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author(quasar) nebula <qznebula@protonmail.com>2025-02-06 16:38:13 -0400
committer(quasar) nebula <qznebula@protonmail.com>2025-02-06 16:38:13 -0400
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 Section: Main album
 ---
 Track: On Apocalyptic Shores
-Duration: '02:58'
+Duration: 02:58
 Cover Artists:
 - Siedlag
 Art Tags:
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Commentary: |-
     So when I got the news that I would be doing a solo album, I got really excited and wrote this song. The main melody came during an improv session on piano (which you will hear on some future version of the soundtest) and I liked it so much that I arranged it. The song serves as the main theme of the entire album and a theme for Roxy. I wanted the song to represent Roxy at the beginning of their character arc, the state of the world they live in pre-session, and they events to come with the start of the alpha session. You'll probably hear it sprinkled through out the album as leitmotif. I think I went a little overboard with quoting it but I'm pretty proud of this song so it's fine...hopefully lol.
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 Track: Technostalgia
-Duration: '02:59'
+Duration: 02:59
 Cover Artists:
 - wumby
 Art Tags:
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Commentary: |-
     Technostalgia is like one of my many forays into synthwave featured on this album. For me I mainly associate Roxy with futuristic sounding music. What more futuristic than 80's synthpop lol. Anyway, I actually like this track quite a bit. I would probably say its one of the more solid tracks on the album as it's the one of the few tracks I didn't constantly want to fix during development lol. The song is meant to be a nice chill out theme for Roxy as they talk with the other Alphas. I was somewhat inspired by the VA-11 Hall-A soundtrack and the track ["Safe Haven."](https://garoad.bandcamp.com/track/safe-haven) The songs on that soundtrack where perfect for creating a relaxing and chill atmosphere, and I thought something similar would be perfect for Roxy talked to their friends. Also if you're wondering why I chose "Technostalgia" as a name I didn't really have a reason it just sounded cool to say lmao
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 Track: A City of Black and White
-Duration: '02:57'
+Duration: 02:57
 Cover Artists:
 - Mephi
 Art Tags:
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ Commentary: |-
     For this song, I wanted to make something a little more simple and light-hearted to capture the somewhat silly nature of the carapacians . I've always loved the carapacian city that roxy lived on and the ways the inhabits lived. Not really much else to say on this song. Also keep your ear out for the [[track:on-apocalyptic-shores|OAS]] quote cause I put it in over half of the songs on this album, including this one.
 ---
 Track: Through the Looking Glass
-Duration: '04:49'
+Duration: 04:49
 Cover Artists:
 - animmania
 Art Tags:
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ 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.
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 Track: Broken Bottles, Broken Dreams
-Duration: '04:15'
+Duration: 04:15
 Cover Artists:
 - wumby
 Art Tags:
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ Commentary: |-
     This song is definitely one of the darker songs on the album imo. For Broken Bottles, Broken Dreams I wanted to capture the Roxy's struggles with addiction and the depression that comes with it. I always felt like Roxy's Struggles with alcoholism to be the part of the reason why i think they're such a compelling character. Despite the gravity of the matter, I could not make album all about roxy without at least having one song about their addiction. As for the song itself, I took lot of influence from the soundtrack of Silent Hill, whose somber and moody tones just seemed perfect for this type of track.
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 Track: Sleepwalker
-Duration: '05:01'
+Duration: 05:01
 Cover Artists:
 - doctorcorby
 Art Tags:
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ 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.
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 Track: Communing With Fireflies
-Duration: '02:56'
+Duration: 02:56
 Cover Artists:
 - sKetchooDles
 Art Tags:
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ Commentary: |-
 Track: Saboteur
 Suffix Directory: true
 Always Reference By Directory: true
-Duration: '03:58'
+Duration: 03:58
 Cover Artists:
 - Siedlag
 Art Tags:
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ Commentary: |-
 Track: -Interlude-
 Suffix Directory: true
 Always Reference By Directory: true
-Duration: '03:11'
+Duration: 03:11
 Cover Artists:
 - Siedlag
 Art Tags:
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ Commentary: |-
     Think of this song as representing the narrative transition that occurs when the alpha enter the medium. We go from the relative familiarity of earth into a whole new world, full of new trial and tribulations. The little transition at the end is meant to represent them finally entering the medium for the first time. Speaking of which... *([[track:neon-haze|Continued!]])*
 ---
 Track: Neon Haze
-Duration: '06:55'
+Duration: 06:55
 Cover Artists:
 - Siedlag
 Art Tags:
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ Additional Names:
   Annotation: >-
     [YouTube title](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-LwoTcraZY),
     name in booklet
-Duration: '04:54'
+Duration: 04:54
 Cover Art File Extension: jpg
 Cover Art Dimensions: 2202x2208
 Cover Artists:
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ Commentary: |-
     This is by far the my weirdest song I've ever written. I wanted to create a song that was captured that feeling of roxy trying to create a perfectly generic object for the first time while on derse. but the problem with that concept is that it is so vague and nebulous that I didn't know what it could sound like. Derse has always had this distorted and weird soundscape but i wasn't sure how to apply that to my song. It wasn't until I messed around with repeating soundclips of a synth pad did finally figure out what this song should look like. I took influence from minimalists compositions like those of Phillip Glass in that I focused on a singular repeating motif developing over the span of an entire song. From there I did want came naturally to me. I wanted to make the song make people feel like pieces of puzzle were coming together to form something new.
 ---
 Track: Sole Survivor
-Duration: '02:47'
+Duration: 02:47
 Cover Artists:
 - Siedlag
 Art Tags:
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ Commentary: |-
 Track: Choices
 Suffix Directory: true
 Always Reference By Directory: true
-Duration: '04:54'
+Duration: 04:54
 Cover Artists:
 - SoulofWoods
 Art Tags:
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ Commentary: |-
     (P.[S]. The original version will be on the second iteration of the soundtest, if you want to listen to that.)
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 Track: A Future Worth Stealing
-Duration: '05:22'
+Duration: 05:22
 Cover Artists:
 - KiddleScribbles
 Art Tags:
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ Commentary: |-
 Track: Reunion
 Suffix Directory: true
 Always Reference By Directory: true
-Duration: '03:11'
+Duration: 03:11
 Cover Artists:
 - doctorcorby
 Art Tags:
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ Commentary: |-
     This was by far the song I had the most fun writing on the entire album. I took some of the stuff I learned from my previous attempts at synthwave and put an spin on it. I wanted the song to sound as happy and upbeat as humanly possible to convey the feeling of overwhelming joy that Roxy has meeting Rose for the first time. Of course, what song focused around the Lalondes would be complete with a reference to [[Aggrieve]]. While this track may be a little derivative of the other synthwave-y tracks on this album, I do think it has enough unique aspects to standout on its own from those other tracks. Probably my favorite moment in this song is that little solo towards the end. I think its the most expressive track on the album and I love it for it.
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 Track: From the Void
-Duration: '04:38'
+Duration: 04:38
 Cover Artists:
 - Siedlag
 Art Tags:
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ Commentary: |-
     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.
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 Track: Fight For the Future
-Duration: '06:48'
+Duration: 06:48
 Cover Artists:
 - animmania
 Art Tags:
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ Commentary: |-
     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.
 ---
 Track: A Life Worth Living
-Duration: '04:20'
+Duration: 04:20
 Contributors:
 - Chromaphasia (piano)
 Cover Artists:
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ Additional Names:
     [Bonus] Let the Rain Fall Where it May
   Annotation: >-
     name in booklet
-Duration: '02:09'
+Duration: 02:09
 URLs:
 - https://youtu.be/CKPd5NKGB90
 - https://open.spotify.com/track/4hMIIaZgSjiXaEejHVhJvA
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ Additional Names:
     [Bonus] A Life Worth Living (Piano)
   Annotation: >-
     name in booklet
-Duration: '04:12'
+Duration: 04:12
 Contributors:
 - Chromaphasia (piano)
 Referenced Tracks: