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| author | (quasar) nebula <qznebula@protonmail.com> | 2024-02-29 14:14:06 -0400 |
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| committer | (quasar) nebula <qznebula@protonmail.com> | 2024-02-29 14:14:06 -0400 |
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diff --git a/album/7th-gate-project.yaml b/album/7th-gate-project.yaml index a1914baa..8245a193 100644 --- a/album/7th-gate-project.yaml +++ b/album/7th-gate-project.yaml @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>(commentary redux)</i> The Knight of Time enters the Forge of Flame... - This song was heavily inspired by the music of the Castlevania series. More specifically, I tried to emulate the style of one particular song - "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyXRV7wkeyoAn">Empty Tome</a>," from Order of Ecclesia. I think it's possibly one of my favorite songs from the series! + This song was heavily inspired by the music of the Castlevania series. More specifically, I tried to emulate the style of one particular song - "[Empty Tome](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyXRV7wkeyoAn)," from Order of Ecclesia. I think it's possibly one of my favorite songs from the series! --- Track: Through the Seventh Gate ~Land of Light and Rain~ Duration: '4:36' @@ -145,4 +145,4 @@ Commentary: |- <i>(commentary redux)</i> The Witch of Space enters the Glacier of Genesis... - I really enjoyed pulling the sudden switch from what was essentially house-inspired electronica to orchestral. I've used several more times since, such as in [[Vodka Mutiny]] or <a href="https://soundcloud.com/konec0/jackpot-birthday-bash-mix">Jackpot (Birthday Bash Mix)</a>. I'm not personally fond of the idea of pigeonholing songs into genres, so making this song was a real treat for me; I like to think of it as kind of genre-fluid, and that's interesting to me." + I really enjoyed pulling the sudden switch from what was essentially house-inspired electronica to orchestral. I've used several more times since, such as in [[Vodka Mutiny]] or [Jackpot (Birthday Bash Mix)](https://soundcloud.com/konec0/jackpot-birthday-bash-mix). I'm not personally fond of the idea of pigeonholing songs into genres, so making this song was a real treat for me; I like to think of it as kind of genre-fluid, and that's interesting to me." diff --git a/album/9.yaml b/album/9.yaml index 82b0a34f..f5b35b42 100644 --- a/album/9.yaml +++ b/album/9.yaml @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Cool and New Music Team:</i> 9 - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0JVq5p3x9EidV4gshpgQ-1VtImRPTnhJ">Album trailers</a>) + ([Album trailers](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0JVq5p3x9EidV4gshpgQ-1VtImRPTnhJ)) <i>Discfortune:</i> (Rando) tldr everyone on our art team is amazing @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Commentary: |- I drew the right half of this cover. Read [[group:oceanfalls|oceanfalls]] <i>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ0v2oxxpzM">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ0v2oxxpzM)) --- Section: Main album --- @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Commentary: |- <i>Makin:</i> (Composer) Play Moonbase Alpha and listen to Humanz to understand the true power of this meme track. WE HAVE... LIFDOFF. - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv6RbEOlqRo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv6RbEOlqRo</a> + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv6RbEOlqRo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv6RbEOlqRo) <i>Discfortune:</i> (Artist) 9 @@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ Commentary: |- This commentary requires a CyTube Pro™ subscription to view. <i>Makin:</i> (Joke Explainer) - The above commentary makes more sense when you realize these albums were <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ0v2oxxpzM">streamed on CyTube</a> upon release. + The above commentary makes more sense when you realize these albums were [streamed on CyTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ0v2oxxpzM) upon release. <i>Cloudaria:</i> (Artist) i had no clue what to do for this, so i was like "washer. washing machine." and threw in the dumb jokes that were in it in a goddamn washing machine shittily in paint.net and mouse. enjoy. @@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ Commentary: |- It's a fiend. <i>Makin:</i> (Viewer) - See <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dFqbxhMFis">the music video</a>. + See [the music video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dFqbxhMFis). Lyrics: |- (I've got good cash today, better hit the stalls.) (I hope the win the— the big prizes.) @@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ Commentary: |- this is my very scARy song, won't you come and sing along <i>CreatorOfJanespeak:</i> (Artist) - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa5KCTqwXDg&t=6s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa5KCTqwXDg&t=6s</a> + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa5KCTqwXDg&t=6s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa5KCTqwXDg&t=6s) --- Track: Cool and New Jungle Artists: @@ -1346,7 +1346,7 @@ Commentary: |- This originally started as a sequel to [[track:of-orchids-and-roses|Of Orchids and Roses]]. I wanted to remix Mutiny, it was incredibly necessary. It is also probably the only reason this song exists. I also wanted to experiment with slightly more discordant and offputting compositions. <i>olkiswerve:</i> (Artist) - please listen to the phenomenal "still bummed" album by the bandcamp artist "nouns". it's fucking incredible and I love it. link at <a href="https://nounss.bandcamp.com/album/still-bummed">https://nounss.bandcamp.com/album/still-bummed</a> + please listen to the phenomenal "still bummed" album by the bandcamp artist "nouns". it's fucking incredible and I love it. link at [https://nounss.bandcamp.com/album/still-bummed](https://nounss.bandcamp.com/album/still-bummed) --- Track: jaeded Artists: @@ -2154,7 +2154,7 @@ Commentary: |- give me a sec while I pull the cool video up. If you're not watching the stream this will make no sense to you. <i>Makin:</i> (Quantum Leaper) - if you're reading the wiki <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUjbODCExlo">this</a> will make sense to you. Also, this track references the unreleased track "warriorheart.mp3" by StarlightCalliope. All we know is it was a [[track:fighting-spirit]] remix. + if you're reading the wiki [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUjbODCExlo) will make sense to you. Also, this track references the unreleased track "warriorheart.mp3" by StarlightCalliope. All we know is it was a [[track:fighting-spirit]] remix. <i>koykoy13:</i> (Artist) Star wanted me to make it as awful as I possibly can but then I made it a bit better than that featuring Dabe as a staircase diff --git a/album/a-memory-finds-its-name.yaml b/album/a-memory-finds-its-name.yaml index 2e0d0b93..578d9a28 100644 --- a/album/a-memory-finds-its-name.yaml +++ b/album/a-memory-finds-its-name.yaml @@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Her love for me Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) - I wrote this song for <a href="https://youtu.be/bIyjzum7Hjk">an animation</a> I made for an undergrad stop motion class in 2015, but ultimately (as always) swapped it for a fully instrumental version. + I wrote this song for [an animation](https://youtu.be/bIyjzum7Hjk) I made for an undergrad stop motion class in 2015, but ultimately (as always) swapped it for a fully instrumental version. The animation is of a noblewoman and a knight who are in love, surprise surprise. The noble is snatched away by a flying beast and her partner gives chase on a horse, before a fun magic battle happens. @@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ Commentary: |- In the game, I wanted to explore the concept of shifting between various combinations of instruments as you move from one location to another, with the number of instruments building gradually as you approach the end of the game. - I tried to emulate that sense of building in this version of the track, but you can <a href="https://circlejourney.net/in-between/">play the game</a> to get the full experience. + I tried to emulate that sense of building in this version of the track, but you can [play the game](https://circlejourney.net/in-between/) to get the full experience. --- Track: Memorialisation Directory: memorialisation-a-memory-finds-its-name @@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Destroy this memorial today Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) - Back in 2016 or so, I planned on writing a whole stage musical based on my novel, <a href="https://circlejourney.net/writing/eaglesandswans/">Eagles and Swans</a> (which will forever be unreleased, at the rate I’m going). This was the only song that actually materialised in full. + Back in 2016 or so, I planned on writing a whole stage musical based on my novel, [Eagles and Swans](https://circlejourney.net/writing/eaglesandswans/) (which will forever be unreleased, at the rate I’m going). This was the only song that actually materialised in full. I’m fond of writing songs about fictional characters (moreso than about my own life), especially characters that I created myself. This one’s about Ruthenia, the main character of Eagles and Swans, at a time when she’s questioning everything about her past. diff --git a/album/a-nameless-inheritance.yaml b/album/a-nameless-inheritance.yaml index 8c9aaa42..11120855 100644 --- a/album/a-nameless-inheritance.yaml +++ b/album/a-nameless-inheritance.yaml @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Groups: - Beyond Commentary: |- <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> - Soundtrack to "<a href="https://blackmoth.itch.io/a-nameless-inheritance">A Nameless Inheritance</a>" (game created by Ryan Johnston) + Soundtrack to "[A Nameless Inheritance](https://blackmoth.itch.io/a-nameless-inheritance)" (game created by Ryan Johnston) Investigate the mysterious estate that belonged to your grandfather and uncover the secrets it hides... --- diff --git a/album/a-shade-of-blue.yaml b/album/a-shade-of-blue.yaml index 7d1ddff8..53005884 100644 --- a/album/a-shade-of-blue.yaml +++ b/album/a-shade-of-blue.yaml @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Commentary: |- Hope you enjoyed it! <i>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kke7l7C0UVA">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kke7l7C0UVA)) --- Track: SunCatcher Duration: 0:41 diff --git a/album/act-8-volume-1.yaml b/album/act-8-volume-1.yaml index 11fef8a5..29708f63 100644 --- a/album/act-8-volume-1.yaml +++ b/album/act-8-volume-1.yaml @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Art Tags: - John's dad Commentary: |- <i>Act 8:</i> - The first official <a href="http://mspfanventures.com/?s=14278">Act 8</a> Album! Thank you so much to those who contributed, and to everyone who has supported Act 8 so far. This album includes songs based on the fanwork up until this point, some sneak peeks, original songs based on homestuck as a whole, and track art courtesy of several incredible artists. + The first official [Act 8](http://mspfanventures.com/?s=14278) Album! Thank you so much to those who contributed, and to everyone who has supported Act 8 so far. This album includes songs based on the fanwork up until this point, some sneak peeks, original songs based on homestuck as a whole, and track art courtesy of several incredible artists. Additional Files: - Title: Bandcamp Banner Files: diff --git a/album/alternia.yaml b/album/alternia.yaml index 566d60f5..e937b4f6 100644 --- a/album/alternia.yaml +++ b/album/alternia.yaml @@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ Commentary: |- I made this 7/8 piece a long time ago, but I feel like it fit well for GA, so I revamped it. It's kind of ghostly and alien in its presentation. But it's also kind of flighty and... caring? There's no way for me to pin this song down with words. Words are heavy. This song is pure flight. The two don't mix. Just listen. - The drums that come in halfway were basically inspired by the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6LZ1GqSrEE">Coffee Scene</a> from EarthBound. Really similar stuff there. That song also inspired Gamzee's tune. I guess I just really like it a lot. + The drums that come in halfway were basically inspired by the [Coffee Scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6LZ1GqSrEE) from EarthBound. Really similar stuff there. That song also inspired Gamzee's tune. I guess I just really like it a lot. What I really imagine is GA waking up in the dream world and flying around, observing the blue orb in the sky and admiring the environment around her. Then she goes and finds AT, wakes him up, and he's totally pumped and happy and flies around doing loop-de-loops. And he's really thankful and all, and kind of wimpy living out his fantasies with his friend watching him. diff --git a/album/alterniabound.yaml b/album/alterniabound.yaml index 01e2c20d..117a591a 100644 --- a/album/alterniabound.yaml +++ b/album/alterniabound.yaml @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor) - Track art for [[album:alternia]] and [[album:alterniabound]] is from the <a href="https://alterniaart.tumblr.com/">Alternia/Bound</a> track art anthology projects! Original track artworks, which were largely (though not entirely) crops of panels from the webcomic, have been left in the commentary for each track. + Track art for [[album:alternia]] and [[album:alterniabound]] is from the [Alternia/Bound](https://alterniaart.tumblr.com/) track art anthology projects! Original track artworks, which were largely (though not entirely) crops of panels from the webcomic, have been left in the commentary for each track. Banner Artists: - Hanni Brosh - Niklink (edits for wiki) diff --git a/album/ancestral.yaml b/album/ancestral.yaml index 8502202a..7b013306 100644 --- a/album/ancestral.yaml +++ b/album/ancestral.yaml @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Josefin B.:</i> To some extent, I consider Ancestral to be a little sister album to [[album:beforus]]. We share many contributors and this project was largely inspired by Beforus. The reason we asked Rangzhe to make our cover was to tie it in. The very last track of Beforus, [[Motions of Infinity]], ending with the ancestors being created, was drawn by her. Isn't it fitting how she begins this story after having ended the last? That, and her art is hella. <i>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr1_rpxovt0">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr1_rpxovt0)) Banner Artists: - Rangzhe - Rebecca Peason @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ Art Tags: - Alternia Commentary: |- <i>irl-porrim-maryam:</i> - I was absolutely ecstatic when I was given the track of the Summoner! Though there's not much canon information on him, towards the end I was able to include an excerpt from <a href="https://www.homestuck.com/story/3758">Page 3758</a>, in which Midnfang journals about the Summoner. I also looked to [[Bronze Rebel]] from coloUrs and mayhem and [[♉ - Breathtak1ng]] from the Beforus Album to get a feel on what instruments I should be using. I gave the song a bit more of a minor key since the Summoner's life most likely wasn't the easiest or most fun life to lead. This track was definitely great fun to work on, and I'm definitely honoured to be a part of the Ancestral Album! + I was absolutely ecstatic when I was given the track of the Summoner! Though there's not much canon information on him, towards the end I was able to include an excerpt from [Page 3758](https://www.homestuck.com/story/3758), in which Midnfang journals about the Summoner. I also looked to [[Bronze Rebel]] from coloUrs and mayhem and [[♉ - Breathtak1ng]] from the Beforus Album to get a feel on what instruments I should be using. I gave the song a bit more of a minor key since the Summoner's life most likely wasn't the easiest or most fun life to lead. This track was definitely great fun to work on, and I'm definitely honoured to be a part of the Ancestral Album! <i>Molly:</i> I quite like how this piece came out! The track itself was lovely and soothing, and the vocals at the end added an interesting feeling to it, almost like a story book. I wanted to showcase the atmosphere rather than The Summoner directly, but still wanted it to be obvious that this is The Summoner's track, and a view point from behind where you can obviously see his defining caharacteristics but not directly see his face felt like the best way to accomplish that! That, and a purple and blue night sky above the rust-blooded Summoner, with a golden fire in front of him feels rather poetic ina way. This was definitely a learning experience, and a really fun piece to work on for the album. I'm excited to see what's next! --- diff --git a/album/basement-tale.yaml b/album/basement-tale.yaml index 772fa957..27204d6a 100644 --- a/album/basement-tale.yaml +++ b/album/basement-tale.yaml @@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ Groups: - Fandom Commentary: |- <i>Cecily Renns:</i> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKG0k-D8MNg">Basement Tale but it has my commentary on top of it, on topics such as music, storytelling and 42</a> + [Basement Tale but it has my commentary on top of it, on topics such as music, storytelling and 42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKG0k-D8MNg) <i>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbUTs-9XMC4&t=385">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbUTs-9XMC4&t=385)) --- Track: In the Beginning Directory: in-the-beginning-basement-tale diff --git a/album/beforus.yaml b/album/beforus.yaml index dfe8c2a0..2afbf1f7 100644 --- a/album/beforus.yaml +++ b/album/beforus.yaml @@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ Art Tags: - Gate Commentary: |- <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> - Dan (also known as aradia-symmetry, author of <a href="https://aradiawheresheshouldbe.tumblr.com/">aradiawheresheshouldbe</a> and <a href="https://rosewheresheshouldbe.tumblr.com/">rosewheresheshouldbe.tumblr.com</a>) commissioned me back in October 2013 for a song about Damara Megido. The song ended up quite spooky, because after all, he did commission it on October 31. I relied on the shakuhachi and cello and, per Dan's request, a pulsing synth bass to create the brooding, melancholy atmosphere I felt best reflected Damara's inner coldness and despesrate nihilism. + Dan (also known as aradia-symmetry, author of [aradiawheresheshouldbe](https://aradiawheresheshouldbe.tumblr.com/) and [rosewheresheshouldbe.tumblr.com](https://rosewheresheshouldbe.tumblr.com/)) commissioned me back in October 2013 for a song about Damara Megido. The song ended up quite spooky, because after all, he did commission it on October 31. I relied on the shakuhachi and cello and, per Dan's request, a pulsing synth bass to create the brooding, melancholy atmosphere I felt best reflected Damara's inner coldness and despesrate nihilism. <i>Sam Garcia:</i> when i listened to the song the first thing that came into my mind was Damara sabotaging the alpha session, so the main focus of the drawing is a smug god tier damara doing that! the clock behind her is symbolical to how she is corrupting time itself and the session, and the cracks are the points in the timeline in which Damara has sabotaged it. I had a lot of fun drawing this and I hope you like the drawing. cheers! c: --- diff --git a/album/beyond-canon.yaml b/album/beyond-canon.yaml index a059c5c7..f066dcbd 100644 --- a/album/beyond-canon.yaml +++ b/album/beyond-canon.yaml @@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ Lyrics: |- It's not your fault, you know this But the leaving is still the same Commentary: |- - <i>Marcus Carline:</i> (<a href="https://twitter.com/marcuscarline/status/1249814813179428864">Twitter</a>) + <i>Marcus Carline:</i> ([Twitter](https://twitter.com/marcuscarline/status/1249814813179428864)) So I did a thing (was a small part in doing a thing). My track is The Leaving, but honestly give this whole thing a listen. I'm very proud to be included here. Happy Homestuck Day! @@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ Additional Files: Files: - 'Narrative Command blueprint - Sean William Calhoun.pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>Sean William Calhoun:</i> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keoJTpGQxPE">YouTube</a>) + <i>Sean William Calhoun:</i> ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keoJTpGQxPE)) > Holy crap. Impeccable. I might transcribe this for my music project. @@ -724,7 +724,7 @@ Art Tags: - John - Earth Commentary: |- - <i>Mathias Ramalho:</i> (<a href="https://soundcloud.com/friendly-coy/moving-onwards">SoundCloud</a>) + <i>Mathias Ramalho:</i> ([SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/friendly-coy/moving-onwards)) My track from the album "Beyond Canon", by the Homestuck^2 Music Team. So he-hey I got to the big leagues! don't know how I got here but I gotta tell ya, it feels awesome. @@ -922,7 +922,7 @@ Art Tags: - Jade - Alternate Calliope Commentary: |- - <i>Emelia K.:</i> (<a href="https://soundcloud.com/emelia-kaylee/crystal-hung-in-firmaments-descent">SoundCloud</a>) + <i>Emelia K.:</i> ([SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/emelia-kaylee/crystal-hung-in-firmaments-descent)) a silence descends diff --git a/album/bittersweet.yaml b/album/bittersweet.yaml index add58e33..ba10aa2f 100644 --- a/album/bittersweet.yaml +++ b/album/bittersweet.yaml @@ -643,7 +643,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Commentary: |- <i>Jamie Paige:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9b7AEowHqc">Trailer!</a>) + ([Trailer!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9b7AEowHqc)) --- Track: Bittersweet Directory: bittersweet-jamie-paige diff --git a/album/bowmania.yaml b/album/bowmania.yaml index 06dd1669..b70418c8 100644 --- a/album/bowmania.yaml +++ b/album/bowmania.yaml @@ -27,13 +27,13 @@ Commentary: |- a tribute to a [[group:michael-guy-bowman|bowman]], who, even he himself, was once a bowboy <i>Hadron:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_I5TYEmuXM">TRAILER - BOWMANIA</a>) + ([TRAILER - BOWMANIA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_I5TYEmuXM)) <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-gQDsSD8KI">Bowmania Reaction Livestream</a>) + ([Bowmania Reaction Livestream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-gQDsSD8KI)) <i>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Ye4H8tADY">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Ye4H8tADY)) --- Track: 'lore 2: the revengning' Artists: diff --git a/album/call-and-new-2-locomotif.yaml b/album/call-and-new-2-locomotif.yaml index 546b0763..aab3dfac 100644 --- a/album/call-and-new-2-locomotif.yaml +++ b/album/call-and-new-2-locomotif.yaml @@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ Groups: - Fandom Commentary: |- <i>Cool and New Music Team:</i> - Call and New™ 2: LOCOMOTIF ® is a non-linear branching album where the listener gets to decide which remix to listen to next. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uIl7fmVnJI">This album is best experienced using Youtube and its endcards.</a> + Call and New™ 2: LOCOMOTIF ® is a non-linear branching album where the listener gets to decide which remix to listen to next. [This album is best experienced using Youtube and its endcards.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uIl7fmVnJI) - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmOWegNKKBM">ANNOUNCEMANT.</a>) + ([ANNOUNCEMANT.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmOWegNKKBM)) --- Section: Main album --- @@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Makin:</i> (Titular Light) This references Discfortune's Rise and Shine, which was never released. - I guess since you're here you can listen to <a href="https://cenobiterecords.com/product/crypt-rise-and-shine/">this</a> instead... + I guess since you're here you can listen to [this](https://cenobiterecords.com/product/crypt-rise-and-shine/) instead... --- Track: Re-routed Repair Artists: diff --git a/album/call-and-new.yaml b/album/call-and-new.yaml index bf3b3579..00a10e89 100644 --- a/album/call-and-new.yaml +++ b/album/call-and-new.yaml @@ -35,13 +35,13 @@ Groups: - Fandom Commentary: |- <i>Cool and New Music Team:</i> - we did tihs <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers</a> + we did tihs [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers) <i>Makin:</i> (team manager) Every track remixes or references the one before it, with most musicians ignorant of the original track, like a broken telephone. The final track by [[artist:cecily-renns]] remixes every original melody in the album. <i>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwYhJaWVePk&t=1560">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwYhJaWVePk&t=1560)) --- Track: Touchdown Artists: diff --git a/album/canwc-for-the-holidays.yaml b/album/canwc-for-the-holidays.yaml index be1358cb..0a7e73f1 100644 --- a/album/canwc-for-the-holidays.yaml +++ b/album/canwc-for-the-holidays.yaml @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Groups: - Fandom Commentary: |- <i>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Y_mDdbbv8&t=1830">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Y_mDdbbv8&t=1830)) --- Track: ahahahahahahahahahahah, its XISTMAS you fat nasty trash Artists: @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ Commentary: |- - "We are Cool and New" by [[artist:cecily-renns|Cecily Renns]] - "Lats rap" by [[artist:tirantbacon|TirantBacon]] - (It's a parody of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLcp9uTVh3M">a very hussie christmas</a>, by toby fox) + (It's a parody of [a very hussie christmas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLcp9uTVh3M), by toby fox) --- Track: We three normal character so far in CANWC of orient are Artists: diff --git a/album/canwc-sound-test-1.yaml b/album/canwc-sound-test-1.yaml index 5e01f205..25c89b06 100644 --- a/album/canwc-sound-test-1.yaml +++ b/album/canwc-sound-test-1.yaml @@ -29,15 +29,15 @@ Commentary: |- CANMT truly were ahead of their time. - Oh yeah, the album itself. It's all the tracks that were too offtopic or bad for the main albums. The only track purposefully made for it was [[track:lore]], which I'll discuss in its entry. The track art is a parody of [[artist:robert-j-lake]]'s <a href="https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1-years-in-the-past">Stuckhome Syndrome</a>. AND I have one last piece of trivia to share with you: we released four albums in one day, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwYhJaWVePk&list=PLoOnh0MiKsmIaQrZpqd5t1G7xOWf7_-EF">streamed them all</a> over an excruciating eight hours. Go check it out if you want to see a hundred people suffer. + Oh yeah, the album itself. It's all the tracks that were too offtopic or bad for the main albums. The only track purposefully made for it was [[track:lore]], which I'll discuss in its entry. The track art is a parody of [[artist:robert-j-lake]]'s [Stuckhome Syndrome](https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1-years-in-the-past). AND I have one last piece of trivia to share with you: we released four albums in one day, and [streamed them all](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwYhJaWVePk&list=PLoOnh0MiKsmIaQrZpqd5t1G7xOWf7_-EF) over an excruciating eight hours. Go check it out if you want to see a hundred people suffer. - Wait I didn't mention that there's a fanmade <a href="https://sanctferum.tumblr.com/post/638058644066435072/homestuck-sound-test-12202020-edition">Homestuck sound tes</a>-- + Wait I didn't mention that there's a fanmade [Homestuck sound tes](https://sanctferum.tumblr.com/post/638058644066435072/homestuck-sound-test-12202020-edition)-- <i>Cool and New Music Team:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ervn4We6lEs">ST1 : ROTG</a>) + ([ST1 : ROTG](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ervn4We6lEs)) <i>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zkRy0gMKUs&t=780">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zkRy0gMKUs&t=780)) --- Track: It's A Lovely Day To Be Named (voicep0.wav) Artists: @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Makin:</i> (team manager) This is the only track on the album that was made specifically for it. We had a Bowman's Credit Score problem. If you've listened to [[album:cool-and-new-volume-sx]], you know that already. - The track parodies the parody music team <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9ecwl3FTG66jIKA9JRDtmg">SiIvagunner</a>'s "lore", by having the man himself show up and kill Bowman in the middle of the laziest mashup yet. It represents the very real ban of credit score rips in the CANMT. After this album, you'll see them vanish (until he gets revived by Stutzman in BOWMANIA's <a href="https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/track/lore-2-the-revengning">lore 2: the revengening</a> anyway, it's exactly like in Star Trek: The Search for Spock). + The track parodies the parody music team [SiIvagunner](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9ecwl3FTG66jIKA9JRDtmg)'s "lore", by having the man himself show up and kill Bowman in the middle of the laziest mashup yet. It represents the very real ban of credit score rips in the CANMT. After this album, you'll see them vanish (until he gets revived by Stutzman in BOWMANIA's [lore 2: the revengening](https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/track/lore-2-the-revengning) anyway, it's exactly like in Star Trek: The Search for Spock). [[artist:no-funny-name]] is dramatically revealed as the traitor, referencing his fake persona's lore (i.e. [[track:the-beginning-of-something]]). In a way, this was the true Revenge of the GiIvasunner-- [shots] --- @@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ Lyrics: |- This is true for many of us here, even if such a statement seems alien to veteran Redditors outside of /r/homestuck. Commentary: |- <i>Makin:</i> (team manager) - Reference to <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/332gv9/meta_suicidalsushi_and_mindbleach_slow_your_roll/">this infamous reddit post</a>. + Reference to [this infamous reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/332gv9/meta_suicidalsushi_and_mindbleach_slow_your_roll/). --- Track: Do You Remem8er That Time We Chased a Serial Killer Artists: @@ -883,7 +883,7 @@ Sampled Tracks: - The Legend of Zelda Commentary: |- <i>Makin:</i> (team manager) - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPgd8FTQZfA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPgd8FTQZfA</a> + [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPgd8FTQZfA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPgd8FTQZfA) --- Track: justice must be a serve (no sirens) Artists: @@ -910,7 +910,7 @@ Sampled Tracks: - Dawn of Man Commentary: |- <i>Makin:</i> (team manager) - Finally made it good over seven years later (see <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4yGcLelGeU">here</a>). + Finally made it good over seven years later (see [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4yGcLelGeU)). --- Track: Penumbra Wubtasm (brief) Artists: @@ -1039,7 +1039,7 @@ Lyrics: |- This is true for many of us here, even if such a statement seems alien to veteran Redditors outside of /r/homestuck. Commentary: |- <i>Makin:</i> (team manager) - Reference to <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/332gv9/meta_suicidalsushi_and_mindbleach_slow_your_roll/">this infamous reddit post</a>. + Reference to [this infamous reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/332gv9/meta_suicidalsushi_and_mindbleach_slow_your_roll/). --- Track: '*xplore' Artists: @@ -1269,7 +1269,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Sampled Tracks: - Crystamanthequins Lyrics: |- - <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/57k36k/woodys_got_wood/">I'm not transcribing this</a>. + [I'm not transcribing this](https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/57k36k/woodys_got_wood/). --- Track: Cat Song Artists: diff --git a/album/capricious-mistress-single.yaml b/album/capricious-mistress-single.yaml index ed8251c6..3901ad48 100644 --- a/album/capricious-mistress-single.yaml +++ b/album/capricious-mistress-single.yaml @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Art Tags: - Gamzee Commentary: |- <i>Kezinox:</i> - Basically a club dance theme for Fem!Gamzee. not sure how I arrived and settled on that idea, (probably from listening to [<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100830182827/http://tindeck.com/listen/ebft">Tents and Mirth</a>] too much), but thats what happened. + Basically a club dance theme for Fem!Gamzee. not sure how I arrived and settled on that idea, (probably from listening to \[[Tents and Mirth](https://web.archive.org/web/20100830182827/http://tindeck.com/listen/ebft)] too much), but thats what happened. Also, a shout out to [[artist:coffee-and-paperbags]] for drawing the picture and being ok with me using it as the art. --- diff --git a/album/caves-and-silence.yaml b/album/caves-and-silence.yaml index 1a21e90b..81e29659 100644 --- a/album/caves-and-silence.yaml +++ b/album/caves-and-silence.yaml @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ URLs: - https://devieus.bandcamp.com/track/cave-evils Commentary: |- <i>Devieus:</i> - Remember the <a href="https://youtu.be/Kfq4H6Ouqdc">Diablo 2 cave soundtracks</a>? You will when listening to this, but that was too low pitched to sound right, so now it's a bit better. + Remember the [Diablo 2 cave soundtracks](https://youtu.be/Kfq4H6Ouqdc)? You will when listening to this, but that was too low pitched to sound right, so now it's a bit better. --- Track: Cave darkness Duration: '0:45' diff --git a/album/cherubim.yaml b/album/cherubim.yaml index b87b296e..260a33f8 100644 --- a/album/cherubim.yaml +++ b/album/cherubim.yaml @@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ Commentary: |- Mastering EsC highlights that there's large gaps in my skill for music production that I need to brush up on. This is good - It's always good to have targets for self improvement. I'll say right now that both versions are still considerably better than Rex Duodecim Angelus :p And essentially it's the same deal - A synth-orchestral romp through a Homestuck medley meant to sound mean and imposing and threatening, so I won't say I'm not improving :D. TL:DR: Yes the old version will be released at a later date. It sounds different because I'm wishy-washy at mastering. (I'm not actually sure if I'm using that term right, I'm basing it off Peanuts) Hope that answers ya'lls questions :) - (<a href="https://dragonxvi.tumblr.com/post/28573051810/eternitys-shylock-a-short-commentary">Tumblr</a>) + ([Tumblr](https://dragonxvi.tumblr.com/post/28573051810/eternitys-shylock-a-short-commentary)) <img src="media/misc/04681.gif" width="300" warning="motion warning"> I've been getting a lot of questions about this guy, so here goes: It's commentry time!!! @@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ Commentary: |- "Eternity's Shylock" is an odd one I'll grant you. It's alternative working title is "Eternity Served Cold". "Eternity" should be obvious. He's a time travelling demon after all. "Shylock" is a bit more confusing and that leads us on to... <b>A bit of controversy with the name</b> - "Shylock", as many of you know, is a character from "The Merchant of Venice". Specifically, a rather antagonistic Jewish Moneylender. You can <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice#Shylock_and_the_antisemitism_debate">read all about the antisemitism debate on the WIKI page</a> but long story short, the character of Shylock has quite a bit of controversy surrounding the portrayal of the Jewish. + "Shylock", as many of you know, is a character from "The Merchant of Venice". Specifically, a rather antagonistic Jewish Moneylender. You can [read all about the antisemitism debate on the WIKI page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice#Shylock_and_the_antisemitism_debate) but long story short, the character of Shylock has quite a bit of controversy surrounding the portrayal of the Jewish. Now, from the name "Shylock" it's also a slang term for "Loan Shark" - One who loans money yet charges extraordinary amounts of interest and threatens those who cannot pay the return. It was used in 20th century gangster/Mafia slang, and that's where I pulled it from as a nice fit to Lord English. Therefore "Eternity's Shylock" - One who gives time, only to take it back with interest. It's a bit of a stretch, but in the end it sounded like a nice name - Mildly sinister, yet grand. Now, my use of the term "Shylock" in this context is that of a Loan-shark. There's been plenty of portrayals of this profession, particularly in crime dramas where one character gets in deep with one and they send round "The boys" to break some fingers etc. The name "Shylock" in this manner refers to the profession and behavior rather than the character or his religious beliefs, but I can fully believe why some people would look at the name "Shylock" with disgust, given the controversy surrounding him. This was my bad in lack of research, and I apologize. There was certainly no insult meant if it was received. diff --git a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml index 0e83e7fd..9d1566d9 100644 --- a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml +++ b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml @@ -219,9 +219,9 @@ MIDI Project Files: - 'Gold Pilot - Unknown C (piano).mid' Commentary: |- <i>First Turn Fold:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZqYLuCH62Q&lc=Ugxs1lhU-OE0XQ9zHXB4AaABAg">YouTube</a>) + ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZqYLuCH62Q&lc=Ugxs1lhU-OE0XQ9zHXB4AaABAg)) Originally the piece was called "The Green Odyssey". A fairly self explanatory title in light of it being about Bec, methinks. - (<a href="https://youtu.be/QZqYLuCH62Q">YouTube</a>) + ([YouTube](https://youtu.be/QZqYLuCH62Q)) So this is Gold Pilot, the song I wrote for the Homestuck album Colours and Mayhem. This song has become the theme of the Psiioniic (and it works freakishly well as such) but I wrote it originally in honor of Bec (to the dismay of some). The song recently made it into the actual comic as the music for the Act 6 Act 6 Intermission 1 animation. (totally took me by surprise!) Enjoy, Homestuck fans, and others alike! @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> Teal Hunter was sort of the middle child of my three Homestuck music contest submissions. Even now it's still my least favorite of the three songs I submitted. Why Radiation picked it along with my other two, I'll never know. I certainly wasn't expecting it to be chosen. With over a thousand submissions I'm sure there was no shortage of Redglare songs for him to choose from. Maybe the $20 I slipped him when I submitted my songs had something to do with it But his ways are not our ways. - When Volume 9 came out, a lot of people looked at Radiation's arrangement of Stress by Buzinaki and started noting similarities between it and Teal Hunter. Radiation wrote about why the two songs sound similar in his commentary for Stress. If we're going to talk about "what sounds like what", then I'll lay my cards on the table and state that Teal Hunter was begun as pretty much a direct reference to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt_0Lg4-RkE">00 Gundam</a> from the Gundam 00 soundtrack (if you can't tell by now, I really like Gundams). When I started the piece, the first draft was more or less a low-rent version of that song, in the same way a cartoon that wants to parody Indiana Jones would get a song that sounds close to John Williams' Raiders March without being close enough to qualify as plagiarism. So I just kept fiddling with it until the two melodies sounded different. By the time I got to the final product and had added the buildup in the beginning, the two had nothing but their rhythm and syncopation in common. + When Volume 9 came out, a lot of people looked at Radiation's arrangement of Stress by Buzinaki and started noting similarities between it and Teal Hunter. Radiation wrote about why the two songs sound similar in his commentary for Stress. If we're going to talk about "what sounds like what", then I'll lay my cards on the table and state that Teal Hunter was begun as pretty much a direct reference to [00 Gundam](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt_0Lg4-RkE) from the Gundam 00 soundtrack (if you can't tell by now, I really like Gundams). When I started the piece, the first draft was more or less a low-rent version of that song, in the same way a cartoon that wants to parody Indiana Jones would get a song that sounds close to John Williams' Raiders March without being close enough to qualify as plagiarism. So I just kept fiddling with it until the two melodies sounded different. By the time I got to the final product and had added the buildup in the beginning, the two had nothing but their rhythm and syncopation in common. Teal Hunter's original title was Bête Blanche, a play on bête noire, a French phrase literally meaning "black beast" that the fan name "Bec Noir" is most likely a reference to. As evident, the song was originally allocated to PM, the one Exile powerful enough to battle Jack Noir to a stalemate. --- Track: Cobalt Corsair @@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ Commentary: |- <b>SECTION III - EXECUTION</b> This is the final minute of the piece, just after the moment of silence. It explodes into a wall of sound, seeking to bring back the power of the first section in a more open way. I actually wrote part of this section before working on the rest of the piece, so naturally, it's what set the general tone. My favourite melody is introduced in this section (played most obviously by the flutes), and I regret not being able to flesh the idea out more. The piccolo part rising above the rest is interesting - it fits perfectly in with the whole pirate theme, despite me never considering this to be a pirate song. I suppose I consider this section the execution of various plans, to a successful conclusion. <b>INSTRUMENT GROUPS</b> - Now, as you can probably tell from listening, Cobalt Corsair is very dense texturally. To give you a visual idea, here's a post from a little while ago showing the layout of the sequencer. <a href="https://imbrog.tumblr.com/post/23713453688/did-i-ever-mention-just-how-long-cobalt-corsair">It's big.</a> + Now, as you can probably tell from listening, Cobalt Corsair is very dense texturally. To give you a visual idea, here's a post from a little while ago showing the layout of the sequencer. [It's big.](https://imbrog.tumblr.com/post/23713453688/did-i-ever-mention-just-how-long-cobalt-corsair) So, I've decided to chop the piece up in terms of the instrument groups, for anyone who wanted to understand what the hell is going on underneath all that sound. BRASS | STRINGS | WOODWIND | PERCUSSION AND MISCELLANEOUS <i>(dead dropbox links)</i> --- @@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Kezinox:</i> Obviously with a name like Witc)(ing )(our, this song is for the condesce/batterwitch/etc. I always figured a sexy psychotic space empress bent on universal domination needed an over-the-top evil, but also dance-able track. I'd actually been planning to do a song like this for her for quite a while since she's one of—if not my favorite—characters. Every 30 seconds or so represents a time in the Condesce's life as we know it up to now and, while the song is almost wholly original, I did pull a few minor, but very recognizable things from songs like [[track:liquid-negrocity|liquid negrocity]] and [[track:twoward2-the-heaven2|Twoard2 the Heaven2]] to help really nail the connection. - (<a href="https://soundcloud.com/kezinox/witching-hour">SoundCloud</a>) + ([SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/kezinox/witching-hour)) This is my song entry for the Homestuck Music Contest--essentially a dark electro house song for the Condesce. On a technical level this song more or less represents the culmination of all the practice and knowledge I've gained from working with music up until now. --- Section: Side 2 @@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>Decon Theed, repeatedScales|[[artist:repeatedscales]]:</i> Yes, I'm still amused by the fact that the comments on the most popular YouTube upload of this song essentially consist of nothing but "THIS REMINDS ME OF X GAME". - And not one of them has ever guessed Baten Kaitos, which provided the primary sources of inspiration for this track (the two Chaotic Dance songs: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B64f48ewdo">link</a> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ftFQ_ToXvA">link</a>). Absolute madness. + And not one of them has ever guessed Baten Kaitos, which provided the primary sources of inspiration for this track (the two Chaotic Dance songs: [link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B64f48ewdo) - [link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ftFQ_ToXvA)). Absolute madness. So. Gold Mage. Originally known as "Playtime is Over" and written for Dirk Strider before being repurposed to Sollux. Probably my most successful song, before I wrote that remix of Amalgum from Undertale. The very first piece of music I ever made money on. I shan't lie; I'm not as fond of this song as I used to be. Not because of the Homestuck connection or anything; simply because it's just too repettitive. Enough so that it lead to why the eventual remix of it turned out the way it did (too busy and cluttered in places - [[track:gold-mage-playtime-is-over-mix]]) It was so with purpose; I did intend for lyrics to go over this- I even wrote a few- but never recorded anything. But honestly, I can't quite bring myself to hate it. The chords are quite nice, what melodies there are + the basslines are pretty slick, and it was my first major musical success. Though the royalties have since slowed way, way down- it's like £10 every four months, if that- it was a major deal when it first dropped as a part of coloUrs & mayhem: Universe A. Even Toby Fox and (assuming I'm not misremembering entirely) Andrew Hussie had nice things to say about it- directly comarping it to EarthBound-type stuff and being astounded it was written, from the ground up, in a PS1 game. I may not be much into Homestuck these days, and I definitely think the song is showing it's age... but, hell, it's special to me all the same. One of the most integral pieces of my early music career by a wide margin. diff --git a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b.yaml b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b.yaml index bad88154..449fa21c 100644 --- a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b.yaml +++ b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b.yaml @@ -160,11 +160,11 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Black Rose / Green Sun Commentary: |- <i>David DeCou:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf5X2PbLNfQ&lc=UgwWhsMYgXXX5g_F4Yl4AaABAg">YouTube</a>) + ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf5X2PbLNfQ&lc=UgwWhsMYgXXX5g_F4Yl4AaABAg)) <blockquote>Probably one of my favorite songs on the album. I'm curious, what songs are remixed in this?</blockquote> Thanks! The first five notes are from Chorale for Jaspers, and I used that twice in the song. I also used the chord progression that's often used in Sburban Jungle in the middle section with the drums, organ, piano and strings. (actually, a lot of homestuck songs) but the rest of it is original I'm pretty sure. - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf5X2PbLNfQ&lc=UgzZnx3ouFO3y5zD49B4AaABAg">YouTube</a>) + ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf5X2PbLNfQ&lc=UgzZnx3ouFO3y5zD49B4AaABAg)) <blockquote>I thought I heard Black Hole/Green Sun, and also, if you squint your ears just right, it sounds a bit like The Dangerous Symphony (not a Homestuck song)</blockquote> Black Rose/Green Sun is a great song. I did use the same sort of chord progression that's in there. It shows up in a lot of Homestuck songs though I think. --- @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>David Ellis:</i> This piece started as an offshoot of a song that was very loosely based on John and Jade's three year voyage between the two windows. I felt that the theme that became the chorus to this piece needed to be at a higher tempo than the rest of that song so I took it out and based this tune around it instead. It was originally titled 'Heir of the Dog' as I was still thinking it could be either a Jade or a John piece at the time and wasn't certain who I'd end up submitting it for (also because terrible puns). Technical note: Although the piece features keyboard and guitar solos the bass was actually the hardest part to play, in particular during the chorus and the part behind the guitar solo. - Extra: This is no longer true since I recorded <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGLUBAgOS7E">the video</a>. For the original recording the two handed parts in the verses and the outro were originally done as 2 separate takes for each one. It wasn't until I started the video that I thought 'I could turn these into single parts' and made things really difficult for myself. + Extra: This is no longer true since I recorded [the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGLUBAgOS7E). For the original recording the two handed parts in the verses and the outro were originally done as 2 separate takes for each one. It wasn't until I started the video that I thought 'I could turn these into single parts' and made things really difficult for myself. --- Track: Pink Cat Additional Names: @@ -736,9 +736,9 @@ Commentary: |- Let me also point out that it made me extremely happy to see in canon that Jake bounces from side to side before he is about to fight; it was the exact image of him I was hoping for. - Also, while composing, I imagined Dapper Dueling to fit a fight scene similar to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGCMfprPJoA">this</a>, from Sherlock Holmes (2009). + Also, while composing, I imagined Dapper Dueling to fit a fight scene similar to [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGCMfprPJoA), from Sherlock Holmes (2009). - <i>Max Wright:</i> (composer, <a href="https://youtu.be/clnLNQkB5O4">YouTube description</a>, excerpt) + <i>Max Wright:</i> (composer, [YouTube description](https://youtu.be/clnLNQkB5O4), excerpt) This was my interpretation of a Jake Strife theme. After the intensity of [[Cobalt Corsair]] I wanted to make something fun to listen to, and ended up with this. Imagine Jake English bouncing nimbly from side to side, facing off to wrestle his eager opponent. diff --git a/album/comfortable-bugs.yaml b/album/comfortable-bugs.yaml index d9c2c945..d9218408 100644 --- a/album/comfortable-bugs.yaml +++ b/album/comfortable-bugs.yaml @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Of the secret inside that I'm still afraid Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3xgvhsPJgA">Music video!</a>) + ([Music video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3xgvhsPJgA)) --- Track: Three Small Words Duration: '4:04' diff --git a/album/compass-original-soundtrack.yaml b/album/compass-original-soundtrack.yaml index bb2a7bd8..92335c84 100644 --- a/album/compass-original-soundtrack.yaml +++ b/album/compass-original-soundtrack.yaml @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Groups: - Beyond Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> - Original soundtrack for Compass, an interactive comic about two travellers sailing to the edge of the world. Finally complete after 4 years, read Compass at: <a href="compass.circlejourney.net">compass.circlejourney.net</a> ! + Original soundtrack for Compass, an interactive comic about two travellers sailing to the edge of the world. Finally complete after 4 years, read Compass at: [compass.circlejourney.net](compass.circlejourney.net) ! --- Track: Compass Directory: compass-compass-ost diff --git a/album/cookiefonsters-2016-famitracker-covers.yaml b/album/cookiefonsters-2016-famitracker-covers.yaml index ff8bd1e0..7c696a41 100644 --- a/album/cookiefonsters-2016-famitracker-covers.yaml +++ b/album/cookiefonsters-2016-famitracker-covers.yaml @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Commentary: |- Happy 4/13 everybody! Here's another 8-bit cover, this time of a much under-appreciated song judging by its results on YouTube. I mean seriously, it's essentially the sequel to one of the comic's most memorable songs. <i>cookiefonster:</i> ([YouTube commentary edit](https://youtu.be/1J9EhfZGroU)) - I've remade this cover five years after the initial upload. Link to the new version: <a href="https://youtu.be/1Ym2UGBJ02Q">youtu.be/1Ym2UGBJ02Q</a> + I've remade this cover five years after the initial upload. Link to the new version: [youtu.be/1Ym2UGBJ02Q](https://youtu.be/1Ym2UGBJ02Q) --- Track: Sburban Countdown Directory: sburban-countdown-famitracker diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-2.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-2.yaml index 50d5fa47..d7e6f339 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-2.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-2.yaml @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Additional Files: - canh2booklet.pdf Commentary: |- <i>Cool and New Music Team:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMXVVm-BDvr9dkjjKJMX-vEjPNKWuPiRx">Cool and New Homestuck 2 — video playlist rescoring Homestuck flashes</a>) + ([Cool and New Homestuck 2 — video playlist rescoring Homestuck flashes](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMXVVm-BDvr9dkjjKJMX-vEjPNKWuPiRx)) <i>Cecily Renns:</i> (Mastered the Album) This album is extremely great, but why its really brought to perfection is that a whole THREE songs reference We are Number One from LazyTown. @@ -56,10 +56,10 @@ Commentary: |- Let it be known that I made the majority of this booklet while watching hit film <i>The Room</i> <i>Cool and New Music Team:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wav1VaR5_pw">Cool and New Homestuck 2: Announcement</a>) + ([Cool and New Homestuck 2: Announcement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wav1VaR5_pw)) <i>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLeV23B5gY0">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLeV23B5gY0)) --- Section: Disk 2 Act 1 --- @@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ Commentary: |- Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles s Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles Touch muscles Touch my muscles Touch my muscles AÀÁÂÄÆÃÅĀIÌĮĪÍ <i>Shadok:</i> (Artist) - Just a screenshot from this: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2nVW45M1M0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2nVW45M1M0</a> + Just a screenshot from this: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2nVW45M1M0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2nVW45M1M0) --- Track: gnarly piono solbo Artists: diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3.yaml index 0596338f..54aaecc2 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3.yaml @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Additional Files: - canh3act7booklet.pdf Commentary: |- <i>Cool and New Music Team:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMXVVm-BDvr8Ep_NQsymrjwYOD5eSVlh8">Cool and New Homestuck 3 — video playlist rescoring Homestuck flashes</a>) + ([Cool and New Homestuck 3 — video playlist rescoring Homestuck flashes](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMXVVm-BDvr8Ep_NQsymrjwYOD5eSVlh8)) <i>william_:</i> (Bonus Art Contributor) "No Drama" CANMT-tan: @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/KGuxvBcXstI Commentary: |- <i>bobthetacocat:</i> (Composer) - After I started my Gaster's theme rip, (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxFBwHv6ljk">which you can find on the Cool And New Music Team Youtube Channel</a>, I decideed to include Showtime (Piano Refrain) into the mix (which I later removed to not repeat the joke.) After I exported what I had at the moment and put the track in the Discord chat, [[artist:wights-end|OpsCat]] pointed out that Showtime worked well in the mix, and that Showtime Piano Refrain wasn't taken for CANHS3. I realized this was my time to shine. + After I started my Gaster's theme rip, ([which you can find on the Cool And New Music Team Youtube Channel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxFBwHv6ljk), I decideed to include Showtime (Piano Refrain) into the mix (which I later removed to not repeat the joke.) After I exported what I had at the moment and put the track in the Discord chat, [[artist:wights-end|OpsCat]] pointed out that Showtime worked well in the mix, and that Showtime Piano Refrain wasn't taken for CANHS3. I realized this was my time to shine. And by 'time to shine' I mean 'time to shove memes into a midi and then put it through the Gaster piano, and also add the rct theme at the end because I could.' Apparently I count as a composer now, so that's cool (and new), I guess. @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ Commentary: |- Harleband 1 had to have been the greatest and most beloved song of the [[album:cool-and-new-homestuck|[S] CaNH Disk 1 Discography]], and as such it was my duty to reinovate it from the ground up to deliver a quality sequal... not the sequal this world begged me to not make, but the sequal I made despite the flipant ironic remarks as to how terrible it was. <i>Shadok:</i> (Artist) - Inspired by [[track:harleband|this masterpiece]]: <a href="https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/track/harleband">https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/track/harleband</a> + Inspired by [[track:harleband|this masterpiece]]: [https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/track/harleband](https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/track/harleband) --- Track: pnoy crhlae Artists: diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck.yaml index 31c1ad03..cb9d80e8 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck.yaml @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Additional Files: - harleband.png Commentary: |- <i>Bambosh:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMXVVm-BDvr-NZW8MecTyvi-YwyMHG4l3">Cool and New Homestuck — video playlist rescoring Homestuck flashes</a>) + ([Cool and New Homestuck — video playlist rescoring Homestuck flashes](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMXVVm-BDvr-NZW8MecTyvi-YwyMHG4l3)) <i>Makin:</i> Cool and New Homestuck is some kind of horrifying amalgamation between Homestuck's iconic flash animations, and the CANWC Music Team's iconic shitty music. I tell a lie though, because we kind of forgot to make this album shit. @@ -36,10 +36,10 @@ Commentary: |- whoops <i>Hadron:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLeqsnfpuhI">Trailer - Cool and New Homestuck</a>) + ([Trailer - Cool and New Homestuck](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLeqsnfpuhI)) <i>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kke7l7C0UVA?t=1556">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kke7l7C0UVA?t=1556)) --- Section: Act 1 --- @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Beatdown (Strider Style) Commentary: |- <i>Minkt:</i> - I really enjoyed the original Upward Movement, and felt that the new one would have to be even better to do the original justice. I have been infatuated with music that is more synthesised ever since I gave the Hotline Miami soundtrack a listen, so there is some inspiration there. The first version of this redvx had base midi drums and a guitar synthesizer and seemed off, so I looked up how to make synths like those in Hotline Miami and similar synthwave creations. After throwing on a new drum kit and synth, the song surprised me by actually sounding good. I'd like to thank Makin and others for giving the original a listen and telling me how to fix it, and the rest of the music and art team for putting out this COOL and NEW masterpiece. <a href="../../media/misc/JaedAngery.png">:JaedAngery:</a> + I really enjoyed the original Upward Movement, and felt that the new one would have to be even better to do the original justice. I have been infatuated with music that is more synthesised ever since I gave the Hotline Miami soundtrack a listen, so there is some inspiration there. The first version of this redvx had base midi drums and a guitar synthesizer and seemed off, so I looked up how to make synths like those in Hotline Miami and similar synthwave creations. After throwing on a new drum kit and synth, the song surprised me by actually sounding good. I'd like to thank Makin and others for giving the original a listen and telling me how to fix it, and the rest of the music and art team for putting out this COOL and NEW masterpiece. [:JaedAngery:](../../media/misc/JaedAngery.png) <i>Makin:</i> I thought of how the Cool and New version of this flash would go, and I remembered how Jhon moved around once or twice. The joke was obvious after that. @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ Commentary: |- 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 <i>Minish:</i> - I made the track art for this song using a frame I screenshotted from the flash itself, which you can find <a href="http://i.imgur.com/9wrqRmx.png">here</a>. Also, the track art was actually cropped. If you want the original, you can find it <a href="../../media/album-additional/cool-and-new-homestuck/harleband.png">here</a>. + I made the track art for this song using a frame I screenshotted from the flash itself, which you can find [here](http://i.imgur.com/9wrqRmx.png). Also, the track art was actually cropped. If you want the original, you can find it [here](../../media/album-additional/cool-and-new-homestuck/harleband.png). Also Minish on Kazoo is cancelled indefinitely sorry folks --- @@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Lala la la lalalala lalalalala Commentary: |- <i>Wheals:</i> - <a href="https://redd.it/4hkfod">I'm sorry.</a> + [I'm sorry.](https://redd.it/4hkfod) <i>BitesizeBird:</i> Something I threw together as there was art needed. @@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Make her a member of the midnight crew... Commentary: |- <i>Interrobang:</i> - I decided that I wanted to make one of these cool and new tracks, and, being late in the game, this was the one of the only ones left that I felt I could do justice. As a challenge to myself, I decided that I would not use [[Penumbra Phantasm]] at all in the song, which proved to be fairly difficult. The song follows the same structure as the original, but with mostly different motifs that fit the characters shown at points in [[flash:2927|the flash]]. At the end, I was going to include something serious, but I decided to do something more high quality instead. Special thanks to [[artist:cecily-renns|JohnJRenns]] for the help with DVS Sax, and Destradious for making <a href="../../media/album-additional/homestuck-vol-6/Umbral%20Ultimatum%20-%20Destradious.mid">the MIDI</a> I based my song off of. + I decided that I wanted to make one of these cool and new tracks, and, being late in the game, this was the one of the only ones left that I felt I could do justice. As a challenge to myself, I decided that I would not use [[Penumbra Phantasm]] at all in the song, which proved to be fairly difficult. The song follows the same structure as the original, but with mostly different motifs that fit the characters shown at points in [[flash:2927|the flash]]. At the end, I was going to include something serious, but I decided to do something more high quality instead. Special thanks to [[artist:cecily-renns|JohnJRenns]] for the help with DVS Sax, and Destradious for making [the MIDI](../../media/album-additional/homestuck-vol-6/Umbral%20Ultimatum%20-%20Destradious.mid) I based my song off of. <i>groeuf:</i> pchoooot diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-volume-2.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-volume-2.yaml index 67cad18f..bde4be4f 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-volume-2.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-volume-2.yaml @@ -39,10 +39,10 @@ Commentary: |- I'm just pointing out that this whole 50+ track album came out two and a half weeks after [[album:cool-and-new-voulem1|our previous 50+ track album]]. <i>Interrobang:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNRRfEvIq-I">HEY MAN VOLUME 2 MAN CHECK IT OUT</a>) + ([HEY MAN VOLUME 2 MAN CHECK IT OUT](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNRRfEvIq-I)) <i>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GyZeqU-eu0?t=3587">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GyZeqU-eu0?t=3587)) <i>Discfortune:</i> who am i kidding meme numbers are great @@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ 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> (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>) + ([\[META] SuicidalSushi and mindbleach: Slow your roll](https://old.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/332gv9/meta_suicidalsushi_and_mindbleach_slow_your_roll/)) --- Track: good remix of a homestuck song Artists: @@ -1105,7 +1105,7 @@ Lyrics: |- (Woah. Hey guys. Welcome to—) (GameBro!) (games.) (I'm here to pick up my copy of RollerCoaster Tycoon.) (Copy that.) (Jhon you kinky fuck I can't wait to play RollerCoaster Tycoon with you.) (Did I say you could talk?) (No daddy I'm sorry.) (Good. Now I can play RollerCoaster Tycoon and question my homosexuality in peace. What's up guys? XXSnipe_JhonXX here with the RollerCoaster Tycoon gameplay video. Like, subscribe, and rate five hats if you enjoy.) Commentary: |- <i>Minkt:</i> - (<a href="https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx7OgwRkk4c7ZD6NcwJ6mx7IsmovcfovcY">Music video</a>) + ([Music video](https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx7OgwRkk4c7ZD6NcwJ6mx7IsmovcfovcY)) [Editors note: Video lost so clipped off of album release stream recording, sorry] --- Track: i am sitting in a piano diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-volume-7.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-volume-7.yaml index 47efb630..c6e7e28b 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-volume-7.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-volume-7.yaml @@ -29,10 +29,10 @@ Groups: - Fandom Commentary: |- <i>XenoZane:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLJE5d3G5rk">volme 7 traiIer</a>) + ([volme 7 traiIer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLJE5d3G5rk)) <i>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbUTs-9XMC4&t=2650">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbUTs-9XMC4&t=2650)) --- Section: Diks 1 --- diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-volume-ii.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-volume-ii.yaml index e191070b..e80a9e0f 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-volume-ii.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-volume-ii.yaml @@ -55,10 +55,10 @@ Commentary: |- I'm just pointing out that this whole 50 track album came out two and a half hours after [[album:cool-and-new-volume-2|our previous 50+ track album]]. <i>XenoZane:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1-x5K1nFfA">cool and new direct 7.20.16</a>) + ([cool and new direct 7.20.16](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1-x5K1nFfA)) <i>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GyZeqU-eu0?t=10947">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GyZeqU-eu0?t=10947)) --- Track: HECKA JEF SONB Artists: @@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Commentary: |- <i>Griever:</i> - also if u can ried jojostukc pls (<a href="https://www.mspfanventures.com?s=13714">mspfanventures.com?s=13714</a>, its not s gret as cool n new but its preti gud + also if u can ried jojostukc pls ([mspfanventures.com?s=13714](https://www.mspfanventures.com?s=13714), its not s gret as cool n new but its preti gud (help he's holding me captive) --- @@ -866,7 +866,7 @@ Sampled Tracks: - Bowman's Credit Score Commentary: |- <i>XenoZane:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGLYGZ6kEpI">Music video!</a>) + ([Music video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGLYGZ6kEpI)) Lyrics: |- (I'm thinking of a number between my buttocks.) (I'm thinking of a number between my buttocks.) diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-volume-sx.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-volume-sx.yaml index 69d8aeb4..2fa9d0c0 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-volume-sx.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-volume-sx.yaml @@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ Commentary: |- the wurst volume yet.... <i>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwYhJaWVePk&t=5990">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>)<br> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zkRy0gMKUs">Community listening stream w/ chat - last couple songs</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwYhJaWVePk&t=5990))<br> + ([Community listening stream w/ chat - last couple songs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zkRy0gMKUs)) --- Track: here's an idea Artists: @@ -910,7 +910,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/9zbkJKXrc0Y Commentary: |- <i>Makin:</i> (team manager) - There's a borderline reference to the lone 'Bleep' chord in [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|Michael Bowman]]'s' <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA9uy3KdeEU">radiation is now on youtube</a> video. + There's a borderline reference to the lone 'Bleep' chord in [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|Michael Bowman]]'s' [radiation is now on youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA9uy3KdeEU) video. --- Track: iran knight (meme dumpverizon) Artists: diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-volume-v.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-volume-v.yaml index 48458a9b..66d13381 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-volume-v.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-volume-v.yaml @@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ Commentary: |- UPDATE: Since the release of this album, George Buzinkai has passed away. They were an inspiration to all of us and will be sorely missed. Rest In Peace, George. <i>XenoZane:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-PC121GotA">CANWC Volume 3 Trailer</a>) + ([CANWC Volume 3 Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-PC121GotA)) <i>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHjiWhS4Zks&t=2h09m16s">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHjiWhS4Zks&t=2h09m16s)) --- Track: Doctar Artists: @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ Lyrics: |- ([Unintelligible] Wait, something's going on with his EKG. What's wrong with him? I don't know, but this doesn't look good. We're losing him! He's dead.) Commentary: |- <i>Bin:</i> - For the longest time, I've felt that the track "Doctor", featured as track number 37 on the album "Homestuck Vol. 1-4" has gone unfairly unnoticed by the majority of Homestuckies and Buzinkai fans alike. Inspiration struck one day, and I decided to give this hidden gem some love. In a creative fervor, I threw open Audacity and sampled a heart rate monitor, musical senses coming to life as I pitched each individual beep. I was on a roll at this point, and a second wave of inspiration hit me where I least expected it. I pulled out my microphone and poured my soul into every voiceclip, the spirit of doctors everywhere flowing through me. With my newly acquired "medical license", I performed invasive surgery on the track, in a manner of speaking, and ended up with something I was more or less happy with. I'm pretty sure the song is only like twenty seconds long, so it wasn't really that hard, but I'm still proud of the achievement. On a side note, Buzinkai actually intentionally made the song to sound like a heart rate monitor, as he revealed in his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsG71P_zEIE">explanation thing</a>, but I didn't know this until a few days after I made the track. I found that to be a funny coincidence. + For the longest time, I've felt that the track "Doctor", featured as track number 37 on the album "Homestuck Vol. 1-4" has gone unfairly unnoticed by the majority of Homestuckies and Buzinkai fans alike. Inspiration struck one day, and I decided to give this hidden gem some love. In a creative fervor, I threw open Audacity and sampled a heart rate monitor, musical senses coming to life as I pitched each individual beep. I was on a roll at this point, and a second wave of inspiration hit me where I least expected it. I pulled out my microphone and poured my soul into every voiceclip, the spirit of doctors everywhere flowing through me. With my newly acquired "medical license", I performed invasive surgery on the track, in a manner of speaking, and ended up with something I was more or less happy with. I'm pretty sure the song is only like twenty seconds long, so it wasn't really that hard, but I'm still proud of the achievement. On a side note, Buzinkai actually intentionally made the song to sound like a heart rate monitor, as he revealed in his [explanation thing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsG71P_zEIE), but I didn't know this until a few days after I made the track. I found that to be a funny coincidence. Anyway, this song took me around ten minutes to make, so I hope you enjoy it. @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ Commentary: |- (don't even think about kinkyshaming me) <i>XenoZane:</i> - HEY ASSHOLE NICE WORK AND ALL BUT GUESS WHO'S THE ONE WITH A DIPLOMA HERE YEAH ITS ME SO YOU BETTER SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LISTEN BECAUSE I DONT HAVE TIME FOR YOUR BULLSHIT I WORKED MY ASS OFF IN MED SCHOOL TO GET THIS FUCKING DIPLOMA AND YOU THINK YOU CAN JUST FUCKING PULL THIS SHIT THINK AGAIN FUCKNUTS BECAUSE GUESS WHAT I CAN END YOUR LIFE RIGHT NOW IF I WANTED TO YEAH REALLY GUESS WHOS ON THE OPERATING TABLE NOT FUCKING ME ITS YOU ASSHOLE SO WATCH YOUR FUCKING TONGUE BEFORE I PULL THE DAMN THING OFF YOU YOU SELFISH ARROGANT PRICK YOU CANT TELL ME HOW TO DO MY FUCKING JOB ASSHAT WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST FUCKING SAY ABOUT ME YOU LITTLE BITCH I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW I GRADUATED TOP OF MY CLASS AT MED SCHOOL FOR THIS DIPLOMA AND I'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN NUMEROUS SECRET RAIDS ON THE PHARMACY AND I HAVE OVER 300 CONFIRMED PERSCRIPTIONS I AM TRAINED IN MEDICAL WARFARE AND I'M THE TOP DOCTOR IN THE ENTIRE HOSPITAL YOU ARE NOTHING TO ME BUT JUST ANOTHER PATIENT I WILL PERSCRIBE YOU THE FUCK OUT WITH MEDICINE THE LIKES OF WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE ON THIS EARTH MARK MY FUCKING WORDS YOU THINK YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH SAYING THAT SHIT TO ME FROM ON THE OPERATING TABLE THINK AGAIN FUCKER AS WE SPEAK I AM CONTACTING MY SECRET NETWORK OF NURSES ACROSS THE HOSPITAL AND YOUR LIFE IS BEING SAVED RIGHT NOW SO YOU BETTER PREPARE FOR THE OPERATION, MAGGOT THE OPERATION THAT SAVES THE PATHETIC LITTLE THING YOU CALL YOUR LIFE YOU'RE FUCKING SAVED KID I CAN BE ANYWHERE ANYTIME AND I CAN PERSCRIBE YOU OVER SEVEN HUNDRED MEDICATIONS AND THAT'S JUST WITH MY BARE DIPLOMA NOT ONLY AM I EXTENSIVELY TRAINED IN UNARMED SURGERY BUT I HAVE ACCESS TO THE ENTIRE COLLECTION OF THE UNITED STATES PHARMACIES AND I WILL USE IT TO ITS FULL EXTENT TO SAVE YOUR MISERABLE ASS OFF THE FACE OF THE CONTINENT YOU LITTLE SHIT IF ONLY YOU COULD HAVE KNOWN WHAT UNHOLY OPERATION YOUR LITTLE "CLEVER" COMMENT WAS ABOUT TO BRING DOWN UPON YOU MAYBE YOU WOULD HAVE HELD YOUR FUCKING TONGUE BUT YOU COULDN'T YOU DIDN'T AND NOW YOU'RE PAYING THE PRICE YOU GODDAMN IDIOT I WILL SHIT FURY ALL OVER YOU AND YOU WILL DROWN IN IT YOU'RE FUCKING SAVED KIDDO YOU BETTER FUCKING BELIEVE I MADE MY OWN VARIATION OF THE NAVY SEAL COPYPASTA ON THE SPOT THATS HOW FUCKING PISSED I AM SERIOUSLY DO YOU KNOW THE SHIT I GO THROUGH ON A DAILY BASIS I BET YOU DONT YOU LOW LIFE PROBABLY WORKING AT MCDONALDS OR SOME OTHER SHITTY FAST FOOD PLACE BARELY SCRAPING BY WHILE I RAKE IN THE CASH FOR SAVING FUCKING LIVES IF ONLY YOU HADNT DROPPED OUT OF SCHOOL AND DISAPPOINTED YOUR PARENTS YOU WOULDNT BE IN THIS SHITTY SITUATION BUT YOU PISSED ME OFF AND NOW YOURE GONNA PAY THE PRICE, YOU FUCKING MORON MY LIFE IS HELL AND I HAVE CRUMBLING MARRAIGE THATS ONLY HELD TOGETHER BY MY OVERLY HIGH INCOME MY WIFE HATES ME BUT SHE STICKS AROUND BECAUSE SHE DOESNT HAVE TO WORK FUCK MY LIFE BUT THE ONLY THING I HATE MORE THAN MY OWN LIFE IS YOURS, YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE THINKING YOU CAN JUST SAY THIS SHIT TO ME YOU CAUGHT ME AT A BAD TIME ASSHOLE AND NOW YOURE REALLY GONNA PAY FOR IT I AM SO FUCKING FURIOUS IF IT WERENT FOR MY ANGER ISSUE CLASSES IM TAKING AS A LAST DITCH ATTEMPT TO TURN MY LIFE AROUND YOUD BE FUCKING DEAD WHERE YOU LIE FOR SAYING THAT SHIT TO ME, FUCKASS. THIS JOB IS ONE OF THE MOST HARD AND STRESSFUL THINGS EVER AND MY WEAK HUMAN BODY AND MIND CANT TAKE IT FUCK YOU FOR BRINGING BACK ALL THIS ANGER THAT I WORKED SO HARD TO TRY AND FIX IM GONNA TAKE OUT MY ANGER ON MY CHILD AND WIFE WHEN I GET HOME BECAUSE IM ACTUALLY AN ABUSIVE FATHER AND SPOUSE BECAUSE THE FRSUTRATION OF MY OWN MISTAKES IN LIFE CAUSE ME TO DO FUCKED UP SHIT TO POOR LITTLE EMILY FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING PRICK YOU CANT SAY THIS SHIT TO ME YOU DIPLOMALESS RETARD THATS RIGHT RETARD YOU ARE A FUCKING MENTALLY RETARTED SHITSTAIN WHO THINKS THEYRE BETTER THAN EVERYONE BECAUSE YOU FUCKING KNOW SHIT GUESS WHAT YOU FUCKING DONT SO DONT EVEN TRY TO TALK TO ME YOU FUCKING SELFISH ASSHOLE LEARN SOME RESPECT FOR THE PERSON SAVING YOUR LIFE AND DONT EVEN TELL ME HOW TO DO MY JOB I FUCKING HAVE A DIPLOMA I WASTED YEARS OF MY LIFE IN COLLEGD TO EARN THIS FUCKING THING AND GODDAMNIT IF I WONT LET YOU KNOW IT OYU SELFISH ASSHOLE I WORKED MY ASS OFF TO BECOME A DOCTOR AND YOU FUCKING SAY THIS SHIT LIKE YOU RULE THE WORLD GUESS WHAT YOU DONT WAKE UP AND FACE THE MUSIC YOU FUCKING FUCK FUCKING FUCKITY FUCK FUCKER FUCKING FUCKIONG ASSHAT DONT EVEN TRY TO DEFEND YOURSELF YOU ENTITLED PRICK AND LEARN THE STRESS OF SAVING LIVES ON A DAILY BASIS (<a href="https://pastebin.com/V6Aw4qDb">http://pastebin.com/V6Aw4qDb</a>) + HEY ASSHOLE NICE WORK AND ALL BUT GUESS WHO'S THE ONE WITH A DIPLOMA HERE YEAH ITS ME SO YOU BETTER SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LISTEN BECAUSE I DONT HAVE TIME FOR YOUR BULLSHIT I WORKED MY ASS OFF IN MED SCHOOL TO GET THIS FUCKING DIPLOMA AND YOU THINK YOU CAN JUST FUCKING PULL THIS SHIT THINK AGAIN FUCKNUTS BECAUSE GUESS WHAT I CAN END YOUR LIFE RIGHT NOW IF I WANTED TO YEAH REALLY GUESS WHOS ON THE OPERATING TABLE NOT FUCKING ME ITS YOU ASSHOLE SO WATCH YOUR FUCKING TONGUE BEFORE I PULL THE DAMN THING OFF YOU YOU SELFISH ARROGANT PRICK YOU CANT TELL ME HOW TO DO MY FUCKING JOB ASSHAT WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST FUCKING SAY ABOUT ME YOU LITTLE BITCH I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW I GRADUATED TOP OF MY CLASS AT MED SCHOOL FOR THIS DIPLOMA AND I'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN NUMEROUS SECRET RAIDS ON THE PHARMACY AND I HAVE OVER 300 CONFIRMED PERSCRIPTIONS I AM TRAINED IN MEDICAL WARFARE AND I'M THE TOP DOCTOR IN THE ENTIRE HOSPITAL YOU ARE NOTHING TO ME BUT JUST ANOTHER PATIENT I WILL PERSCRIBE YOU THE FUCK OUT WITH MEDICINE THE LIKES OF WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE ON THIS EARTH MARK MY FUCKING WORDS YOU THINK YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH SAYING THAT SHIT TO ME FROM ON THE OPERATING TABLE THINK AGAIN FUCKER AS WE SPEAK I AM CONTACTING MY SECRET NETWORK OF NURSES ACROSS THE HOSPITAL AND YOUR LIFE IS BEING SAVED RIGHT NOW SO YOU BETTER PREPARE FOR THE OPERATION, MAGGOT THE OPERATION THAT SAVES THE PATHETIC LITTLE THING YOU CALL YOUR LIFE YOU'RE FUCKING SAVED KID I CAN BE ANYWHERE ANYTIME AND I CAN PERSCRIBE YOU OVER SEVEN HUNDRED MEDICATIONS AND THAT'S JUST WITH MY BARE DIPLOMA NOT ONLY AM I EXTENSIVELY TRAINED IN UNARMED SURGERY BUT I HAVE ACCESS TO THE ENTIRE COLLECTION OF THE UNITED STATES PHARMACIES AND I WILL USE IT TO ITS FULL EXTENT TO SAVE YOUR MISERABLE ASS OFF THE FACE OF THE CONTINENT YOU LITTLE SHIT IF ONLY YOU COULD HAVE KNOWN WHAT UNHOLY OPERATION YOUR LITTLE "CLEVER" COMMENT WAS ABOUT TO BRING DOWN UPON YOU MAYBE YOU WOULD HAVE HELD YOUR FUCKING TONGUE BUT YOU COULDN'T YOU DIDN'T AND NOW YOU'RE PAYING THE PRICE YOU GODDAMN IDIOT I WILL SHIT FURY ALL OVER YOU AND YOU WILL DROWN IN IT YOU'RE FUCKING SAVED KIDDO YOU BETTER FUCKING BELIEVE I MADE MY OWN VARIATION OF THE NAVY SEAL COPYPASTA ON THE SPOT THATS HOW FUCKING PISSED I AM SERIOUSLY DO YOU KNOW THE SHIT I GO THROUGH ON A DAILY BASIS I BET YOU DONT YOU LOW LIFE PROBABLY WORKING AT MCDONALDS OR SOME OTHER SHITTY FAST FOOD PLACE BARELY SCRAPING BY WHILE I RAKE IN THE CASH FOR SAVING FUCKING LIVES IF ONLY YOU HADNT DROPPED OUT OF SCHOOL AND DISAPPOINTED YOUR PARENTS YOU WOULDNT BE IN THIS SHITTY SITUATION BUT YOU PISSED ME OFF AND NOW YOURE GONNA PAY THE PRICE, YOU FUCKING MORON MY LIFE IS HELL AND I HAVE CRUMBLING MARRAIGE THATS ONLY HELD TOGETHER BY MY OVERLY HIGH INCOME MY WIFE HATES ME BUT SHE STICKS AROUND BECAUSE SHE DOESNT HAVE TO WORK FUCK MY LIFE BUT THE ONLY THING I HATE MORE THAN MY OWN LIFE IS YOURS, YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE THINKING YOU CAN JUST SAY THIS SHIT TO ME YOU CAUGHT ME AT A BAD TIME ASSHOLE AND NOW YOURE REALLY GONNA PAY FOR IT I AM SO FUCKING FURIOUS IF IT WERENT FOR MY ANGER ISSUE CLASSES IM TAKING AS A LAST DITCH ATTEMPT TO TURN MY LIFE AROUND YOUD BE FUCKING DEAD WHERE YOU LIE FOR SAYING THAT SHIT TO ME, FUCKASS. THIS JOB IS ONE OF THE MOST HARD AND STRESSFUL THINGS EVER AND MY WEAK HUMAN BODY AND MIND CANT TAKE IT FUCK YOU FOR BRINGING BACK ALL THIS ANGER THAT I WORKED SO HARD TO TRY AND FIX IM GONNA TAKE OUT MY ANGER ON MY CHILD AND WIFE WHEN I GET HOME BECAUSE IM ACTUALLY AN ABUSIVE FATHER AND SPOUSE BECAUSE THE FRSUTRATION OF MY OWN MISTAKES IN LIFE CAUSE ME TO DO FUCKED UP SHIT TO POOR LITTLE EMILY FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING PRICK YOU CANT SAY THIS SHIT TO ME YOU DIPLOMALESS RETARD THATS RIGHT RETARD YOU ARE A FUCKING MENTALLY RETARTED SHITSTAIN WHO THINKS THEYRE BETTER THAN EVERYONE BECAUSE YOU FUCKING KNOW SHIT GUESS WHAT YOU FUCKING DONT SO DONT EVEN TRY TO TALK TO ME YOU FUCKING SELFISH ASSHOLE LEARN SOME RESPECT FOR THE PERSON SAVING YOUR LIFE AND DONT EVEN TELL ME HOW TO DO MY JOB I FUCKING HAVE A DIPLOMA I WASTED YEARS OF MY LIFE IN COLLEGD TO EARN THIS FUCKING THING AND GODDAMNIT IF I WONT LET YOU KNOW IT OYU SELFISH ASSHOLE I WORKED MY ASS OFF TO BECOME A DOCTOR AND YOU FUCKING SAY THIS SHIT LIKE YOU RULE THE WORLD GUESS WHAT YOU DONT WAKE UP AND FACE THE MUSIC YOU FUCKING FUCK FUCKING FUCKITY FUCK FUCKER FUCKING FUCKIONG ASSHAT DONT EVEN TRY TO DEFEND YOURSELF YOU ENTITLED PRICK AND LEARN THE STRESS OF SAVING LIVES ON A DAILY BASIS ([http://pastebin.com/V6Aw4qDb](https://pastebin.com/V6Aw4qDb)) --- Track: Doctor Dies Artists: @@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ Lyrics: |- [screaming] Commentary: |- <i>MBI:</i> - Hah, I don't even know what to say. My original intention was to create a "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wss5kuL2zro">This video contains win</a>" YTP styled Doctor remix. I'd like to think I succeeded to some degree. Inspiration strukc in the form of tha <a href="">Sonic 25th anniversary Livestream</a>, the annoying buzzing noise ever present giving me a second instrument. After that, I figured since I had included the Sonic 2 era cartoon and the present day sonic, I should include something from the Dreamcast era, hence the Robotnik/Obama conversation. + Hah, I don't even know what to say. My original intention was to create a "[This video contains win](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wss5kuL2zro)" YTP styled Doctor remix. I'd like to think I succeeded to some degree. Inspiration strukc in the form of tha <html:a href="">Sonic 25th anniversary Livestream</a>, the annoying buzzing noise ever present giving me a second instrument. After that, I figured since I had included the Sonic 2 era cartoon and the present day sonic, I should include something from the Dreamcast era, hence the Robotnik/Obama conversation. "Fun" fact, I made this entire thing with a non-functional right earphone. If it sounds off, try disabling your right earphone so that you get the intended experience. @@ -1322,7 +1322,7 @@ Sampled Tracks: - Tribal Ebonpyre Commentary: |- <i>cookiefonster:</i> - I didn't know what else to do for this track art so I edited an image from my Detective Pony dramatic reading. Did I mention that you should stop whatever you're doing right now and read <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/2427119/">Detective Pony</a>? It's an absolute work of art. + I didn't know what else to do for this track art so I edited an image from my Detective Pony dramatic reading. Did I mention that you should stop whatever you're doing right now and read [Detective Pony](https://archiveofourown.org/works/2427119/)? It's an absolute work of art. --- Track: Troubleshooter Artists: diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-voulem1.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-voulem1.yaml index b8799193..fab260b3 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-voulem1.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-voulem1.yaml @@ -39,14 +39,14 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Niklink:</i> There's so much to be said about the absurd trajectory of the Cool and New Music Team, but I'll try to keep it short. - After the release of the incredible [[album:homestuck-vol-10]], which was a sort of epitaph to the official music team, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJWqqikd6S0">a Q&A stream was held with the musicians</a>. There was a bittersweet tinge to it, not just because of Homestuck's recent ending, but because they reflected on their artistic trajectories and how they had been musical amateurs that had been able to refine and hone their skill through the comic's run. To me at least they had always felt like inimitable performers, even if I'd always aspired to be as good as them or as the high-quality fan music that was being made at the time. But their encouraging talk about how they had progressed as artists over the years led to an idea formed right there, in the livestream chat. Why not make our <i>own</i> music team? + After the release of the incredible [[album:homestuck-vol-10]], which was a sort of epitaph to the official music team, [a Q&A stream was held with the musicians](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJWqqikd6S0). There was a bittersweet tinge to it, not just because of Homestuck's recent ending, but because they reflected on their artistic trajectories and how they had been musical amateurs that had been able to refine and hone their skill through the comic's run. To me at least they had always felt like inimitable performers, even if I'd always aspired to be as good as them or as the high-quality fan music that was being made at the time. But their encouraging talk about how they had progressed as artists over the years led to an idea formed right there, in the livestream chat. Why not make our <i>own</i> music team? A music team on our own terms, expressly as a practice vehicle, to create and release music without a care in the world as to whether it was good or bad or terrible? No shame, no hesitation, just for the hell of making Homestuck fanmusic, and maybe improving along the way. Cool and New Web Comic's popular but low-quality presentation was a natural fit. And the response was massive. It turned out many people felt the same way, or simply wanted to see what all the noise was about. Only two weeks later, the newly-created Cool and New Music Team released a 50-track album. This is that album. <i>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6e2NvlY9oc">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6e2NvlY9oc)) --- Track: Cascante Duration: '3:05' @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Flare Commentary: |- <i>Niklink:</i> - The only piece of Homestuck fanmusic I had ever completed was this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AxgMI6451M">Famitracker remix of Flare</a>, but since at the time we were fully committing to the 'shitty music' idea, and a straight up transcription of a Homestuck track isn't particularly CaNWC-ish anyways, I ran it through a bunch of filters. Just to make sure no one accidentally liked it. + The only piece of Homestuck fanmusic I had ever completed was this [Famitracker remix of Flare](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AxgMI6451M), but since at the time we were fully committing to the 'shitty music' idea, and a straight up transcription of a Homestuck track isn't particularly CaNWC-ish anyways, I ran it through a bunch of filters. Just to make sure no one accidentally liked it. --- Track: Showtime (piano a fine) Duration: '3:32' @@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Directory: anthem-canmt Commentary: |- <i>No Funny Name:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLEzMa1gJTg">Video of the track being 'recorded live', as it were.</a>) + ([Video of the track being 'recorded live', as it were.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLEzMa1gJTg)) <i>Niklink:</i> It's depressingly common for collaborative fandom albums to run into trouble getting art delivered for all their tracks in time. I don't really blame them, drawing is hard enough without knowing that it's probably going to be playing second fiddle to the music anyways. But nevertheless I knew I could phone this one in without any artistic skill, so I took it off the un-arted song pile. The secret is: there's actually an online tool that generates Minecraft logo-style text. @@ -1332,7 +1332,7 @@ Lyrics: |- KETCUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP Commentary: |- <i>Monifate:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAg2HGPrjWs?t=2212">Song's original performance in Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff the Moive</a>) + ([Song's original performance in Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff the Moive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAg2HGPrjWs?t=2212)) --- Track: SpaceBro Duration: '3:26' diff --git a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml index 9a8ced13..3a75c444 100644 --- a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml +++ b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Commentary: |- <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>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E90T8poC2sk">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E90T8poC2sk)) Banner Artists: - melodiousDiscord - Niklink (edits for wiki) @@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ Commentary: |- I've always loved Vriska's various themes and tunes through the HS soundtrack's generous selection of tracks; they're nice, they're catchy, and they're just h*ckin' amazing overall. Imagine my surprise, then, when Spidermum's slot laid unclaimed on this very album, ripe for the picking. I swore on that day that I would create the catchiest distortion guitar-filled, 8-legged bop of all time. What I made instead was the track laid before you. I'd like to think that it's pretty snazzy and very Serket, though I have a sneaking suspicion that I may come back to this track l8er and fix it up when I actually have a clue what I'm doing. Yes, it's pretty short and it's kinda flawed in its execution, but I just hope that you can appreciate this humble nerd's first attempt at a somewhat-professional-level tune. - You know what? Since you've gone through all the trouble to read this here commentary, have a free concept guitar riff for this tune. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/arcanegemini/spidermum-initial-riff/s-WaNoN">For you it's on the house.</a> + You know what? Since you've gone through all the trouble to read this here commentary, have a free concept guitar riff for this tune. [For you it's on the house.](https://soundcloud.com/arcanegemini/spidermum-initial-riff/s-WaNoN) <i>Caitlin Beamer:</i> I understand why hussie didn't draw spider-mom with hair on her. that took way too much time to have to do it more than once. --- @@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:dilemma Commentary: |- <i>PoisonedElite:</i> - Wow, this is the first song I ever signed up to make, over a year ago in April of 2017. From the beginning writing a song about Gamzee's Lusus provided a challenge due to the fact that it only appears in a panel or two, so I decided to write the song around the lack of it in Gamzee's life. Like Calming Quartz, this also had a different song as the rough Draft, so <a href="https://soundcloud.com/poisonedelite/goat-dad-wip/s-8cX5C">here ya go</a>. + Wow, this is the first song I ever signed up to make, over a year ago in April of 2017. From the beginning writing a song about Gamzee's Lusus provided a challenge due to the fact that it only appears in a panel or two, so I decided to write the song around the lack of it in Gamzee's life. Like Calming Quartz, this also had a different song as the rough Draft, so [here ya go](https://soundcloud.com/poisonedelite/goat-dad-wip/s-8cX5C). Play Hollow Knight, eat your dinner, and never forget the pokemon you lose when you're doing a Nuzlocke challenge. Rest in Peace Oswin ;-;7 <i>Jas:</i> Sometimes you wait a long time to see the people you love. diff --git a/album/crossmound-vol-1.yaml b/album/crossmound-vol-1.yaml index 3d958fc7..6abd2f39 100644 --- a/album/crossmound-vol-1.yaml +++ b/album/crossmound-vol-1.yaml @@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ Art Tags: - Horrorterrors Commentary: |- <i>Abibeur:</i> - "Eyes in the Abyss" is... what happens when you ask a noise artist to work on the soundtrack of your fanadventure. Ironically, it is probably the less Homestuck-y track of the whole album and as such probably the track who differentiates Crossmound Vol. 1 from most other Homestuck and fanadventures' soundtracks. In all modesty, obviously. It is one of my shortest songs, as I'm used to make them drag a little longer for a full droney vibe, but I fully understand why it had to be that way, as it was used in <a href="https://mspfa.com/?s=45123&p=418">[S] And now... You'll wake up.</a> + "Eyes in the Abyss" is... what happens when you ask a noise artist to work on the soundtrack of your fanadventure. Ironically, it is probably the less Homestuck-y track of the whole album and as such probably the track who differentiates Crossmound Vol. 1 from most other Homestuck and fanadventures' soundtracks. In all modesty, obviously. It is one of my shortest songs, as I'm used to make them drag a little longer for a full droney vibe, but I fully understand why it had to be that way, as it was used in [\[S] And now... You'll wake up.](https://mspfa.com/?s=45123&p=418) I was asked to begin the track in a dark ambient feel and then make it become increasingly noisy and chaotic, and that's what I did. I don't really remember what were most of the sounds and noises I used in this, but as I just said "most", there still are some. I was asked to represent horrorterrors by adding unsettling sentient noises, so I did with whispers, moans and groans that I actually recorded myself, because I know how to make strange noises with my mouth, so I was in my element. diff --git a/album/cyber-city-sound-pak.yaml b/album/cyber-city-sound-pak.yaml index 28b2485f..10de31d6 100644 --- a/album/cyber-city-sound-pak.yaml +++ b/album/cyber-city-sound-pak.yaml @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Commentary: |- <hr> I've been working on this since Chapter 2 dropped, and I'm so excited to finally release this to you all. This album means a whole lot to me and I'd love for you all to share around it if you like it too. - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6yN7dAL6kM">Album visualizer!</a>) + ([Album visualizer!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6yN7dAL6kM)) Additional Files: - Title: Bandcamp Banner Files: diff --git a/album/cyclica.yaml b/album/cyclica.yaml index 37b03bc5..984beb5b 100644 --- a/album/cyclica.yaml +++ b/album/cyclica.yaml @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Commentary: |- Something Familiar Yet Cool and New <i>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwYhJaWVePk&t=128">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwYhJaWVePk&t=128)) --- Track: Something Familiar Cover Artists: diff --git a/album/deltarune-ch2-ost.yaml b/album/deltarune-ch2-ost.yaml index f61b1b60..20f2257e 100644 --- a/album/deltarune-ch2-ost.yaml +++ b/album/deltarune-ch2-ost.yaml @@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Power of "NEO" - Dummy! Lyrics: >- - <i>Ambiguous: See <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20210926164336/https://inq-dreams.tumblr.com/post/663123854616625152/inq-dreams-hoooly-shit-guys-i-think-i-managed-to">inq-dreams.tumblr.com</a> + <i>Ambiguous: See [inq-dreams.tumblr.com](http://web.archive.org/web/20210926164336/https://inq-dreams.tumblr.com/post/663123854616625152/inq-dreams-hoooly-shit-guys-i-think-i-managed-to) for isolated vocals and fan commentary!</i> --- Track: A Real Boy! diff --git a/album/dialed-to-11.yaml b/album/dialed-to-11.yaml index 32d5bbe6..fd2f2cae 100644 --- a/album/dialed-to-11.yaml +++ b/album/dialed-to-11.yaml @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Additional Files: Commentary: |- <i>LudicrousFalcon:</i> - This album is part of an original soundtrack for Homestuck fan comics "<a href="https://mspfa.com/?s=22912">Earthernia</a>" and "<a href="https://mspfa.com/?s=49014">Worldmash</a>". + This album is part of an original soundtrack for Homestuck fan comics "[Earthernia](https://mspfa.com/?s=22912)" and "[Worldmash](https://mspfa.com/?s=49014)". Tracks composed & mixed in Soundtrap. Background Images on album cover & track art are sourced from Unsplash.com. Images manipulated with Paint.net --- diff --git a/album/early-access.yaml b/album/early-access.yaml index cf773303..73466ae0 100644 --- a/album/early-access.yaml +++ b/album/early-access.yaml @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ URLs: - https://actomega.bandcamp.com/track/extermination-alpha Commentary: |- <i>Husr:</i> - Originally made for <a href="https://parahumans.wordpress.com">Worm</a> + Originally made for [Worm](https://parahumans.wordpress.com) --- Track: Meowlevatorstuck (Cat Tax) Artists: diff --git a/album/electric-daydreams.yaml b/album/electric-daydreams.yaml index c70c8e0e..22b87e00 100644 --- a/album/electric-daydreams.yaml +++ b/album/electric-daydreams.yaml @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Wherever we go, we go, we go Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r_oulVo9nY">Music video!</a>) + ([Music video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r_oulVo9nY)) --- Track: I'm Seeing Everything Duration: '3:25' @@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ Lyrics: |- It's more than I can bear Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqfLWlC7X6U">Music video!</a>) + ([Music video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqfLWlC7X6U)) --- Track: Tomorrow's Gonna Come Duration: '3:04' @@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ Lyrics: |- But tomorrow's gonna come real soon Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnVW71lwybY">Music video!</a>) + ([Music video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnVW71lwybY)) --- Track: Purgatory Directory: purgatory-electric-daydreams diff --git a/album/everflow.yaml b/album/everflow.yaml index e4acec2b..55480e48 100644 --- a/album/everflow.yaml +++ b/album/everflow.yaml @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Groups: Commentary: |- <i>horizon:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://ohanadyomene.bandcamp.com/track/everflow)) - a companion to <a href="https://youtu.be/KKzAi69-x4s">Sleepwalking</a> and [[album:the-gap]], EVERFLOW is the final in a trio about growing to understand and accept the passage of time. special thanks to yeon for the art and the title suggestion. + a companion to [Sleepwalking](https://youtu.be/KKzAi69-x4s) and [[album:the-gap]], EVERFLOW is the final in a trio about growing to understand and accept the passage of time. special thanks to yeon for the art and the title suggestion. --- Track: EVERFLOW Duration: '02:44' diff --git a/album/fate-and-choice-music-for-stardust.yaml b/album/fate-and-choice-music-for-stardust.yaml index d6bb171d..e4e3c673 100644 --- a/album/fate-and-choice-music-for-stardust.yaml +++ b/album/fate-and-choice-music-for-stardust.yaml @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Groups: - Beyond Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> ([Twitter commentary](https://twitter.com/circlejourney/status/1644911237539696641)) - New EP! Music for <a href="https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/stardust/list?title_no=416148">Stardust</a> by Holly France. + New EP! Music for [Stardust](https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/stardust/list?title_no=416148) by Holly France. --- Track: Means To An End Duration: '00:36' @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/oeiApkEdm0g Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> ([Twitter commentary](https://twitter.com/circlejourney/status/1202265927183548416)) - Music commission delivery! This is a short opening theme for Holly France's project <a href="https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/stardust/list?title_no=416148">Stardust</a>. + Music commission delivery! This is a short opening theme for Holly France's project [Stardust](https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/stardust/list?title_no=416148). --- Track: I Wouldn't Worry Duration: '03:25' diff --git a/album/fatebreak-volume-1.yaml b/album/fatebreak-volume-1.yaml index a3dfd240..7e6b73ec 100644 --- a/album/fatebreak-volume-1.yaml +++ b/album/fatebreak-volume-1.yaml @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Groups: Commentary: |- <i>Fatebreak Music Team:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://fatebreak.bandcamp.com/album/fatebreak-volume-1)) - OST for the Homestuck fanventure <a href="https://mspfa.com/?s=23639">Fatebreak</a>, a story about 12 trolls who wreck the multiverse by doing everything they weren't supposed to. + OST for the Homestuck fanventure [Fatebreak](https://mspfa.com/?s=23639), a story about 12 trolls who wreck the multiverse by doing everything they weren't supposed to. --- Track: Touch the Stars Artists: diff --git a/album/faux-dramatica.yaml b/album/faux-dramatica.yaml index 89981e96..5bbbaca6 100644 --- a/album/faux-dramatica.yaml +++ b/album/faux-dramatica.yaml @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>Vast Error:</i> "We are, all of us, haunted — pursued down dim corridors by beasts who knew our names before birth. Wouldn't you like to stop running? Wouldn't you like the nightmares to end?" - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjnVIFsGAe8">Announcement trailer</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngKnn_-nGr8">premiere stream.</a>) + ([Announcement trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjnVIFsGAe8) and [premiere stream.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngKnn_-nGr8)) --- Section: Main album --- diff --git a/album/fortune.yaml b/album/fortune.yaml index c89fa508..e5dd4408 100644 --- a/album/fortune.yaml +++ b/album/fortune.yaml @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Groups: Commentary: |- <i>horizon:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://ohanadyomene.bandcamp.com/track/fortune)) - full illustration/official audio: <a href="https://youtu.be/cLpxTU--0XU">www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLpxTU--0XU</a> + full illustration/official audio: [www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLpxTU--0XU](https://youtu.be/cLpxTU--0XU) before anything else, this is ultimately a demo! it will be edited more when i go through the big album cleanup later this year, but i have a soft spot for where it is right now, and i don't want to make any more changes until i know what it's going to be paired with. anyway! diff --git a/album/genesis-frog.yaml b/album/genesis-frog.yaml index 214b7dfa..b853c541 100644 --- a/album/genesis-frog.yaml +++ b/album/genesis-frog.yaml @@ -61,12 +61,12 @@ Commentary: |- I have two very big thanks reserved for my two artists and collaborators, Marina and Rikuru. In a lot of ways this was a joint project, and their art is just as important to the album as the music. From the beginning I decided I wanted the album to be as unified visually as it is aurally, so I tried contacting two artists who were friends with each other and were capable of drawing in a unified style together. As it turned out I could not have made a better decision. Both Marina and Rikuru have knocked every piece of track art out the park the instant I saw them. Their artistic vision matched mine perfectly, and I truly feel that each piece of art they made was a faithful visual interpretation of my music in terms of color, tone, style and pretty much anything you could think of. The three of us tossed around ideas a lot; I looked at sketches, I explained what each piece of music was about, the feelings the music conveyed were discussed. Amazingly the two of them were able to produce all the art necessary for the album and we didn't end up needing any outside help. One of this album's greatest strengths is definitely its unity, and working closely Marina and Rikuru ended up with a product I think we can all be proud of. Thanks so much for all your hard work, both of you. The album is that much better thanks to your artistic visions, and I hope you had just as much fun as I did working on it. You can find the work of the artists here: - Marina - <a href="https://sylladexter.tumblr.com/">sylladexter.tumblr.com</a><br>Rikuru - <a href="https://quipster-rikuru.tumblr.com/">quipster-rikuru.tumblr.com</a> + Marina - [sylladexter.tumblr.com](https://sylladexter.tumblr.com/)<br>Rikuru - [quipster-rikuru.tumblr.com](https://quipster-rikuru.tumblr.com/) I would also like to thank Toby "Radiation" Fox for being a constant friend and getting this album up and running. He's always been a source of inspiration for me whether he knows it or not, and every time he's given his input on my music it has helped me. Kudos to him taking care of so much business on behalf on the Homestuck music team and finding talented musicians in the community to help showcase their music in addition to the "official" (pfffahahaha) team's. Of course I would like to make an obligatory thank you to Andrew Hussie for creating Homestuck, the entirety of which inspired this album (even the bits of it that don't have frogs). Without his story I wouldn't have had the opportunity to grow and interact with similar-minded musicians the way I have. And without his permission, I certainly wouldn't have this album to show for myself. Genesis Frog has undergone quite the journey over the last couple of years, even if the larger portion of it took place inside my head as vague bubbles of inspiration. I was finally able to compose the music I had always wanted to compose and contribute my own voice and interpretation of Homestuck to its discography. This is an immense privilege and one I will always carry in my mind as one of the most important opportunities I ever had in my life. It's an excellent time to be making music, and I will take everything I have learned in making this album with me as I continue to compose in the future. Thank you once again for listening, and make that a double thank you if you read through this extremely long-winded commentary. I am Alex Rosetti and I am a composer who loves video game music, whether it is listening to it, studying it, or making it. If you're interested in my music or any other projects I'm up to, feel free to check me out at any of the following: - Email - <a href="mailto:awesomerosetti@gmail.com">awesomerosetti@gmail.com</a><br>Music blog - <a href="https://rosettimusic.tumblr.com/">rosettimusic.tumblr.com</a><br>Personal blog - <a href="https://albatrossthesoup.tumblr.com/">albatrossthesoup.tumblr.com</a><br>Twitter - <a href="https://twitter.com/albatrosssoup">twitter.com/albatrosssoup</a><br>YouTube - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/MrAlbatrosssoup">youtube.com/MrAlbatrosssoup</a> + Email - [awesomerosetti@gmail.com](mailto:awesomerosetti@gmail.com)<br>Music blog - [rosettimusic.tumblr.com](https://rosettimusic.tumblr.com/)<br>Personal blog - [albatrossthesoup.tumblr.com](https://albatrossthesoup.tumblr.com/)<br>Twitter - [twitter.com/albatrosssoup](https://twitter.com/albatrosssoup)<br>YouTube - [youtube.com/MrAlbatrosssoup](https://www.youtube.com/user/MrAlbatrosssoup) <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> (2019 rerelease commentary) Genesis Frog is an album inspired by Homestuck, originally released in 2012. The music tells the story of the Genesis Frog, the Prospitians, and the Beta Kids' Consorts. Banner Artists: diff --git a/album/gravity-makes-the-flame-rise.yaml b/album/gravity-makes-the-flame-rise.yaml index c5b16bc5..c341a829 100644 --- a/album/gravity-makes-the-flame-rise.yaml +++ b/album/gravity-makes-the-flame-rise.yaml @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ Lyrics: |- We're running back in time, yeah Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl6xxSx9-Ww">Music video!</a>) + ([Music video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl6xxSx9-Ww)) --- Track: They Want To Live Forever Contributors: @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Baby, you'll be burning out Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LJ6poFhBJI">Music video!</a>) + ([Music video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LJ6poFhBJI)) --- Track: Get Tough Contributors: @@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ Lyrics: |- We'll get a little bit higher Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qvyplr1Z3A">Music video!</a>) + ([Music video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qvyplr1Z3A)) --- Track: The Real Thing Contributors: diff --git a/album/guidestuck-volume-one.yaml b/album/guidestuck-volume-one.yaml index 181eb7e2..72283cf5 100644 --- a/album/guidestuck-volume-one.yaml +++ b/album/guidestuck-volume-one.yaml @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Scarvenrot:</i> omg okay so - As I said before I had originally planned to make the music for <a href="https://mspfa.com/?s=932">guidestuck</a> all on my own, but the program I was using was very limited in its capabilities and I wasn’t really able to make all of the kinds of things that I wanted with it. + As I said before I had originally planned to make the music for [guidestuck](https://mspfa.com/?s=932) all on my own, but the program I was using was very limited in its capabilities and I wasn’t really able to make all of the kinds of things that I wanted with it. SO. @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Doctor Onion:</i> 'Quinnstrife' - The song used in <a href="https://mspfa.com/?s=932&p=269">[S] Quinn: Strife!</a> in the fanventure Guidestuck by [[artist:scarvenrot|scarvenrot]]. + The song used in [\[S] Quinn: Strife!](https://mspfa.com/?s=932&p=269) in the fanventure Guidestuck by [[artist:scarvenrot|scarvenrot]]. Woo! diff --git a/album/haymakers-rehearsal-preview-album.yaml b/album/haymakers-rehearsal-preview-album.yaml index 718661d7..f49db482 100644 --- a/album/haymakers-rehearsal-preview-album.yaml +++ b/album/haymakers-rehearsal-preview-album.yaml @@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ Commentary: |- The demo can be downloaded at: - <a href="https://albatrosssoup.itch.io/haymakers">haymakersgame.com</a> + [haymakersgame.com](https://albatrosssoup.itch.io/haymakers) - Follow our twitter for updates on the game's development: <a href="twitter.com/HaymakersGame">twitter.com/HaymakersGame</a> + Follow our twitter for updates on the game's development: [twitter.com/HaymakersGame](twitter.com/HaymakersGame) --- Track: Intro (unused) Duration: '1:24' @@ -67,4 +67,4 @@ URLs: Track: Pompon Field Duration: '5:13' URLs: -- https://albatrosssoup.bandcamp.com/track/pompon-field \ No newline at end of file +- https://albatrosssoup.bandcamp.com/track/pompon-field diff --git a/album/heinoustuck-vol-1.yaml b/album/heinoustuck-vol-1.yaml index 15269aaf..ef0631e3 100644 --- a/album/heinoustuck-vol-1.yaml +++ b/album/heinoustuck-vol-1.yaml @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Groups: Commentary: |- <i>Yorsh:</i> - Heinoustuck Vol. 1, a music album entirely composed of things made by the fans of my Homestuck AU <a href="https://mspfa.com/?s=1018">Heinoustuck</a> [wiki maintainer's cw - body horror], is here! The reception I had for both the music submissions and track art submissions was fantastic! Thank-you all! + Heinoustuck Vol. 1, a music album entirely composed of things made by the fans of my Homestuck AU [Heinoustuck](https://mspfa.com/?s=1018) [wiki maintainer's cw - body horror], is here! The reception I had for both the music submissions and track art submissions was fantastic! Thank-you all! The first track is the theme for Heinoustuck, the second to ninth are themes for the four beta kids - two for each character, and the final lot are sort of bonuses, but still have characters they're associated with. diff --git a/album/hiveswap-act-1-ost.yaml b/album/hiveswap-act-1-ost.yaml index 412f5604..b7c511c1 100644 --- a/album/hiveswap-act-1-ost.yaml +++ b/album/hiveswap-act-1-ost.yaml @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:alternate-recipe Commentary: |- <i>James Roach:</i> - Toby sent me <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGYu_epVxpo">this</a> as a piano sketch (as he often did) and then I sent him a semi chiptune (ALTERNATE RECIPE) version with drums and stuff and then he sent me back the final version this was actually an incredibly simple process what an absolute joy. This is the most purely Toby track on the whole album and I love it. + Toby sent me [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGYu_epVxpo) as a piano sketch (as he often did) and then I sent him a semi chiptune (ALTERNATE RECIPE) version with drums and stuff and then he sent me back the final version this was actually an incredibly simple process what an absolute joy. This is the most purely Toby track on the whole album and I love it. <i>Toby Fox:</i> 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> @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Joey Claire, Extraordinaire Commentary: |- <i>James Roach:</i> - I wanted to write something very Final Fantasy Boss Battle™ and around the time I wrote this an article came out where Nobuo Uematsu says he just wrote phrases a few measures at a time and put them together so that's what I did. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvyE9AJoUCM">youtube.com/watch?v=mvyE9AJoUCM</a>) + I wanted to write something very Final Fantasy Boss Battle™ and around the time I wrote this an article came out where Nobuo Uematsu says he just wrote phrases a few measures at a time and put them together so that's what I did. ([youtube.com/watch?v=mvyE9AJoUCM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvyE9AJoUCM)) <i>Toby Fox:</i> Basically James is saying this is the One Winged Angel of the Hiveswap soundtrack. --- @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Half-Harley Manor Commentary: |- <i>James Roach:</i> - This is a Toby Track 100% he just goes ham with echo. If you ever look at his work files it's like a thousand tracks and half of them are just echoes. This sounds so good toby is so good. I think this was originally a loop for... <a href="https://soundcloud.com/hiveswap/conversation-loops">in between conversations or something</a>? + This is a Toby Track 100% he just goes ham with echo. If you ever look at his work files it's like a thousand tracks and half of them are just echoes. This sounds so good toby is so good. I think this was originally a loop for... [in between conversations or something](https://soundcloud.com/hiveswap/conversation-loops)? <i>Toby Fox:</i> I think it was just written for the attic in general. --- @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: - 'Filthy Nuclear Bunker - Unknown B.mid' Commentary: |- <i>James Roach:</i> - James: This is the most James Roach™ track on the album and it's extremely good. I wrote <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwXIB50mB3k">this melody</a> when I was 12 and I sneak it into every major project I'm in. I have rewritten and remixed and remastered this song about a thousand times. The melody is named "Nuclear" so I made sure that was somewhere in the title. + James: This is the most James Roach™ track on the album and it's extremely good. I wrote [this melody](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwXIB50mB3k) when I was 12 and I sneak it into every major project I'm in. I have rewritten and remixed and remastered this song about a thousand times. The melody is named "Nuclear" so I made sure that was somewhere in the title. <i>Toby Fox:</i> I actually think this is James's best arrangement of the song that he wrote when he was 12 that he keeps putting into everything. I'm glad it could be used somewhere the player will be forced to listen to it for a really long time. It's great. <i>James Roach:</i> @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Rustblood Commentary: |- <i>James Roach:</i> - This was another title I managed to slip in there. I love to name things in a stupid way. If somethings really bad it's funny. It's also funny if something's really good too. Maybe I just like to laugh. I am a man of much nuance. Anyway here is the ska song you begged me for. I wanted it to be a cheery version of Xefros's theme because it is the place in his house he probably feels most like himself. Surrounded by Anime and SPORTS! Quite possibly.. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/hiveswap/redacted-rumpus-room-refrain">the biggest mood imaginable</a>? + This was another title I managed to slip in there. I love to name things in a stupid way. If somethings really bad it's funny. It's also funny if something's really good too. Maybe I just like to laugh. I am a man of much nuance. Anyway here is the ska song you begged me for. I wanted it to be a cheery version of Xefros's theme because it is the place in his house he probably feels most like himself. Surrounded by Anime and SPORTS! Quite possibly.. [the biggest mood imaginable](https://soundcloud.com/hiveswap/redacted-rumpus-room-refrain)? <i>Toby Fox:</i> I couldn't stop him from putting a ska song on the soundtrack sorry guys <i>James Roach:</i> @@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Joey Claire, Extraordinaire 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. + 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 [Quiet Water](https://tobyfox.bandcamp.com/track/quiet-water) by Toby Fox maybe you've heard of him. It is just a [very slowed down](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwICiHW-Pyk) version of Joey's theme. <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> (game director) (if you want to know what the title of this song is from google it with quotes) --- @@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Toby Fox:</i> This song is cool <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) + (James thought I wouldn't <s>embed</s> [link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkBMXQ47d7s) this video! he underestimates me every single day of my life) --- Track: Intermission 1 Duration: '2:12' @@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Filthy Nuclear Bunker Commentary: |- <i>James Roach:</i> - This has a bunch of different themes but is mostly the Heiress's theme, which is based off a <a href="https://soundcloud.com/hiveswap/original-heiress-piano-concept">really old really simple piano sketch toby sent me</a>. It's got Nuclear in it too. also Joeys theme and Xefros's theme. I am explicitly not saying the word "leitmotif" out of a sort of... <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0ySY6xyvf0">indignant disgust</a>. + This has a bunch of different themes but is mostly the Heiress's theme, which is based off a [really old really simple piano sketch toby sent me](https://soundcloud.com/hiveswap/original-heiress-piano-concept). It's got Nuclear in it too. also Joeys theme and Xefros's theme. I am explicitly not saying the word "leitmotif" out of a sort of... [indignant disgust](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0ySY6xyvf0). <i>Toby Fox:</i> There was a longer Heiress sketch too where it got really loud. Anyway I guess we'll talk about that later when <i>(redacted)</i> <i>James Roach:</i> diff --git a/album/hiveswap-act-2-ost.yaml b/album/hiveswap-act-2-ost.yaml index c4276137..66a2892e 100644 --- a/album/hiveswap-act-2-ost.yaml +++ b/album/hiveswap-act-2-ost.yaml @@ -21,17 +21,17 @@ Art Tags: - Lanque Commentary: |- <i>James Roach:</i> - (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20201126195133/https://twitter.com/hamesatron/status/1332049319357136898">Twitter (web.archive.org)</a>) + ([Twitter (web.archive.org)](http://web.archive.org/web/20201126195133/https://twitter.com/hamesatron/status/1332049319357136898)) the hiveswap OST is up on bandcamp, the main bulk of the tracks are collaborations between toby and i, but the trial music was done by @barkbarkclark! check it out! - (<a href="https://twitter.com/hamesatron/status/1332383817391243265">Twitter</a>) + ([Twitter](https://twitter.com/hamesatron/status/1332383817391243265)) i usually try and clean up my tweets so my shitposts or w/e arent the first thing you see when you go to my profile but i accidentally deleted the wrong ones like a clown : ) - (<a href="https://twitter.com/hamesatron/status/1332432741455990784">Twitter</a>) + ([Twitter](https://twitter.com/hamesatron/status/1332432741455990784)) ok answerin a few questions: [[media:misc/hiveswap-act-2-breakdown.png|here is a breakdown of the OST]] that i made a while ago im not in charge of this so, grain of salt, but i THINK yes they are planning to eventually put it on various streaming services we will probably not be doing a robust OST commentary this time <i>Clark Powell:</i> - (<a href="https://twitter.com/barkbarkclark/status/1331688222687051776">Twitter</a>) + ([Twitter](https://twitter.com/barkbarkclark/status/1331688222687051776)) i wrote some songs for this! if you check it out you might hear why my youtube algorithm recommends me nothing but ace attorney soundtracks now <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor) thanks to [[artist:tempest2k]] for helping out with track metadata and creating a remix of the official cover art which better matches the [[album:hiveswap-act-1-ost]] cover, featured below: @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/xDyuk7rRSVA Commentary: |- <i>James Roach:</i> - <i>(Commentary was <a href="https://soundcloud.com/jamesroachmusic/beekeeper-who-i-dont-know-her">originally written</a> as part of Hiveswap Friendsim for [[beekeeper who? i dont know her.]])</i> + <i>(Commentary was [originally written](https://soundcloud.com/jamesroachmusic/beekeeper-who-i-dont-know-her) as part of Hiveswap Friendsim for [[beekeeper who? i dont know her.]])</i> this track presented a unique problem in that i didn't want to write it at the time. I had written a really somber and melancholic track for the area outside the hive (the farm in the concept art) and changing it into something a little goofier and weird presented a unique difficulty for me. I just didn't know what to do for the first time in like actual YEARS i had no idea where to even start. I kept at it for a very long time and eventually just muscled through it with sheer force of will. People often ask me the hardest track or my least favorite to work on. it was this one. silver lining: its also become one of my favorites. i love how it came out. thats the power of determination. did you know you can't say determination anymore. this was written for, yes, the fabled beekeeper troll that nobody will talk about. its become some sort of myth as to what happened to her but the truth isn't that exciting. in early hiveswap days each member of the crew got to "pick" a character that they could choose one design element of. The person who picked beekeeper just had a fantroll based off of herself. they also just... drew micro/macro porn of themselves? a power move, honestly. I met them in person and they offered me weed within literal minutes of meeting so i mean i guess they seemed nice. when they no longer worked for the company it was just simpler to redesign the character than deal with literally any of that. mystewy sowved :) at the point in production where they were figuring out names/personalities/traits they kinda thrust this one on me because it "would make the most people angry." beekeeper troll was beloved by a very specific kind of horny dude. you know the kind that regularly says "lewds" or w/e. nothin wrong with that i guess. chase your bliss. but in an effort by my SO CALLED FRIENDS to antagonize me, they were like "heh h h e h he e e he h what if we make this cute girl character that hornyboys love into a dumpy little round dude and then say we based him off james who they already do not like." diff --git a/album/hiveswap-friendsim.yaml b/album/hiveswap-friendsim.yaml index 50b679dc..acdb7803 100644 --- a/album/hiveswap-friendsim.yaml +++ b/album/hiveswap-friendsim.yaml @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>James Roach:</i> (Tagora's theme) - i wrote this for tagora. i do these for free so if you liked it consider sending me some cash <a href="https://ko-fi.com/jamesroach">ko-fi.com/jamesroach</a> + i wrote this for tagora. i do these for free so if you liked it consider sending me some cash [ko-fi.com/jamesroach](https://ko-fi.com/jamesroach) --- Track: '>tfw another james roach track' Directory: tfw-another-james-roach-track diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-1-4.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-1-4.yaml index 20981aa9..57b2fce0 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-1-4.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-1-4.yaml @@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/doctor-original-loop-2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Um9OiP8dU Commentary: |- - <i>Buzinkai:</i> (<a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsG71P_zEIE'>'Doctor' Explained</a>) + <i>Buzinkai:</i> (['Doctor' Explained](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsG71P_zEIE)) *Partial transcript:* Hello internet, my name is George Buzinkai. I am one of the musicians, well, I was one of the musicians for Ms Paint Adventures. I wrote such songs as [[Endless Climb]], [[Showtime (Imp Strife Mix)|Imp Strife Mix? Strife Imp Mix]] I think and of course the wildly remixed Doctor, which I have open in the original software I wrote it in. I'm about to show you a few things you didn't know about the song Doctor, and I'm going to show you a few things people get wrong when remixing it. I don't find a problem with it because half the time I don't even notice it but sometimes there are some things. I think some people have listened to the song by ear and have attempted to write a remix using that and I get requests a lot to post a MIDI of this. Due to the fact I wrote it in PxTone that's really hard to do. There is also another reason, the song was built in such a way that it's really hard to give certain things from the song and I'll explain that as we go. diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml index 205bbc9a..30d60e10 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml @@ -185,15 +185,15 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Homestuck:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpNO1KqORXo">Official promo video by What Pumpkin</a>) + ([Official promo video by What Pumpkin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpNO1KqORXo)) <i>Paul Henderson, Robert J! Lake:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jusfjbsO_qY">Unofficial promo written by Robert J! Lake</a>) + ([Unofficial promo written by Robert J! Lake](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jusfjbsO_qY)) <i>Marcy Nabors:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJWqqikd6S0">Release listening / Q&A stream</a>) + ([Release listening / Q&A stream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJWqqikd6S0)) Additional Files: - Title: Album Booklet Description: Original divided into two parts, or choose the compressed file for all the pages in one. diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-11.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-11.yaml index ab5842ee..de6dbe4c 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-11.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-11.yaml @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Makin:</i> (Organizer) <b>VOL. 11 IS NOT OFFICIAL AND THE COOL AND NEW MUSIC TEAM MADE IT, NOT THE HOMESTUCK MUSIC TEAM.</b> Homestuck Vol. 11 is an extensive recreation project of a single meme posted by [[artist:cadbrad]] two years ago. Because we could. - <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/4nrfft/volume_11_preview/">https://www.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/4nrfft/volume_11_preview/</a> + [https://www.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/4nrfft/volume_11_preview/](https://www.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/4nrfft/volume_11_preview/) That was the image, and recreating it sat on our projects list as a "meme idea that will never happen" for over a year. We finally decided to start obsessively bringing it back to life about a month ago. The biggest challenges during the planning stage were the longer tracks, particularly Bowman's Credit Score: A Rock Opera, which we "downsized" back to a bowman soundfont swap but ended up being hilariously complex anyway, and The Baby is 2, which we actually brought to life with really shitty mics and a lot of heart. Both came out way better than we expected. Another challenge was getting a 11 hour song onto Bandcamp while dealing with their 600MB limit, it involved a lot of silence and making the song mono, but don't worry, the download includes the original song in stereo with no padding. Also worth mentioning, SplitSuns' newest masterpiece: The Return of Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido, I can't recommend it enough. Go listen to it now. diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-3.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-3.yaml index 2bd55329..59cc9013 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-3.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-3.yaml @@ -223,8 +223,8 @@ Sheet Music Files: Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> My signature efforts from this album, of course, are "Chorale for Jaspers" and its corollary (or chorale-ary?) "Pony Chorale". They were the first two Homestuck tracks to feature vocals with me as the cat and Tavia as Maplehoof - for this I am proud. - (<a href="https://twitter.com/mguybowman/status/1669411378359328771">Twitter</a>) - Got a message asking if "Chorale for Jaspers" is based on "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URYhXY5R0rQ">Time Is Running Out</a>" by Muse and now I cannot unhear it. + ([Twitter](https://twitter.com/mguybowman/status/1669411378359328771)) + Got a message asking if "Chorale for Jaspers" is based on "[Time Is Running Out](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URYhXY5R0rQ)" by Muse and now I cannot unhear it. --- Track: Pony Chorale Artists: diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-4.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-4.yaml index 12cf720b..47ac784b 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-4.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-4.yaml @@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> "Sburban Jungle" finally comes into its own with its full reveal after being on the shelf for months. That we didn't delay the thing further amazes me considering the scale of the story, although I'm still indebted to [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew]] for making the animated sequence which the song accompanied especially iconic. Who doesn't love the picture of Rose making her incredibly stylized jump to catch the bottle during the piano break? - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP6916yGx6c">YouTube</a>) + ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP6916yGx6c)) The theme song of #Homestuck, first appearing as [[track:sburban-jungle-brief-mix|an excerpt]] on [[flash:137|page 137]] and then later in full on page 1149 ([[flash:1149]]). The full song was originally released by What Pumpkin on [[album:homestuck-vol-4]] on April 13, 2010. <i>Alice Hu:</i> Big thank you to Michael Guy Bowman for featuring my art on this new official upload of Sburban Jungle! @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ Commentary: |- The arpeggio part at the end goes between the left, both, and right speakers sequentially. I was too lazy to set the channel settings manually, so I did each note on a different instrument, which is set to each speaker channel. Not many people know that, and I think it actually made it a living hell for remixers who got a hold of the original file. - <i>(On March 17, 2013, <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/1afvkb/hi_im_george_buzinkai_writer_of_the_doctor_and/">Buzinkai ran an AMA - "Ask Me Anything" - on the r/Homestuck subreddit.</a> Select responses are listed below; you can visit the full AMA on the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230625011746/https://old.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/1afvkb/hi_im_george_buzinkai_writer_of_the_doctor_and/">Wayback Machine</a> as well. Banner art below is from a <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/buzinkai">fundraiser</a> ran for their first album in 2016.)</i> + <i>(On March 17, 2013, [Buzinkai ran an AMA - "Ask Me Anything" - on the r/Homestuck subreddit.](https://old.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/1afvkb/hi_im_george_buzinkai_writer_of_the_doctor_and/) Select responses are listed below; you can visit the full AMA on the [Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org/web/20230625011746/https://old.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/1afvkb/hi_im_george_buzinkai_writer_of_the_doctor_and/) as well. Banner art below is from a [fundraiser](https://www.gofundme.com/f/buzinkai) ran for their first album in 2016.)</i> <img src="media/misc/buzinkai-banner.png" width="720"> diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-5.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-5.yaml index b310a2e0..82d81ca6 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-5.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-5.yaml @@ -81,9 +81,9 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor) - Track art on these tracks has been uploaded from the <a href="https://sollay-b.tumblr.com/post/188094230423/hello-a-couple-of-years-ago-allyssinian">Homestuck Vol. 5 Anthology</a>! The official release of Vol. 5 didn't come with track art; this collaborative project organized artists to submit their own original art for the album. The art was originally shared in a huge colection on tumblr on 4/13/17 and has now been collected here for viewing convenience and discoverability! + Track art on these tracks has been uploaded from the [Homestuck Vol. 5 Anthology](https://sollay-b.tumblr.com/post/188094230423/hello-a-couple-of-years-ago-allyssinian)! The official release of Vol. 5 didn't come with track art; this collaborative project organized artists to submit their own original art for the album. The art was originally shared in a huge colection on tumblr on 4/13/17 and has now been collected here for viewing convenience and discoverability! - (Check out the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyxgBfhPEG8">Vol. 5 Anthology Presentation</a> for an awesome animated showing of the anthology art and original tracks!) + (Check out the [Vol. 5 Anthology Presentation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyxgBfhPEG8) for an awesome animated showing of the anthology art and original tracks!) <i>allyssinian:</i> (anthology announcement, [Tumblr](https://vol5anthology.tumblr.com/post/154730733932/vol5anthology-homestuck-vol-5-track-fan-art), excerpt) @@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Commentary: |- <i>Solatrus:</i> (composer, original commentary) - My Skaia remix was actually done before I joined the music team. I had first made [[track:doctor-deep-breeze-mix|a remix of Doctor]] (which you can hear <a href="https://homestuckgaiden.bandcamp.com/track/doctor-deep-breeze-mix">here</a>), which apparently really caught the attention of the team, in part thanks to Blueberry. + My Skaia remix was actually done before I joined the music team. I had first made [[track:doctor-deep-breeze-mix|a remix of Doctor]] (which you can hear [here](https://homestuckgaiden.bandcamp.com/track/doctor-deep-breeze-mix)), which apparently really caught the attention of the team, in part thanks to Blueberry. Anyway, just as I do now, I streamed music pretty regularly back then, and I'd often times do some improvisational piano over the rest of the mix I made for Incipisphere. Of course, one of those improv sessions (though not a live one) is what made it into the final mix. @@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ Commentary: |- I've been writing music among the longest out of all of the team members (9 and a half years now), but definitely not the longest. However, I definitely have to say I've improved more over the past two years than the seven years before that just from working with so many talented people. - But the difference in improvement between then and now is a story for another day. Let's zip right just before I joined the team. While Skaia (Incipisphere Mix) is my first official Homestuck song, [[track:doctor-deep-breeze-mix|Doctor (Deep Breeze Mix)]] is my first Homestuck-related song, which you can download <a href="https://homestuckgaiden.bandcamp.com/track/doctor-deep-breeze-mix">here</a>. + But the difference in improvement between then and now is a story for another day. Let's zip right just before I joined the team. While Skaia (Incipisphere Mix) is my first official Homestuck song, [[track:doctor-deep-breeze-mix|Doctor (Deep Breeze Mix)]] is my first Homestuck-related song, which you can download [here](https://homestuckgaiden.bandcamp.com/track/doctor-deep-breeze-mix). The reason I'm mentioning my Doctor remix is because it very much helped put Incipisphere Mix on Volume 5. From what I was told, it turned a few heads on the team. Kind of hilarious to go back and look at the thread, because multiple of my chums posted just after I did and I wasn't even aware of who they were at the time. Then again, I was still VERY new to the community at the time. My very first post on the MSPA Forums was of a WIP of my Doctor remix. @@ -1354,7 +1354,7 @@ Commentary: |- (The mental images of one of the kid's planets getting broken/torn apart like I'd imagined still give me the shivers. I still love Hussie so much for creating a villain that actually did something upon gaining obscene amounts of power; rather than just retreating and launching some master plan, he actually went around and started doing shit with his powers. Not something you even really see in Hollywood villains nowadays, far as I know. The protagonists and antagonists are always very separated, no interaction between one or the other, nothing like what Noir does. At least, that was my experience at the time.) - As for the second bit, well, I'd wanted to make an "industrial, heavy action, stuff going to shit" remix of Perrybob's [[track:mannequin|Mannequin]] for quite some time, and it seemed to fit to transition over to that. In my head, the action was going to shift from Jade's planet to LOHAC, where unspecific action was going to take place. I really don't think I gave the Mannequin section enough time to develop, or really do much, but time constraints dictated I give the music over to the volume 5 collaborative -right then and there-, so it had to be cut off. Mannequin's really great, though, you should give it <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAyPFa3nEK4&feature=youtu.be">a listen</a>. + As for the second bit, well, I'd wanted to make an "industrial, heavy action, stuff going to shit" remix of Perrybob's [[track:mannequin|Mannequin]] for quite some time, and it seemed to fit to transition over to that. In my head, the action was going to shift from Jade's planet to LOHAC, where unspecific action was going to take place. I really don't think I gave the Mannequin section enough time to develop, or really do much, but time constraints dictated I give the music over to the volume 5 collaborative -right then and there-, so it had to be cut off. Mannequin's really great, though, you should give it [a listen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAyPFa3nEK4&feature=youtu.be). Also, as a sidenote, my like for Beck is rather shown in this piece, as is evidenced by my direct attempt to semi-recreate main beat in [Replica](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwSzYOiCinc) to transition between the two sections. #MUSICSECRETSSSSSSSS --- diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-6.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-6.yaml index 789915ec..2c0ebcc7 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-6.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-6.yaml @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>(original commentary)</i> Anyway, man, where to begin on this one? My most famous song, one of the proudest moments of my musical career, etc. etc. I could go on. But I'll start with the roots. - Frost didn't start off as the theme for the Land of Frost and Frogs. It started off as the theme for the Land of Thought and Flow. As I've mentioned in a previous post on this song, you really need to look at <a href="https://www.homestuck.com/images/storyfiles/hs2/02522.gif">this image</a> to understand what went through my head. + Frost didn't start off as the theme for the Land of Frost and Frogs. It started off as the theme for the Land of Thought and Flow. As I've mentioned in a previous post on this song, you really need to look at [this image](https://www.homestuck.com/images/storyfiles/hs2/02522.gif) to understand what went through my head. Remember that image? Yeah. Okay. Now then, go listen to the first 30 seconds of Frost while staring at that image. Got it? Good. @@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ Commentary: |- you know the rest (alternatively: where the heck did that horrible dude come from get him out of the way of the album art jesus) - I just binged on too much <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkreaWxL224">Go Mario Go</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cez1x1Gei4">The Heat Is On (bust a groove 2)</a> and went out to mow the lawn and came up with it + I just binged on too much [Go Mario Go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkreaWxL224) and [The Heat Is On (bust a groove 2)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cez1x1Gei4) and went out to mow the lawn and came up with it --- Track: Tribal Ebonpyre Artists: diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-7.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-7.yaml index dfe89f9d..bbede829 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-7.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-7.yaml @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ Commentary: |- Havoc to be Wrought was spawned from an idea for a short story I had in my mind about a man climbing the old bell tower of an abandoned church investigating strange sounds that had plagued a small town, only to be forced into a confrontation with the "King of Owls" once he reaches the top, and ending with the KoO cutting the bell rope that the man clung to and screeching in the night. Things changed though. Once I had actually started writing and refining it, I decided to change its message, from a mad owl thing to the mysterious demon in the troll's session which had been [recently mentioned](https://www.homestuck.com/story/2606) in the comic (I wrote this sometime in Fall 2010). Also, yes, that is why there is distorted owl screeches at the end, although they were more meant to evoke the horrorterrors crying out in pain than owls by the time it was finished. Contains some very powerful organ and some great chord progressions, but also some structural choices I am not completely proud of, which remained in the piece until its release months and months later because the original Finale file crashed on me before I had a chance to save it. So, rather than attempt reconstructing it, I went with what I had, and it stuck. - <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (composer, <a href="https://youtu.be/E7pBfnN7b1w">YouTube comments</a>) + <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (composer, [YouTube comments](https://youtu.be/E7pBfnN7b1w)) Darkleer had no actual connection to my writing of the piece, was actually a Lord English in the outer ring piece. Someone choosing track art just thought he fit for some reason? diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml index 5992a8f5..3e4f94ab 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ Commentary: |- Yeah, so I thought "Brobots" would've been a better name, especially because that became their canon name in the comic, but by then Hussie had used it in the comic under the name Anbroids, so it stuck :p I apended a 2.0 on it because the versions became fairly different. I also figured some people might want the original version 1.0 used in the comic after the album came out. Speaking of which... <b>VERSION ONE</b> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ICTFBDONdI">[LISTEN TO] IT HERE!</a> + [\[LISTEN TO] IT HERE!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ICTFBDONdI) This was an in progress version that Hussie nabbed early on before I'd made changes to create the newer version. I'll go into why it changed in a bit, but here's a good place to discuss the track at large: The main theme is there, but a bit... "Lazier" - It doesn't have a lot of the swing it'd later develop. It also opens with just a percussive riff, which is probably most influenced by the likes of Toejam 'n Earl. Overall I reckon this version lacked energy, so it needed a bit of a rework before I reckoned it was cool enough to be a Strider song... <b>VERSION TWO</b> @@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ Commentary: |- Aaah Pumpkin Party in Sea Hitler's Water Apocalypse. Or Pumpkin Party in Colony 413 or whatever I was calling it before I decided to go nuts. The original working title was just "Pumpkin Party", so at the very least we started somewhere sensible. So let's have a chat about where this one came from. <b>THE CONCEPT</b> - So around about <a href="https://www.homestuck.com/story/4852">THIS PANEL</a> during Dirk's history lesson of the future, we got a glimpse as to what Roxy was up to - Helping the locals out in the post apocalyptic hell-future. Some bizarre idea came about that herself and the Carapacians would get together and have a little underground party away from the watchful gaze of the Condensce and her drones and the like. Gotta find some way to keep your spirits up, right? So with that incredibly vague concept the idea was born to come up with some small light of goodness and happiness in, well, "Sea Hitler's Water Apocalypse". + So around about [THIS PANEL](https://www.homestuck.com/story/4852) during Dirk's history lesson of the future, we got a glimpse as to what Roxy was up to - Helping the locals out in the post apocalyptic hell-future. Some bizarre idea came about that herself and the Carapacians would get together and have a little underground party away from the watchful gaze of the Condensce and her drones and the like. Gotta find some way to keep your spirits up, right? So with that incredibly vague concept the idea was born to come up with some small light of goodness and happiness in, well, "Sea Hitler's Water Apocalypse". <b>THE NAME</b> As mentioned this changed a few times, but this line sums up pretty much everything you need to know about the future: <code style="color: #1f9400">GT: Like what is even your day to day business like in sea hitlers water apocalypse??</code> @@ -479,9 +479,9 @@ Commentary: |- - Clubs must be started in tree-houses and couch forts to keep boys out - Parents suck and will never understand - You can trust corporate America - The music was a hodge-podge of a lot of things - the production style of early 90's house music (Deee-Lite and Cathy Dennis were my main references) was coupled with the intentionally insipid rap vocals in a time in which many game commercials <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkWYP95WbbY">had</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m__j99flW9w">awful</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7FN5B02YEo">raps</a>. The lead vocals are performed by Tavia Morra, whose voice I discovered sounds scarily childlike when sped up slightly. We played the backup track at about 75% speed and had her rap over it to create the vocal comp before speeding it back up to create the cringe-worthy little girl voice. I did a digital process to lower my voice to create the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0LoHA_FPAs">Pokérap</a>-style breakdown towards the middle of the track and then asked Erik Scheele to play a painfully retro midi guitar solo. + The music was a hodge-podge of a lot of things - the production style of early 90's house music (Deee-Lite and Cathy Dennis were my main references) was coupled with the intentionally insipid rap vocals in a time in which many game commercials [had](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkWYP95WbbY) [awful](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m__j99flW9w) [raps](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7FN5B02YEo). The lead vocals are performed by Tavia Morra, whose voice I discovered sounds scarily childlike when sped up slightly. We played the backup track at about 75% speed and had her rap over it to create the vocal comp before speeding it back up to create the cringe-worthy little girl voice. I did a digital process to lower my voice to create the [Pokérap](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0LoHA_FPAs)-style breakdown towards the middle of the track and then asked Erik Scheele to play a painfully retro midi guitar solo. For the track art (lovingly created and posed for by Tavia) among our many references were Alex Mack and The Olson Twins. The big deal-breaker for us was getting a pair of overalls, a garment seemingly synonymous with the 90's. We spent nearly three hours hunting for a pair in Austin coming up short at Wal-Mart, Academy, Sheplers, Cavender's Boot City, Goodwill, a costume store, a paint store, and a plumbing store before finally finding a wearable piece 17 miles out of town at a farm supply store. Apparently humanity had the good sense to wipe that fucking hideous fashion travesty off the face of the earth at the end of the decade (I knew the y2k bug must have done something!) and now only people who actually need them wear them. - We took our pictures at the Japanese-style game center Arcade UFO. Outtakes can be found <a href="https://seeyoutmorra.tumblr.com/post/24983253249/some-of-the-other-photos-from-the-gamegrl">here</a>. + We took our pictures at the Japanese-style game center Arcade UFO. Outtakes can be found [here](https://seeyoutmorra.tumblr.com/post/24983253249/some-of-the-other-photos-from-the-gamegrl). <i>Tavia Morra:</i> I don't even know where to start. One day Bowman and I discovered that if we pitched my voice up a little higher than where it normally is, then I sounded like a 12 year old girl. The idea for GameGrl came up later and he proceeded to write lyrics that would make any 90's kiddo cringe at the nostalgia of their childhood and want to do it again. @@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Erik Scheele:</i> Started as a sequel to Upward Movement, before Hussie skipped over that entire sequence, which made me try to build it into a general Dirk theme. Sort of like a rise to power, from princehood to kinghood, or sommat. Maybe even a character theme, though I can't really make those calls. <i>Tavia Morra:</i> - This picture started with an innocent suggestion from RJ who imagined Dirk riding a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Hang-On">super hang on motorcycle</a> to this song. I took the idea over to Jit who then helped me develop the picture to what it became, suggesting the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUUbp-4kKMA">FF7 motorcycle chase</a> as inspiration and to turn the motorcycle in to Sawtooth. + This picture started with an innocent suggestion from RJ who imagined Dirk riding a [super hang on motorcycle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Hang-On) to this song. I took the idea over to Jit who then helped me develop the picture to what it became, suggesting the [FF7 motorcycle chase](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUUbp-4kKMA) as inspiration and to turn the motorcycle in to Sawtooth. --- Track: Stress Artists: @@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Five-Four Stress Commentary: |- <i>Toby Fox:</i> - art by P-RO at <a href="https://nomorepros.tumblr.com">nomorepros.tumblr.com</a>. P-RO always does a maximally amazing job so why I asked her to draw the art is a non-question. + art by P-RO at [nomorepros.tumblr.com](https://nomorepros.tumblr.com). P-RO always does a maximally amazing job so why I asked her to draw the art is a non-question. Stress is actually a pretty faithful arrangement of an original track by Buzinkai. Buzinkai has been responsible for several HS-important melodies like [[Doctor]], [[Endless Climb]], and [[Explore]] and [her] work, for me, has always established a certain "essence" of what Homestuck is. My goal for this piece was actually to create a classic strife theme for Dirk with the core feeling of earlier pieces like [[Showtime (Original Mix)|Showtime]] or [[Doctor]], so basing the piece off of something with that "essence" was important.* I can't say why Buzinkai wrote this piece the way she did, so I'll instead highlight the differences between the original and my arrangement. - <p>Updated the instrumentation. Buzinkai's usage of PXTONE is indeed charming and nostalgic-sounding, but I wanted to push things bit further. One major difference is the arrangement of the strings - Buzinkai's PXTONE strings have an sharp attack to them, while mine come on a bit softer but are thicker. My strings then sound more "lush" but less "urgent."</p> @@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ Commentary: |- - <p>Added an introduction and a true ending to make it more of a proper start-to-finish song.</p> About the similarity to [[Teal Hunter]] and a fun syncopation lesson: - <p>This was unintentional - I not only started my arrangement of this song before the contest was conceived, Buzinkai made the original song back in 2010. THOUGH as soon as I heard Teal Hunter I KNEW people would call out the similarities because, surprise, there are plenty of them! Here's the big one: - - <p>Both pieces are in 5/4 (5 beats per measure, try counting to 5 over and over on the beat) and use the SAME syncopation (syncopation = the division of notes into smaller off-beat rhythms within the measure) throughout the track. Actually, many many many pieces in 5/4 use this syncopation. See: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nlCNVewMjA">Hollow Bastion</a>. Why do composers keep doing this? Two reasons: One, because it sounds awesome. Second, because the main way to compose in odd time signatures like 5/4 or 13/4** is actually to cut things into smaller units of 3, 2, or 4. Though each measure is comprised of 5 total beats, each measure in these songs is cut into 10 notes of half the length going 123-123-12-12. 3! 3! 2! 2!</p> <p>Wow, that was a very poor explanation. But please go to that Hollow Bastion video I linked and count "one-two-three-one-two-three-one-two-one-two" very quickly along with each note the harp plays. You'll get it. (And I'm just making things more confusing, but isn't it awesome how the syncopation switches at the end of the 4-measure phrase to "1234 12 12 12?" The little bit of contrast makes it feel complete.)</p> <p>So, why don't people just cut things up differently? like 3 2 2 3? it's definitely possible! Here's my theory about why people favor the syncopation they do: It seems like ending a measure with a shorter note ON the beat leads into the next measure more naturally. It even sounds like a leadin: dun-DUN! This is supported by the fact that one of the most popular syncopations in existence is the one in 4/4 that goes 3 3 2. This is probably the same principle.</p> <p>3 3 2: ON OFF ON<br>3 3 2 2: ON OFF ON ON</p> + - <p>Both pieces are in 5/4 (5 beats per measure, try counting to 5 over and over on the beat) and use the SAME syncopation (syncopation = the division of notes into smaller off-beat rhythms within the measure) throughout the track. Actually, many many many pieces in 5/4 use this syncopation. See: [Hollow Bastion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nlCNVewMjA). Why do composers keep doing this? Two reasons: One, because it sounds awesome. Second, because the main way to compose in odd time signatures like 5/4 or 13/4** is actually to cut things into smaller units of 3, 2, or 4. Though each measure is comprised of 5 total beats, each measure in these songs is cut into 10 notes of half the length going 123-123-12-12. 3! 3! 2! 2!</p> <p>Wow, that was a very poor explanation. But please go to that Hollow Bastion video I linked and count "one-two-three-one-two-three-one-two-one-two" very quickly along with each note the harp plays. You'll get it. (And I'm just making things more confusing, but isn't it awesome how the syncopation switches at the end of the 4-measure phrase to "1234 12 12 12?" The little bit of contrast makes it feel complete.)</p> <p>So, why don't people just cut things up differently? like 3 2 2 3? it's definitely possible! Here's my theory about why people favor the syncopation they do: It seems like ending a measure with a shorter note ON the beat leads into the next measure more naturally. It even sounds like a leadin: dun-DUN! This is supported by the fact that one of the most popular syncopations in existence is the one in 4/4 that goes 3 3 2. This is probably the same principle.</p> <p>3 3 2: ON OFF ON<br>3 3 2 2: ON OFF ON ON</p> - <p>Besides the fact that the syncopation is identical, the chords and melody are similar and the way the strings are used are basically the same. I have no explanation for this other than... great minds think alike???</p> <p>RANDOM FUN FACT: Awakening is also in 5/4, go to 1:40 and sing the melody to Stress. Hell, [[media:misc/stresscombo.mp3|I'll do it for you.]] It fits!!! The main melody of awakening also starts with a similar rhythm as Stress. it's the curse of the 123 123 12 12's.</p> Wow, I really got off track here. But I hope you learned something today. * Yes, Bill Bolin also started an arrangement of this piece before he left the team. I think we were both attracted to the same "essence" present in Buzinkai's piece. @@ -818,7 +818,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Sampled Tracks: - Life in Technicolor Commentary: |- - <i>Clark Powell:</i> (<a href="https://plazmataz.tumblr.com/post/25536699941/jane-dargason-it-may-be-a-little-late-by-now-but">Tumblr</a>) + <i>Clark Powell:</i> ([Tumblr](https://plazmataz.tumblr.com/post/25536699941/jane-dargason-it-may-be-a-little-late-by-now-but)) It may be a little late by now, but I wanted to give one more of my songs from Volume 9 a post of its own. @@ -937,7 +937,7 @@ Art Tags: - Earth Commentary: |- <i>Tavia Morra:</i> - This is another one that RJ let me do whatever I wanted on. After thinking about the title of the track, I remembered the moment in Homestuck when we all finally found out the answer to the infamous question <a href="https://www.homestuck.com/story/4853">"What Pumpkin?"</a> And what a heartwarming answer it was! To me, this was one of the most gentle tear-jerking moments in the comic to date. It just made sense to draw. + This is another one that RJ let me do whatever I wanted on. After thinking about the title of the track, I remembered the moment in Homestuck when we all finally found out the answer to the infamous question ["What Pumpkin?"](https://www.homestuck.com/story/4853) And what a heartwarming answer it was! To me, this was one of the most gentle tear-jerking moments in the comic to date. It just made sense to draw. --- Track: iRRRRRRRRECONCILA8LE Directory: iRRRRRRRRECONCILA8LE diff --git a/album/hush.yaml b/album/hush.yaml index 8b6c3e2c..4bd35c52 100644 --- a/album/hush.yaml +++ b/album/hush.yaml @@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Oooh, fall in the HUSH Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD5i7HfQYPc">Music video!</a>) + ([Music video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD5i7HfQYPc)) --- Track: Chameleon Directory: chameleon-hush @@ -515,4 +515,4 @@ Lyrics: |- CHAMELEON am I Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i46w0v3_C6c">Music video!</a>) + ([Music video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i46w0v3_C6c)) diff --git a/album/i-am-writing-myself-a-dream-in-a-letter.yaml b/album/i-am-writing-myself-a-dream-in-a-letter.yaml index 2233f427..5fd9fa56 100644 --- a/album/i-am-writing-myself-a-dream-in-a-letter.yaml +++ b/album/i-am-writing-myself-a-dream-in-a-letter.yaml @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Lyrics: |- And all the hate you hold for me was lightning three-tongued, and the feeling of sliding dice between the palms of your cold and clammy hands. Commentary: |- <i>Kal-la-kal-la:</i> - I can't claim to remember which radio stations I took audio from, but I used this websdr - <a href="http://k3fef.com:8901/">http://k3fef.com:8901/</a> + I can't claim to remember which radio stations I took audio from, but I used this websdr - [http://k3fef.com:8901/](http://k3fef.com:8901/) --- Track: Dreaming Pool Duration: '8:32' diff --git a/album/i-miss-you-earthbound-2012.yaml b/album/i-miss-you-earthbound-2012.yaml index fa8049f3..903d9b34 100644 --- a/album/i-miss-you-earthbound-2012.yaml +++ b/album/i-miss-you-earthbound-2012.yaml @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ Commentary: |- From the collaborative EarthBound fan-album I was a part of a while back. - Clearly callback to the <a href="https://youtu.be/tMCXMg8p9sc">final boss theme in the original game</a>, in both instrumentation and structure. I’m not as good at writing dissonant, alien metal, so I took a more melodic approach, integrating the low-intensity NES section into the rest of the song instead of dropping it once the guitars kick in. The melodic section is a little bit inspired by [[artist:malcolm-brown|Malcolm Brown]]’s [[track:rex-duodecim-angelus|Rex Duodecim Angelus]]. + Clearly callback to the [final boss theme in the original game](https://youtu.be/tMCXMg8p9sc), in both instrumentation and structure. I’m not as good at writing dissonant, alien metal, so I took a more melodic approach, integrating the low-intensity NES section into the rest of the song instead of dropping it once the guitars kick in. The melodic section is a little bit inspired by [[artist:malcolm-brown|Malcolm Brown]]’s [[track:rex-duodecim-angelus|Rex Duodecim Angelus]]. I snuck in some warping, pitch-bended bass notes like the original did. See if you can hear them at 1:09-1:15. Another little musical detail that I’m proud of is that I managed to re-use the sample from the guitar solo that plays on the [[track:prologue-earthbound|opening Gas Station screen]] of the game. @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/QwnKs-UJvRQ Commentary: |- <i>Toby Fox:</i> ([tumblr commentary](https://fwugradiation.tumblr.com/search/checkerboard)) - There are a lot of chill songs in EarthBound with rolly-snare drum loops, chill chords, and poppy, droopy bass. <a href="https://youtu.be/8SH2tEgUo2s">Hospital</a> definitely comes to mind, as does the [[track:choose-a-file|Select Your File]] theme. This song is essentially a fusion of those two tracks to create something chill and faux-nostalgic. It’s always nice to make something that isn’t punching you in the face. + There are a lot of chill songs in EarthBound with rolly-snare drum loops, chill chords, and poppy, droopy bass. [Hospital](https://youtu.be/8SH2tEgUo2s) definitely comes to mind, as does the [[track:choose-a-file|Select Your File]] theme. This song is essentially a fusion of those two tracks to create something chill and faux-nostalgic. It’s always nice to make something that isn’t punching you in the face. --- Track: Goodbye Directory: goodbye-i-miss-you diff --git a/album/if-one-shall-indulge.yaml b/album/if-one-shall-indulge.yaml index fe5ca031..d688ade5 100644 --- a/album/if-one-shall-indulge.yaml +++ b/album/if-one-shall-indulge.yaml @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln5PaIZawWE Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> - A theme for Beatrice commissioned by <a href="https://hsmusic.wiki/artist/josefin-b/">Josefin B</a>. + A theme for Beatrice commissioned by [Josefin B](https://hsmusic.wiki/artist/josefin-b/). --- Track: This is not a pipe Duration: '02:13' @@ -29,4 +29,4 @@ URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W-iSphH7bA Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> - A theme for Cecil commissioned by <a href="https://hsmusic.wiki/artist/josefin-b/">Josefin B</a>. \ No newline at end of file + A theme for Cecil commissioned by [Josefin B](https://hsmusic.wiki/artist/josefin-b/). diff --git a/album/im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew-soapstone.yaml b/album/im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew-soapstone.yaml index f7871a4b..d78a715b 100644 --- a/album/im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew-soapstone.yaml +++ b/album/im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew-soapstone.yaml @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Commentary: |- on the topic of soapstone music, i will not promise soapstone album will be out this year, because i promised that in 2022, and 2021. but i will try my damng hardest. 2023 year of the soapstone <i>Soapstone:</i> (post-lofam 5a2) - HEY! i updated this song and it's on the homestuck fan-music compilation [[album:lofam5a2|Land of Fans and Music 5 Act 2]] (along with another original soapstone tune!). i will probably keep the version here the same as it was when i released it but if you'd like to hear a better version along with 98 other awesome tracks by other artists then check this out: <a href="unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew-special-soapstone-version">unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew-special-soapstone-version</a> + HEY! i updated this song and it's on the homestuck fan-music compilation [[album:lofam5a2|Land of Fans and Music 5 Act 2]] (along with another original soapstone tune!). i will probably keep the version here the same as it was when i released it but if you'd like to hear a better version along with 98 other awesome tracks by other artists then check this out: [unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew-special-soapstone-version](unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew-special-soapstone-version) --- Track: I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew Directory: im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew-soapstone diff --git a/album/incipient-overture.yaml b/album/incipient-overture.yaml index 307a3475..54bfcfd0 100644 --- a/album/incipient-overture.yaml +++ b/album/incipient-overture.yaml @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Default Track Cover Artists: Track Art File Extension: png Commentary: |- <i>Dylan S.:</i> - Got commissioned to make six land themes for ClockworkReapers, maker of <a href="https://mspfa.com/?s=37159">Aleph Null</a>. Doing music for settings, especially settings this memorable and stark, might the most fun I’ve ever had composing. I was given six beautiful pictures and brief descriptions, and every one of them grabbed me. I got really attached to trying to capture what it must feel like to exist in all these awesome, impossible places. + Got commissioned to make six land themes for ClockworkReapers, maker of [Aleph Null](https://mspfa.com/?s=37159). Doing music for settings, especially settings this memorable and stark, might the most fun I’ve ever had composing. I was given six beautiful pictures and brief descriptions, and every one of them grabbed me. I got really attached to trying to capture what it must feel like to exist in all these awesome, impossible places. --- Track: Land of Amber and Frogs Art Tags: diff --git a/album/intermishin.yaml b/album/intermishin.yaml index fe4d82f3..dccf094f 100644 --- a/album/intermishin.yaml +++ b/album/intermishin.yaml @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Commentary: |- <img src="media/misc/intermishin-beta.png" width="300px"> <i>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQMB5o8_uQU">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQMB5o8_uQU)) --- Section: Midnigt Crewd Side --- diff --git a/album/jpeg.yaml b/album/jpeg.yaml index 97f74b75..956bc461 100644 --- a/album/jpeg.yaml +++ b/album/jpeg.yaml @@ -30,13 +30,13 @@ Commentary: |- .jpeg is a concept album: the team's artists draw some art and the musicians have to make music based around that art, instead of the usual other way around. 7.20 teraflops of leitmotifs, only on .jpeg - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgtorV0rWo0">.jpeg trailer</a>) + ([.jpeg trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgtorV0rWo0)) <i>yazshu:</i> (Organizer) - Hello cool and new fans, its ya boy yazshu here, with an introduction to this album. this album has been in development hell for a pretty long time, and around after the release of [[album:bowmania|bowmania]] or [[album:v8lume|vol 8]], i forget which, we really stepped up production of this with nights and i at the helm. the way this album works by instead of having the track art reflect the music, the music reflects the track art. we started out with our very talented and also our shitposting motherfuckers making a ton of art, which then got cut down to these (and one or two others that didn't get music made for them, one of which being a nutshack track which will be very sadly missed). after the track art was judged, we allowed musicians to pick art and compose a song for them. we have some of our best arts in this album, with [[artist:sozzay|sozzay]], [[artist:shadok|shadok]], [[artist:william|william]], [[artist:scarodactyl|scarodactyl]], [[artist:ephemerald|twinbuilder]], and a ton others highlighting how good our art team really is. nights and i really love this album and all the hard work everyone put into it, and we're really glad for it to finally see the light of day after all this time. Also read my webcomic <a href="http://omegaupdate.freeforums.net/thread/1208/midnight-city-blues/">http://omegaupdate.freeforums.net/thread/1208/midnight-city-blues/</a> + Hello cool and new fans, its ya boy yazshu here, with an introduction to this album. this album has been in development hell for a pretty long time, and around after the release of [[album:bowmania|bowmania]] or [[album:v8lume|vol 8]], i forget which, we really stepped up production of this with nights and i at the helm. the way this album works by instead of having the track art reflect the music, the music reflects the track art. we started out with our very talented and also our shitposting motherfuckers making a ton of art, which then got cut down to these (and one or two others that didn't get music made for them, one of which being a nutshack track which will be very sadly missed). after the track art was judged, we allowed musicians to pick art and compose a song for them. we have some of our best arts in this album, with [[artist:sozzay|sozzay]], [[artist:shadok|shadok]], [[artist:william|william]], [[artist:scarodactyl|scarodactyl]], [[artist:ephemerald|twinbuilder]], and a ton others highlighting how good our art team really is. nights and i really love this album and all the hard work everyone put into it, and we're really glad for it to finally see the light of day after all this time. Also read my webcomic [http://omegaupdate.freeforums.net/thread/1208/midnight-city-blues/](http://omegaupdate.freeforums.net/thread/1208/midnight-city-blues/) <i>nights:</i> (Organizer) - I love each and every single contributer to this album, as well as every singleperson in the stream. Please read [[group:oceanfalls|oceanfalls]]. <a href="oceanfalls.net">oceanfalls.net</a> + I love each and every single contributer to this album, as well as every singleperson in the stream. Please read [[group:oceanfalls|oceanfalls]]. [oceanfalls.net](oceanfalls.net) <i>Interrobang:</i> (Booklet Boy) My customary end-of-booklet commentary goes at the front this time. This ended up a great album and I'm really glad we finally got it released. My one regret is not having a fanventure to shill in this front section. @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Commentary: |- try to guess all the characters!!!!!! (there's 32 or 33 characters i think) <i>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5mGk2Z01AI">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5mGk2Z01AI)) --- Track: OFF course Artists: @@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ Commentary: |- I drew the disembodied john head. It is pretty much the first thing I've ever properly drawn. I had an idea that jhon at one stage would some how be reverted back into normal John through hecka jeff's time powers, and would be like evil I guess. <i>Cerulean:</i> (Composer) - I was trying new techniques i learned from my colleges music tech department. Using all new synths n stuff and trying out cool things with midi data created this track. Check out <a href="http://aradiabot.me/music">http://aradiabot.me/music</a> for my latest songs. + I was trying new techniques i learned from my colleges music tech department. Using all new synths n stuff and trying out cool things with midi data created this track. Check out [http://aradiabot.me/music](http://aradiabot.me/music) for my latest songs. --- Track: 'weeb jhon: ascending friendzone' Artists: @@ -935,7 +935,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Epona's Song Commentary: |- <i>tempest2k:</i> (Artist) - I did this instead of classwork while listening to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1GRBsfPQbA">SiIva's 413 Epona's Song rip</a>. + I did this instead of classwork while listening to [SiIva's 413 Epona's Song rip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1GRBsfPQbA). <i>Cecily Renns:</i> (Album Mastererer) but... horses dont meow... my world is shattered diff --git a/album/layers-coasters-upon-coasters.yaml b/album/layers-coasters-upon-coasters.yaml index 24b8d3ba..e1496626 100644 --- a/album/layers-coasters-upon-coasters.yaml +++ b/album/layers-coasters-upon-coasters.yaml @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Cool and New Music Team:</i> Everyone is here! LAYERS (coasters upon coasters) has each team member make their own individual song overlay, then puts em all together. - Music video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPHeyigJYrk">www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPHeyigJYrk</a> + Music video: [www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPHeyigJYrk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPHeyigJYrk) Inspired by "[[track:layers-upon-layers|Layers Upon Layers]]" by [[artist:marcy-nabors]] and [[artist:jamie-paige]] --- diff --git a/album/le-canrivalry-album-is-mandatory.yaml b/album/le-canrivalry-album-is-mandatory.yaml index a8ecd156..5d5cc68c 100644 --- a/album/le-canrivalry-album-is-mandatory.yaml +++ b/album/le-canrivalry-album-is-mandatory.yaml @@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ Lyrics: |- How I shot it on one taking it back to the days of trying to lose control TA-kyon Commentary: |- - <i>RandomDude647:</i> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kp_ds6EcFE&lc=UgwCnr4ZY7pbuOFL2O94AaABAg">YouTube comment</a>) + <i>RandomDude647:</i> ([YouTube comment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kp_ds6EcFE&lc=UgwCnr4ZY7pbuOFL2O94AaABAg)) Pasting this so i can see it more easily on mobile 0:00 purple tyrant (bob) 0:10 rct (bob) diff --git a/album/lofam2.yaml b/album/lofam2.yaml index 791dc3dc..a972fb2c 100644 --- a/album/lofam2.yaml +++ b/album/lofam2.yaml @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ Commentary: |- ~ in loving memory of becquerel ~ He was a good dog, and the best friend anyone could ever hope to have. <i>Lunise:</i> - I was inspired by the pesterlog on <a href="https://homestuck.com/story/4858">page <s>6758</s> 4858</a>. Even though I had heard this track long before that update, when I listened to it again to get an idea for what kind of track art I'd like to draw for it, all I could think of was that pesterlog about alpha Jade. + I was inspired by the pesterlog on [page <s>6758</s> 4858](https://homestuck.com/story/4858). Even though I had heard this track long before that update, when I listened to it again to get an idea for what kind of track art I'd like to draw for it, all I could think of was that pesterlog about alpha Jade. --- Track: Unforgiving Terrain Artists: @@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:carefree-action Commentary: |- <i>Thomas Ibarra:</i> - Irradiated is really an identifying track for my work, I've been told before that this track is the first that came to mind when mentioning my callsign SparksD2145. Similarly to a good portion of my work Black/Liquid Negrocity's leitmotif plays a prominent feature in the composition, providing the base melody for the entire track. The idea for Irradiated spurred from [[flash:2927]], as a high-velocity and energetic track with none other than Jack Noir at the center; my goal was to take Black and give it a different feel. After a short hiatus, my track Irradiated featured in my first tribute animation <a href="https://youtu.be/hnG10rk91qg">on YouTube</a> for Homestuck. + Irradiated is really an identifying track for my work, I've been told before that this track is the first that came to mind when mentioning my callsign SparksD2145. Similarly to a good portion of my work Black/Liquid Negrocity's leitmotif plays a prominent feature in the composition, providing the base melody for the entire track. The idea for Irradiated spurred from [[flash:2927]], as a high-velocity and energetic track with none other than Jack Noir at the center; my goal was to take Black and give it a different feel. After a short hiatus, my track Irradiated featured in my first tribute animation [on YouTube](https://youtu.be/hnG10rk91qg) for Homestuck. <i>Spectrumfizz:</i> Irradiated is among the first Homestuck fanmusic tracks I ever heard, so I was very pleased to be able to create art to accompany it on LOFAM2. I decided to draw inspiration from AutoDevote's first HS fanimation, which to this day remains one of my favourite Homestuck videos. I'm not particularly apt at composition or shading or several other things, but I'm pretty happy with what I accomplished here. --- @@ -796,7 +796,7 @@ Commentary: |- The original version of the track sounded nothing like this. What I want is for people who heard the first one to think, "wow, this guy really got less bad in a year." It references all the songs it originally did, whether in the same basic way (Courser, Ruins) or differently (Dawn of Man, the rose rap). That one terrible LEGENDARY ENDLESS DVS SAX song I made almost went on the album instead of this and I felt like paying tribute to it, so that's where the little sax rif came from. <i>Lunise:</i> - (<a href="https://hsfanmusic.skaia.net/post/39025832110/tiny-mayo-this-is-the-last-piece-of-track-art">Tumblr</a>) + ([Tumblr](https://hsfanmusic.skaia.net/post/39025832110/tiny-mayo-this-is-the-last-piece-of-track-art)) I had the feeling that I had to meet some pretty high expectations when I was called upon to draw this one, so I was pretty nervous about doing it. I spent a long time mulling over how I was going to go about drawing this track art after I completed the art for Stalemate. We don't know nearly as much about the denizens as we do about the kids or the trolls or even the carapacians, but I took what we do know about the beta kids' denizens and ran with it. There were actually a few goofs with the original composition of this drawing - Cetus' tail was originally pointing to the left but I then decided that having it face the right would give the overall drawing more flow. Also in Hephaestus' section of the art I had forgotten that Davesprite was injured when he went to him to get the Deringer repaired so for the longest time he had both wings at their full length. Not much to say about Typheus' section; I had a good idea of what I was going to do with it fairly early on. Echidna's section is primarily inspired by the track art for Volume 8's Bargaining with the Beast, as far as her design goes. I was originally going to include Jack to the right of Jade in that section, but I didn't find anywhere to put him and I found that the composition looked just fine without him anyway! Although in this memo Jade says that Jack was with him when she was talking with Echidna and I really wanted to draw him, I just couldn't make him fit. Perhaps I'll try and remedy that if I ever make a high-resolution version of this! @@ -1148,7 +1148,7 @@ Commentary: |- This is quite an old piece of mine, written mid-January 2010. As the title suggests, I wanted to write something that represented the first act of Homestuck, to capture the feeling of the story as we are introduced to its darker elements - the Wind Skims the Void flash ([[flash:82]]) is a good example to use. That page is almost like a title screen for the webcomic as a whole, not giving away a thing, but nudging ever so slightly towards things to come; likewise, the repeating piano ostinato in here pays tribute to the Chrono Trigger title music. Little did we know at the time, though, how destructive the conductor's baton can be. Here's hoping for a happy ending. <i>Fortnight:</i> - First of all - I love this track, it sounds to me like the start of something new, with hope and high expectations thrown in. I drew this track art based off that mood and also the unnamed flash from Act 1, <a href="https://homestuck.com/story/82">page <s>1982</s> 82</a>. + First of all - I love this track, it sounds to me like the start of something new, with hope and high expectations thrown in. I drew this track art based off that mood and also the unnamed flash from Act 1, [page <s>1982</s> 82](https://homestuck.com/story/82). --- Track: I'm The Doctor Artists: diff --git a/album/lofam3.yaml b/album/lofam3.yaml index f4d37201..45c4b882 100644 --- a/album/lofam3.yaml +++ b/album/lofam3.yaml @@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ Lyrics: |- SHOW ME THROUGH THE DARK - MIRMI ETIN TUKLET<br>I FEEL THE GREEN LIGHT - SHITA WIRG FLUKET<br>AROUND ME - JAR MA<br>WITH ME - FU MA<br>AND SOON MAY I BE - TI NU, FUTMA<br>MAY I BE SET FREE SOON - FUTMA KUL SHEMTOR 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. + This is a piece entirely done in a constructed language entirely created by me. Deatils can be found on [the original post](https://melodystuckrosearchive.tumblr.com/post/40875330244/hymn-of-the-horrorterrors-futma-kul-shemtor-be) on tumblr found on the 'melodystuckrose' blog. <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) Pretty would be an understatement. I partiuclarly like the lacy border. @@ -838,10 +838,10 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Niklink:</i> (wiki editor) A little bit of fandom history: [[flash:338|Dave's Phat Beat Machine]], the actual real thing instead of the static image they replaced it with after Flash died, has four secret buttons with extra music you find after selecting the four corner buttons on the machine. Somewhat unusually, the flash does indeed pull music directly from external sites which have stopped working over the years. By looking into the flash itself you can see the intended music for each button. From left to right: - - <a href="http://www.mspaintadventures.com/storyfiles/hs2/00253/mspa_harlequin.mp3">http://www.mspaintadventures.com/storyfiles/hs2/00253/mspa_harlequin.mp3</a><br> [[Harlequin]]. This one still works, as it links back to MSPA. Reused from the Act 2 walkaround, actually. - - <a href="http://www.turner.com/planet/mp3/cp_close.mp3">http://www.turner.com/planet/mp3/cp_close.mp3</a> The [[track:captain-planet-and-the-planeteers-end-title|Captain Planet closing credits]]. Visiting this link now redirects you to a redesigned Warner page instead. - - <a href="http://fozzy42.com/SoundClips/Themes/Movies/Ghostbusters.mp3">http://fozzy42.com/SoundClips/Themes/Movies/Ghostbusters.mp3</a> [[track:ghostbusters|Ghostbusters theme song]] from some random-ass page that no longer exists. - - <a href="http://pasko.webs.com/foreign/Aerosmith_-_I_Dont_Wanna_Miss_A_Thing.mp3">http://pasko.webs.com/foreign/Aerosmith_-_I_Dont_Wanna_Miss_A_Thing.mp3</a> Same deal as above, but for [[track:i-dont-want-to-miss-a-thing-aerosmith|I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing]] (as an Armageddon reference)... This links actually works! But.. it's playing a different song?? + - [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/storyfiles/hs2/00253/mspa_harlequin.mp3](http://www.mspaintadventures.com/storyfiles/hs2/00253/mspa_harlequin.mp3)<br> [[Harlequin]]. This one still works, as it links back to MSPA. Reused from the Act 2 walkaround, actually. + - [http://www.turner.com/planet/mp3/cp_close.mp3](http://www.turner.com/planet/mp3/cp_close.mp3) The [[track:captain-planet-and-the-planeteers-end-title|Captain Planet closing credits]]. Visiting this link now redirects you to a redesigned Warner page instead. + - [http://fozzy42.com/SoundClips/Themes/Movies/Ghostbusters.mp3](http://fozzy42.com/SoundClips/Themes/Movies/Ghostbusters.mp3) [[track:ghostbusters|Ghostbusters theme song]] from some random-ass page that no longer exists. + - [http://pasko.webs.com/foreign/Aerosmith_-_I_Dont_Wanna_Miss_A_Thing.mp3](http://pasko.webs.com/foreign/Aerosmith_-_I_Dont_Wanna_Miss_A_Thing.mp3) Same deal as above, but for [[track:i-dont-want-to-miss-a-thing-aerosmith|I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing]] (as an Armageddon reference)... This links actually works! But.. it's playing a different song?? Well, it turns out that from early 2019 all the way through the death of Flash at the end of 2020, fans managed to purchase this domain name and sneakily changed the song that plays to this very song! The link is still active, although of course it's pretty difficult to actually get Flash to run on your computer these days. --- Section: Disk 2 diff --git a/album/lofam4.yaml b/album/lofam4.yaml index 3ca19fb6..92152413 100644 --- a/album/lofam4.yaml +++ b/album/lofam4.yaml @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ Art Tags: - Derse Commentary: |- <i>ostrichlittledungeon:</i> - I'm actually not a huge fan of this song. See, I more or less made the whole album Cyclica in a couple of days, and this short "here are a bunch of melodies over the Flare arpeggios" only took me an huor or two. I really think there are parts of Cyclica that are better (if you haven't listened to Cyclica yet, you should do that; you can find the full album <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME3r64_NsnM">on YouTube</a>). A bunch of people seemed to like Dersite, and it made it onto Cool and New Greatest Hits, so here it is I guess. The violin note holds are unrealistic, the synth is weird as fuck, the piano is bad. But everyone liked it. Except for Veri. Veri didn't like it. Bless you Veri. + I'm actually not a huge fan of this song. See, I more or less made the whole album Cyclica in a couple of days, and this short "here are a bunch of melodies over the Flare arpeggios" only took me an huor or two. I really think there are parts of Cyclica that are better (if you haven't listened to Cyclica yet, you should do that; you can find the full album [on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME3r64_NsnM)). A bunch of people seemed to like Dersite, and it made it onto Cool and New Greatest Hits, so here it is I guess. The violin note holds are unrealistic, the synth is weird as fuck, the piano is bad. But everyone liked it. Except for Veri. Veri didn't like it. Bless you Veri. <i>plaidcushion:</i> I wonder what life was like for the carapacians, floating out in space away from everything going on on the battlefield as it got prototyped. Seems kind of lonely. --- @@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ Art Tags: - Green Sun 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. + Limelight was made for the unfinished Act 8 fan continuation of Homestuck, and was used in the flash [\[S] Resolve](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS9p2gD_Ou4). 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>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. --- @@ -741,8 +741,8 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Nicholas Nakano:</i> I was listening to STRIIFE right when it came out, then I thought, "Hey, this is fucking amazing" so I was inspired to make a Tensei-esque song. Its success is still unclear, but I like it. I hope you enjoy. <i>Griever:</i> - So. Let me just say right now that nights, the one who first thought up these fantrolls and drew them up for the Strife 2 album, is top tier at character design. These guys were all really fun to draw and I'm glad that they came out as well as they did, honestly. They're all very differentiable from other fantrolls and just look really nice. Read nights' comic, <a href="https://oceanfalls.net/">Oceanfalls</a>, because it is good and has nice character design/art in it too. - The music was rocking and good so I went for a dramatic action shot. I used Jojo as a reference for this type of shot, because of course I did (Read <a href="https://mspfa.com/?s=13714">Jojostuck</a>). The background and everything about this picture is made only to look kind acool, which it sorta does. The art functions on the "rule of cool" so to speak, at least a little bit. There's not much to say about it, honestly. Maybe I've already rambled on more than other artista bout this, and I'm pretty much done expositing, but I'm gonna go just a little bit further with this commentary. But it won't be lal that important. Just recounting a story I remembered. + So. Let me just say right now that nights, the one who first thought up these fantrolls and drew them up for the Strife 2 album, is top tier at character design. These guys were all really fun to draw and I'm glad that they came out as well as they did, honestly. They're all very differentiable from other fantrolls and just look really nice. Read nights' comic, [Oceanfalls](https://oceanfalls.net/), because it is good and has nice character design/art in it too. + The music was rocking and good so I went for a dramatic action shot. I used Jojo as a reference for this type of shot, because of course I did (Read [Jojostuck](https://mspfa.com/?s=13714)). The background and everything about this picture is made only to look kind acool, which it sorta does. The art functions on the "rule of cool" so to speak, at least a little bit. There's not much to say about it, honestly. Maybe I've already rambled on more than other artista bout this, and I'm pretty much done expositing, but I'm gonna go just a little bit further with this commentary. But it won't be lal that important. Just recounting a story I remembered. Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It's a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. --- Track: Plethoric Euphoria @@ -1110,8 +1110,8 @@ Lyrics: |- Commentary: |- <i>Ngame:</i> For those not in the know, Michael Guy Bowman is one of the most iconic people associated with Homestuck. You may remember him as the composer of [[Sburban Jungle]], one of the comic's most iconic songs, the angelic voice that captivated your ears in [[How Do I Live (Bunny Back in the Box Version)]], or maybe even as the "face of the fandom" for his famous Homestuck videos and convention appearances. - What isn't as well-known is that he's also an incredibly hilarious individual with dozens of sketch comedy videos - often featuring his equally sidesplitting friend, Scott Stutzsman - and I wanted to bring these two worlds together. With the release of Volume 10 in June, and the resulting focus on the Homestuck music team, Bowman appreciation had a resurgence in the fandom (especially one particular video, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cqZlNGBcwA">Bowman's Credit Score</a>). I got caught up in the fervor as well, and made my first foray into music remixing to put together the first iteration of this tribute to Michael Bowman. The remix includes notable quotes or samples from every video that Michael Bowman and Scott Stutzman collaborated on, as well as many of their individual comedy videos. - If you liked Bowman's Homestuck stuff, love comedy videos, or were just too damn intrigued by this song to stay out of the loop, I recommend giving <a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoOnh0MiKsmJb0CsYOTzkihMcNSl6-ruw">the Stutzbows</a> (as I like to call their videos) a watch. Whether it's Scott singing you the jingle for his favorite breakfast cereal, Bowman informing you about his credit score (spoiler alert: it's 720), or both of them having some good, old-fashioned backyard fun, I'm certain there's something to enjoy for everyone. + What isn't as well-known is that he's also an incredibly hilarious individual with dozens of sketch comedy videos - often featuring his equally sidesplitting friend, Scott Stutzsman - and I wanted to bring these two worlds together. With the release of Volume 10 in June, and the resulting focus on the Homestuck music team, Bowman appreciation had a resurgence in the fandom (especially one particular video, [Bowman's Credit Score](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cqZlNGBcwA)). I got caught up in the fervor as well, and made my first foray into music remixing to put together the first iteration of this tribute to Michael Bowman. The remix includes notable quotes or samples from every video that Michael Bowman and Scott Stutzman collaborated on, as well as many of their individual comedy videos. + If you liked Bowman's Homestuck stuff, love comedy videos, or were just too damn intrigued by this song to stay out of the loop, I recommend giving [the Stutzbows](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoOnh0MiKsmJb0CsYOTzkihMcNSl6-ruw) (as I like to call their videos) a watch. Whether it's Scott singing you the jingle for his favorite breakfast cereal, Bowman informing you about his credit score (spoiler alert: it's 720), or both of them having some good, old-fashioned backyard fun, I'm certain there's something to enjoy for everyone. --- Track: Schrödinger's Harbinger Directory: schrodingers-harbinger @@ -1195,7 +1195,7 @@ 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>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. + 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 [third](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44fx8qI9C-8) 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 [\[S] Jade and Calliope: Rumble.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ktbGOAUcZM) 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 Artists: @@ -2140,7 +2140,7 @@ 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>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). + 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, [go watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgw1yxGLStI) [S] Finale when you're done with this album). --- Track: Radness from Concentrate Artists: diff --git a/album/lofam5.yaml b/album/lofam5.yaml index ad946dc2..29cfa403 100644 --- a/album/lofam5.yaml +++ b/album/lofam5.yaml @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Commentary: |- Ok I don't know how we're gonna format this but I want to thank Gryotharian and Monckat for doing an absolutely amazing job getting track art done for every remaining track in like, a week. That's 26 and 17 arts respectively! They can be said unironically to have saved the art part of this album. The other artists are fine too but they didn't make 17 track arts and that's the cutoff for being personally mentioned... <i>Ucklin:</i> - Thanks: Circlejourney and Makin for helping with management and organization, Kanishka for working a lot to get the booklet ready, Gryotharian for giving feedback to almost every song on the spreadsheet, and everyone else on the team who took on roles to help us get this out in addition to their music and art contributions! Also, everyone who tuned in to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz6uitzoTgU">the livestream</a>. + Thanks: Circlejourney and Makin for helping with management and organization, Kanishka for working a lot to get the booklet ready, Gryotharian for giving feedback to almost every song on the spreadsheet, and everyone else on the team who took on roles to help us get this out in addition to their music and art contributions! Also, everyone who tuned in to [the livestream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz6uitzoTgU). I thought this would definitely be our final album going in, but now I don't feel so sure. It really was a team effort, so thank you everyone! <i>Circlejourney:</i> (<i>alternate album art</i>) @@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Black Commentary: |- <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. + The art for this track is actually [a video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okTNlwSViX8), 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 Directory: dance-of-entropy-lofam5 @@ -1311,7 +1311,7 @@ Sampled Tracks: - Schala's Theme Commentary: |- <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>. + There's a Homestuck continuation fanventure named "[[album:act-8-volume-1|Act 8]]", and this amazing track scored part of it! You can [check it out here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS9p2gD_Ou4). --- Track: Sburban City Artists: @@ -1361,7 +1361,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Decon Theed, repeatedScales|[[artist: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> (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. + 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 [bandcamp](https://103records.bandcamp.com/), known to few. It's time it saw the light of the mainstream and knocked your socks off. --- Track: Black ($C4RL3TT Remix) Directory: black-sc4rl3tt-remix diff --git a/album/lofam5a2.yaml b/album/lofam5a2.yaml index d41e1f3e..839faba9 100644 --- a/album/lofam5a2.yaml +++ b/album/lofam5a2.yaml @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Additional Files: - bg.png Commentary: |- <i>Unofficial MSPA Fans:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L_53bD1JeE">Album premiere stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Album premiere stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L_53bD1JeE)) <i>Grace Medley:</i> “This almost didn’t happen.” @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Commentary: |- I can ask for a better team, witness me: I want [[group:toby-fox|Toby Fox]] for LOFAM 6. I’m gonna make this happen, I swear it on [[Penumbra Phantasm|PP’s]] name. <i>tempest2k:</i> - hi I'm tempest2k! I organized the metadata for this album download! if you are reading this it means you care enough about this music that I will take advantage of your interest by plugging my own stuff. mwahahaha! <a href="http://inhospitable.net">check out my comic</a> + hi I'm tempest2k! I organized the metadata for this album download! if you are reading this it means you care enough about this music that I will take advantage of your interest by plugging my own stuff. mwahahaha! [check out my comic](http://inhospitable.net) thank to everyone reading for caring so much about homestuck music. everyone who worked on this album should be incredibly proud to have been a part of something so magical. --- @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Killed by BR8K Spider!!!!!!!! Commentary: |- <i>Fender_Jess:</i> - So Vriskafic8ion is a track Ash wrote inspired by the fanfiction "<a href="https://archiveofourown.org/series/1475819">godfeels</a>", wherein John becomes June with an assist from her own personal brain ghost Vriska. Basically, June is all of John's power and free spirit, combined with Vriska's determination, neverending drive and penchant for (over-re)action. She's a chaotic whirlwind of violence and action and willpower and volatility, all with Vriska there, in spirit, hand on her shoulder. Godfeels is one of my all-time favorite fanworks (in fact I voice June in a fandub called podfeels, check it out!), and seeing this track appear on LOFAM was an absolute delight, so I wanted to give it a visual punch to go along with the energy of the music. The piece itself is just a few vignettes of important moments plus a Cool Action Shot of June to tie it all together. As simple as the concept is, I'm really happy with how it came out; this is definitely the most ambitious thing I've ever drawn, hahah + So Vriskafic8ion is a track Ash wrote inspired by the fanfiction "[godfeels](https://archiveofourown.org/series/1475819)", wherein John becomes June with an assist from her own personal brain ghost Vriska. Basically, June is all of John's power and free spirit, combined with Vriska's determination, neverending drive and penchant for (over-re)action. She's a chaotic whirlwind of violence and action and willpower and volatility, all with Vriska there, in spirit, hand on her shoulder. Godfeels is one of my all-time favorite fanworks (in fact I voice June in a fandub called podfeels, check it out!), and seeing this track appear on LOFAM was an absolute delight, so I wanted to give it a visual punch to go along with the energy of the music. The piece itself is just a few vignettes of important moments plus a Cool Action Shot of June to tie it all together. As simple as the concept is, I'm really happy with how it came out; this is definitely the most ambitious thing I've ever drawn, hahah --- Track: 'Flight of the Meteor: Year 1' Additional Names: @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ Commentary: |- But yeah, my first track across this entire set of albums! Kinda wild liveblogging my own music<br> Orchestral epic Hans Zimmer interstellar yada yada track<br> Honestly, i feel like i handled this surprisingly well<br> - I kinda lied in the og commentary (but that's because i forgot), my first foray into orchestral music was technically the <a href="https://soundcloud.com/jebbjabroni/aleph-null-2021-comic-trailer-theme">trailer theme for Aleph Null</a><br> + I kinda lied in the og commentary (but that's because i forgot), my first foray into orchestral music was technically the [trailer theme for Aleph Null](https://soundcloud.com/jebbjabroni/aleph-null-2021-comic-trailer-theme)<br> But this was handled LEAGUES better i feel<br> The bass works really well, not too much, not too little of it<br> Maybe sliiightly too much? Not sure<br> @@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ Cover Artists: - Nodls Commentary: |- <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>. + This art was originally used to score the [\[S] Mika: Souviens-toi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH65pNyM2Pw) animation in the french fanventure [Heaven;Sent](https://discord.gg/hV3s6dXEuX). --- Track: Slow Dancing in the Clockwork Hall Directory: slow-dancing-in-the-clockwork-hall-lofam5a2 @@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Spear of Justice Commentary: |- <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> + As with all of subversiveasset’s covers, there’s a [pretty good music video on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APzFKEufjUw) <i>subversiveasset:</i> Wanted to play Alternate Recipe and Final Spice, and then along the way I quoted a lot of other Toby Fox pieces @@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ Commentary: |- I decided to take Final Spice and run with it, with a few references to other Toby Fox tracks. Will you get all the references? - Also, check out <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-201967720/final-spice-remake">this remake of Final Spice</a> by [[artist:dbnet18|dbnet18]] -- his transcription really reduced the work load for me! + Also, check out [this remake of Final Spice](https://soundcloud.com/user-201967720/final-spice-remake) by [[artist:dbnet18|dbnet18]] -- his transcription really reduced the work load for me! <i>METIANULL:</i> (& halstridergaming) This was an extremely fun piece to make, we wanted to recreate the feel of classic Touhou cover art; paying homage to the origin of "Final Spice". A LOOOT of assets and research were put into this piece, especially with desigining the dress and making the title... " \*toby fox voice* its a part of... important chinese orthography @@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:awakening-la-mulana Commentary: |- <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). + This initially foreboding and soon rave-y track was used to score the fanventure [Hexane](https://mspfa.com/?s=1032), specifically [\[S] Viy: Rise Up](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9lVuJTuOkw), a climactic moment of the endgame. And yes, that motif is from La-Mulana (play it). <i>Horizonseek Studios:</i> // DARK GOD AND FALLEN ANGELS<br> @@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:the-council-of-elrond Commentary: |- <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. + This track came from a ten year old shitpost by Alex and [electricwestern](https://walliard.tumblr.com/post/40310450692/electricwestern-s-bilbo-dont-go-on-any) 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> --- @@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Rex Duodecim Angelus Commentary: |- <i>gh0stcr33p:</i> - this track was made for the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F41HZ9ZkzMM">COUNTDOWN</a> flash of the <a href="https://mspfa.com/?s=50076&p=1">Paradox Struck</a> fanventure. it is meant to envoke the urgency of the characters getting to the medium before their planets are obliterated by meteors + this track was made for the [COUNTDOWN](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F41HZ9ZkzMM) flash of the [Paradox Struck](https://mspfa.com/?s=50076&p=1) fanventure. it is meant to envoke the urgency of the characters getting to the medium before their planets are obliterated by meteors --- Track: Make Them Pay Directory: make-them-pay-lofam5a2 @@ -730,7 +730,7 @@ Lyrics: |- S-S-S-SQUAWK LIKE AN IMBECILE AND SHIT ON YOUR DE— (No!) Commentary: |- <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. + You can [play this amazing and hilarious track](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbtS8RiPkds) in more than one way. <i>Doribun:</i> haha wahoo! beckoning as a concept is really fuckin funny and i the fact bb managed to make it work is nothin short of radicool to me. I wanted to try and do justice to the visuals of the song while still staying true to the Homestuck style. I took references from early Act panels and flashes to capture John's whole look, and I also took visual cues and inspirations from the lighting and stuff in the song. I felt like the BG was a lilll empty so i put in the repeating text, hehe. ColorsNMayhem as a mod is somethin thats super cool and honestly p special to me personally. I mean come on, It's a Homestuck FNF mod made by one of my fuckin buds, of course im delighted about it. The fact I've gotten to work on it and make even more art for it (the first piece I ever made being the main banner art) is just. ITS COOL, MAN!!! ITS FUCKING COOL!!! As of writing, I cant wait for ColorsNMayhem to come out, and for yall to see what bb cooked. Because I promise you he cooked GOOD. @@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ Commentary: |- I wanted to give this drawing a melachonic, distant feeling between terezi and vriska. Definitely tried something experimental for this piece as i wanted to give this track justice. Like the track, I wanted to express a lot of feeling in this art. I seriously couldn't have accomplished that without the help of my very talented friend [[artist:metianull|Metianull]]! He helped with texturing this piece, along with filters and the text. I would like to believe this track art represents an interesting mix of emotions, but of course its completely up to interpetation... and I think thats the fun part! <i>Terepy Pipes:</i> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwtL1khras4"><img src="media/misc/lofam5a2terepy.png" width="150"></a><br> + [<img src="media/misc/lofam5a2terepy.png" width="150">](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwtL1khras4)<br> --- Track: Maybe it'll turn out better this time Artists: @@ -866,7 +866,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> This one's about starting the universe over when the old one doesn't work out. It's also about the worlds that Homestuck has inspired and spawned, both within its multiverse and beyond it. - I'm dedicating this one to <a href="https://utopianparadoxist.tumblr.com">UtopianParadoxist</a>, who wrote the post that made this track appear in my mind in such blinding clarity I couldn't stop making until it was done. + I'm dedicating this one to [UtopianParadoxist](https://utopianparadoxist.tumblr.com), who wrote the post that made this track appear in my mind in such blinding clarity I couldn't stop making until it was done. I also have some extended commentary about this one--it's more important to me than I give it credit for. @@ -874,7 +874,7 @@ Commentary: |- I kept thinking that maybe, if I just read the comic again, it would turn out different. Maybe it'd be the story I'd once loved and it would fill me with breathless wonder again. Maybe it'd be better. - But earlier this year, a post by uP crossed my dash after he'd disappeared from my periphery for well over a year. He was outlining his plans surrounding <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/series/1433650">Pumpkin Path</a>, a story he's writing that runs adjacent to the Epilogues and (eventually though not yet?) gives these characters the futures they've earned. + But earlier this year, a post by uP crossed my dash after he'd disappeared from my periphery for well over a year. He was outlining his plans surrounding [Pumpkin Path](https://archiveofourown.org/series/1433650), a story he's writing that runs adjacent to the Epilogues and (eventually though not yet?) gives these characters the futures they've earned. And I realised...the way I'd been thinking about it, that's not how it works, y'know? It's not the story that has changed: it's my heart, my relationship with it. And the best thing I could do was take what this once-beloved story gave me and make something new with it. And that's what many people have done in the wake of Homestuck's end: we've all gone off and made new stories, for which this long-beloved comic was an undeniable progenitor. @@ -1100,7 +1100,7 @@ Art Tags: - LoMaX Commentary: |- <i>JulianMOCs:</i> - This track was created as my love letter to [[group:toby-fox|Toby Fox's]] music style. The song "[[track:savior-of-the-waking-world|Savior of the Waking World]]" stuck with me as I read through Homestuck for the first time after initially being drawn to the webcomic because of Toby Fox's involvement with the soundtrack, so I decided to make a song that gives off a similar energy to the moment portrayed in the story. Recently, I pitched the song to be made into an S flash for <a href="https://mspfa.com/?s=32996">Paradox Swapped</a>, and will be featured in the fanventure very soon! + This track was created as my love letter to [[group:toby-fox|Toby Fox's]] music style. The song "[[track:savior-of-the-waking-world|Savior of the Waking World]]" stuck with me as I read through Homestuck for the first time after initially being drawn to the webcomic because of Toby Fox's involvement with the soundtrack, so I decided to make a song that gives off a similar energy to the moment portrayed in the story. Recently, I pitched the song to be made into an S flash for [Paradox Swapped](https://mspfa.com/?s=32996), and will be featured in the fanventure very soon! --- Track: When the Curtains Part Directory: when-the-curtains-part-lofam5a2 @@ -1223,7 +1223,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>nononimo:</i> ive always wanted to remix moonsetter, accidentally spedrun it today - inspired by: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/funkybits/with-you-edit">Four80East - With You (Funkybits' Edit)</a> + inspired by: [Four80East - With You (Funkybits' Edit)](https://soundcloud.com/funkybits/with-you-edit) <i>DAV:</i> I inspired myself of the Moonsetter arttrack which had Dirk and was like... It feels more upbeat, I have to add some dirkjake endgame. So I referenced this one scene in [[flash:8130|[S]Credits]] with Robot Lord English and gave Jake the Lara Croft outfit because he looks stunning in it @@ -1260,7 +1260,7 @@ Art Tags: - Alternia Commentary: |- <i>Spiny:</i> - This was a city in an <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/RPGStuck/">RPGStuck game</a> I played in years ago. I made this theme for it. Below is the description i used from the GM: + This was a city in an [RPGStuck game](https://www.reddit.com/r/RPGStuck/) I played in years ago. I made this theme for it. Below is the description i used from the GM: Strikingly similar to Hiveswap’s Outglut, Grubheap is a series of the most basic, barely passable hives. If the caste of their tenants weren’t so laughable, one might note that Grubheap’s population by volume rivals that of the other larger settlements. @@ -1291,9 +1291,9 @@ Sampled Tracks: - Showdown Commentary: |- <i>Jebb:</i> - This track was initially made for fun and inspired by a [[track:land-of-resent-and-destruction|land]] for a character from the <a href="https://mspfa.com/?s=37159">Aleph Null MSPFA</a>. I had it stashed for a while until this LOFAM came and I remembered about this piece. After browsing the wiki for a bit, I realised that it fits Karkat's land perfectly, and after a few adjustments it became this. + This track was initially made for fun and inspired by a [[track:land-of-resent-and-destruction|land]] for a character from the [Aleph Null MSPFA](https://mspfa.com/?s=37159). I had it stashed for a while until this LOFAM came and I remembered about this piece. After browsing the wiki for a bit, I realised that it fits Karkat's land perfectly, and after a few adjustments it became this. - The heavy piano idea came from the intro to <a href="https://youtu.be/GBUxlYM1B-Q">DCEU Lex Luthor's theme</a>. + The heavy piano idea came from the intro to [DCEU Lex Luthor's theme](https://youtu.be/GBUxlYM1B-Q). If I were to characterize this, I would say that while [[track:phaze-and-blood]] shows us the more aggressive and violent nature of the land, this track represents the more sombre and tragic nature of it. "(Karkat) thinks he was put on this planet covered in an ocean of his own blood to be taunted. Punished for something. Saddest story you ever heard." @@ -1309,14 +1309,14 @@ Commentary: |- And i did<br> And this was that - The Showdown melody was initially the <a href="https://youtu.be/IIZIrwbMo4M">theme of the character pictured in the drawing</a> but replaced it later on<br> + The Showdown melody was initially the [theme of the character pictured in the drawing](https://youtu.be/IIZIrwbMo4M) but replaced it later on<br> You can still hear the initial whisperings and meat squelches from the og idea of the above land<br> That's because i forgot to replace the squelches with blood sea wave sounds <img src="media/misc/howhigh.png" width="24" height="24"><br> Whoops<br> But oh well, it still works <i>Kanishka:</i> - <i><a href="https://youtu.be/67YUVlH4Nfg">OFF OST: -09- Rainy Day (and meat)</a></i> + <i>[OFF OST: -09- Rainy Day (and meat)](https://youtu.be/67YUVlH4Nfg)</i> <i>Jebb:</i> Oh damn yeah that's surprisingly similar<br> @@ -1399,7 +1399,7 @@ Lyrics: |- I'll change our fate and see you back in time Commentary: |- <i>Tee-vee:</i> - "A song about the events post-[[flash:6901|GAME OVER]], for the most part". This track was originally made for the [[album:skaias-the-limit|SAHCon 2022 album, "SKAIA'S THE LIMIT"]], I was very happy with the composition and arrangement but not satisfied with the vocal performance and the final mix I sent in, so I took the opportunity of this new LOFAM being worked on to make a second improved version! I retracked the main vocal part as best as I could and replaced most of the fry screams with false chord (I believe) which I couldn't do well at the time; still not 100% happy with my vocals but still an improvement over the first version in my opinion. If you want lyrics or a more complete commentary on this song feel free to check out [[track:retcon|the original release on bandcamp]] for the full original description, and there's also <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad-OrQ7GfXs">a guitar playthrough</a> on my youtube! >:3 + "A song about the events post-[[flash:6901|GAME OVER]], for the most part". This track was originally made for the [[album:skaias-the-limit|SAHCon 2022 album, "SKAIA'S THE LIMIT"]], I was very happy with the composition and arrangement but not satisfied with the vocal performance and the final mix I sent in, so I took the opportunity of this new LOFAM being worked on to make a second improved version! I retracked the main vocal part as best as I could and replaced most of the fry screams with false chord (I believe) which I couldn't do well at the time; still not 100% happy with my vocals but still an improvement over the first version in my opinion. If you want lyrics or a more complete commentary on this song feel free to check out [[track:retcon|the original release on bandcamp]] for the full original description, and there's also [a guitar playthrough](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad-OrQ7GfXs) on my youtube! >:3 --- Track: '"Shred them to pieces"' Artists: @@ -1847,11 +1847,11 @@ Lyrics: |- From then and now it's one for all Commentary: |- <i>horizon:</i> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTX9w8inmEY">[Lyric video]</a> + [\[Lyric video]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTX9w8inmEY) nothing much to say except thank you for listening, and consider supporting the artists below. - some background: LO,ON and i came up with this idea when i went through old comments on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9SQjvPLAWs">lyricover for derse dreamers</a> i did back in the day, and someone said it would be better with dave rapping. + some background: LO,ON and i came up with this idea when i went through old comments on the [lyricover for derse dreamers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9SQjvPLAWs) i did back in the day, and someone said it would be better with dave rapping. so we decided to do that. but instead of redoing derse dreamers with a rap, we decided to take a tip from mother mother on their hayloft i and ii songs. i flipped the riff around a bit and we worked through from there. @@ -1915,7 +1915,7 @@ Lyrics: |- (Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality.) Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> - This track was bit of a last minute addition to [DistantQuest's] soundtrack for signless's route. Without getting into the details, the track that was originally going to be used for the route had to be removed. I was more than happy to fill in and it gave me excuse to write a rock track. I took a lot of influence from the track "Burn" by Deep Purple, especially in the organ solo parts. I hope you enjoy the music and take time to enjoy <a href="https://distantpast.itch.io/distantquest">the game</a> as well. + This track was bit of a last minute addition to [DistantQuest's] soundtrack for signless's route. Without getting into the details, the track that was originally going to be used for the route had to be removed. I was more than happy to fill in and it gave me excuse to write a rock track. I took a lot of influence from the track "Burn" by Deep Purple, especially in the organ solo parts. I hope you enjoy the music and take time to enjoy [the game](https://distantpast.itch.io/distantquest) as well. Biggest shout out to Tee-vee, who performed all the guitars for this --- @@ -2107,7 +2107,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - The Ballad of Jack Noir Commentary: |- <i>Jebb:</i> - I got the idea for this track after watching <a href="https://youtu.be/j1BfO7VlIw4">S2E3 of Helluva Boss</a> and thinking that making a track with a mafia aesthetic would be a cool idea. Also, around that time I heard <a href="https://youtu.be/Paw4n5xmqxQ">Two Planets Approach the Roche Limit</a> and was amazed at how many different parts and elements it had working perfectly in unison, and making a chaotic jazz-ish track was a great opportunity to try and replicate something like that. + I got the idea for this track after watching [S2E3 of Helluva Boss](https://youtu.be/j1BfO7VlIw4) and thinking that making a track with a mafia aesthetic would be a cool idea. Also, around that time I heard [Two Planets Approach the Roche Limit](https://youtu.be/Paw4n5xmqxQ) and was amazed at how many different parts and elements it had working perfectly in unison, and making a chaotic jazz-ish track was a great opportunity to try and replicate something like that. This track was initially called Musty Mafia, however, when LOFAM came around, I realised that it would be a perfect track for the Midnight Crew/Spades Slick and decided to expand it from a small sketch to a full track (always save your music sketches lol). I decided to make the new title a pun, like most titles in [[album:midnight-crew-drawing-dead|Midnight Crew: Drawing Dead]] are, and so the title "Ace-celerando" came to be, coming from the words Ace and Accelerando (Although I had to go through variations such as Acelerando, Ace-lerando etc). @@ -2354,7 +2354,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Us young adventurers Commentary: |- <i>horizon:</i> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDzPBbKvQlY">[Lyric video]</a> + [\[Lyric video]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDzPBbKvQlY) my love letter to homestuck is finally complete!!!! it isn't as perfect as i wanted it to be, but it has my heart in it, and that's really all i could ask for. i've never animated before so this was a really interesting challenge. @@ -2362,7 +2362,7 @@ Commentary: |- thank you. you showed me the path to my future and gave me a hell of a lot of hope and heartbreak with it. i wouldn't have it any other way. - special thanks to Ymi, who created the skaianet ARG that inspired me to make something for the anniversary. where would we even be without <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV3sis_x25E">ollywood showdown</a>? + special thanks to Ymi, who created the skaianet ARG that inspired me to make something for the anniversary. where would we even be without [ollywood showdown](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV3sis_x25E)? <i>yoyoYolo:</i> probably my favorite cover art for what might be my favorite song: sburban juxtaposition. the track is so good i basically drew the whole cover while listening to it on loop. coloring the meteors was a lot of fun too. rose’s pose is actually inspired by miles’ leap of faith from spider-man: into the spiderverse (the spiderverse movies have consumed me ever since i saw atsv in theatres, it can’t be helped). @@ -2927,7 +2927,7 @@ Art Tags: - Alternia 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! + 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 [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh0YkQn_zLU) or [Bandcamp](https://teeveemusic.bandcamp.com/album/theres-no-place-like-home-a-homestuck-prog-rock-medley) if you enjoyed this! <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! @@ -2980,7 +2980,7 @@ Commentary: |- The second half rearranges Do You Remem8er Me through a reharmonization of Terezi's theme. Although the virtuosic ending is the Ruins quote that plays on their reunion, the emotional climax lies immediately prior, as Terezi dashes through a final intertwining of all previous themes into a dense 8-voice counterpoint. - There are several other programmatic inspirations, most notably Grace’s <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/21008963">A Hive 8n’t A Home<</a> for the first half, manifesting in both the harmonic and rhythmic conflict of Vriska’s motives, and harukatenoh’s <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/48691303">does not heal</a> for the depiction of memories in the second half. + There are several other programmatic inspirations, most notably Grace’s [A Hive 8n’t A Home<](https://archiveofourown.org/works/21008963) for the first half, manifesting in both the harmonic and rhythmic conflict of Vriska’s motives, and harukatenoh’s [does not heal](https://archiveofourown.org/works/48691303) for the depiction of memories in the second half. Special thanks to [[artist:grace-medley|Grace]] and [[artist:ucklin|Ucklin]] for motivating me to turn a simple arrangement into a full poem! diff --git a/album/look-on-my-works-ye-mighty-and-despair.yaml b/album/look-on-my-works-ye-mighty-and-despair.yaml index 0662cd39..c4c05166 100644 --- a/album/look-on-my-works-ye-mighty-and-despair.yaml +++ b/album/look-on-my-works-ye-mighty-and-despair.yaml @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Show me your heart and I will show you how Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlWdWFD8t6U">Music video!</a>) + ([Music video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlWdWFD8t6U)) --- Track: Like Angels Duration: '2:50' @@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ Lyrics: |- And we won't even touch the ground Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGQn4ZUgHa4">Music video!</a>) + ([Music video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGQn4ZUgHa4)) --- Track: Unstoppable Directory: unstoppable-look-on-my-works @@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ Lyrics: |- You should feel lucky, 'cuz I'm your lucky charm. Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdAcoQgCX8c">Music video!</a>) + ([Music video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdAcoQgCX8c)) --- Track: Back To The Jungle Duration: '5:24' @@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Where i'm gonna eat dirt Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rbQPtjXUww">Music video!</a>) + ([Music video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rbQPtjXUww)) --- Track: Night Terrors Duration: '3:09' diff --git a/album/love-renewed.yaml b/album/love-renewed.yaml index 0777bf9c..d05d952a 100644 --- a/album/love-renewed.yaml +++ b/album/love-renewed.yaml @@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ Commentary: |- this is the main theme for a newly announced yuri sci fi visual novel called Soul Restruct by my good friends over at KonpeiCo! i'm making music for it alongside [[artist:marcy-nabors]]... among other things. teehee✨ check it out!<br> - <a href="https://twitter.com/KonpeiCo">twitter.com/KonpeiCo</a><br> - <a href="https://konpeico.itch.io/soulrestruct">konpeico.itch.io/soulrestruct</a> + [twitter.com/KonpeiCo](https://twitter.com/KonpeiCo)<br> + [konpeico.itch.io/soulrestruct](https://konpeico.itch.io/soulrestruct) --- Track: Love Renewed Duration: '3:29' diff --git a/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.yaml b/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.yaml index abefc40c..e1b2830f 100644 --- a/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.yaml +++ b/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.yaml @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Commentary: |- In addition to some familiar names like Hadley and Bowman, there are a lot of great new artists represented in this album, who haven't yet authored something appearing in HS. But the newer folks made some of my favorite stuff there. I recommend you give the whole thing a thorough listen. Thanks to everyone for working on this, and as always, thanks to [[artist:cindy-dominguez|Cindy]] for configuring all the tedious Bandcamp stuff. - A final note: when I said it was unforshadowed, I guess that <a href="https://homestuck.com/story/353">wasn't entirely true</a>. + A final note: when I said it was unforshadowed, I guess that [wasn't entirely true](https://homestuck.com/story/353). <i>Homestuck:</i> ([Bandcamp credits blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20100206233406/https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead-2)) @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Andrew Huo:</i> - Hauntjam and Hauntjelly are interesting things. They were actually made based on a short fruity loop that The Big Man Andrew did, called haunt.wav or haunt.mp3 or something like that. A jam on his theme, logically, would therefore be called "hauntjam," with the opportunity for naming puns including "hauntjelly." His theme appears mostly unchanged as the bassline for the first part of the pieces. At this point in terms of instrumentation, we were still mostly striving for faithfulness to the canon Midnight Crew "band," as can be seen in <a href="http://www.mspaintadventures.com/extras/ps000018.html">the Extras page</a> wherein the MC fill 'em with midnight (bottom), so Hauntjam employs trombone, string bass, piano, clarinet, and sax (I forget which because I've lost the file and am not a band person, but I think it was alto). From there on, it was fairly straightforward to write a haunting refrain and then solos for each instrument. I will admit I got a little writerblock'd for the second part, which was sort of a brief modulation to the dominant, so it sounds a little strange. But it still has its own little charm, with the almost annoying trill put in for a spooky ghost-like effect. In Hauntjam, Bowman did some good stuff with bringing out moving parts in the first refrain. In Hauntjelly, [[artist:ian-taylor|Xerxes]] emphasizes the spookiness by changing instruments for more electric organ. + Hauntjam and Hauntjelly are interesting things. They were actually made based on a short fruity loop that The Big Man Andrew did, called haunt.wav or haunt.mp3 or something like that. A jam on his theme, logically, would therefore be called "hauntjam," with the opportunity for naming puns including "hauntjelly." His theme appears mostly unchanged as the bassline for the first part of the pieces. At this point in terms of instrumentation, we were still mostly striving for faithfulness to the canon Midnight Crew "band," as can be seen in [the Extras page](http://www.mspaintadventures.com/extras/ps000018.html) wherein the MC fill 'em with midnight (bottom), so Hauntjam employs trombone, string bass, piano, clarinet, and sax (I forget which because I've lost the file and am not a band person, but I think it was alto). From there on, it was fairly straightforward to write a haunting refrain and then solos for each instrument. I will admit I got a little writerblock'd for the second part, which was sort of a brief modulation to the dominant, so it sounds a little strange. But it still has its own little charm, with the almost annoying trill put in for a spooky ghost-like effect. In Hauntjam, Bowman did some good stuff with bringing out moving parts in the first refrain. In Hauntjelly, [[artist:ian-taylor|Xerxes]] emphasizes the spookiness by changing instruments for more electric organ. <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> @@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/Leb48RHyrWs Commentary: |- <i>Hilary Troiano:</i> - Someone sent me a PM asking for some commentary about my two MSPA songs, so [[media:misc/hilary-troiano-commentary.mp3|here it is]]. (<a href="https://jaydeis.tumblr.com/post/19609363685/someone-sent-me-a-pm-asking-for-some-commentary">source</a>) + Someone sent me a PM asking for some commentary about my two MSPA songs, so [[media:misc/hilary-troiano-commentary.mp3|here it is]]. ([source](https://jaydeis.tumblr.com/post/19609363685/someone-sent-me-a-pm-asking-for-some-commentary)) <b>Transcript:</b> diff --git a/album/mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido.yaml b/album/mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido.yaml index 24eb89c8..4350e2b0 100644 --- a/album/mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido.yaml +++ b/album/mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido.yaml @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Commentary: |- <i>Tavia Morra:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUDkBTYWtGk">Music video!</a>) + ([Music video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUDkBTYWtGk)) --- Track: Lies With The Sea Duration: '4:46' diff --git a/album/moons-of-theseus.yaml b/album/moons-of-theseus.yaml index 9ea1d7c7..95f7fd3c 100644 --- a/album/moons-of-theseus.yaml +++ b/album/moons-of-theseus.yaml @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Additional Files: - bg.jpg Commentary: |- <i>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zzLgUZ7N-s">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zzLgUZ7N-s)) --- Track: Home Artists: @@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>SplitSuns:</i> This song has quite the history to it! I made it back in July of 2018 for the Cool and New Music Team's "Volume 11" project, a plan to make a fan-made meme-filled image of a fake Volume 11 from the Homestuck Music Team's Bandcamp page a reality. All the songs, including a 12-hour "extended" version of Penumbra Phantasm, a rock opera made out of Michael Guy Bowman memes, and a sequel to the Baby is You, were painstakingly produced based on the ideas (and jokes) the track names suggested. Each song's length was the same as it was in the original image, and photoshopped reviews were even added on the album's page using dummy accounts! - For my song (originally called "The Return of Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido") the team was planning on playing it straight and producing a medley of songs from MTaHK. I went with their idea and made a mega-mix of every song on the album, with the caveat being it had to be 6:12 long exactly! I first planned out the structure of the song on a single piano track to make sure it fit the time limit, then went back in and fleshed out all the instrumentation. I wanted it to be reminiscent of Bowman's work, with his classic guitar flourishes, but put my own spin on it all the same. The whole project kind of crystallized over the course of a single week I spent stuck to my computer 24/7, continually tweaking it to make sure the track flowed despite its disparate parts. If you're interested to find out more about its production process check out <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqpcqEpMndA">this video</a>. + For my song (originally called "The Return of Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido") the team was planning on playing it straight and producing a medley of songs from MTaHK. I went with their idea and made a mega-mix of every song on the album, with the caveat being it had to be 6:12 long exactly! I first planned out the structure of the song on a single piano track to make sure it fit the time limit, then went back in and fleshed out all the instrumentation. I wanted it to be reminiscent of Bowman's work, with his classic guitar flourishes, but put my own spin on it all the same. The whole project kind of crystallized over the course of a single week I spent stuck to my computer 24/7, continually tweaking it to make sure the track flowed despite its disparate parts. If you're interested to find out more about its production process check out [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqpcqEpMndA). All in all, it's a fast-paced schizophrenic redux of the highlights of MTaHK (which is to say, the whole album) that even now I'm still proud of. I'm happy to have the opportunity to put it on this amazing album! --- Track: Pumpkin Tide (Gourdian Sea Version) diff --git a/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml b/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml index 429fb04f..7a674642 100644 --- a/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml +++ b/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml @@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Flare (Cascade) - Unknown.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Clark Powell:</i> (<a href="https://plazmataz.tumblr.com/post/19774190658/download-flare-cascade-i-have-recut-and">Tumblr</a>) + <i>Clark Powell:</i> ([Tumblr](https://plazmataz.tumblr.com/post/19774190658/download-flare-cascade-i-have-recut-and)) I have recut and remastered my track Flare, as it was presented to you in the Cascade flash (rather than the calmed-down [[Flare|album version]]). I get asked a lot for this, so I decided to give it some extra love and attention. @@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ Lyrics: |- (I'M KARKAT.) Commentary: |- <i>Paul Henderson:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jusfjbsO_qY">Original video!</a>) + ([Original video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jusfjbsO_qY)) --- Track: Jadesprite Artists: @@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ Lyrics: |- (HONK) Commentary: |- <i>Niklink:</i> (wiki editor) - Unofficial name. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111110134032/http://fwugradiation.tumblr.com:80/post/12287015978">Archived link to the original Tumblr post.</a> + Unofficial name. [Archived link to the original Tumblr post.](https://web.archive.org/web/20111110134032/http://fwugradiation.tumblr.com:80/post/12287015978) --- Track: Ruins Artists: @@ -1332,7 +1332,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Heir of Grief Commentary: |- <i>subversiveasset:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bQvjdx8cbo">Music video!</a>) + ([Music video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bQvjdx8cbo)) As we near the end of Homestuck, please listen to this cover of [[artist:tensei|Joren "Tensei" de Bruin's]] "[[Heir of Grief]]" on saxophone. @@ -1485,7 +1485,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Rustblood Commentary: |- <i>subversiveasset:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOgdcxskZpc">Music video!</a>) + ([Music video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOgdcxskZpc)) Rustbloods, unite! Do not be content to keep your head down with this sax cover of [[artist:james-roach|James Roach]] & [[artist:toby-fox|Toby Fox]]'s "[[track:keep-your-head-down|Keep your head down]]" and "[[track:rustblood|Rustblood]]". @@ -2485,7 +2485,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>WarxTron:</i> It is finally here, the fourth part of Ophiuchus, featuring the amazing David Ellis from Homestuck's Music Team on the Hammond Organ and my friend Fabricio Podestá on electric guitar. Im really proud of this song, probably my best so far. Hope you enjoy!! - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UwPROFqghs">David Ellis recording the organ solo</a> + [David Ellis recording the organ solo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UwPROFqghs) --- Track: Spirals (Including Illusions of Freedom) Artists: diff --git a/album/nuclears-explosion-1.yaml b/album/nuclears-explosion-1.yaml index 91b65e0f..718f6f8a 100644 --- a/album/nuclears-explosion-1.yaml +++ b/album/nuclears-explosion-1.yaml @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ URLs: - https://nuclear333.bandcamp.com/track/metal-veins-franks-theme Commentary: |- <i>tempest2k:</i> - Theme of Frank from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvW_S2qrMMQ">Frank</a>. + Theme of Frank from [Frank](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvW_S2qrMMQ). --- Track: A Giant's Lullaby (Victoria's Theme) Duration: 0:55 @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ URLs: - https://nuclear333.bandcamp.com/track/a-giants-lullaby-victorias-theme Commentary: |- <i>tempest2k:</i> - Theme of Victoria from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvW_S2qrMMQ">Frank</a>. + Theme of Victoria from [Frank](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvW_S2qrMMQ). --- Track: The Point of Going Home Directory: the-point-of-going-home-nuclears-explosion diff --git a/album/oceanfalls-vol-1.yaml b/album/oceanfalls-vol-1.yaml index d1f3a121..34f29058 100644 --- a/album/oceanfalls-vol-1.yaml +++ b/album/oceanfalls-vol-1.yaml @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Additional Files: - bg.jpg Commentary: |- <i>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDkYJnwyi_k">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDkYJnwyi_k)) --- Section: Main album --- diff --git a/album/oceanfalls-vol-3.yaml b/album/oceanfalls-vol-3.yaml index 430a69bf..f1e6315d 100644 --- a/album/oceanfalls-vol-3.yaml +++ b/album/oceanfalls-vol-3.yaml @@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ Cover Artists: - nights Commentary: |- <i>Mathias Ramalho:</i> - (<a href="https://soundcloud.com/friendly-coy/ytu-rendy">SoundCloud</a>) + ([SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/friendly-coy/ytu-rendy)) Track's name means "Light from the Waterfalls" in Guaraní. Ytu comes from "y" which is water, it means waterfall. Rendy refers turning on or light in this context. You can also be a funnyman and use the other meaning of Rendy which is saliva, pretty much what I intended "accidentally" lmao. Art Tags: - Five (Oceanfalls) diff --git a/album/of-troles-and-chiptumes.yaml b/album/of-troles-and-chiptumes.yaml index a4200ffb..7228ad6b 100644 --- a/album/of-troles-and-chiptumes.yaml +++ b/album/of-troles-and-chiptumes.yaml @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHjiWhS4Zks&t=1h29m08s">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHjiWhS4Zks&t=1h29m08s)) --- Section: Main album --- diff --git a/album/one-year-older.yaml b/album/one-year-older.yaml index 07fbb0ed..9f5dcd94 100644 --- a/album/one-year-older.yaml +++ b/album/one-year-older.yaml @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ Commentary: |- If you want to toss some money down for it, then that's fine with me. If I'm out of free download credits, then perhaps get it from a friend on the internet. - If you'd like to get in contact with me, the best way is by email, so use the "contact" button up on the right sidebar or email me at <a href="mailto:erikscheelemusic@gmail.com">erikscheelemusic@gmail.com</a>. You can also find me on tumblr (<a href="https://jitmakesstuff.tumblr.com">jitmakesstuff</a>) or twitter (<a href="https://twitter.com/jitters20">@jitters20</a>) but I very hardly use those sites at the moment. + If you'd like to get in contact with me, the best way is by email, so use the "contact" button up on the right sidebar or email me at [erikscheelemusic@gmail.com](mailto:erikscheelemusic@gmail.com). You can also find me on tumblr ([jitmakesstuff](https://jitmakesstuff.tumblr.com)) or twitter ([@jitters20](https://twitter.com/jitters20)) but I very hardly use those sites at the moment. Banner Artists: - Homestuck - Niklink (edits for wiki) @@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ Commentary: |- <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>. + 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 [siasinsilence.tumblr.com](https://siasinsilence.tumblr.com/). --- Track: Under The Hat Duration: '3:27' @@ -567,4 +567,4 @@ URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2HzFtXWAHo Commentary: |- <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor) - This is an unlisted bonus track, part of the free album download on Erik Scheele's <a href="https://erikscheele.bandcamp.com/album/one-year-older">independent rerelease of <i>One Year Older</i></a> shortly after most solo albums were removed from the official Homestuck bandcamp. + This is an unlisted bonus track, part of the free album download on Erik Scheele's [independent rerelease of <i>One Year Older</i>](https://erikscheele.bandcamp.com/album/one-year-older) shortly after most solo albums were removed from the official Homestuck bandcamp. diff --git a/album/p-s.yaml b/album/p-s.yaml index 83533ad6..1987c277 100644 --- a/album/p-s.yaml +++ b/album/p-s.yaml @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Commentary: |- a love letter to homestuck album organised by veritas unae<br>album mastered by marcy nabors<br>album commentary booklet by circlejourney<br>cover art by slog and climeade <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor) - this is an independent release from the band <a href="http://casualsunday.bandcamp.com/">Casual Sunday</a>! + this is an independent release from the band [Casual Sunday](http://casualsunday.bandcamp.com/)! please support the group by purchasing the album - it comes with a commentary booklet i don't intend to transcribe here. <3 Banner Artists: diff --git a/album/paradox-lost-opening-gambit-ost.yaml b/album/paradox-lost-opening-gambit-ost.yaml index 285de5dd..200087e1 100644 --- a/album/paradox-lost-opening-gambit-ost.yaml +++ b/album/paradox-lost-opening-gambit-ost.yaml @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Jake Gamelin:</i> The original soundtrack to Eli Grant's "Paradox Lost: Opening Gambit". - Download the game here: <a href="bravelittletoreador.itch.io/paradox-lost-v-1">bravelittletoreador.itch.io/paradox-lost-v-1</a> + Download the game here: [bravelittletoreador.itch.io/paradox-lost-v-1](bravelittletoreador.itch.io/paradox-lost-v-1) Your name is MSPAREADER, and you just woke up on an ALIEN PLANET. And not even the alien planet you're used to! Here on Alternian Colony 4.444 you'll find 12 new trolls to befriend, strange puzzles to solve, and a mystery to confront which will change your understanding of the mechanics by which SBURB generates new universes, and challenge the very concept of an Alpha Timeline. --- @@ -45,4 +45,4 @@ URLs: Track: Mazy Haze Cave Duration: '2:01' URLs: -- https://charactercomposer.bandcamp.com/track/5-mazy-haze-cave \ No newline at end of file +- https://charactercomposer.bandcamp.com/track/5-mazy-haze-cave diff --git a/album/paths.yaml b/album/paths.yaml index b82246f3..4de5403e 100644 --- a/album/paths.yaml +++ b/album/paths.yaml @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> A collection of music in a variety of styles by Mark J. Hadley from multiple sources, both professional and casual. - Album art created with the help of <a href="https://www.artbreeder.com/i?k=dfb6c37013ec548f1936">Artbreeder</a>, original image: + Album art created with the help of [Artbreeder](https://www.artbreeder.com/i?k=dfb6c37013ec548f1936), original image: <img src="media/misc/paths_original.jpg" width="550"> --- Track: Aggrievocation @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ URLs: - https://parsecproductions.bandcamp.com/track/chromaestro Commentary: |- <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> - Originally appeared in "<a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/652200/Chromaestro/">Chromaestro</a>" + Originally appeared in "[Chromaestro](https://store.steampowered.com/app/652200/Chromaestro/)" --- Track: Lurk Directory: lurk-paths diff --git a/album/portalstuck-vol-1.yaml b/album/portalstuck-vol-1.yaml index 0fc72889..95a7c3f7 100644 --- a/album/portalstuck-vol-1.yaml +++ b/album/portalstuck-vol-1.yaml @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Groups: Commentary: |- <i>yoyoYolo:</i> - The first volume of <a href="https://mspfa.com/?s=44132&p=1">Portalstuck's</a> soundtrack. + The first volume of [Portalstuck's](https://mspfa.com/?s=44132&p=1) soundtrack. --- Track: Awakening Directory: awakening-portalstuck diff --git a/album/prospit-and-derse.yaml b/album/prospit-and-derse.yaml index b2c81712..339e3673 100644 --- a/album/prospit-and-derse.yaml +++ b/album/prospit-and-derse.yaml @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Commentary: |- Pretty cool, huh? And Lexxy helped with the album cover, which is really great. - But anyway, I eventually started working on some of the music. I knew Prospit was going to be a struggle for me, because I had never written any proper orchestral music at the time. And the first song I created was <a href="https://soundcloud.com/solatrus/apathy-empathy-wip-2">this</a>, albeit it was in drum and bass and <a href="https://soundcloud.com/solatrus/apathy-empathy-wip">not nearly</a> as polished sounding. + But anyway, I eventually started working on some of the music. I knew Prospit was going to be a struggle for me, because I had never written any proper orchestral music at the time. And the first song I created was [this](https://soundcloud.com/solatrus/apathy-empathy-wip-2), albeit it was in drum and bass and [not nearly](https://soundcloud.com/solatrus/apathy-empathy-wip) as polished sounding. But I really didn't like the direction, so I ended up scrapping it and trying to figure out how to start over. And then Medium was released and I was incredibly inspired and remembered how great atmospheric music is. Clark Powell single-handedly saved this album from being killed before it even got anywhere. @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ Commentary: |- I'm quite pleased with what Pride did for the art, though. It worked out really well for the song. - As an additional note, it's been pointed out to me by <a href="http://kicking-christ-in-a-dirty-diaper.tumblr.com/">this fan</a> that this song sounds like it has Mark Hadley's [[track:problem-sleuth-theme|Problem Sleuth theme]] in it, at least in part. It's a coincidence in the exact same reason that [[track:frost-vol6|Frost]] gets the same comment: slow melodies, probably the same key. Really nothing else to it. I've listened to Hadley's PS theme probably twice ever. Oops. Said fan also wondered if I jokingly thought that gentlemen of Team Sleuth are Prospit's agents much like our chums in the Midnight Crew are Derse's. I didn't, but that's an awesome comparison and now I'm all for it. + As an additional note, it's been pointed out to me by [this fan](http://kicking-christ-in-a-dirty-diaper.tumblr.com/) that this song sounds like it has Mark Hadley's [[track:problem-sleuth-theme|Problem Sleuth theme]] in it, at least in part. It's a coincidence in the exact same reason that [[track:frost-vol6|Frost]] gets the same comment: slow melodies, probably the same key. Really nothing else to it. I've listened to Hadley's PS theme probably twice ever. Oops. Said fan also wondered if I jokingly thought that gentlemen of Team Sleuth are Prospit's agents much like our chums in the Midnight Crew are Derse's. I didn't, but that's an awesome comparison and now I'm all for it. --- Track: Prospit Dreamers Duration: '3:19' @@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Solatrus:</i> (one year anniversary) - The fan favorite. Without a freaking doubt. This one compares to [[track:frost-vol6]] in popularity, and I'm willing to bet is probably even more popular thanks to horizon's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9SQjvPLAWs">vocal cover</a>. + The fan favorite. Without a freaking doubt. This one compares to [[track:frost-vol6]] in popularity, and I'm willing to bet is probably even more popular thanks to horizon's [vocal cover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9SQjvPLAWs). What's that? You hear Iron Man in it? Yeah, so do I. Oops. That string section is kind of hilariously similar. It's a huge coincidence, though, because I really don't listen to Black Sabbath whatsoever. diff --git a/album/qualia.yaml b/album/qualia.yaml index d2b4912c..291b2437 100644 --- a/album/qualia.yaml +++ b/album/qualia.yaml @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>Buzinkai:</i> Why are bosses so hard to kill? - (<i><a href="https://youtu.be/EsG71P_zEIE?t=774">Commentary/track showing on YouTube.</a></i>) + (<i>[Commentary/track showing on YouTube.](https://youtu.be/EsG71P_zEIE?t=774)</i>) --- Track: Something about this place Duration: '1:05' diff --git a/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml b/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml index 011ae697..e585de73 100644 --- a/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml +++ b/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:battle-lorekeeper-zinnia Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> ([SoundCloud commentary](https://soundcloud.com/circlejourney-comms/emmy-for-asteriddle)) - A commission for asteriddle's character <a href="toyhou.se/721835.emmy">Emmy</a>! Quotes Battle! Zinnia by Shota Kageyama. + A commission for asteriddle's character [Emmy](toyhou.se/721835.emmy)! Quotes Battle! Zinnia by Shota Kageyama. --- Track: Endless Space Artists: @@ -7092,7 +7092,7 @@ Lyrics: |- I miss you... Commentary: |- <i>Mother:</i> - (<a href="https://earthboundcentral.com/2009/01/smiles-tears-lyrics/">Full lyrics!</a>) + ([Full lyrics!](https://earthboundcentral.com/2009/01/smiles-tears-lyrics/)) --- Track: Snake Eater # Reference: @@ -28075,7 +28075,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - RoboCop Gameboy Title Theme Commentary: |- <i>Makin:</i> (wiki editor) - A straight remix made as a soundtrack for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flWuvkNWuS4">Dilbert 3</a>. + A straight remix made as a soundtrack for [Dilbert 3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flWuvkNWuS4). Also known as 'robocop.mp3' or Space Station 13's 'Title2'. --- Track: Killing in the Name @@ -41833,8 +41833,8 @@ URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IJMEd8mAIo Commentary: |- <i>Undertale Wiki:</i> - (<a href="https://undertale.fandom.com/wiki/Flowey">Fandom</a>) - Flowey's laugh is not a new asset and can be recognized in other media. It was originally a Warner Bros. sound effect mostly used in Pink Panther cartoons and has appeared in titles such as the PlayStation title <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aBa-iQSkxc">Tomba!</a> and the Homestuck soundtrack [[track:the-lordling]], also by Toby Fox. + ([Fandom](https://undertale.fandom.com/wiki/Flowey)) + Flowey's laugh is not a new asset and can be recognized in other media. It was originally a Warner Bros. sound effect mostly used in Pink Panther cartoons and has appeared in titles such as the PlayStation title [Tomba!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aBa-iQSkxc) and the Homestuck soundtrack [[track:the-lordling]], also by Toby Fox. --- Track: Hackers Directory: hackers-iain-softley diff --git a/album/retcon-2018.yaml b/album/retcon-2018.yaml index fadbcbfe..3e36c3cd 100644 --- a/album/retcon-2018.yaml +++ b/album/retcon-2018.yaml @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Commentary: |- 413 is here, folks and fellows! And with it, Retcon (2018)! - A few years ago, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ-rusvmsEs">I arranged these tracks</a> much like I have today. I expected to be leaving the Homestuck community when the comic ended, yet I'm still here. I'm still here because the tight-knit fandom keeps creating new and wonderful content that keeps me coming back for more. + A few years ago, [I arranged these tracks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ-rusvmsEs) much like I have today. I expected to be leaving the Homestuck community when the comic ended, yet I'm still here. I'm still here because the tight-knit fandom keeps creating new and wonderful content that keeps me coming back for more. So, I took this remnant from my past and gave it life again. I hope you enjoy this album as much as I enjoyed making it. :) Additional Files: diff --git a/album/s-collide.yaml b/album/s-collide.yaml index fb9a26af..e35dfaf7 100644 --- a/album/s-collide.yaml +++ b/album/s-collide.yaml @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Commentary: |- <i>James Roach:</i> i love cheers in songs (i edited the cheers into tobys song for [s] collide, and have written them into a few things) so the sword/shield gym theme really does it for me - I JUST VERY SELFISHLY ADDED <a href="https://youtu.be/bjAK8D5ytiU?t=82">THESE CHEERS</a> TO AN ALREADY GOOD SONG LMAO + I JUST VERY SELFISHLY ADDED [THESE CHEERS](https://youtu.be/bjAK8D5ytiU?t=82) TO AN ALREADY GOOD SONG LMAO toby had written a really cool song but i wanted to give andrew some hits that were less on the downbeat for the animation so while i was editing the tracks down for length and extending bits here and there i ended up adding them in because i wanted the section to feel hype --- Track: Eternity, Served Cold (Canon Edit) diff --git a/album/s-hecka-jef.yaml b/album/s-hecka-jef.yaml index 19fc69d9..c5862a1b 100644 --- a/album/s-hecka-jef.yaml +++ b/album/s-hecka-jef.yaml @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Commentary: |- I put the text on it shower me with praise <i>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Y_mDdbbv8&t=800">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Y_mDdbbv8&t=800)) --- Track: Death of Swet Bro Artists: @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ Commentary: |- <img src="media/misc/but-nobody-came.png" width="258"> <i>Makin:</i> (Artist) - <a href="https://youtu.be/bwv55OzLjjw?t=1723">Arfen house</a> is the most random flahs anikmnation ever so it fits this fuking radnom musac + [Arfen house](https://youtu.be/bwv55OzLjjw?t=1723) is the most random flahs anikmnation ever so it fits this fuking radnom musac --- Track: anonamousVengance Artists: @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Megalo Strike Back Commentary: |- <i>Wheals:</i> (Composer) - Like the album itself, the idea for this song dates all the way back to the early days of the team, when I was inspired by the pesterlog handle anonamousVengance to do some kind of remix of <a href="http://youtu.be/fq3abPnEEGE">http://youtu.be/fq3abPnEEGE</a> at first, I wanted to do an HQ rip of Savior of the Dreaming Dead (it's been long enough I don't remember why that song specifically), but when I realized I wasn't good enough to do that, I just did a normal remix. + Like the album itself, the idea for this song dates all the way back to the early days of the team, when I was inspired by the pesterlog handle anonamousVengance to do some kind of remix of [http://youtu.be/fq3abPnEEGE](http://youtu.be/fq3abPnEEGE) at first, I wanted to do an HQ rip of Savior of the Dreaming Dead (it's been long enough I don't remember why that song specifically), but when I realized I wasn't good enough to do that, I just did a normal remix. The drums not actually matching up was a happy accident due to FL screwing up. Makes the song cooler and newer, and I definitely totally didn't leave it like that due to already getting enough grief from it. <i>Shadok:</i> (Artist) @@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ Commentary: |- “Man, what's the deal with stairs anyway?”p.s. ffs android your auto-correct sucks I'm just trying to make this purposely shittyp.p.s. william_ is a god for making this incredible art <i>william_:</i> (Artist) - got the basis for the art from this promo poster (pls dont kinkysue me mr. seinfeld mcgee!): <a href="http://i1.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/014/225/30188hiseinfeld1.jpg">http://i1.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/014/225/30188hiseinfeld1.jpg</a> + got the basis for the art from this promo poster (pls dont kinkysue me mr. seinfeld mcgee!): [http://i1.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/014/225/30188hiseinfeld1.jpg](http://i1.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/014/225/30188hiseinfeld1.jpg) a lot of work was actually spent getting the logo to look somewhat realistic. and yes that is a dorito in place of the dot on the 'i'. this art is rich in layered meaning! p.s. most of this art's philosophical impact can be attributed to kyle's megapack brushes for making my art not look shitty, or making it look kinda ironically shitty, idk it's just art who caaaaares p.p.s. thx noisemaker you're mad rad (⌐■_■) diff --git a/album/sburb-funkin-edition-ost.yaml b/album/sburb-funkin-edition-ost.yaml index b4e6d8e4..d89cc7b1 100644 --- a/album/sburb-funkin-edition-ost.yaml +++ b/album/sburb-funkin-edition-ost.yaml @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Additional Files: - disc_art.png Commentary: |- <i>rerollroxy:</i> - the ost for V1 of SBURB: Funkin' Edition. <a href="https://gamebanana.com/mods/473591/">play here!!</a> + the ost for V1 of SBURB: Funkin' Edition. [play here!!](https://gamebanana.com/mods/473591/) rerollroxy (me) did all the music lol --- diff --git a/album/sburb-ost.yaml b/album/sburb-ost.yaml index 69ca13c1..967dafa4 100644 --- a/album/sburb-ost.yaml +++ b/album/sburb-ost.yaml @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Commentary: |- Conception/Organization: [[artist:marcy-nabors]]<br> Management/HR: [[artist:melodiousdiscord|M. Alex "melodioiusDiscord" Moser]]<br> Website Coding: [[artist:veritas-unae]]<br> - Website Hosting: AndrewNeo & <a href="https://hsfanmusic.skaia.net/index.html#_=_">Skaia.net</a><br> + Website Hosting: AndrewNeo & [Skaia.net](https://hsfanmusic.skaia.net/index.html#_=_)<br> Tracker/Commentary Book: [[artist:brad-griffin|Brad "Avinoch" Griffin]] •EXTRA SPECIAL THANKS•<br> diff --git a/album/sburban-neighborhood.yaml b/album/sburban-neighborhood.yaml index c2764e0b..e1b9acae 100644 --- a/album/sburban-neighborhood.yaml +++ b/album/sburban-neighborhood.yaml @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Groups: Commentary: |- <i>YoItsCro:</i> Presented for Stuck At Home Con 2021, we bring you a new Homestuck fan album, complete with multiple, unheard tracks! - You can watch the <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O79etO9rw0M'>live premiere of the album</a> on the SAHCon youtube (/sahcon). + You can watch the [live premiere of the album](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O79etO9rw0M) on the SAHCon youtube (/sahcon). --- Section: Main album --- diff --git a/album/shortcuts.yaml b/album/shortcuts.yaml index d3a9fc78..316006ae 100644 --- a/album/shortcuts.yaml +++ b/album/shortcuts.yaml @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Commentary: |- an album about love and loss and numbers and places<br>(best listened to on headphones or loud, loud, gorgeous speakers) shortcuts written, recorded, and produced by casual sunday (check individual tracks for credits)<br>mastered by marcy nabors<br>art by robert j! lake casual sunday are: - michael guy bowman (<a href="http://michaelguybowman.com/">michaelguybowman.com</a>)<br>david ellis (<a href="https://alunaticsdaydream.bandcamp.com/">alunaticsdaydream.bandcamp.com</a>)<br>robert j! lake (<a href="https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/">spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com</a>)<br>yishan mai (<a href="https://catboss.bandcamp.com/">catboss.bandcamp.com</a>)<br>marcy nabors (<a href="https://shadolith.tumblr.com/">shadolith.tumblr.com</a>)<br>corbin pangilinan (<a href="https://endlessconsideration.tumblr.com/">endlessconsideration.tumblr.com</a>)<br>nat wesley (<a href="https://natbird.bandcamp.com/">natbird.bandcamp.com</a>) + michael guy bowman ([michaelguybowman.com](http://michaelguybowman.com/))<br>david ellis ([alunaticsdaydream.bandcamp.com](https://alunaticsdaydream.bandcamp.com/))<br>robert j! lake ([spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com](https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/))<br>yishan mai ([catboss.bandcamp.com](https://catboss.bandcamp.com/))<br>marcy nabors ([shadolith.tumblr.com](https://shadolith.tumblr.com/))<br>corbin pangilinan ([endlessconsideration.tumblr.com](https://endlessconsideration.tumblr.com/))<br>nat wesley ([natbird.bandcamp.com](https://natbird.bandcamp.com/)) featuring contributions by james ellis, clouds haberberg, and samm neiland Banner Artists: - Robert J! Lake diff --git a/album/some-other-horizon.yaml b/album/some-other-horizon.yaml index 27824574..f8f6dbab 100644 --- a/album/some-other-horizon.yaml +++ b/album/some-other-horizon.yaml @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ URLs: - https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/saturday-nights-at-the-hq Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> - Inspired by this comic: <a href="three-legged-cow.tumblr.com/post/148266429288">three-legged-cow.tumblr.com/post/148266429288</a> + Inspired by this comic: [three-legged-cow.tumblr.com/post/148266429288](three-legged-cow.tumblr.com/post/148266429288) --- Track: Memorialisation Artists: @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Destroy this memorial today. Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> - Maggie's art/personal blog can be found at <a href="https://magnoliajades.tumblr.com/">magnoliajades.tumblr.com</a>! + Maggie's art/personal blog can be found at [magnoliajades.tumblr.com](https://magnoliajades.tumblr.com/)! --- Section: Bonus tracks --- diff --git a/album/someday.yaml b/album/someday.yaml index aa81178d..66bb3e72 100644 --- a/album/someday.yaml +++ b/album/someday.yaml @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Groups: Commentary: |- <i>Clark Powell:</i> High Tide is a short film created by Kristin Kemper, and this is the single release of the film's score! It has been remastered for your listening pleasure, and remixed (also for your listening pleasure). - High Tide in all its glory lives at <a href="https://vimeo.com/70976988">vimeo.com/70976988</a> + High Tide in all its glory lives at [vimeo.com/70976988](https://vimeo.com/70976988) Wallpaper Artists: - Kristin Kemper # Additional Files: diff --git a/album/songs-for-doomed-timelines.yaml b/album/songs-for-doomed-timelines.yaml index 57b06a9b..a07bf37d 100644 --- a/album/songs-for-doomed-timelines.yaml +++ b/album/songs-for-doomed-timelines.yaml @@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>PhemieC:</i> ([SoundCloud commentary](https://soundcloud.com/hamsters/the-gods-must-be-lying)) A KarGamRezi fansong on charango. - Heavily inspired by the fanfic "<a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/335176">The Serenditpity Gospels</a>" by [[artist:shelby-cragg|duedlyfirearms]] and <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/users/t_ZM/pseuds/urbanAnchorite">urbanAnchorite</a>. Track art by duedlyfirearms + Heavily inspired by the fanfic "[The Serenditpity Gospels](https://archiveofourown.org/works/335176)" by [[artist:shelby-cragg|duedlyfirearms]] and [urbanAnchorite](https://archiveofourown.org/users/t_ZM/pseuds/urbanAnchorite). Track art by duedlyfirearms Lyrics: |- There’s a boy here lying quiet in my shadow like a prayer He drips from every angle into colours that I wear diff --git a/album/songs-from-the-planet-earth.yaml b/album/songs-from-the-planet-earth.yaml index 7d46a53a..da76fe4d 100644 --- a/album/songs-from-the-planet-earth.yaml +++ b/album/songs-from-the-planet-earth.yaml @@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ Commentary: |- From rock overtures, to acoustic ballads, to chill synth instrumentals, here's a Steven Universe fan album for everyone! This is a passion project by 18 musicians and 10 artists in tribute to this groundbreaking series. Songs from the Planet Earth is, and will always be, free to download! - More information about the album and associated content, including artist and musician links, and interview content, can be found at <a href="https://sfpe.circlejourney.net">sfpe.circlejourney.net</a> + More information about the album and associated content, including artist and musician links, and interview content, can be found at [sfpe.circlejourney.net](https://sfpe.circlejourney.net) <i>Rainy:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVRQe6CPXrU">Release listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Release listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVRQe6CPXrU)) --- Section: Main album --- diff --git a/album/songs-of-rivervale.yaml b/album/songs-of-rivervale.yaml index 4ecbdf41..b174022f 100644 --- a/album/songs-of-rivervale.yaml +++ b/album/songs-of-rivervale.yaml @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Additional Files: - banner.jpg Commentary: |- <i>Lexxy:</i> - Songs of Rivervale is a thematic collection of instrumental arrangements representing the early settings and characters of <a href="http://www.cloudfactorycomics.com/">The Cloud Factory</a>. + Songs of Rivervale is a thematic collection of instrumental arrangements representing the early settings and characters of [The Cloud Factory](http://www.cloudfactorycomics.com/). --- Track: Rivervale Duration: '04:35' diff --git a/album/spelunky-classic.yaml b/album/spelunky-classic.yaml index a2ef2906..64c6abf7 100644 --- a/album/spelunky-classic.yaml +++ b/album/spelunky-classic.yaml @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Groups: - Beyond Commentary: |- <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor) - The original version of Spelunky, developed by Derek Yu and now dubbed <a href="https://spelunkyworld.com/original.html"><i>Spelunky Classic</i></a>, released on December 21st, 2008 on TIGSource. Although it was later remastered, that Game Maker version remains freeware. + The original version of Spelunky, developed by Derek Yu and now dubbed [<i>Spelunky Classic</i>](https://spelunkyworld.com/original.html), released on December 21st, 2008 on TIGSource. Although it was later remastered, that Game Maker version remains freeware. Spelunky Classic's retro-style, fondly-remembered soundtrack was composed by [[artist:buzinkai]] and [[artist:jon-perry]], the former of whom only a year or so later composed renowned tracks of the Homestuck discography [[Doctor]], [[Explore]], [[Endless Climb]] and more; Jon Perry has been designing hands-on and video games alike for many years, including other collaborations with Derek Yu. --- Track: Title diff --git a/album/squiddles.yaml b/album/squiddles.yaml index 217e8596..d2a9c04b 100644 --- a/album/squiddles.yaml +++ b/album/squiddles.yaml @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Commentary: |- <b>THIS IS INCREDIBLY SILLY</b><br> Hey guys, guess what the next album is all about! No, your guess is wrong. It is a Squiddles album. Surprise! - Here is an important thing to note before all else. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD9DO7P2vbU">This album comes with a full-length animation!</a> + Here is an important thing to note before all else. [This album comes with a full-length animation!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD9DO7P2vbU) A lot of the same people who have contributed to MSPA animations lately worked on that animation. In fact, they did 100% of it! Conceptualized it and storyboarded it and drew all the assets, all under the supervision of a very skilled Flash animator named [[artist:paige-turner|Paige Turner]]. @@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ Commentary: |- Well, what do you know, my vocal debut? This song has a remarkably old history to it, elements of it dating back to 2005, not too long after I started using FL Studio. Originally this was a sort of uplifting hip-hop song that I did in collaboration with AndrewNeo, but the song was never finished. I'd share the song with you, but unfortunately I don't have the plugins I used because back then I didn't care as much about pirating VSTs and the like. Anyway, while this song is chronologically my second official Homestuck song, it's also the second song I wrote after joining the team. The first song I wrote after joining will be discussed next time. Hehe. - Nonetheless, do have a little snippet of what I did with that hip-hop song when the Squiddles album was starting up, which is not too different from the original, aside from a more interesting beat and bassline. (<a href="http://www.solatrus.com/static/music/misc/Squiddlesofsomesort.mp3">dead link</a>) + Nonetheless, do have a little snippet of what I did with that hip-hop song when the Squiddles album was starting up, which is not too different from the original, aside from a more interesting beat and bassline. ([dead link](http://www.solatrus.com/static/music/misc/Squiddlesofsomesort.mp3)) I sent it over to Alex Rosetti, but we ended up agreeing that going with the hip-hop style. Even though it was a pretty relaxing song, it wasn't going to be a good fit for what Alex had in mind for the album. Thus, I scrapped it and started to work on other songs before coming back to it almost a month later. It hit me one day that I should try rewriting the song in a really ridiculous, cheesy, and cliche reggae style, and completely not care. So I did. diff --git a/album/strife-2.yaml b/album/strife-2.yaml index 53c2fcc1..5ca9f870 100644 --- a/album/strife-2.yaml +++ b/album/strife-2.yaml @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Groups: - Fandom Commentary: |- <i>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1ORUVR6IvQ">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1ORUVR6IvQ)) <i>nights:</i> ([Tumblr](https://itsnightsyo.tumblr.com/post/158394936671/heres-all-the-art-i-did-for-tenseis-new-album)) here’s all the art i did for tensei’s new album, strife 2! and the troll designs can be found [here](https://i.imgur.com/Nkv9wqf.png). (´・ω・`) diff --git a/album/strife.yaml b/album/strife.yaml index d6b3cae4..61586a19 100644 --- a/album/strife.yaml +++ b/album/strife.yaml @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ Commentary: |- Joking aside, this song, like most other ones I make, does also have some sneaky hidden references. The guitar riff at 3:18, for example, is cribbed pretty much note for note from the Metallica song Master of Puppets (maybe this is a Dirk song after all?). The background strings at :37 have a very similar ascending chromatic pattern the intro to the James Bond theme. The high staccato strings at 1:50 are supposed to be reminiscent of the theme from Psycho, or really every slasher flick ever. (Black is associated with Jack Noir, Jack Noir likes to show people his stabs, etc.) The original inspiration for this song probably comes from the least likely source imaginable. It's not The Prodigy or Goldeneye 64 music, but actually the original score to the movie Space Jam. You probably don't even know or remember it, but a lot of the songs have a very distinct looped hiphop beat, guitars, and orchestral stabs all over the place, much like a large portion of this song. - Seriously, listen to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBenCP-51Qw">this</a> from about 0:50 onward and you should hear the resemblance. + Seriously, listen to [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBenCP-51Qw) from about 0:50 onward and you should hear the resemblance. That aside, obviously stuff from The Prodigy's Fat of the Land album bears some resemblance as well, especially with the cheesy bassline. I know that a few Prodigy songs have been used in the otherwise kinda shitty Charlie's Angels movies whenever shit was about to go down, and that's really the kind of vibe I was going for as well. --- Track: Atomic Bonsai diff --git a/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1.yaml b/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1.yaml index 314fafd4..dd5d4746 100644 --- a/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1.yaml +++ b/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1.yaml @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ URLs: - https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/track/hivebent-anthem Commentary: |- <i>Robert J! Lake:</i> ([Tumblr pre-release preview](https://www.tumblr.com/spellmynamewithabang/141914031278/todays-stuckhome-syndrome-p1v1-album-preview-is), excerpt) - Today’s <a href=https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1-years-in-the-past>Stuckhome Syndrome P1V1</a> album preview is for Hivebent Anthem, my flagship track for [[album:alterniabound|Alterniabound]] (one of a few; the rest were really, really silly (including one that’s a really honky and weird Gamzee track)) that unfortunately didn’t get on the album; I was trying to do a troll session variant on the Homestuck Anthem, basically; it’s a little sadder and weirder, as befits the, you know, grey candy corn alien people it’s about. Here’s the first minute and change of it! + Today’s [Stuckhome Syndrome P1V1](https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1-years-in-the-past) album preview is for Hivebent Anthem, my flagship track for [[album:alterniabound|Alterniabound]] (one of a few; the rest were really, really silly (including one that’s a really honky and weird Gamzee track)) that unfortunately didn’t get on the album; I was trying to do a troll session variant on the Homestuck Anthem, basically; it’s a little sadder and weirder, as befits the, you know, grey candy corn alien people it’s about. Here’s the first minute and change of it! --- Track: Sburban Echo Duration: '02:11' @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ URLs: - https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/track/sburban-echo Commentary: |- <i>Robert J! Lake:</i> ([Tumblr pre-release preview](https://www.tumblr.com/spellmynamewithabang/142447358778/heres-something-you-havent-heard-yet-this-is), excerpt) - Here’s something you haven’t heard yet! This is Sburban Echo, a Lord English track formerly from [[album:the-felt|The Felt]], then reworked for [[album:homestuck-vol-9|Volume 9]] to be more akin to, like, <i>yo, what if [[track:sburban-jungle|Sburban Jungle]] was written for the Dead Session?</i> but unfinished, then here now it’s not unfinished anymore, it’s done and fancy for an<a href=https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1-years-in-the-past> album I’m releasing on 4/13 for $13.43</a> that you can pre-order now for <i>$9.87</i>. + Here’s something you haven’t heard yet! This is Sburban Echo, a Lord English track formerly from [[album:the-felt|The Felt]], then reworked for [[album:homestuck-vol-9|Volume 9]] to be more akin to, like, <i>yo, what if [[track:sburban-jungle|Sburban Jungle]] was written for the Dead Session?</i> but unfinished, then here now it’s not unfinished anymore, it’s done and fancy for an[ album I’m releasing on 4/13 for $13.43](https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1-years-in-the-past) that you can pre-order now for <i>$9.87</i>. --- Track: Entangled With the Void Duration: '02:43' @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ URLs: - https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/track/listen-to-the-lovely-weather Commentary: |- <i>Robert J! Lake:</i> ([Tumblr pre-release preview](https://www.tumblr.com/spellmynamewithabang/141959324318/its-a-new-day-and-that-new-day-contains-a-new), excerpt) - It’s a new day, and that new day contains a new song preview for <a href=https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1-years-in-the-past>Stuckhome Syndrome P1V1</a>; this is the first minute and a half of <i>Listen to the Lovely Weather</i>, one of the tracks I wrote and produced for <i>[[album:the-felt|The Felt]]</i>. There were a few more than the ones that made it on to that album and later ones (like [[track:afraid-of-the-darko|Afraid of the Darko]] and [[track:everything-is-something-to-somebody|Everything is Something to Somebody]]) and those are all on here (including a better version of Afraid of the Darko done for [[album:homestuck-vol-8|Volume 8]] that…didn’t get on, because it was finished too last-minute). + It’s a new day, and that new day contains a new song preview for [Stuckhome Syndrome P1V1](https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1-years-in-the-past); this is the first minute and a half of <i>Listen to the Lovely Weather</i>, one of the tracks I wrote and produced for <i>[[album:the-felt|The Felt]]</i>. There were a few more than the ones that made it on to that album and later ones (like [[track:afraid-of-the-darko|Afraid of the Darko]] and [[track:everything-is-something-to-somebody|Everything is Something to Somebody]]) and those are all on here (including a better version of Afraid of the Darko done for [[album:homestuck-vol-8|Volume 8]] that…didn’t get on, because it was finished too last-minute). This one was one I was always a little sad didn’t make it onto the album proper because it’s so jovial; <i>The Felt</i> doesn’t have a lot of major key work on it, and to capture that feel of a weird time concert I wanted to have some stuff that was a bit hopeful and tuneful, too, with acoustic guitar noodling and bright piano and stuff. This is probably the most upbeat track I wrote for <i>The Felt;</i> it’s also one of my favorites. Hope it’ll be one of yours, too! --- Track: It's Been a Long Time @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Heir Transparent Commentary: |- <i>Robert J! Lake:</i> ([Tumblr pre-release preview](https://www.tumblr.com/spellmynamewithabang/141865610108/homestuck-updated-today-for-the-first-time-in), excerpt) - Homestuck updated today for the first time in MONTHS. Crazy, right? Celebrate with another preview track for <a href=https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1-years-in-the-past>Stuckhome Syndrome Part 1 V1: Years in the Past!</a> (Still out 4/13, the day the comic ends forever. It’s been seven years, can you believe that?) + Homestuck updated today for the first time in MONTHS. Crazy, right? Celebrate with another preview track for [Stuckhome Syndrome Part 1 V1: Years in the Past!](https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1-years-in-the-past) (Still out 4/13, the day the comic ends forever. It’s been seven years, can you believe that?) Thisn’s a redo I started a while back of <i>Heir Transparent</i>, without any of the material from [[track:doctor|Doctor]] (just the stuff I added for my mix). So it’s a rearrangement of a remix that’s 2x removed from the source, now? god this title is dumb but whatever i still love it I might add strings, <i>says me about every song now I guess</i>. This would sound <i>great</i> with strings, though, so I will most likely! do that --- @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ URLs: - https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/track/unsoftly Commentary: |- <i>Robert J! Lake:</i> ([Tumblr pre-release preview](https://www.tumblr.com/spellmynamewithabang/142512923308/if-you-havent-recently-checked-or-somehow-dont), excerpt) - If you haven’t recently checked or somehow don’t know about <a href=https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1-years-in-the-past>my upcoming 4/13 album</a> of songs I wrote for Homestuck while I (and the rest of the music team, honestly) were way more active, you should do that! The album is $13.43 on release but only $9.87 now, so <a href=https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1-years-in-the-past>pre order while you still can!</a> oh also that purchase will entitle you to <i><b>four hundred and thirteen</b></i> songs, no biggie + If you haven’t recently checked or somehow don’t know about [my upcoming 4/13 album](https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1-years-in-the-past) of songs I wrote for Homestuck while I (and the rest of the music team, honestly) were way more active, you should do that! The album is $13.43 on release but only $9.87 now, so [pre order while you still can!](https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1-years-in-the-past) oh also that purchase will entitle you to <i><b>four hundred and thirteen</b></i> songs, no biggie I updated it with a bunch of things people haven’t heard, including this, <i>Unsoftly</i>, which is a track that is not <i>[[track:softly|Softly]]</i>, and you’re pretty sure never quite sounded like <i>Softly</i>, but is probably related in some way, you think. And you’d be right, because that’s the point Jade was always probably my favorite character (Dave and John very close seconds) and though I tended to make songs that were super major key happy tunes, this was an attempt to explore her darker, weirder side. She’s all smiles most of the time but she’s also kind of fucked up if you think about it? --- diff --git a/album/take-my-song-in-a-completely-different-direction.yaml b/album/take-my-song-in-a-completely-different-direction.yaml index b1783a96..44c4094c 100644 --- a/album/take-my-song-in-a-completely-different-direction.yaml +++ b/album/take-my-song-in-a-completely-different-direction.yaml @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Commentary: |- AKA that time [[artist:tirantbacon]] posted a screenshot in #team_school and everyone made their own take(s) on it <i>Makin:</i> (team manager) - The name of the album is a reference to [[artist:michael-guy-bowman]]'s ancient fan-adventure <a href="https://mspfa.com/?s=14230&p=1">Take my life in a completely different direction.</a> + The name of the album is a reference to [[artist:michael-guy-bowman]]'s ancient fan-adventure [Take my life in a completely different direction.](https://mspfa.com/?s=14230&p=1) --- Track: Is this a chord progression? Artists: diff --git a/album/tents-and-mirth.yaml b/album/tents-and-mirth.yaml index 616ae299..2e5a5c45 100644 --- a/album/tents-and-mirth.yaml +++ b/album/tents-and-mirth.yaml @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Devieus:</i> The year is over, by I'm not quite done, still three more months to go. - Then there's weeklybeats 2014 at <a href="https://weeklybeats.com">weeklybeats.com</a>, I'll be partaking there as well. + Then there's weeklybeats 2014 at [weeklybeats.com](https://weeklybeats.com), I'll be partaking there as well. --- Track: Tents of Amazement Duration: '7:52' diff --git a/album/the-consuming-shadow-ost.yaml b/album/the-consuming-shadow-ost.yaml index 8dab023a..280e10e0 100644 --- a/album/the-consuming-shadow-ost.yaml +++ b/album/the-consuming-shadow-ost.yaml @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Groups: - Beyond Commentary: |- <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> - Original Soundtrack to "<a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/403830/">The Consuming Shadow</a>" by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw. + Original Soundtrack to "[The Consuming Shadow](https://store.steampowered.com/app/403830/)" by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw. --- Track: The Consuming Shadow Duration: '1:51' diff --git a/album/the-funk-mclovin-homestuck-experience.yaml b/album/the-funk-mclovin-homestuck-experience.yaml index a0d76ed9..65561725 100644 --- a/album/the-funk-mclovin-homestuck-experience.yaml +++ b/album/the-funk-mclovin-homestuck-experience.yaml @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Lyrics: |- DIRK: Fucking sick. - (<i>Credits to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPFTOXaTJ665xSDVxoV6wgQ">Vinyl</a> for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkDY73uNxtE&lc=Ugxw9X0PulMJTLiITwV4AaABAg">transcription</a>.</i>) + (<i>Credits to [Vinyl](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPFTOXaTJ665xSDVxoV6wgQ) for [transcription](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkDY73uNxtE&lc=Ugxw9X0PulMJTLiITwV4AaABAg).</i>) --- Track: Jade Defender Date First Released: February 21, 2020 diff --git a/album/the-grubbles.yaml b/album/the-grubbles.yaml index 47fbb4c4..4d8bcfd6 100644 --- a/album/the-grubbles.yaml +++ b/album/the-grubbles.yaml @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: - 'Broom Temperature - IronInvoker47 (piano).mid' Commentary: |- <i>Homestuck:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuqKzBxAnE8">Lyrics video!</a>) + ([Lyrics video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuqKzBxAnE8)) --- Track: Frondly Warning Duration: '2:19' @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Baby queen of calamari<br>Gonna fry and dip you<br>Way too late to say you're sorry<br>Way too late to fix you] Commentary: |- <i>Homestuck:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfkccsHR4fs">Lyrics video!</a>) + ([Lyrics video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfkccsHR4fs)) --- Track: Ghost Mound Duration: '2:02' diff --git a/album/the-raddest.yaml b/album/the-raddest.yaml index ee8981e6..b0c1709c 100644 --- a/album/the-raddest.yaml +++ b/album/the-raddest.yaml @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Wallpaper Artists: - Dan Miller Commentary: |- <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> - I finally got around to making a remix of the theme song I wrote for the webcomic "<a href="https://www.bgreco.net/kidradd/">Kid Radd</a>" over 15 years ago. + I finally got around to making a remix of the theme song I wrote for the webcomic "[Kid Radd](https://www.bgreco.net/kidradd/)" over 15 years ago. --- Track: The Raddest Duration: '3:56' diff --git a/album/the-sky-beyond-our-bay.yaml b/album/the-sky-beyond-our-bay.yaml index 761b6a34..3ce5b9d0 100644 --- a/album/the-sky-beyond-our-bay.yaml +++ b/album/the-sky-beyond-our-bay.yaml @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Groups: - Beyond Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> - "You make me feel like I'm flying." An album themed around my latest novel project, <a href="https://circlejourney.net/offshore/">Offshore</a>, a concept album themed around the sailing duo at the heart of the story, and the the struggles and highs of their lives. + "You make me feel like I'm flying." An album themed around my latest novel project, [Offshore](https://circlejourney.net/offshore/), a concept album themed around the sailing duo at the heart of the story, and the the struggles and highs of their lives. --- Section: Main album --- diff --git a/album/theres-no-place-like-home.yaml b/album/theres-no-place-like-home.yaml index 277d3f52..56a9a4ae 100644 --- a/album/theres-no-place-like-home.yaml +++ b/album/theres-no-place-like-home.yaml @@ -15,12 +15,12 @@ Art Tags: - Jade Commentary: |- <i>Tee-vee:</i> - Free download mirror link : <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xfwRZ4JIieOptXrmlnQDih848QCEF3_y">Google Drive</a> - Watch the full playthrough MOIVE of this medley ! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh0YkQn_zLU">YouTube</a> - Original songs and artists credits in the individual tracks pages<br><a href="https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/music">homestuck.bandcamp.com/music</a><br>[[album:genesis-frog]] (<a href="https://albatrosssoup.bandcamp.com/album/genesis-frog">albatrosssoup.bandcamp.com</a>)<br>[[album:mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido]] (<a href="https://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido">bowman.bandcamp.com</a>)<br>[[album:one-year-older]] (<a href="https://erikscheele.bandcamp.com/album/one-year-older">erikscheele.bandcamp.com</a>)<br>[[album:song-of-skaia]] (<a href="https://parsecproductions.bandcamp.com/album/song-of-skaia">parsecproductions.bandcamp.com</a>)<br>[[album:strife]] (<a href="https://tenseimusic.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-strife">tenseimusic.bandcamp.com</a>)<br>[[album:undertale-soundtrack]] (<a href="https://tobyfox.bandcamp.com/album/undertale-soundtrack">tobyfox.bandcamp.com</a>)<br>If you are one of the original artists and would like something added/changed, please let me know ! - Homestuck is a webcomic by Andrew Hussie<br><a href="https://www.homestuck.com/">www.homestuck.com</a><br><a href="https://www.homestuck2.com/">www.homestuck2.com</a> - Cover art by tricky_goddess<br>Instagram : <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tricky_goddess/">www.instagram.com/tricky_goddess/</a> - Thanks to PotatoBoss for his feedback and help with credits checking<br>HP : <a href="http://potatoboss.net/">potatoboss.net</a><br>Twitter : <a href="https://twitter.com/potatomoosik">twitter.com/potatomoosik</a><br>Youtube : <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx8RbZLXx8lcr-yBHPEr_vA">www.youtube.com/channel/UCx8RbZLXx8lcr-yBHPEr_vA</a><br>Bandcamp : <a href="https://potatoboss.bandcamp.com/">potatoboss.bandcamp.com</a> + Free download mirror link : [Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xfwRZ4JIieOptXrmlnQDih848QCEF3_y) + Watch the full playthrough MOIVE of this medley ! [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh0YkQn_zLU) + Original songs and artists credits in the individual tracks pages<br>[homestuck.bandcamp.com/music](https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/music)<br>[[album:genesis-frog]] ([albatrosssoup.bandcamp.com](https://albatrosssoup.bandcamp.com/album/genesis-frog))<br>[[album:mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido]] ([bowman.bandcamp.com](https://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido))<br>[[album:one-year-older]] ([erikscheele.bandcamp.com](https://erikscheele.bandcamp.com/album/one-year-older))<br>[[album:song-of-skaia]] ([parsecproductions.bandcamp.com](https://parsecproductions.bandcamp.com/album/song-of-skaia))<br>[[album:strife]] ([tenseimusic.bandcamp.com](https://tenseimusic.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-strife))<br>[[album:undertale-soundtrack]] ([tobyfox.bandcamp.com](https://tobyfox.bandcamp.com/album/undertale-soundtrack))<br>If you are one of the original artists and would like something added/changed, please let me know ! + Homestuck is a webcomic by Andrew Hussie<br>[www.homestuck.com](https://www.homestuck.com/)<br>[www.homestuck2.com](https://www.homestuck2.com/) + Cover art by tricky_goddess<br>Instagram : [www.instagram.com/tricky_goddess/](https://www.instagram.com/tricky_goddess/) + Thanks to PotatoBoss for his feedback and help with credits checking<br>HP : [potatoboss.net](http://potatoboss.net/)<br>Twitter : [twitter.com/potatomoosik](https://twitter.com/potatomoosik)<br>Youtube : [www.youtube.com/channel/UCx8RbZLXx8lcr-yBHPEr_vA](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx8RbZLXx8lcr-yBHPEr_vA)<br>Bandcamp : [potatoboss.bandcamp.com](https://potatoboss.bandcamp.com/) --- Track: Confined Directory: confined-no-place-like-home diff --git a/album/time-and-tide.yaml b/album/time-and-tide.yaml index 7ad185d6..32cbfda7 100644 --- a/album/time-and-tide.yaml +++ b/album/time-and-tide.yaml @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) I have always believed that [[track:frost-and-clockwork|Frost and Clockwork]], an earlier track of mine, was a good concept wasted on sub-par production. For that reason, I’ve made numerous variations on that concept ever since. Timekeeper, with its tongue-in-cheek former title Ice Horologue, is perhaps the most fully-realised variation - It features the “[[track:never-gonna-give-you-up|Never Gonna Give You Up]] progression” that I’ve become mildly infamous for overusing. That progression represents a very particular mood to me, shaped by Vanessa Carlton’s <a href="https://youtu.be/Cwkej79U3ek">A Thousand Miles</a> rather than Rick Astley’s classic. (Prepare to find out over the course of this booklet just how big of a fan I am of mainstream pop.) + It features the “[[track:never-gonna-give-you-up|Never Gonna Give You Up]] progression” that I’ve become mildly infamous for overusing. That progression represents a very particular mood to me, shaped by Vanessa Carlton’s [A Thousand Miles](https://youtu.be/Cwkej79U3ek) rather than Rick Astley’s classic. (Prepare to find out over the course of this booklet just how big of a fan I am of mainstream pop.) The character in the illustration to the left is the first of a few track gijinka that I’ve designed for this album. They’re some sort of deity whom I refer to as the Timekeeper, a being in charge of keeping the inner mechanisms of time well-oiled and running. @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> This track was also released on the Vast Error fan album, [[album:vast-error-vol-3]]. - <a href="https://www.deconreconstruction.com/vasterror">Vast Error</a> is a webcomic by [[artist:austinado|Austinado]] and [[artist:sparaze|Sparaze]] that can be read here: <a href="mspfa.com?s=2302">mspfa.com?s=2302</a> + [Vast Error](https://www.deconreconstruction.com/vasterror) is a webcomic by [[artist:austinado|Austinado]] and [[artist:sparaze|Sparaze]] that can be read here: [mspfa.com?s=2302](mspfa.com?s=2302) <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) I wear my Celtic Woman influence on my sleeve. The solo violin on harp/string ensemble gradually joined by drums, the frequent borrowing from Dorian mode...yeah, that’s Celtic Woman-style, alright. @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) This track is a bit of an outlier: it’s almost purely a string ensemble piece with concessions to a bass drum and a snare, making it more exception than norm on this album composed largely of synth orchestrals. - A tie-in to my novel <a href="https://circlejourney.net/writing/eaglesandswans/">Eagles and Swans</a> (which most listeners haven’t read, I wager), it’s a track about a garden within the greenhouse of the palace complex, where one of the main characters likes to read on weekends. It’s stately, calm, and gives way to an interlude with a solo violin melody that, in my opinion, is the highlight of the track. + A tie-in to my novel [Eagles and Swans](https://circlejourney.net/writing/eaglesandswans/) (which most listeners haven’t read, I wager), it’s a track about a garden within the greenhouse of the palace complex, where one of the main characters likes to read on weekends. It’s stately, calm, and gives way to an interlude with a solo violin melody that, in my opinion, is the highlight of the track. All in all, this is probably the closest thing to a filler track on this album, just something connecting two parts of the album together. The next track is more interesting, I guarantee you. --- @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) Speaking of Celtic-inspired new age music… - Chariot is about the sun. The title references the god Helios, and the track itself is a riff on the structure and style of <a href="https://youtu.be/HHNZuj6U8jo">Reel Around the Sun</a>, one of my favourite works of music, with a spacey touch introduced by the glitching. + Chariot is about the sun. The title references the god Helios, and the track itself is a riff on the structure and style of [Reel Around the Sun](https://youtu.be/HHNZuj6U8jo), one of my favourite works of music, with a spacey touch introduced by the glitching. The art was initially created not for Chariot, but for a different track that was meant to be on this album, but which I am unable to release. I think the subject matters are similar enough that the image still fits. (I like making music about space, surprise surprise.) @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) Evening Song is the only track on this album composed for the art rather than the other way around. - Inspired by the intro of <a href="https://youtu.be/QnAXqEw6dUA">Tender</a> by Yvette Young, it was an experiment in a style that had so far eluded me, with a solo melody on top of guitar broken chords, completely devoid of drums. + Inspired by the intro of [Tender](https://youtu.be/QnAXqEw6dUA) by Yvette Young, it was an experiment in a style that had so far eluded me, with a solo melody on top of guitar broken chords, completely devoid of drums. Ultimately, I still gave in to the temptation of sticking drums into the track, towards the end. @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) This was me noodling with the synths in FL Studio, trying to make something as sweet and bubblegummy as the shade of pink in the illustration. - I couldn’t pretend it wasn’t inspired by Carly Rae Jepsen if I tried. The title itself is based on a lyric from her song <a href="https://youtu.be/s5OG4uYx4Z4">Picture</a>. I can’t say what specific genre it’s reminiscent of, but it was a sincere attempt to make something that would sound vaguely at home on a J-pop playlist. + I couldn’t pretend it wasn’t inspired by Carly Rae Jepsen if I tried. The title itself is based on a lyric from her song [Picture](https://youtu.be/s5OG4uYx4Z4). I can’t say what specific genre it’s reminiscent of, but it was a sincere attempt to make something that would sound vaguely at home on a J-pop playlist. There’s a bit going on here synth-wise: it was the first time I’d tried making a more complex strum pattern, which you can hear in the last third of the track. There’s also a generous helping of sound effects: bicycle bells, the crows synth (one of my favourites), and the water drop effect for example. @@ -242,9 +242,9 @@ URLs: - https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/emptiness Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> - This track was also released on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201114054951/https://inhospitable.bandcamp.com/album/inhospitable-volume-1">INHOSPITABLE Volume 1: Consciousness</a> + This track was also released on [INHOSPITABLE Volume 1: Consciousness](https://web.archive.org/web/20201114054951/https://inhospitable.bandcamp.com/album/inhospitable-volume-1) - INHOSPITABLE is a webcomic by [[artist:tempest2k|Roxanne Heikens]] that can be read at <a href="inhospitablecomic.mspfa.com">inhospitablecomic.mspfa.com</a>. + INHOSPITABLE is a webcomic by [[artist:tempest2k|Roxanne Heikens]] that can be read at [inhospitablecomic.mspfa.com](inhospitablecomic.mspfa.com). <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) This track was part of a music compilation for INHOSPITABLE, a comic by my friend Roxe. It’s a image-rich, dialogue-light story, and you’ll come to notice the eerie greyscale static and the silence that characterise a great part of the webcomic. diff --git a/album/tomb-of-the-ancestors.yaml b/album/tomb-of-the-ancestors.yaml index 734c52f3..e98b0906 100644 --- a/album/tomb-of-the-ancestors.yaml +++ b/album/tomb-of-the-ancestors.yaml @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Art Tags: - The Condesce Commentary: |- <i>runesby:</i> - (<a href="https://runesby.tumblr.com/post/12954661468">Tumblr</a>) + ([Tumblr](https://runesby.tumblr.com/post/12954661468)) i got the green light from kali to post my track art for the tomb of the ancestors album just a bit early (and i mean a bit–the album's very likely coming out later tonight)! long story short, i wasn't the original person chosen to draw the empress, but for reasons unknown the original artist was unable to complete their artwork, and so i was asked to stepped in. needless to say, i p. much jumped at the offer. this has actually been done for about a month now, haha. the album canon, for those who don't know, is actually different from the actual canon (i believe it's because the album was actually finished before the ancestors were revealed, but don't quote me on it)! i was told to draw the empress in my own image, and after listening to her track i came up with this. once you hear it, i think you'll agree??? @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ Art Tags: - Alternia Commentary: |- <i>Elly Beck:</i> - (<a href="https://yoccu.tumblr.com/post/12976423564/">Tumblr</a>) + ([Tumblr](https://yoccu.tumblr.com/post/12976423564/)) So I had heard about kali needing more people to do album art from somebody on tumblr. I was relatively new to the fandom, and I thought I'd never in a million years be good enough to do album art, but I really wanted to, so I sucked it up, said to myself, "The worst thing they can do is tell me No and then forget about me forever," so I sent my offer. And got it????????? Then I had to pick an ancestor, and even though I didn't even care about kanaya at the time, when I thought it through, I decided that I'd probably be best at drawing her ancestor. I figured her classy, demure style would work best with my style of drawing? So I picked kancestor! Then I didn't draw for forever because not knowing what the ancestor looked like made me really nervous. Then she was revealed finally!!! And I freaked out and got to drawing. @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ Commentary: |- I'm really happy it ended up working so well with the song, and this may be my favorite song from the album because I am a huge sucker for woeful strings. The song reminds me a LOT of Adagio for Strings which may just be one of the most heartwrenchingly beautiful songs ever written. So hopefully my art of her here is a good representation of her character. I've been worried about how it would have been received ever since I finished it! hahaha. But people seem to be liking it, and I couldn't be happier. I was so honored and ecstatic to be given to opportunity to draw for an album, and it was so much fun. That's all I really had to say I guess. :) I just felt like sharing my thought process. xD Thanks to kali again for the opportunity and the BEAUTIFUL album. The ancestors have been well represented here I think. c: - (<a href="https://www.deviantart.com/yoccuri/art/Immaculate-Peacekeeper-269739813">DeviantArt</a>) + ([DeviantArt](https://www.deviantart.com/yoccuri/art/Immaculate-Peacekeeper-269739813)) forgot to upload this here too! :o for all y'all who use dA still and not just tumblr like me xD I did the album art for the Dolorosa's song from the new Tomb of the Ancestors album! :) I wrote some commentary about why I drew it and why I drew this specifically on tumblr. You can go read it there if you are interested in a little background on this piece diff --git a/album/ulterior-motives.yaml b/album/ulterior-motives.yaml index 70c168bf..92393164 100644 --- a/album/ulterior-motives.yaml +++ b/album/ulterior-motives.yaml @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ Lyrics: |- We're ready to go Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDEpl-DRBpk">Music video!</a>) + ([Music video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDEpl-DRBpk)) --- Track: Criminal Mind Duration: '2:32' diff --git a/album/unreleased-tracks.yaml b/album/unreleased-tracks.yaml index 7214d5a6..ed9aa000 100644 --- a/album/unreleased-tracks.yaml +++ b/album/unreleased-tracks.yaml @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor) - Track name is as released <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180503070606/http://tindeck.com/users/Plasma">on Tindeck</a>. + Track name is as released [on Tindeck](https://web.archive.org/web/20180503070606/http://tindeck.com/users/Plasma). There are three prominent early versions of Cascade. This track, "Cascade Cut", is possibly the first one produced, and is exactly the version featured in [[flash:4109]]; it fades out at the end, transitioning into [[Savior of the Dreaming Dead (Cascade Cut)]]. diff --git a/album/us.yaml b/album/us.yaml index f9523681..39c1908c 100644 --- a/album/us.yaml +++ b/album/us.yaml @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Groups: - Fandom Commentary: |- <i>iodbc - The Black Box:</i> - For use in <a href="mspfa.com?s=22789&p=1">Abodebound</a>. + For use in [Abodebound](mspfa.com?s=22789&p=1). --- Track: A Birthday Girl Is You Duration: '4:39' diff --git a/album/v8lume.yaml b/album/v8lume.yaml index 2611fc82..df9df27c 100644 --- a/album/v8lume.yaml +++ b/album/v8lume.yaml @@ -36,10 +36,10 @@ Additional Files: - volume_8_booklet_FINAL.pdf Commentary: |- <i>Cool and New Music Team:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcJpoAOPxTw">[S] It Came From Volume 8</a>) + ([\[S] It Came From Volume 8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcJpoAOPxTw)) <i>Ngame:</i> - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIxsF01kAaw&t=2593">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIxsF01kAaw&t=2593)) <i>bobthetacocat:</i> (Artist) Let me tell you a little story that starts from [[album:cool-and-new-volume-v|Volume V]]. The art team were having an "let's go through our art and see how much it sucks" binge, when I came across my track art for "[[track:i-need-an-abumbalncemp3|i need an abumbalnce!!.mp3]]" and saw the LOWAS in the top left corner. The first thing I thought to myself was "hey, I could make that better." And so the editing of the original begins, and I end up with this. After getting a lot of positive reception and people asking me to make other planets, I decided to do this: start (and finish) LOHAC, then move on to LOLAR, then finally LOFAF. Over the course of working on LOHAC (which took too long to make the base circle of) I realized that I wasn't going to do anything with them, effectively making these for no reason. About this time is where I had the idea of arranging them in a Volume 8 cover fashion because, hey, I had the planets, I could do the thing, what's to lose? @@ -824,7 +824,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/C1ieAWpteAU Commentary: |- <i>olegoleg123:</i> (Composer) - This song was not originally meant for CANWC and/or Homestuck, however, I decided to apply it here because of two reasons: I felt like it would fit Rose fairly well and I wanted this song to become a persistent leitmotif in CANWC(since original, serious leitmotifs is what the CANWC soundtrack is still very much lacking). Later, I made a few candidates for the ""second version"" of this song(Aura of Void(unfinished), <a href="https://soundcloud.com/olegoleg123/halloween-2016-preview">Halloween Track</a>(unrelated to CANWC), <a href="https://soundcloud.com/olegoleg123/dance-of-colour">Dance of Colour</a>(didn't really turn out all that good), HQ Remaster(didn't really go anywhere after the first two bars, will possibly be continued and released as and ""Alpha Version"")) + This song was not originally meant for CANWC and/or Homestuck, however, I decided to apply it here because of two reasons: I felt like it would fit Rose fairly well and I wanted this song to become a persistent leitmotif in CANWC(since original, serious leitmotifs is what the CANWC soundtrack is still very much lacking). Later, I made a few candidates for the ""second version"" of this song(Aura of Void(unfinished), [Halloween Track](https://soundcloud.com/olegoleg123/halloween-2016-preview)(unrelated to CANWC), [Dance of Colour](https://soundcloud.com/olegoleg123/dance-of-colour)(didn't really turn out all that good), HQ Remaster(didn't really go anywhere after the first two bars, will possibly be continued and released as and ""Alpha Version"")) This song is to be used when the comic goes from ""mostly ironically shitty and messing around"" to ""100% dark and serious"", which I'm hoping would happen at some point. <i>CreatorOfJanespeak:</i> (Artist) @@ -1037,7 +1037,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/dAD5fmOQQo4 Commentary: |- <i>Cecily Renns:</i> (Composer) - <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/5b3kxv/petition_to_canwc_music_team/">https://www.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/5b3kxv/petition_to_canwc_music_team/</a> + [https://www.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/5b3kxv/petition_to_canwc_music_team/](https://www.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/5b3kxv/petition_to_canwc_music_team/) you're welcome, world (prepare for more simalar vocal surprises later) <i>BitesizeBird:</i> (Artist) @@ -1607,7 +1607,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/vaZC4drhLMQ Commentary: |- <i>ostrichlittledungeon:</i> (Artist) - because it's a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcJpoAOPxTw">trailer</a>, i decided to whip up a cool 50s scifi horror film poster thing for the track art! it's probably much more dramatic and cool than the actual trailer is, though. (that's [[artist:nights|nights]] on fire in the bottom right corner <img src="media/misc/mmmBukkake.png" width="48">) + because it's a [trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcJpoAOPxTw), i decided to whip up a cool 50s scifi horror film poster thing for the track art! it's probably much more dramatic and cool than the actual trailer is, though. (that's [[artist:nights|nights]] on fire in the bottom right corner <img src="media/misc/mmmBukkake.png" width="48">) --- Track: 'AAAAAAAAAAAAA Canon remix (not actually cannon though) cannon remix: THIT ONE IS CANON.' Artists: @@ -1738,7 +1738,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/G4rzHIRa08Q Commentary: |- <i>Cecily Renns:</i> (Composer) - this was originally for the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UTMPTX45F8">Credits video(s)</a> of CANH, but we went with the [[track:revisit-rewind|other]] [[track:resend|two]] instead + this was originally for the [Credits video(s)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UTMPTX45F8) of CANH, but we went with the [[track:revisit-rewind|other]] [[track:resend|two]] instead it actually syncs up with the original Credits video, because i thought [[track:ascend|Ascend]] didnt do enough of that, but what resulted was a more of a typical [[artist:cecily-renns|JJR]] mess, which im very happy with <i>nights:</i> (Artist) @@ -1760,7 +1760,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>Discfortune:</i> (Composer) Missing some more flute ornamentation, dynamics aren't poppy enough, strings are plucked too quickly for real people, but fuck you I made a joke and it's funny and the song sounds like the 50s: - <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bybgAnhv2dg">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bybgAnhv2dg</a> + [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bybgAnhv2dg](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bybgAnhv2dg) <i>NyashAlex:</i> (Composer) This track gave me Christmas vibes, so I decided to go along with the theme of a holiday party. diff --git a/album/virtue.yaml b/album/virtue.yaml index eef0e405..3d2bf41f 100644 --- a/album/virtue.yaml +++ b/album/virtue.yaml @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Groups: Cover Art File Extension: png Commentary: |- <i>Jamie Paige:</i> - ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS TRACK WILL BE GOING TOWARDS FUNDING MADI/DRAINPUPPET'S TOP SURGERY!! Check out her compilation <a href="https://drainpuppet.bandcamp.com/album/surgery">"SURGERY"</a> for more music you can get your hands on for her cause. + ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS TRACK WILL BE GOING TOWARDS FUNDING MADI/DRAINPUPPET'S TOP SURGERY!! Check out her compilation ["SURGERY"](https://drainpuppet.bandcamp.com/album/surgery) for more music you can get your hands on for her cause. Also, that lovely track art is by Cochet, a dear friend and frequent collaborator! Go follow them and commission them sometime. --- diff --git a/album/vivid-spectrum.yaml b/album/vivid-spectrum.yaml index ba097eae..31bc3b32 100644 --- a/album/vivid-spectrum.yaml +++ b/album/vivid-spectrum.yaml @@ -26,11 +26,11 @@ Commentary: |- Vivid Spectrum started out as two completely independent projects; Marcy's project began in June 2012 just before I even moved out to the DC area, and mine started in September. Everything: Jeremy Iamurri (Solatrus) - Also everything: Marcy Nabors (Shadolith - <a href="https://shadolith.tumblr.com/">shadolith.tumblr.com</a> ) + Also everything: Marcy Nabors (Shadolith - [shadolith.tumblr.com](https://shadolith.tumblr.com/) ) Yes, there is 200% song in this song. Except we didn't do the art. - Single Cover Art: Tavia Morra (<a href="https://seeyoutmorra.tumblr.com/">seeyoutmorra.tumblr.com</a>) + Single Cover Art: Tavia Morra ([seeyoutmorra.tumblr.com](https://seeyoutmorra.tumblr.com/)) --- Track: Vivid Spectrum Duration: '3:58' diff --git a/album/whats-soon-to-be-lost.yaml b/album/whats-soon-to-be-lost.yaml index 46bdcdb9..21437170 100644 --- a/album/whats-soon-to-be-lost.yaml +++ b/album/whats-soon-to-be-lost.yaml @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/bmF4cEXBz-0 Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> ([SoundCloud commentary](https://soundcloud.com/circlejourney-comms/nightmarish-dreamweaver-commission-for-asteriddle)) - Character theme for asteriddle's character <a href="https://toyhou.se/769490.aster">Aster</a>. + Character theme for asteriddle's character [Aster](https://toyhou.se/769490.aster). --- Track: Battle! Champion Renee Duration: '02:48' @@ -59,4 +59,4 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/RmWnMQZgSVc Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> - Character theme for asteriddle's character <a href="https://toyhou.se/769484.ren-e">Renée</a>. + Character theme for asteriddle's character [Renée](https://toyhou.se/769484.ren-e). diff --git a/album/wherever-you-were.yaml b/album/wherever-you-were.yaml index 916ed970..ea6eac88 100644 --- a/album/wherever-you-were.yaml +++ b/album/wherever-you-were.yaml @@ -17,19 +17,19 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> ☁️🌊 the sky and the sea try for centuries to reach each other. - This is a character song for Marin and Cielo, the leads of my webcomic <a href="compass.circlejourney.net">Compass</a>. Many thanks to Céleste for lending her vocal talents to the song and taking on Marin's part so wonderfully 💙 Check out her music and other works at: https://pinkie.horse + This is a character song for Marin and Cielo, the leads of my webcomic [Compass](compass.circlejourney.net). Many thanks to Céleste for lending her vocal talents to the song and taking on Marin's part so wonderfully 💙 Check out her music and other works at: https://pinkie.horse <i>Circlejourney:</i> (Tumblr commentary) - I'm proud to share Wherever You Were, a song about Marin and Cielo from my webcomic <a href="compass.circlejourney.net">Compass</a>! The sea and the sky, gazing at each other since the start of time, yet unable to reach each other. + I'm proud to share Wherever You Were, a song about Marin and Cielo from my webcomic [Compass](compass.circlejourney.net)! The sea and the sky, gazing at each other since the start of time, yet unable to reach each other. - My friend @irlpinkiepie sang Marin's part, I couldn't be happier that we got to collaborate. Check out her music and other works <a href="https://pinkie.horse">here</a>! + My friend @irlpinkiepie sang Marin's part, I couldn't be happier that we got to collaborate. Check out her music and other works [here](https://pinkie.horse)! OK so. I typed up a big ramble about the process of making this song, which was more complicated than almost anything else I’ve ever done - gonna tack it on here, in case that interests anyone… <b>THE SONGWRITING BIT</b> - I didn’t know what this song would become when I started it. It was just a piano doodle that eventually became the 8-bar refrain in the intro. Almost off the bat, though, I began to feel like it was showing my Vienna Teng + 2010s Broadway influence - you can really hear the <a href="https://youtu.be/BBbVUPf6NOw">Stray Italian Greyhound</a> and <a href="https://youtu.be/ss7aFUbwzec">Harbor</a> in it, with a side of…something else, maybe <a href="https://youtu.be/Cwkej79U3ek">A Thousand Miles</a>? + I didn’t know what this song would become when I started it. It was just a piano doodle that eventually became the 8-bar refrain in the intro. Almost off the bat, though, I began to feel like it was showing my Vienna Teng + 2010s Broadway influence - you can really hear the [Stray Italian Greyhound](https://youtu.be/BBbVUPf6NOw) and [Harbor](https://youtu.be/ss7aFUbwzec) in it, with a side of…something else, maybe [A Thousand Miles](https://youtu.be/Cwkej79U3ek)? It became apparent that the instrumental was missing a melody, so I also started to draft one by humming (it’s how I do it on most of my music now). The first line <i>“All my life / I’ve sought a safer seashore”</i> emerged pretty quickly. diff --git a/album/worlds-await.yaml b/album/worlds-await.yaml index 1d2612db..22f47d95 100644 --- a/album/worlds-await.yaml +++ b/album/worlds-await.yaml @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ URLs: - https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/spin Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> - This was composed as a tie-in for my novel project <a href="https://rd.circlejourney.net/">Revolving Door</a>. Through the shifts in style and mood, and the interaction of theme melodies, I try to recreate personalities and relationships of various characters in musical form, telling a multiplicity of stories. + This was composed as a tie-in for my novel project [Revolving Door](https://rd.circlejourney.net/). Through the shifts in style and mood, and the interaction of theme melodies, I try to recreate personalities and relationships of various characters in musical form, telling a multiplicity of stories. --- Track: Vesper Directory: vesper @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ URLs: - https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/guiding-light Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> - Another tie-in for <a href="https://rd.circlejourney.net/">Revolving Door</a>, this time relating to a chapter of the same title. A girl has just been saved from prison by a young man she does not know (and a rather well-dressed one, at that), and he is taking her to see the city she has not laid eyes on for years. + Another tie-in for [Revolving Door](https://rd.circlejourney.net/), this time relating to a chapter of the same title. A girl has just been saved from prison by a young man she does not know (and a rather well-dressed one, at that), and he is taking her to see the city she has not laid eyes on for years. --- Track: MIDNIGHT BLACK Duration: '03:26' @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ URLs: - https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/marketplaces Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> - Composed as background music for my visual novel <a href="https://compass.circlejourney.net/">Compass</a>. Travellers seeking strange wares at a faraway coastal marketplace. + Composed as background music for my visual novel [Compass](https://compass.circlejourney.net/). Travellers seeking strange wares at a faraway coastal marketplace. --- Track: Common Test 2 Duration: '01:16' diff --git a/album/wrath-and-angels.yaml b/album/wrath-and-angels.yaml index 87e78e3c..ed2a59e0 100644 --- a/album/wrath-and-angels.yaml +++ b/album/wrath-and-angels.yaml @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Groups: - Fandom Commentary: |- <i>Devieus:</i> - A new year, but I'm not done yet. I've started doing <a href="https://weeklybeats.com/music?s=&f=8&y=2014&r=501">Weeklybeats 2014</a> alongside this, though I've been using my ukulele for that. There's none of that here, all digitally made and looping. + A new year, but I'm not done yet. I've started doing [Weeklybeats 2014](https://weeklybeats.com/music?s=&f=8&y=2014&r=501) alongside this, though I've been using my ukulele for that. There's none of that here, all digitally made and looping. --- Track: Wrath-fueled Hope Destruction Duration: '2:35' @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ URLs: - https://devieus.bandcamp.com/track/wrath-fueled-hope-destruction Commentary: |- <i>Devieus:</i> - It's like the <a href="https://youtu.be/3M_Gg1xAHE4">pyramid song</a>, 4 times 3/4 followed by a 4/4. + It's like the [pyramid song](https://youtu.be/3M_Gg1xAHE4), 4 times 3/4 followed by a 4/4. --- Track: Angels Flying With A Vengeance Duration: '1:44' diff --git a/album/writhe-the-thing-from-the-omega-sector-ost.yaml b/album/writhe-the-thing-from-the-omega-sector-ost.yaml index b7b1977a..a70e1a8c 100644 --- a/album/writhe-the-thing-from-the-omega-sector-ost.yaml +++ b/album/writhe-the-thing-from-the-omega-sector-ost.yaml @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Groups: - Beyond Commentary: |- <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> - The soundtrack to my 48HR Ludum Dare 33 game, which you can play: <a href="https://dragonxvi.itch.io/writhe-ludum-dare-">https://dragonxvi.itch.io/writhe-ludum-dare-</a> + The soundtrack to my 48HR Ludum Dare 33 game, which you can play: [https://dragonxvi.itch.io/writhe-ludum-dare-](https://dragonxvi.itch.io/writhe-ludum-dare-) --- Track: Everyday I'm Slitherin' Duration: '1:21' @@ -36,4 +36,4 @@ URLs: Track: Weapon X Boss Battle Duration: '1:19' URLs: -- https://soundcloud.com/dragonxvi/writheboss \ No newline at end of file +- https://soundcloud.com/dragonxvi/writheboss diff --git a/album/xenoplanetarium.yaml b/album/xenoplanetarium.yaml index 3ea87973..ad0ffca4 100644 --- a/album/xenoplanetarium.yaml +++ b/album/xenoplanetarium.yaml @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>PoisonedElite:</i> So, uh, hi, I'm PoisonedElite, or Poize. This is actually the second version of Calming Quartz. - The first version (which can be found <a href="https://soundcloud.com/poisonedelite/calming-quartz-beta/s-2FvRp">here</a>) I wasn't very happy with, so I ended up redoing the entire song, and now I like it! + The first version (which can be found [here](https://soundcloud.com/poisonedelite/calming-quartz-beta/s-2FvRp)) I wasn't very happy with, so I ended up redoing the entire song, and now I like it! I started the first version in June and then made the revision over the course of October in about 1-2 weeks. 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. |