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     alright time to make so shoutouts to the people who made this album possible.
 
-    Firstly, I would like to think [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos|PotatoBoss]] for having enough faith in me to do this album in the first place. Next, I would like all the artists who did the beautiful art for this album. The album wouldn't be anywhere near as good without their pieces and they all deserve a big pat on the back. I would also like to think [[artist:spad3s|Spades]] and the other music feedback lords for giving me really good feedback on every song on this album and tolerating my many pings. I want to thank fellow PMT musician, [[artist:chromaphasia|Chromaphasia]], for performing piano on [[track:a-life-worth-living|the last track]] on the album. Next, I want to give a very special thanks to [[artist:thomas-ferkol|Thomas "Eidolon" Ferkol]] for providing a MIDI for [[track:voidlight|"Voidlight"]] which is [[track:from-the-void|remixed]] on this album. I would also like to thank [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew Hussie]] for creating Homestuck and writing one of the most compelling characters in media. But most importantly, Thank YOU!!! for taking time to listen to my album.
+    Firstly, I would like to think [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos|PotatoBoss]] for having enough faith in me to do this album in the first place. Next, I would like all the artists who did the beautiful art for this album. The album wouldn't be anywhere near as good without their pieces and they all deserve a big pat on the back. I would also like to think [[artist:spad3s|Spades]] and the other music feedback lords for giving me really good feedback on every song on this album and tolerating my many pings. I want to thank fellow PMT musician, [[artist:chromaphasia|Chromaphasia]], for performing piano on [[track:a-life-worth-living|the last track]] on the album. Next, I want to give a very special thanks to [[artist:thomas-ferkol|Thomas "Eidolon" Ferkol]] for providing a MIDI for [["Voidlight"]] which is [[track:from-the-void|remixed]] on this album. I would also like to thank [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew Hussie]] for creating Homestuck and writing one of the most compelling characters in media. But most importantly, Thank YOU!!! for taking time to listen to my album.
 
     Without Further Ado, I present to you On The Rox.
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     <i>Rainy:</i> (booklet commentary)
 
-    So this song was my first attempt at writing synthwave and one of the earlier song i wrote for the album. Fans of [[album:beforusbound|Beforusbound]] may recognize this track as PB remixed it for his song [[track:trident-thief|"Trident Thief,"]] which was pretty cool because it was the first time one of my tracks was remixed. Anyway, I wanted to write a track that would fit for all the skaianet stuff the Roxy was involved with. I initially wanted to write a cool lo-fi track that would utilize windows start noises, but I scrapped that in favor learning how to write synthwave. I already talked about why I chose synthwave in the commentary for [[track:technostalgia|"Technostalgia"]] but I felt like synthwave was especially fitting for skaianet since it's essentially every evil corporation from 80's action films. The title "Through the Looking Glass" refers to the way roxy would use the fenestrated planes to travel from their lab and other places in their home. For a first attempt at a genre I wasn't familiar with I think I did pretty well.
+    So this song was my first attempt at writing synthwave and one of the earlier song i wrote for the album. Fans of [[album:beforusbound|Beforusbound]] may recognize this track as PB remixed it for his song [["Trident Thief,"]] which was pretty cool because it was the first time one of my tracks was remixed. Anyway, I wanted to write a track that would fit for all the skaianet stuff the Roxy was involved with. I initially wanted to write a cool lo-fi track that would utilize windows start noises, but I scrapped that in favor learning how to write synthwave. I already talked about why I chose synthwave in the commentary for [["Technostalgia"]] but I felt like synthwave was especially fitting for skaianet since it's essentially every evil corporation from 80's action films. The title "Through the Looking Glass" refers to the way roxy would use the fenestrated planes to travel from their lab and other places in their home. For a first attempt at a genre I wasn't familiar with I think I did pretty well.
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 Track: Broken Bottles, Broken Dreams
 Duration: 04:15
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     <i>Rainy:</i> (booklet commentary)
 
-    So everybody remembers [[flash:4486|[S]Sleepwalk]] right? Well I loved that flash cause it gave us an interesting introduction to main characters of act 6. When this album was being planned, this was one of the songs I just knew that i needed to do. In order to try and create a dreamy atmosphere, I utilized a shit-ton of effects and even went as far to create some of my own synths. I took a lot of influence from the track ["Resurrections"](https://radicaldreamland.bandcamp.com/track/resurrections) from the Celeste soundtrack. I really liked that song and tried to emulate a similar feel in this track. The song initially started as that little piano melody that you hear in the beginning of the album and slowly grew from there. Also fans of [[album:beforusbound|Beforusbound]] may notice that I used this melody in my song [[track:nostalgic-landscapes|"Nostalgic Landscapes."]] My favorite part of this track is the way i utilized [[Derse Dreamers]] as a bassline towards the end of the track. It's definitely one of my more ambient and weird tracks on the album.
+    So everybody remembers [[flash:4486|[S]Sleepwalk]] right? Well I loved that flash cause it gave us an interesting introduction to main characters of act 6. When this album was being planned, this was one of the songs I just knew that i needed to do. In order to try and create a dreamy atmosphere, I utilized a shit-ton of effects and even went as far to create some of my own synths. I took a lot of influence from the track ["Resurrections"](https://radicaldreamland.bandcamp.com/track/resurrections) from the Celeste soundtrack. I really liked that song and tried to emulate a similar feel in this track. The song initially started as that little piano melody that you hear in the beginning of the album and slowly grew from there. Also fans of [[album:beforusbound|Beforusbound]] may notice that I used this melody in my song [["Nostalgic Landscapes."]] My favorite part of this track is the way i utilized [[Derse Dreamers]] as a bassline towards the end of the track. It's definitely one of my more ambient and weird tracks on the album.
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 Track: Communing With Fireflies
 Duration: 02:56
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     <i>Rainy:</i> (booklet commentary)
 
-    This song is technically the oldest song on the entire album. I originally started this song as a roxy strife theme back during the development of [[album:stlap2|STLaP 2]]. It was initially going to be a remix of Thomas Ferkol's track [[track:wily-espionage|"Wily Espionage."]] Unfortunately, I was having a really hard time making this song come together and I eventually got so frustrated that I took it off the album. Despite my frustration, I still wanted to finish it at some point. When I got the news that I gonna be able to do my solo album, I saw a perfect opportunity to actually finish it. The version of the song you are hearing is dramatically different from the original demo. Aside from some drums and a synth or two, very few elements from the stlap 2 demo exist in this version. I even decided to make the song completely mostly original with a reference to [[track:on-apocalyptic-shores|OAS]] towards the end. The few thing remains from the old version of this song is the name "Saboteur," which makes slightly less sense since it's no longer a remix of "Wily Espionage." I do still like as a title because it signifies what it used to be back in the day.
+    This song is technically the oldest song on the entire album. I originally started this song as a roxy strife theme back during the development of [[album:stlap2|STLaP 2]]. It was initially going to be a remix of Thomas Ferkol's track [["Wily Espionage."]] Unfortunately, I was having a really hard time making this song come together and I eventually got so frustrated that I took it off the album. Despite my frustration, I still wanted to finish it at some point. When I got the news that I gonna be able to do my solo album, I saw a perfect opportunity to actually finish it. The version of the song you are hearing is dramatically different from the original demo. Aside from some drums and a synth or two, very few elements from the stlap 2 demo exist in this version. I even decided to make the song completely mostly original with a reference to [[track:on-apocalyptic-shores|OAS]] towards the end. The few thing remains from the old version of this song is the name "Saboteur," which makes slightly less sense since it's no longer a remix of "Wily Espionage." I do still like as a title because it signifies what it used to be back in the day.
 
     As for what the song is about, it was initially going to be Roxy fighting Her Imperial Condescension in [[flash:8087|Collide]] but i decided to make it about the time they fight the invading alternian drones. Overall I think this is one of the better tracks on the album and one of the few early tracks that I didn't have to touch up all that much.
 
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     So when I was developing On the Rox, my biggest influence on my work was the album [[album:one-year-older|"One Year Older"]] by Erik Scheele. It's pretty obvious why I did. It's a really good album and does what I wanted to do for this album. While our albums are not one-to-one, it's still pretty clear that I took ques from it.
 
-    I say all this to try and explain what I was going for with this song. On "One Year Older" there is a track about LoWaS called [[track:firefly-cloud|"Firefly Cloud."]] It's a great song and I really wanted to do something similar, so going into I tried emulating firefly cloud as much as possible. The result was this, probably one of my most powerful and largest sounding song to date. I really wanted to capture that sense of wonder and majesty that we all felt when we say the alpha kids' lands for the first time. I even quoted [[Even in Death]] to call back to the flash [[flash:5438|[S] Void]]. While i don't think I achieved a similar sound to firefly cloud, I do think that I did get something pretty good. If you are a fan of my long songs (which have become a meme at this point but whatever) you'll probably like this lol.
+    I say all this to try and explain what I was going for with this song. On "One Year Older" there is a track about LoWaS called [["Firefly Cloud."]] It's a great song and I really wanted to do something similar, so going into I tried emulating firefly cloud as much as possible. The result was this, probably one of my most powerful and largest sounding song to date. I really wanted to capture that sense of wonder and majesty that we all felt when we say the alpha kids' lands for the first time. I even quoted [[Even in Death]] to call back to the flash [[flash:5438|[S] Void]]. While i don't think I achieved a similar sound to firefly cloud, I do think that I did get something pretty good. If you are a fan of my long songs (which have become a meme at this point but whatever) you'll probably like this lol.
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 Track: Meditations On Derse
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     So this is definitely one of the more climatic tracs on the album. I technically wrote this song pretty early into development, but that early version of the song kinda sucked ass and so I redid completely. This song is also my first extensive foray into orchestral style writing. I think as a I first attempt at a more faithfully orchestral style it turned out pretty well.
 
-    When I first had the idea for this song I wanted to create a [[track:do-you-remem8er-me|"Do You Remem8er me"]] style song for Roxy and Calliope. [[flash:7959|[S] Terezi: Remember,]] was a pretty big flash for me and the parallels between that flash and Roxy's bringing back Calliope from the void were pretty apparent. Trying to match Malcolm Brown's grandiose style is pretty much impossible, but I thought i would still try. While I definitely did get to his level with this song, This is still one of the songs I'm the most proud of on this album.
+    When I first had the idea for this song I wanted to create a [["Do You Remem8er me"]] style song for Roxy and Calliope. [[flash:7959|[S] Terezi: Remember,]] was a pretty big flash for me and the parallels between that flash and Roxy's bringing back Calliope from the void were pretty apparent. Trying to match Malcolm Brown's grandiose style is pretty much impossible, but I thought i would still try. While I definitely did get to his level with this song, This is still one of the songs I'm the most proud of on this album.
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 Track: Fight For the Future
 Duration: 06:48
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     Another climactic track and by far my most ambitious track no this album. During, development I just knew that i had to have a track about [[flash:8087|[S]Collide]] on this album. It would be an understatement to say that the fight with Her Imperial Condescension in [S] Collide was the most important moment in Roxy's arc. Roxy facing down the person largely responsible for everything bad that has happened in their life is a pretty major moment, and i wanted to capture it in song form.
 
-    As for the song itself there is a lot to talk about. The opening [[Rex Duodecim Angelus]] makes it pretty apparent that I took a lot of influence from that song. I also took osme influence from the track [[track:negastrife|"Negastrife"]] from One Year Older. I tried to include motifs from just about every person involved in the fight against HIC. The only person who I failed to have a motif for was Jane, but its fine since she's a xenophobe now lol (thanks homestuck epilogues). Another thing of note is the original motif of this song that is played in the bass for most of this track. I originally came up with the motif messing around with the kirby's dreamland 3 soundfont. I got this really cool sounding bass line that i liked so much I made it the main back bone of this track. The moral of this story is that I am very lazy and you shouldn't listen to me. Anyway, I'm pretty happy with how this song turned out. I've never written a Final Boss track before, and I think it came out pretty well.
+    As for the song itself there is a lot to talk about. The opening [[Rex Duodecim Angelus]] makes it pretty apparent that I took a lot of influence from that song. I also took osme influence from the track [["Negastrife"]] from One Year Older. I tried to include motifs from just about every person involved in the fight against HIC. The only person who I failed to have a motif for was Jane, but its fine since she's a xenophobe now lol (thanks homestuck epilogues). Another thing of note is the original motif of this song that is played in the bass for most of this track. I originally came up with the motif messing around with the kirby's dreamland 3 soundfont. I got this really cool sounding bass line that i liked so much I made it the main back bone of this track. The moral of this story is that I am very lazy and you shouldn't listen to me. Anyway, I'm pretty happy with how this song turned out. I've never written a Final Boss track before, and I think it came out pretty well.
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 Track: A Life Worth Living
 Duration: 04:20
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     So the epilogue made the development of this album a little bit complicated. Before their release I had pretty clear vision of vision of what Roxy's ending was going to be. Then they came out and to say that they shattered my expectations would be an understatement. So I was left with a ultimatum: either continue as planned or change the album according to the epilogues. I decided that I should go for the former. As much I like the epilogues mechanically, I do not like what it does with the character with a handful of exceptions. As such this album ends with the events of [[flash:8127|act 7]] and [[flash:8130|credits]]. it's probably for the best since thee epilogues are a bit controversial.
 
-    As for the song itself, I wanted to go for a simple concluding track. I felt like I couldn't really top [[From the Void]] and [[track:fight-for-the-future|Fight for the Future]], so rather than trying to one up those two songs. I figured i would go for a far simpler sounding track. So stuck with a simple piano and some string accompaniment. Big props to fellow PMT member [[artist:chromaphasia|Chromaphasia]] for playing this on piano as to make it sound as realistic as possible. This track was okay before his performance but with his performance, this track was elevated to one of the best on the album.
+    As for the song itself, I wanted to go for a simple concluding track. I felt like I couldn't really top [[From the Void]] and [[Fight for the Future]], so rather than trying to one up those two songs. I figured i would go for a far simpler sounding track. So stuck with a simple piano and some string accompaniment. Big props to fellow PMT member [[artist:chromaphasia|Chromaphasia]] for playing this on piano as to make it sound as realistic as possible. This track was okay before his performance but with his performance, this track was elevated to one of the best on the album.
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