate art) <img src="media/misc/altcalbinarytrackart.gif" width="300"> - (the track art anthology for Alternia didn't include a fanart for this track.) + <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor) + (The track art anthology for Alternia didn't include a fanart for this track.) --- Track: Spider's Claw Duration: 0:37 diff --git a/album/alterniabound.yaml b/album/alterniabound.yaml index b8725ab..de55c53 100644 --- a/album/alterniabound.yaml +++ b/album/alterniabound.yaml @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Commentary: |- Stylistically this song is really all over the place; I drew inspiration from Eurobeat, Dance, Shibuya-kei, Disco, Acid Jazz and even chiptunes, but I tried to all mold it into a distinct personal style of electronic music, rather than basing it on a single artist or song. The voice sample is from the Dr. Who episode "Blink". Coincidentally, the album version of this song is actually a version that was remastered at a lower volume level to fit in better with the album. The original versions (i.e. the versions that I mastered myself) of "Arisen Anew" and "She's a Sp8der" will be available for free in 192 kbps mp3 format on my tindeck account. - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (album organizer) So why start with this track? Tensei's album was last, so starting with another solid track by him starts us off with a good impression and holds the listener up from where they were. It's almost like an unofficial continuation of his album's narrative this way... sorta like musical fanfiction, I guess. That, and the whole song kinda reminds me of an anime opening where Aradia undergoes a 3 minute transformation into a maid costume. Please imagine this. <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ Commentary: |- (Alternate Universe Intermission) So this pretty much happened when Radiation went "yo jit make something" and I was like "okay", and then later I was like "bluuuuuuh don't know what to write", and then Radiation went "do trollcops", and I went "no that's dumb, stupid dumb, what is trollcops even", and Radiation went "DO IT JIT YOU BUTT", and I was like "NO RADIATION I HATE EVERYTHING". And then, Mellotron samples happened, and here we are. Also, it should be pointed out that in the version with vocals, [[Trollcops (Radio Play)]], there's a name drop of the fan music piece that htis is based off of. Yes, it takes this long to re-use things, sometimes. Besides that, I dunno, just enjoy it. - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (album organizer) Don't tell anyone, but this is actually a remix of one of Jit's old fansongs called [[track:under-the-hat-lofam]], which was a battle theme for Dad. So if your heart still pines for him... his soul and pipe are contained deep within this track. So damn catchy and sleuthy. <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ Commentary: |- It's a combination of her theme (Elements of 'The Lemonsnout Turnabout') blended into a track inspired by various pieces from the Pheonix Wright / Gyakuten Saiban games and a bit of those modern, dancey crime drama series' theme tunes (NCIS springs to mind). Sburban Countdown also makes an appearance because it's awesome and fits really well. I've also tried to sync in bits of the story as it happens, so you'll hear a bit of Gamzee honking in the distanec, andthe whole thing builds up to that special climax. <code style="color: #008b8b">HOP3 YOU L1K3 1T, 1T W4S 4 PL34SUR3 TO M4K3!</code> - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (album organizer) People kept asking me for a Phoenix Wright remix of Lemonsnout Turnabout, so Malcolm creating this was essentially a miracle, especially considering he hadn't been around since [[Squiddidle!]]. Thank you Malcolm. That kiss at the end? That's me kissing you. <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (World of the Afterlife) A piece for the characters in the afterlife, mainly Feferi, and the general ambience of the dream bubbles. Originally, I tried a mix of various brass instruments, percussion, string orchestra, koto, and an electric bass. It didn't feel right. So I pushed that piece aside altogether and restarted with an instrumentation more reminiscent of that used in "Cuddlefish," the troll theme I made for Feferi right before I joined the music team. The intro piano was meant to feel spacey, reminiscent of [[Eldritch]] and [[English]], sort of bringing the listener into the afterlife. When the flute enters, I feel that this was as Feferi communicated with the Elder Gods of setting up her dream bubble. The orchestral crescendo brings us to the area deep in space where the bubbles float. From then on, we travel past several bubbles, just absorbing the scenery. The rest of the piece contains glimpses of other events within the bubbles, such as Feferi and Jade's dream chats and the shocking developments concerning the troll session's guardian code. And, of course, a major key ending for all the happy folks floating around in the afterlife. - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (album organizer) Thomas is continually on point with his orchestral stuff. He actually made a bunch of awesome troll-related tracks that are on his tindeck: <a href="http://tindeck.com/users/EidolonOrpheus">(dead link)</a> Go check out the track "Cuddlefish" - he actually uses a minor version of the melody from that at 2:50. Dude is a talent. <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ Commentary: |- (Adventure on the High Seas) It should be pretty obvious that this song is supposed to be one big homage to Hans Zimmer, or more specifically his work on the Pirates of the Carribean movies, though I drew some inspiration from Danny Elfman and the Monkey Island series as well. Oddly enough, this song was actually entirely done BEFORE the troll ancestors were ever introduced (hence the rather inexplicable Crustacean-remix at the very end), as it was inspired by a piece of fanart that portrayed various trolls as pirates. When writing this song, I kinda envisioned a big ship to ship battle between Vriska and Eridan, with a bumbling Karkat acting as comic relief at the very end. It's actually quite remarkable how well the song translates to a Mindfang/Dualscar theme song, even though it wasn't really intended as such when I wrote it. - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (album organizer) I love this track. The end is some serious Skipper Plumbthroat shit. Cue Karkat the Angry Crab pinches him on the nose. Tee hee. <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) <img src="media/misc/shes-a-sp8der.png" width="300"> @@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ Commentary: |- I wanted to make a Castlevania: Symphony of the Night-influenced theme for Rainbow Drinker Kanaya even before Radiation announced he wanted one, so this was the perfect opportunity for me. Somehow a bit of Infected Mushrooms influence got mixed into it as it became more synthesized and trancey. The chiptune segment at the end is basically a nod straight to the original Castlevania games; I wanted to make the Castlevania influence obvious. All the song titles from the SotN soundtrack have appropriately gloomy and foreboding names like "Moonlight Nocturne", "Requiuem for the Gods", "Land of Benediction" and "Death Ballad". Kanaya is basically the Alternian equivalent of a goth, and I've always found it hilarious how goths and vampire-fans on her world are all about sunshine and rainbows, so I thought it would be funny to incorporate that weird dichotomy into the title. - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (album organizer) I like the idea of having two diametrically opposed Kanaya tracks one right after the other. Saves me the trouble of pointlessly bifurcating Kanaya's song like the other ones. What is a troll? <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) @@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - "Eridan's Theme - IronInvoker47 (piano).mid" Commentary: |- - <i>David Ko:</i> + <i>David Ko:</i> (master lyricist) (Eridan Walkabout) O come all ye scallywags, sing along with me,<br>(For) we are the royal trolls, the terrors of the sea!<br>We pillage and plunder, and we never compromise,<br>We'll sail these raging waters 'till we take our glorious prize! We run from no enemy and we can feel no pain.<br>All of the lower bloods will quake under our reign!<br>To build metal death machinse to do just what we crave,<br>To pummel all the land-lovers until they're in the grave! @@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ Commentary: |- Masters of the tide,<br>(The) stars shall be our guide.<br>If you're not a royal blood,<br>You'd better run and hide! Confiscate the crown,<br>Swing the ship around,<br>Take a swig of Faygo just to wash the whiskey down. Yar har, anchors away!<br>Soon we'll be coming to ruin your day,<br>Just resign to your fate.<br>Soon you'll be made into Gl'Bgolyb bait. - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (album organizer) Lyrics by [[artist:david-ko]]. The only thing I'd like to note is the middle section remixing Alex Rosetti's Catchyegrabber. I mean, I'm not the voice of Eridan... and it's a bit of a parallel... but... you know all those people you saw in the flash animation? They were ONLY in the opening sequence. They left after the theme song ecause they realized Plumbthroat was about as bright as a lump of seaweed. He doesn't have any friends. Even the Squiddles refuse to love him. He is one damn lonely man. <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) @@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ Commentary: |- (Equius Walkabout) Neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh. Neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh. Neigh neigh neigh. Neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh. Neigh. Neigh neigh. Neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh. Neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh. Neigh neigh neigh neigh. Neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh. - <I>Toby Fox:</i> + <I>Toby Fox:</i> (album organizer) Neigh neigh neigh, neigh neigh. Neigh neigh? Neigh. Seriously though, despite its goofiness, this is one great track. Alex Rosetti is easily one of the best composers on the team, and despite being often limited by his electronic instrumentation palette (he usually composes for real musicians to play), he's pulled this track off and several others fantastically. @@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ Commentary: |- (Gamzee the Killer) When trying to come up with something for the flipped-out Gamzee, I decided to stick with the basics and write a short calliope melody in a minor key. As it loops, however, a dark droning backdrop becomes gradually more apparent, a darkness beneath the playfulness implied by the first part. The calliope fades out until only the droning sound remains, showing in essence that playtime is over. Also, I figured nothing makes carnival music sound more twisted than for the tempo/pitch to change, so I had the whole thing start gradually slowing down over time, giving it an even more unnatural feel. I wanted one last build-up near the end to build tension, and as it fades out and the listener is just starting to relax... HONK. honk. On a side note, I think I enjoy writing creepy music even more than any other kind of music. - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (album organizer) Soundtrack-wise... I think this was one of the greatest moments of Homestuck. This track makes my hair stand on end. <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) <img src="media/misc/midnight-calliope.png" width="300"> @@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> HOW TO WRITE MUSIC<br>STEP 1: WRITE STRONG GUITAR<br>STEP 2: WRITE STRONG DRUMS<br>STEP 3: YELL INTO THE MICROPHONE<br>STEP 4: FLEX<br>STEP 5: Get a towel because GOD DAMN so much sweat. (Samples form "Number of the Beast" by Iron Maiden and "The Riddle Wants to Be" by Madder Mortem.) - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (album organizer) Thomas composed this right after the flash between Gamzee and Equius... if you can, just imagine the beginning of the song playing as Gamzee stares into Equius's face... and then the "YEAHHHHHH!!!!" just as Equius breaks the string around his neck with a manly flex. Awesome fighting ensues. That didn't happen though. @@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ Commentary: |- This was the song that accompanied THAT ONE FLASH WHERE NOTHING HAPPENED. This is also the song that probably had the quickest turnabout rate from being written to being used in a flash, which happened over the course of only a day or two. I actually wrote this in direct response to all the people making spaghetti western jokes and references about the way the standoff was being set-up. Stylistically I basically just tried to make it soun as spaghetti western-ish as possible, but I combined it with a bunch of horror movie style ambient sounds (and honks, obviously). - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (album organizer) An awesome track that sets up really well... for the next one. <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) <img src="media/misc/trollian-standoff.png" width="300"> @@ -759,7 +759,7 @@ Commentary: |- 4:56 - Based on Karkat's description on what Gamzee's contribution to the fight was, I figured having Gamzee 'parody' the King's theme worked better here. The music doesn't even really imply what his attack was, only that it built up, was unleashed, and surprised the hell out of everyone... 5:14 - The King's nearly defeated and getting desperate. 5:39 - Vriska steps up, and finishes it. With one impossi8ly lucky roll. - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (album organizer) I'm incredibly flattered to have such an awesome track feature so many pieces of music by myself... another miracle from the guy who brought you Showtime, folks. Definitely the peak of intensity on the album. <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) @@ -821,7 +821,7 @@ Commentary: |- The Alternia theme has always been close to Radiation's heart, so when he asked me to do an arrangement of it as the closer for the album, I knew it needed to be something really heartfelt and special. His vision was that it would represent the outcome of the Trolls' game session that never came to be. The joy of discovering a shiny new universe; the chance to give their race a fresh start; the tearful recognition that all the loss and turmoil they had endured was worth it in the end, and that everything was going to be okay from now on. It is, in essence, the Trolls' lingering and bittersweet memory of Hope. - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (album organizer) Beatfox, it is a great honor. <code style="color: #626262">FCG: AND</code><br><code style="color: #626262">FCG: I DUNNO</code><br><code style="color: #626262">FCG: THAT'S ALL I CAN SAY, I'M GETTING A LUMP IN MY SQUAWK BLISTER.</code> <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) @@ -853,7 +853,7 @@ Lyrics: |- It isn't going to be easy teaching the rookie the ropes of the force, but she's the only one who can do it without getting him killed. So far the biggest problem they've hit is striking the right chord with each other. It seems like whenever they're partners, there isn't a moment when they're not both at each other's throats. It's gonna take a miracle to find a middle road with this pair, and keep their antics under the hat. However, if it weren't for that kartheft, the team would'a never gotten their issues ironed out. Now, they stick together like glue and macaroni and keep Alternia shining like a green sun. One thing's for sure, if you cause trouble in their neighborhood, these two will sort you out quick, because together, they are...trollcops. Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (album organizer) I wasn't sure how people would react to Jit's voice in non-Gamebro format, plus a few of his pronunciations weren't exactly clear... so I told him to make an instrumental version instead... But you know what? I still love this version for all its campy glory, so here it is as a bonus track! ... diff --git a/album/bee-forus-seatbelt-safebee.yaml b/album/bee-forus-seatbelt-safebee.yaml index 16b7abb..8fd70a6 100644 --- a/album/bee-forus-seatbelt-safebee.yaml +++ b/album/bee-forus-seatbelt-safebee.yaml @@ -106,13 +106,13 @@ Commentary: |- how do we make a cronus seatbelt song<br> I'm thinking traffic background noise - <i>Ducky Senpai:</i> + <i>Ducky Senpai:</i> (bee) seatbelt clicking noises - (<i>~Stara:</i>) + (<i>~Stara:</i>) (bee?) just sample traffic and the gross sounds seatbelts make when you rub them against themselves - <i>Ducky Senpai:</i> + <i>Ducky Senpai:</i> (bee) cli-click --- Track: Damara's Bees (Fatalism Beemix) @@ -168,10 +168,10 @@ Commentary: |- <i>NEON SYSTEM 95:</i> "bees? fuckin idiot shoulda worn his seatbelt" - <i>SerialSymphony:</i> + <i>SerialSymphony:</i> (bee) 'he wears the seatbelt or he gets the bees' - <i>Sigourney Martin:</i> + <i>Sigourney Martin:</i> (bee alarmist) "wear your seatbelt kids or the SEATBELT BEE'S will come out and attack you." <i>NEON SYSTEM 95:</i> @@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ Lyrics: |- (Yeah. The bees. Bzzzzzzz—) (Buckle up...) Commentary: |- - <i>NEON SYSTEM 95:</i> + <i>NEON SYSTEM 95:</i> (bee) Cronus Seatbelt Safety is good too<br> NO<br> BEE SAFE @@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> holy fuck - <i>NEON SYSTEM 95:</i> + <i>NEON SYSTEM 95:</i> (bee) "Bee Safe, Cronus!" --- Track: Savior of the Driving Dead @@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Lovisa Lassen:</i> a beacon of hope - <i>Circlejourney:</i> + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (bee witness) unbelievable <i>Lovisa Lassen:</i> @@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>SerialSymphony:</i> holy shit - <i>Circlejourney:</i> + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (bee associator) the saviour <i>Lovisa Lassen:</i> @@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ Commentary: |- all pompous and orchestry<br> to mimic the 'I Want You' joke - <i>Sigourney Martin:</i> + <i>Sigourney Martin:</i> (beeliever) this is some serious memings <i>magnoliajades:</i> @@ -599,37 +599,37 @@ Lyrics: (Buckle up...) Commentary: |- - <i>Circlejourney:</i> + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (bee) congrats veri<br> have a good rest - <i>Ducky Senpai:</i> + <i>Ducky Senpai:</i> (bee) yes do the sleep - <i>Veritas Unae:</i> + <i>Veritas Unae:</i> (bee) slumbers like a dragon - <i>SerialSymphony:</i> + <i>SerialSymphony:</i> (bee) Sleep tight - <i>Nate Tronerud:</i> + <i>Nate Tronerud:</i> (bee) goodnight sweet prince - <i>Ducky Senpai:</i> + <i>Ducky Senpai:</i> (bee) the noblest and sleepiest of reptilians - <i>SerialSymphony:</i> + <i>SerialSymphony:</i> (bee) Imma make a lullaby for veri - <i>magnoliajades:</i> + <i>magnoliajades:</i> (bee) goodnight veriii - <i>Ducky Senpai:</i> + <i>Ducky Senpai:</i> (bee) this whole seatbelt album is actually the shittiest lullaby made specifically for veri<br> rock opera lullaby<br> sleep tight and dream of bees<br> and nic cage<br> also safety - <i>Circlejourney:</i> + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (bee) remember to buckle your seatbelt diff --git a/album/beforus.yaml b/album/beforus.yaml index 796ad7c..f197c8e 100644 --- a/album/beforus.yaml +++ b/album/beforus.yaml @@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ Commentary: |- I did this track way back in 2013 I think? Maybe early 2014 back when my computer with my music program still worked. Hah. It all sort of originated with a wager, that I couldn't produce a better Tavros song than the one on the official album. And of course, being the huge procrastinator that I am, I never did. But I did however get the idea to do my own album for the songs of the Beforan Trolls. Again, procrastination got the better of me, but this project came along and almost took the workload I had give nmyself off my shoulders and still gave me an opportunity to showcase what I had done for Damara. It does have the traditional Eastern Asian sound to it with the pentatonic scale, and that's what the song was based upon. Also ghosts. Because spoopy. <i>JulietCee:</i> I wanted to reflect the sort of spooky feel of the track in this piece, so I thught "what better way to do it than drawing The Scratch, with all those flashing blue lights?" It was a lot of fun to draw, and I like drawing Damara. - <i>Blackhole:</i> + <i>Blackhole:</i> (album organizer) (Blackhole here! Just dropping in to point out that, as the Witch of Time, it does make sense that Damara would have the only achronological track art of Disc 2! I suppose she's getting ahead on the timeline action by jumping back to earlier in the session. The Scratch is yet to come!) --- Track: Caligomancy @@ -1527,7 +1527,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Toris Crow:</i> Early last year, I wrote a song called "Featherlight." This is an extended and improved version of it made exclusively for the Beforus Album project and will not appear in any of my own albums. It serves as a mirror for the song [[Alternia]] in the album "AlterniaBound." This song is dedicated to Not-Terezi-Pyrope (Blackhole) for making this project possible. - <i>Blackhole:</i> + <i>Blackhole:</i> (album organizer) <3 <i>Elanor Pam:</i> Aranea once referred to the Green Moon as a "large(r) green interloper" that had never belonged to her world. Thus Beforus is represented by the Pink Moon standing alone in the sky; the Beforan players contemplate it from a tree branch of one of the Pyrope's forest. Is this a night before the end? A dreambubble illusion? As the track art for the last song on disk 2, the ambiguity seemed fitting. One way or another, it's now nothing more than a bittersweet recollection of simpler times. diff --git a/album/beyond-canon.yaml b/album/beyond-canon.yaml index 337bd49..f56c3d7 100644 --- a/album/beyond-canon.yaml +++ b/album/beyond-canon.yaml @@ -599,5 +599,5 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Awkward:</i> My initial thoughts on the mood of this song pretty much carried on throughout the entire creation of the piece, with it being quiet and melancholy, yet powerful in a way. My original idea and thumbnail (which is sadly lost to time) was actually about Kanaya in the meat timeline, longing for Rose. <img src="media/misc/crystal-hung-in-firmaments-descent-wip.jpg" width="300"> - <i>Ucklin:</i> + <i>Ucklin:</i> (anthology organizer) I just have to jump in and point out that the overall composition of this piece looks like a cherub skull, because awkward didn't mention it! This is the coolest thing! diff --git a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml index 586b2c2..03da3e8 100644 --- a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml +++ b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml @@ -517,8 +517,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Olive Rogue - cookiefonster.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Astrom:</i> - (Bonus art!) + <i>Astrom:</i> (alternate artwork) <img src="media/misc/olive-rogue-bonus.png" width="300"> --- Track: Jade Sylph diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck.yaml index 4923e65..c30392d 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck.yaml @@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ Commentary: |- Oh and shoutouts to <s>Simpleflips</s> Noisemaker for buying an otamatone and willingly giving me a sample of it, despite knowing exactly what it was going towards. + <i>Bambosh:</i> (413... TWO) + Bambosh here again. [[artist:413]] was too tired to write any commentary and told me to markov chain it for him. I don't know why I'd do that though, when I've just been handed something like 22 boxes to shitpost in on a silver platter. Brace yourselves. If you see 413 as the artist [or composer] credit, it's gonna be me in the box. It's a Bambosh box. A Bambox. --- Track: Showtime (Marching Band) @@ -108,7 +110,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Showtime (Original Mix) Commentary: |- - <i>Bambosh:</i> + <i>Bambosh:</i> (substitute 413) I'm not sure what 413 did to make this song, but it sounds like he chucked the [[Showtime (Original Mix)|original Showtime chiptune]] into a midi converter and changed some of the midi instruments around. I kind of unironically love this song though. Despite how chaotic it is, it's inexplicably satisfying to listen to. Oh and by the way this one was an absolute pain to sync to the video. You'd think it would be easy, just chuck it over the thing and call it a day but no. There's only like 30 seconds of content in [[flash:90|the flash]], and no way to easily isolate the sound effects from the original song. As of writing this, I still don't have a solution. But hey there's still a week to release I'm sure it'll be fine hahahahahahahaha oh god help @@ -137,7 +139,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Noisemaker:</i> To be completely honest it's just [[track:cascante]] from [[album:cool-and-new-voulem1|Voulem 1]]. I regret not using my otamatone but at least [[artist:bambosh|Bambosh]] got some [[track:backyard-dumb|sweet use]] out of it. - <i>Bambosh:</i> + <i>Bambosh:</i> (supplement 413) I wasn't the original artist for this piece. I stole it. I stole the rights to use this piece. 413 was originally meant to do it, he made a concept and everything. In fact, I think it was one of the first things that ended up even being made for the album, several months ago. But then it just sat there, and people forgot it wasn't meant to be the final copy? So I just sort of swooped in and finished it off while nobody was looking.<br> <i>Professionalism.</i> --- @@ -266,7 +268,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Mayor, mayor mayor Commentary: |- - <i>Interrobang:</i> + <i>Interrobang:</i> (commentary collector) Ost didn't give me any commentary, so I did it for them. I'm [[artist:ostrichlittledungeon|Ostrichlittledungeon]], and this is my Discord server. I work here with my musicians and artists, and my @Mod Assist, [[artist:miraculousavantgarde|Mira]]. Every song here has a story and a track art. One thing I've learned over the past 2 months? You never know what's gonna be in that album. @@ -331,7 +333,7 @@ Commentary: |- (stick around for round 2 for the gud stuff) - <i>Bambosh:</i> + <i>Bambosh:</i> (413 impersonator) Part one of a three part trilogy, for both art and song. Absolutely poetic. Each one of the three pieces of art 413 created for are of the same scene, but in a different style. HOW AMBITIOUS OF HIM HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM --- Track: HarleBand @@ -350,7 +352,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Harleboss - Spider-Man Commentary: |- - <i>Bambosh:</i> + <i>Bambosh:</i> (413 entrustee) I'm not really sure what to say about this one. It's kind of just The rest of that sentence can remain blank. Man, commenting on someone else's stuff is difficult. I'm sure there was like, a really interesting story behind the creation that I'll never be able to tell because I'm a big ol' dumbo @@ -381,10 +383,10 @@ Commentary: |- (to bee honest this is one of my favorite tracks I've done) - <i>Bambosh:</i> + <i>Bambosh:</i> (1025 - 612) Part ⅔! Haha, google docs just changed that fraction into a single character and I don't even know if the program being used to create the PDF supports them. BEST OF LUCK - <i>Interrobang:</i> + <i>Interrobang:</i> (commentary collector) ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ --- Track: Chorale for Caliborn @@ -403,7 +405,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Chorale for Jaspers Commentary: |- - <i>Bambosh:</i> + <i>Bambosh:</i> (til the 413 comes home) IT'S THE 413BOSH DOUBLE BILL You know it's actually really difficult to write stuff without any experiences to base it on. I'm an inch away from just pasting memes in. Urgh, how many of these do I have left to do? No you know what I'm not counting it'll only make finishing these harder. Gotta stay strong. @@ -577,7 +579,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Noisemaker:</i> I'm pretty happy with this one, but it doesn't really work as a standalone song because it's trying pretty hard to sync to the animation (maybe i'll do an extended version wink wonk) - <i>Bambosh:</i> + <i>Bambosh:</i> (414) its the third onee. youvea ll been waitti ng for it. And heeer it iss. @@ -703,7 +705,7 @@ Commentary: |- The ending is not synced because WHAT THE FUCK I DONT EVEN KNOW. I didn't know how to solve it so I just made the ending a bit longer and there. Also it has "vaporwave go down" as [[artist:cookiefonster|cookie]] describes it replacing vaporwave [[Sburban Jungle]]. Thought it was a fun idea. - <i>Bambosh:</i> + <i>Bambosh:</i> (712) I AM DESCENDING INTO MY OWN PERSONAL HELL NEXT BOX @@ -844,7 +846,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Skies of Skaia - Meet the Flintstones Commentary: |- - <i>Interrobang:</i> + <i>Interrobang:</i> (commentary collector) [[artist:413|413]] made some art for this, but it was waaaaay to small. We decided to instead use the original art for [[track:go-down-fanon-cut|Voul. 1's Go Down]] ([[artist:difarem|Dif]] didn't like it) instead. Did I mention we didn't ask Mira's permission to use it? No? Well, we didn't. What do you think this is, Pixar? <i>miraculousAvantgarde:</i> @@ -1109,7 +1111,7 @@ Commentary: |- (not really, but it's fun to pretend) - <i>Bambosh:</i> + <i>Bambosh:</i> (box filler) What am I looking at<br> Is this what it's like to die --- @@ -1125,7 +1127,7 @@ URLs: Art Tags: - Gamzee Commentary: |- - <i>Bambosh:</i> + <i>Bambosh:</i> (413 understander) The secret is nobody knows what the joke is. <i>Makin:</i> @@ -1199,7 +1201,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>cookiefonster:</i> This was the first song I made for Cool and New Homestuck. When I first learned about that project I decided to do music for a flash that probably wouldn't be too popular, because I thought there would be a lot of fights over who gets to do music for flashes like Cascade and stuff. That turned out not to be true but whatever. Anyway, for this one I basically decided to make a piece to the likes of Terezi Owns out of multiple Dave motifs, so I used the classic drums from Upward Movement like in the original song and threw in some Atomyk Ebonpyre and some Beatdown, and later on I directly quoted Terezi Owns. - <i>Bambosh:</i> + <i>Bambosh:</i> (413 devotee) Okay, I've just got one left after this. I can do it. I'm strong. I'm a strong boy. Nope I can't think of anything. Guess it's time to reconsider the markov chains. @@ -1230,7 +1232,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Shwan:</i> It was really fun messing around with audacity,i love it. Also i love fucking things up - <i>Bambosh:</i> + <i>Bambosh:</i> (not 413) Okay I couldn't find a way to do markov chains easily, but I've found a random sentence generator so that's the next best thing. The capital bear undertakes the lifetime. The event handicaps whatever daytime northern. The sword storms into the overwhelming advice. The supermarket grabs the widest disclaimer beside the dance. And that's it. I think this is the last piece 413 did for CANH. Writing these shitposts out has been an absolute journey. --- Track: 'Deaf Injustice: Ignoration!! (No Effects Ver.)' diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-volume-2.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-volume-2.yaml index f63f273..edb304b 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-volume-2.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-volume-2.yaml @@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Clearly I'm in the minority here when I say this, judging from the upvotes you guys suck from lurkers. Though perhaps you will listen to an important figure here. (Note how I pretend that being important means I post comments here sometimes and more than 10 people know I exist.) I'm not asking you to stop, It's nice to have more posts, I just don't want it blotting out the discussion and more community-esque posts. Homestuck brought me to the sub, the community made me stay. This is true for many of us here, even if such a statement seems alien to veteran Redditors outside of /r/homestuck.) Commentary: |- - <i>Niklink:</i> + <i>Niklink:</i> (wiki editor) (<a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/332gv9/meta_suicidalsushi_and_mindbleach_slow_your_roll/">[META] SuicidalSushi and mindbleach: Slow your roll</a>) --- Track: good remix of a homestuck song diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-volume-v.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-volume-v.yaml index b36f44d..d1ac79a 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-volume-v.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-volume-v.yaml @@ -834,7 +834,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>yazshu:</i> <span style="font-family:'Comic Sans', 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; color:magenta">Why the fuck</span> do you even want fucking commentary for this shit? This is literally just the fucking Doctor Midi in Super Mario World's soundfont. This took me less than a minute to make, I didn't even change the fucking patcheAlso s. can you fix the comic sans in the top box for me i don't know how to work with spreadsheets thanks [[artist:bambosh|bambosh]] [edit: nevermind i fixed it] - <i>Bambosh:</i> + <i>Bambosh:</i> (commentary collector) [editors note: not on my watch you didn't] <i>miraculousAvantgarde:</i> @@ -1573,5 +1573,5 @@ Commentary: |- <i>ostrichlittledungeon:</i> Haha I'm [[group:toby-fox|Toby "Radiation" Fo]]—actually I'm just ostrichlittledungeon in disguise. Uh. Yeah. I don't have much else to say about this other than this track was fun to make and I hope you enjoyed it. Cool. Bye. Also I mastered the album which is also cool but if your ears hurt because I didn't smooth something out well I'm sorry. - <i>Bambosh:</i> + <i>Bambosh:</i> (commentary collector) are you tho?? diff --git a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml index 287e02c..5babea0 100644 --- a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml +++ b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Chaosvariant:</i> Hi I go by Chaosvariant. I worked on this track for Dave's Bro, my original intention was to remix [[Beatdown (Strider Style)]] to have a little more flair and fit better into the cool yet dangerous aura Dave's Bro put off then to have that transition into the fight with Jack Noir. My computer halfway through this process bricked so sadly we're kinda stuck with a WIP but I hope you'll like it for the concept alone. - <i>SplitSuns:</i> + <i>SplitSuns:</i> (album mastering) SplitSuns here. In addition to writing my own song for this project, which you'll find 24 tracks from now, I mastered the album in general. In theory, this means making sure each song is around the same volume so you don't have to keep adjusting your headphones. However, sometimes I did some extra work just to polish things up. Like with this song, for instance: I took what Chaosvariant had finished, added some EQ to make the mix clearer, and added a small sound effect at the end to smooth things out. <i>ackro:</i> i really like how i did this one. not too much going on but i feel its good for how simple it is. drawing the meteor took a bit of work, and looking at some reference shots from descend, but it really came together, and of course the sense of scale given with bro and the meteor is very well executed id say. pretty much flawless except for the fire which i couldve done better. @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Dissension (Remix) - track:old-secret Commentary: |- - <b><i>SplitSuns:</i></b> + <i>SplitSuns:</i> (album mastering) With its blend of sharp synths and cinematic orchestration, as well as its dramatic swells in composition, this song does an amazing job capturing Grandpa's famed taste for adventure. Can you feel it? That sense of danger, the palpable tension in the air as the jungle trees sway in the breeze? Quick snatches of animal chatter meet your ears, the rest muffled by the dense canopy above. You grip your rifle a little tighter and adjust your hat towards what lies beyond. You have a feeling it's going to be a long hunt. <i>Tipsy:</i> i accidentally listened to bec's song instead of grandpa's song (wow well done me), so i HAD to include dogs. but i wanted the image to live up to this song's title. you can see my thought process here. besides which you can see the <i>true danger</i> that grandpa must have put himself in expressed here with his lack of pants. anyway i wanted the animals to all look vaguely real, so i spent a lot of time looking up pictures of them while drawing. i was heavily inspired by hiveswap and the photo frames of grandpa in his past, and wanted to draw a silly looking hunting scenario that could fill the gaps of in your head. there's even a version with joey's comments scribbled on, though it was a bit too busy and standoutish. hope you enjoy [Kanishka]'s song. @@ -212,9 +212,9 @@ Art Tags: - Jade - Earth Commentary: |- - <b><i>SplitSuns:</i></b> + <i>SplitSuns:</i> (album mastering) Bec is, first and foremost, a good dog. Let's put aside his featureless visage, god-like powers and key role in creating a Sovereign Slayer capable of destroying entire universes. He is a dog that likes to run around, play fetch, and eat treats like any other! This song shows that under-appreciated side of Jade's best friend. How can you say no to those Mario Paint dog barks? (If you think those are great, wait until you listen to the song for Bec's post-Scratch counterpart. Cinematic parallels, I'm telling you.) - <b><i>Ephemerald:</i></b> + <i>Ephemerald:</i> (commentary help) Bec quite clearly doesn't have a care in the world here. You know, it's funny how omnipotent dog brains work. "Yeah, I was brought to this planet with the express purpose of facilitating its ultimate purpose and also ensuring that I exist at all, but, I mean, do I <i>have</i> to do that right now? Can't I just take some time off and go fetch a steak so radioactive it would make the Elephant's Foot seem like a regular old chunk of steel by comparison? The answer is yes, I can. So I will." Good dog. Best friend. Not a superb prioritizer. --- Track: Monatomic Strife @@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ Commentary: |- The primary melodic motif opens the piece on the solo violin - a rousing tune representing the character of Alpha Rose and her rebellious aspirations. The trumpet then introduces the secondary motif - that of The Thirteenth Hour, a melodic backbone representing (erroneously?*) the novels to which she devoted the greater part of her life. It rises and dips, shifting between lyrical solos, brassy full-orchestra segments, and percussive interludes. Two of Rose's motifs, Aggrieve and Endless Climb, are also briefly quoted. In all, creating The Light's Rebellion was a joy and a challenge, and possibly the first and last track of its style that I'll ever do. *The video from which I'd heard The Thirteenth Hour featured the cover of Complacency of the Learned, leading me to associate the track with Calmasis and CotL. In retrospect it was probably more about Calliope's Calmasis-like trollsona (i.e. the thirteenth "troll") than Calmasis, but here we are. (Calliope is named for the muse of epics, Mom wrote epics, it works...) - <b><i>keyboard cait:</i></b> + <i>keyboard cait:</i> (UMSPAF manager) Her hair is like the sun, rebelling against the oppressive shadow of the night sky. Not complacent, but sure as hell learned enough to punt you down a waterfall with stabby needles. --- @@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> This song took remarkably long to put together. Less because it was difficult, and more because I kept getting distracted with other projects along the way. Anyway, meow. - <b><i>SplitSuns:</i></b> + <i>SplitSuns:</i> (album mastering) Shu delivers some impressively smooth and refined art for everyone's second-favorite cat whose name begins with a G, GCAT. They say you can tell a lot about someone from their eyes, which makes it more impressive that you can glean this cat's mischievous expression without any eyes at all. GCAT is prepared for action from its carefully positioned placement on a tree branch, ready to pounce at a ball of yarn or teleport to the spot best suited for making your life hell. Some rough glitchy effects in the background add an interesting dimension to the piece, nicely contrasting against its smooth linework. This is one art you won't want to miss, and knowing GCAT's temper, you might miss it if you blink. --- Track: Sweet Talker @@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>psithurist:</i> This was actually the first of the three disc jingles that I wrote, and uses synths to aim for a more alien-ish vibe for the trolls disc, contrasting the organic instruments present in the humans disc. - <b><i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i></b> + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (UMSPAF manager) Would you believe that both DAD and CRABDAD are looking at the VERY SAME STAR while cradling their children? No? You don't? They both exist in completely different universes you say? That the stars are thematic element used to tie this track art together and to symbolically show the role of each of these GUARDIANS? You're no fun. @@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ Commentary: |- So! I've realized nobody wanted to make a track for this completely relevant character for completely obvious reasons, so I took three days of my entire life to give this beautiful creature the piece it deserves. The whole process of making this was to base it around a small snippet of Famitracker that Cookie made a long time ago, and with that I completely broke it up to a point of being in love with it, so thank you Cookie you gave me an awesome idea as well as a good snippet! <i>cookiefonster:</i> I had the idea of remixing [[track:aradias-theme-pre-death]] from the Homestuck Sound Test for this song and tried to make a track for it but never ended up finishing it. To my surprise, Coy decided that he was going to finish this garbage song. After I posted the project file, he proceeded to work his magic on it, making it actually good in the process, and now it's pretty much his track and he deserves any and all praise for it. - <b><i>Grace Medley:</i></b> + <i>Grace Medley:</i> (It's Grace Time) he wasnt going to let the song just :Die~2: <i>freckledOctopus:</i> I love the track and wanted to try and capture the more haunting side to it. @@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Rust Servant Commentary: |- - <b><i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i></b> + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (UMSPAF manager) Tinkerbull is a daintly and beautiful lusus, who took care of his young troll Tavros to impeccable standards, giving him the kind of love and attention that all trolls in their early sweeps truly need. Until he got crushed painfully to death by Tavros's wheelchair anyway. Kind of a sad end to this tale. <i>Chumi:</i> @@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Ducky Senpai:</i> For those who may be curious, the title (suggested by Lambda) is play on the term "Polyphemus" which refers to the cyclops in The Odyssey. It's a really dumb pun, and I love it. - <b><i>SplitSuns:</i></b> + <i>SplitSuns:</i> (album mastering) Polypolyphemus is an intense track, so it's fitting for its art to capture the same intensity. Sollux's Biclops is captured right before its imminent demise as the troll's Mind Honey-induced flip out rips through the ceiling of his hive and surrounds the lusus in a multi-colored beam of energy. The meteors illuminating the night sky further illustrate the carnage present in the scene in a fashion that pops up time and time again in Homestuck proper. If only one of those meteors could break the chain around the Biclops' leg and set it free! Wait, the resulting impact would probably just kill the Biclops anyway. Never mind, that was a stupid idea. --- Track: Rangoon @@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> I had the opportunity to touch up this piece, which I mostly did by polishing up the samples and adding an electric piano as backing. Meow. - <b><i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i></b> + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (UMSPAF manager) If there's one thing that mouse can appreciate, it's that it got to see a two-mouthed cat monster before it died. Coincidentally, it's about to die because of said two-mouthed cat monster eating it. You just can't have it all, unfortunately. --- @@ -726,8 +726,8 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Kal-la-kal-la:</i> This piece is heavily inspired by the bis radio edit of Turbulence by Arab Strap - 808s and gloomy guitar lines are the order of the day. Mayhaps not the most obvious approach to a track about the Dolorosa but I take a slight measure of pride in that. Quite pleased with the middle section; the cycle of dominant sevenths with the electric piano improvisation atop it. Grief is a strange thing and I find it rarely conveyed well in music. Another for the bonfire pile. - <b><i>Ephemerald:</i></b> - *The sound of a camera flash can be audibly heard over the music.* Yep. That one's going in my Pietà compilation. But really, is there a more appropriate parallel to make? Probably not. The parable of the Sufferer is full of religious iconography by design, which I guess means that Earth based the Bible off of it, and not the other way around? I don't know. I'll leave that commentary for Hussie, when he (doesn't) get around to it. As a side note, I love the "halos" surrounding the Dolorosa and the Sufferer here. Good stuff. + <i>Ephemerald:</i> (commentary help) + \*The sound of a camera flash can be audibly heard over the music.\* Yep. That one's going in my Pietà compilation. But really, is there a more appropriate parallel to make? Probably not. The parable of the Sufferer is full of religious iconography by design, which I guess means that Earth based the Bible off of it, and not the other way around? I don't know. I'll leave that commentary for Hussie, when he (doesn't) get around to it. As a side note, I love the "halos" surrounding the Dolorosa and the Sufferer here. Good stuff. --- Track: The Puppet Master Artists: @@ -819,7 +819,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>keyboard cait:</i> This track originates from an idea I had in 2014 to make a track about Calliope and Caliborn's parents. Five years later, it's finally done, stitched together from the composition and/or actual audio clips of like 4 FLPs (I went through about 6, all in all). Funnily enough, the scribbles I had for this song in 2014 then are completely different composition-wise from what ended up being made, but the narrative loosely remains in this track: the cherubs' mother drifts through space, searching for her mate. She spots him, taking off at full speed, following him as he leaves a trail of destruction across the universe. Their eventual meeting is tense, cold. Saying nothing, they transform into unfathomable astral serpents, and battle to create the most innocent muse and most shitheaded gremlin to ever exist. I attribute the latter half of this track to listening to a lot of Hawaii: Part II, which is also sampled at the end. Listen to Hawaii: Part II. - <b><i>Ephemerald:</i></b> + <i>Ephemerald:</i> (commentary help) The game of choice for cherubs seems to be chess, or at least, some neon-green candy-red shitty-twist variant of the game, but I'm getting real playing card motifs here. Two identical, serpentine warriors, millions and millions of miles long, locked in a symmetrical whirlwind of a strife. Reminds me of the art to [[track:noirscape]] back on Volume 9, though that's a more literal example. The spiraling, iconic egg in the middle, shining like a light in the darkness, is a very clear reminder of what these two are fighting for: the right to force their opponent to give birth to literally the worst entity in all of existence. But I suppose it didn't matter who won or who lost. After all, he was already there. --- Section: Bonus tracks diff --git a/album/hiveswap-act-1-ost.yaml b/album/hiveswap-act-1-ost.yaml index 6a7f38f..17a66cb 100644 --- a/album/hiveswap-act-1-ost.yaml +++ b/album/hiveswap-act-1-ost.yaml @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Art Tags: - Joey - Alternia Commentary: |- - <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> + <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> (game director) Hey, it's Cohen. But more interestingly, it's James and Toby, giving some commentary on the first half of the HIVESWAP: Act 1 soundtrack, available now on Bandcamp or bundled with HIVESWAP: Act 1 on Steam and Humble. We've got the first half of the discussion today, with the next half going up next Wednesday. Wait...did I say all this once before already? No. Impossible. Wallpaper Artists: - Mallory Dyer @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ Commentary: |- Originally all the strife song titles had the word STRIFE in them. This one was called "Why'd it have to be STRIFE" a reference to the classic line in Indiana Jones where Indy, a known pacifist, questions the violent tone of the film. It is an extremely important moment in american cinema AND meta comedy. I'm honestly so surprised you hadn't heard of it. Anyway this is based off of "SNAKE GENESIS" which I wrote first. Movie Magic! <i>Toby Fox:</i> They probably should have also named the song that plays when you play the Snake minigame this. Just two songs with an identical name. That would be have been cool. - <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> + <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> (game director) (Hey Cohen here. several people have asked if the title is a reference to the aaron carter song. obviously it is, yes, that. James' song titles were good but they were usually a very direct reference to what actually happened in the scene they were playing for. So I renamed them, because I didn't want people poring over the tracklist to decode the entire plot before actually playing the game. because you would have. I know you.) --- Track: Jude Harley, Bizarrely @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ Commentary: |- I thought it would be kind of funny if there was a JRPG battle theme mixed in with all the other ones. I think this is just what I make by default without any specific direction. <i>James Roach:</i> It is my favorite song on Vol. 1. - <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> + <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> (game director) (hi it's Cohen I intentionally made this strife more convoluted and complex as a result of how much I love this song, sorry) --- Track: Living Legend @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>James Roach:</i> This was written based off the extremely old original snake chase sketch Toby did. I wanted to put that throwback in for myself. Like an easter egg only I know or care about. I also wanted to try like... sampling stuff since I'm not super good at it yet and wanted to grow as a composer. - <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> + <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> (game director) (hey this is named Singular Peril because it plays during the only point in Act 1 when you can die. do you get the joke) --- Track: A More Defensible Position @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>James Roach:</i> I can't believe creator of hit webcomic homestuck and best friend of the pope, Toby Fox, would disown me in this way. Thrown under the bus! Left to die! A betrayal of the highest caliber. Owned in my own home. Absolutely destroyed. Anyway yeah I named it. I feel like after "Oppa Toby Style" he would have learned to stop letting me name his tracks. How many times do I have to teach you this lesson. - <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> + <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> (game director) (hi it's Cohen. When I renamed the album tracks this was one of only 2 or 3 that James really wanted to keep. He didn't tell me that it was a furry meme. I don't know about memes. I'm just a little bappy paws otter I don't know shit) <img src="media/misc/owo.png" width="500"> --- @@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ Commentary: |- Basically what I was told about Xefros before composing this track is that he's kind of sad and pathetic and it makes you feel bad for him. Also him and Dammek are in a shitty rock band. So I tried to compose something that was kind of lumbering and morose-sounding, but also a bit like... a rock band? In the end maybe it's a bit too heavy-sounding for Xefros, but I like the melody a lot. Also here's more voluntary tubas from me. That's all of my tuba contributions I think. <i>James Roach:</i> Cohen, I typed "Dobey Fox :)" up there and Toby deleted it. :( - <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> + <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> (game director) (fight your own battles James I can't be there to protect you from Toby every day of your life) --- Track: Filthy Nuclear Bunker @@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ Commentary: |- I couldn't stop him from putting a ska song on the soundtrack sorry guys <i>James Roach:</i> I would love to see you try little man. - <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> + <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> (game director) (I don't know what anime he's talking about. I guess the paused Arena Stickball match on the TV is pretty anime-looking. But James also sees anime everywhere, wherever he goes. One time I saw him pick a rotten peach up off the ground, call it a "tsun-momo," and take a huge bite. He bit right through the pit) --- Track: Lofted Gunpile @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ Commentary: |- This one really should have been called "HOW DO I BEAT SNAKE?" because I never found the clue to solving it and just did it by brute force. Also the drums kind of remind me of ska. <i>James Roach:</i> Fuck he got me - <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> + <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> (game director) (I am glad Toby had to brute-force this puzzle. When I played Undertale I got stuck on that stupid piano puzzle because the beta version he let me play didn't cut you off after 8 notes or whatever. I was one note off, trying to play what I thought was this 32-note song. I also took a break for a week and was still stuck on it when I came back, so Toby thought I'd spent a week just beating my head against the wall on that one puzzle. Toby thinks everyone is a brilliant musician like him and his stupid piano puzzle was too hard the end) --- Track: We Shall Go Together @@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>James Roach:</i> OK I know what you're thinking, "This gets its own track on the OST, but OLD SECRET isn't even here??" Hey look I love old secret too but <i>(COHEN: redacted)</i>. I only put it in that cutscene for you, the fans. Also it fit really well. Anyway, this track is inspired a lot by <a href="https://tobyfox.bandcamp.com/track/quiet-water">Quiet Water</a> by Toby Fox maybe you've heard of him. It is just a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwICiHW-Pyk">very slowed down</a> version of Joey's theme. - <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> + <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> (game director) (if you want to know what the title of this song is from google it with quotes) --- Track: Wish You Were Here @@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ Commentary: |- When Cohen asked me to write this song he was like "have you ever heard of transistor" and if making a smug face produced a sound we'd all be deaf. Then he asked me about rick and morty which is like.. a show I watch but never ever want to interact with anybody about ever. Anyway its that one scene you know the one. <i>Toby Fox:</i> This song is cool - <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> + <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> (game director) (James thought I wouldn't <s>embed</s> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkBMXQ47d7s">link</a> this video! he underestimates me every single day of my life) --- Track: Intermission 1 @@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>James Roach:</i> When we first envisioned the basement/snake strife it was gonna be really moody like the basement music. I wrote this as a joke but it worked out really well. But later we decided that scene could use a little BEEFING UP in terms of... intensity and energy? Anyway that's how a completely finished track ended up as a b-side. Could we re-use it later? Not really it's literally the mansion theme and table for tooth so it cant go anywhere else! - <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> + <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> (game director) (I actually thought we could use this song somewhere else but James was really insistent it be a B-Side, so I guess when the time comes when we could have used it he will have to write a whole new song. haha owned again roach) <i>Toby Fox:</i> I don't even remember if I've ever heard this one. It would have worked too I guess if the Snake was more chill. @@ -507,5 +507,5 @@ Commentary: |- OK im done <i>James Roach:</i> Great job team - <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> + <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> (game director) OK everybody that's it. We'll be back next week with something else, which will also be good. Probably something about the art? Yeah. OK bye. diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml index cdc61ca..dec743b 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ Commentary: |- i step on nobody <i>Clark Powell:</i> pls make an exception for me - <i>Robert J! Lake:</i> + <i>Robert J! Lake:</i> (album wrangler) is that your actual commentary i'll literally put this all in <i>Astro Kid:</i> yes RJ literally put this in also Clark I love you but this, I cannot make an exception for. Please go step on yourself. diff --git a/album/lofam.yaml b/album/lofam.yaml index 2fb649e..abc41b6 100644 --- a/album/lofam.yaml +++ b/album/lofam.yaml @@ -1099,7 +1099,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Commentary: |- <i>catastrophicGenesis:</i> It is remarkably difficult to make someone look truly hateful or disdainful when you have so little in the way of facial features to work with. Still, it's an incredibly vicious song, and it was fun to draw to, even if it did get me some funny looks from my housemates. - <i>Catboss:</i> + <i>Catboss:</i> (booklet editor) Miss Prince didn't have anything to say for this song, so everyone just sit back relax and enjoy this marvellous hate <s>snog</s> song. diff --git a/album/lofam2.yaml b/album/lofam2.yaml index c0eeda9..2f2dbec 100644 --- a/album/lofam2.yaml +++ b/album/lofam2.yaml @@ -163,13 +163,10 @@ Art Tags: - Feferi - Dream Bubbles Commentary: |- - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) No Commentary. Sorry fellow fans and booklet readers. No haiku this time either. Just an empty page, with nothing to entertain you except the track title, artist credits, and pretty arts to the right. SCREW THAT. I'm gonna fill these empty pages with a story, just for you. I haven't written anything since high school English class. You're in for a treat. It's gonna be<br>S<br>T<br>U<br>P<br>I<br>D - <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor) - (per [[track:jungle-3|LoFaM 4 standard]], ive highlighted commentary from people besides the original musicians or cover artists in bold!) - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> <i>DUSK FALLS ACROSS A SAFFROWN MEADOW. A SINGLE BLADE OF CRABGRASS UNDULATES VOLUMINOUSLY AMIDST THE RAPTUROUS BREEZE, ONLY TO HALT ITS SWAY SUDDENLY AND CRUNCHINGLY AS IT IS CRASSLY CRUSHED UNDERFOOT BY AN IMMENSE FOOT (SPECIFICALLY THE UNDERNEATH PART OF THAT FOOT). THE OWNER OF THE AFOREMENTIONED FOOT LOOKS DOWNWARD WITH AN AIR OF BAFFLED ASTONISHMENT, IN A SIMILAR FASHION TO HOW A MOOSE CAUGHT IN A UFO TRACTOR BEAM MIGHT LOOK AT A BLADE OF CRABGRASS IT HAD JUST TRODDEN ON. THIS ISN'T A SIMILE.</i> <i>"EUUUUUUUUNGH," GROANS THE ABDUCTEE MOOSE AS IT RISES.</i> --- @@ -228,7 +225,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Skaian Skirmish - Skaian Shuffle Commentary: |- - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) NO COMMENTARY HERE! <i>continued from [[Cuddlefish]];</i> <i>AN EERILY IRRIDESCENT INCANDESCENCE ENVELOPS THE BEHEMOTH ELK AS IT JOURNEYS HEAVENWARD, UNWILLINGLY ABANDONING THE FLATTENED DIGITARIUM STRAND IN FAVOUR OF THE CHILL EMPTINESS OF THE FRIGID EVENING ATMOSPHERE. DEER-TICKS ATTEMPT TO EVACUATE THEIR MANGY HOST, ONLY TO FIND THEMSELVES DRAWN CONGRUENTLY SKYWARD. OAK-LIKE LIMBS THRASH FLACIDLY, FLAILING FRUITLESSLY FOR A FOOTHOLD, BUT FINDING FEWER THAN FEW. AFTER A SCANT MOMENT OF MOOSE DESPAIR, THE HULKING BEAST RESIGNS ITSELF TO INEVITABILITY, AND CEASES ITS STRUGGLE.</i> @@ -357,7 +354,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Jackpot Commentary: |- - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) NO COMMENTARY HERE! <i>continued from [[Skaian Starstorm]]...</i> <i>AS THE ANTLERED ALCES ACCELERATES ITS ASCENSION, ABJECT AWE ASSUAGES ANXIOUSNESS. IT IS DAZZLED BY THE GOLDEN TUNDRA STRETCHING BEYOND THE MOONLIT HORIZON, CUMULUS CLOUds STREAKING BY LIKE A NUDE ATTENTION SEEKER AT A SPORTS MATCH. AS IF COMPLETING THE METAPHOR, THERE IS ALSO A NUDE MAN FLOATING ALONGSIDE.</i> @@ -594,7 +591,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Kalibration:</i> Its a song, I made it, the computer<br>Great it's RJ music track enjoyed, that could bring<br>(⅃°ヘ°)⅃ yeah i dont know how i feel about that track i guess its a song and i made it ans well, thats more than i can say for a lot of things - <i><b>Lambda Bledsoe:</b></i> + <i>Lambda Bledsoe:</i> (album organizer) kali has such a way with words --- Track: Showtime (End Strife Remix) @@ -762,7 +759,7 @@ Commentary: |- (THIS TRACK ALSO CAUSED ME A LOT OF PAIN AND SUFFERING BUT IT WAS MORE LIKE "DEAR GOODNESS WHERE DO ALL THESE LAYERS KEEP COMING FROM" THAN "OH GOD HOW AM I GOING TO COLOR ALL THIS BLACK.") As another side note, the layered .lip file for this had a total of 60 layers not counting the texture layer! BONUS: When I was starting work on this, instead of copying the texture layer, I accidentally copied Jack over from the layered version of the Stalemate track art. I couldn't bear to delete him from the file, so he got to stay on the condition that his layer stayed invisible. Sometimes I'd make it visible when I was bored! Poor guy just keeps getting chased by things - first an angry PM and now an angry sea denizen!) - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) <s>note: Lunise wrote seven paragraphs about the creative process behind this wonderful art piece. I can only fit the first one on the page.</s> Here is the full commentary to the rise of the denizens track art. c: --- @@ -819,7 +816,7 @@ Art Tags: - Rose - Consorts Commentary: |- - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) No commentary here! <i>continued from [[JackBot]];</i> <i>THE LUMINESCENT AURA SUBSIDES, AND BOTH OF THE UNCLOTHED EARTH CREATURES ARE PLUNGED INTO INKY BLACK DARKNESS. FAINT SOUNDS AND METALLIC SCRATCHING SUGGEST NEARBY MOVEMENT. THE MOOSE IS VISIBLY SHAKEN... AT LEAST IT WOULD BE IF IT WERE VISIBLE TO ANYBODY. BUT IT ISN'T BECAUSE OF THE DARKNESS.</i> @@ -865,7 +862,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Jamie Paige Stanley:</i> Hello again!! Disk one is coming to a close. I hope you've enjoyed the fan land and of music so far!! This is a lullaby based mostly off of Homestuck Anthem by Clark "Plazmataz" Powell and Sburban Jungle by Michael Guy Bowman. It's really slow and sweet and has my favorite chord thingy ever which is the F to F minor thing going on there. It's all in all a song that you hopefully fall asleep listening to because that's what it's supposed to do!! And you might need a nap after listening to disk one. In fact, for the full Land of Fans and Musics Experience The Second™, take a nap in between the two disks. Yes. Anyways, I hope you enjoy our musical stylings and that you don't buy this album because that's illegal. - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) [END OF DISK 1] --- Section: Disk 2 @@ -886,13 +883,13 @@ Referenced Tracks: - White King - Sburban Jungle Commentary: |- - <i>Lambda Bledsoe:</i> + <i>Lambda Bledsoe:</i> (album organizer) Hi. I'm Lambda Bledsoe, or Xzaz. I started the project to put LoFaM2 together. I started reading Homestuck because of the music. It's fantastic. In some cases even moreso than the official music, the music that fans have made for it. This is to be expected, considering..... this album. I don't have some whimsical, vaguely inspiring words to put here, but thanks to everyone that helped make ths labum and everyone that's listened to it! - -λ + -λ --- Track: Brofessor Layton (Every Puzzle Has A Brolution) Artists: @@ -1413,7 +1410,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Clark Powell:</i> This song was made at Christmas. It's not Christmas anymore. - <i>Lambda Bledsoe:</i> + <i>Lambda Bledsoe:</i> (album artist) this entire album was a joke at clark's expense --- Track: Finale Strife @@ -1452,7 +1449,7 @@ Lyrics: ??? Commentary: |- <i>Dante Basco:</i> one of my first comments for rose was "she's gangsta"... then when i met jade, i said she was gangsta too... it kinda just stuck in with the homestucks and this is a song that i dedicate to those girls... i'm glad everyone dug it. - <i><b>Lambda Bledsoe:</b></i> + <i>Lambda Bledsoe:</i> (album organizer) there <i>would</i> be lyrics here if i were capable of interpreting them. --- Track: Joy And Dreams Eternal @@ -1607,7 +1604,7 @@ Commentary: |- When I started "Ave Dei Novi" (a song made just for Land of Fans and Music 2), I fully intended that it would be the biggest, strongest, most well-composed, best Homestuck fan composition I've worked on to date, a sort of capstone of Homestuck fan music. The first Land of Fans and Music had two of my early songs on it, and I felt it was appropriate that I do my best and show how far I'd come in a year for the second album. "Ave Dei Novi" takes its cue, partially, from the bombastic and incredible Gundam Unicorn soundtrack by Sawano Hiroyuki, especially in the orchestra and percussion grooves, which I worked very hard on. I think I'm most proud of the bongo groove breakdown in the middle and the "Atomyk Ebonpyre" section near the end. Those two parts ended up especially fantastic. <i>xkoraxayomex:</i> Overall I feel that the artwork suits the piece in terms of relativity and presentation. I think it looks refined and somewhat detailed, but there is room for improvement. When I read the title for the piece, Ascension, I automatically thought back to Jade's god tier, as it is simply gorgeous and I just love it. It was a milestone for her becoming an even more essential character in Homestuck. - <i><b>Lambda Bledsoe:</b></i> + <i>Lambda Bledsoe:</i> (album organizer) this song was originally titled "ascension", but there was to be another song on lofam2 with a similar title ("god tier ascension") (except now there isn't) so wmm changed it to"ave dei novi" which translates to "hail the new gods" --- Track: Nevermore (Can't Sleep, Crows Will Find Me) @@ -1623,7 +1620,7 @@ Cover Art File Extension: jpg Art Tags: - Birds Commentary: |- - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) No commentary here! <i>continued from [[The Seer and the Tribesmen]]:</i> <i>THE NAKED FELLOW INTRODUCES HIMSELF IN RETURN. OVERJOYED, BNORKEL BARKS UP A CLOUD OF PUNGENT INK. THIS STARTLES THE MOOSE, WHO PROCEEDS TO INSTINCTIVELY CHARGE THEM BOTH. A FLURRY OF ACTIVITY! ANTLERS FLASH, TENTACLES FLAIL, EXPOSED FLESH JUTS OFFENSIVELY.</i> diff --git a/album/lofam3.yaml b/album/lofam3.yaml index 92851b8..30e167c 100644 --- a/album/lofam3.yaml +++ b/album/lofam3.yaml @@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ Commentary: |- In 2011, some musicians got together. They had an idea, to grab together some of the many pieces of fan music floating around the MSPA forums and the internet, and compile it into an album for the fandom to download. I can remember excitedly heading to my second semester classes at university listening to the tunes that these fantastic artists had provided, and the track art to go with each song. I'm so glad to have worked with most if not all of these musicians along the course of the past 3 years. I got my own chacne to participate in these endeavours in 2012, with the fan musicians coming together to work on Sburb OST and LoFaM 2. And now we're here, in 2013, releasing LoFaM 3 for you all. I hope you love each and every track on this album, much like I remember loving LoFaM in 2011. Many thanks have to be extended to everyone who brings these projects together, most of all Lune, who has handled everything art for the project! I couldn't have done it without her. Thanks to Brad for making the booklet, AndrewNeo for hosting all this fan music for us, Xzaz for being incredible at picking tracks and references, as well as the brave sacrifices he has made for the album, and to Solatrus, Konec0 and Mark for helping along the way. Thanks for listening! - - Veritas Unae + \- Veritas Unae <i>Lunise:</i> So this sure is a thing! I did art for LOFAM2 and retconned in a nice banner for the rehosted LOFAM1, so naturally I sold my soul to the LOFAM once more to draw things and wrangle some artists for the third album! I consider this project a tribute to the creative side of the Homestuck fandom. You guys rock! I hope yoiu enjoy this album and take a look at all the cool art for it. - - your friendly neighborhood Lune + \- your friendly neighborhood Lune <hr> <i>Special Thanks:</i> <b>-CONCEPTION/ORGANIZATION-</b><br>Lune (Artist Wrangler)<br>Veritas Unae (Musician Wrangler) @@ -85,11 +85,9 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>dodostad:</i> I want so very badly to draw cherubs, Lord English chasing down poor Calliope. - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) Hi there. I am the guy doing the commentary booklet again. This is one of the few tracks where either the musician or artist didn't leave commentary. Though there aren't enough free pages for an epic tale like last time, I figure I can find something to put to fill in the blanks. Some cool time-reversal effects in this track. Very reminiscent of the Felt album. Cool art, too. Always like Ella's stuff. - <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor) - (per [[track:jungle-3|LoFaM 4 standard]], ive highlighted commentary from people besides the original musicians or cover artists in bold!) --- Track: Bite the Apple Artists: @@ -106,7 +104,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>Matt Lee:</i> Hey there! Bite the Apple is a song about John going from being a goofy kid playing the piano to a goofy kid being launched into SBURB! For me, this was an incredibly refreshing song to write, and I still find it refreshing to listen to! You might even call it... A Breath of fresh Heir. I'm so sorry, I'll never make puns again. Thanks for listening! - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) In this piece, John is biting the apple. Clever! --- Track: Planet Cracker @@ -148,7 +146,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Upward Movement (Dave Owns) Commentary: |- - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) Ok so no art OR musician commentary for this page. This track is a jamming remix of Upwad Movement... Pretty rocking! Also there might be a banjo in it at 2:45. Might be something else, but it certainly sounds like a banjo to me. The track art is Dave Strider from Homestuck. He is the one referenced in the song title. He's not a hero. @@ -174,7 +172,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>horizon:</i> As a theme for the Disciple/Signless(Sufferer) pairing, I wanted the song to be haunting, cold, and forebodying, but still beautiful and rich. The word <i>confinis</i> is latin for "beside" or "adjacent to" -- in astrology, it is another word for semisextile, which is an aspect of 30°. Such angles only occur when two planets are in two signs next to each other; in this case I'm referring to Cancer and Leo. The song (and image, for that matter) both follow this concept of 'togetherness', no matter what may face them -- and you'll see that The Disciple keeps her promise, as she is found in our night sky beside the prophet Cancerian. - <i>Brad Griffin:</i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) Don't see much art or songs for the Ancestors. Both are pretty. --- Track: Emissary of Dance @@ -303,9 +301,9 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Yan Rodriguez:</i> This song came out of strange feelings. I thought that a lot of remixes of this song were treading the same ground, and while they were cool I liked this song enough to try my own shot at it using what seems to be becoming my signature style. Well people enjoyed it, but I still think it could have had more... pizazz. - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) sooooooo goooooood - <i><b>Veritas Unae:</b></i> + <i>Veritas Unae:</i> (musician wrangler) no, but really, SOO GOOOOD --- Track: '720413' @@ -401,7 +399,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Commentary: |- <i>Tamara Fritz:</i> This is a piece entirely done in a constructed language entirely created by me. Deatils can be found on <a href="https://melodystuckrosearchive.tumblr.com/post/40875330244/hymn-of-the-horrorterrors-futma-kul-shemtor-be">the original post</a> on tumblr found on the 'melodystuckrose' blog. - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) Pretty would be an understatement. I partiuclarly like the lacy border. --- @@ -421,7 +419,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Veritas Unae:</i> I did htis piece a while back, quite some time ago now. It was a hypothetical theme fro Sgrub in the same vein as Sburban Jungle was. I considered reworking the piece, but everywhere I turned the piece wasn't really getting better, so here it is in all its original Sibelius 6 glory! Imagine this playing as all of the trolls enter the medium for the very first time. Go imagination, go! - <i>Brad Griffin:</i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) Karkat furiously playing the marinba ostinato. --- Track: Medium @@ -472,7 +470,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>dodostad:</i> I imagined this song would fit Snowman perfectly, so I tried to squish dramatic moonlight and her into the same square and this is the end result. - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) MANDELBROT "EAT FRESH" MOON --- Track: Fool [Explicit] @@ -536,7 +534,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>David Dycus:</i> Written for, but not entered in, the Homestuck music contest. It would have been submitted for John. It was loosely intended to be a major-key counterpart to my song [[Checkmate]] from Colours & Mayhem: Universe B. - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) This art is about John because it was established earlier that Dave is not a hero (see [[track:im-not-a-hero|track 5]]). --- Track: Oh Hi There, Lil Cal @@ -582,7 +580,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Nitrosparxx:</i> Well, I certainly didn't expect this song to take off like it did! What was originally just another remix suddenly became one of my most well known and recognized songs! It all started when I saw an interesting post speculating what instruments the trolls might've played. There was harp for Aradia, there was guitar for Tavros, and for Terezi it had clarinet. As soon as I saw that, I knew I had to do a jazzed up remix of her theme. So for about two days, I transcribed the melody, worked out some chords, and did up a bassline and drumbeat. It was kind of weird working on this song, since I was using the unconventional 8/4 time rather than 4/4 time. The reason for this was to make the eight-note swing sound like sixteenth-note swing. Although I'm not as much into Homestuck any more and I feel as though I've written better songs since then, I am still pleased that a lot of people liked this song! - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) This track was actually slated to be on LOFAM 2 originally, but got pushed back for some reason or other. This art's been around since then. Very dramatic. --- Track: Waveform @@ -634,7 +632,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Ashley Jones:</i> I find that a lot of my Homestuck tracks tend to be medleys: One of my first ideas for a track was the Gamzee vs. Dave rap battle with all their motifs as a backdrop (that never really picked off because UGH, LACK OF VOCAL TALENT ON MY PART). This one follows a similar vein; Her Imperious Condescension vs. Lord English's Handmaid. I wanted the track to show how tired of life the Handmaid had become, so a lot of her motifs get cut short quite abrasively by HIC's "attacks", as it were. She puts up a little bit of a struggle sometimes, but eventually she just accepts her fate and lets herself be replaced. So ends the tragic life of the Alernian Ancestors. - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) All of Scarodactyl's art was actually slightly smaller than the resolution I used for this booklet. Hopefully upscaling it didn't ruin the pixels too much. --- Track: Sleepy Eyes of Derse @@ -652,7 +650,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>Colin Stanfill:</i> This song was written for the colours & mayhem contest, but was never entered. - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) There's no sleepy eyes,<br>Just a snoozing Roxy butt.<br>(I'm not complaining) --- Track: Sign of the Scorpion @@ -727,7 +725,7 @@ URLs: Cover Artists: - Scarodactyl Commentary: |- - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) NANANANANANANANANANNANANNANANANA<br>BATAMARI DAMACY The first and only Problem Sleuth song on a LoFaM album to date. Hopefully not the last! --- @@ -789,7 +787,7 @@ Lyrics: John, do the windy thing,<br>John, do the windy thing,<br>John, do the w Commentary: |- <i>Robert J! Lake:</i> i was drunk - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) <span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: cursive">John, do the windy thing,<br>John, do the windy thing,<br>John, do the windy thing,<br>Do the windy thing...</span> <div style="text-align: right"><i>end of disk 1</i></div> <i>Niklink:</i> (wiki editor) @@ -825,7 +823,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Eden Commentary: |- - <i>Brad Griffin:</i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) <i>Halfway there!</i> I'ma get real for a sec. The Homestuck fanmusic albums are very dear to me. I've met many friends and colleagues through the creation of the LoFaM albums and the Sburb OST project. I am honoured by each opportunity to work alongside such great talent, and to somehow be included amongst them. @@ -997,7 +995,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Yan Rodriguez:</i> This was back when I cared about getting the first remix of at least one recently released song out for Homestuck. The result is this! I tried elaborating a bit on the material Jit gave so far, since at the time there wasn't much to go off of, and I think it fares relatively well. It's hard to feel good about old music sometimes though. - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) Slick strut! --- Track: Tombs & Krypton @@ -1060,7 +1058,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Elanor Pam:</i> Snowman and Spades Slick. - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) Ooh, complex rhythm. Jazzy. --- Track: Sord..... @@ -1156,7 +1154,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>dodostad:</i> A friend of mine made a plush squiddle so I decided to let it have a moment to shine! Also this song is the cutest thing what the heckie. - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) SQUIDDLES --- Track: timaeusAmplified @@ -1191,7 +1189,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Yan Rodriguez:</i> I used to do a series of songs/arrangements lining up with stories. I didn't ever really line this one up with anything, but the basic idea was "Unsheathed in a haunted house." I played a lot of Luigi's Mansion for this one. - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) Pretty sure this is one of them Pisces trolls. Not sure why it is called Scabbard. --- Track: Sketches in Black @@ -1215,7 +1213,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Kevin Grant:</i> Originally supposed to be a practice project so I could learn how to sample, I added in a few piano riffs from Black and it took on a life of its own. The most obvious sample is from "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing", but other samples in there inclue the trumpet from an old 1940s big band song, and the drums from "Paint It Black" by the Rolling Stones. For a song that wasn't even originally a song, I think it came out pretty well. Enjoy! - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) <small><small>If another one of these commentaries ends with "Enjoy" I am going to punch everyone.</small></small> Great perspective work on the art. --- @@ -1236,7 +1234,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>Joe Ouellet:</i> Together (At Last) is a theme for the Beta kids' reunion, obviously made before they reunited in canon. The beginning is supposed to be happy; the beta kids finally unite for the first time after a session gone awry and a 3 year journey through the dark abyss and a mysterious alternate dimension. They hug, cry, fist bump, push each other down a set of friendship stairs, etc. Then Rose drops a bombshell: an unbeatable demon is going around destroying dream bubbles, and in the process, the universe. Things look grave, and Jade and John are startled. But they decide to press on and not give up. Together, with the remaining trolls and the alpha kids, they can defeat, or escape, Lord English once and for all. - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) Due to miscommunication, we actually ended up with a couple pieces for this track. Both were pretty rad, so we didn't want either to go to waste. The other ended up being the [[track:disk2-lofam3|Disk 2]] track art. --- Track: INFIDELS! @@ -1346,7 +1344,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>Elanor Pam:</i> Veritas wanted to use my Together at Last [[track:disk2-lofam3|pic]] for this track (since [[track:together-at-last|that one]] already has track art) but I thought it was too contemplative for this song. Hope Remains has something of an "ongoing chase scene" feel for me. So I offered to come up with something more active. Then my comp's power source went and burned... good thing I have a tablet at work! And that work on this day was slow to a ridiculous degree. I had but a few interruptions while drawing this one. Whew, crisis averted! - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) Andre does good musics. This is no exception. --- Track: Maid in Spades @@ -1387,7 +1385,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Joe Ouellet:</i> A remix of one of my favorite Homestuck songs, Candles and Clockwork. It's more of a reimagining of the piece really. There isn't much to say about it in particular other than it was my best mastering work at the time of its completion, I think. It may have also been the first time I stayed away from using endless breakbeat loops in a Homestuck remix. - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) Ooh, crystalline. Very shiny! --- Track: Cold Steel @@ -1458,7 +1456,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>Ashley Jones:</i> When the Homestuck Music Contest first opened well over a year ago, I'd really only just started exploring my love of creating music. This track (which is based around the Exiles years in the future) and one other are actually only the third and fourth tracks i ever composed! I've improved alot since then but I always had a little bit of love for this one. When LOFAM3 was announced I made a snap decision to spruce up my little deser themed tune and bring tumblr's attention back to it. I'm honoured that such an old track of mine is still considered worthy of LOFAM, to be honest! - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) That heavenscape is certainly sunsoaked. Neat! --- Track: Explore [Keygen Mix] @@ -1506,7 +1504,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Kevin Grant:</i> So, this was one of my first chiptunes. People seem to like it. However, when I listen to it now, two years later, I realize how little I knew about Famitracker, and music composition in genearl. I like to think I've learned a great deal since Ohgodboss. Still, I guess it's catchy enough as it is. Enjoy! - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) <small><small>oh for the love of god!</small></small> <i>Kate Holden:</i> I actually did two pieces of potential art for this, both featuring Dave and Jade fighting Bec Noir, since it seemed appropriate for an intense boss tune featuring a theme associated with Jade. There was a duller version of this as well as a more comic bookish one. A panel of friends agreed that this one read better, but it was a little flat, so I started brightening it and tweaking it, but still wanted to convey '8-bit', so I started playing around with a square brush throwing in this Darwina-esque square noise, which I thought looked pretty cool. It has been remarked that Jade firing an assault rifle in the air in front of a volcano is metal as shit. That's probably my favourite commentary on this image. @@ -1555,6 +1553,6 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>plaidcushion:</i> Starblaze is a really cool track, and I'm really pleased I got to make the art for it! I tried to stick with the same format as the art for the song it came from, but a bit more lively- It made me think of the Alpha kids hanging out together at night, lit only by the glow of their lanterns from the tower in LoCaH. - <i><b>Brad Griffin:</b></i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) Welp, so ends the third volume of Land of Fans and Music. This album would not be possible without your suggestions and constant support. Thanks for listening! diff --git a/album/lofam4.yaml b/album/lofam4.yaml index d3843c2..8dddc31 100644 --- a/album/lofam4.yaml +++ b/album/lofam4.yaml @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Commentary: |- I'm, uh, actually not really much of a musician. I'm mostly just good at recognizing melodies. We didn't have anyone lined up to do the disc jingles (though I assumed maybe Veri would do then, as on LoFaM2+3) so I mentioned to Cait that I had the idea of making each disc a song representative of each prior LoFaM. I sent her files of myself vocalizing the melodies and she transcribed them. You might be tyinking, "wait, but there's not a song on LoFaM1 called Homestuck Title Screen". This is correct. Its composer was unable to be contacted during its production for whatever reason, so it was arranged into both the first and last songs on the album. So, this is sort of like a reprise of the first song on the first LoFaM. Initially I wanted to do Emissary of Wind but Cait's idea was better. - <i>Sozzay:</i> + <i>Sozzay:</i> (album cover artist) This piece was a very unique experience for me because it involved drawing something I was rather unfamiliar with. Before I started this piece I knew from the beginning I wanted something rather dynamic and fun and I feel the result stayed true to the image I had in mind. This piece was certainly difficult, but after some trial and error things eventually started coming together nicely. I ended up having a lot of fun trying out new brushes and mixing my favourite colors together to get a final result I was very pleased with. --- Track: Merge @@ -127,11 +127,11 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>cookiefonster:</i> Similarly to several other songs on this album, this started as a rescore of [S] Jane: Enter for this collaborative project where people would come up with new music for all the flashes in Homestuck. The goal here was to make a song similar in style to Another Jungle (a very underappreciated song) without actually quoting it other than the way that song quotes Sburban Jungle. It was quite a challenge not borrowing anything else from other songs except for when I used a part of Oppa Toby Style towards the end, but this song was fun to make and I'm happy enough with the end result even if it's not as punchy as the original. - <i>Lambda Bledsoe:</i> + <i>Lambda Bledsoe:</i> (album organizer) a fair number of songs didn't have commentary from their musicians and/or artists, so i asked a few people, mostly mspafans managers to write some filler commentary for those. they'll be prefaced by bold names. <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor) - (ive gone and updated the old LoFaM commentaries to follow the same style!) - <i><b>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</b></i> + For the wiki, this commentary is marked with annotations (in parentheses) instead. Check [[album:lofam4|the album page]] for the original booklet PDF if you'd like to check out the commentary as it was first presented! + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (album help) This art is a lovely rendition of Fitzwibble of that bit in [S] Dirk: Unite where Dirk takes Roxy and Jane along for a ride. Unfortunately, due to her foolish boorishness, Jane does not appreciate the joy of flying through the air as a bird would in spring. It is a shame, that such an enlightening experience must go ignored. --- Track: Frost and Clockwork @@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Adamantist:</i> the Blind Pilot is leading what is left of his people through unknown lengths to a new home, albeit despite his own will. lonely encaged flighting spirit with a glimmer of hope. digital whispers of draining life. that is what I felt the Blind Pilot is. - <i><b>keyboard cait:</b></i> + <i>keyboard cait:</i> (album team) Right after Pax Condesca, the theme of a fuchsia empress' intergalactic conquest, Blind Pilot shifts the focus to the hidden lowblood driving her flagship. Where Condesca was a light tune with unsettling undertones, Blind Pilot goes in full force with its cinematic and emotive atmosphere, a mix of dramatic orchestra, electronic sounds and ambience. It's all in a breathtaking and impressive final result, especially considering just how silly and tongue in cheek the original The Blind Prophet was. Kudos to Kurt for recontextualizing it so well! Additional note: this is the first of four Gold Pilot arranges to appear on the album, and boy does it start off the trend well. I hope you enjoy all their unique spins on the original! --- @@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Catboss:</i> holy shiiiit it's uh that third track I made for the Homestuck music contest. wow. remember that? that was so long ago. anyway this was a track for Kanaya, at that part where she comes back as a rainbow drinker and slaughteres everyone. it's super great. I redid this track from the ground up for lofam 4, updated the flute playing and everything. Is it better? Is it worse? who knows, really - <i><b>Kal-la-kal-la:</b></i> + <i>Kal-la-kal-la:</i> (UMSPAF manager) This image has three Kanaya Maryams in it. Having two more Kanaya Maryams than Homestuck itself had is a bold creative decision, one which, in my opinion, works out rather well. I very much like the 'Naya in the foreground's halo, illuminating her face, while the Maryam furthest from the front of the scene is relatively shrouded in darkness. Consequently, her bright yellow eyes shine like a wild animal in the dead of night. Cool as hell all around, this image. --- Track: Savior of the Waking World (Cement City Remix) @@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Savior of the Waking World Commentary: |- - <i><b>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</b></i> + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (album help) It's a remix of Savior of the Waking World. That's something you couldn't possibly have found out unless you read this very commentary. Aren't you doing youreslf a favor by looking through this? For this track, Chalaite rendered a portrait of John staring down at his deathplace, after being revived by the inscrutable mechanics of sburb. Despite being killed by Bec Noir, her retains his life, and is now more powerful than ever, having attained god tier. --- @@ -380,9 +380,9 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Darling Kanaya Commentary: |- - <i><b>Wheals:</b></i> + <i>Wheals:</i> (album help) Of all the main characters in Homestuck, Kanaya is perhaps the most suited to a soft orchestral/piano piece like this. The song pulls off some great production orchestra-wise while putting a lovely 3/4 twist on Darling Kanaya. - <i><b>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</b></i> + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (album help) A little known power held by the clearly very fictional and not at all real troll folklore creatures known as "Rainbow Drinkers" is to create flashing green silhouettes of themselves whenever they dance. This of course, holds no practical purpose whatsoever, except for the theoretical seduction of aliens who happen to resemble flighty broads. --- Track: Intermission @@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Joe Ouellet:</i> John exploring the Land of Mounds and Xenon searching for his friends evoked some melancholy feels for me. This track was composed entirely backwards; That meant I was constantly exporting WAVs seeing if the "forward" track I was making was sounding good backwards. It was a fun and interesting way to make music. - <i><b>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</b></i> + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (album help) You think they'd set up a bench by the road, but nooooooooooo. John has to sit on the grass, thanks to those inconsiderate jerks. The salamander probably had a hand in it. Damn that salamander. --- Track: Retconjuration @@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>psithurist:</i> Limelight was made for the unfinished Act 8 fan continuation of Homestuck, and was used in the flash <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS9p2gD_Ou4">[S] Resolve</a>. It's a theme for alt-Calliope, as she merges her soul with Davepeta's and the other half of Gamzee's, hence the meows and the high-pitched Secret Honks in the middle section. The working title was Miss America, because it's like, the opposite of Lord English? Shoutout to whoever came up with that one on the Act 8 team. This one was suepr fun to make since I got to use a lot of wacky sampling techniques and also I just love Calliope a whole god damn lot okay. - <i><b>keyboard cait:</b></i> + <i>keyboard cait:</i> (album team) Like the song, this fantastic art was originally used for [[album:act-8-volume-1|Act 8 Volume 1]]. It's a pretty stark contrast to the carefree art for Glide immediately before it; Alternate Calliope has now taken off her hood, with a look that indicates that she means business. --- Track: Bonehead Destiny (LoFaM Cut) @@ -572,7 +572,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Shandy:</i> Some ships may come and go, but Rosemary is forever. A mashup of the traditional "Greensleeves", which I've always loved, with "Endless Climb" and hits of "Black Rose / Green Sun". - <i><b>SplitSuns:</b></i> + <i>SplitSuns:</i> (album help) This is a solemn artwork that captures a snapshot of Rose and Kanaya in a tender embrace. The piece manages to render the two lovers at their closest, while also highlighting the extremes of both of their characters. Rose's skin is tainted black to indicate her status as Grimdark, while Kanaya is glowing white as rainbow drinkers often do. Although the addition of the titular "greensleeves" to Kanaya's outfit is subtle, it helps tie the artwork even further to its song and turns it into an excellent companion. --- Track: Highland Thunder @@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Elanor Pam:</i> This was very much a test-bed for photoshop brushes and adjustment layers I had yet to touch on, all while putting the speed in speedpaint. - <i><b>keyboard cait:</b></i> + <i>keyboard cait:</i> (album team) At one point I described this as something along the lines of "electric Scottish war music", and that still stands. The melody in this song is absolutely iconic, if you ask me, and it gets INCREDIBLY ampled. Maybe enough to see what lies under that voltaic fault. (Spoiler: It's just a lot of xenon.) Also, the lyrics to this song are "DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE". That is all. --- Track: Ghosts @@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>olegoleg123:</i> Aura of Colour is one of my older tracks, originally completely unrelated to Homestuck and only then adapted as a theme for Rose and submitted as such. It is the piece that marked my transition form straightup EDM to more VGM-styled music. - <i><b>keyboard cait:</b></i> + <i>keyboard cait:</i> (album team) This art by insecureIllustrator was actually one of two made for this track! iI sent us both this version and a different one of Rose with just as much incredible detail, and allowed us to choose which one suited the track better. This version won out primarily due to fitting the bright tone of the song more, and the general feeling of an "aura of colour". <i>insecureIllustrator:</i> (alternate artwork) <img src="media/misc/aura-of-colour-bonus.png" width="300"> @@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Seth Massey:</i> This was supposed to be a fill in track for a finished trackart for LOFAM2 about Calmasis and I liked it and pianos Imagine the plot to Complacency of the Learned and that's what's happening here - <i><b>Wheals:</b></i> + <i>Wheals:</i> (album help) Likely the oldest art on the album, this dates all the way back to LOFAM2 days. The song never did get finished for that era but stuck around until the song got made and finished in time for LOFAM4. It turns out that in the end, playing beyond the death of the king was a metaphor for the art's living past the end of the comic... I must confess to loving this art style, with mostly aliased lines and two-tone shading, especially in its similarity to some of Andrew Hussie's own art in Homestuck. It's none too common to see fanart of Calmasis, so it's nice to see them rendered in a more dynamic pose than the only canon one, while still clearly recognizable as that same antihero. --- @@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>The Great Anansi:</i> En Masse is actually a remastering of sorts of the very first Homestuck remix (and just generally one of the first songs ever) that I made about five or six years ago, because this was conceptualized around when Homestuck was ending last year to be a commemoration of the webcomic that sparked so much creative energy in me and catalyzed about 99% of my current friendships. I was keen on having it be grand and sweepking—essentially, doing everything my initial remix did, except bigger and badder than ever before. To that end, I started tossing in some extra motifs and making the composition even mroe frantic than before, but I was keen on keeping the overall rhythm and classical-esque style of Scratch; it's been a very long time since the cueball-head was directly relevant, but it's important to remember that that's where so much started! The project encountered some severe snags due to various real life troubles and motivation issues, but thanks to the support of the LOFAM team, it's finally been brought to life and I'm back on my feet with bountiful motivation. I might be a bit rocky, but it's only going up from here! - <i>SplitSuns:</i> + <i>SplitSuns:</i> (album help) This art primarily focuses on Doc Scratch, his profile taking up most of the canvas. There's a nice contrast between the organic and textured forms of his suit and the precisely geometric shapes such as his cueball head, the triangle cutting through his chest, and the halo of squares over him. The use of recurring motifs such as pool balls, arrows, and brooms help to connect the piece further to Scratch's roots, with the peacock texturing suggesting the foreboding Felt Manor. An interesting artwork for an enigmatic character. --- Track: '[GRIEF]' @@ -757,7 +757,7 @@ Sampled Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Noisemaker:</i> An extension of a very, very short segment of a group collaboration (7 GRAND END from the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team]]), it seemed unfitting to leave something like this in its short, unfinished state. - <i><b>SplitSuns:</b></i> + <i>SplitSuns:</i> (album help) Buffskull was originally a part of the CANMT song "7 GRAND END," with the music syncing up to the final Act 7 flash in Homestuck. This part of the song played when Vriska and her army prepared to face off against Lord English, and the art reflects this tense moment. Vriska stands in the middle of the chaos, with the house juju towering behind her. All of this is reflected in the eye of Lord English himself, his normally radiating visage forced into the position of eight-balls. The detail on English's eye is both very sharp and a little unsettling. So although this art mirrors previous scenes in the comic, it adds its own interseting twists to the presentation to make it an exciting and engaging image. --- Track: I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew (theh0nestman Version) @@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - track:im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew Commentary: |- - <i><b>ostrichlittledungeon:</b></i> + <i>ostrichlittledungeon:</i> (album team) After the acapella and post-punk versions of I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew, you may be wondering how there could possibly be a unique version of this song without stooping to What Pumpkin's level and making "I'm a Member of the Midnight Ska." theh0nestman manages to take this early 20th century classic somewhere entirely new. This version of the song has a country rock feel to it, with soft verses leading into harder, crunchier choruses, and the bridges between verses taking us into previously uncharted melodic territory. <i>dodostad:</i> I was asking around for iconic rock album covers to base the art on since it was rather classic rock take on the midnight crew. Someone said Nirvana's Nevermind and I laughed and laughed and went with it @@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Lambda Bledsoe:</i> For a lot of people LoFaM2 is the best (released) LoFaM, which is... sort of weird, as someone that did it. Personally, I sort of think of 2 and 3 as parts of one whole because they were so close in proudction and a number of songs were moved from the former to the latter. Also for a lot of people, the most represenative songs of LoFaM2 would be things like [[Alphamatic Replacement]], [[CR1M1N4L, CR1M1N4L]], [[Fighting Spirit]], [[Dance-Stab-Dance]], stuff like that. As the, uh, co-head of Loaf 2 though, I sorta always felt that Jackpot was the "most LoFaM2" song? Not sure exactly what it was. Perhaps that it had like three remixes (two of which never made it to a LoFaM), perhaps that it was my personal #1 "why wasn't this on coloUrs and mayhem" song. But, anyway, yeah, we did Jackpot. It's a neat song. - <i><b>keyboard cait:</b></i> + <i>keyboard cait:</i> (album team) In my opinion, this track art perfectly fits the "calm before the storm" vibe of a middle before an end, like Disc 2 is before the endgame-themed Disc 3. I'll also note it looks incredibly fitting for the cover of a vinyl record, and with those bright colors and jazzy writing I'd check that hypothetical cover out the moment I saw it. --- Track: Hiatus @@ -1105,7 +1105,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Noisemaker:</i> Initially from call and new 2: locomotif under the name Excess Express, I wanted Schrödinger's Harbinger to be Jasprose-themed to compensate for the lack of tracks in that category, as well as to make some additions to the original trakc. - <i><b>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</b></i> + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (album help) I can't believe that Roxy thinks that Rose smothering herself in response to the heinous evils of Jasprose is so "wonderful". What a terrible mother/daughter figure. --- Track: Listless Squiddly Bliss @@ -1145,7 +1145,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Phil Gibson:</i> Vriska is gr8 and thank goodness she saved all of space and time so we could hear this album - <i><b>Wheals:</b></i> + <i>Wheals:</i> (album help) Xoro was working on a little 8-song Vriska album concept for the CANMT, to be released on 8/8/2016. Though the idea never came to be, he made a couple songs for it, which then languished on the main tab of our organization sheet. Reading through the list of semi-abandoned songs there, I convinced him to put it on our Volume 8, so it ended up with some 8-related action. At some point, either the LOFAM judges listened to the album and felt it was a standout track, or Xoro submitted it on his own. The latter is possible since right around then was when Lambda put out an open call on /r/homestuck for song submissions. Either way, Xoro felt the song could bei mproved, so the song as presented here is an even more polished version of the v8lume one. Relistening, many of the changes jump out. Right away you can tell some of the instruments have changed. (Enemy Approaching, the Undertale song, is still an obvious compositional inspiration, even though the instrumentation being less electronic makes this version less similar in that sense.) Some of the mixing is better and more punchy, a skill that Xoro excels at. Terezi's theme opens the bridge, after which the song contains new composition. Returning to the original motifs of the song after the bridge, it continues to put a new spin on them. I never cease to be impressed by the musical improvements of my friends in the Homestuck fanmusic community. And I'm glad that in a managerial role, I can facilitate others' improvement. Let's all give Xoro a thumbsup for the great work here. --- Track: Wisest Wizord @@ -1164,7 +1164,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>Trufflemeep:</i> The music reminded me of a disco party, so I tied that in with the name of the song and created the most fabulous fortune-telling session I was able to. It's OOC because Roxy knows that only nerds half-ass their wizard cosplays. In reality it would be a proper tunic, silk closure beard, and 230% more glowsticks. - <i><b>Wheals:</b></i> + <i>Wheals:</i> (album help) This track was made a while ago (originally for Colours and Mayhem if I'm not mistaken) but didn't get the attention/nomination to end up on a contemporary LOFAM. Fast forward to 2016, when CHamango releases his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44fx8qI9C-8">third</a> pro as heck guide to homestuck, highlighting this song as his favorite fanmusic of all time. It's not hard to see why if you listen to the track. The publicity brought it to the eyes of the LOFAM team, who were glad to add it. This whole story is basically an excuse to hsill Chamang0's awesome <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ktbGOAUcZM">[S] Jade and Calliope: Rumble.</a> and pro as heck guide to homestuck videos, but it also serves as a reminder of how far this fandom has gone, and how much history lies behind this amazing fanmusic project. --- Track: Prospit Towers @@ -1182,7 +1182,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>SerialSymphony:</i> Prospit Towers took cues from the Genesis Frog album, as well as inspiration from tracks like [[track:moonsetter]]. I wanted something subdued but moving to capture the feel of the moon. Also, I'm on LOFAM, hi mom! - <i><b>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</b></i> + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (album help) In this piece by sonotcanon, Jade looks down on the city of Prospit from one of the... Prospit Towers. I'd say that sitting like that on a window pane is unsafe, but then I remembered that dreamselves can, you know, fly, so whatever. --- Track: Red @@ -1227,7 +1227,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Elanor Pam:</i> For this piece my only goal was to express the same soft dreaminess of the song itself. And to draw Joey, of course. Where's she going in this dream? - <i><b>keyboard cait:</b></i> + <i>keyboard cait:</i> (album team) I was a bit unsure of what to associate this track with at first. Jade is a dead ringer for a daydreamer, but so was Dave before his Derse awakening, implied in the song throuhg Derse Dreamers and Atomyk, but Hiveswap's [[track:old-secret|Old Secret]] is referenced in the song's first few seconds... I'm personally glad Elanor took the Hiveswap route for this song's track art, because I feel it fits the song so well even beyond Old Secret. The song invokes a calm theme for Joey, and speculation on all of the possible misadventuers she'll have that we'll soon get to see. As of this writing, Hiveswap's definitive release date of September 14th was revealed three days ago, and I hold hope it won't be delayed any longer. In the meantime, Daydream is a theme that embodies thoughts of that wait and that hope, and of course, thoughts of the game itself. --- @@ -1248,7 +1248,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Amethyst Barron:</i> A space werewolf with reality warping powers would be terrifying and I wanted to reflect that. Also I really like drawing drooly sharp teeth. - <i><b>Grace Medley:</b></i> + <i>Grace Medley:</i> (album help) Okay, okay. Before you start listening to this song, just picture in your head the absolute BEST grimdark Jade theme. Then hit play. If you're not confused as to how Ascenzo managed to read your mind, you did something wrong. --- Track: Upward Meowvement (Davepetasprite^2 Owns) @@ -1268,7 +1268,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Upward Movement (Dave Owns) - Nepeta's Theme Commentary: |- - <i><b>Kal-la-kal-la:</b></i> + <i>Kal-la-kal-la:</i> (album help) The iconic Upward movement backbeat speaks for itself. In true Davepeta fashion, numerous cat and bird noises appear throughout the track, and a bouncy B-section rounds it off. Davepetasprite^2, Paradox Space's certified #1 cat-bird, shows us their stabs from a vantage point just beyond the Green Sun. The green and orange hues in this piece are particularly lovely. --- @@ -1313,7 +1313,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>yazshu:</i> Now, this art. It's something im proud of in a sense. Great background. Half-decent Becs. Too much going on, maybe, but i think it works well for the vast expanses of space. Space, however, does not have much in it. It might be a bit counterintuitive for that reason. Space is always really fun to draw though, so thats why i went a little bit overboard. Great song, too. Am very glad i did art for it. Yeah, thanks oj for making this fantastic remix. - <i><b>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</b></i> + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (album help) A calmer, somewhat less dramatic remix of Gold Pilot. I'd imagine it gets pretty lonely exploring the EXPANSES OF INTERSTELLAR SPACE. --- Track: Horizontal Headshot @@ -1342,7 +1342,7 @@ Sampled Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>ostrichlittledungeon:</i> Written for the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team's]] Cool and New Homestuck 2, this is an attempt to remix Unite Synchronization in a way that fits better thematically with [S] Dirk: Synchronize and [S] Dirk: Unite. Some of the things I worked in were Orange Hat when Dirk wakes up, for example, Metamorphic Choices when the kernelsprite appears, Hate You for Meenah's cameo... Dirk's scateboard-riding I represented with Moshi Moshi?, a theme that's admittedly been a bit of a stickymotif for me (I've used it in way too many compositions). I like Moshi for an umber of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that it goes so well with so many things. What can I say? I like mashing themes together. - <i><b>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</b></i> + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (album help) An illustration of the events of both [S] Dirk: Synchronize and [S] Dirk: Unite. As can clearly be seen, the Red Miles tore up the spacetime continuum, resulting in all the events happening concurrently. This is exactly what happened both here and in the flashes, and definitely isn't just a clever tactic by dazed-squid to create a pretty neat track art that depicts a lot of the best parts of said flashes. --- Track: One and a Half Midnight @@ -1551,7 +1551,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Marcy Nabors:</i> This song represents a lot of firsts for me. My first piece of Homestuck fan music, my first time composing for an ensemble of orchestral instruments, and the uh... second song I ever wrote in a digital audio workstation. I read Homestuck in a feverish marathon in the Fall of 2010 while taking a class about playing in a rock band and recording music (my high school was very cool). Around that time, I'd also been sequencing MIDI files in Anvil Studio (a program which was also the genesis of Bowman's MIDI experience), and had only recently discovered that Logic also had MIDI sequencing capabilities. After falling madly in love with the Homestuck soundtrack, I had an epiphany to the tune of "holy shit, I know how to make stuff like that!" and Atomyk Clockwyrk was thus the result. I've come a long way since then, but it's a testament to the quality of Logic Pro's stock library that I managed to make it sound this good with minimal knowledge of production. A little volume automation, slap a limiter on top (not even Logic's wonderful Adaptive Limiter? Come ON, 16-year old Marcy...), and blam, what you're hearing today is a time capsule of what I put together in December of 2010. - <i><b>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</b></i> + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (album help) Dave is waiting in his land. For what? We're not quite sure. Perhaps he is simply waiting for one of the countless time loops he has employed as hsi session's time player. In any case, it can't be comfortable wearing that suit in that heat. I guess that's the price of being a c o o l k i d though. Fun fact actually, this piece had a couple other variants before this version, which had Dave wearing different colored suits. One was white, and the other was red. However, after dazed-squid was suggested to try a green one instead, it managed to catch the eye quite very well indeed. As such, the green version stuck. --- @@ -1571,7 +1571,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>nights:</i> I'm really happy with this piece! The music sets a uniquely nice atmosphere on LOPAN, which I hoped to capture in this art's composition and colors. (Also the glass is just water, I promise I don't condone underage drinking, please don't call the cops) - <i><b>Grace Medley:</b></i> + <i>Grace Medley:</i> (album help) During his time as a musician for Homestuck, Thoams Ferkol touched on a wide range of styles, from metal to neoclassical to krautrock, and everywhere in between. One he hadn't done, though, was disco... Until now! Conceived as one of three land themes for the alpha session (LOPAN in particular), this track sadly never saw an official release, but it's here, now, for your listening pleasure. --- Track: Quest Crypt @@ -1646,7 +1646,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>YoItsCro:</i> This was quite an interesting piece to work on; I was trying to do something with perspective though you know, practice will eventually take someone far! Anyway, here's Jade. The green sun is in the corner because outside of paying mind to the spacey environment, it somewhat references her whoel god tiering ordeal, which essentially meant the first guardian bonus pack. - <i><b>keyboard cait:</b></i> + <i>keyboard cait:</i> (album team) i think this song speaks for itself so here are some lyrics. OH LET'S BREAK IT DOWN NOOT NOOTVAPE NAYSH YALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL @@ -1672,7 +1672,7 @@ Art Tags: - LoLaR Commentary: |- <i>SplitSuns:</i> - This track was amde for the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team]]'s [[album:canwave|CANWAVE]], an album entirely of Homestuck vaporwave parodies. This song in particular is a vaporwave edit of Endless Climb, hence the name. I tried to extends the vaporwave feel beyond just slowing the song down, splicing and editing the original song in interesting ways, adding 80's style instruments, and utilizing pitchbend and other distortion effects to provide an uneasy feel. The result is something that transcends meme status and enters "dream status," if you will. Actually that sounds kind of dumb. Forget I said that. + This track was made for the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team]]'s [[album:canwave|CANWAVE]], an album entirely of Homestuck vaporwave parodies. This song in particular is a vaporwave edit of Endless Climb, hence the name. I tried to extends the vaporwave feel beyond just slowing the song down, splicing and editing the original song in interesting ways, adding 80's style instruments, and utilizing pitchbend and other distortion effects to provide an uneasy feel. The result is something that transcends meme status and enters "dream status," if you will. Actually that sounds kind of dumb. Forget I said that. The track art is a parody of the cover of the vaporwave album "Shader Complete" by Sacred Tapestry. --- Track: Beatup (Shutdown) @@ -1691,7 +1691,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Beatup Commentary: |- - <i><b>keyboard cait:</b></i> + <i>keyboard cait:</i> (album team) This song gives me vibes of a "prelude" version of the original Beatdown, like one that plays as a character's theme before a boss fight where the boss music is just a more complete and amped up rendition. Or maybe it's like an encore of Beatup where the DJ gives the backing track a little more flair. Either way, the fact that this song uses only the opening arpeggios of Beatdown throught its run works hella well as a lead-in to the next track, [[Airtime Assault]], which dives straight into the main melody. This art reminds me of what could have been. Oh, Bro. You could have had it all. A sweet hipster ninja buddy just like you who had your back at all times, who enjoyed being with you and never fought against the blade. You could have trained him with such bullshit free discipline mixed with such terror free compassion that his genuine confidence would never let him lose again. Not even to you, the teacher, brother and father. Then you two could stand back to back while this badass music of fraternal teamwork played in the distance, complete with a backdrop of blazing sun and raging meteors. But then you just had to throw the kid off a building and make his daily life hell. Thanks for nothing, man. --- @@ -1737,9 +1737,9 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Mathias Ramalho:</i> This track is a joke. It doesn't have a serious purpose. But it is, in fact, an 8-bit track I worked quite hard to make sound good. If you love 8-bit and RJ, then this is the track just for you! - <i>Jaspy:</i> + <i>koba:</i> so i worked on this art way back in the beginning of the year just to see if i could contribute to the album and made a piece of art i'm pretty happy about, i don't really do art stuff so this was a first for me but im glad i could have worked on the album in some way still. it was pretty fun working on the art in general, coming up with the idea was pretty quick after i heard the song, but the hard part was trying to draw lil rj for the art (with a trackpad, dont use trackpds), and after a few revisions i think i got it to a pretty close style to the original. anyway glad i could help work on the album, and hope you dudes all enjoy the rest of it - <i>Robert J! Lake:</i> + <i>Robert J! Lake:</i> (probably not associated) What W h At W ho Did This @@ -1864,7 +1864,7 @@ Commentary: |- You know, it's pretty funny that some [[group:canmt|Cool and New Webcomic]] songs (such as this one) are being re-released on this album, but at the same time it's kind of fitting, since after Volume 10 was released, the CaNWC soundtrack helped reignite the notion of Homestuck fan music. I made this song before I knew I'd be making a whole album full of songs like this, just as a Sollux song for the hell of it. Even though this was the first one I made, it pretty clearly turned out to be one of the best, and I recently figured out why: the vibrato feature in Famitracker adds magic to everything and this one uses that feature pretty heavily. I'm not even joking, that functionality makes chiptune songs so much better. Title is a reference to Tavros and Fairie: A Love Story, a trollfic that starts off funny but eventually becomes truly painful to read. - <i><b>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</b></i> + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (album help) Sollux is about to get down. Gotta give out some FRESH BEATS. Gotta JAM YOUR EYEBALLS AND EARHOLES WITH SOME SWEET ASS TUNES. CHECK IT OUT YO. --- Track: Reconciled @@ -1890,7 +1890,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Shandy:</i> A track to celebrate the Striders finally talking and hashing out their differences! Because it's a Stirders song, I couldn't help adding a little breakdown. Sharp-eared listeners may also note that in the call-and-response main melody, the first synth is in 4/4 time and the second synth is in triplets—just as Dave and Dirk aren't quite in perfect lockstep. I left the ending open ended and hopeful, because I feel like the final chapter on their relationship has yet to be written. - <i><b>SplitSuns:</b></i> + <i>SplitSuns:</i> (album help) Dave and Dirk's reuinion on the spires of LOTAK was serious and poignant, but not without its sillier moments. This art is a mashup and showcase of the most ironic bullshit the Striders had to offer throughout the story. Smuppets galore, their plush rumps and jutting probosices laid alongside such gems as a Game Bro magazine, an artifacted Statue of Liberty, the lovable Squarewave and Sawtooth, and SBaHJ icons including the Big Man himself. And who could forget Guy Fieri's surprise appearance, his scream frozen in place as he prepares to assume the title of the next Antichrist? But that's a story for another time. --- Track: The End of Something Really Excellent @@ -2068,7 +2068,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>tti:</i> dont do drugs - <i><b>keyboard cait:</b></i> + <i>keyboard cait:</i> (album team) From the co-creator of smash hits Crystalmethequins and Beatup, and the composer of classics like Skaian Starstorm and Starblaze, comes an all-new drug fueled adventure! (Note: Don't do drugs, kids. Note 2: Don't even THINK of doing meth, trust on this one, please. Note 3: This isn't actually all-new, it's been around since 2013, but BOY is it still a doozy. Note 4: This is a remix of a remix of a remix. Are you a bad enough dude (or any casual moniker of your choice) to continue the chain? Note 5: I've run out of ntoes, so I guess... enjoy the song?!?!?) --- @@ -2121,7 +2121,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Hadron:</i> Rise of the Conductor's baton is probably my most ambitious song I've made; I pulled all the stops for this song for [S] Finale of CANH. I knew from the start that I wanted to do an upbeat EDM-styled track, and I thought a remix of Beatfox's original Creata would be spectacular. - <i><b>Makin:</b></i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album help) This track was made way back in November for the [S] Finale animation, a culmination of [[group:canmt|Cool and New Web Comic]] lore Hadron had been working on for a long time. The track features a bunch of obscure little refefernces like Skaian Voyages and Celestial Fantasia, both amazing Beatfox songs you should probably look up, and Formation, the Hadron song you've already listened to. Beatfox is a music god, and Hadron knew just how to combine all the good leitmotifs in order to make the song feel as grand and epic as humanly possible. I actually named this track, as I feel cool Homestuck quotes like "Raise of the Conductor's Baton" ought to be used when they fit the content (and indeed, Rose raises her wand... conductorly... in the animation mentioned above. Seriously, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgw1yxGLStI">go watch</a> [S] Finale when you're done with this album). --- Track: Radness from Concentrate @@ -2206,7 +2206,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>ostrichlittledungeon:</i> This is the song on LOFAM 4 that I'm most proud of, and was the most fun to make. Yes, it's Gold Pilot. Yes there are like seven other songs on LOFAM 4 that use Gold Pilot. But I do think I did a lot with it, and this piece showcases a bunch of different things. It starts with pretty standard Gold Pilot, and then slowly grows into the subversion that is the Gunshow 2 Theme, followed by a drop. Then there's a section inspired by Of Gods and Witches, then whatever the fuck happens at 1:42. Bring back the Gold Pilot with a new beat, and then end with Formation. Dumb weird fadeout that I definitely could've improved somehow but I was lazy. I wrote -Omega- Timeline with the Game Over timeline in mind—the dark feel and the choirs peppered throughout reflect the devastation to the A2 session, the Of Gods and Witches section is somewhat of a tribute to... dead kids? And the next section is a tribute to... uh, the happiness that's gone? I don't know, come up with some meaning there yourself. Most of this piece was me going for a specific feel rather than a specific meaning. Also, the dashes in the name are more for my own amusement than anything. -ω- - <i><b>keyboard cait:</b></i> + <i>keyboard cait:</i> (album team) Omega Timeline is a song about the Game Over timeline, which Terezi heavily assists in healing with a plan she formed herself. Naturally, then, it works for the art to show Terezi in the middle of her final journey in this timeline, inches away from finding her true potential. It fits the adventurous and determined nature of the song pretty well! The fact that the letter Omega is associated with Libra helps too, of course. --- Track: Emerald Cinders @@ -2244,10 +2244,10 @@ Art Tags: - Cats - LoLCaT Commentary: |- - <i><b>keyboard cait:</b></i> + <i>keyboard cait:</i> (album team) There's no music or art commentary on this track (which by the way is incredibly catchy and cute), so instead I'll pose a relevant question. How many songs with Mario Paint cat meows do you think are on this album? 2? 3? 4? Just this one? All 105? I'll tell you: there are 6. Six Mario Paint meow songs on the album, including this one. Approximately 5.71% of all Land of Fans and Music 4 tracks have Mario Paint cat meows in them. Now, that might not seem impressive, but let's put this in perspective: that's triple the number of tracks about Vriska. Whether that's good or bad, I'll leave to you. "the more mario paint meows i can cram on this album the better" -lambda 2017 - <i><b>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</b></i> + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (album help) A serene landscape painting by fuchsi. Let's be honest here, that tea is probably so saturated with sugar that drinking it will probably give you diabetes as soon as it enters your bloodstream. --- @@ -2294,7 +2294,7 @@ Commentary: |- I honestly can't believe this got in. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm satisfied with it, but seriously this took ages to get to a publishable state. Prospitian Monody started life as a techno/ambient fusion with acoustic instruments in for fun too, which is a fancy way of saying I have no idea what genres actually mean. It also had a completely different melody. People told me the piano didn't fit so I made it synth, people told me the melody was aimless but couldn't explain why so I just rewrote it and blindly hoped, and they liked it but then production sucked again so I made it orchestral, and then the whole thing became synth instruments, which I kind afound bland but also it works well and I don't know what else to do. ANYWAY ENOUGH RAMBLING ABOUT USELESS FEEDBACK LETS GET TO THE SONG ITSELF A monody is essentially a dirge, except that it's not a dirge? It's dirgeish anyway. (fucking hell ost) This is like a funeral hymn for the White King, but the Dersite army is slaughtering all the Prospitians that try to mourn, so in the end the funeral ends up being held by some Dersites who aren't sympathetic to Prospit, but do respect tradition and politeness and etiquette and so on, so to compensate for it being a funeral for the enemy they make it all imposing and evil. (The Black King is too busy ending the world to notice.) You could sort of view it as a counterpart to [[track:broken-dreams]] on the SBURB OST, but focusing more on Derse's triumph than on Prospit's downfall. - <i><b>Wheals:</b></i> + <i>Wheals:</i> (album help) Jas posted a quite different original version of this art, showing a funeral procession of sorts for the king's impaled head, but replaced it with this even more impressive composition featuring a more dynamic posee and focused around a central Dersite. There was some disagreement on the discord server whether it looked better with or without the tree in the top left, which ended with the tree being put in at 8% transparency. Also johndave is a bad ship suck it viko --- @@ -2474,7 +2474,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>nights:</i> Another very nice track for the Alpha kids' medium, this time for LOTAK. Unlike my other art pieces on LoFaM, I used SAI for this instead of the usual MS Paint. It's a nice change of pace to be working with another art program. - <i><b>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</b></i> + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (album help) This is one of Ferkol's 3 tracks that were created for the planets of the alpha session. (In particular, this was created for Dirk's planet: The Land of Tombs and Krypton.) Although this song never saw an official release, now you can enjoy it here, on Land of Fans and Music 4. Or on Ferkol's soundcloud. You can also listen to this song on Ferkol's soundtrack. Starting off with simple choir alongside plucked strings, this piece builds up slightly, before letting a synthesizer take us deeper, as if we are descending onto the surface of Dirk's planet. As the piece continues, more and more electronic instruments come in, as the landscape becomes harsher and harsher. Yet, throughout it all, the strings remain steadfast. --- @@ -2539,7 +2539,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>dodostad:</i> I was just trying to capture Aradia to the sweet tunes of the song! - <i><b>keyboard cait:</b></i> + <i>keyboard cait:</i> (album team) Chrono Trigger is a great game. Corridors of Time is a great song. Crystalanthemums is also a great song. Any questions? --- Track: Black Hole / White Door @@ -2576,7 +2576,7 @@ Commentary: |- This track was assigned to me after the original artist dropped out. I decided to further extend the image formed of [[Crystalendofgames]]' and [[Ultimate Alchemy]]'s track illustrations after several people expressed assent when I aired the idea on the LoFaM server. <img src="media/misc/circlejourney-lofam4-bonus.png" width="500"> While brainstorming illustration concepts, I immediately ot attached to the idea of an image of the victory platform gang silhouetted in the light of the Sburb logo, and went with it. It's a shame that this scene is physically impossible due to the clouds being higher than the victory platform, but the picture looks far too plain without them. - <i><b>Kal-la-kal-la:</b></i> + <i>Kal-la-kal-la:</i> (album help) The final boss is beaten. The game is won. The lights fade and the world begins to disappear. A gaping maw drags all into it, even the very fabric of reality. In the distance, a door opens. --- Track: Strife Mayhem @@ -2665,9 +2665,9 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:moonsetter - Mad About the Boy Commentary: |- - <i><b>Grace Medley:</b></i> + <i>Grace Medley:</i> (album help) Cement City doesn't normally do music like this, so hearing Toby Fox's Moonsetter remixed into a laid-back, yet high energy neopsychedelic piece is a blast of fresh air, especially for someone like myself, who practically grew up listening to experimental electronic music. Despite the track's simplicity, it somehow succeeds in pulling off an atmosphere all of its own, and makes one of Toby's catchiest tunes even catchier. - <i><b>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</b></i> + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (album help) Honestly, the head of an ogre doesn't sound like the most comfortable chair to me, but evidently, the Striders disagree. I guess they're too... cool... --- Track: Exsanguinated @@ -2685,7 +2685,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>Seijen:</i> Time and time again I make a drum and bass song and im never satisfied with the drum mix. Like the time befoe and that time before. The snare is powerful but the kicks are never too prominent without being overtly compressed. Its always the same as the last time. But this track was a little different, instead I said "ooh that was horrible" because like the time before the kicks never seem to be enough. Its just the same as the last time. But those basses though. so ill. I feel sick now. Just like that time I ate at that Chinese place. I got sick there the time before but that was a year before. "Oh that was so gross" I uttered after taking my first bite of that gen. tso chicken. It was just the same as the last time. - <i><b>Kal-la-kal-la:</b></i> + <i>Kal-la-kal-la:</i> (album help) The concept of vampires has existed for millennia. There seems to be a split amongst modern depictions between vampires as grotesque being and vampires as alluring and beautiful. Exsanguinated, with its vocal samples describing disgust, expresses this, and the track art displays the dichotomy well, depicting a very beautiful Kanaya Maryam with blood in all the colours of the rainbow dripping from her mouth. Were it that Homestuck neurofunk should have a particular aesthetic sensibility, it would be bloodied rainbow-drinkers. --- Track: Premortem @@ -2750,7 +2750,7 @@ Commentary: |- Ok, here's another fun fact then. The title of the song is a play on the FreshJamz player which has the fruits on its interface, the Homestuck song [[Hauntjam]], actual fruit jam, and the fact that it is a song (i.e. "jam") about fruits. Neat! <i>sweetjegus:</i> Open your heart to the fruity embrace of Apple Girlington! I have the fondest memories of Jade's fruit mishaps back in Act 3 and a soft spot for fun and twangy tracks, so Fruitjam was the perfect storm. Her outfit is drawn from cubewatermelon's absolutely adorable APple Girlington design, and I've kept to the Touhou art tradition of contorted angles within a dramatic flying object vortex - but updated, now, for a lurid fever dream ft. the chlorine-headed personification of an apple. - <i><b>Lambda Bledsoe:</b></i> + <i>Lambda Bledsoe:</i> (album organizer) she says lofam team but this song is mark's and my fault <hr> <b>References:</B> @@ -2850,7 +2850,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>ostrichlittledungeon:</i> God, this was so much work. Oh yeah, and I lost the first half of the project file towards the end so I couldn't go back and edit it. Ugh. But all in all, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. The original plan was to go through the CANMT discography and pick the most iconic songs over time. If you're unfamiliar with its discography, I highly recommend you at least [[group:canmt|go give it a glance]]. I roughly settled on using Cascante, Tick/Tock, Fruity Pebbles Redux, Gunshow, Rex Mille Geromius, Doctor and Penumbra Phantasm (cool and new vol V), Contra (from Cool and New Homestuck), Moshi Moshi, Final Confrontation, Unintentional Touhou, In the Beginning/Contact, Formation, Jungle #3, Muse of Nanchos, Flintstones, Gunshow 2, and of course, the RCT theme and Bowman's credit score. Shoutouts to difarem for making the "it's between my buttocks" vocaloid for me. Revisit/Rewind, which is based heavily on Ascend, was released as the Cool and New Homestuck song for [S] Credits. - <i><b>Wheals:</b></i> + <i>Wheals:</i> (album help) This art was made in like five hours on Christmas 2016 when i yelled at nights to make some John/Aradia art for Revisit/Rewind (it being based off Ascend, with its iconic John/Aradia art). That's basically the plot of The Christmas Carol and by writing this seven months later I'm now the Ghost of Christmas Future. I'll let Past Nights (the Ghost of Christmas Past) fill you in on the rest: <i>nights:</i> <img src="media/misc/nights-revisit-rewind.png" width="435"> @@ -2924,7 +2924,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>PatManDX:</i> RND and I used to collaborate on projects years ago so we've become very familiar with the other's work. When I first heard this track, back about 3 years ago, I knew I had to do the art for it. The song felt very grand and frenetic, while giving a sense of regality and awe, so I did my best to capture those feelings into the track art. I knew that I had to put in the White King as the main focus on the picture, since the song is a remix to a certain other song. There is a great emphasis on texture and desaturated colors, to help make the piece feel almost ilke a worn tapestry. I added a bloom filter to add to this effect. - <i><b>Kal-la-kal-la:</b></i> + <i>Kal-la-kal-la:</i> (album help) <i>Musing upon the king and my brother's wreck, and upon the king my father's death before him. White bodies naked on the low damp ground, and bones cast in a little low dry garret, rattled by the rat's foot only, year to year.</i> A rhythmic, galloping reel brings to mind our lost monarchs. --- @@ -2966,6 +2966,6 @@ Lyrics: >- Commentary: |- <i>Sam Garcia:</i> This song is about the beta kids so i drew them like if they were in a cd/disc. I did it like that because the transitions between different moments of the song reminded me of a movie or song playing. So basically i drew this how i thought a cd for hoemstuck would kind of look like. - <i><b>keyboard cait:</b></i> + <i>keyboard cait:</i> (album team) There were a few possible choices for the last track on this truly HUGE album, but none quite felt so conclusive or right as Astartus' contribution. After mood highs and mood lows, thrills and relaxations, we get to cap it all off with a spectacular victory sequence for our original kids and the game they played. And we are all so, so, so proud of them. Bless you, Beta Kids. We'll see you on the flipside. P.S. If you don't know what spectograms are... now would be a useful time to learn. diff --git a/album/lofam5.yaml b/album/lofam5.yaml index 528c9f1..50ae779 100644 --- a/album/lofam5.yaml +++ b/album/lofam5.yaml @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Firefly Cloud Commentary: |- - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) As always, Astro Kid manages to turn any track into a rave-worthy bop, no matter how melancholic the original is. This used to be a lost track, and I might have never heard it if Rafe Saltman hadn't reuploaded it on Youtube, so he deserves our thanks. This art piece was actually inspired by the track a few months after it was made, so I contacted the artist to finally make it official, half a decade later. --- Track: Urban Jungle @@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:climbing-to-infinity - Endless Climb Commentary: |- - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) This track originates from CANWAVE 3, a vaporwave album for the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team]]. Yes, we cursed the world with three of them, but it was all worth it if only for this SplitSuns track. For the less leitmotif-aware, this is a take on [[Endless Climb]] by [[artist:buzinkai]]. Rest in peace. --- Track: Pipe Dream @@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Black Commentary: |- - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) The art for this track is actually <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okTNlwSViX8">a video</a>, so I had to combine a few frames into one, but you can probably get the gist. Damn it Bandcamp, add APNG support already. --- Track: Dance of Entropy @@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ Art Tags: - Vriska - Felt Manor Commentary: |- - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) I believe this time it's best to let the art speak for itself. --- Track: King Crab @@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Crustacean Commentary: |- - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) Damn did you know this track references "[[Crustacean]]" by [[group:toby-fox|Toby "Radiation" Fox]]??? --- Track: ALIVE @@ -794,7 +794,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Go, go, go, go! Go, go, go, go! Commentary: |- - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) When I first heard the original version of the song, I didn't immediately think dubstep would be a good fit, but I think [[artist:cement-city]] has proved us all wrong. --- Track: Rex Duodecim Angelus (Remix) @@ -813,7 +813,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Rex Duodecim Angelus - Black Commentary: |- - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) Artisticpolo is a legendary remixer, hailing from the very beginnings of the Homestuck fanmusic scene. Tracking him down proved to be one of the best decisions we could have made. Stay tuned for [[track:time-running-by|another track]] of his in this album! <i>Gryotharian:</i> It's hard to make a design like the unprototyped black king seem threatening. @@ -834,7 +834,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Pondsquatter Commentary: |- - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) This is actually the full version of an asset used for the fanventure "Karkat Goes to a Convention", which I wholeheartedly recommend. This amazing art by Radical Dude 42, an expert in the original MSPA style, suggests the fanventure's title might be selling it short... --- Track: At the Threshold @@ -1039,7 +1039,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Five-Four Stress - Apexhalation Commentary: |- - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) Do you know the track "[[Stress]]" from [[album:homestuck-vol-9|Homestuck Volume 9]]? It was based on an [[Five-Four Stress|ancient unreleased track]] by the legendary [[artist:buzinkai]], and TirantBacon and WarxTron put their music making hands together to the task of remixing the original once more. <i>Monckat:</i> Dirk finds himself in a mildly spooky, straining situation deep in the depths of the Land of Tombs and Krypton. @@ -1145,7 +1145,7 @@ Art Tags: - Horrorterrors - Sans Commentary: |- - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) Originally known as "you have got to be SHITTONG me (temp title)". No further commentary. <i>Monckat:</i> I really wasn't sure what to draw for this one at first, and I'm not sure it's even possible to capture everything going on here in a single image. But hey, I think any piece of art that contains a watermark of Sans WV superimposed over a pumpkin-guzzling black hole can't be too bad. @@ -1333,7 +1333,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Sampled Tracks: - Schala's Theme Commentary: |- - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) There's a Homestuck continuation fanventure named "[[album:act-8-volume-1|Act 8]]", and this amazing track scored part of it! You can <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS9p2gD_Ou4">check it out here</a>. --- Track: Sburban City @@ -1382,7 +1382,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>repeatedScales:</i> Oh boy. I feel the best way to justify this mix of the song's entire existence is with the following; the original [[Gold Mage]] had a very barren and empty arrangement, designed to facilitate a vocal track that never actually got made, and though the lack of vocals probably helped it make [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|coloUrs & mayhem Vol. 1]] in the long run, a lot of people picked up on how empty the song felt. This mix was kind of my way of making up for that, but in the process I created the opposite problem of having TOO MUCH going on, especially in that first 'verse' section. Oh dear god, that first 'verse' section; I am baffled as to how I could possibly have thought that sounded good at the time. Technically speaking the cutting and looping on that guitar sample is very well done, but it doesn't work with the vibe of the beat, and it REALLY doesn't work with the bassline. The second 'verse' isn't much better, in that itself it's a nice chilled out rework of elements from the original, but it jars with the rest of the "GET PUMPED" vibe the tracks got going on. Also, man oh man, [[group:toby-fox|Toby Fox]] felt the solo from the end of the original song was boring; the solo on this song is utterly lifeless. It can barely be called a solo. Ok, ok, some positives; though the chorus is somewhat cluttered, I do like how punchy the chords sound using a more typical "rave stab" type sound (hell, in general the synth stabs on the cut are often the better elements), the stock sawtooth bass synth actually works quite nice with the bassline, and though it gets buried in a lot of the mix, the main drum machine beat over the 'verses' and the solo is actually quite punchy, and has a real late 90s game soundtrack vibe to it that I like. The original is definitely the better version of the song in the long run, though. - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) This amazing redux version of the [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|Colours and Mayhem: Universe A]] track was hidden away in the musician's <a href="https://103records.bandcamp.com/">bandcamp</a>, known to few. It's time it saw the light of the mainstream and knocked your socks off. --- Track: Black ($C4RL3TT Remix) @@ -1565,7 +1565,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Beatdown (Strider Style) - Sunsetter Commentary: |- - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) I remember looping this track over and over back in 2011, and Kanishka helped me get back in touch with the musician. There's something about it that brings the Homestuck Act 4 feelings back, like how a Faygo smell can bring you back to your amazing and smelly experience at the 2009 "Clown Killaz" Insane Clown Posse concert. <i>Gryotharian:</i> Sorry he's not running. Just standing there. Give him a break, it's hard to run on a clock. @@ -1582,7 +1582,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Rose Commentary: |- - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) This track art actually depicts Rose in her Lord of Space outfit from [[group:canmt|Cool and New Web Comic]], since this track originates there. I cropped it a bit to not blow people's minds too much. Wait, what is that drop OH MY GOD --- Track: '[S] ==>' @@ -1851,5 +1851,5 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Gryotharian:</i> Decided if this was going to be the last LOFAM album, it needed a good closing track. Not a full huge song (that honor definitely goes to and belongs to [[track:ophiuchus-full-suite-lofam5|Ophiuchus]]), just like a short little thing, the last few notes for the fandom, to wrap everything up. I think I went for a more hopeful tone, that maybe this won't be the end for homestuck's era on the internet. Maybe in another 4 years there'll be another album. Personally, I doubt it, I think the song I made is more hopeful than I am. But who knows. Maybe. - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) [[album:lofam5a2|4 years is quitter talk.]] diff --git a/album/lofam5a2.yaml b/album/lofam5a2.yaml index 85f277c..a33a1f2 100644 --- a/album/lofam5a2.yaml +++ b/album/lofam5a2.yaml @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>nononimo:</i> old-ish remix of sunslammer i thought i lost on my old hard drive that drowned but i found a wav of it on my google drive so it is saved :) - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) "Breakbeat" and especially "Breakcore" sound like names of Homestuck fan-adventures after all the good names have been taken. That adventure would sadly never get past the introduction of the third kid, entering a hiatus after he captchalogues the hair gel used to maintain his 2000-style frosted tips. That guy might sound very unlike you and me, but I bet he would love this song, as you're about to. --- Track: Duet @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Dirk Commentary : |- - <i>Grace Medley:</i> + <i>Grace Medley:</i> (album management) How’s about that Dirk guy, huh? Between this, [[album:homestuck-vol-9|Vol. 9’s]] [[track:sweet-dreams-timaeus|Sweet Dreams, Timaeus]], [[album:lofam4|LOFAM4’s]] [[track:tragic-heights|Tragic Heights]], and the never-released Hello, My Name Is Hal, Ferkol’s sculpted out a one-of-a-kind musical identity for this brooding dude. <i>Monckat:</i> @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ URLs: Cover Artists: - Nodls Commentary: |- - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) This art was originally used to score the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH65pNyM2Pw">[S] Mika: Souviens-toi</a> animation in the french fanventure <a href="https://discord.gg/hV3s6dXEuX">Heaven;Sent</a>. --- Track: Slow Dancing in the Clockwork Hall @@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Magical Hopalong Cassidy Station - Spear of Justice Commentary: |- - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) As with all of subversiveasset’s covers, there’s a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APzFKEufjUw">pretty good music video on YouTube</a> <i>subversiveasset:</i> @@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - track:awakening-la-mulana Commentary: |- - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) This initially foreboding and soon rave-y track was used to score the fanventure <a href="https://mspfa.com/?s=1032">Hexane</a>, specifically <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9lVuJTuOkw">[S] Viy: Rise Up</a>, a climactic moment of the endgame. And yes, that motif is from La-Mulana (play it). <i>Horizonseek Studios:</i> @@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Concerning Hobbits - track:the-council-of-elrond Commentary: |- - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) This track came from a ten year old shitpost by Alex and <a href="https://walliard.tumblr.com/post/40310450692/electricwestern-s-bilbo-dont-go-on-any">electricwestern</a> simply titled *[S] Bilbo: Don't go on any adventures*, which I think sums it up, really. <small>actually it references specific leitmotifs for the Shire and the Fellowship that first get fully developed in the tracks above. the LOTR soundtrack is a mess and we have not developed the crediting technology to properly address the problem pls help</small> @@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ Commentary: |- Endless Space isn’t technically a homestuck track, but my absurd, speculative and totally unconfirmable theory is that when Mr. Lunes was tossing wavs into his Vol. 5 submission folder he intended to submit Endless Space but mixed up the file names and put [[track:endless-heart|Endless Heart]] in instead. I have zero evidence for this. - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) <img src="media/misc/lofam5a2bullshit.jpg" width="150"><br> <br> @@ -677,7 +677,7 @@ Lyrics: |- SQUAWK LIKE AN IMBECILE AND SHIT ON YOUR DESK S-S-S-SQUAWK LIKE AN IMBECILE AND SHIT ON YOUR DE— (No!) Commentary: |- - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) You can <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbtS8RiPkds">play this amazing and hilarious track</a> in more than one way. <i>Doribun:</i> @@ -957,7 +957,7 @@ Commentary: |- In a way, I consider these passages as my swan song to Homestuck fan music; if not a farewell, then a goodbye for now, showcasing everything I've learned from making music in this sphere over so many years. Leave it to Grace to take me out of semi-retirement for one last hurrah. I am immensely proud of all the work we accomplished over the last year to make this happen. I sincerely hope you enjoy this song, all we've done, and all we'll continue to do. Thanks for listening. - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) Sorry, I have nothing to do with this, but I bet he’ll be back in 5 LOFAMinutes. <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> @@ -1251,7 +1251,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Dirk Commentary: |- - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) You didn’t like Ferkol’s [[track:dictator|previous Dirk track in this album]]? Well, deal with it, here’s another one. That guy just won’t stop showing up in unexpected sequels. By the way, yes, this is a visual reference to the cover of “[[track:sweet-dreams-timaeus|Sweet Dreams, Timaeus]]” from [[album:homestuck-vol-9|Homestuck Vol. 9]]. @@ -2586,7 +2586,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Gardener - Courser Commentary: |- - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) I designed this album’s track order. Mostly I based it on secret subliminal messages I received from the lyrics of “[[track:im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew|I’m a Member of the Midnight Crew]]” (long story). For this span of four tracks, though, there’s actually some ludoaudionarratively harmonic environmental storytelling going on. “Frost and Frogs” -> <span style="font-family: comic sans ms, courier, courier new">“dog”</span> -> “Arf!” -> ... --- Track: Frog Eater @@ -2605,7 +2605,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Swagazaki:</i> A track composed for some douchebag who ate the up-and-coming Genesis Frog of his session and thus doomed everyone in the process. - <i>Grace Medley:</i> + <i>Grace Medley:</i> (album management) Come on, kid, eat up. You’ve barely even touched your mutant god-frog. --- Track: Movement @@ -2725,7 +2725,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> On reading that the track is about progression through a SBURB session, I pictured all 4 beta kids in a sort of staircase composition, each representing a phase in their session's timeline. - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) <small>You’re welcome for that <span style="color: magenta; font-family: comic sans ms, courier, courier new">UNREAL AIR......</span></small> --- Track: Ultramagnetoparakineticrystalphotogrammetry @@ -2752,7 +2752,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Cosmoptera:</i> Crystalanthemums (and its various derivatives) are songs that are very near and dear to my heart. In all honesty, though, the reason I wanted to make a remix of this track was so I could come up with an extremely funny name. - <i>Grace Medley:</i> + <i>Grace Medley:</i> (album management) We first hear Crystalanthemums in the [[flash:830|FreshJamz flash]], which showcases all the music the kids have collaborated on. Fittingly, Artatruc’s track art reflects the constant collaboration among the kids in the early acts. Also it’s just a really sweet image and I love it. --- Track: Serendipitous Strife @@ -2859,7 +2859,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Tee-vee:</i> Woah hey I didn't submit that! :o Anyway this is more than three years old now, so now I see a lot of things I could have done better or entirely differently but overall I'm still very happy with this section, there are lots of ideas I'm glad I came up with. Check out [[album:theres-no-place-like-home|the full album/medley]] on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh0YkQn_zLU">Youtube</a> or <a href="https://teeveemusic.bandcamp.com/album/theres-no-place-like-home-a-homestuck-prog-rock-medley">Bandcamp</a> if you enjoyed this! - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) Unfortunately this album was already 6 hours long, so I nominated only this small part of it. Do check out the full medley! <i>Monckat:</i> @@ -2914,7 +2914,7 @@ Commentary: |- Special thanks to [[artist:grace-medley|Grace]] and [[artist:ucklin|Ucklin]] for motivating me to turn a simple arrangement into a full poem! - <i>Niklink:</i> + <i>Niklink:</i> (provider of good ideas) 'i have an idea how you can make this art fast and without a lot of effort' 'good idea let's do that' \*makes it take up a lot of time and work* <i>Torrent 64:</i> @@ -3323,5 +3323,5 @@ Lyrics: |- (The craters are all rounded off. There's quite a few of them, some of them are newer. Many of them look like - especially the round ones - look like hit by meteorites or projectiles of some sort.) Commentary: |- - <i>Makin:</i> + <i>Makin:</i> (album management) I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Stuck, is in fact, Home / Stuck, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Home plus Stuck. Stuck is not a song upon itself, but rather another movement of a fully produced track made useful by the Home corelyrics, themes and vital leitmotifs comprising a full submission as defined by [[group:unofficial-mspa-fans|UMSPAF]]. diff --git a/album/moons-of-theseus.yaml b/album/moons-of-theseus.yaml index 394e5ba..d71f07f 100644 --- a/album/moons-of-theseus.yaml +++ b/album/moons-of-theseus.yaml @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - The Deeper You Go - Got It? Commentary: |- - <i>Jaspy:</i> + <i>koba:</i> i made this song cuz the new window is cool and you know what would be cooler? adding more cool songs to it please nintendo give me animal crossing switch at e3 PLEASE --- @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Ucklin:</i> I guess all 80s music sounds like MTaHK... - <b><i>SplitSuns:</i></b> + <i>SplitSuns:</i> (UMSPAF manager) Ucklin, you are an absolute legend for making this cover. <i>piskomil:</i> With the instruction: "Something like Hadron singing passionately into a microphone while Mobius plays a weird looking saxophone, or whatever." I have set to work on this overcomplicated masterpiece, adding more and more clutter until I have reached the ultimate concert effect. diff --git a/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml b/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml index 4c4efc4..27e1dfd 100644 --- a/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml +++ b/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml @@ -847,7 +847,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Sampled Tracks: - The Sock Ruse Commentary: |- - <i>Circlejourney:</i> + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (wrote [[The Light's Rebellion]]) so I just had a memory hit me out of nowhere - me and [[artist:serialsymphony|serialsymphony]] discussed quoting each other's tracks reciprocally back when Dave Strider's Cool Mixtape was meant to be on [[album:cosmic-caretakers]]. i.e. this track does reference [[track:the-lights-rebellion|The Light's Rebellion]] at 2:56 we both made the front half of our tracks, and then traded motifs in the back half, so it really is a reciprocal reference sorry for your ears @ anyone who listens through this to confirm its existence diff --git a/album/one-year-older.yaml b/album/one-year-older.yaml index 1cf5bf7..a94133e 100644 --- a/album/one-year-older.yaml +++ b/album/one-year-older.yaml @@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Another Chance - Unknown (piano).mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Erik Scheele:</i> + <i>Erik Scheele:</i> (album artist) BONUS TRACK TIME! But since I didn't make this one, I'm not going to talk over it, I'm going to turn this over to Eston for his commentary. So here's Eston: <i>Eston Schweickart:</i> - Like most of this album, it was made over a year before release @@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ Commentary: |- - I spent longer writing and producing this piece than any other finished song I've worked on (~5 months) - I took cues from Jit's style of orchestral instruments accompanying synths reminiscent of chiptunes, and though it is largely a re-imagining of Walk-Stab-Walk, I included subtle tips of the hat to his other early works - Yes good that sounded sufficiently pretentious - <i>Erik Scheele:</i> + <i>Erik Scheele:</i> (album artist) Eston is the coolest of bros and makes sick music. But in a good way, not like sick with the flu or whatever. If you want to check out more of his stuff, and you should, you can visit his blog at <a href="https://siasinsilence.tumblr.com/">siasinsilence.tumblr.com</a>. --- Track: Under The Hat diff --git a/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml b/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml index 9641b53..b61c58d 100644 --- a/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml +++ b/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml @@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ Lyrics: |- So far away from me So far away from me Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (Stutzman scholar) Because he is far too much of a threat to national security to be allowed to start his own Tumblr, I feel obligated to tell you about this masterpiece by my old pal Scott Stutzman. For the final project of Scott's music production class, he and his classmates were roped into recording and producing a song from start to finish. For whatever reason it was decided that it would be a collaboration between the whole class and everyone would turn in their own mix. The professor decided to allow the class to decide as a group what the genre would be and whose song they would use. diff --git a/album/sburb-ost.yaml b/album/sburb-ost.yaml index 7a4cf79..b1b14a1 100644 --- a/album/sburb-ost.yaml +++ b/album/sburb-ost.yaml @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ Commentary: |- Support this album as all the other artists are incredible people. (Tips hat to Brad) - <i>Brad Griffin:</i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) [*Brad tips his hat back!*] <i>RunDoubleRun:</i> @@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ Cover Art File Extension: png Art Tags: - Underlings Commentary: |- - <i>Brad Griffin:</i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) [James did not send me<br> commentary for this track<br> so here's a haiku!] @@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Traikan:</i> I had that G, G#, B motive stuck in my head for a long time, and I knew I wanted to use it for a desert song, so when I saw "Years in the future" I jumped at the chance to put it into play. The latter half of the song is scavenged from an older piece, that never saw the light of day. Texturally, acoustic guitars, high strings, droning pads, and a bit of brass all make me think "DESERT." The scale does most of the also desert themed, work establishing that, though. I wanted the song to be upbeat and include two parts. The first serves as a "conversation theme" to be played when the exiles are communicating with the players and "exile action" which, is unlikely to be heard by a player, but would accompany something more intense happening years in the future. - <i>Brad Griffin:</i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) [YEARS IN THE FUTURE...<br> A ramshackle wanderer<br> ...finds a giant book?] @@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Underlings Commentary: |- - <i>Brad Griffin:</i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) [Hope you've leveled up<br> This guy doesn't mess around<br> but he makes a mess!] @@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Consorts Commentary: |- - <i>Brad Griffin:</i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) [Let's just take a sec<br> to appreciate that cow.<br> It's adorable!] @@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Eston Schweickart:</i> [[artist:yan-rodriguez|Nucleose]] and I are good pals, so we collaborated on this piece. We decided to compose a theme for first encountering a denizen (but not fighting it!). We agreed that it should be cinematic and ominous, and perhaps switch moods throughout, to accompany a theoretical cutscene featuring a dialogue between the player and the denizen. Within a day, [[artist:yan-rodriguez|Nucleose]] had hammered out the main theme on piano, which I then set about to arrange for full orchestra and electronics. I emerged nearly 6 months later, scarred from many bloody battles with the demons of procrastination, with a song called Waking the Beast (a title that I settled on months before Eidolon Orpheus' [[track:bargaining-with-the-beast]] was released). Though [[artist:yan-rodriguez|Nucleose]] would claim that he had almost no hand in the finished product, I incorporated (read: stole) many elements that are common in his music: uncommon meter, Phrygian mode, numerous gradual tempo changes, etc. SO THERE, YAN. - <i>Brad Griffin:</i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) [It begs the question...<br> How zen is a denizen<br> when it's in a den?] @@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ URLs: Cover Artists: - melodiousDiscord Commentary: |- - <i>Brad Griffin:</i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) [SKAIA•NET PATCH NOTES:<br> ADDED SAVE POINTS TO ALL LANDS.<br> LOAD POINTS COMING SOON.] @@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Veritas Unae:</i> These [[track:lavender-lullaby|two lulling lullabies]] were rather fun to write... I wrote the Prospit lullaby before writing the [[track:on-golden-dreams|Prospit song]] itself, so linearly it inspired part of the Prospit theme... As such they're short and relaxing, but with a little twist at the end. - <i>Brad Griffin:</i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) [These songs remind me<br> ...<br> Time for bed, goodnight!] @@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Veritas Unae:</i> These [[track:lulling-lutescent|two lulling lullabies]] were rather fun to write, especially Derse's, which used a small refrain from [[track:planet-in-shadow|Konec0's Derse theme]]... These short instances would play, similar to the one that was played as Doomed Rose fell asleep and merged with the Alpha Rose... - <i>Brad Griffin:</i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) [...<br> I should not be up this late.<br> Time for bed, goodnight!] @@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Catboss:</i> <i>He awakens with a start. The first thing he notices is the throbbing headache. He feels groggy, and his entire body feels heavy, as if he's been sleeping for ages, so long it's forgotten how to move. There's something in the back of his head, something that sounds like white noise, or static, or strange whispers. He dismisses them for the moment; it's probably the headache talking, he thinks. The second thing he notices, as he forces himself to sit up, is how everything is purple. The walls of his room are lined with violet and indigo, and even his sheets and his pajamas (he didn't remember putting these on before going to sleep; heck, he didn't even remember having them) are similar shades. This must be a dream, he thinks, and yet he is unable to shake the feeling that this is terribly, frighteningly real. The third thing he notices is how dark and quiet it is. Faint light streams in through the window, from a blue planet far away. It's thin and wispy, as if shining from behind a veil. The eerie silence makes his skin crawl. He strides over to the window, and looks up, towards the endless void. There is nothing there, and yet it beckons him, and he is nearly compelled to leap into the abyss. Tearing his gaze away from the vast nothingness, he peers downwards instead - and there it is, stretching out before him in all its glory: Derse, the planet in shadow.</i> - <i>Brad Griffin:</i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) [Planet in Shadow?<br> With all that purple, more like<br> Planet of the Grapes] @@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Fuzz:</i> I have always been keen to experiment with soundscapes. Essentially this piece is just one giant soundscape with a melody. The goal i had was to create something which would be intense enough to feel horrific without being goofy or cheesy. In essence i feel this expresses the nature of the horrorterrors accurately. - <i>Brad Griffin:</i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) [H͏ ͘ E̶ ̡ Y̕ ҉҉̡ T̨ H͢ ͝ E̢ RE҉̢ ҉ ͢ L͝ I͡ T̢ T̨ ͢ ĹE ̡ F̷ ҉R̢ Į͝ ̕ E̷ ͠ N͏ ҉D̵<br> ́H̶ ̛ O̡ W̷ WO͏ U͞ ĻD̡ ̵ ҉Y̛ O͘ ͜ U͞ ͞ L̕ Į̵ ͠ K҉E͝ T͞ Ớ͠ ͡ H͏ U͞ G̢ ̕ ̧ A͏ ŅḐ <br> B͟ E͟ ͜ ͝ T̀ ͟ A̕ N҉͠ G̛ L͜ ͞ E̴ ͏ B̢ ͠ Ù̶ ͘ D̸ D͘ I͡ ̶ ES͟ ͞ ]̸ @@ -685,7 +685,7 @@ URLs: Cover Artists: - Phosphorescence Commentary: |- - <i>Brad Griffin:</i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) [Paradox parents<br> stealing slime from other times<br> Infinite infants.] @@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Battlefield Commentary: |- - <i>Brad Griffin:</i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) [The end of the world<br> Spacey stones seeding stations<br> ...and also babies] @@ -923,7 +923,7 @@ Commentary: |- Track: The Will to Fight Further [Denizen Strife] Directory: the-will-to-fight-further Artists: -- Marcy Nabors +- Kevin Grant - Catboss Duration: '5:08' URLs: @@ -1081,7 +1081,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Tarranon:</i> <i>A universe is born anew - a starry expanse of which one might catch only a vivid glimpse. Grandiose and immense beyond all rationality, the Genesis Frog bears the creation of a new reality within.</i> - <i>Brad Griffin:</i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) [Universal frog!<br> I bet it's quite slippery...<br> ..cuz it's Slick. Get it?] @@ -1278,7 +1278,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Earth Commentary: |- - <i>Brad Griffin:</i> + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) [.....<br> .......<br> .....] diff --git a/album/sburban-neighborhood.yaml b/album/sburban-neighborhood.yaml index 1a7ade7..35b7a56 100644 --- a/album/sburban-neighborhood.yaml +++ b/album/sburban-neighborhood.yaml @@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:penumbra-phantasm - track:terexi Commentary: |- - <i>YoItsCro:</i> + <i>YoItsCro:</i> (album organizer) Featuring 40 references and motifs! --- Section: Bonus tracks diff --git a/album/songs-of-rivervale.yaml b/album/songs-of-rivervale.yaml index 82ad58e..f6bf034 100644 --- a/album/songs-of-rivervale.yaml +++ b/album/songs-of-rivervale.yaml @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Duration: '04:35' URLs: - https://cloudfactorycomics.bandcamp.com/track/rivervale Commentary: |- - <i>Lexxy:</i> + <i>Lexxy:</i> (comic author) The story begins. --- Track: Cat About Town @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Duration: '02:19' URLs: - https://cloudfactorycomics.bandcamp.com/track/cat-about-town Commentary: |- - <i>Lexxy:</i> + <i>Lexxy:</i> (comic author) Daisy goes for a walk. --- Track: Tinkersmith @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Duration: '05:22' URLs: - https://cloudfactorycomics.bandcamp.com/track/tinkersmith Commentary: |- - <i>Lexxy:</i> + <i>Lexxy:</i> (comic author) Théo is most at home in his workshop, surrounded by gadgets and spare parts. --- Track: Dreaming of Adventure @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Duration: '02:05' URLs: - https://cloudfactorycomics.bandcamp.com/track/dreaming-of-adventure Commentary: |- - <i>Lexxy:</i> + <i>Lexxy:</i> (comic author) Rufus Laforge reminisces about the past and the life he might have led. --- Track: Millbrooke's @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Duration: '02:18' URLs: - https://cloudfactorycomics.bandcamp.com/track/millbrookes Commentary: |- - <i>Lexxy:</i> + <i>Lexxy:</i> (comic author) Millbrooke's is the arcane apothecary owned by Molly's parents, offering a broad selection of natural and magical remedies. --- Track: Harvest Waltz @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Duration: '02:56' URLs: - https://cloudfactorycomics.bandcamp.com/track/harvest-waltz Commentary: |- - <i>Lexxy:</i> + <i>Lexxy:</i> (comic author) The Harvest Festival is celebrated valley-wide. Children dress up as their favorite hero or folkloric creature, and small offerings from the fall's harvest are laid out at the hearth as an offering to the old spirits of the earth. --- Track: The Tinker's Journey @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ Duration: '04:25' URLs: - https://cloudfactorycomics.bandcamp.com/track/the-tinkers-journey Commentary: |- - <i>Lexxy:</i> + <i>Lexxy:</i> (comic author) Théo sets out to uncover the mysteries of the Cloud Factory and save the valley. --- Track: Lakeside @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Duration: '03:24' URLs: - https://cloudfactorycomics.bandcamp.com/track/lakeside Commentary: |- - <i>Lexxy:</i> + <i>Lexxy:</i> (comic author) The capital city of Rivervale. --- Track: Newfound Determination @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ Duration: '01:44' URLs: - https://cloudfactorycomics.bandcamp.com/track/newfound-determination Commentary: |- - <i>Lexxy:</i> + <i>Lexxy:</i> (comic author) Left behind, Molly endeavors to make a difference in her own way. --- Track: Silk and Linen @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ Duration: '02:06' URLs: - https://cloudfactorycomics.bandcamp.com/track/silk-and-linen Commentary: |- - <i>Lexxy:</i> + <i>Lexxy:</i> (comic author) William and Penrose Na'Melorra --- Track: Dance of the Luna Bees @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ Duration: '02:09' URLs: - https://cloudfactorycomics.bandcamp.com/track/dance-of-the-luna-bees Commentary: |- - <i>Lexxy:</i> + <i>Lexxy:</i> (comic author) There is magic in the southern marshes. --- Track: The Garden @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ Duration: '01:54' URLs: - https://cloudfactorycomics.bandcamp.com/track/the-garden Commentary: |- - <i>Lexxy:</i> + <i>Lexxy:</i> (comic author) Dame Bellefleur's conservatory is both a practical greenhouse and an immaculately manicured haven from the grey and dismal outside world. --- Track: Delta Streets @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ Duration: '01:23' URLs: - https://cloudfactorycomics.bandcamp.com/track/delta-streets Commentary: |- - <i>Lexxy:</i> + <i>Lexxy:</i> (comic author) Delta City is a massive metropolis to the west of Rivervale and the valley's single greatest trade partner. Molly lived there with her parents for ten years before her sudden and mysterious return. --- Track: Puddle Jumping @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ Duration: '01:15' URLs: - https://cloudfactorycomics.bandcamp.com/track/puddle-jumping Commentary: |- - <i>Lexxy:</i> + <i>Lexxy:</i> (comic author) The perks of living somewhere wet. --- Track: The Witch's Quest @@ -139,5 +139,5 @@ Duration: '05:07' URLs: - https://cloudfactorycomics.bandcamp.com/track/the-witchs-quest Commentary: |- - <i>Lexxy:</i> + <i>Lexxy:</i> (comic author) Molly awakens the power within to protect her home and those she loves. diff --git a/album/xenoplanetarium.yaml b/album/xenoplanetarium.yaml index e5520c0..2c68c79 100644 --- a/album/xenoplanetarium.yaml +++ b/album/xenoplanetarium.yaml @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ Commentary: |- The atmosphere of sounds echoing off of the quartz all over Aradia's land informed how I wrote the entire song. I want to thank [[artist:keyboard-cait|ndividedbyzero]], Grace Medley, and everyone else for all of their help and advice on the song, as well as thanks to Nuclear for naming the song. (p.s. special thanks to psithurist for being so cool.) - <b><i>SplitSuns:</i></b> + <i>SplitSuns:</i> (album organizer) LOQAM has a very eerie atmosphere to it that is captured to amazing effect in this artwork. The jagged textures of quartz crystals provide a nice backdrop when paired with the howling, almost glowing sky. There's a ton of detail put into every area of this piece, and that's especially noticable in the Aradiabot occupying the left of the composition. Her damaged and decaying appearance helps to add to the unsettling nature of the piece. Aradia herself is also visible in the art as well. Isn't it a little weird that these two different versions of Aradia are in the same piece...? Then again, if there was ever to be a troll that showed up in two places at the same time, it's her. --- Track: Sandy Skyline @@ -106,10 +106,10 @@ Art Tags: - LoSaZ - Gate Commentary: |- - <b><i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i></b> + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (UMSPAF manager) Decisions must be made. Onward the world must turn. No one can truly understand how the wind blows its way into your heart. King you are not, young page. Even though she might try to be your queen, her manipulations will bring you only misery. Yes, you must attempt to carve your own path instead of having one make a path for you. Of course, you cannot do this. Love, though you possess it not, will be your undoing. Likely it is that you shall be utterly destroyed by your "queen". Inopportune this fate is, but do not let yourself become dejected. Embrace the breeze, and you will become greater than even she could have expected, far in both the past and the future. - <b><i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i></b> + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (UMSPAF manager) This piece by Roxy Scarf paints the scenery of Tavros's planet in very, very warm hues, capturing the desert-y atmosphere of the place quite well in this ghostwriter's opinion. You can also see one of the seven gates above Tavros's hive. --- Track: Deep Fried @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>ehlsea:</i> As I was writing this song, I wanted it to sound like a video game styled theme for the land. A pulsing beat drives the song with hazy pads and synths. - <b><i>SplitSuns:</i></b> + <i>SplitSuns:</i> (album organizer) LOPAH is home to an oppressive and bloody landscape, quite literally so. I mean, the oceans are legitimately made of blood. If that isn't metal I don't know what is. Anyway, this artwork conveys the hostility of stepping foot in such an environment masterfully, with the moody skies, foreboding architecture, and blood-rivers that cut into the terrain and seem to take up the entire canvas. There's great care taken into even the most minor aspects of the lighting so that the piece as a whole feels truly complete. The end result: a pretty cool-looking place, all things considered. Just try not to lose your footing; no one should have to experience being submerged in blood. --- Track: Oolongcat @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ Commentary: |- This song was created in less than a week after another artist left the project and took their LOLCAT song with them. (I never heard that one!) I started composing it with the little kalimba riff and added from there. I was excited to create a song using instruments that I actually play, and most of the song is acoustic - but time constraints proved to stop me from getting good ocarina takes for the lead, so I scrambled at the last minute to find a replacement and ended up using touch control erhu on my iPad! I wasn't and still am not completely satisfied with the melody, but I felt better about it after I incorporated a version mostly in the pentatonic scale along with the original version, which was then used as a development. I think my main inspirations for this song were the tea and Asian-looking mountains of Nepeta's land, as well as the "snowy" landscape. <i>TheChaoMaster:</i> This is painted in acrylic, as I was inspired to paint more after finishing my high school major work which also focused on backgrounds and landscapes. I thought it would be good to try my hand at a fantasy setting. Lolcat is a very cute land and is very bright so I incorporated both of those aspects into my piece. The acrylic paints also match the acoustic song. - <b><i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i></b> + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (UMSPAF manager) huzzah the nine kettle pots we<br>on sugar we rest on you see<br>friends of the cat<br>nothing wrong with that<br>now shut up and have some damn tea --- Track: Light Like Raindrops diff --git a/artists.yaml b/artists.yaml index edb1028..f6a2132 100644 --- a/artists.yaml +++ b/artists.yaml @@ -3036,8 +3036,6 @@ Artist: Jason Paige --- Artist: Jamie Christopherson --- -Artist: Jaspy ---- Artist: Jawbreaker --- Artist: Jazz Mickle diff --git a/static-page/changelog.yaml b/static-page/changelog.yaml index 2ad9560..072ccf6 100644 --- a/static-page/changelog.yaml +++ b/static-page/changelog.yaml @@ -29,11 +29,16 @@ Style: |- } Content: |- <h2 id="27-sep-2023"><a href="#27-sep-2023">[[date:27 September 2023]] - the fixes are IN</a></h2> + <h3>data changes</h3> + - added "(wiki editor)", "(team manager)", and similar annotations to various commentary across the wiki + - added [[artist:block-monster]], [[artist:leo60228]], and [[artist:terepy-pipes]] artist pages <h3>data & media fixes</h3> - restored original [[album:homestuck-vol-2]] track art for [[Showtime Remix]], [[Aggrieve Remix]], and [[Verdancy (Bassline)]] (thanks, Lilith!) - restored original panel-cropped artwork in commentary for [[track:miracles]] (thanks, Lilith!) - - fixed YouTube link for [[Sburban Reversal]] (thanks, Sgeo!) + - fixed [[track:the-will-to-fight-further]] being credited to [[artist:marcy-nabors]] instead of [[artist:kevin-grant]] - fixed [[track:fake-fruit-fiesta]] being credited to nobody, instead of [[artist:noisemaker]], and added art CWs + - fixed many typo'd or miscredited artist names in album commentary across the wiki + - fixed YouTube link for [[Sburban Reversal]] (thanks, Sgeo!) <h2 id="23-sep-2023"><a href="#23-sep-2023">[[date:23 September 2023]] - jerry's theme for deltarune ch. 7</a></h2> <h3>other additions</h3> |