rest of stlap2 commentary

2 files changed, 188 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml b/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml
index aa936725..59de9e98 100644
--- a/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml
+++ b/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml
@@ -2372,6 +2372,42 @@ Duration: '4:17'
 URLs:
 - https://pascalpotatovandenbos.bandcamp.com/track/all-alone
 ---
+Track: Ascending Strife
+Additional Names:
+- Name: >-
+    Ascending Strife - Music Commission
+  Annotation: >-
+    [YouTube title](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQkT-28JUHI)
+Artists:
+- Pascal van den Bos
+Duration: '4:18'
+URLs:
+- https://potatoboss.bandcamp.com/track/ascending-strife
+- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQkT-28JUHI
+Referenced Tracks:
+- I Warned You About the Elevator Bro
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> ([YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQkT-28JUHI), excerpt)
+
+    So this song has kind of an upsetting backstory to it, when i was working on it one of the plugins crashed and basically deleted the entire file, that's why i wasn't able to mix this properly. It was also supposed to be used on [[album:stlap2|STLaP2]] but after what happened i decided not to add it. I hope you guys still enjoy it and thanks so much to Vilros Safron on HSA for commissioning me! Check them here: [aminoapps.com](https://aminoapps.com/c/homestuck-hiveswap/page/user/vilros-safron/lBdg_JzCRf3kb2vMXwggQ4VmPQbYw7e86W)
+
+    <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor)
+
+    The YouTube upload for this track uses a crop of an artwork Vilros Safron shared on Amino.
+
+    <i>Vilros Safron:</i> ([Amino post](https://aminoapps.com/c/homestuck-hiveswap/page/blog/a-certain-person-did-this-wonderful-thing-for-my-boy/VLNZ_jbh7uPonMXGdZ0XXqK5XQVd0W3j7X))
+
+    <b>A certain person did this wonderful thing for my boy</b>
+
+    <i>Dr. Plushie:</i> (artwork)
+
+    <img src="media/misc/vilros-safron.jpg" width="225">
+
+    <i>Vilros Safron:</i> ([Amino comment](https://aminoapps.com/c/homestuck-hiveswap/page/blog/a-certain-person-did-this-wonderful-thing-for-my-boy/VLNZ_jbh7uPonMXGdZ0XXqK5XQVd0W3j7X))
+
+    And you can find that person here:<br>
+    Check out Dr. Plushie (@OCrusaider):  ([dead link](https://twitter.com/OCrusaider))
+---
 Track: Avarice
 Directory: avarice-paradox-music-team
 Always Reference By Directory: true
diff --git a/album/stable-time-loops-and-paradoxes-2.yaml b/album/stable-time-loops-and-paradoxes-2.yaml
index fec71de9..a008d7c3 100644
--- a/album/stable-time-loops-and-paradoxes-2.yaml
+++ b/album/stable-time-loops-and-paradoxes-2.yaml
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 Commentary: |-
     <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (album team, booklet commentary)
 
-    Rough and Jungle puts an interesting spin on [[track:sburban-jungle|sburban jungle]] and [[track:doctor|doctor]] which compliment each other quite well in this arrangement. Also [[track:unite-synchronization|unite synchronization]] is in here somewhere so that’s cool.
+    Rough and Jungle puts an interesting spin on [[track:sburban-jungle|sburban jungle]] and [[track:doctor|doctor]] which compliment each other quite well in this arrangement. Also [[track:unite-synchronization|unite synchronization]] is in here somewhere so that’s cool.  <!-- no signature in booklet -->
 ---
 Track: Gale Force Winds
 Artists:
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 Commentary: |-
     <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (album team, booklet commentary)
 
-    Starting off the numerous doctor remixes with a bang is FrostyMacs “Gale Force Winds”. This in my honest opinion is a step up from frostys previous doctor remixes and is pretty damn solid with some tasty synths.
+    Starting off the numerous doctor remixes with a bang is FrostyMacs “Gale Force Winds”. This in my honest opinion is a step up from frostys previous doctor remixes and is pretty damn solid with some tasty synths.  <!-- no signature in booklet, PB signed another frost carter commentary -->
 ---
 Track: Chill Out (Strider Style)
 Artists:
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ Cover Artists:
 Commentary: |-
     <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (album team, booklet commentary)
 
-    The use of violins in this song really capture the feel of rose early on in HomeStuck especially as a strife theme which is backed up by the amazing art accompanying it. Overall Frosty did a great job on the composition and instrumentation on Thread the Needle.
+    The use of violins in this song really capture the feel of rose early on in HomeStuck especially as a strife theme which is backed up by the amazing art accompanying it. Overall Frosty did a great job on the composition and instrumentation on Thread the Needle.  <!-- no signature in booklet, PB signed another frost carter commentary -->
 ---
 Track: Rebirth without Elegance, True is Resolve; Young is the GAME
 Artists:
@@ -500,7 +500,9 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 Commentary: |-
     <i>The Pure Spectre:</i> (composer, booklet commentary)
 
-    So, this song apparently started way back in 2017, where it was just a mere shadow of it’s current self. Simply put, it was the main beginning bit, ‘cept it was at a slower tempo, and sounded decently worse than it does now. I had it lying around when I joined the PMT, and decided it has potential. So, I took it, looked closely at how [[Black]] actually played, and made it into a more fully-fledged remix. Can I say it’s my best work? Probably not. But I would, at the very least, hope that it’s decently enjoyable to listen to if anything. Funnily enough, when I uploaded the song to SoundCloud (where it suffered in quality from the upload, unfortunately) I mentioned in the description that it was likely to be my last Homestuck song/remix. Apparently, I was lying to everyone including myself, since I not only made another song for the STLaP2 album, but I’ve got a larger project in the works... a project being made in the most unorthodox ways, but being created nonetheless.
+    So, this song apparently started way back in 2017, where it was just a mere shadow of it’s current self. Simply put, it was the main beginning bit, ‘cept it was at a slower tempo, and sounded decently worse than it does now. I had it lying around when I joined the PMT, and decided it has potential. So, I took it, looked closely at how [[Black]] actually played, and made it into a more fully-fledged remix. Can I say it’s my best work? Probably not. But I would, at the very least, hope that it’s decently enjoyable to listen to if anything.
+
+    Funnily enough, when I uploaded the song to SoundCloud (where it suffered in quality from the upload, unfortunately) I mentioned in the description that it was likely to be my last Homestuck song/remix. Apparently, I was lying to everyone including myself, since I not only made another song for the STLaP2 album, but I’ve got a larger project in the works... a project being made in the most unorthodox ways, but being created nonetheless.
 ---
 Track: Spritely Gardener
 Artists:
@@ -591,7 +593,7 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 Commentary: |-
     <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (album team, booklet commentary)
 
-    Spad3s sadly didn’t wanna write commentary on this song which is a shame so I’ll try my best in his place lmao. So in short this remix really breathes new life into [[track:black|Black]] and as a whole adds enough to the base composition to make something unique. Also Spad3s, buddy, you gotta get over your Black addiction.
+    Spad3s sadly didn’t wanna write commentary on this song which is a shame so I’ll try my best in his place lmao. So in short this remix really breathes new life into [[track:black|Black]] and as a whole adds enough to the base composition to make something unique. Also Spad3s, buddy, you gotta get over your Black addiction.  <!-- no signature in booklet -->
 ---
 Track: An Orange-Blue Rose
 Additional Names:
@@ -802,6 +804,18 @@ URLs:
 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhP6otqp-XE
 Cover Artists:
 - starcrossedAnalyst
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, commentary booklet)
+
+    This is the first thing I made upon getting the full <ersion of Fruity Loops, vvhich I think came out pretty vvell. As such, it took me a lot longer to make than I’d like to admit, e<en at it’s length of a minute and fifty-one seconds.
+
+    Also, it’s only fitting I should say, at this hea<y-piano track: I actually cannot play the piano.
+
+    <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, commentary booklet, quirk-free)
+
+    This is the first thing I made upon getting the full version of Fruity Loops, which I think came out pretty well. As such, it took me a lot longer to make than I’d like to admit, even at it’s length of a minute and fifty-one seconds.
+
+    Also, it’s only fitting I should say, at this heavy-piano track: I actually cannot play the piano.
 ---
 Track: Troublemaker Tango
 Artists:
@@ -813,7 +827,7 @@ Cover Artists:
 - wumby
 Referenced Tracks:
 - Spider's Claw
-- track:escapade-stlap3
+- track:escapade-stlap3 # "Losas" in booklet
 - Crystalanthemums
 - Courser
 - Versus
@@ -825,6 +839,10 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 - Umbral Ultimatum
 Sampled Tracks:
 - CITH - Beatdown (Strider in the House)
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary)
+
+    Prior to making this song me and my girlfriend had been watching a lot of the anime “Saiki-K” and the music in that is extremely good. When i got to my computer i wanted to write a song like the beach theme in Saiki. That’s where the beginning came from, after that it just became a mesh of a bunch of different things. At some point i just started to add different Homestuck motifs and stuff like the voice clips from Strider in the House. And also Deception, aka, The best song ever made. In the end it turned out as one of my favorite songs that i made for this album. Mayor props to wumby for the art as well, it’s really good.
 ---
 Track: More Than a Game
 Artists:
@@ -838,6 +856,10 @@ Cover Art File Extension: jpg
 Referenced Tracks:
 - Lullaby of the Furthest Ring
 - Homestuck Anthem
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (album team, booklet commentary)
+
+    This is a really cool version of the Homestuck Anthem, it’s just as calming as the original and it adds some cool parts, i enjoyed listening to it quite a bit. Good job Mac!  <!-- signed in-booklet -->
 ---
 Track: Black (Cucumber Quest)
 Artists:
@@ -850,6 +872,10 @@ Cover Artists:
 Referenced Tracks:
 - Black
 - Noisemaster Theme
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary)
+
+    I can’t exactly remember how this was made, i just remember really liking [[track:noisemaster-theme|Noisemaster’s Theme]] and wanting to reemix it, just needed an excuse to put it on STLaP 2. I consider this to be in the line of “joke tracks” i made for STLaP 2, or maybe semi-in it, no idea haha.
 ---
 Track: Learning to Stack-Modus
 Additional Names:
@@ -868,6 +894,10 @@ Cover Art File Extension: jpg
 Referenced Tracks:
 - Homestuck Anthem
 - Carefree Action # credited as carefree victory
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (album team, booklet commentary)
+
+    So Caldw3ll wrote this as a song based on the sylladex shenanigans of [[flash-act:a1|Act 1]] and I think it lives up to that by having this cheery kinda tutorial feel to it. In my opinion the song as a whole sums up the silliness of Act 1 and I dig it.  <!-- signed in-booklet -->
 ---
 Track: I Warned You About the Elevator Bro
 Artists:
@@ -878,9 +908,13 @@ URLs:
 Cover Artists:
 - wumby
 Commentary: |-
+    <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary)
+
+    This is [[track:lovely-and-saccharine|another]] commission track, it was commissioned for a fantroll that hears his own themes anywhere he goes. I made it kinda based off of tracks like [[track:elevatorstuck|elevator stuck]]. There’s also [[track:ascending-strife|a track on the soundtest]] that is a battle theme for the same troll and it’s a partial remix of this song.
+
     <i>The Paradox Music Team:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20220317221227/https://pascalpotatovandenbos.bandcamp.com/track/i-warned-you-about-the-elevator-bro))
 
-    For the OC Vilros Safron by: Vilros Safron on HSA
+    For the OC Vilros Safron by: [[artist:vilros-safron|Vilros Safron]] on HSA
 ---
 Track: Threxecute
 Artists:
@@ -893,6 +927,10 @@ Cover Artists:
 Referenced Tracks:
 - Showdown
 - Crustacean
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary)
+
+    I know there has already been [[track:dungeness-showdown|a remix of showdown on a PMT album before]] (sorry Calikid), but I really wanted to do a hard rock version of the song so oh well. Funnily enough it was that remix on AHaM that inspired me to write Threxecute, so i guess it’s fine???. This song is also the most controversial song I have ever written. I will admit that part of it was my own stubbornness, but I will also admit that I didn’t think that UGK2 would sound good with this song. If you want to hear that version of the song, [check out the soundtest.](https://potatoboss.bandcamp.com/track/cool-threxecute)
 ---
 Track: Windwielder
 Additional Names:
@@ -922,6 +960,8 @@ Commentary: |-
     Honestly I don't have much to say about this, I don't remember starting this song, I guess I just put down some drums and then put down some synths and then put down some samples and then boom it's a song now.
 ---
 Track: Turntables
+Additional Names:
+- TurnTables (booklet name)
 Directory: turntables-stlap2
 Artists:
 - Asian
@@ -932,6 +972,10 @@ Cover Artists:
 - KiddleScribbles
 Referenced Tracks:
 - Beatdown (Strider Style)
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>Asian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary)
+
+    This song was really fun to do. The art was actually made before the music, so the entire song is based on the idea of a Dave strife or something. Fast-paced music in general is just really fun to make, especially when I get to do a bunch of riffs. I regret making it so short, but it turned out alright I think.
 ---
 Track: Wish Upon a Firefly
 Artists:
@@ -947,13 +991,13 @@ Art Tags:
 Referenced Tracks:
 - Doctor
 Commentary: |-
+    <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary)
+
+    Wish Upon a Firefly was made right after [[artist:buzinkai|Usagi Buzinkai]] unfortunately passed away, i wanted to make a tribute song and there was no better track than [[track:doctor|Doctor]]. I tried making it a more upbeat hero version of Doctor. In my opinion i could never get doctor right whenever i tried remixing it but this definitely worked out well.
+
     <i>The Paradox Music Team:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20220317221229/https://pascalpotatovandenbos.bandcamp.com/track/wish-upon-a-firefly))
 
     Rest in Peace, [[artist:buzinkai|Usagi Buzinkai]].
-    
-    <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary)
-    
-    Wish Upon a Firefly was made right after [[artist:buzinkai|Usagi Buzinkai]] unfortunately passed away, i wanted to make a tribute song and there was no better track than [[track:doctor]]. I tried making it a more upbeat hero version of Doctor. In my opinion i could never get doctor right whenever i tried remixing it but this definitely worked out well.
 ---
 Track: Minuteman
 Artists:
@@ -967,6 +1011,10 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 - Temporal Virtuoso
 - Time on My Side
 - Perfect Cascade of the Heart
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary)
+
+    So I had this idea for doing solo album in the style of [[album:strife|strife]] and [[album:strife-2|strife 2]]. One of the song ideas I had for the album was remix of the song [[track:temporal-virtuoso|“Temporal Virtuoso”]] by PB. I eventually decided against doing that in favor of different solo album idea, but I still wanted to do a remix of the song. I tried my best to create an [[artist:robert-j-lake|RJ Lake]] style remix, chopping up various sections of the song and stitching them together. I even added a reference to [[track:perfect-cascade-of-the-heart|“Perfect Cascade of the heart”]] by Tensei. I’m pretty satisfied with how this turned out and I hope you enjoy. ([[album:p-s|P.[S].]] You guys gotta start remixing more strife 2 songs. The album will be out 2 years by the time you read this and the lack of remixes is disappointing.)
 ---
 Section: Disc 4
 ---
@@ -984,6 +1032,14 @@ Cover Artists:
 Duration: 0:17
 URLs:
 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX1zLRxw8bQ
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary)
+
+    It vvas really just an old project file from vvhen I first got a certain free guitar plugin and started testing it out. I updated the drums, and apparently made a disc?
+
+    <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary, quirk-free)
+
+    It was really just an old project file from when I first got a certain free guitar plugin and started testing it out. I updated the drums, and apparently made a disc?
 ---
 Track: Sta-ag-gered Move-me-ent
 Artists:
@@ -996,6 +1052,16 @@ Cover Artists:
 Referenced Tracks:
 - Upward Movement (Dave Owns)
 - Descend
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>The Pure Spectre:</i> (composer, booklet commentary)
+
+    Note that this particular commentary piece is being written somewhat prematurely in my eyes, as the song is technically unfinished as of writing. Not my fault for doing so - there was a deadline on these.
+
+    So this song wasn’t planned to be in this album at all. Instead, a more ambitious project of mine was going to be in it’s place, one that’s more related to cherubs and such. However, it became increasingly apparent that, if I were to try and finish it in a timely manner, it would likely turn out as a - excuse me when I say this - shit pile on fire. That’s to say, terribly. So, I’m reserving it for the next album, one where I can have time to acclimate to new software and actually make a good product.
+
+    In it’s place, we have this sort of Descend/Upward Movement remix that I managed to cook up in the spare time away from my main PC. It turned out alright, but according to [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos|Mr. P-Boss]], equalization on it was quite poor. It was an understanble and true statement - the software I used for it wasn’t really made to equalize.
+
+    Because of this fact, he actually offered to take the midi file of the song and the audio file and convert it into a more equalized, and hopefully better sounding, version. As of writing this, I’ve yet to hear anything about it though. This description will be changed if he does end up following through. If he doesn’t, then what you’ll be hearing is my version of it, and this description will be left unchanged. In any case, I hope it’s a good listening for the ears.
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 Track: Pascal "Don't call me Starkemeister" van den Bos and TimelessHeir's DX collab (gone wrong(gone sexual)) definitive edition
 Additional Names:
@@ -1003,6 +1069,10 @@ Additional Names:
     PotatoBoss' and TimelessHeir's DX collab
   Annotation: >-
     [YouTube title](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTwRgtfk4tk)
+- Name: >-
+    Pascal “Don’t call me Starkemeister” van den Bos and TimelessHeir’s DX collab (gone wrong)(gone sexual) definitive edition
+  Annotation: >-
+    name in booklet
 Artists:
 - Rowyn Berlan
 - Pascal van den Bos
@@ -1025,14 +1095,24 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 - Walk-Stab-Walk (R&E)
 - Crystalanthemums
 - Time on My Side
-- Cascade
+- Cascade (Beta)
 - Penumbra Phantasm
 - Liquid Negrocity # credited as black
 - Oppa Toby Style
 - track:lust-stlap2
 - Versus
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (co-composer, booklet commentary)
+
+    Rowyn and i wanted to do a collab song for a while and here we finally got to it. This took a while to make (mainly because i wasnt hurrying up with my part oops) but we got it done so hell ye. I produced Rowyn’s part so it would fit better with mine, after that i started working on my part, i just tried to make another song that had a lot of leitmotifs in it. I was also really into Hotline Miami at the time so it has [[track:its-safe-now|some of that]] in it too. I’m also proud of the [[track:oppa-toby-style|Oppa Toby Style]] reference since i haven’t seen many songs that use that anywhere. As for the name uhh, it’s a horrible mess but it’s also kinda funny, one of the artists suggested it and we just kinda went with it?? yeah.
+
+    <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (co-composer, booklet commentary)
+
+    So as PB said we’ve been wanting to do a collab for a while and welp here it is. I started and finished my bit in a single day (which is rare as hell for me) because I decided to reference nothing but past songs by me and PBoss. Now I tried to use the most interesting parts from every song I referenced since my composition on some of the previously mentioned songs was extremely mediocre (and you can check em all out on the sound test... sadly). Now comes PB whose section completely blows what I had out of the water and shit I’m proud of him. Hope you enjoy! ([[artist:knil|Knil]] I both hate and love the fucking name you gave it)
 ---
 Track: Wind Awakening
+Additional Names:
+- when senpai breathes on my neck uwu (project name)
 Artists:
 - Asian
 Duration: 5:26
@@ -1044,6 +1124,12 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 - Doctor
 - Savior of the Waking World
 - Penumbra Phantasm
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>Asian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary)
+
+    I had to make this song really quickly, my laptop killed itself for about two months before I could start work on this song. I actually barely finished within the deadline, and I’m grateful it’s complete (lol). This is probably one of my longest songs, kinda proud of it. Had to refrain from adding in a [[track:megalovania-halloween|Megalovania]] reference in some parts, it’s always tempting when making songs in minor.
+
+    The file wips were labelled as ‘when senpai breathes on my neck uwu’ the entire time I worked on this song. Thank [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos|Pboss]] for that.
 ---
 Track: Land of the Orange
 Artists:
@@ -1058,6 +1144,10 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 - An Orange-Blue Rose
 - Clockwork Melody
 - Heir of Grief
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary)
+
+    I’ve wanted to remix [[track:an-orange-blue-rose|“An Orange Blue Rose”]] since i first heard it, and here i finally got around to doing so. I tried to make some sort of [[track:savior-of-the-waking-world|SOTWW]] style Orchestral remix of AOBR. I think it worked pretty well, i’m most proud of the intro which is a mix of epic bitcrush effects and a recording i made of the wind outside my house when they were burning stuff at an energy plant.
 ---
 Track: Lifesaver
 Directory: lifesaver-stlap2
@@ -1075,6 +1165,10 @@ Art Tags:
 Referenced Tracks:
 - First Steps
 - Crock N' Roll
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary)
+
+    Check the commentary for [[track:minuteman|“Minuteman”]] the full context, but this song is from an old solo album idea. Originally this song was going to have a bunch more references to Jane songs (I.E [[track:cyan-beast|Cyan Beast]], [[track:jane-dargason|Jane Dargason]], Etc), but I decided against this. The reason for this is that I felt like most of the songs I did for this album did not have enough of my own original composition and relied too heavily on references. So I decided to merge the references I had already planned with some original writing. I kept the references to [[track:first-steps|“First Steps”]] by David Ellis and added a reference to an unreleased song called [[track:crock-n-roll|Crock N’ Roll]] by RJ Lake. As my last song for the album, I’m pretty proud of this one and I hope you enjoy.
 ---
 Track: Contentment
 Directory: contentment-stlap2
@@ -1088,17 +1182,32 @@ Cover Artists:
 Cover Art File Extension: jpg
 Referenced Tracks:
 - track:lust-stlap2
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary)
+
+    I immediately fell in love with PotatoBoss’ song [[track:lust-stlap2|Lust]] as soon as he finished it. This is technically my third time messing with it and I’d consider it my best attempt lmao. After I showed pboss the WIP I had for the remix he came up with the idea of having the song be the prospit counterpart to Lust. I then went and added some sick piano cause john and some strings cause why not? In the end I’m happy with how it turned out but the original Lust is still better and you can’t convince me otherwise.
 ---
 Track: Beastly Skirmish
 Artists:
 - Rainy
+- Rowyn Berlan
 Duration: 5:30
 URLs:
 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBSYE478iSI
 Cover Artists:
 - doctorcorby
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (co-composer, booklet commentary)
+
+    This song comes from a love of jrpgs and their music and I’m kinda sad I lost interest in finishing it... anyway, the story behind the creation of this song came from a spark of inspiration from octopath travelers soundtrack (if you haven’t played the game do yourself a favor and at least listen to the OST) and a thought I had regarding the denizens of homestuck. In short I wanted to make a strife theme for the denizens but as stated earlier I lost interest. Then there’s Rainy my savior, he told me that he wanted to finish the song for stlap 2 if there was room and I honestly love the direction he took the song.
+
+    <i>Rainy:</i> (co-composer, booklet commentary)
+
+    So I lied about Lifesaver being my last song stlap 2, sorry. Basically, when Rowyn said she could not finish the original demo of Beastly Skirmish, I decided to take upon myself and finish it. I liked what I had heard from that initial and thought it would be a shame for it not to get finished. At the time there were no more slots on the album, so I was gonna put the arrangement on ice until [[album:stlap3|STLaP 3]]. To cut a very long story short, we wound up needing and extra song and I was more than happy to oblige as it gave me an excuse finish this. I’m not quite sure if I captured the feel of the composition all that well, but I am somewhat happy with what I did for the arrangement. Despite what she might say, Rowyn is pretty good at music making.
 ---
 Track: Time on My Side 16-Bit Cover
+Additional Names:
+- Time on my Side 16 Bit Cover (name in booklet)
 Artists:
 - Pascal van den Bos
 Duration: 3:22
@@ -1111,8 +1220,14 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 - Time on My Side
 - Beatdown (Strider Style)
 - Liquid Negrocity # credited as black
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary)
+
+    A while before i made this i asked [[artist:erik-scheele|Jit]] if he still has the disc scratches from a bunch of his songs. Later i noticed that these were also used in [[track:time-on-my-side|Time on My Side]] by Tensei, so since u had them i wanted to make a 16-bit cover of Time on My Side using the disc scratches. Just seemed like a fun idea.
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 Track: Saxslammer
+Additional Names:
+- SaxSlammer (name in booklet)
 Artists:
 - Pascal van den Bos
 - Grace Medley (lyrics)
@@ -1128,6 +1243,10 @@ Lyrics: |-
     slam 'em in the getter
     these lyrics are
     a genuine upsetter
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary)
+
+    This song started as a joke, i was gonna do a remix of [[track:sunslammer|Sunslammer]] using only DVS-Sax but i got distracted and remixed it properly while still using DVS-Sax as the main lead. The name was chosen in a poll on the PMT Discord server, some names were listed and voted on, Saxslammer was suggested by [[artist:rowyn-berlan|Rowyn Berlan]].
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 Track: Autonomous Autumn
 Artists:
@@ -1139,6 +1258,14 @@ Cover Artists:
 - MarbleMint
 Referenced Tracks:
 - track:dimlight-paradox-music-team
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary)
+
+    Based off of an excerpt from vvhat I’d call a rather producti<e hour of me hitting a >ibraphone repeatedly on a series of calculated vvhims for an hour and thirty minutes. None of it really felt forced, and I think I enjoyed making this track vvay more than I should ha<e, for no reason vvhatsoe<er, though it vvas definitely also a *really* exhausting process. The ending bit is based off yet another >ibraphone session vvhich came *much* later, but in a nutshell I vvas just playing the same song, or at least vvhat can be played vvith tvvo hunan hands, vvhen I got distracted and missed a note. Sounded nice, so I added it in.
+
+    <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary, quirk-free)
+
+    Based off of an excerpt from what I’d call a rather productive hour of me hitting a vibraphone repeatedly on a series of calculated whims for an hour and thirty minutes. None of it really felt forced, and I think I enjoyed making this track way more than I should have, for no reason whatsoever, though it was definitely also a *really* exhausting process. The ending bit is based off yet another vibraphone session which came *much* later, but in a nutshell I was just playing the same song, or at least what can be played with two hunan hands, when I got distracted and missed a note. Sounded nice, so I added it in.
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 Track: Of the Grim and Godlike
 Artists:
@@ -1148,6 +1275,12 @@ URLs:
 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3lo9AuB48Y
 Cover Artists:
 - T4NGL3P4L
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>apatheticPianist:</i> (composer, booklet commentary)
+
+    So this song started out as a thing for an original, completely different album, then turned into a song about Grimdarkness in general, and now it’s a fight anthem for Grimdark Rose versus Bec Noir? And also probably some Vriska vs Bec Noir by the end, too, given how heroic-sounding and grandiose the ending gets... which probably means that “Of the Grim” also refers to how that’s a doomed timeline, and so definitely grim in a completely different sense? This was all definitely very intentional, and definitely not a complete coincidence.
+
+    Either way, this’s probably the best song I’ve made so far and I’m super hyped to share it with y’all!
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 Track: Play the Rain
 Artists:
@@ -1175,7 +1308,7 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 Commentary: |-
     <i>Monobrow:</i> (composer, booklet commentary)
     
-    I was enthusiastically approached by [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos|PotatoBoss]] a couple years ago to make music for his projects... About ten days ago (lol) I said, "OK, let's go4it!" and gave it a shot. The result is something I have put off, like getting back into music. Thanks PotatoBoss, he's rad and a gracious manager to a [[group:the-paradox-music-team|bright group of musicians and artists]] I've been welcomed to create with. Homestuck takes me back and the ones who still love it pushed me forward <\3.
+    I was enthusiastically approached by [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos|PotatoBoss]] a couple years ago to make music for his projects... About ten days ago (lol) I said, "OK, let's go4it!" and gave it a shot. The result is something I have put off, like getting back into music. Thanks PotatoBoss, he's rad and a gracious manager to a [[group:the-paradox-music-team|bright group of musicians and artists]] I've been welcomed to create with. Homestuck takes me back and the ones who still love it pushed me forward <3.
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 Track: Ascend x10 Combo
 Artists:
@@ -1195,6 +1328,10 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 - Cascade (Beta)
 - Derse Dreamers
 - Sburban Jungle
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary)
+
+    A lot of things were done for the 10th anniversary of Homestuck this year, one of them was the Homestuck Reanimate Project where a bunch of extremely talented artists came together to [reanimate the entire Collide Flash](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdFdXOdfcrc). One of our artists, [[artist:sketchoodles|Sketchoodles]], was also [working on this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEtC2WWffHI) and i decided to check it out. I ended up making this track for the credit sequence that would play after the animation. I also added it to this album because i wanted to officially release it on 4/13 as well. This is basically the track i made specifically to celebrate Homestuck’s 10th birthday, so thanks for being awesome, Homestuck.
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 Track: A Happy Ending
 Artists:
@@ -1220,7 +1357,7 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 Commentary: |-
     <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary)
     
-    This song's commentary is going to get a little serious. After doing [[track:spritely-gardener]], I wanted to do another song for the album. I had a bunch of stuff started but I just never had the energy to finish them. One of the ideas was a massive multi movement homestuck medley referencing all the beta kids' land theme. But like the other WIPs, I couldn't bring myself to work on it more. This went on until some time in early November. In November, I learned that [[artist:buzinkai|[Usagi] Buzinkai]], Creator of homestuck songs like [[track:doctor|"Doctor"]] and [[track:endless-climb|"Endless Climb"]], had passed away. I was felt a profound sense of grief at her death. Some time passed, and I wanted to do something to commemorate her memory. So I decided to give my old project file another shot and that how "A Happy Ending" was created. I wanted to create something that embodied how much Homestuck and it's musicians meant to me. Is it perfect? No, it has a lot of issues and is overly long (Sorry [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos|Pb]]). But I think it is something conveys the monumental impact that homestuck had on my life.
+    This song's commentary is going to get a little serious. After doing [[track:spritely-gardener|Spritely Gardener]], I wanted to do another song for the album. I had a bunch of stuff started but I just never had the energy to finish them. One of the ideas was a massive multi movement homestuck medley referencing all the beta kids' land theme. But like the other WIPs, I couldn't bring myself to work on it more. This went on until some time in early November. In November, I learned that [[artist:buzinkai|George Buzinkai]], Creator of homestuck songs like [[track:doctor|"Doctor"]] and [[track:endless-climb|"Endless Climb"]], had passed away. I was felt a profound sense of grief at her death. Some time passed, and I wanted to do something to commemorate her memory. So I decided to give my old project file another shot and that how "A Happy Ending" was created. I wanted to create something that embodied how much Homestuck and it's musicians meant to me. Is it perfect? No, it has a lot of issues and is overly long (Sorry [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos|Pb]]). But I think it is something conveys the monumental impact that homestuck had on my life.
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 Section: Bonus tracks
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@@ -1239,7 +1376,7 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 Commentary: |-
     <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary)
     
-    So [[artist:rowyn-berlan|Rowyn]] texts me at 1am asking me to [dub part of the first episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk9MdEWLvHw) of [[artist:yu-gi-oh|Yu-Gi-Oh]] with them and [[artist:beau-brian|Beau(plasticSaturnia)]]. I of course say yes B) So we recorded it and i asked Rowyn if we needed a song for the background music, they said yes so i decided to remix [[track:passionate-duelists|Passionate Duelist]] from Yu-Gi-Oh. I tried to make it some sort of F-Zero GX style track.... So yeah a shitpost that's what this is.
+    So [[artist:rowyn-berlan|Rowyn]] texts me at 1am asking me to [dub part of the first episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk9MdEWLvHw) of [[artist:yu-gi-oh|Yu-Gi-Oh]] with her and [[artist:beau-brian|Beau]]. I of course say yes B) So we recorded it and i asked Rowyn if we needed a song for the background music, she said yes so i decided to remix [[track:passionate-duelists|Passionate Duelist]] from Yu-Gi-Oh. I tried to make it some sort of F-Zero GX style track.... So yeah a shitpost that's what this is.
     
     <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (album help, booklet commentary)