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diff --git a/album/alterniabound.yaml b/album/alterniabound.yaml index 6dfc92dd..7be432aa 100644 --- a/album/alterniabound.yaml +++ b/album/alterniabound.yaml @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Toki no hime wa inu wo tometa Toki no hime wa inu wo tometa Commentary: |- - <i>Tensei:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Tensei:</i> (booklet commentary) (Aradia's Homecoming) @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - "Karkat's Theme - Unknown.mid" Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) (Karkat Walkabout) @@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Trollcops - Zelthra.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Erik Scheele:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Erik Scheele:</i> (booklet commentary) (Alternate Universe Intermission) @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'BL1ND JUST1C3 - 1NV3ST1G4T1ON !! - Sky Island.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (booklet commentary) (Terezi Investigates) @@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - "Terezi's Theme - Moondelev (piano).mid" Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) (Terezi Walkabout) @@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ Sheet Music Files: Files: - Dreamers and The Dead - Thomas Ferkol.pdf Commentary: |- - <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (booklet commentary) (World of the Afterlife) @@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - "Vriska's Theme - Unknown (piano, partial).mid" Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) (Vriska Walkabout) @@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Eridan's Theme - Crustacean Commentary: |- - <i>Tensei:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Tensei:</i> (booklet commentary) (Adventure on the High Seas) @@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'FIDUSPAWN, GO! - Twix Stix.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>David Ko:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>David Ko:</i> (booklet commentary) (Tavros' Battle Theme) @@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Darling Kanaya - Unknown (piano).mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) (Kanaya Walkabout) @@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Requiem of Sunshine and Rainbows - Unknown (piano).mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Paige Turner:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Paige Turner:</i> (booklet commentary) (Rainbow Drinker Kanaya) @@ -829,7 +829,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Just resign to your fate.<br> Soon you'll be made into Gl'Bgolyb bait. Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) (Eridan Walkabout) @@ -873,7 +873,7 @@ Track Artwork: Referenced Tracks: - Nautical Climb Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) (Eridan Boss Battle) @@ -920,7 +920,7 @@ Track Artwork: Referenced Tracks: - Walls Covered In Blood Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) (Nepeta Walkabout) @@ -964,7 +964,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Horschestra - Walls Covered In Blood Commentary: |- - <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> (booklet commentary) (Equius Walkabout) @@ -1068,7 +1068,7 @@ Track Artwork: - Gamzee - Trolls' meteor Commentary: |- - <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (booklet commentary) (Gamzee the Killer) @@ -1120,7 +1120,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go! Commentary: |- - <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (booklet commentary) HOW TO WRITE MUSIC<br> STEP 1: WRITE STRONG GUITAR<br> @@ -1175,7 +1175,7 @@ Track Artwork: - Deuce Clubs - 'cw: blood' Commentary: |- - <i>Tensei:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Tensei:</i> (booklet commentary) (Triple Showdown Combo) @@ -1253,7 +1253,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Rex Duodecim Angelus - Doowhacker.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (booklet commentary) (Final Battle Against the Black King) @@ -1325,7 +1325,7 @@ Track Artwork: Referenced Tracks: - Spider's Claw Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) (God-Vriska's Finest Hour) @@ -1381,7 +1381,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Alternia - Geekthras (piano).mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Seth Peelle:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Seth Peelle:</i> (booklet commentary) (Hivebent) @@ -1470,7 +1470,7 @@ Track Artwork: - Action Claws - 'cw: blood (abstract)' Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) (I KILL ANIMALS!!!) @@ -1515,7 +1515,7 @@ Track Artwork: - Wandkind - Trolls' meteor Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) (PISCES PRINCESS) @@ -1560,7 +1560,7 @@ Track Artwork: - Needlekind - Alternia Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) (Kanaya Battle Theme?) @@ -1637,7 +1637,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'The Blind Prophet - Unknown.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) my thoughts: @@ -1666,7 +1666,7 @@ Track Artwork: Referenced Tracks: - Theme Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) These aren't "true" pieces... just jingles based off of [[Theme|"Theme"]]. But I hope that for all their insignificance, they really instill the idea of a game inside of you. @@ -1700,7 +1700,7 @@ Track Artwork: Referenced Tracks: - Theme Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) When you win a battle on Alternia, this song plays. No one knows who's singing. --- @@ -1727,6 +1727,6 @@ Track Artwork: Referenced Tracks: - Theme Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) And with that.... good night. diff --git a/album/beforusbound.yaml b/album/beforusbound.yaml index da72a8aa..28b6e1cb 100644 --- a/album/beforusbound.yaml +++ b/album/beforusbound.yaml @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/5czj5hiJuLU3oE9jZ8Ntfq - https://music.apple.com/song/all-alone/1555060462 Commentary: |- - <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rainy:</i> (booklet commentary) In it's initial stages, All Alone was going to be a song about Damara's generally creepy and unsettling personality and demeanor. @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/08lgpIpro2XhCAsnmxHl4a - https://music.apple.com/song/phosphor-bronze/1555060464 Commentary: |- - <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (booklet commentary) This song took a hellova long time to make, only because I went through like 5 drafts to end up on the song that's actually on the album. @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/4ne0NBd3MAxzjUYWL5ZKSk - https://music.apple.com/song/fate-of-the-heir/1555060465 Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) This was actually my second take at writing a mituna theme for Beforusbound the first of which was repurposed into [[Mituna's Theme]] by PBoss (hella proud of what you did with it by the way). @@ -155,11 +155,11 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/376sHRj9BdQcXYWnbhMoNM - https://music.apple.com/song/a-6elief-in-s9mething-higher/1555060466 Commentary: |- - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary) Like vvith all of my tracks on this album, I really just vvanted to try something different from vvhat I normally do. VVhether or not it vvas successful is kinda unclear to me? Ah vvell. Either vvay vvhen I finished I decided it fit Kankri a lot better than the... *other* thing I had in mind. - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary, quirk-free) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary, quirk-free) Like with all of my tracks on this album, I really just wanted to try something different from what I normally do. Whether or not it was successful is kinda unclear to me? Ah well. Either way when I finished I decided it fit Kankri a lot better than the... *other* thing I had in mind. @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/7AuJAIW1sfoQ7sKaQeQhv4 - https://music.apple.com/song/hand-in-hand/1555060467 Commentary: |- - <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rainy:</i> (booklet commentary) Biggest props to [[artist:chronicrusader|chroniCrusader]] for suggesting the title of the song. @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/7uH318toMQubf3ctuMle3Q - https://music.apple.com/song/gentle-heat/1555060468 Commentary: |- - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary) The moment I savv Porrim up for grabs on the original spreadsheet, I just grabbed that right avvay. I'd been listening to a lot of jazz and Lo-Fi at the time, thought something like that vvould fit Porrim really vvell, and it finally got through my thick skull that you can line up bass hits and drum kicks. @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ Commentary: |- This song didn't end up as the jazz I originally intended it to be, and didn't really stay Lo-Fi either, but it definitely seemed vvorth keeping in my book, and here it is. - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary, quirk-free) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary, quirk-free) The moment I saw Porrim up for grabs on the original spreadsheet, I just grabbed that right away. I'd been listening to a lot of jazz and Lo-Fi at the time, thought something like that would fit Porrim really well, and it finally got through my thick skull that you can line up bass hits and drum kicks. @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/6E9ENhli4FmS97sWKoYLG9 - https://music.apple.com/song/latulas-theme/1555060469 Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) This is another example of me being inspired by EarthBound music, i basically wanted to make a song that had slight hip hop influences while keeping a videogame style for Latula. @@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/0c6RPK0Z01jckGtBG5VzRl - https://music.apple.com/song/dwelling-among-the-dreambubbles/1555060471 Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) So for this song i wanted to make a synthwave track since i had just released [a synthwave EP](https://potatoboss.bandcamp.com/album/the-divide), but i figured it didnt fit Aranea all that well. @@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/2QWBhkGdCRf6BjSQi9KaMt - https://music.apple.com/song/lapis-arbalester/1555060472 Commentary: |- - <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (booklet commentary) This like the millionth time I've remastered an old song for a PMT album, this one is actually probably the least changed from the original, even with it's theme of being a Horuss song and also being on a never-finished album of mine also named 'Beforus Bound'. @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/5GNhtVOEQiXz46xwmqWIx9 - https://music.apple.com/song/final-darkness/1555060473 Commentary: |- - <i>Stacatto Force:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Stacatto Force:</i> (booklet commentary) Yeah, the title is almost literal. @@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/67sP2zeo1rHqMDtlxn56b4 - https://music.apple.com/song/trident-thief/1555060475 Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) This song came to be after [[artist:rainy|Rainy]] just finished his first attempt at a synthwave song for [[album:on-the-rox|his solo album]]. I really liked his song and wanted to remix into a sort of Carpenter Brut style song, now im nowhere near as good at synthwave as Carpenter Brut but i gave it my best shot and even referenced [[Inner Animal]] by Scattle in this song. @@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/4TYwYfwVzSabWaha2cxwma - https://music.apple.com/song/spirited-euphoria/1555060596 Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) Y'all like [[Purple Tyrant]]? cause that's what I based this song off of. Spirited Euphoria to me was an interesting song to work on especially when it differs from my initial thematic intentions of focusing on the dark side of Meulin's and Kurloz's relationship. @@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/5czj5hiJuLU3oE9jZ8Ntfq - https://music.apple.com/song/center-stage/1555060597 Commentary: |- - <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rainy:</i> (booklet commentary) We all remember [[flash:6901|[S] Game Over]] right? @@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/6DmexYrwHfCif8mC6qPJvl - https://music.apple.com/song/indirectly-hate-you/1555060598 Commentary: |- - <i>Stacatto Force:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Stacatto Force:</i> (booklet commentary) Well, the name of the song is good, and the song itself came out well I think. @@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/7vVY1Ed3vFmgCjSlSJziBZ - https://music.apple.com/song/jaded-luminescence/1555060599 Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) Ok so really all I can say here is that this is easily the best song I've made in my mediocre existence so far. This song came from a sudden wave of inspiration after listening to an early WIP of [[Gentle Heat]] and [[Darling Dolorosa]]/[[Darling Kanaya]]. @@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/1xlUOuMgsXpT0UFe0f5t3J - https://music.apple.com/song/mitunas-theme/1555060600 Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) When we just started working on BeforusBound, [[artist:rowyn-berlan|Rowyn]] posted a WIP of a Mituna theme, it started roughly the same as this one only after the intro, instead of maintaining it's fast BPM it slowed down. @@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/1rjvKDytsTN3UvAlvLwLJL - https://music.apple.com/song/porrims-theme/1555060602 Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) I was really inspired by [[Darling Dolorosa]] for this one which you can hear, lol. @@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/2U5vT3CQLQq1J9Hd6meRER - https://music.apple.com/song/achieving-new-radical-heights/1555060604 Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) Here take [[track:gamegrl-original-1993-mix|GameGrl]] but not really lmao... @@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/3Fh3LKS15NlJERW6n9T84t - https://music.apple.com/song/purriferal-affections/1555060605 Commentary: |- - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary) I finally got a midi keyboard! This is vvhat it vvent to. (VVith a name like this of course it's a Meulin track.) The Rhodes in this is just my bored impro<, vvith a bit of spice here and there, and vvith some cuts dovvn so it didn't stay as a 32-minute clip. @@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ Commentary: |- Minimal changes vvere made vvithout the keyboard, so that's probably vvhy I'm a lot more proud of this one than I should be. - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary, quirk-free) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary, quirk-free) I finally got a midi keyboard! This is what it went to. (With a name like this of course it's a Meulin track.) The Rhodes in this is just my bored improv, with a bit of spice here and there, and with some cuts down so it didn't stay as a 32-minute clip. @@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/1nEBNMSanb3EAvpB5XkdOT - https://music.apple.com/song/reboot/1555060607 Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) I really wasnt too sure what to do for Damara's theme here, i figured using ethnic sounds would give it a good base. @@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/3LkQfNKqlZuFQALDfublI3 - https://music.apple.com/song/character-catastrophe/1555060608 Commentary: |- - <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (booklet commentary) this song kinda appeared out of nowhere so i was all like "oh ok let's put this on the album beep boop". @@ -710,7 +710,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/7f1FSb4cDTwVQrgIwX9rfJ - https://music.apple.com/song/nostalgic-landscapes/1555060609 Commentary: |- - <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rainy:</i> (booklet commentary) I wrote this shortly after writing some ambient stuff for [[album:on-the-rox|my solo album]] and it shows. @@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/7uH318toMQubf3ctuMle3Q - https://music.apple.com/song/megalovania-beforusbound/1555060611 Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) [[track:MeGaLoVania|MeGaLoVania]] has an unused version that Toby Fox originally made to be on [[album:alterniabound]], unfortunately it was never used because [[artist:tensei|Tensei]] later played live guitars over the song and it got used in [[album:homestuck-vol-6|Vol. 6]] so i wanted to make a MeGaLoVania specifically for BeforusBound. @@ -765,7 +765,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/7ctDWbQ3iOO1eEre0u95TN - https://music.apple.com/song/insufferable-sufferer/1555060613 Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) Kankri is quite an odd but interesting character to me so I decided to try and make a song about his struggles as a leader and his reflection on the role of the sufferer. @@ -789,7 +789,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/7JYmGcQAOwCXJBVhl2GiiV - https://music.apple.com/song/first-tumor-second-life/1555060614 Commentary: |- - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary) This is, of course, a song about Meenah, and hovv she used essentially the original Tumor to blovv up the Beforus session so that they could all at least continue to exist as ghosts after their Scratch. @@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ Commentary: |- (RIP my ears, for trying to open the original .vva< file on a basic phone. That vvas loud and terrifying.) - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary, quirk-free) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary, quirk-free) This is, of course, a song about Meenah, and how she used essentially the original Tumor to blow up the Beforus session so that they could all at least continue to exist as ghosts after their Scratch. @@ -861,7 +861,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/1Lt6vPU4DjXrT1clBNzJnv - https://music.apple.com/song/the-future-we-could-never-have/1555060615 Commentary: |- - <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rainy:</i> (booklet commentary) What troll focused album would be complete without a medley of all the main themes on the album. In all seriousness, this song was directly inspired by songs like [[Rex Duodecim Angelus|rex duodecim anglus]] and [[Rex Duodecim Daemonia X (ReDuX)|rex duodecim daemonia]]. @@ -893,7 +893,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/4PURFLhh81WIBDG3T3G7bM - https://music.apple.com/song/beforusbound/1555060616 Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) I made 3 fanfares for this album, these were all made to mirror the original fanfares that Toby Fox made on [[album:alterniabound]]... @@ -918,7 +918,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/2vOazi1l9wT13XPLgr3GPj - https://music.apple.com/song/victory/1555060617 Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) *(Continued from [[track:beforusbound]])* @@ -945,7 +945,7 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/2FuM06ukCFW5yPiFGUCZPv - https://music.apple.com/song/time-to-rest/1555060620 Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) *(Continued from [[track:victory-beforusbound]])* diff --git a/album/cherubim.yaml b/album/cherubim.yaml index fc3631f4..0e58e0ab 100644 --- a/album/cherubim.yaml +++ b/album/cherubim.yaml @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Reverie, Power Fantasy - Unknown.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) i made this song its abou tcallpope shes the girl troll on the web cartonn 'homsockers' an she lives on the moon with her brother cazzbiborn baggin of rivendale were they play chess she isnt as good as it as cazbio l and he beats her this song is about when she was before he bit her le g fof he is such a good goadlie and im tryhing to anticipate where hes going next i'm perfectly fine where i am im like where where wheere s your move tell me why im wrong @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Carne Vale - Unknown.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://dragonxvi.tumblr.com/post/45686990686/carne-vale-a-commentary), 03/18/2013) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> ([Tumblr](https://dragonxvi.tumblr.com/post/45686990686/carne-vale-a-commentary), 03/18/2013) <u>Carne Vale</u> @@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Constant Confinement - Doctor Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20181217215127/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/post/45434791248/by-now-i-hope-youve-gotten-a-chance-to-hear-my), 3/15/2013) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20181217215127/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/post/45434791248/by-now-i-hope-youve-gotten-a-chance-to-hear-my), 3/15/2013) By now I hope you’ve gotten a chance to hear my new track “Constant Conquest” from the latest Homestuck album <i><b>Cherubim</i></b>. For those interested, lemme break this one down for you. @@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ Sheet Music Files: - 'The Lyrist - Thomas Ferkol (A minor).pdf' - 'The Lyrist - Thomas Ferkol (Ab minor).pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://eidolonorpheus.tumblr.com/post/57455068572/homestuck-music-facts), 08/05/2013) + <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> ([Tumblr](https://eidolonorpheus.tumblr.com/post/57455068572/homestuck-music-facts), 08/05/2013) <b>HOMESTUCK MUSIC. FACTS.</b> diff --git a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b.yaml b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b.yaml index 0393a6f6..a0f85c9c 100644 --- a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b.yaml +++ b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b.yaml @@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Blue Atom - Unknown (piano).mid' Commentary: |- - <i>David Ellis:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://ducksual.tumblr.com/post/21030369047/heh-didnt-expect-radiation-to-actually-put-that), excerpt, 4/13/2012) + <i>David Ellis:</i> ([Tumblr](https://ducksual.tumblr.com/post/21030369047/heh-didnt-expect-radiation-to-actually-put-that), excerpt, 4/13/2012) <b>Heh. Didn’t expect Radiation to actually put that in.</b> @@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ Art Tags: - Rabbit - Forkkind Commentary: |- - <i>David Ellis:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/ducksual/21030369047/heh-didnt-expect-radiation-to-actually-put-that), excerpt, 4/13/2012) + <i>David Ellis:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/ducksual/21030369047/heh-didnt-expect-radiation-to-actually-put-that), excerpt, 4/13/2012) *(Continued from [[track:blue-atom]])* @@ -887,7 +887,7 @@ Art Tags: - Can Town - Skyship Base Commentary: |- - <i>Twirlin' Curtis:</i> (composer, [Twitter](https://x.com/TwirlinCurtis/status/1779209373887103050), 4/13/2024) + <i>Twirlin' Curtis:</i> ([Twitter](https://x.com/TwirlinCurtis/status/1779209373887103050), 4/13/2024) Happy Homestuck Day. One of the Homestuck albums I wrote music for is apparently Music of Asia. Geography is very mysterious indeed. @@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ Sheet Music Files: Files: - 'Dapper Duelling Piano Rough - Max Wright.pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>Max Wright:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://imbrog.tumblr.com/post/21076871581/dapper-dueling-context), 4/14/2012) + <i>Max Wright:</i> ([Tumblr](https://imbrog.tumblr.com/post/21076871581/dapper-dueling-context), 4/14/2012) >So, I was a HUGE fan of Dapper Dueling when you first put up the original version, but I LOVE what you did with it for the Homestuck music contest. I can't wait to see what you came up with next, because holy crap you are talented. What inspired you with this one, since it's telling me to ask you something? It has a very Firefly, Joss Whedon sort of feel to it, which I personally really like about it. diff --git a/album/homestuck-for-the-holidays.yaml b/album/homestuck-for-the-holidays.yaml index ede68854..a2782818 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-for-the-holidays.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-for-the-holidays.yaml @@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ Lyrics: |- (AnD tO aLl A-) Commentary: |- - <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://albatrossthesoup.tumblr.com/post/46625073764/the-squiddles-save-christmas-a-commentary), 03/29/2013) + <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> ([Tumblr](https://albatrossthesoup.tumblr.com/post/46625073764/the-squiddles-save-christmas-a-commentary), 03/29/2013) Some artists say that when you are feeling burnt out, you should let loose and make any old thing, like scribbling, throwing paint onto a canvas, or whatever the first idea that comes to your mind is. The sloppier the better. The purpose of this is not to think too hard about your art, to be able to make "bad art" and not worry about it. You get to flex your creative muscles without the expectation of making something exemplary. <i>The Squiddles Save Christmas</i> is an example of this exercise, or it would be if it didn't turn out to be <i><b>the best thing I ever made</i></b>. diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml index 9e79b4f8..b331d52c 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml @@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ Lyrics: |- <i>Thought blows in the wind, spirit in the wind</i>) Commentary: |- - <i>Seth Peelle:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Seth Peelle:</i> (booklet commentary) When I first auditioned for the Homestuck music team back in 2009, one of my two audition pieces was [[Pumpkin Cravings|"Pumpkin Cravings"]], which ended upon the [[album:homestuck-vol-5|"Homestuck Vol. 5"]] album of the following year (and was subsequently orchestrated by the illustrious Alex Rosetti into [[THIS Pumpkin|"THIS Pumpkin"]] on THIS Album). The other piece was a short electronic-sounding demo entitled [[Skaia Voyages|"Skaia Voyages"]] that I based on the [[Sburban Jungle|"Sburban Jungle"]] and [[Skies of Skaia|"Skies of Skaia"]] themes, inspired by the purposefully vague notion of the Kids' "ascension" recently introduced in the comic at that time. The demo never ended up going anywhere in that form, but its musical ideas stuck in my head, growing and evolving in my mindscape over the years into something much grander than what I had originally envisioned. It grew additional references to [[Revelawesome|"Revelawesome"]] and the Kids' themes, grew a full orchestra, grew a massive choir and epic sci-fi noises of indeterminate nature... @@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ Art Tags: - Battlefield - Green Sun Commentary: |- - <i>Tensei:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Tensei:</i> (booklet commentary) For the longest time I considered this a song for Jade, specifically her dog tier transformation. Then I realized, far too late, that Aranea doesn't have a lot of music given her relative importance in the comic! @@ -398,23 +398,23 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Beatdown (Strider Style) Commentary: |- - <i>Clark Powell:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Clark Powell:</i> (booklet commentary) This was the best remix I ever worked on. There was another remix of this song that didn't make it onto the album, but you can use your imagination for that. - <i>Riki Tsuji:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Riki Tsuji:</i> (booklet commentary) actually clark is wrong and u dont have to use ur imagination [[Beatup (Shutdown)|here u go]] ... bye - <i>Clark Powell:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Clark Powell:</i> (booklet commentary) step on me Riki - <i>Riki Tsuji:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Riki Tsuji:</i> (booklet commentary) i step on nobody - <i>Clark Powell:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Clark Powell:</i> (booklet commentary) pls make an exception for me @@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ Commentary: |- is that your actual commentary i'll literally put this all in - <i>Riki Tsuji:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Riki Tsuji:</i> (booklet commentary) yes RJ literally put this in also Clark I love you but this, I cannot make an exception for. Please go step on yourself. @@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ Commentary: |- The amount of musical fan activity that came out of Homestuck was really quite incredible, and something I've never seen in any fandom before. For all the highs and lows in the Homestuck fandom the way the fandom appreciated fanmusic was special. - <i>David Dycus:</i> (composer, synths, booklet commentary) + <i>David Dycus:</i> (synths, booklet commentary) Homestuck gave me a sense of musical purpose I have not experienced before or since. @@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ Sheet Music Files: Files: - 'Sound Judgement - EuniverseCat.pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (booklet commentary) Couldn't end without giving Terezi another chance to shine. "Sound Judgement" basically tells the story of Terezi's <code style="color: #008b8b">"CLOWN HUNT1NG"</code> escapade where she goes hunting after Gamzee, battles him & gets spectacularly "ATOMIC DOUBLE JUGGALO BACKBREAKER"'d for her trouble. Goal here was mainly to create a "Terezi doing something badass" track: A little inspiration from things like ["Battle without Honor or Humanity"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw5vAd5icAg) from Kill Bill, sprinkled with little bits inspired by [[Terezi's Theme|Terezi's theme]], then a bit of weird guitar solo for [[Harlequin]] to represent Gamzee, and a whole load of staccato strings and rhythm guitar everywhere else. @@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Aggrieve Commentary: |- - <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (booklet commentary) While [[Harlequin|"Harlequin"]] was the first piece of mine to appear in Homestuck, the first piece I actually wrote for it was [[Aggrieve|"Aggrieve"]], and so I felt it was only fitting to make another mix of it for the final album. Plus it gave me an excuse to try writing it in a metal style! I'm not sure it could still be considered Rose's "official theme" anymore (not after the mountain of excellent music the team's written for her over the years), but I still like to think of it that way. @@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ Sampled Tracks: - Moonsetter - Showdown Commentary: |- - <i>Kalibration:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Kalibration:</i> (booklet commentary) Well, it's really my last song for Homestuck, huh... @@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Sampled Tracks: - track:anubis-septicflesh Commentary: |- - <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (booklet commentary) Pretty sure this one first came about back in 2012. @@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ Art Tags: - Skaia - 'cw: blood (abstract)' Commentary: |- - <i>rj lake:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>rj lake:</i> (booklet commentary) Cascade2 has a strange following online. @@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Referenced Artworks: - 'Midnight Crew: Drawing Dead' Commentary: |- - <i>David Ellis:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>David Ellis:</i> (booklet commentary) The idea for this started around the time [[album:homestuck-vol-9|Volume 9]] came out. @@ -819,7 +819,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Skaian Ride - Skaia Voyages Commentary: |- - <i>Seth Peelle:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Seth Peelle:</i> (booklet commentary) The 1984 fantasy film "The NeverEnding Story" was one of my favorite childhood movies. @@ -858,7 +858,7 @@ Cover Art File Extension: jpg Art Tags: - Green Sun Commentary: |- - <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (booklet commentary) Based on Calliope's haven in the Furthest Rings, this track has gone on a journey. @@ -881,7 +881,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Beatdown (Strider Style) Commentary: |- - <i>Curt Blakeslee:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Curt Blakeslee:</i> (booklet commentary) A simplified chiptune rendition of [[Beatdown (Strider Style)|Beatdown]]. Dave's original strife track was purposefully overproduced, loud, and busy, so Beatdown DX is actually less 'deluxe' than the original. @@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Flare - Explore Commentary: |- - <i>Marcy Nabors:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Marcy Nabors:</i> (booklet commentary) Way back in good ol' 2012 I was in [a little one-off band](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_8EeclO-r8) with [[artist:erik-scheele]], [[artist:clark-powell]], [[artist:riki-tsuji]], and the ever-charismatic [[artist:michael-guy-bowman]]. @@ -986,7 +986,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - track:feel-luke-benjamins Commentary: |- - <i>Luke Benjamins:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Luke Benjamins:</i> (booklet commentary) I actually wrote the melody for this track almost five years ago, for a project that never got off the ground. As far as I can remember, I didn't have any particular inspiration when I wrote it, musical or otherwise. It's the catchiest tune I've ever made, yet I couldn't tell you how it came to me exactly. This version ias a completely unique take on this melody compared to the original context, giving it a very different Feel. I wasn't able to do any of the audio production for this track, but I did guide RJ as to how I Feel it should be put together. We ended up pushing the deadline too much with this one, and there are still a couple things I wish had been changed, but like with any creative work, you need to draw the line somewhere, lest you polish it endlessly. @@ -1035,7 +1035,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:evanescence-maria-schneider - Sea of Derse Commentary: |- - <i>Erik Scheele:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Erik Scheele:</i> (booklet commentary) Originally my thought for this piece was Spades Slick and Ms. Paint on a gondola, something semi-romantic and jazzy and very ship-worthy. Hence the accordion. But then, like any other time I started feeling vaguely like making something into a piece for shipping people, I actually made the piece and got a way better idea for what it would be for, aka post-game everyone-hanging-out reflection-relaxation. And hey, the accordion still worked. @@ -1066,7 +1066,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Sampled Tracks: - Ascend Commentary: |- - <i>Solatrus:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Solatrus:</i> (booklet commentary) I got inspired by listening to a friend's liquid drum and bass tracks back in 2014 (shoutout to you, Justin!), and decided I really wanted to do something along those lines. @@ -1146,7 +1146,7 @@ Lyrics: |- (<i>The princess of time stopped the dog</i>) Commentary: |- - <i>Tensei:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Tensei:</i> (booklet commentary) First of all, I'm not an EDM producer. @@ -1187,7 +1187,7 @@ Sheet Music Files: Files: - 'Lilith In Starlight - EuniverseCat.pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (booklet commentary) This track's actually effectively a second go at a previous track I made called [[track:mother-malcolm-brown|"Mother"]] which blended [[Black Rose / Green Sun|Black Rose/Green Sun]] & [[Aggrieve]] in a sort've more mystical tone. @@ -1224,7 +1224,7 @@ Art Tags: - Calliope - Earth Commentary: |- - <i>Max Wright:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Max Wright:</i> (booklet commentary) Thanks for Playing was originally conceived as a theme for Calliope, back before the [[album:cherubim]] album had been released. At that time it had a runtime of only one minute, so when Volume 10 was being organised I ran with what I had and extended it into the piece featured. I felt that the initial theme has a air of purity, something that lent itself well to the birth of a new world - hence its allocation. @@ -1326,7 +1326,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Renewed Return - Unknown (partial).mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Marcy Nabors:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Marcy Nabors:</i> (booklet commentary) Four years! And what a wild four years it has been. @@ -1422,7 +1422,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Homestuck - Skies of Skaia Commentary: |- - <i>Seth Peelle:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Seth Peelle:</i> (booklet commentary) Oh, hey. Is it the last track already? Man, where did the time go? diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-5.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-5.yaml index ccdcefc0..012c9ae7 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-5.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-5.yaml @@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Showtime (Piano Refrain) - Harlequin Commentary: |- - <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://albatrossthesoup.tumblr.com/post/20545830112/my-vol-5-music-commentary), excerpt, 4/5/2012) + <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> ([Tumblr](https://albatrossthesoup.tumblr.com/post/20545830112/my-vol-5-music-commentary), excerpt, 4/5/2012) This piece is one of the strongest examples of how much better my old music could have been if I had used better samples. But I had nothing but cheap stuff at the time, so I think this one suffers a lot. Personal regret aside, I composed this as an ode to John, so it features the themes from [[track:showtime-original-mix|Showtime]] and [[Harlequin]]. I wanted something big and dramatic, so I went the semi-orchestral route, and completely transformed the context of the two melodies I used to suit the mood of the piece. In particular, Harlequin seems almost unrecognizable unless you’re paying attention or have a good ear. I think its attempt to come off as big and noble is a little heavy-handed at times, but it would definitely be a fun one to come back to and update. @@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ Track Artwork: Referenced Tracks: - Aggrieve Commentary: |- - <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) Since Aggrieve was the first song I wrote for Homestuck, I also imagined it would be the first thing I would remix. That turned out not to be the case (I remixed Harlequin first), but I went ahead with it anyway. I also figured it might come in handy in case there was ever another strife scene with Rose post-entry, but those became rare after a while, except for special situations. @@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Chorale for Jaspers - Squiddles! Commentary: |- - <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://albatrossthesoup.tumblr.com/post/20545830112/my-vol-5-music-commentary), excerpt, 4/5/2012) + <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> ([Tumblr](https://albatrossthesoup.tumblr.com/post/20545830112/my-vol-5-music-commentary), excerpt, 4/5/2012) I’ve always considered the creation of this song a “classic story”. It came about in a strange, almost fateful way, and I think the final product reflects that. It was the first thing that [[artist:toby-fox|Radiation]] and I worked on together, and it was through Hardchorale that our friendship started. He approached me with a MIDI file he had made, intending it to be a sort of “boss battle” arrangement of [[Chorale for Jaspers]] in the style of [[Harleboss]]. He asked if I would be interested in producing it, since at the time he was just starting out and had no means to do so. I agreed, Chorale being one of my favorite Homestuck tunes. So I produced it in a DAW to make it sound “good”, and relative to the MIDI file it sounded great, and we were both really happy with it. Radiation got [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|Bowman]] to record some heavy metal meows, which he apparently almost got kicked out of his apartment for recording and claims to have video of, though I have yet to see it. Once I found out it was going to be on Vol. 5, I added a section to it (roughly the last third of the piece) and at the very end sneaked [[track:squiddles|the Squiddles theme]] just because I could. I realize that was more of a narrative than a commentary, but it’s the history behind this piece that I find fun to talk about more than the piece itself. @@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Aggrieve - Showtime (Original Mix) Commentary: |- - <i>Andrew Huo:</i> (composer, [Bandcamp rerelease about blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20130530033449/http://andrewhuo.bandcamp.com/track/skaian-ride), excerpt) + <i>Andrew Huo:</i> ([Bandcamp rerelease about blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20130530033449/http://andrewhuo.bandcamp.com/track/skaian-ride), excerpt) Symphonic piece made in Sibelius 5. Composed for MS Paint Adventures. @@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Crystalanthemums - Twix Stix.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://albatrossthesoup.tumblr.com/post/20545830112/my-vol-5-music-commentary), excerpt, 4/5/2012) + <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> ([Tumblr](https://albatrossthesoup.tumblr.com/post/20545830112/my-vol-5-music-commentary), excerpt, 4/5/2012) I composed this one intending it to be the theme of Jade’s land. This is the reason [[artist:erik-scheele|Jit]] has gone on the record as saying [[track:crystamanthequins|Crystamenthequins]] was intended to accompany Jade’s island being destroyed/her entering her land (I’m pretty sure that’s how he described it) was because of this song. It’s actually a really simple tune, and I’ve wanted to expand on it for ages but never got around to it. The entire piece consists of the same simple chord progression, but it’s a good, if played out, progression. That and the beautiful harmonies one is guaranteed to find with it is why I think this is one of my more popular songs. It’s not as well-composed as I’d like it to be, but it is definitely catchy. And [[artist:toby-fox|Radiation]] was responsible for the name, jokingly calling it “crystalanthemums” after I described it as sounding like a crystalline flower. I decided that was as good a name as any, and I’ve had the pleasure of infecting its two remixes with such silly-sounding titles. @@ -856,7 +856,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Skaia (Incipisphere Mix) - Unknown (piano).mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Solatrus:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Solatrus:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) 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. @@ -935,7 +935,7 @@ Sheet Music Files: - 'Sarabande - MarimbaMaestoso (cello).pdf' - 'Sarabande - MarimbaMaestoso (bass).pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>Erik Scheele:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Erik Scheele:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) I'll never really know what happened to produce this. Not really, never. I wish I could remember if there was some thought process behind it, some sort of inspiration, but I really can't remember any. Most likely, that was for the better. @@ -1003,7 +1003,7 @@ Track Artwork: - Prospit - Derse Commentary: |- - <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://albatrossthesoup.tumblr.com/post/20545830112/my-vol-5-music-commentary), excerpt, 4/5/2012) + <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> ([Tumblr](https://albatrossthesoup.tumblr.com/post/20545830112/my-vol-5-music-commentary), excerpt, 4/5/2012) This is exactly what it sounds like. I went for a whimsical, dreamy feel with this one, expressed through the ¾ meter, waltz patterns, Lydian mode, and ringing, bell-like timbres. There’s not a lot going on in this one, though I think it’s charming in a childlike way. It was the first piece I made upon my return to the music team (I was in it since the beginning, but never made anything worthwhile and left for a few months since I was starting my first year of college). @@ -1126,7 +1126,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Chorale for War - Unknown.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Steve Everson:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/tenebrais/22073497978/ooo-commentaries-could-you-give-some-commentary), excerpt, 4/29/2012) + <i>Steve Everson:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/tenebrais/22073497978/ooo-commentaries-could-you-give-some-commentary), excerpt, 4/29/2012) This one predates my time on the music team! It started life as a midi called Battle Chorale (obviously, a pun on "battle royale"). It was pretty popular, if I recall correctly, though there wasn't a lot of fan music around in those days to compare to. Some time after joining the team, one of the other musicians created their own hard rock [[track:chorale-for-jaspers|Chorale]] remix by that same name! So I updated my old one under a new name, and [[artist:alex-rosetti|Albatross]] and [[artist:toby-fox|Rad]] created their [[Hardchorale]] remix too. Battle Chorale never made it to publication but these two survived. --- @@ -1137,7 +1137,7 @@ Duration: 2:41 URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTV70M0NCLk Commentary: |- - <i>SolusLunes:</i> (composer, [Newgrounds description](https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/300457)) + <i>SolusLunes:</i> ([Newgrounds description](https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/300457)) 2010! \\o/ @@ -1174,7 +1174,7 @@ Track Artwork: - Davesprite - LoHaC Commentary: |- - <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://albatrossthesoup.tumblr.com/post/20545830112/my-vol-5-music-commentary), excerpt, 4/5/2012) + <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> ([Tumblr](https://albatrossthesoup.tumblr.com/post/20545830112/my-vol-5-music-commentary), excerpt, 4/5/2012) I based this off a short tune I wrote as a composition exercise. It turns out the tune was really short, since this song clocked in at a little under a minute. I had intended it to be associated with Dave, hence the style and Hip-Hop sounding lead. Not much to say about this one either other than I should definitely use this theme in the future for something more worthwhile. @@ -1298,7 +1298,7 @@ Track Artwork: Referenced Tracks: - Aggrieve Commentary: |- - <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) John had [[track:skaian-dreams-remix|a "sleep and recover hp/mp" type theme]], so I wrote one for Rose as well. Naturally it uses part of the theme from [[Aggrieve]]. When it came time to put it on the album, I didn't really want to leave it as short as it was, so I added the Dreams of Derse section to lengthen it, imagining what the cold, far orbit of Derse might be like. @@ -1405,7 +1405,7 @@ Lyrics: |- How will I ever, ever survive? (Oh, it's- it's done. Oh.) Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [new Homestuck album!](https://web.archive.org/web/20100618035217/http://www.iambowman.com/), 06/13/2010) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([new Homestuck album!](https://web.archive.org/web/20100618035217/http://www.iambowman.com/), 06/13/2010) God knows this is the dumbest thing I've ever created (at least for MSPA). But maybe it's also the most awesome thing because of that? In the process of creating this, I ended up learning a lot about the recording process, but let me tell you, if I ever EVER have to perform this song again, I am officially dropping the key signature a few steps - this song stretched my range pretty dangerously and it shows. Fun fact: did you know [[artist:diane-warren|Dianne Warren]] also wrote [[track:i-dont-want-to-miss-a-thing-aerosmith|"Don't Wanna Miss a Thing"]] from Armageddon? She has like the best career ever, writing the cheesiest, most epic love songs ever for some of the most ridiculous action movies of all time. @@ -1680,7 +1680,7 @@ Track Artwork: - Frog Temple - Ruined Earth Commentary: |- - <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://albatrossthesoup.tumblr.com/post/20545830112/my-vol-5-music-commentary), excerpt, 4/5/2012) + <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> ([Tumblr](https://albatrossthesoup.tumblr.com/post/20545830112/my-vol-5-music-commentary), excerpt, 4/5/2012) I consider this an important piece to myself, but not to Homestuck music in general. Actually, it’s probably the lowest quality thing I have ever released as Homestuck music. It’s just sloppy. But there’s a bit more to it than that, and that lies in its instrumentation. This was the first piece I ever composed where I explored colorful and playful orchestration. The xylophone and pizzicato strings that I was playing around with would become my bread and butter a couple years later. I’m not currently known among the Homestuck musicians as being an orchestral composer, but I’ve reached the point where there’s nothing I like composing more than fully orchestrated pieces. At least as far as soundtrack music goes. And not just fully orchestrated either, there’s a certain sense of color I love exploring and I like making lighter sounds despite using a bigger and more imposing ensemble. I haven’t released anything that showcases that yet, but I definitely will be in the future, so I think that’s something to be excited about. @@ -1706,7 +1706,7 @@ Track Artwork: - John - Tumor Commentary: |- - <i>Steve Everson:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/tenebrais/19896197965/could-you-do-some-commentary-on-your-homestuck), excerpt, 3/25/2012) + <i>Steve Everson:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/tenebrais/19896197965/could-you-do-some-commentary-on-your-homestuck), excerpt, 3/25/2012) My other favourite from Volume 5. It started life as a theme for the Aimless Renegade, inspired by a [["Desperado"]] theme which I believe was written by [[artist:bill-bolin|Bolin]] back when he was still part of the team. I wasn't really running on any particular goal of contributing so much as liking the style and wanting to make something similar. Imagine the piece as it is now played by some sort of mariachi band and you might have the right idea of what it originally sounded like. Naturally, it didn't quite fit. I liked the melody but it just wasn't working for the whole desert hero thing. So I flipped through my library of voices (small though it was back then) and came across the more electronic one that plays the melody now. I re-tooled the accompaniment to fit, and it became a piece that I always considered a theme for Derse. Hence its title. @@ -1748,7 +1748,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Crystamanthequins - adamus (piano).mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Erik Scheele:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Erik Scheele:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) Probably the thing I'm best-known for off of Volume 5, which is slightly ironic given how rushed it was. No kidding, I finished it up the night that [[artist:andrew-hussie|Hussie]] was rounding up tracks to go through, and threw it in as a last-minute thing, "hey I just finished this can it go in??" deal. I mean, I'd had inspiration for it earlier, but never got around to making it until it was almost too late! @@ -1825,7 +1825,7 @@ Track Artwork: Referenced Tracks: - Savior of the Waking World Commentary: |- - <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://albatrossthesoup.tumblr.com/post/20545830112/my-vol-5-music-commentary), excerpt, 4/5/2012) + <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> ([Tumblr](https://albatrossthesoup.tumblr.com/post/20545830112/my-vol-5-music-commentary), excerpt, 4/5/2012) [[artist:toby-fox|Radiation]] gave me a MIDI of [[Savior of the Waking World]] to remix shortly before he figured out how to do it himself. It’s based on a prototype of that song and goes in a completely different direction, complete with a cheesy electric guitar synth. I think the opening ended up sounding really cool, but the rest of it just sounds kind of dumb in its execution, not that the material itself isn’t good. @@ -1844,7 +1844,7 @@ Duration: 2:37 URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJQJbjvZXfo Commentary: |- - <i>SolusLunes:</i> (composer, [Newgrounds description](https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/286756)) + <i>SolusLunes:</i> ([Newgrounds description](https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/286756)) oh god how did this get here i am not good with dnb @@ -2043,7 +2043,7 @@ Track Artwork: Referenced Tracks: - Skies of Skaia Commentary: |- - <i>Andrew Huo:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Andrew Huo:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) Skaian Skuffle was made with the intent of turning [[Skies of Skaia]] into a battle theme. The bass progression matches Skies of Skaia's, with more bounce to it, and the melody of Skies of Skaia was quantified/simplified into a repeating motif. It was mostly composed by feel the rest of the way. I actually had writer's block for a while after I reached about 1:02, and it never really got resolved, which is why 1:21 onwards feels kinda awkward and not so great. I kinda wish I could go back and redo it so it sounds better. But what [[artist:toby-fox|Radiation]] did with it turning it into [[Skaian Skirmish]] worked really well. There was some vague artistic direction from [[artist:andrew-hussie|the Big Man]] that helped with this a little bit. If I remember correctly, it was something along the lines of "okay, maybe you can bring it down a bit in the middle, then ramp it up for the big finish." So I tried to do that using a new bassline, using wandering skips of third and fourth rather than downwise step in an attempt to mirror Skies of Skaia's original melody, as well as scrambling the repeating sixteenth note motif based on the original melody. Like I said, though, I would say it worked out awkwardly rather than well. It does create a certain mood, which, like I said, Radiation capitalized on. Whoops, I just repeated myself, but in more detail the second time. What's that called in literary device terms? Amplification? Yeah, let's go with that. @@ -2070,7 +2070,7 @@ Track Artwork: - Jade - Caledfwlch Commentary: |- - <i>Steve Everson:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/tenebrais/22073497978/ooo-commentaries-could-you-give-some-commentary), excerpt, 4/29/2012) + <i>Steve Everson:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/tenebrais/22073497978/ooo-commentaries-could-you-give-some-commentary), excerpt, 4/29/2012) Man, this track goes way back. I'm talking years. One of my really early midi compositions. It sounded like the coolest shit when I was 14. It's practically unchanged besides being synthesised with non-midi voices. Same instruments and all. @@ -2091,7 +2091,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Darkened - IronInvoker47 (piano).mid' Commentary: |- - <i>SolusLunes:</i> (composer, [Newgrounds description](https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/235775)) + <i>SolusLunes:</i> ([Newgrounds description](https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/235775)) Those of you that have come here seeking mainstream are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off track here. --- @@ -2159,7 +2159,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Light - Dohmb.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Erik Scheele:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Erik Scheele:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) This one, man. Not really as well-known as the other three, I don't think, but I'm still happy with various aspects of it. Not really any specific inspiration, I just started out with the thought of wanting to make a contrasting piece to [[Black]]. Especially with the opening piano line, but overall, something more pure and light. Of course, by the time I got around to finishing it, [[artist:toby-fox|Radiation]] had already stolen the title [["White"]], so I called mine "Light" instead. @@ -2212,7 +2212,7 @@ Track Artwork: - SBaHJ - Jade's home Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [new Homestuck album!](https://web.archive.org/web/20100618035217/http://www.iambowman.com/), 06/13/2010) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([new Homestuck album!](https://web.archive.org/web/20100618035217/http://www.iambowman.com/), 06/13/2010) Greenhouse ended up being an exercise in what I could do with a handful of new pieces of equipment. Having acquired [[artist:tavia-morra|Tavia's]] old, barely used electric guitar and keyboard, this is the first composition I've really gotten to do a lot of recording for instead of just point and click sequencing. When I listen to this song, I imagine this is what Jade hears every time she starts her computer. Which would be a good song to write! @@ -2283,7 +2283,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Ecstasy - IronInvoker47 (piano).mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Steve Everson:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/tenebrais/19896197965/could-you-do-some-commentary-on-your-homestuck), excerpt, 3/25/2012) + <i>Steve Everson:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/tenebrais/19896197965/could-you-do-some-commentary-on-your-homestuck), excerpt, 3/25/2012) Probably remains my favourite of my pieces, while also being one of the ones with the least real thought put into it. The whole thing was written more or less on the fly. The chord pattern is one that I'd liked for several months, possibly even a year or two, without ever having come up with something good enough to write to it. Then, one evening while I was in the shower (all of my best ideas come from the shower) my mind pulled together a half-remembered bassline from an obscure-ish Sonic the Hedgehog game and a brief snippet from an old quiz show called Catchphrase, and strung them into the main harmonies of the piece. From there I just lay an improvised piano melody on top. @@ -2385,7 +2385,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Doctor Cover Art File Extension: jpg Commentary: |- - <i>Steve Everson:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/tenebrais/22073497978/ooo-commentaries-could-you-give-some-commentary), excerpt, 4/29/2012) + <i>Steve Everson:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/tenebrais/22073497978/ooo-commentaries-could-you-give-some-commentary), excerpt, 4/29/2012) I'm sure you all know the story behind the [[Doctor]] remixes. During the Intermission [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew]] wanted a remix of that [[flash:3079|to use for LOWAS]] and everyone jumped at the chance. This was my contribution. It's a pretty straight transcription to different instruments. Nowadays I find that a little disappointing. I started writing a new version not long ago; maybe one day I'll finish it and post it here. --- @@ -2528,7 +2528,7 @@ Duration: 2:02 URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ipyUF_7yWA Commentary: |- - <i>SolusLunes:</i> (composer, [Newgrounds description](https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/310155)) + <i>SolusLunes:</i> ([Newgrounds description](https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/310155)) An epic ambient piece. @@ -2604,7 +2604,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Descend - Max Wright (piano).mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> (composer) + <i>Toby Fox:</i> No one asked, I just wanted to make... THE ULTIMATE SONG... COMBINING EVERYTHING... (obviously I could do better now but it was a pretty cool thing) @@ -2649,6 +2649,6 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Homestuck - Unknown B.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) [[artist:clark-powell|Plazmataz]] came up with [[track:homestuck-anthem|a melody]] to use as an anthem for Homestuck, which she then used in Homestuck Anthem. While that was a very driving melody, I opted to come up with something that might be more suitable for credits (opening or end) or a title screen. I really like how this came out; it sounds a bit moody, but still optimistic, which is what I was aiming for. diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-7.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-7.yaml index 4852f3cd..13cf3c50 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-7.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-7.yaml @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ Sheet Music Files: Files: - 'Black Rose, Green Sun - Quaddy (piano score).pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) So it's the music forum discussion, and there's talk about albums representing each of the kids and discussions on what the styles would be. Some are obvious (like say, Dave) and some are offering a bit more discussion. It comes to Rose and there's a degree of uncertainty, and I suggest that it'd be veering into classical, offering up Saint-Saëns "Dance Macabre" as an example of the sort of thing I'd expect, and then set out to whip something up. @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'At The Price of Oblivion - Unknown.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) The name comes from a line of Rose's during Act 5 while discussing her options of survival with Doc Scratch: @@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - The Lemonsnout Turnabout - Crystalanthemums Commentary: |- - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) Not a huge amount to say on this one... The scene inspiring it was obviously Terezi's ancestor Redglare vs Vriska's ancestor Mindfang during the sort of mock-trial that ended in Mindfang mind-controlling the crowd and hanging Redglare. Felt like a nice scene to try some musical accompaniment, so I did. @@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Spider8reath - Tensei.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Tensei:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Tensei:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) Alright, as requested, I'll do some indepth commentary on already released Homestuck songs, starting off with Spider8reath. @@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ Track Artwork: Referenced Tracks: - Showtime (Original Mix) Commentary: |- - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) Name's fairly obviously a reference to SB&HJ And also the bit where John's car takes off, as the song is a reference to. @@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ Track Artwork: Source: >- [Tumblr](https://wodnesse.tumblr.com/post/5142699227) Commentary: |- - <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://eidolonorpheus.tumblr.com/post/15715289410/eidolons-other-commentary-whatsits), excerpt, 1/12/2012) + <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> ([Tumblr](https://eidolonorpheus.tumblr.com/post/15715289410/eidolons-other-commentary-whatsits), excerpt, 1/12/2012) 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. @@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Doctor - Penumbra Phantasm Commentary: |- - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) Ok, so this one. First main goal was some kind of Doctor remix, on the ground that I never actually did one (Took my hiatus around the time of Vol 5.) so this was partially a jokey attempt to "Join in the fun". Secondary goal was mainly a combination of liking the track this is mostly based on (Waking World) and the concept of Godhood ascension (Didn't have a particular character in mind at the time). There's also a little bit of wanting to try some new instrument samples (Namely choir and guitar) so there was a bit of experimentation in this one too. @@ -841,7 +841,7 @@ Track Artwork: Referenced Tracks: - Sburban Countdown Commentary: |- - <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) Not long after I made Sburban Countdown, I made a version that rewinds back to the beginning again and called it 'Sburban Reversal', just in case it might be useful someday. Andrew ended up using part of it in act 2 except for the actual reversing part, but still credited it as 'Sburban Reversal', which had people asking me constantly after that if it's a real song. It wasn't really anything except for the reversing, so I eventually decided to extend it out to a full song. Since it was never actually fully in the comic, I recommended it as a bonus track. diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index c7378927..b38fa2fa 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ Lyrics: |- (War, hammer, of, Zillyhoo) (War, hammer, of, Zillyhoo) Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20120118163148/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/), around 1/15/2012) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20120118163148/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/), around 1/15/2012) I figure now is as good of a time as any to make some posts with more extensive explanations of my tracks from Volume 8. I’ll start with “Calamity” and work my way to [[track:how-do-i-live-d8-night-version|a certain bonus track]] and then we’ll see what else people want me to post commentary on. @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Do You Remem8er Me - Quaddy (piano).mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, "original commentary", via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> ("original commentary", via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) Alas poor Vriska. This scene stood out quite a bit from the Scrapbook Near-end-of-act Scratch-a-thon as being yet more humility to Vriska as a character - first hinted at during John's talk with her around the whole 'lifdoff' time (which is also why most of the song is taken from [[lifdoff]].) @@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ Art Tags: - 'cw: blood (abstract)' - 'cw: body horror (abstract)' Commentary: |- - <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://eidolonorpheus.tumblr.com/post/15590461411/eidolons-volume-8-hootenanny), excerpt, 1/9/2012) + <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> ([Tumblr](https://eidolonorpheus.tumblr.com/post/15590461411/eidolons-volume-8-hootenanny), excerpt, 1/9/2012) First off we have Galactic Cancer. What started off as me meandering about with slightly odd chord progressions became a rather meandering piece in general. Originally labeled Nether, at least as the piece began to formulate, the first part quickly developed in what I hoped would be a style reminiscent of Russell Brower’s music for Outland in World of Warcraft, primarily the [Outland Suite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8rcQrqOjaM) and [Netherstorm](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzCLPD9iouE) (what the first name referenced). I completed most of the piece without drums or effects at first, but felt something was missing. After messing around with some different bits of drum samples, I found beats that were suitable for what I was going for, and those helped give more definition to the meter of the piece as much of it was long chords that made it hard to distinguish at times, then added some occasional filter effects to increase the overall spacey feel. After everything was in place, I listened through it multiple times and just began to imagine [Karkat’s monologue](https://www.homestuck.com/story/4003) about how everything was his fault and the phrase “Galactic Cancer” stuck. --- @@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Ocean Stars Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20120118163148/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/), around 1/16/2012) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20120118163148/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/), around 1/16/2012) For those of you who don't know, [[artist:mark-j-hadley|Mark Hadley]], the man behind such great Homestuck tracks as [[Harlequin|"Harlequin"]], [[Skies of Skaia|"Skies of Skaia"]], and the single [[album:song-of-skaia|"Song of Skaia"]] is also the oldest member of the music team - in the last year he also became a father. Consider this track my baby shower gift to him. @@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ Art Tags: - Rabbit - Dersite ship Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20120118163148/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/), around 1/17/2012) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20120118163148/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/), around 1/17/2012) Before going into a description of this track, I must make a long-overdue rebuttal to the factors that overshadowed its reception. Yes, I know this song and its track art pertain to the Wayward Vagabond. Yes, I know it's sad that Andrew [[flash:4109|"killed off"]] the Wayward Vagabond on the same day that this album was released. No, I had no idea that would happen nor do I care how incongruous the song's mood seems in relation to that particular plot point. @@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Homestuck Anthem Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman, drpepperfan|[[artist:michael-guy-bowman]]:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20120118163148/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/), around 1/17/2012) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman, drpepperfan|[[artist:michael-guy-bowman]]:</i> ([Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20120118163148/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/), around 1/17/2012) Uh oh, [[artist:erik-scheele|Jit]] and I showed up to the album with the same song idea. That's like two girls showing up the party in the same dress. Awkward! Good thing for Jit and I that, like the two girls in that famous scenario, we each have our own swagga and wear those dresses like the hot young messes we are. Wow, don't quote me on that. @@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:terra-solatrus - track:frost-vol6 Commentary: |- - <i>Solatrus:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Solatrus:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) That's a remix of Terra and (obviously) Frost. @@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ Commentary: |- I was counting [[flash:5238|"[S] Dirk: Synchronize."]] and [[flash:5252|"[S] Dirk: Unite."]] as one animation, that just happened to be chopped into two parts. Next one is [[flash:5261|EOA6.3]], at the end of Pause 2. Song: Unite Synchronization (Sometimes I name animations after songs. [[flash:1940|Descend]], [[flash:4109|Cascade]]...) By [[artist:malcolm-brown|Malcolm Brown]]. We have entered the Brown Zone. You have been warned. - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, "original", via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> ("original", via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) This was an idea borne of two things. Firstly the Dave & Jade vs Noir battle in the banner (Original title was 'Redshift'), and secondly a post-scratch Dave trying to regroup with all the kids (hence - 'Unite' - keeping to the kind of single-world direction thing HS has going for it i.e. Descend, Ascend, Cascade, etc). @@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Sburban Jungle - Upward Movement (Dave Owns) Commentary: |- - <i>Hilary Troiano:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://jaydeis.tumblr.com/post/19609363685/someone-sent-me-a-pm-asking-for-some-commentary), 3/19/2012) + <i>Hilary Troiano:</i> ([Tumblr](https://jaydeis.tumblr.com/post/19609363685/someone-sent-me-a-pm-asking-for-some-commentary), 3/19/2012) Someone sent me a PM asking for some commentary about my two MSPA songs, so here it is. @@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ Cover Art File Extension: jpg Art Tags: - Terezi Commentary: |- - <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) I made the theme for this a long time ago for an RPG a friend was making, but then cancelled. I still really liked the theme, so I modified it slightly and repurposed it for Homestuck. Out of everything I've done for Homestuck, it's still one of my favorites. --- @@ -982,7 +982,7 @@ Track Artwork: *link=https://homestuck.net/archives.html |The Homestuck Archives]] Commentary: |- - <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://eidolonorpheus.tumblr.com/post/15590461411/eidolons-volume-8-hootenanny), excerpt, 1/9/2012) + <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> ([Tumblr](https://eidolonorpheus.tumblr.com/post/15590461411/eidolons-volume-8-hootenanny), excerpt, 1/9/2012) Bargaining With the Beast was a doozy. With little conscious attempts at maintaining structure (other than the section after the intro, which appears a few times to hold things together), it can come off as a wild ride through a bunch of interesting ideas just sort of strung together like a glass mobile made with craft glue and shiny twine. And that is a pretty accurate description. The piece was sort of an experiment for me, filled with a lot of concepts that might even have needed a separate piece to flesh them out properly, but I made this piece with the Volume 8 submissions deadline looming over head (I think it was a little under a week until final decisions on tracks were supposed to be). This is also an example of a piece where I set out with a clear mindset for what I wanted. Seeing there was no piece based on Echidna and Jade’s encounters ([[artist:toby-fox|Radiation]] didn’t show us [[track:frostbite|his tracks]] until around when the order was being decided hehe), I wanted something majestic and regal, something befitting of a monstrous queen in ancient stone halls of a frozen world. Eventually it developed into a sort of audio tour of Echidna’s palace and highlighted the conversation, never fully revealed, that took place between Jade and Echidna as they struck a deal. --- @@ -1038,7 +1038,7 @@ Art Tags: - WQ - Ruined Earth Commentary: |- - <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://eidolonorpheus.tumblr.com/post/15590461411/eidolons-volume-8-hootenanny), excerpt, 1/9/2012) + <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> ([Tumblr](https://eidolonorpheus.tumblr.com/post/15590461411/eidolons-volume-8-hootenanny), excerpt, 1/9/2012) Questant’s Lament is one of my favorite tracks that I’ve made. Originally for [[album:the-wanderers|The Wanderers]], because there weren’t any WQ tracks and I liked her portrayal in the comic, I wanted something regal, almost stoic, but also forlorn. With the beginning, I imagined her away from the others in their camp, sitting alone on some stone at night and listening to an old music box, one of few possessions that she could have salvaged from Prospit. From there she reminisces, from her perspective, on the progression of the session and her foresight of and departure from the impending devastation of Prospit. In the end, she closes the trinket, accepts her new fate, and returns to her fellow exiles. --- @@ -1058,7 +1058,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Explore Commentary: |- - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) Hah! If 'Sneaking music' was a genre, here's another one to the mix. @@ -1087,7 +1087,7 @@ Art Tags: - Doc Scratch - Scratch's apartment Commentary: |- - <i>Svix:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Svix:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) Havoc began as an intro section for [[track:my-hibernation-original|another song]] I made a while back but I quite liked the melody and decided to make a separate track out of it. I submitted it to Homestuck as I felt the chiptune nature of the piece fit in with the comic's style and I'd been wanting to write a 'Strife' type tune for some time. @@ -1115,7 +1115,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Atomyk Ebonpyre Commentary: |- - <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://eidolonorpheus.tumblr.com/post/15590461411/eidolons-volume-8-hootenanny), excerpt, 1/9/2012) + <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> ([Tumblr](https://eidolonorpheus.tumblr.com/post/15590461411/eidolons-volume-8-hootenanny), excerpt, 1/9/2012) Drift Into the Sun started off as me trying to emulate [the opening choir track](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pv2LgRzvKg) of a black metal EP. Soon some big drums and some spacey guitars found their way into the mix (in my attempts to make something on the line of ambient black or doom metal). Finally, I added Dave’s “blast off” to help Rose with a metal-ified version of [[Atomyk Ebonpyre]] (which people keep requesting a full version of… maybe). This was another track that I had a clear design for, following as best as I could the events surrounding [Rose and Dave’s chat on Derse](https://www.homestuck.com/story/3875) before creating the Green Sun, focusing more on the atmosphere surrounding the debacle than what they talked about. After putting the original version up for the team to see, [[artist:clark-powell|Plazmataz]] offered to spruce things up. And she did. And it was awesome. And then [[artist:toby-fox|Radiation]] said he could make some crazy drums for the last section. And he did. And it was awesome too. And that was how Virginia was founded! @@ -1146,7 +1146,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Infinity Mechanism - Purple1222119.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://eidolonorpheus.tumblr.com/post/15590461411/eidolons-volume-8-hootenanny), excerpt, 1/9/2012) + <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> ([Tumblr](https://eidolonorpheus.tumblr.com/post/15590461411/eidolons-volume-8-hootenanny), excerpt, 1/9/2012) Then we’ve got Infinity Mechanism. I am not sure what to say about it. I played live guitar and cello on it. It was one of the first full guitar based things I wrote for MSPA and the first that I used my computer to record rather than a Tascam mixing board + studio that I had used on my very old works. Its mechanical sound and return to the beginning at its end reminded me of Beat Mesa, and it kind of became my own sort of theme music for The Scratch. Also it is now the first track written by me to be used in an animation and [[flash:4390|it is amazing]]. --- @@ -1399,7 +1399,7 @@ Lyrics: |- If you ever go How will I ever, ever survive? Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) So, like it or not, [[track:how-do-i-live-bunny-back-in-the-box-version|my signature song]] seems to be the country ballad made famous by a movie about how Nicolas Cage and John Cusack screw up absolutely everything and destroy the Las Vegas strip. Hence, for Volume 8, I decided to do a more serious version of "How Do I Live" that doesn't mortify me entirely. @@ -1459,7 +1459,7 @@ Sheet Music Files: Files: - 'Black Hole, Green Sun - lugiaa (guitar solo).pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) Not much to say on this really except the title is kind of an ode to Soundgarden. --- @@ -1477,7 +1477,7 @@ Art Tags: - Frogs - LoFaF Commentary: |- - <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) Back when we knew Jade as just GG, I wrote the first part of Carefree Action as a possible upbeat strife theme for her. It never ended up getting used, but other people liked it, and eventually a remix of it ([[Carefree Victory]]) made it into the comic. The original was pretty short, so I lengthened it so that I could eventually get it onto an album. Like [[Sburban Reversal]], I recommended it as a bonus track. diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml index 50ef8cb7..1283b559 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Sheet Music Files: Files: - 'Crystalmethequins - Do The Musicy Thing (piano score).pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>Clark Powell:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://plazmataz.tumblr.com/post/25042898937/the-ancients-have-called-it-crystalmethequins), 6/13/2012) + <i>Clark Powell:</i> ([Tumblr](https://plazmataz.tumblr.com/post/25042898937/the-ancients-have-called-it-crystalmethequins), 6/13/2012) The ancients have called it... <b>Crystalmethequins</b>. @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Anbroids V2.0 - Unknown.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://dragonxvi.tumblr.com/post/25169840906/anbroids-20-a-commentary-with-bonus), 06/15/2012) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> ([Tumblr](https://dragonxvi.tumblr.com/post/25169840906/anbroids-20-a-commentary-with-bonus), 06/15/2012) <code style="color: #e00707">DAVE: we are in the shit now<br>DAVE: we are motherfuckin entrenched in this bitch</code> @@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - "Pumpkin Party in Sea Hitler's Water Apocalypse - Caustic.mid" Commentary: |- - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://dragonxvi.tumblr.com/post/25099654505/pumpkin-party-in-sea-hitlers-water-apocalypse-a), 06/14/2012) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> ([Tumblr](https://dragonxvi.tumblr.com/post/25099654505/pumpkin-party-in-sea-hitlers-water-apocalypse-a), 06/14/2012) 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. @@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Another Jungle - Purple1222119 (flash version).mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20181217221129/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/post/25249439835/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-another), excerpt, 6/16/2012) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20181217221129/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/post/25249439835/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-another), excerpt, 6/16/2012) Before this track was [[flash:4665|used]] in Homestuck along with Beatfox's [["A Taste for Adventure"]], it was actually made for a nearly 3-year-old defunct fan project. Housetrapped was a story about an alternate Sburb session and "Another Jungle" was a the-same-but-different theme for the loading screen of that universe's Sburb client. Sound familiar? @@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ Lyrics: |- (Awesome! That was totally rad to the max! I could just keep doing this all day... NOT! I've got games to play, and if you think I'm gonna slow down just to talk to a bunch of amateurs, then you need to seriously blow the dust out of your cartridges. But hey, girls, whenever you need to show those creepy boys who's boss, just remember that GameGrl's got your back. Look for me on specially-marked boxes of Betty Crocker brand snacks and have an adult call the toll-free number to subscribe to the exclusive girls-only GameGrl Magazine. Alright, check you later girlfriends!) Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20181217213819/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/post/25256423852/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-gamegrl), 6/16/2012) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20181217213819/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/post/25256423852/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-gamegrl), 6/16/2012) Originally we'd planned on doing a Homestuck album that was devoted entirely to the Sburb Alpha kids and their session, all of us doing tracks that would parallel earlier tracks in a same-but-different fashion. While this album became Homestuck Vol. 9, a lot of analogous tracks remained from the original concept, including this track as an alternative to [["GameBro (Original 1990 Mix)"]] from Homestuck Vol. 6: Heir Transparent. @@ -727,7 +727,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Austin, Atlantis - silverseer (piano).mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Clark Powell:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://plazmataz.tumblr.com/post/25106444118/austin-atlantis-nothing-inspires-me-more-than), 6/14/2012) + <i>Clark Powell:</i> ([Tumblr](https://plazmataz.tumblr.com/post/25106444118/austin-atlantis-nothing-inspires-me-more-than), 6/14/2012) <b>Austin, Atlantis</b> @@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Despot - adamus (piano).mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Erik Scheele:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://erikscheele.tumblr.com/post/24963696053/volume-9), excerpt, 6/12/2012) + <i>Erik Scheele:</i> ([Tumblr](https://erikscheele.tumblr.com/post/24963696053/volume-9), excerpt, 6/12/2012) Started as a sequel to [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|Upward Movement]], before [[artist:andrew-hussie|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. @@ -852,7 +852,7 @@ Art Tags: - Maplehoof - GameBro Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20181217215239/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/post/25318296794/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about), excerpt, 6/17/2012) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20181217215239/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/post/25318296794/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about), excerpt, 6/17/2012) I get the feeling that down the line there will be an explanation for why exactly there's a tiny Maplehoof on Dirk Strider's desk and it will be one of the biggest plot revelations in all of Homestuck. For me it was a cue that there needed to be a Sburb Alpha universe parallel for the song [[track:maplehoofs-adventure]], which in itself was a spiritual sequel to [[Pony Chorale]]. It's sort of a reality check to realize that I have written not one, not two, but three songs for cartoon ponies now - I guess that's part of this disease we call the Internet. @@ -894,7 +894,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Lifdoff - Unite Synchronization Commentary: |- - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://dragonxvi.tumblr.com/post/25013635613/encore-a-commentary), 06/13/2012) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> ([Tumblr](https://dragonxvi.tumblr.com/post/25013635613/encore-a-commentary), 06/13/2012) Let's talk about Encore! Or "Showtime 2: Encore". @@ -951,7 +951,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - English - Explore Commentary: |- - <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) As I've mentioned before, I really like finding ways to combine themes. In this case, I combined 'Explore' and 'English' in a style inspired by the sailing theme from 'Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker'. (It's easy to miss the theme from 'English', since it's a lot more upbeat and in a major key.) I don't use brass a lot when I write, but I think it came out well here. @@ -982,7 +982,7 @@ Track Artwork: Attach Above: true Source: album download Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20181217214959/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/post/25321675570/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-elephant), excerpt, 6/17/2012) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20181217214959/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/post/25321675570/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-elephant), excerpt, 6/17/2012) This is pure Jake strife music - I started this project with the definite goal in mind to make something that sounded purely like video game music for a battle. Jake English is sort of the archetypal Roosevelt-type swashbuckler with all the bravado of a turn-of-the-century primitivist. For him, the palette of sounds is instantaneous: heavy percussion rumbling at a breakneck pace. I threw in chimes, timpani, xylophone, glockenspiel, cymbal crashes, and an uncompromising drum machine to get the atmosphere I wanted. @@ -1150,7 +1150,7 @@ Lyrics: |- FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD<br>FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD<br>(Bustin' makes me feel good!)<br>FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD<br>FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD<br>(Bustin' makes me feel good!) Bu-bu-bu-bustin' makes me feel good!<br>Bu-bu-bu-bustin'!<br>Bu-bu-bu-bu-bustin'!<br>Bu-bu-bu-bustin' makes me feel good! Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20181217221127/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/post/25336980539/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-busting), excerpt, 6/17/2012) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20181217221127/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/post/25336980539/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-busting), excerpt, 6/17/2012) This track was an attempt to try something in the same vain as the soundtrack to Jet Set Radio Future which was recommended to me by friends [[artist:erik-scheele|Erik Scheele]] and [[artist:richard-gung|Richard Gung]]. Composer Hideki Naganuma has created some of the most intricate and engaging pieces of dance music I've ever heard - his signature approach is his construction of entire songs around only a handful of samples (check out ["Funky Dealer"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpAF8bGm-MM) for a good example). @@ -1210,7 +1210,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Tavrisprite Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20181217214957/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/post/25387008672/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about), excerpt, 6/18/2012) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20181217214957/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/post/25387008672/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about), excerpt, 6/18/2012) Before there was 20+ hours of music in the Homestuck catalog, the music team's task was to create new themes at a moment's notice for new elements of the story. When Tavrisprite appeared in the comic, I challenged myself to make a suitable theme at the same pace I might once have cobbled something together back in 2009. I posted the resulting demo track on my Soundcloud the same day as the character made its debut. @@ -1289,7 +1289,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Bring your wife and trouble, it can never trouble you Make her a member of the Midnight Crew! Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20181217215206/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/post/25388396201/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-im-a), excerpt, 6/18/2012) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20181217215206/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/post/25388396201/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-im-a), excerpt, 6/18/2012) One of the things I'd always felt was curious about our re-appropriation of the [[track:im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew|hundred-year-old vaudeville track]] by Eddie Morton was the complete contrast between its cheerful mood and the sinister nature of the characters it represents. The Midnight Crew, while fashion-savvy, are cold-blooded murderers, and I'd been curious as to what a darker version of their signature song might sound like. @@ -1333,7 +1333,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Three in the Morning (Aftermath) - Unknown.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Erik Scheele:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://erikscheele.tumblr.com/post/24963696053/volume-9), excerpt, 6/12/2012) + <i>Erik Scheele:</i> ([Tumblr](https://erikscheele.tumblr.com/post/24963696053/volume-9), excerpt, 6/12/2012) I don't remember how long ago it was that [[artist:clark-powell|Plaz]] asked me to do an improvisation around her [[Three In The Morning]], but I did it, and here it is! --- @@ -1452,7 +1452,7 @@ Art Tags: - Roxy - Fenestrology Commentary: |- - <i>Solatrus:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Solatrus:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) Honestly, on all three, it was a lot of going with my gut because I hadn't quite gained the understanding of writing percussion that I now have. Though, having a good instinct for interesting rhythms definitely is why I seem to be so notorious for percussion/drum beats. @@ -1604,7 +1604,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Requited - IronInvoker47.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Clark Powell:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://plazmataz.tumblr.com/post/25169140282/requited-back-on-volume-8-i-wrote-a-song-called), 6/15/2012) + <i>Clark Powell:</i> ([Tumblr](https://plazmataz.tumblr.com/post/25169140282/requited-back-on-volume-8-i-wrote-a-song-called), 6/15/2012) <b>Requited</b> @@ -1739,7 +1739,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Candles and Clockwork (Alpha Version) - Twix Stix.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>James Dever:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>James Dever:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) <b>History</b> @@ -1814,7 +1814,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Courser Commentary: |- - <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) I wrote it to be the "alpha" version of Courser, another piece by myself and Beatfox. Where Courser is a theme for Bec, Coursing can be thought of as a theme for GCat, though in my mind it encompasses the idea of any First Guardian. It is not a "remix" or even an arrangement of Courser, but it is based off Courser's material and of course heavily references it and quotes it. I hope you enjoy! The track art is by the amazing Zilleniose. Thanks Zoey! --- @@ -1917,7 +1917,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Noirscape - asmolfirefly.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>David Ellis:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://ducksual.tumblr.com/post/25874791771/noirscape-homestuck-vol-9-track-commentary), 6/25/2012) + <i>David Ellis:</i> ([Tumblr](https://ducksual.tumblr.com/post/25874791771/noirscape-homestuck-vol-9-track-commentary), 6/25/2012) This tune got some pretty cool art from [[artist:kendle-iulus]]. I don't really know anything other than 'wow, that's really cool'. @@ -2059,7 +2059,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Another Jungle Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20181217213920/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/post/25389363191/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-another), excerpt, 6/18/2012) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20181217213920/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/post/25389363191/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-another), excerpt, 6/18/2012) I've mentioned a few times that Homestuck Vol. 9, in its early planning stages, was conceived as an album that would be dedicated to the new session of Homestuck, and most of the tracks would mimic older songs re-imagined in the new universe presented in Act 6. "Another Countdown" was thus the sister song of [["Sburban Countdown"]] - both are brief arrangements of their parent songs ([["Another Jungle"]] and [["Sburban Jungle"]] respectively) meant to crescendo towards a major climax. diff --git a/album/lofam.yaml b/album/lofam.yaml index 68b481f9..896c05f5 100644 --- a/album/lofam.yaml +++ b/album/lofam.yaml @@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ Commentary: |- Tuning: C G Bb F C D - <i>KDMAnderson:</i> (composer, [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Wjb6PrRqg), excerpt) + <i>KDMAnderson:</i> ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Wjb6PrRqg), excerpt) I wrote this in the early half of 2010, when I was particularly into a webcomic called Homestuck. I discovered this tuning and the piece just sort of leapt out of the instrument.<br> It turns out that this is actually one of the harder tunes in my repertoire to play because it's waaay too easy to cack on some of those harmonics and shatter the delicacy of the thing. diff --git a/album/lofam2.yaml b/album/lofam2.yaml index 00ca8334..56121323 100644 --- a/album/lofam2.yaml +++ b/album/lofam2.yaml @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - The Paradox Paradigm - --Empirical Commentary: |- - <i>Jamie Paige:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Jamie Paige:</i> (booklet commentary) Hi there!! Welcome to the second LOFAM. Kind of sounds like some really gangster hiphop group or something. Anyways this is a song I made JUST FOR THE ALBUM!!! Wowee. There's a lot going on here. There's the intro which is like Lord English taking a proverbial shit on everything by existing or something like that, then it sort of BLEHs and goes into the main part of the song. Right off the bat you've got [[Sburban Jungle]]'s marimba part played backwards on a piano, and then there's some stuff from [[track:the-paradox-paradigm|a fan song]] that I don't remember the title of. THEN there's stuff from [[track:empirical|Condy's song]] off [[album:tomb-of-the-ancestors|the unofficial ancestor album]], and some stuff from some other things. There's basically a lot of things!! It's a very thing filled song. @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Aggrieve Commentary: |- - <i>Charles Neudorf:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Charles Neudorf:</i> (booklet commentary) Jackpot was originally "written" by me for [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|the Homestuck music contest]]. I say written in quotation marks because at the time all I had was a cool bassline and a title, I was in a complete musical slump on what to do with the piece, and so I turned to my friend Shadolith for help. Shadolith not only helped to come up with better ideas for the song, but actually finished most if it on her own. I'm really glad she did though, otherwise the song would have never been finished, and it wouldn't be playing in your ears right now! @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Doctor - Penumbra Phantasm Commentary: |- - <i>Joe Ouellet:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Joe Ouellet:</i> (booklet commentary) Before making this song, I had wanted to do a remix of [[Doctor]] for a while. There are so many remixes and different versions of this song that I knew there were infinite possibilities when it came to remixing the song. When it finally came time to start, I wanted to go for the *spacey,* electronic, •hardcore* sounding style that I attempted a little bit with [[Electrocumulus]]. This song actually turned out much better than I expected. When confronted for a name for this piece, I wanted to name it something like [["Planet Healer."]] I decided to just swap out a few synonyms and voila, Satellite Physician was done! @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Skies of Skaia Commentary: |- - <i>David Ellis:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>David Ellis:</i> (booklet commentary) I don't really have much to say about this. I'd been messing about on guitar and found that most of the first theme from [[Skies of Skaia]] was playable with harmonics in standard tuning, and only the top note wasn't possible. By returning to EADF#BE and putting a capo on at the 5th fret it was possible then to play the whole thing. @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ Commentary: |- I liked the alliteration in the title and it was pretty much how I thought of the piece. There's not really a reason for the hint to Sherlock Holmes. - <i>David Ellis:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://ducksual.tumblr.com/post/19764454588/a-study-in-skaia-this-is-essentially-an)) + <i>David Ellis:</i> ([Tumblr](https://ducksual.tumblr.com/post/19764454588/a-study-in-skaia-this-is-essentially-an)) This is essentially an arrangement of Mark Hadley’s [[‘Skies of Skaia’]] from the first Homestuck album with lots of acoustic guitars. @@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ Art Tags: - Jack Noir - Green Sun Commentary: |- - <i>Thomas Ibarra:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Thomas Ibarra:</i> (booklet commentary) My second entry to [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|the music contest]], Rectify, was a follow-up to [[track:irradiated-shenanigans-mspa|Irradiated]] in that it presented the same goal of making something different with the [[Black]]/[[Liquid Negrocity]] leitmotif. In this composition, based on Cascade, the menacing tone of Black would be turned into a battle theme for the good, as if Jack had performed a heelturn in light of impressive character development. It was a fun, fulfilling project that taught me many new things. --- @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ Art Tags: - Rabbit - Unbreakable Katana Commentary: |- - <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet commentary) The rabbit has been an evolving background character throughout the entirety of Homestuck, and I felt the most recent iteration (mischievous-robo-Strider-bunny!!!) warranted its own theme song. @@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Courser - track:carefree-action Commentary: |- - <i>Catboss:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Catboss:</i> (booklet commentary) ~ in loving memory of becquerel ~ @@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ Commentary: |- I was inspired by the pesterlog on [page 6758](https://homestuck.com/story/4858). Even though I had heard konec0's 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>Catboss:</i> (composer, [SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/catbossstudio/good-dog-best-friend-final), excerpt) + <i>Catboss:</i> ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/catbossstudio/good-dog-best-friend-final), excerpt) ["He is such a good boy, and truly the best friend a girl could ever hope for.](https://www.homestuck.com/story/3209)<br> [You're sure gonna miss him!"](https://www.homestuck.com/story/3210) @@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Gilded Sands - Nightmare Commentary: |- - <i>Eston Schweickart:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Eston Schweickart:</i> (booklet commentary) I wrote Unforgiving Terrain shortly after [[album:the-wanderers]] album came out. It was just an excuse to have fun with sound design and listen to [[Carapacian Dominion]] over and over. It's called Unforgiving Terrain because titles are hard. The project file is called <i>Frozen Ruins</i> but I guess I didn't use that name because I ended up not including [[track:frost-vol6]] like I had planned. @@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Criminal, Criminal! It's your time to go. I'll secure the rope and you're out with a throw. Commentary: |- - <i>Rachel Rose Mitchell:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rachel Rose Mitchell:</i> (booklet commentary) <code style="color: #008b8b">L3T TH1S B3 4 L3SSON TO 4LL OF TH3 PROSP3CT1V3 CR1M1N4LS OUT TH3R3</code> @@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Friendship is Paramount - Squiddle Samba Commentary: |- - <i>Eston Schweickart:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Eston Schweickart:</i> (booklet commentary) Squiddles in Sunglasses was originally part of a 6-part Homestuck medley that was going to be around 12 minutes long when finished. Halfway through I realized that I didn't like anything I was writing, so I did what any good artist does when faced with self-doubt and gave up. A few months later I listened to the old project files again and liked this part enough to make it its own piece. I think inspiration for this style came from Average White Band's [*Pick Up the Pieces*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnH_zwVmiuE) but I can't remember for sure. --- @@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Jackpot Commentary: |- - <i>Riki Tsuji:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://dog-noise.tumblr.com/post/18814442802)) + <i>Riki Tsuji:</i> ([Tumblr](https://dog-noise.tumblr.com/post/18814442802)) New remix! This is “JackBot”, a remix of [[“Jackpot”]] by [[artist:marcy-nabors|Shadolith]] (or Steamlord313, whatever) and [[artist:charles-neudorf|Crazy-8]], which they collaborated on for the [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|Homestuck music contest]]. Unfortunately the original submission didn’t get chosen, but it’s hella kickass so go check it out! Makes me wonder how damn good the other submissions must have been. @@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Crystalanthemums Commentary: |- - <i>Erik Scheele:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Erik Scheele:</i> (booklet commentary) one day I found a guitar thing and messed around with [[crystalanthemums]] @@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ Lyrics: |- <small>(hyah!)</small> Commentary: |- - <i>Ian White:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Ian White:</i> (booklet commentary) I wrote these lyrics around the time that Maplehoof died in-story. I didn't put it to music though until after she had been revive as Minihoof. Kinda saps the poignancy right out of it. The lovely [[artist:lauren-collis]] sings vocals and the ever-punctual [[artist:kdmanderson|Mike Anderson]] provides the real life guitars. Sound effects provided by Mother Nature! --- @@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Savior of the Waking World Commentary: |- - <i>David Ellis:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>David Ellis:</i> (booklet commentary) This piece was written for Kanaya and was essentially supposed to be a kind of score for the unseen scene where she wakes up as a rainbow drinker. The non-scene this is a score for follows the structure of [[flash:3087|'[S] John: Rise Up']] somewhat, with the middle horn stab section hinting towards one of the themes from [[Savior of the Waking World]]/[[Doctor]] but being off somehow (shifting time signatures too) to try to show the different nature of her return. The scene for the piece ends when she goes all vampirey on Feferi. @@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Walk-Stab-Walk (R&E) - Let's All Rock the Heist Commentary: |- - <i>Catboss:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Catboss:</i> (booklet commentary) Well, here you are. @@ -826,7 +826,7 @@ Lyrics: |- I wanted so much more So much more for you Commentary: |- - <i>horizon:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>horizon:</i> (booklet commentary) [[Flare]] has always struck a place in my heart, for many reasons. [[artist:clark-powell|Plazmataz]] has always, always impressed me, but Flare just evoked something simply raw in the depths of my mind; I knew then that I had to use that feeling as a kind of empathy towards the Beta kids. Though it was used in a specific moment in canon, I chose to write lyrics from the point of view I could most appreciate -- the pain associated with love when life hands you something you don't know how to survive. @@ -901,7 +901,7 @@ Lyrics: |- no no Commentary: |- - <i>Jamie Paige:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Jamie Paige:</i> (booklet commentary) <img src="media/misc/commentary-here.png" width="300"> @@ -924,7 +924,7 @@ Art Tags: - Jack Noir - Fluorite Octet Commentary: |- - <i>Nick Smalley:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Nick Smalley:</i> (booklet commentary) Dirgeish was made in 2008, a year before Homestuck even started! Crazy, right? Who ever thought life existed before Homestuck, ha ha ha... I made the original in about an hour, and when I got on the Homestuck music team, I had the help of [[artist:andrew-huo|Adghar (Andrew Who!!!!)]] to complete it! --- @@ -946,7 +946,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Pyrocumulus (Kickstart) - Skaian Skuffle Commentary: |- - <i>Joe Ouellet:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Joe Ouellet:</i> (booklet commentary) Electrocumulus is a remix of [[track:pyrocumulus-kickstart|Pyrocumulus]] by [[artist:rj-lake|RJ Lake]] and was my first ever attempt at remixing an official Homestuck track. Looking back, I have no idea why I chose to remix this song in particular; it must have just been stuck in my head that day. As one could gather from the title, this remix is supposed to be an upbeat, elecronic remix. As I was composing, it seemed to turn into a dance track of sorts. The genre still fit my idea, so I kept going. I think it was a rather successful first Homestuck remix. @@ -982,7 +982,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - track:three-in-the-morning-rj Commentary: |- - <i>Kalibration:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Kalibration:</i> (booklet commentary) Its a song, I made it, the computer<br> Great it's RJ music track enjoyed, that could bring<br> @@ -1015,7 +1015,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Sburban Jungle - I Don't Want to Miss a Thing Commentary: |- - <i>Plumegeist:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Plumegeist:</i> (booklet commentary) I composed Showtime End Strife remix roughly five months after the time I got into Homestuck. Around this time I was still really just a budding musician, and I wanted to make something heavy out of the [[track:showtime-original-mix|Showtime]] theme by [[artist:malcolm-brown]]. The idea was imagining what kind of soundtrack would be backing the kids as they face Lord English in a climactic battle. I was proud of it at the time but in retrospect it never really aged that well. Despite this it remained one of my most popular works. @@ -1041,7 +1041,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - psych0ruins Commentary: |- - <i>Charles Neudorf:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Charles Neudorf:</i> (booklet commentary) Soulb0t was conceived after I tried writing the familiar [[Psych0ruins]] arpeggio to test out a new synth I downloaded. It sounded really cool to me, so I figured "why not just write an electronic remix of Psych0ruins all together." So I did just that. It took a while to get the melody just right, and if it wasn't for the various friends who helped me to decide what sounded good or bad, the song wouldn't have sounded nearly as good. --- @@ -1078,7 +1078,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Walk-Stab-Walk (R&E) - Liquid Negrocity Commentary: |- - <i>Kevin Grant:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Kevin Grant:</i> (booklet commentary) My goal was to mash up as many Gomestuck songs as I could. I ended up mixing 12 together. I really think the part at the end with [[Black]], [[track:showtime-original-mix|Showtime]] and [[track:beatdown-strider-style|Beatdown]] works well, and I discovered that Showtime is the Homestuck equivalent of [[Guile's Theme]]: It goes with everything. @@ -1114,7 +1114,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Sburban Jungle - track:carefree-action Commentary: |- - <i>Thomas Ibarra:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Thomas Ibarra:</i> (booklet commentary) 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]]/[[track:liquid-negrocity|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|Jade: Enter]], 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 [[flash:fan-animation-homestuck|my first tribute animation]] [on youtube](https://youtu.be/hnG10rk9lqg) for Homestuck. @@ -1140,7 +1140,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - English - Sburban Jungle Commentary: |- - <i>Brenden Cameron:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Brenden Cameron:</i> (booklet commentary) Ever since [[album:the-felt|'The Felt']] came out, I've been in love with that piano ditty at the start of [[Variations]] and in the reversed [[Rhapsody in Green]]. @@ -1183,7 +1183,7 @@ Sampled Tracks: - Upward Movement (Dave Owns) - Savior of the Dreaming Dead (Cascade Cut) Commentary: |- - <i>Domble:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Domble:</i> (booklet 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]], [[track:ruins|Ruins]]) or differently ([[Dawn of Man]], [[the rose rap]]). @@ -1250,7 +1250,7 @@ Cover Art File Extension: jpg Art Tags: - Genesis Frog Commentary: |- - <i>Lark Mordancy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Lark Mordancy:</i> (booklet commentary) Though [[Sburban Jungle]] was the first song to hook me on [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|Michael Guy Bowman's]] music, my heart lies with [[album:mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido]]. [[Dawn of Man]] is a favorite of mine from that album, and it also happens to be a partial remix of Sburban Jungle. In the Homestuck tradition, the natural thing to do then was mix them together, along with a cameo from [[Exodus]], featured in [[album:sburb-ost|SBURB]]. The instruments are based primarily on Dawn of Man, bringing in some of Sburban Jungle's mallet percussion and a few of my own additions. The result is Sburban Genesis, a song ultimately inspired by the mysterious origins of the game and its multi-universal legacy. @@ -1275,7 +1275,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Liquid Negrocity - The Beginning of Something Really Excellent Commentary: |- - <i>Nitrosparxx:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Nitrosparxx:</i> (booklet commentary) Quite possibly the saddest piece of music I've ever written. This was what I was originally going to use for the fan album, but I decided to drop it half way through making it on the grounds that it didn't sound like a Homestuck song. Jack Noir (and by extension, Bec Noir) always struck me as a tragic character. The way I see it, he's always violent because of the abuse he receives from the black queen. He's physically shut down all other emotions save for hatred because as far as he's concerned, there is no such thing. However things change for him when Bec becomes prototyped. He suddenly has a heart and has new feelings. Bec's influence taught him what it's like to feel for someone else, although Jack desperately tried so hard to ignore these feelings. When Jade died, Jack finally knew what it felt to lose someone so close to your heart. A tragic character indeed... @@ -1361,7 +1361,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Homestuck Anthem - Sburban Jungle Commentary: |- - <i>Jamie Paige:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Jamie Paige:</i> (booklet commentary) Hello again!! Disk one is coming to a close. I hope you've enjoyed the fan land and of music so far!! This is a lullaby based mostly off of [[Homestuck Anthem]] by [[artist:clark-powell|Clark "Plazmataz" Powell]] and [[Sburban Jungle]] by [[artist:michael-guy-bowman]]. It's really slow and sweet and has my favorite chord thingy ever which is the F to F Minor thing going on there. It's all in all a song that you hopefully fall asleep listening to because that's what it's supposed to do!! And you might need a nap after listening to disk one. In fact, for the full Land Of Fans And Musics Experience The Second™, take a nap in between the two disks. Yes. Anyways, I hope you enjoy our musical stylings and that you don't buy this album because that's illegal. @@ -1514,7 +1514,7 @@ Lyrics: |- He never ever betray you, man, that's a fact Alright Commentary: |- - <i>Ian White:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Ian White:</i> (booklet commentary) This is... this is I don't know. I think [[artist:charles-neudorf|Neudorf]] told me to do this, so I did it. It works pretty good. @@ -1548,7 +1548,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Trollcops - Fuck tha Police Commentary: |- - <i>Rachel Weiss:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rachel Weiss:</i> (booklet commentary) I was thinking that it would be in a speakeasy during the jazz era, and Terezi is there undercover to knock heads and bring the sweet taste of justice to miscreats and wrong-doers. Or something like that, heh heh. --- @@ -1603,7 +1603,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Black Hole / Green Sun - At The Price of Oblivion Commentary: |- - <i>Catboss:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Catboss:</i> (booklet commentary) I've wanted to make a sequel for [[MeGaDanceVaNia]] for a while, but only recently did I actually get around to it. Some songs are in here because they were in flashes; others are in here because they're my personal favorites, like [[Gaia Queen]]. And [[Infinity Mechanism]] is in there because [[artist:thomas-ferkol|Thomas]] once complained that no one remixed his songs, so THAT'S FOR YOU THOMAS. @@ -1675,7 +1675,7 @@ Art Tags: - Karkat - Veil Commentary: |- - <i>Yan Rodriguez:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Yan Rodriguez:</i> (booklet commentary) Back when I had a far more depressing view on being trapped in the veil I wanted to make a short tune for it using a chord progression I played on piano all the time and really wanted to use. Reminds me a bit of how some of the chords go in Shadow of the Colossus, but a lot less epic. --- @@ -1698,7 +1698,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Doctor - Sburban Jungle Commentary: |- - <i>Brenden Cameron:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Brenden Cameron:</i> (booklet commentary) Originally titled 'A Heroic Death', this song was my second entry into [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|the Homestuck Fanmusic contest]], as well as the second song I've ever released in general. @@ -1728,7 +1728,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Presentiment Commentary: |- - <i>Max Wright:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Max Wright:</i> (booklet 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 [[flash:82|Wind Skims the Void]] flash 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 [[track:presentiment|the Chrono Trigger title music]]. Little did we know at the time, though, how destructive the conductor's baton can be. @@ -1756,7 +1756,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Doctor - Doctor Who Theme Commentary: |- - <i>Veritas Unae:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Veritas Unae:</i> (booklet commentary) I recall this was primiarily composed for two reasons. One: Combining [[track:doctor-who-theme|the Doctor Who theme]] with [[Doctor]] needed to happen. Two: The Doctor Who Sburb fan adventure was something I had just discovered and I wanted to compose something for it. There's not much to be said about this one. It's Doctor + Doctor Who Theme. Yeah. --- @@ -1773,7 +1773,7 @@ Art Tags: - John - Breath Commentary: |- - <i>Joe Ouellet:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Joe Ouellet:</i> (booklet commentary) WIMH is one of my fisrt original Homestuck fan-pieces. Originally entered in [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|the contest to select tracks for Colours and Mayhem]], it was a song geared towards John and his powers as an Heir of Breath. I chose a very laid back feel to this piece, progressing from a soft choir at the beginning, picking up an arpeggiated synth and kick on the way to a more intense section of the song. I wanted the song to flow just like the wind: starting softly, the breeze picks up gradually, when suddenly a gust of wind comes, only to leave just as fast as it came. --- @@ -1813,7 +1813,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Homestuck Anthem - How Do I Live Commentary: |- - <i>Kevin Grant:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Kevin Grant:</i> (booklet commentary) With 16 songs included in the mashup, it's a far more complicated piece than [[track:fighting-spirit|the original]]. I tried to include many songs from [[album:homestuck-vol-8|Volume 8]], like the [[Ocean Stars Falling]] bit near the end. I think it flows smoother than the original due to both song choice, and the one-year difference in skill level when creating the song. Both are made entirely in Famitracker. @@ -1875,7 +1875,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Sburban Jungle - track:carefree-action Commentary: |- - <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> (booklet commentary) I got the idea for "Doghead" shortly after [[flash:4109|"Cascade"]] and Jade's incredible ascension. I set out to create something epic, fast-paced, and exciting, but once I'd finished the first part, I found it was missing something. So I approached MSPA forumite and fellow Homestuck fan musician [[artist:d-crystal]] to see if he could add some guitar and drum tracks. He was happy to oblige, and the end result turned out much better than the work I could do by myself. I learned two lessons that day: one, that two heads are better than one and collaboration is incredibly fun, and two, that electric guitars make everything better. --- @@ -1893,7 +1893,7 @@ Art Tags: - Rabbit - LoCaH Commentary: |- - <i>David Dycus:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>David Dycus:</i> (booklet commentary) Jane's theme was my third and final entry into [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|the HS music contest]], conceived and completed less than a day before I made my submission. It obviously didn't make the cut, and Jane ended up receiving a much more badass theme in the form of [[Cyan Beast]]. At the time when I wrote the song (around January 29, 2012), we really didn't know much about Jane beyond the fact that she was a nice girl who enjoyed baking. I tried to give her a theme that was quaint and melodic, not too energetic like my other submissions; compared to most of the other characters, Jane is very down-to-earth, which I admired. Structurally, it loosely parallels [[Fuchsia Witch]], which was originally titled "Jake's Theme." @@ -1929,7 +1929,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Homestuck Anthem - Dissension (Original) Commentary: |- - <i>Samm Neiland:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Samm Neiland:</i> (booklet commentary) So this was done mostly as a self response to another fan track I did which was a minute or so long music box rendition of [[track:showtime-original-mix|Showtime]]. While pretty, it hardly showcased my abilities as a musician or a producer. So in about the span of the week, I arranged, composed, and produced a traditional string quartet, heavily inspired by cellist and multitrack recording artist, Zoë Keating. All the recording was done with only my viola and my signature production style. @@ -1986,7 +1986,7 @@ Cover Art File Extension: jpg Art Tags: - Karkat Commentary: |- - <i>Rachel Rose Mitchell:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rachel Rose Mitchell:</i> (booklet commentary) When I made Blood Knight, I was still pretty exhausted from putting Mechani% - now known as [[Indigo Archer]] - together. I'd never made anything as complex as Indigo Archer before and on top of that I had massive anxieties about getting into the competition. I was stressed out! So Blood Knight nearly never happened. @@ -2008,7 +2008,7 @@ Art Tags: - Sollux - Green Sun Commentary: |- - <i>Artisticpolo:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Artisticpolo:</i> (booklet commentary) Initially a [[track:frost-vol6]] remix but it became something else. The square-wave arpeggio that you hear is probably the only thing that is now reminiscent of that remix. It was because of the harp that this grew into something different. I actually composed this while the composition was playing. I would listen to the notes I had composed, and I would just place new notes where I think they would work while listening. Somehow, everything just seemed to fit together - the violins, the synths, the percussion - everything just worked. The structure of this composition just flowed. I'm pretty sure this is one of my best pieces so far. --- @@ -2032,7 +2032,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Sburban Jungle Commentary: |- - <i>David Dycus:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>David Dycus:</i> (booklet commentary) Red Miles was the first Homestuck song I ever completed, early in 2011. I had just installed a new copy of FL Studio after losing my old copy in a hard drive crash two years earlier. I imemediately threw together about five Homestuck songs in a desperate attempt to get on the music team. Shortly thereafter, I discovered about a thousand other fan musicians like myself (and also [[album:lofam|LOFAM I]]), and quietly accepted that I would never, ever be on an official Homestuck album. @@ -2056,7 +2056,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Spider's Claw Commentary: |- - <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> (booklet commentary) I wrote *Elegy for a Thief* back in August 2011, inspired by the evocative image of ghost-Vriska standing in the snow outside John's house. After re-arranging it into a solo piano piece, I sat on it for a while. Eventually I began to work on another remix, but forgot about it. Then the song was nominated for Land of Fans and Music 2, and I rushed to polish up the song now that I had better tools and more skill. But I'd lost the original file, and the only remaining part of the scrapped remix was the right-hand piano notes (luckily, those were the most important part of the song)! The new remix is exotic and a bit hypnotic, symbolizing John and Vriska's journey through the surreal and fantastic memory-realms of the afterlife. @@ -2130,7 +2130,7 @@ Art Tags: - Hadron Kaleido - Light Commentary: |- - <i>Max Wright:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Max Wright:</i> (booklet commentary) I've always liked the idea behind [[album:mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido]], and the mysterious character canvas that the album brought across. So, from there, I wanted to contribute my own ideas of how MTaHK were represented, and ended up with Embittered Shore. I wanted the piece to have that [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|'Bowman']] quality to it, while still refraining from outright copying his ideas off in any particular way - the heavy use of guitars and fleeting synths was my way of capturing the emotion that Bowman injects into his music, to bring across his characterisation. Ultimately, the piece ends the way it started - it is a brief window through which the troubled characters may be projected and represented. @@ -2177,7 +2177,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Flare - God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen Commentary: |- - <i>Clark Powell:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Clark Powell:</i> (booklet commentary) This song was made at Christmas. @@ -2204,7 +2204,7 @@ Art Tags: - Gate - Twin M9 Berettas Commentary: |- - <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> (booklet commentary) I began "Finale Strife" as a long, slow-burning build-up song for the final battle with Lord English, in a similar vein to ["Finale Toccata"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKiQ8m4C_CY) from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. That, however, didn't pan out, and it ended up turning into a fast-paced, high-energy strife theme more in the vein of ["The Curse of Sorrow"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uJhva1jvWw) from Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (the only Castlevania game I've actually come close to beating), especially the organ, electric guitar, and snappy drum kit. The main melody has some resemblance to the Black King's theme from [["Rex Duodecim Angelus"]] by [[artist:malcolm-brown]], but not enough to qualify as a remix or arrangement. @@ -2230,7 +2230,7 @@ Art Tags: - Rufioh Lyrics: ??? Commentary: |- - <i>Dante Basco:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Dante Basco:</i> (booklet commentary) one of my first comments for rose was "she's gangsta"... then when i met jade, i said she was gangsta too... it kinda just stuck in with the homestucks and this is a song that i dedicate to those girls... i'm glad everyone dug it. @@ -2275,7 +2275,7 @@ Art Tags: - Jake - Twin M9 Berettas Commentary: |- - <i>Catboss:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Catboss:</i> (booklet commentary) The first song I made for [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|the Homestuck contest]], and IMO the best! It's supposed to be a [[track:showtime-original-mix|Showtime]] for the new generaiton, a strife theme for Jake English - although the melody ended up sounding more like [[track:dissension-original|Dissension]] than Showtime. The progression is supposed to be Showtime-esque as well, starting from [[track:showtime-piano-refrain|the piano refrain]], going into a chiptune-esque portion, and finally building to a BOSS FIGHT version, using punchy drums (the punchiest!) to simulate gunshots. @@ -2283,7 +2283,7 @@ Commentary: |- (Bonus fun fact: the last 30 seconds of the song was actually the first part to be conceptualized!) - <i>Catboss:</i> (composer, [SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/catbossstudio/guns-blazing)) + <i>Catboss:</i> ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/catbossstudio/guns-blazing)) > Jake: Fly through the air shooting two guns at once. @@ -2295,7 +2295,7 @@ Commentary: |- Fun fact: I came up with the last 1 minute of the song or so first; I got the idea to use punchy snares to simulate Jake shooting everywhere. I quite like the result! - <i>Catboss:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://konec0.tumblr.com/post/15559307635/guns-blazing)) + <i>Catboss:</i> ([Tumblr](https://konec0.tumblr.com/post/15559307635/guns-blazing)) Finally finished my first song for [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|the contest]], and I’m going into it @@ -2325,7 +2325,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - track:showtime-svix-mix Commentary: |- - <i>Svix:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Svix:</i> (booklet commentary) I created [[album:showtime-svix-mix|the first version]] of my Showtime remix back in September 2009 shortly after I started getting into Homestuck, it seemed to go down well and a few months later I was invited to be part of the official music team. @@ -2410,7 +2410,7 @@ Lyrics: |- I'm a prince and I live in a ship I'm a prince and I live in a ship Commentary: |- - <i>PhemieC:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>PhemieC:</i> (booklet commentary) This song chronicles Eridan's thought process and a bit of his history leading up to his death, and examines why he made the decisions he did. I think there's a lot to his character people normally forget and I just wanted to expand on his motivations a bit. @@ -2435,7 +2435,7 @@ Art Tags: - 'cw: blood' - Clocks Commentary: |- - <i>Kevin Grant:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Kevin Grant:</i> (booklet commentary) This didn't start out as a Homestuck themed song, but once I realized that it matched up with the dark and moody feel of the Midnight Crew, I decided to complete it with that goal in mind. The song itself is pretty simple, all in all. I just really dig that bassline. --- @@ -2452,7 +2452,7 @@ Art Tags: - Stitch - Felt Mansion Commentary: |- - <i>Joe Ouellet:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Joe Ouellet:</i> (booklet commentary) When given the chance to make an extra track for LOFAM 2, I jumped at the opportunity. It turns out I was assigned a Felt related track, specifically to Stitch. I wanted to stay true to the feel of the album [[album:the-felt]]. I used strings, light percussion, and most importantly, I messed around with the tempo. This was a little bit of a challenge for me, but I think it turned out alright. Fun fact: The glitchy effect was not on purpose, it was an export error I thought sounded cool so I kept it. --- @@ -2480,7 +2480,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Aggrieve - Atomyk Ebonpyre Commentary: |- - <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> (booklet commentary) When I started "Ave Dei Novi" (a song made just for Land of Fans and Music 2), I fully intended that it would be the biggest, strongest, most well-composed, best Homestuck fan composition I've worked on to date, a sort of capstone of Homestuck fan music. The first [[album:lofam|Land of Fans and Music]] had two of my early songs on it, and I felt it was appropriate that I do my best and show how far I'd come in a year for the second album. "Ave Dei Novi" takes its cue, partially, from the bombastic and incredible Gundam Unicorn soundtrack by Sawano Hiroyuki, especially in the orchestra and percussion grooves, which I worked very hard on. I think I'm most proud of the bongo groove breakdown in the middle and the [["Atomyk Ebonpyre"]] section near the end. Those two parts ended up especially fantastic. @@ -2561,7 +2561,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Penumbra Phantasm Commentary: |- - <i>David Dycus:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>David Dycus:</i> (booklet commentary) Prophecy was made in February of 2011, a couple of months after I re-installed FL Studio. [[Umbral Ultimatum]] remains one of my favorite HS songs, and I wanted to do something in 3/4 time using the opening melody. The song's development is kind of a blur to me now, I was busy with work and was experiencing some anxiety problems, and threw the song together over a two or three-day period, but it obviously took a very dark turn somewhere along the way. Whatever happened, I'm still pretty pleased with how it turned out. --- @@ -2584,7 +2584,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - An Unbreakable Union - Mutiny Commentary: |- - <i>Domble:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Domble:</i> (booklet commentary) The original version of this track had huge problems. I kept the writing mostly the same, only adding little flourishes here and there and improving the overall sound of the piece dramatically. It just sounds nicer now, and that guitar solo part at the end helps add a real finish to the piece while referencing both titular tracks in a different, significant way. @@ -2610,7 +2610,7 @@ Art Tags: - Twin M9 Berettas - Unbreakable Katana Commentary: |- - <i>Xauric:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Xauric:</i> (booklet commentary) So... this piece was originally designed to just be... exactly that. Just another piece. It wasn't meant for Homestuck, it wasn't meant for Tumblr or anyone to see it. But a fantastic friend of mine told me about [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|the Homestuck Music competition]], so I figured why not. I sent this in after tweaking it a bit, and just for fun, threw it up on Tumblr. I then left for vacation, but still had internet access. I came back to see my song exploded on Tumblr, and was promptly getting upwards of 1,000-3,000 views a week. Needless to say, I was ecstatic. The song itself was kind of... my own personal blend? I love songs that combine organic and inorganic elements, and with Homestuck being the big thing on the block lately, I decided to try it out. As evidence by this album, it didn't make it, but it certainly was a big hit. However, what's funnier is that the version I put on Tumblr was the unmastered version, so when I put the mastered version up, it didn't get nearly as many hits as the unmastered version. @@ -2638,7 +2638,7 @@ Art Tags: - Prospit - Derse Commentary: |- - <i>Rachel Rose Mitchell:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rachel Rose Mitchell:</i> (booklet commentary) Planetarium was the first piece of Homestuck fan music I ever made. I'd only just caught up with the archives when I was set a composition assignment for university. Having never used Logic to compose before, I had fun playing with a bunch of the different inbuilt instruments. When I found the koto, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I tried to make it sound somewhat ethereal and otherworldly to represent the Incipisphere in all its beautiful weirdness. To try to do that, I threw a whole lot of reverb and delay at pretty much every track. I really did not know what I was doing, but it was fun. diff --git a/album/lofam3.yaml b/album/lofam3.yaml index e3806426..7ff76b2c 100644 --- a/album/lofam3.yaml +++ b/album/lofam3.yaml @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Sunsetter Commentary: |- - <i>Colin Stanfill:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Colin Stanfill:</i> (booklet commentary) I wrote this song as an art exchange for redux on the forums who wanted more [[Sunsetter|sunsetter]] remixes. @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ Art Tags: - Heart - Blood Commentary: |- - <i>horizon:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>horizon:</i> (booklet commentary) As a theme for the Disciple/Signless(Sufferer) pairing, I wanted the song to be haunting, cold, and foreboding, but still beautiful and rich. @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - White King - Trickster Mode (Engage) Commentary: |- - <i>Catboss:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Catboss:</i> (booklet commentary) This is more of a [[track:megadancevania|MGDVN]] 2.5 than a 3, really. After [[track:dance-stab-dance|DSD]] I was all, okay I'm tapped out of official Homestuck songs, what now? @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Dance of Thorns - Endless Climb Commentary: |- - <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> (booklet commentary) Dance of Viridian and Violet is an old track of mine--about two years old! I was surprised anyone remembered it enough to nominate it for Land of Fans and Music 3, but I suppose I should never underestimate people's willingness to dig years back through a fanartist's works. Anyway, like I said, it is very old and absolutely no mastering was used on it whatsoever (I'm scared to actually look at its waveform) since back then I didn't know what mastering was. The song ended up sounding quite beautiful, and I sitll think so today, despite my relative lack of skill. @@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ Lyrics: |- *repeat "Mayor"* Commentary: |- - <i>Dakota Medina:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Dakota Medina:</i> (booklet commentary) Warweary Villein is a song about my personal favorite character. Inspired by Toby Fox's [['Mayor Maynot']] it is about how such a little dude can be such an inspiration for a massive call to arms. My favorite part about the piece is the harmonies. The song was also revamped for the LoFaM3 album and completely remade from the ground up. Hope you enjoy! @@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Atomyk Ebonpyre Commentary: |- - <i>Yan Rodriguez:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Yan Rodriguez:</i> (booklet commentary) This song came out of strange feelings. @@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ Art Tags: - Life - Sburb Commentary: |- - <i>Lark Mordancy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Lark Mordancy:</i> (booklet commentary) [[Sburban Jungle]] has been stuck in my head since the moment I first heard it in Homestuck, and the rest of [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|Michael Guy Bowman's]] work is equally memorable. For this piece, I chose to mix Sburban Jungle with [[69423]] from his album [[album:comfortable-bugs]]. As for the title, well, I'm thinking of a number [[track:bowmans-credit-score|between 450 and 850]]... @@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ Art Tags: - AR - Ruined Earth Commentary: |- - <i>Ian White:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Ian White:</i> (booklet commentary) it is a march<br> inspired by kirby games<br> @@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ Art Tags: - Squarewave - LoMaX Commentary: |- - <i>David Ellis:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>David Ellis:</i> (booklet commentary) This is intended as a walkabout track.<br> No guitars this time. @@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ Lyrics: |- And soon may I be May I be set free soon</i>) Commentary: |- - <i>Tamara Fritz:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Tamara Fritz:</i> (booklet commentary) 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. @@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Sburban Jungle Commentary: |- - <i>Veritas Unae:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Veritas Unae:</i> (booklet commentary) I did this piece a while back, quite some time ago now. It was a hypothetical theme for Sgrub in the same vein as [[Sburban Jungle]] was. I considered reworking the piece, but everywhere I turned the piece wasn't really getting better, so here it is in all its original Sibelius 6 glory! Imagine this playing as all of the trolls enter the medium for the very first time. Go imagination, go! @@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Medium Medium Commentary: |- - <i>Arzenic:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Arzenic:</i> (booklet commentary) This song was my first serious attempt at incorporating vocals into music. At the time this song was created, I had no recording equipment other than a mic on my webcam (and I actually used that same thing to re-record the vocals). Since the audio quality was incomprehensibly bad, I ended up messing around with equalization and limiting a lot, and because of that, I had to change the song to compensate. It went from a more acoustic song, to a song that used a lot of percussion, to even chiptune at one point. It finally settled on this pad-synth kinda' style, and I'd say I'm pretty pleased with that. @@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Now witness, here, a fool without a calling! I'm a heartsick fool Still the fool without a calling, still a fucking fool Commentary: |- - <i>PhemieC:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>PhemieC:</i> (booklet commentary) A sad, one-sided GamTav song from Gamzee's POV. --- @@ -771,7 +771,7 @@ Art Tags: - Breath - Warhammer of Zillyhoo Commentary: |- - <i>David Dycus:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>David Dycus:</i> (booklet commentary) Written for, but not entered in, [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|the Homestuck music contest]]. It would have been submitted for John. It was loosely intended to be a major-key counterpart to my song [[Checkmate]] from [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b|Colours & Mayhem: Universe B]]. @@ -795,7 +795,7 @@ Art Tags: - Lil Cal - 'cw: blood' Commentary: |- - <i>Catboss:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Catboss:</i> (booklet commentary) This is a remake of an old track I made back when lil' cal was still a creepy little puppet, which actually, is all the time. @@ -828,7 +828,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Terezi's Theme Commentary: |- - <i>Nitrosparxx:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Nitrosparxx:</i> (booklet commentary) Well, I certainly didn't expect this song to take off like it did! What was originally just another remix suddenly became one of my most well known and recognized songs! It all started when I saw an interesting post speculating what instruments the trolls might've played. There was harp for Aradia, there was guitar for Tavros, and for Terezi it had clarinet. As soon as I saw that, I knew I had to do a jazzed up remix of her theme. So for about two days, I transcribed the melody, worked out some chords, and did up a bassline and drumbeat. It was kind of weird working on this song, since I was using the unconventional 8/4 time rather than 4/4 time. The reason for this was to make the eight-note swing sound like sixteenth-note swing. Although I'm not as much into Homestuck any more and I feel as though I've written better songs since then, I am still pleased that a lot of people liked this song! @@ -856,13 +856,13 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Negative Aperture - Miasmajesty Commentary: |- - <i>keyboard cait:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>keyboard cait:</i> (booklet commentary) In June 2012, [[album:homestuck-vol-9|Homestuck Volume 9]] was released, and I was real excited. Given that it had been months since the whole team had made a new collaborative effort, I took no time in replaying the album several times a day for weeks after its release. As you might expect, this kinda gets into your subconscious. And one night, I had a dream. I was in my room, listening to [[Trepidation]]. Then... actually, I'm pretty sure that was the whole dream. When I woke up, I begain thinking about what the dream could have meant. My conclusion was that I should probably listen to Trepidation some more. And I did. And it ended up becoming my favorite Homestuck song. About seven months later, I reminded myself about the fact that the LOFAM 3 project was probably about to start soon. Resolving to make a quality song before the selection process began, I decided to make a Trepidation rearrange, given that I practically knew all its notes by heart by then. So I opened up FL studio, and began working nonstop for the next day and a half to finish it. It ended up quoting not only Trepidation, but also [[Negative Aperture]], [[Miasmajesty]] and [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|Upwards Movement]], and I'm pretty proud of the end results! - <i>Yorick Cobb:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Yorick Cobb:</i> (booklet commentary) This picture started out digitally as an attempt to imitate [[artist:keyboard-cait|N's]] original placeholder, but I had to restart it when the pen on my tablet wore down. Because I am more comfortable with physical media, the piece was free to go in more interesting directions. I feel digital art is better suited to applications like music art, so I added distinctly digital colors. --- @@ -890,7 +890,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - The Lost Child - English Commentary: |- - <i>Ashley Jones:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Ashley Jones:</i> (booklet commentary) I find that a lot of my Homestuck tracks tend to be medleys: One of my first ideas for a track was the Gamzee vs. Dave rap battle with all their motifs as a backdrop (that never really picked off because UGH, LACK OF VOCAL TALENT ON MY PART). This one follows a similar vein; Her Imperious Condescension vs. Lord English's Handmaid. I wanted the track to show how tired of life the Handmaid had become, so a lot of her motifs get cut short quite abrasively by HIC's "attacks", as it were. She puts up a little bit of a struggle sometimes, but eventually she just accepts her fate and lets herself be replaced. So ends the tragic life of the Alternian Ancestors. @@ -911,7 +911,7 @@ Art Tags: - Roxy - Derse Commentary: |- - <i>Colin Stanfill:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Colin Stanfill:</i> (booklet commentary) This song was written for [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|the colours & mayhem contest]], but was never entered. @@ -939,7 +939,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Spider's Claw Commentary: |- - <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> (booklet commentary) Sign of the Scorpion is an old track of mine, about maybe 14 or 15 months old, and while I'm legitimately proud of a lot of compositional elements, the mastering and production horrified me looking back on it. Like [[Dance of Viridian and Violet]], I'd long since deleted the project file, since it was just a one-off Homestuck song that I figured I was unlikely to ever need again, so I made a new arrangement of the piece from scratch, taking elements I liked from the original and putting them in a new context. It doesn't quote any Homestuck themes (I don't believe the original did at all), except for a brief mention of [[Spider's Claw]] right at the end. The new arrangement has a bit more of a hard-rock feel and toned-down orchestral elements, making it a bit more reflective of Vriska as a character. @@ -968,7 +968,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Pumpkin Party in Sea Hitler's Water Apocalypse Commentary: |- - <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet commentary) Like everybody else, I was astounded by [[artist:malcolm-brown|Malcolm Brown's]] [[Pumpkin Party in Sea Hitler's Water Apocalypse]] from [[album:homestuck-vol-9|Volume 9]]. For this song, I wanted to do a different take on it. Apocalypses aren't all fun and games, after all. Major props to Ella for the wonderful track art. @@ -991,7 +991,7 @@ Cover Art File Extension: jpg Art Tags: - Aranea Commentary: |- - <i>Joe Ouellet:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Joe Ouellet:</i> (booklet commentary) This is a song for Aranea Serket. I originally set out to make this piece for a Hero of Light, mainly for Rose at the conception of the piece, but as I got further into making it, it became clear it was not a "Rose" song. Although I think this song goes off on too many tangents (not sticking to a particular melody or motif throughout the song) I find it suiting for Aranea due to her tendency to jabber away at any chance she gets, often changing the subject multiple times. Or maybe I just made that up now to make it seem like I did it on purpose...The world may never know. I have also been thinking about making a sort of "sequel" set of songs to this one for Vriska and Rose. They would be called "Fortune Stealer" and "Fortune Teller" respectively. @@ -1032,7 +1032,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:the-metamorphosis-harbinger-of-the-outer-gods - track:the-metamorphosis-the-solar-ascendancy Commentary: |- - <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (composer, booklet commentary / [Tumblr](https://eidolonorpheus.tumblr.com/post/25746258448/a-three-movement-piece-based-on-rose-lalondes), excerpt, 6/23/2012) + <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (booklet commentary / [Tumblr](https://eidolonorpheus.tumblr.com/post/25746258448/a-three-movement-piece-based-on-rose-lalondes), excerpt, 6/23/2012) A three movement piece based on Rose Lalonde's character developments from normal to grimdark to god tier. It's about 10 minutes all together. Also, the last of the Seer pieces. The first two movements were from early 2011, but the last movement was added after [[flash:4109|Cascade]]. @@ -1064,7 +1064,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - GameBro (Original 1990 Mix) - GameGrl (Original 1993 Mix) Commentary: |- - <i>Catboss:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Catboss:</i> (booklet commentary) WORK THAT BODY WORK THAT BODY MAKE SURE YOU DON'T HURT NOBODY<br> GET WILD AND LOSE YOUR MIND<br> @@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ Commentary: |- (...c'mon and slam and welcome to the jam) - <i>Catboss:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://konec0.tumblr.com/post/31973919310/gamebro-and-gamegrl-work-the-crowd-at-the-slam), excerpt) + <i>Catboss:</i> ([Tumblr](https://konec0.tumblr.com/post/31973919310/gamebro-and-gamegrl-work-the-crowd-at-the-slam), excerpt) <i>GameBro and GameGrl work the crowd at the Slam Jam, with a little help from QCD.</i> @@ -1102,7 +1102,7 @@ Lyrics: |- John, do the windy thing, Do the windy thing... Commentary: |- - <i>rj lake:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>rj lake:</i> (booklet commentary) i was drunk @@ -1228,7 +1228,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:ruins - Black Rose / Green Sun Commentary: |- - <i>Veritas Unae:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Veritas Unae:</i> (booklet commentary) Wow. This piece was a huge undertaking that started back when I first played [[Eden]] sometime... last year I think? I really connected with [[artist:james-dever|James's]] piece, so much so that I made sure to let him know (and continue to let him know) how easy and intuitive it felt to play. I experimented with it, transitioning into [[psych0ruins]], and then into [[Doctor]]. Being heavily inspired by [[artist:catboss|Konec0's]] [[track:megadancevania|dance]] [[track:dance-stab-dance|medleys]], I thought to extend the piece, and extended it I did. Up until the [[track:walk-stab-walk-r-and-e|Walk Stab Walk]] / [[Earthsea Borealis]] section was all ad lib'd on my piano, as I picked pieces I thought I could move between, and beyond there I wrote original scores straight into Sibelius which I could barely dream of playing. This piece developed into what you hear today, including the seret ending! I hope it moves you, as all of Homestuck's music has moved me. Enjoy listening to this 31 song medley! Some day I'll learn to play it. @@ -1293,7 +1293,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Theme - Mother (Piano) Commentary: |- - <i>Veritas Unae:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Veritas Unae:</i> (booklet commentary) *Full Song Credits* @@ -1344,7 +1344,7 @@ Art Tags: - Jake - Serenity Commentary: |- - <i>Thomas Ibarra:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Thomas Ibarra:</i> (booklet commentary) Many of my recompositions tend to be experiments with lemotiffs, and Electric Fireflies is no exception. While largely focused around the light flicks of piano melody within [[Firefly Cloud]] and the song itself by [[artist:erik-scheele|Erik "Jit" Scheele]], I found my experiment to take a course of it's own. I tried to follow Jit's carefully integrated elements of [[Doctor]] to discover that his method employed a much more flowing and intertwined realization of instrumental melody; this was something I felt that I did not achieve. I felt refreshing to observe what can only be described as mastery of melody, theme and atmosphere. It was a pleasure to make this piece. @@ -1383,7 +1383,7 @@ Lyrics: |- I'm blasting away But I am still right here Commentary: |- - <i>Dakota Medina:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Dakota Medina:</i> (booklet commentary) The Blast is a song written from Aradia's perspective regarding the 'sollux killing her hyped up on Mind Honey' incident. It is about her about to blow up about telling everyone that it is 0kay. The song was written mostly as a 'Can I write a simple and effective only 4 chords song' and I think it was successful. The song was revamped for the LoFaM3 album and completely remade from the ground up. Hope you enjoy! @@ -1414,7 +1414,7 @@ Art Tags: - LoTaK - Unbreakable Katana Commentary: |- - <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (booklet commentary) Me jumping the gun on making a land theme for Dirk. Had put it forward for [[album:homestuck-vol-9|Vol. 9]] as just a track about him but didn't make the cut. Held onto it for a while hoping I could find some way to make it better, but it's aging on me. @@ -1440,7 +1440,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Walk-Stab-Walk (R&E) Commentary: |- - <i>Yan Rodriguez:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Yan Rodriguez:</i> (booklet commentary) This was back when I cared about getting the first remix of at least one recently released song out for Homestuck. The result is this! I tried elaborating a bit on the material [[artist:erik-scheele|Jit]] gave so far, since at the time there wasn't much to go off of, and I think it fares relatively well. It's hard to feel good about old music sometimes though. @@ -1465,7 +1465,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - track:ruins Commentary: |- - <i>Rob Little:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rob Little:</i> (booklet commentary) I made this shortly after LOTAK was first revealed, and I wanted to capture the pressure and paradoxical claustrophobia of that huge space blanketed by a heavy, inert atmosphere. I started with the drums, which were just an attempt to create a kit from scratch that I didn't entirely hate, plus a ton of reverb. Next came the atmospheric elements - the distorted tremolo synth, the piano, the echoing synth bleeps which to me are a signal intended to guide the player, decayed over the aeons the planet has waited for Dirk's arrival, and the nearly-metronomic hat-click to reinforce the sense that, now that he's here, his limited time is rapidly ticking away. Finally I tried a few string melodies for the middle section, but simply nothing says 'towering ancient remains of a lost civilization' as effectively as [[artist:erik-scheele|Erik Scheele's]] [[track:ruins|Ruins]], so I stole it and added a sort of contrapuntal harmony underneath. And now I give it to you. @@ -1490,7 +1490,7 @@ Art Tags: - Imperial Drones - Earth Commentary: |- - <i>Marcy Nabors:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Marcy Nabors:</i> (booklet commentary) I wrote Contention as a strife theme for Dirk Strider. It's synthesized entirely with FM patches ripped from a ROM of Sonic The Hedgehog 2 and converted to FM8 format, in keeping with the Sega Genesis inspired style of Dirk-related songs like [[track:anbroids-v2|Anbroids]]. The rhythms in this song were largely inspired by the drums in the song ["Tung, The Icelandic Lesbian"](https://lapfox.bandcamp.com/track/tung-the-icelandic-lesbian) by Kitsune^2. I've always been a big fan of heavy 6/8 two-against-three rhythms played with Sonic-style drums, so the choice of time signature for this track was a no-brainer. @@ -1575,7 +1575,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Penumbra Phantasm - track:final-stand Commentary: |- - <i>Veritas Unae:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Veritas Unae:</i> (booklet commentary) <code style="color: #eb0000">CAA: f0r a demon wh0 is indestructible<br> CAA: 0mnip0tent<br> @@ -1677,7 +1677,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Unsheath'd Commentary: |- - <i>Yan Rodriguez:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Yan Rodriguez:</i> (booklet commentary) I used to do a series of songs/arrangements lining up with stories. I didn't ever really line this one up with anything, but the basic idea was "[[track:unsheathd|Unsheathed]] in a haunted house." I played a lot of Luigi's Mansion for this one. @@ -1732,7 +1732,7 @@ Lyrics: |- If- It don't mean a thing If- It Commentary: |- - <i>Kevin Grant:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Kevin Grant:</i> (booklet commentary) Originally supposed to be a practice project so I could learn how to sample, I added in a few piano riffs from [[Black]] and it took on a life of its own. The most obvious sample is from [["It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing"]], but other samples in there inclue the trumpet from an old 1940s big band song, and the drums from [["Paint It Black"]] by the Rolling Stones. For a song that wasn't even originally a song, I think it came out pretty well. Enjoy! @@ -1767,7 +1767,7 @@ Art Tags: - Space - Light Commentary: |- - <i>Joe Ouellet:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Joe Ouellet:</i> (booklet commentary) Together (At Last) is a theme for the Beta kids' reunion, obviously made before they reunited in canon. The beginning is supposed to be happy; the beta kids finally unite for the first time after a session gone awry and a 3 year journey through the dark abyss and a mysterious alternate dimension. They hug, cry, fist bump, push each other down a set of friendship stairs, etc. Then Rose drops a bombshell: an unbeatable demon is going around destroying dream bubbles, and in the process, the universe. Things look grave, and Jade and John are startled. But they decide to press on and not give up. Together, with the remaining trolls and the alpha kids, they can defeat, or escape, Lord English once and for all. @@ -1822,7 +1822,7 @@ Lyrics: |- <i>However, we are forgiven.</i> <i>However, we are forgiven.</i>) Commentary: |- - <i>David Ellis:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>David Ellis:</i> (booklet commentary) I wanted to ruin [[track:iron-infidel|Samm's song]]. Mission accomplished. @@ -1862,7 +1862,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Heart of the Forest - Flare Commentary: |- - <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet commentary) This track was initially just an arrangement of [[Heart of the Forest]] by [[artist:solatrus]], from the Spiritwake soundtrack. Then I was all "hey I bet [[Flare]] would sound pretty good with this" so I added it in and it didn't sound terrible. A fadeout is a totally lazy way to end a song. Apologies to Jeremy Iamurri and [[artist:clark-powell]]. @@ -1892,7 +1892,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Retrobution Commentary: |- - <i>Riki Tsuji:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Riki Tsuji:</i> (booklet commentary) *900pm<br> butts per minute* @@ -1920,7 +1920,7 @@ Art Tags: - 'cw: blood' - 'cw: eye horror' Commentary: |- - <i>Princey The Kid:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Princey The Kid:</i> (booklet commentary) It's a battle for dominance between Caliborn and Calliope. @@ -1970,7 +1970,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Rust Servant Commentary: |- - <i>Max Wright:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Max Wright:</i> (booklet commentary) Taking the motif from [[artist:willow-ascenzo|Willow Ascenzo's]] [[Rust Servant]] and completely changing the genre was one of the more fun piece ideas I've had. @@ -2000,7 +2000,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Candles and Clockwork Commentary: |- - <i>Joe Ouellet:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Joe Ouellet:</i> (booklet commentary) A remix of one of my favorite Homestuck songs, [[Candles and Clockwork]]. It's more of a reimagining of the piece really. There isn't much to say about it in particular other than it was my best mastering work at the time of its completion, I think. It may have also been the first time I stayed away from using endless breakbeat loops in a Homestuck remix. @@ -2051,7 +2051,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Cobalt Corsair - Violet Mariner Commentary: |- - <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> (booklet commentary) 0:00-0:14: An unassuming troll merchant ship sails the ocean, its precious cargo of shitty romantic comedy movies tucked safely within its lower decks, unaware of the danger that approaches. @@ -2088,7 +2088,7 @@ Art Tags: - PM - Ruined Earth Commentary: |- - <i>Ashley Jones:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Ashley Jones:</i> (booklet commentary) When [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|the Homestuck Music Contest]] first opened well over a year ago, I'd really only just started exploring my love of creating music. This track (which is based around the Exiles years in the future) and one other are actually only the third and fourth tracks I ever composed! I've improved a lot since then but I always had a little bit of love for this one. When LOFAM3 was announced I made a snap decision to spruce up my little deser themed tune and bring tumblr's attention back to it. I'm honoured that such an old track of mine is still considered worthy of LOFAM, to be honest! @@ -2117,7 +2117,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Explore Commentary: |- - <i>keyboard cait:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>keyboard cait:</i> (booklet commentary) What even is keygen music? I have no idea, but if it exists, I hope this sounds like it. @@ -2152,7 +2152,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Ohgodwhat Commentary: |- - <i>Kevin Grant:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Kevin Grant:</i> (booklet commentary) So, this was one of my first chiptunes. People seem to like it. However, when I listen to it now, two years later, I realize how little I knew about Famitracker, and music composition in genearl. I like to think I've learned a great deal since Ohgodboss. Still, I guess it's catchy enough as it is. Enjoy! @@ -2200,7 +2200,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew - track:carefree-action Commentary: |- - <i>David Dycus:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>David Dycus:</i> (booklet commentary) My first attempt at a dubstep song, from my ill-conceived dubstep phase. It took a ton of time, an entire new drum pack, and ultimately, a new laptop to finish. It's not my favorite song I've ever made--it doesn't sound like a real dubstep song, in my opinion--but I learned a lot in the process of making it. diff --git a/album/lofam4.yaml b/album/lofam4.yaml index 12c2139a..c05901d3 100644 --- a/album/lofam4.yaml +++ b/album/lofam4.yaml @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ URLs: Referenced Tracks: - Homestuck Title Screen Commentary: |- - <i>Lambda Elise Merryberry:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Lambda Elise Merryberry:</i> (booklet commentary) I'm, uh, actually not really much of a musician. I'm mostly just good at recognizing melodies. We didn't have anyone lined up to do the disc jingles (though I assumed maybe [[artist:veritas-unae|Veri]] would do then, as on LoFaM2+3) so I mentioned to [[artist:keyboard-cait|Cait]] that I had the idea of making each disc a song representative of each prior LoFaM. I sent her files of myself vocalizing the melodies and she transcribed them. @@ -304,11 +304,11 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Serenade - Beatdown (Strider Style) Commentary: |- - <i>Kouta:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Kouta:</i> (booklet commentary) After writing [[track:denizen-lofam4]], my only thought was that I really wanted to keep writing dubstep, but good dubstep. That was when I deicided to reach out to my good friend poly, who I'm a big fan of. Her dubstep is as great as her production skill, so at the time it was the perfect arrangement. It was hard working together long-distance, but we somehow made it work through all-nighter Skype calls and a lot of caffeine. The way our styles differ and yet somehow met in the middle helped make Merge exactly what I hoped it'd be. - <i>polysaw:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>polysaw:</i> (booklet commentary) Producing Merge was one of the most exciting projects I'd worked on in a long time. Kouta and I made a great team, and working with her pushed both of our boundaries well beyond our comfort zones. We got a lot of doubt from our friends about working with the caw and meow samples, but we were sure it was the perfect way to bring the song together. We were also heavy-handed with leitmotif from the original soundtrack, focusing on blending them in a way that was both interesting to listen to and recognizable. This was made with the utmost care, so give it a listen or ten. @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ Art Tags: - Frog Temple - Earth Commentary: |- - <i>cookiefonster:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>cookiefonster:</i> (booklet commentary) Similarly to several other songs on this album, this started as a rescore of [[flash:4665|[S] Jane: Enter]] for this collaborative project where people would come up with new music for all the flashes in Homestuck. The goal here was to make a song similar in style to [[Another Jungle]] (a very underappreciated song) without actually quoting it other than the way that song quotes [[Sburban Jungle]]. It was quite a challenge not borrowing anything else from other songs except for when I used a part of [[Oppa Toby Style]] towards the end, but this song was fun to make and I'm happy enough with the end result even if it's not as punchy as the original. @@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ Art Tags: - LoFaF - LoHaC Commentary: |- - <i>Circlejourney:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) This track was my very first piece of fanmusic, composed in 2013 immediately after I finished reading the Homestuck archive and adapted for LoFaM4 in 2016. It's an attempt to capture the joy I felt reading Homestuck for the first time, and a tribute to one of my favourite things about the comic—the juxtapositions of intimately small details against cold, fathomless space. @@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Sburban Jungle - Endless Climb Commentary: |- - <i>Shandy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Shandy:</i> (booklet commentary) This song was written to celebrate the reunion of Rose and Roxy in the 4/29/15 Homestuck update! It was so sweet and triumphant, so I tried to reflect that in the music. The main melody is structured kinf of like a call-and-response between the two of them. @@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ Art Tags: - Jack Noir - Prospit Commentary: |- - <i>Mmetafour:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Mmetafour:</i> (booklet commentary) A little piece I put together, thinking about the broken moon of Prospit during the final battle between Jack and PM. @@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ Art Tags: - Serenity - LoWaS Commentary: |- - <i>Whimsy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Whimsy:</i> (booklet commentary) This song in its early stages was meant to be about the medium and space. But as soon as it was put in a recording with appropriate instruments, it reminded me a lot more of LOWAS than anything else, so it just sort of became about that. All it took was a borderline distasteful amount of reverb to add a feeling of elevation, and it became Altitude. I always think of John's quest bed whenever I hear this song, probably just because it's the only really high-up point on the whole planet. @@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ Art Tags: - Jack Noir - LoTaK Commentary: |- - <i>TirantBacon:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>TirantBacon:</i> (booklet commentary) As an acknowledgement, this song in many ways was mostly inspired by the tune [["Black"]] by Radiation (or [[artist:toby-fox|Toby Fox]] I guess). I made this song as a "remix" of sorts of the song called [[track:midnight-suffer|"Midnight Suffers"]], something I made for the mostly popular fanventure, [[group:canmt|cool and new web comic]]. If anything, I'd say it was directly copied from Black, and that I did a mostly poor effort to recreate the style... Nonetheless, I did focus on trying to incorporate some transition points in the song where it would actually deviate from the original arrangement, and I suppose it works quite well even when it's not on paper. @@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ Art Tags: - Carapacians - Derse Commentary: |- - <i>ostrichlittledungeon:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>ostrichlittledungeon:</i> (booklet commentary) I'm actually not a huge fan of this song. See, I more or less made the whole album [[album:cyclica|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 [[album:cool-and-new-greatest-hits|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 [[artist:veritas-unae|Veri]]. Veri didn't like it. Bless you Veri. @@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Crystalanthemums - Negastrife Commentary: |- - <i>Viko Riféo:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Viko Riféo:</i> (booklet commentary) Wait why did this get on the album it sucks @@ -575,13 +575,13 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - track:daywalker-rise-contest Commentary: |- - <i>Catboss:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Catboss:</i> (booklet commentary) holy shiiiit it's uh that third track I made for the Homestuck music contest. wow. [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|remember that?]] that was so long ago. anyway this was a track for Kanaya, at that part where she comes back as a rainbow drinker and slaughters everyone. it's super great. I redid this track from the ground up for lofam 4, updated the flute playing and everything. Is it better? Is it worse? who knows, really - <i>Catboss:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://konec0.tumblr.com/post/22036395751/daywalker-rise)) + <i>Catboss:</i> ([Tumblr](https://konec0.tumblr.com/post/22036395751/daywalker-rise)) It occurs to me that I never did post the finished version of this, did I? @@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ Art Tags: - Jake - Skaia Commentary: |- - <i>Difarem:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Difarem:</i> (booklet commentary) This track has quite the story! It was originally meant to be fake "loading screen" music, to accompany a parodic video on the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team]] youtube channel about Overseer v3 (a web-based sburb web game, whose development team I used to be part of) being shut down by [[artist:what-pumpkin-games|What Pumpkin]] (though the C&D was later found out to be fake). The project fell through, so I continued working on it and posted it on the LOFAM Discord server, where it got approved (thanks [[artist:lambda-elise-merryberry|Lambda]]), though the deadline had technically passed. @@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ Art Tags: - Salamanders (consort) - LoWaS Commentary: |- - <i>Joe Ouellet:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Joe Ouellet:</i> (booklet commentary) John exploring the Land of Mounds and Xenon searching for his friends evoked some melancholy feels for me. @@ -726,7 +726,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Windchime Foley - Homestuck Anthem Commentary: |- - <i>keyboard cait:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>keyboard cait:</i> (booklet commentary) As one of the oddball Retcon Lovers out there, the scene where John becomes unstuck in canon is one of my favorite moments in the entire comic. Thinking about it inspired me to make a song about the retcon; specifically, the introduction of John's powers, followed by the way they're used to save the entire timeline from its catastrophic doom. This time around, the game gets completed... but maybe the ending isn't so happy, as we're reminded there's still four kids trapped in the retcon juju, waiting endlessly for freedom in paradox space. @@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ Art Tags: - Caliborn - Earth Commentary: |- - <i>Hadron:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Hadron:</i> (booklet commentary) This song is for [[group:canmt|Cool and New Webcomic]], but I like it a lot and a lot of people like it too, so I want the world to see it. It is inspired by a lot of the new-age synthpop, which itself is inspired by the 1980s. In this time of rapid community music projects being built I want y'all to remember; we're all musicians and that is the blood that festers throughout the body. We're all alike in our different ways. love you all thanks have fun :> @@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ Lyrics: |- all the quicker, I've learned... it's frightening how the tables can turn. Commentary: |- - <i>Helena Ruth:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Helena Ruth:</i> (booklet commentary) This is a song I wrote many years ago, from Terezi's point of view after she killed Vriska. When you look to the outcome of a choice, are you really seeing all that could be, or are you, by consequence of looking, only trapping yourself in the position of making that choice? You can't really see all that the future could hold. You couldn't take it, anyway. @@ -839,7 +839,7 @@ Art Tags: - Alternate Calliope - Green Sun Commentary: |- - <i>Veritas Unae:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Veritas Unae:</i> (booklet commentary) Originally, this piece was written for a good friend of mine, [[artist:patmandx|Patrick]]. He was running the fan adventure [[flash-act:loftlocked|Loftlocked]] at the time, and I'd supplied the comic with a lot of music in conjunction with [[artist:rnd|Kurtis]] (who is also on this album! Check him out!) Pat had approached me to write a haunting refrain for a harp playing character, Eliza. This theme would eventually form part of several songs written by Kurtis and myself, and the most prominent of which, Lamental, was made into another song, [[Infinity's Lament]]. It is a fun, jovial melody that turns darker as Eliza becomes less sure of herself and her playing. However, in a Homestuck specific context, consider Rose playing the rain, plucking strings but quickly finding herself at odds with her own land quest. Who knows? The beauty of music is that you can make your own interpretations. @@ -867,7 +867,7 @@ Art Tags: - Green Sun - Bladekind Commentary: |- - <i>psithurist:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>psithurist:</i> (booklet commentary) Limelight was made for the unfinished [[flash-act:act-8|Act 8]] fan continuation of Homestuck, and was used in the flash [[flash:resolve|[S] Resolve]]. 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 super 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. @@ -890,7 +890,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Bonehead Destiny - Unite Synchronization Commentary: |- - <i>Grace Medley:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Grace Medley:</i> (booklet commentary) This song was originally written for FLSA's [[album:weird-puzzle-tunes|Problem Sleuth album]], however those of you who've heard the original may notice some subtle differences. This song is meant to be a theme for late-game PS, with the first half representing the over-the-top surrealism of Higgs Bonehead's sacrifice, and the second, the far more interesting rush to beat DMK. I pretty much spent the ages 10-12 listening to Daft Punk and Digitalism near-exclusively, and I think the influence shines through pretty clearly here. The second half is a slight nod to the rush of [[flash:5252|[S] Dirk: Unite]] and [[flash:5238|Synchronize]], which I feel is stylistically similar to the pacing from the end of PS. @@ -914,7 +914,7 @@ Art Tags: - Horrorterrors - 'cw: body horror' Commentary: |- - <i>SplitSuns:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>SplitSuns:</i> (booklet commentary) This track was made for the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team's]] [[album:cool-and-new-volume-7|Volume 7]]. It was based on the hypothetical question "What if Rose went grimdark?" which was based off of a series of shitposts on the /r/homestuck subreddit. With this song, I tried to make it mirror the chain of events that occur to Rose before and after she goes grimdark in the comic. It starts off relatively simple, but quickly goes ominous and unsettling as she stares into the cueball in "Seer: Ask." Then suddenly the song explodes into a blistering drum-and-bass track with booming organs to tell you that, in fact, shit just got real. The song was meant to be reminiscent of [["Your Best Nightmare"]] from Undertale, and I hope I was able to pull that effect off. The song concludes in much the same way it began as Rose, in her newly darkened state, flies into space. All things considered, I had a lot of fun making this song. @@ -940,7 +940,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Greensleeves - Endless Climb Commentary: |- - <i>Shandy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Shandy:</i> (booklet commentary) Some ships may come and go, but Rosemary is forever. @@ -985,7 +985,7 @@ Commentary: |- At one point I described this as something along the lines of "electric Scottish war music", and that still stands. The melody in this song is absolutely iconic, if you ask me, and it gets INCREDIBLY amped. Maybe enough to see what lies under that voltaic fault. (Spoiler: It's just a lot of xenon.) Also, the lyrics to this song are "DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE". That is all. - <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://eidolonorpheus.tumblr.com/post/35806153737/the-voltaic-fault-land-of-mounds-and-xenon), WIP commentary, 11/15/2012) + <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> ([Tumblr](https://eidolonorpheus.tumblr.com/post/35806153737/the-voltaic-fault-land-of-mounds-and-xenon), WIP commentary, 11/15/2012) <b>The Voltaic Fault (Land of Mounds and Xenon)</b> @@ -1012,7 +1012,7 @@ Art Tags: - Aradia - Alternia Commentary: |- - <i>David Dycus:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>David Dycus:</i> (booklet commentary) This started out as an attempt to make a song in the style of [[artist:death-grips|Death Grips]], but ended up going in a different direction. It was a challenge to try and make something equal parts creepy and danceable. @@ -1040,7 +1040,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Courser - track:courage-jjba Commentary: |- - <i>Interrobang:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Interrobang:</i> (booklet commentary) This song began when I was messing around and thought I wanted to make some v a p o r w a v e. I really like the glitchy sections of [[Gold Pilot]], and my initial plan was to slow those parts down, loop them, add drums, etc - the usual vaporwave stuff - thats also how it got its name, thanks to its project file. However once this started to happen I realized what I had written was very different, and that it had turned into some strange Gold Pilot remix. While I worked on other things for UMSPAF and [[group:canmt|CANMT]], this song was on the back burner and I wasn't sure I'd actually finish it, but I stuck with it and just added things as they came to me (I'll admit that [[artist:lambda-elise-merryberry|Lambda]] showing some interest in the song was a bit of motivation). At some point one of the later versions ended up getting accepted to LOFAM4, which was a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one, and so I wrapped up production. @@ -1078,7 +1078,7 @@ Track Artwork: - Horrorterrors - LoLaR Commentary: |- - <i>olegoleg123:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>olegoleg123:</i> (booklet commentary) Aura of Colour is one of my older tracks, originally completely unrelated to Homestuck and only then adapted as a theme for Rose and submitted as such. It is the piece that marked my transition form straightup EDM to more VGM-styled music. @@ -1100,7 +1100,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Orchid Horror Commentary: |- - <i>slogbait:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>slogbait:</i> (booklet commentary) This was supposed to be a fill in track for a finished trackart for [[album:lofam2|LOFAM2]] about Calmasis and I liked it and pianos @@ -1128,7 +1128,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - English - Rex Duodecim Angelus Commentary: |- - <i>The Great Anansi:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>The Great Anansi:</i> (booklet commentary) En Masse is actually a remastering of sorts of the very first Homestuck remix (and just generally one of the first songs ever) that I made about five or six years ago, because this was conceptualized around when Homestuck was ending last year to be a commemoration of the webcomic that sparked so much creative energy in me and catalyzed about 99% of my current friendships. I was keen on having it be grand and sweeping—essentially, doing everything my initial remix did, except bigger and badder than ever before. To that end, I started tossing in some extra motifs and making the composition even mroe frantic than before, but I was keen on keeping the overall rhythm and classical-esque style of [[Scratch]]; it's been a very long time since the cueball-head was directly relevant, but it's important to remember that that's where so much started! The project encountered some severe snags due to various real life troubles and motivation issues, but thanks to the support of the LOFAM team, it's finally been brought to life and I'm back on my feet with bountiful motivation. I might be a bit rocky, but it's only going up from here! @@ -1146,7 +1146,7 @@ URLs: Cover Artists: - Griever Commentary: |- - <i>Viridian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Viridian:</i> (booklet commentary) I was listening to [[album:strife-2|STRIIFE]] right when it came out, then I thought, "Hey, this is fucking amazing" so I was inspired to make a [[artist:tensei|Tensei]]-esque song. Its success is still unclear, but I like it. I hope you enjoy. @@ -1173,7 +1173,7 @@ Art Tags: - 'cw: body horror' - 'cw: eye horror' Commentary: |- - <i>Seijen:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Seijen:</i> (booklet commentary) "how do I make a future bass song without sounding generic or like a total douche?" you don't, youre a douche. Accept it and move on with life. The only saving grace this track has is the tempo. Most future bass is 130 or 144. Nah fam, we're going 150 on this since 150 and 175 are all I know. This track was exclusively made with harmor and maybe 1 serum. Fuck the system, and fuck my CPU since like [[exsanguinated]], FL crashes 3/4 of the times I try to open the tracks. RIP the dream. @@ -1199,7 +1199,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Sampled Tracks: - track:7-grand-end Commentary: |- - <i>Noisemaker:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Noisemaker:</i> (booklet commentary) An extension of a very, very short segment of a group collaboration ([[7 GRAND END]] from the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team]]), it seemed unfitting to leave something like this in its short, unfinished state. @@ -1299,7 +1299,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Sburban Jungle - Flare Commentary: |- - <i>Jamie Paige:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Jamie Paige:</i> (booklet commentary) Well, here I am again. Paige Stanley, closing disc 1 of a LOFAM, [[track:prospitian-lullaby|4 years after I last did it]]. In that time, I technically became an Official Music Team Contributor!! I helped my dear friend [[artist:marcy-nabors|Marcy Nabors]] with creating [[Solar Voyage]] and [[Renewed Return]] from [[album:homestuck-vol-10|Volume 10]]. I got 12 bucks on Paypal from [[artist:what-pumpkin-games|What Pumpkin]] for that! [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew Hussie]] bought me lunch! I got burgs with homestuck money! @@ -1332,7 +1332,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Jackpot Commentary: |- - <i>Lambda Elise Merryberry:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Lambda Elise Merryberry:</i> (booklet commentary) For a lot of people LoFaM2 is the best (released) LoFaM, which is... sort of weird, as someone that did it. Personally, I sort of think of [[album:lofam2|2]] and [[album:lofam3|3]] as parts of one whole because they were so close in proudction and a number of songs were moved from the former to the latter. @@ -1375,7 +1375,7 @@ Track Artwork: Referenced Tracks: - Upward Movement (Dave Owns) Commentary: |- - <i>Kevin Grant:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Kevin Grant:</i> (booklet commentary) This song was made, unsurprisingly, during one of the many Hiatuses that Homestuck had over the years. I wanted to capture the feeling of hopeful waiting combined with the sadness that came with the lack of content. @@ -1437,7 +1437,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Aggrieve - Oh Hi There, Lil Cal Commentary: |- - <i>keyboard cait:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>keyboard cait:</i> (booklet commentary) Initially, I was going to compose this as one of those classic "ironically bad" songs, which I love dearly. At some point, it became clear I was going to drive it in a bit of a different direction, and then a few more directions, until I'd pretty much done a sick 360 degree spin across the musical canvas that is FL Studio. Wow that was kind of a weird metaphor? All in all, what you hear is what you get, and that's pretty much all I have to say on the matter. I don't want to take up too much of the commentary space, so I'll leave the rest of it to Nick and... uh, well, yeah. @@ -1638,7 +1638,7 @@ Lyrics: |- (That was the plan, to give you a— seven hundred and twenty— and you got one. Bada-bing, bada-boom, baby!) Commentary: |- - <i>Ngame:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Ngame:</i> (booklet commentary) 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. @@ -1664,7 +1664,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Aggrieve - Chorale for Jaspers Commentary: |- - <i>Noisemaker:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Noisemaker:</i> (booklet commentary) Initially from call and new 2: locomotif under the name Excess Express, I wanted Schrödinger's Harbinger to be Jasprose-themed to compensate for the lack of tracks in that category, as well as to make some additions to the original trakc. @@ -1684,7 +1684,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Squiddles Commentary: |- - <i>Marcy Nabors:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Marcy Nabors:</i> (booklet commentary) I'm a bit fuzzy where this song came from. I made this sometime in the summer of 2011, and I remember sending it to [[artist:alex-rosetti|Alex Rosetti]] as a token of my appreciation for his work shaping the musical palette of the Squiddles universe. The friend who got me into Homestuck (now Alex's partner and roommate) came up with the title. I think this was the last thing I made in Logic Pro before my ill-fated stint bumbling around in FL Studio for the latter portion of 2011. I love you Logic, I'm sorry I ever left. @@ -1754,7 +1754,7 @@ Art Tags: - Jade - Prospit Commentary: |- - <i>SerialSymphony:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>SerialSymphony:</i> (booklet commentary) Prospit Towers took cues from the [[album:genesis-frog|Genesis Frog]] album, as well as inspiration from tracks like [[Moonsetter]]. I wanted something subdued but moving to capture the feel of the moon. Also, I'm on LOFAM, hi mom! @@ -1804,7 +1804,7 @@ Lyrics: |- But you and I are still flaming red You and I are still flaming red Commentary: |- - <i>Tamara Fritz:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Tamara Fritz:</i> (booklet commentary) I wrote this pretty soon after [the Openbound walkaround](https://www.homestuck.com/story/5263), and it was the first fansong I really felt amazingly proud of. Gotta love that sadstuck. @@ -1870,7 +1870,7 @@ Commentary: |- <img src="media/misc/grimbark-scare.jpg" width="120" warning="body horror"> - <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> (composer, [SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/wellmanicuredman/grimbark)) + <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/wellmanicuredman/grimbark)) Happy 4/13, everybody! @@ -1923,7 +1923,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Requited Commentary: |- - <i>David Dycus:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>David Dycus:</i> (booklet commentary) [[artist:clark-powell|Plazmataz]] is amazing. @@ -1979,7 +1979,7 @@ Art Tags: - 'cw: decapitation (abstract)' - 'cw: blood' Commentary: |- - <i>ostrichlittledungeon:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>ostrichlittledungeon:</i> (booklet commentary) Written for the Cool and New Music Team's [[album:cool-and-new-homestuck-2|Cool and New Homestuck 2]], this is an attempt to remix [[Unite Synchronization]] in a way that fits better thematically with [[flash:5238|[S] Dirk: Synchronize]] and [[flash:5252|[S] Dirk: Unite.]] Some of the things I worked in were [[Orange Hat]] when Dirk wakes up, for example, [[track:metamorphic-choices|Metamorphic Choices]] when the kernelsprite appears, [[Hate You]] for Meenah's cameo... Dirk's scateboard-riding I represented with [[Moshi Moshi?]], a theme that's admittedly been a bit of a stickymotif for me (I've used it in way too many compositions). I like Moshi for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that it goes so well with so many things. What can I say? I like mashing themes together. @@ -2059,7 +2059,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Fractal Flowers - Creeping in My Soul Commentary: |- - <i>Kal-la-kal-la:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Kal-la-kal-la:</i> (booklet commentary) This piece was originally written for [[album:weird-puzzle-tunes|a different album]], centered around the theme of Problem Sleuth. Given the jazz-era vibe of Problem Sleuth I decided I'd make something jazzy, and I figured it'd be nice to do a downtempo sort of theme, which I originally intended to represent the character of Godhead Pickles Inspector. With that in mind I sort of set to work trying to find a jazz chord progression that worked. After a bunch of fiddling about at the piano, the one I ended up with draws a lot from ["My Favourite Things"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWG2dsXV5HI) and ["Nardis"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzWpVwLcMps), and so I worked out a melody of sorts over that in Ableton. Saxes are pretty much standard for jazz, and I picked a Rhodes soundfont over a piano owing to a distaste for the way a lot of piano patches sound. The sax solo I sequenced manually, and the accordion solo I reocrded as an improv. @@ -2088,7 +2088,7 @@ Art Tags: - Crowbar - Felt Mansion Commentary: |- - <i>Cryptanark:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Cryptanark:</i> (booklet commentary) AKA The One Time I Sold Out to LOFAM, Ringleader is a Crowbar song I had a lot of fun throwing together. I tried incorporating aspects of jazz and rock solbos, in addition to experimenting with a 7/8 time signature. I'm pleasantly surprised at how it turned out, considering how obtuse the concept felt to me when I was first planning out the track. Blah blah blah check out [[group:canmt|cool and new webcomic]] please @@ -2162,7 +2162,7 @@ Lyrics: |- (We’re not quite done yet kiddos. Let’s board the fanmusic train and keep it rollin'!) Commentary: |- - <i>Veritas Unae:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Veritas Unae:</i> (booklet commentary) I'm really sorry I delayed this album. I hope this is worth it. @@ -2242,7 +2242,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Endless Climb - Atomyk Ebonpyre Commentary: |- - <i>Marcy Nabors:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Marcy Nabors:</i> (booklet commentary) This song represents a lot of firsts for me. My first piece of Homestuck fan music, my first time composing for an ensemble of orchestral instruments, and the uh... second song I ever wrote in a digital audio workstation. I read Homestuck in a feverish marathon in the Fall of 2010 while taking a class about playing in a rock band and recording music (my high school was very cool). Around that time, I'd also been sequencing MIDI files in Anvil Studio (a program which was also the genesis of [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|Bowman's]] MIDI experience), and had only recently discovered that Logic also had MIDI sequencing capabilities. After falling madly in love with the Homestuck soundtrack, I had an epiphany to the tune of "holy shit, I know how to make stuff like that!" and Atomyk Clockwyrk was thus the result. I've come a long way since then, but it's a testament to the quality of Logic Pro's stock library that I managed to make it sound this good with minimal knowledge of production. A little volume automation, slap a limiter on top (not even Logic's wonderful Adaptive Limiter? Come ON, 16-year old Marcy...), and blam, what you're hearing today is a time capsule of what I put together in December of 2010. @@ -2306,7 +2306,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Sburban Jungle Commentary: |- - <i>keyboard cait:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>keyboard cait:</i> (booklet commentary) This is by far my oldest song on the album, having been created only a couple of months after [[album:lofam2|LOFAM 2's]] release. The image of the Alpha Kids talking out their problems [on cold stone slabs, in the middle of a hollow moon's core,](https://www.homestuck.com/story/5790) really stuck with me. I set out to make a theme that would convey the melancholy, expansive atmosphere of that scene. The long pauses give off a sense of unsureness, while the echoing background noises bring us back to the chaos currently happening on the planet surface. @@ -2343,7 +2343,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Hate You - track:ruins Commentary: |- - <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (booklet commentary) This song originated as a battle theme for Roxy, but as I moved along in the process, I thought "Hey, wouldn't it be cool to make some kind of medley for all of the alpha kids when they got their god tiers that would be pretty cool wouldn't it?" and started what at the time was the most ambitious song I made yet. @@ -2416,7 +2416,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - LoLaR Commentary: |- - <i>SplitSuns:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>SplitSuns:</i> (booklet commentary) This track was made for the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team's]] [[album:canwave|CANWAVE]], an album entirely of Homestuck vaporwave parodies. This song in particular is a vaporwave edit of [[Endless Climb]], hence the name. I tried to extend the vaporwave feel beyond just slowing the song down, splicing and editing the original song in interesting ways, adding 80's style instruments, and utilizing pitchbend and other distortion effects to provide an uneasy feel. The result is something that transcends meme status and enters "dream status," if you will. Actually that sounds kind of dumb. Forget I said that. @@ -2440,7 +2440,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Beatup Commentary: |- - <i>Riki Tsuji:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://dog-noise.tumblr.com/post/45886620733)) + <i>Riki Tsuji:</i> ([Tumblr](https://dog-noise.tumblr.com/post/45886620733)) a new Homestuck remix, this is actually a remix of [[track:beatup|a remix]] by myself and [[artist:clark-powell|Clark]] that’s going to be on an official release that is going to happen sometime in the future and that is all that I can say on the matter. @@ -2472,7 +2472,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Doctor - Sburban Jungle Commentary: |- - <i>Cerulean:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Cerulean:</i> (booklet commentary) I wanted to combine several things I learned while at college but the only way I knew how was to mash together 3 of my most favourite songs together, [[Doctor]], [[track:beatdown-strider-style|Beatdown]] and [[track:sburban-jungle|Jungle]]. @@ -2499,7 +2499,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:assail-jailbreak - Jackknive Commentary: |- - <i>Mathias Ramalho:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Mathias Ramalho:</i> (booklet commentary) This track is a joke. It doesn't have a serious purpose. But it is, in fact, an 8-bit track I worked quite hard to make sound good. If you love 8-bit and [[artist:rj-lake|RJ]], then this is the track just for you! @@ -2583,7 +2583,7 @@ Art Tags: - Maplehoof - Horses Commentary: |- - <i>Hadron:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Hadron:</i> (booklet commentary) I really like Arquiussprite; he gets me at a fundamental level. He doesn't swear, he is super into technology, he loves horses, and is just all around a pure sprite; too bad Andrew BYBooted him into Lord English. why do that to a pure horse boy @@ -2607,7 +2607,7 @@ Art Tags: - Bees - Alternia Commentary: |- - <i>cookiefonster:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>cookiefonster:</i> (booklet commentary) You know, it's pretty funny that some [[group:canmt|Cool and New Webcomic]] songs (such as this one) are being re-released on this album, but at the same time it's kind of fitting, since after [[album:homestuck-vol-10|Volume 10]] was released, the CaNWC soundtrack helped reignite the notion of Homestuck fan music. @@ -2642,7 +2642,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Sburban Jungle - Atomyk Ebonpyre Commentary: |- - <i>Shandy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Shandy:</i> (booklet commentary) A track to celebrate the Striders finally talking and hashing out their differences! Because it's a Striders song, I couldn't help adding a little breakdown. Sharp-eared listeners may also note that in the call-and-response main melody, the first synth is in 4/4 time and the second synth is in triplets—just as Dave and Dirk aren't quite in perfect lockstep. I left the ending open ended and hopeful, because I feel like the final chapter on their relationship has yet to be written. @@ -2679,7 +2679,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Skaian Skirmish - Homestuck Anthem Commentary: |- - <i>Rhyselinn:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rhyselinn:</i> (booklet commentary) [[The Beginning of Something Really Excellent]] is a fun song that takes place early in the story when not much is known about the world of Homestuck. The End of Something Really Excellent is a song I wrote as kind of a book end, a symbolic song that encapsulates the journey all the characters went on, and kind of retells it in song format. From the beginning the kids went into Sburb ([[Sburban Jungle]]), learned the mythos of the Medium ([[Skies of Skaia]]), took upon them the mantle of heroes ([[Dawn of Man]]), explored their worlds ([[Doctor]], [[Endless Climb]], [[Atomyk Ebonpyre]], [[track:frost-vol6|Frost]]), did a bunch of stuff to salvage their session ([[track:cascade-beta|Cascade]]), scratched their session and made a new one ([[Another Jungle]], [[Even in Death]]), reflected on the journey they went on ([[Do You Remem8er Me]]), fought a great final battle for the sake of the session ([[Skaian Skirmish]]), and beat the game of Sburb (reprise of Sburban Jungle), and with it reached the end of the story. And so did the readers. @@ -2737,11 +2737,11 @@ Referenced Tracks: - English - Homestuck Anthem Commentary: |- - <i>psithurist:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>psithurist:</i> (booklet commentary) So I started this track about two years ago when I was much less experienced with production and workflow, and working on it more recently has become kind of a nightmare. It's about the story of the cherubs: Caliborn's domination, the rise of Lord English, Calliope's isolation, and her alternate self's ultimate sacrifice. The working title was "Damara's Descent", and the whispers are actually edited recordings of exposition about Damara, but the theme changed pretty early on. Thanks to Lucas Haggett for performing bass on this track! - <i>psithurist:</i> (composer, [SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/psithurist/the-sin-and-the-salvation)) + <i>psithurist:</i> ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/psithurist/the-sin-and-the-salvation)) this track has been in the works for a very, very long time (since 2014 i think?). feels good to finally get it out. the longest and most ambitious track i've ever made, telling the story of the cherub siblings in three movements. enjoy, love from jo psithurist, xoxox @@ -2765,7 +2765,7 @@ Art Tags: - Gamzee - Rabbit Commentary: |- - <i>Noisemaker:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Noisemaker:</i> (booklet commentary) This track almost didn't see the light of day. I submitted it for the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team's]] credits music contest, and ended up pulling an admirable 3rd place. At first, the track wasn't going to be used in the credits mix (partially due to recieving 3rd place, but also because it fell short of the 7 minute length requirement), but, after a miracle on-par with the birth of Christ took place, Resend was just barely able to squeeze in due to a mandatory meme credits addition. @@ -2792,7 +2792,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Starblaze Commentary: |- - <i>Lambda Elise Merryberry:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Lambda Elise Merryberry:</i> (booklet commentary) Finding a suitable song for a disc jingle from [[album:lofam3|LoFaM3]] was... sort of a struggle, really. I didn't want to do something based too heavily on another song (e.g. [[Emissary of Dance]], [[track:garden-of-eden-part-1|Garden of Eden]], [[I'm Not a Hero]], or [[Thermporia]]) and I really didn't want to do something memey/jokey (i.e. [[Theme of the Slam Jam]], [[JOHN DO THE WINDY THING]], or [[Sord]]). @@ -2826,7 +2826,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - 'Main Theme (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)' - Sunsetter Commentary: |- - <i>Marcy Nabors:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Marcy Nabors:</i> (booklet commentary) Back in 2016 I got together with [[artist:rj-lake|RJ Lake]] and [[artist:james-roach|James Roach]] to compile [[album:homestuck-vol-10|Homestuck Vol. 10]]. Everyone was pretty hyped, and there were threads in various places full of people feverishly speculating about what the tracklist would be. Much of this speculation focused on whether [[artist:toby-fox|Toby Fox's]] elusive song [[Penumbra Phantasm]] would finally see release, founded on the rumor that he had agreed to finish it for the album. @@ -2834,7 +2834,7 @@ Commentary: |- A year later we've completed this track, and now the latter third of the song is just a power metal cover of [[track:main-theme-the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild|the Breath of the Wild theme]], but that's a story for another day. Ask me sometime - <i>Jamie Paige|[[artist:jamie-paige|<span style="color: yellow; font-family: cursive; font-size: 1.1em">Jamie Paige</span>]]:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Jamie Paige|[[artist:jamie-paige|<span style="color: yellow; font-family: cursive; font-size: 1.1em">Jamie Paige</span>]]:</i> (booklet commentary) 🅱️ @@ -2888,7 +2888,7 @@ Commentary: |- (Note: Don't do drugs, kids. Note 2: Don't even THINK of doing meth, trust on this one, please. Note 3: This isn't actually all-new, it's been around since 2013, but BOY is it still a doozy. Note 4: This is a remix of a remix of a remix. Are you a bad enough dude (or any casual moniker of your choice) to continue the chain? Note 5: I've run out of ntoes, so I guess... enjoy the song?!?!?) - <i>Riki Tsuji:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://dog-noise.tumblr.com/post/53629861790), 6/22/2013) + <i>Riki Tsuji:</i> ([Tumblr](https://dog-noise.tumblr.com/post/53629861790), 6/22/2013) YO U HOMESTUX AINT READY 4 DEEZ DROPS DOE<br> THIS SOME REAL SHIT RITE HERE<br> @@ -2937,7 +2937,7 @@ Art Tags: - 'cw: blood' - 'cw: decapitation' Commentary: |- - <i>SplitSuns:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>SplitSuns:</i> (booklet commentary) This track was originally made for the Cool and New Music Team's ["Cool and New Homestuck"](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMXVVm-BDvr9G2C_sk0OSKpZuxGzsIAh-) project, remixing and parodying the various Homestuck Flashes. In case you can't tell, this song is a parody of [[Time on my Side]]. I mostly played it straight to the original song, changing the instrumentation and adding some twists of my own. Of course, there's some jokes thrown into the mix as well, such as the [[track:axel-f-crazy-frog|Crazy Frog]] theme song, [[Waters of Nazareth]], and other subtle additions. All in all, I hope you like this song! It's good enough for [[artist:tensei|Tensei]] to say "this is pretty good," so make of that what you will. @@ -2973,7 +2973,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Celestial Fantasia - Homestuck Anthem Commentary: |- - <i>Hadron:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Hadron:</i> (booklet commentary) 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgw1yxGLStI) of CANH. I knew from the start that I wanted to do an upbeat EDM-styled track, and I thought a remix of [[artist:seth-peelle|Beatfox's]] original [[Creata]] would be spectacular. @@ -2995,7 +2995,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Beatdown (Strider Style) Commentary: |- - <i>Whimsy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Whimsy:</i> (booklet commentary) I'd been trying to make a Strider theme for quite some time, when this idea struck me: What if instead of writing a strider theme, I wrote THREE STRIDER THEMES? And then shoehorn in a variant of [[track:beatdown-strider-style|Beatdown]] because why not. @@ -3019,7 +3019,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Horses Commentary: |- - <i>Emelia K.:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Emelia K.:</i> (booklet commentary) made for redditstuck. homestuck is bad @@ -3043,7 +3043,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Pushing Onwards - Sunsetter Commentary: |- - <i>Viridian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Viridian:</i> (booklet commentary) This was one of my first truly good songs, having distinct sections. Also included my first guitar solo. At the time of creation, I was playing VVVVVV, and is now one of my favorite games of all time (the music being especially good). I hope y'all enjoy. @@ -3074,7 +3074,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Formation - Sburban Jungle Commentary: |- - <i>ostrichlittledungeon:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>ostrichlittledungeon:</i> (booklet commentary) This is the song on LOFAM 4 that I'm most proud of, and was the most fun to make. Yes, it's [[Gold Pilot]]. Yes there are like [[track:blind-pilot|seven]] [[track:pilotwave|other]] [[track:expanses-of-interstellar-space|songs]] on LOFAM 4 that use Gold Pilot. But I do think I did a lot with it, and this piece showcases a bunch of different things. It starts with pretty standard Gold Pilot, and then slowly grows into the subversion that is the [[track:gunshow-2-theme-instrumental|Gunshow 2 Theme]], followed by a drop. Then there's a section inspired by [[Of Gods and Witches]], then whatever the fuck happens at 1:42. Bring back the Gold Pilot with a new beat, and then end with [[Formation]]. Dumb weird fadeout that I definitely could've improved somehow but I was lazy. I wrote -Omega- Timeline with the Game Over timeline in mind—the dark feel and the choirs peppered throughout reflect the devastation to the A2 session, the Of Gods and Witches section is somewhat of a tribute to... dead kids? And the next section is a tribute to... uh, the happiness that's gone? I don't know, come up with some meaning there yourself. Most of this piece was me going for a specific feel rather than a specific meaning. Also, the dashes in the name are more for my own amusement than anything. -ω- @@ -3099,7 +3099,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Carne Vale - English Commentary: |- - <i>Grace Medley:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Grace Medley:</i> (booklet commentary) This song started out as a test to see if I could replicate that bassy blare from every major action film trailer from the past six or so years. Then, it evolved into a [[Rhapsody in Green]] cover, and the rest is history. While making this I had the image of the Midnight Crew's casino burning down as Spades struggles to escape, then I re-thought it over with Lord English's arrival into Jack's body, then Jake's battle against the leprechauns, until I eventually decided, "as long as it's Felt-themed, this song is about it". There are a few references to Felt-based songs in here, too. The aforementioned Rhapsody in Green, the eerie variation of [[English]] from early on in [[Carne Vale]], the opening from [[Afraid of the Darko]] (although quite drastically rewritten for a cinematic vibe) and a hopeful piano reprise of Carne Vale as a reflection of the first defeat Jake had left the Felt with. Then it concludes with the tail-end of English, because the Felt never truly stay down. @@ -3146,7 +3146,7 @@ Art Tags: - Gate - Lotus Commentary: |- - <i>Lark Mordancy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Lark Mordancy:</i> (booklet commentary) This song was inspired by the cosmogonical aspects of the MSPA universe(s), and by those universes' cryptic curators. @@ -3174,7 +3174,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Rhapsody in Green - Rex Duodecim Angelus Commentary: |- - <i>Viko Riféo:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Viko Riféo:</i> (booklet commentary) I honestly can't believe this got in. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm satisfied with it, but seriously this took ages to get to a publishable state. @@ -3209,7 +3209,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - A Baby Legend - The Baby is 2 - Dirgeish Commentary: |- - <i>Kanishka:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Kanishka:</i> (booklet commentary) The song itself is supposed to be some kind of a ham-fisted theme for the Reckoning, and its name refers both to Skaia being bombarded with meteors and Prospit moon crashing into the battlefield with no survivors. @@ -3244,7 +3244,7 @@ Art Tags: - John - LoWaS Commentary: |- - <i>Kouta:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Kouta:</i> (booklet commentary) This was my first foray into dubstep, and looking back on it, I could have done a lot better. I wrote this as a sort of mock-up "flash soundtrack", hitting a lot of different styles at different points in the song. At the time, though, I was experimenting with a lot of different things, and it's actually pretty good for what it was. This was also my entrance into sampling, which helped me get the experience needed to start writing newer, fresher material, by listening to other peoples' far better material. @@ -3274,7 +3274,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Endless Climb - Even in Death Commentary: |- - <i>Interrobang:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Interrobang:</i> (booklet commentary) The song that eventually came to be known as Ultimate Alchemy started at a time I found myself listening to Volume 7's [[Earthsea Borealis]], which remains one of my favorite Homestuck songs ever. One day, a melody popped into my head, and I started writing. At some point in the composition process I decided I might as well try to submit the song to LOFAM4, and with quite a bit of much-appreciated feedback from the judges, got it into a completed state. The biggest surprise as I was finishing up work occurred when [[artist:viko-rifeo]] pointed out that what I had thought was the original melody throughout the song was in fact [[Bilious]], which is a great song from the [[album:genesis-frog|Genesis Frog]] album that I had embarrassingly forgotten about. @@ -3340,7 +3340,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - English - Eternity Served Cold Commentary: |- - <i>keyboard cait:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>keyboard cait:</i> (booklet commentary) I always figured "Juju Breaker" would be a cool name for a song, so I kept that name in mind and centered the feel of this song around it. It's a track about Crowbar, but more specifically Crowbar's crowbar. Its long chronology goes nearly entirely under the radar, as does the smooth green mobster named after it. Think of this track as a means towards rectifying that. @@ -3416,7 +3416,7 @@ Art Tags: - Alternate Calliope - Dream Bubbles Commentary: |- - <i>Shandy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Shandy:</i> (booklet commentary) It always struck me how different alt!Calliope was from her friendly, happy-go-lucky counterpart—she almost seemed like a different character. Alt!Calliope had given up on ever feeling happy or fulfilled. She only had a single solitary purpose left to her: to die. I wrote this song as a melancholy elegy for a lost soul. @@ -3448,7 +3448,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Endless Climb - Even in Death Commentary: |- - <i>Joe Ouellet:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Joe Ouellet:</i> (booklet commentary) Dream bubbles allow the various players of Sburb a chance at an Everlasting life. I wanted to illustrate the feeling of traversing these bubbles and exploring the infinite possibilities they create. @@ -3609,7 +3609,7 @@ Art Tags: - Green Sun - Dream Bubbles Commentary: |- - <i>Musical Panini:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Musical Panini:</i> (booklet commentary) This song didn't actually start out as a Homestuck song when I was first making it. It went from tune stuck in my head, then into a random song that I was calling Metallic Mayhem, then into Flare, then into a practice in motifs, then into what is now apparently my most popular by far! @@ -3656,7 +3656,7 @@ Art Tags: - Kanaya - 'cw: blood' Commentary: |- - <i>Seijen:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Seijen:</i> (booklet commentary) time and time again I make a drum and bass song and im never satisfied with the drum mix. Like the time before and that time before. The snare is powerful but the kicks are never too prominent without being overtly compressed. Its always the same as the last time. But this track was a little different, instead I said "ooh that was horrible" because like the time before the kicks never seem to be enough. Its just the same as the last time. But those basses though. so ill. I feel sick now. Just like that time I ate at that Chinese place. I got sick there the time before but that was a year before. "Oh that was so gross" I uttered after taking my first bite of that gen. tso chicken. It was just the same as the last time. @@ -3680,7 +3680,7 @@ Art Tags: - Kurloz - LoTaM Commentary: |- - <i>Noisemaker:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Noisemaker:</i> (booklet commentary) If some of you thought this was [[le canrival]] from Cool and New Webcomic's V8LUME, then you'd be right! I initially made le canrival as a Cool and New Webcomic track, but the folks over on the Land of Fans and Music team took some interest in it. So, we arranged to have it put on the next LOFAM, under a new, more classy name. @@ -3725,7 +3725,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Theme of Eastern Story - Magical Hopalong Cassidy Station Commentary: |- - <i>keyboard cait:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>keyboard cait:</i> (booklet commentary) This song was formed out of a spontaneous idea by the LOFAM team to create a song about the happy fruits Jade carries along with her in Act 3, as well as Toby Fox's "fan character" [[track:an-apple-disaster|Apple Girlington]], who was based on the ever-popular Touhou Project series. These intersecting characters united for one song, and the result is a mega-medley featuring references to songs from Homestuck, Touhou, Toby Fox's Touhou improvisations and... Undertale? Yeah! As progress of the song went along, I envisioned it perhaps being made by the Beta Kids in-universe. All their corresponding instruments are here, after all. [[flash:830|Remember when they'd collaborate on songs and post it to each other on FreshJamz?]] Good times. @@ -3781,7 +3781,7 @@ Art Tags: - Rose - LoLaR Commentary: |- - <i>Nights:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Nights:</i> (booklet commentary) This piece was originally [[track:rozepiano|for CaNMT]], although it was still about the character Rose Lalonde. Perhaps you're wondering why someone would release a track on CaNMT, before putting it on LoFaM, but that was due to my joining LoFaM after this song was published. I worked on this song for nearly 2 months, so the production was a pretty complicated process - but at least I could finish it. It doesn't matter how long it took, what matters is that it's done. Originally, using pianos wasn't a part of my plan - the step before it was to use violins and Pavellion strings, because violin is Rose's instrument. But I couldn't pull it off so I switched to extremely romantic pianos midway through production. However, if I did take the pianos off I feel this track would've suffered a lot of pain, barring its size. In the end there really wasn't much that survived of my original image of this track, but I'm still happy with what I ended up with. Lightfall was my first song published anywhere, so you could say this is a big song for me. @@ -3806,7 +3806,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Black Commentary: |- - <i>Sean "Flare" Gorter:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Sean "Flare" Gorter:</i> (booklet commentary) The base idea for this song's groove came about in late 2011 when I noticed the repeated piano riff was just an E-flat blues scale [[artist:toby-fox|Radiation]] messed with, and I started laying it over a Latin-style chord rhythm and liked what I heard. I thought to myself, "this must be what it sounds like when the Midnight Crew just jams", and before I knew it I had a remix idea in my head. Something I've always loved about the original mix I did, poorly executed as it was, was how it took an idea we know to be so dark within the Homestuck universe and turned it into a light, relaxing, foot-tapping piece, something the Crew might have done in happier times. @@ -3830,7 +3830,7 @@ Art Tags: - Lil Cal - Earth Commentary: |- - <i>SplitSuns:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>SplitSuns:</i> (booklet commentary) This song was originally made for the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team]], but I went with a much more Homestuck slant than a cool and new one for this track. I wanted to take [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|Upward Movement]] and change it into something more EDM and techno, so I chopped and screwed traditional strings and mixed them with the powerful drum tracks and synths you hear in the song. I wanted to include motifs from both Dave and Nepeta as they're two halves of Davepeta's whole. I also incorporated caws and meows for the same effect. Finally, I put the Undertale track [[CORE]] in the song because of that one scene in [[flash:8087|EOA6]] ([you know the one.](https://youtu.be/Y5wYN6rB_Rg?t=670)⁠) There's an additional reference at that point if you're listening carefully! Although this song was challenging to make, I think it turned out very well in the end. @@ -3854,7 +3854,7 @@ Art Tags: - Aradia - Skaia Commentary: |- - <i>ostrichlittledungeon:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>ostrichlittledungeon:</i> (booklet commentary) God, this was so much work. Oh yeah, and I lost the first half of the project file towards the end so I couldn't go back and edit it. Ugh. But all in all, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. The original plan was to go through the [[group:canmt|CANMT]] discography and pick the most iconic songs over time. If you're unfamiliar with its discography, I highly recommend you at least [[group-gallery:canmt|go give it a glance]]. I roughly settled on using [[Cascante]], [[Tick]]/[[Tock]], [[Fruity Pebbles Redux]], [[album:gunshow-singalong|Gunshow]], [[Rex Mille Geromius]], [[Doctor]] and [[Penumbra Phantasm]] ([[album:cool-and-new-volume-v|cool and new vol V]]), [[Contra]] (from [[album:cool-and-new-homestuck|Cool and New Homestuck]]), [[Moshi Moshi]], [[Final Confrontation]], [[Unintentional Touhou]], [[track:in-the-beginning-basement-tale|In the Beginning]]/[[Contact]], [[Formation]], [[Jungle #3]], [[Muse of Nanchos]], [[track:meet-the-flintstones|Flintstones]], [[track:gunshow-2-theme-instrumental|Gunshow 2]], and of course, [[track:rollercoaster-tycoon-theme|the RCT theme]] and [[Bowman's credit score]]. Shoutouts to [[artist:difarem|Difarem]] for making the "it's between my buttocks" vocaloid for me. Revisit/Rewind, which is based heavily on [[Ascend]], was released as the Cool and New Homestuck song for [\[S] Credits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UTMPTX45F8). @@ -3917,7 +3917,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Homestuck - Penumbra Phantasm Commentary: |- - <i>David Ellis:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>David Ellis:</i> (booklet commentary) Homestuck Sonata was written around the time we were submitting pieces for [[album:homestuck-vol-10|Volume 10]]. The idea was to write a piece that loosely followed the sonata form with [[Homestuck Anthem]] being the first main theme and [[Penumbra Phantasm]] (via [[FantasyP]]) being the second. It's also intended as a left hand practice piece so the left hand is much busier than in most of my other work! diff --git a/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml b/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml index c05be63f..3247405c 100644 --- a/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml +++ b/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml @@ -1886,7 +1886,7 @@ Duration: 3:13 URLs: - https://media.hsmusic.wiki/misc/archive/Wily%20Espionage.mp3 Commentary: |- - <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://eidolonorpheus.tumblr.com/post/39968495349/wily-espionage-going-places)) + <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> ([Tumblr](https://eidolonorpheus.tumblr.com/post/39968495349/wily-espionage-going-places)) Going places? diff --git a/album/one-year-older.yaml b/album/one-year-older.yaml index ef824bc8..9d7a415b 100644 --- a/album/one-year-older.yaml +++ b/album/one-year-older.yaml @@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ Commentary: |- BONUS TRACK TIME! But since I didn't make this one, I'm not going to talk over it, I'm going to turn this over to Eston for his commentary. So here's Eston: - <i>Eston Schweickart:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Eston Schweickart:</i> (booklet commentary) - Like most of this album, it was made over a year before release - Sound sources include the "stab" sound from [[Walk-Stab-Walk (R&E)|Walk-Stab-Walk]] and a burnt-out lightbulb diff --git a/album/p-s.yaml b/album/p-s.yaml index 18900054..32108746 100644 --- a/album/p-s.yaml +++ b/album/p-s.yaml @@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Back to Life - A World Awake Commentary: |- - <i>David Ellis:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://ducksual.tumblr.com/post/121427607929/back-to-life-suite-first-stepsback-to-lifea), excerpt, 06/13/2015) + <i>David Ellis:</i> ([Tumblr](https://ducksual.tumblr.com/post/121427607929/back-to-life-suite-first-stepsback-to-lifea), excerpt, 06/13/2015) Back to Life suite: [[First Steps]]/[[Back to Life]]/[[A World Awake]] diff --git a/album/redditstuck-vol-1.yaml b/album/redditstuck-vol-1.yaml index 58841156..6d94fb9c 100644 --- a/album/redditstuck-vol-1.yaml +++ b/album/redditstuck-vol-1.yaml @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ Commentary: |- That's some nice tunes. What sound font is it, or how did you make it? - <i>Emelia K.:</i> (composer, [SoundCloud comment](https://soundcloud.com/emelia-kaylee/conflict), 7/15/2016) + <i>Emelia K.:</i> ([SoundCloud comment](https://soundcloud.com/emelia-kaylee/conflict), 7/15/2016) fami module, 2a03 classical @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ Commentary: |- what a cool and new song - <i>Emelia K.:</i> (composer, [SoundCloud comment](https://soundcloud.com/emelia-kaylee/conflict), 9/25/2016) + <i>Emelia K.:</i> ([SoundCloud comment](https://soundcloud.com/emelia-kaylee/conflict), 9/25/2016) you're really making me wish canwc never used this @@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ Commentary: |- olki's actually a team member, its just a joke - <i>Emelia K.:</i> (composer, [SoundCloud comment](https://soundcloud.com/emelia-kaylee/conflict), 10/7/2016) + <i>Emelia K.:</i> ([SoundCloud comment](https://soundcloud.com/emelia-kaylee/conflict), 10/7/2016) jokes are great @@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ Commentary: |- I thought this was made by the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team]].<br> Did you based your track on it? - <i>Emelia K.:</i> (composer, [SoundCloud comment](https://soundcloud.com/emelia-kaylee/conflict), 2/12/2017) + <i>Emelia K.:</i> ([SoundCloud comment](https://soundcloud.com/emelia-kaylee/conflict), 2/12/2017) i made this, this was made for redditstuck, it was used in redditstuck, and the canwc people spun it off into their own abhorrent joke of largely their own accord --- @@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ URLs: Cover Artists: - Christ in a Sidecar Commentary: |- - <i>pi_rho_man:</i> (composer, [SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/pi_rho_man/land-of-cauldrons-and-mostly-bubbles)) + <i>pi_rho_man:</i> ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/pi_rho_man/land-of-cauldrons-and-mostly-bubbles)) It's mostly bubbles. More of an adventurous sort of bubbles. Yay. --- diff --git a/album/redditstuck-vol-2.yaml b/album/redditstuck-vol-2.yaml index ec6379b0..027e5d8e 100644 --- a/album/redditstuck-vol-2.yaml +++ b/album/redditstuck-vol-2.yaml @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ Cover Art Dimensions: 1401x1400 Art Tags: - LoTaW (Redditstuck) Commentary: |- - <i>Nice Wizard:</i> (composer, [SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/nicewizard/in-the-sorcerers-tower)) + <i>Nice Wizard:</i> ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/nicewizard/in-the-sorcerers-tower)) In his tower, hidden from the world, the magician works his Forbyddyn Majyyyks --- @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - LoLaA (Redditstuck) Commentary: |- - <i>pi_rho_man:</i> (composer, [SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/pi_rho_man/land-of-storms-and-caverns-final)) + <i>pi_rho_man:</i> ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/pi_rho_man/land-of-storms-and-caverns-final)) Lots of storm and spooky scary caverns... --- diff --git a/album/redditstuck-vol-3.yaml b/album/redditstuck-vol-3.yaml index 60d133a2..f1ad245d 100644 --- a/album/redditstuck-vol-3.yaml +++ b/album/redditstuck-vol-3.yaml @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Art Tags: - LoBaD (Redditstuck) - Skaia Commentary: |- - <i>pragmaticNihilist:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>pragmaticNihilist:</i> (booklet commentary) I made this song because of Evan’s conversation with Josh, which particularly struck me. It leaves a lot of room for potential character development; in fact, it gives me the impression that Evan will reach a breaking point, hence the more powerful end to this track. Evan tries so hard to please that he may just end up isolating himself. @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - LoCaH (Redditstuck) Commentary: |- - <i>Kal-la-kal-la:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Kal-la-kal-la:</i> (booklet commentary) Jazz... jazz is good. I decided I wanted to make a jazz-funk style track for the Land of Casinos and Hedonism, and indeed, for a while the project file for this track was just called Jazz-Funk.als. I worked out the chords at the piano, and had a lot of fun working out the bass part, which is intended to drive the track. @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - LoRaS (Redditstuck) Commentary: |- - <i>Gordian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Gordian:</i> (booklet commentary) so glad this fucking song is done @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ Art Tags: - Sev (Redditstuck) - Tomesprite (Redditstuck) Commentary: |- - <i>Commander Cello:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Commander Cello:</i> (booklet commentary) I just really wanted to make a song for Tomesprite, so I did. I think I finished it a couple of days after Tomesprite was revealed. It was also fun playing with synths, which I hope to do more of in the future. @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - track:gnade-redditstuck Commentary: |- - <i>Gordian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Gordian:</i> (booklet commentary) not even joking, this song is actually about religion and how evan’s qualities embody it as a whole. see if you can figure that one out fuckers @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Pinkie's Brew Commentary: |- - <i>Bin:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Bin:</i> (booklet commentary) This was originally supposed to be in the Windwaker soundfont, but I gave up on that after five minutes. Instead, I used my trademark saxophone that I stole from [[artist:kal-la-kal-la|Kal]], as well as my trademark accordion/melodica/bandoneon. And also my trademark Kapp’n guitar, which also happens to sound really good as a bass. Additional shoutout to SGM drums for being good in literally everything. Man, I love soundfonts. Anyway, this song was a lot of fun to make, and hopefully fun to listen to as well. @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ Art Tags: - Anton (Redditstuck) - 'cw: body horror' Commentary: |- - <i>Husr:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Husr:</i> (booklet commentary) As seconds pass into minutes and minutes into hours, the dreary tedium of amusing oneself can begin to wear one down. <i>Attendre</i> attempts to capture that boredom- inflicted deterioration. @@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ Art Tags: # - Roninkind (Redditstuck) # - Bladekind Commentary: |- - <i>Commander Cello:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Commander Cello:</i> (booklet commentary) This song represents how Sev wants to be cool, calm, and collected, like some sort of main character in an anime. Except he’s not, have you SEEN the dude? So everything falls apart at the end. @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ Art Tags: - 'cw: genitalia' - 'cw: blood' Commentary: |- - <i>Gordian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Gordian:</i> (booklet commentary) the original gordian rs song. finally here performing for you @@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - LoVaT (Redditstuck) Commentary: |- - <i>Bin:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Bin:</i> (booklet commentary) I started this one way back in April, so I’m glad that it finally gets to see the light of day. The process was very similar to [[Saoshyant]], mostly consisting of messing around with drum patterns and going ham with the strings. The Touhou Japanese influence started to leak in after a while, and I was powerless to stop it. For the majority of the song, the melody is driven by a koto, with support from a shamisen, though they switch places in the latter half. The shakuhachi makes a brief cameo in the middle, because the weebs have their hands in everything. Finally, I’m officially suing [[artist:gordian|Gordian]] for stealing this song. You’ll hear from my lawyers. @@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - LoRaS (Redditstuck) Commentary: |- - <i>Kal-la-kal-la:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Kal-la-kal-la:</i> (booklet commentary) I endeavoured to express a feeling of ‘stasis’ with this track. The title comes from the name of a song by Sufjan Stevens, [‘For the Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWb_sK18pgw). When first I heard the song I had no idea that Paradise and Ypsilanti are the names of towns in the US State of Michigan. As such I assumed Ypsilanti was some sort of term that referred to purgatory, corresponding to paradise. And that’s what this track is meant to represent, my idea of what ‘purgatory’ sounds like. Distant echoes in caverns of ice. What does that have to do with Redditstuck, you might ask? You’ll see. @@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Jay (Redditstuck) Commentary: |- - <i>Gordian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Gordian:</i> (booklet commentary) this song is so old but its finally on a fucking album @@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Smut Mania Commentary: |- - <i>Gordian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Gordian:</i> (booklet commentary) who knows how this will ever be used ;0 ;0 ;0 @@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Calmshit - Admiral Bone-To-Pick Commentary: |- - <i>Gordian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Gordian:</i> (booklet commentary) this song isnt that old. insert joke about [[group:canmt|CANMT]] leitmotifs here. lmk if it sucks @@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ Art Tags: - Evan (Redditstuck) - Eve (Redditstuck) Commentary: |- - <i>Bin:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Bin:</i> (booklet commentary) As some of you might be able to tell, I took influence from an obscure indie game by the name of @@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Altair (Redditstuck) Commentary: |- - <i>Gordian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Gordian:</i> (booklet commentary) the original german-title-gordian-song. hope you like it @@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Horses Commentary: |- - <i>Kal-la-kal-la:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Kal-la-kal-la:</i> (booklet commentary) I was playing about at the piano when I found this chord progression, and I thought it was pretty pleasing. Ran to the computer, clicked in the chords and improvised over them on the accordion, then added the rest of the instrumentation and mixed it. I was aiming to give the whole piece a cosy, nostalgic feeling, like a fond memory of something past that one might calming. The e-piano with delay reminded me of the Volume 1 track [[Colt Blooded]] by jjpollution, which was written as a theme for Luke, and I figured Gallopsby to be something that would be associated with happy memories for Luke. @@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ Lyrics: |- That the dream was s'posed to be Cause I had to wake up anyway Commentary: |- - <i>Gordian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Gordian:</i> (booklet commentary) song written by me. we considered a version without words but that would defeat the point. i guess we all agreed on how intrinsic they were. @@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ Commentary: |- thought that was unreleased still<br> \*except for your soundcloud - <i>Gordian:</i> (composer, [Redditstuck Discord](https://discord.com/channels/238016456804007937/353401057004617739/1247678371102589040), 2024/06/04) + <i>Gordian:</i> ([Redditstuck Discord](https://discord.com/channels/238016456804007937/353401057004617739/1247678371102589040), 2024/06/04) i rescinded it almost immediately<br> it still exists on whoevers pc downloaded it within like two days of release @@ -691,7 +691,7 @@ Commentary: |- I do not know whether a man or a woman<br> —But who is that on the other side of you? - <i>Kal-la-kal-la:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Kal-la-kal-la:</i> (booklet commentary) <i>Unreal city,<br> Over the brown fog of a winter dawn,<br> diff --git a/album/rust-apocalypse.yaml b/album/rust-apocalypse.yaml index fe503293..e57cd1cb 100644 --- a/album/rust-apocalypse.yaml +++ b/album/rust-apocalypse.yaml @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Teal Hunter - Violet Mariner Commentary: |- - <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://mousegard.tumblr.com/post/39954078674), 1/7/2013) + <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> ([Tumblr](https://mousegard.tumblr.com/post/39954078674), 1/7/2013) <b>Broken Rainbow</b> @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Commentary: |- I wrote and mastered the whole thing in the span of a few hours. According to [[artist:lizawithazed|lizawithazed]], this song is a devil on Audiosurf. Mercifully, it is also short. - <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://wellmanicuredmusic.tumblr.com/post/51312119864), excerpt, 5/25/2013) + <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> ([Tumblr](https://wellmanicuredmusic.tumblr.com/post/51312119864), excerpt, 5/25/2013) “Broken Rainbow” was meant to be a short introduction track that would briefly play over the musical motifs of the rest of the tracks. It’s a short atmospheric piece that quotes a few notes from each composition, “[[track:rust-witch-ascenzo|Rust Witch]]/[[Rust Apocalypse]]”, “[[Teal Hunter]]”, and “[[Violet Mariner]]”. The title “Broken Rainbow” is meant to play on the “[[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|coloUrs and mayhem]]” idea and the many-hued character design of Homestuck while also referencing the idea of a “rust apocalypse”. --- @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ URLs: Referenced Tracks: - Teal Hunter Commentary: |- - <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://mousegard.tumblr.com/post/40052704198), 1/8/13) + <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> ([Tumblr](https://mousegard.tumblr.com/post/40052704198), 1/8/13) <b>White Angel</b> @@ -121,11 +121,11 @@ Commentary: |- My intent for this song was to look at [[Teal Hunter|"Teal Hunter"]] and bring it back to its thematic roots, when I was first composing it (as a song for PM, not Redglare). What I ended up doing was finding the original project file, taking the exact same MIDI data and instruments from it, and building up on it. I took away the FL Studio drum kit and replaced it with some nice big StormDrum 2 instruments, added some more articulations to the brass, and made a new menacing, sort of eerie introduction segment ([[Broken Rainbow|"Broken Rainbow"]] was composed immediately after I composed the new segment for this track, using many similar instruments and ideas). And, of course, I added the choir. This song is more of an "updated throwback" to the original [[track:rust-witch-ascenzo|than]] [[track:teal-justice|the]] [[track:violet-armada|other]] [[Rust Apocalypse|four]], which were more "re-imaginings". - <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://wellmanicuredmusic.tumblr.com/post/59139866566), excerpt, 8/23/2013) + <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> ([Tumblr](https://wellmanicuredmusic.tumblr.com/post/59139866566), excerpt, 8/23/2013) “[[Teal Hunter]]” was originally submitted to the [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|coloUrs and mayhem]] music contest as a composition about quad-prototyped Peregrine Mendicant fighting Bec Noir; this arrangement brings the song back to its roots. - <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://wellmanicuredmusic.tumblr.com/post/51312119864), excerpt, 5/25/2013) + <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> ([Tumblr](https://wellmanicuredmusic.tumblr.com/post/51312119864), excerpt, 5/25/2013) “Teal Hunter” was originally submitted to coloUrs and mayhem under the title “Bête Blanche”, and yes, it was originally a song for prototyped PM. That is what “White Angel” refers to. It’s a bonus remix of “Teal Hunter” referring to the song’s intended character. --- diff --git a/album/sburbmon-ost.yaml b/album/sburbmon-ost.yaml index 23797280..de55aa77 100644 --- a/album/sburbmon-ost.yaml +++ b/album/sburbmon-ost.yaml @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Additional Files: - sburbmon-dates-by-modified.txt - sburbmon-dates-by-uploaded.txt Commentary: |- - <i>Twix Stix:</i> (composer, project lead, wiki communications over Discord) + <i>Twix Stix:</i> (project lead, wiki communications over Discord) The [[track:land-of-wind-and-shade|Doctor cover]] was the first one I made on a whim before I ever became the lead on the project, and the tracklist slowly expanded from there. The entire project was inspired by [Touhoumon](https://touhou.fandom.com/wiki/Touhoumon), and while I wasn't quite skilled enough to create the same 'remix' vibe that game had, I still wanted to include some of Homestuck's music in the game in a similar way. diff --git a/album/stlap.yaml b/album/stlap.yaml index 2f4baf75..c7402292 100644 --- a/album/stlap.yaml +++ b/album/stlap.yaml @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ URLs: Referenced Tracks: - track:showtime-original-mix Commentary: |- - <i>apatheticPianist:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>apatheticPianist:</i> (booklet commentary) This is an arrangement of [[track:showtime-original-mix|Showtime]] that I've had lying around for a while - and it happened to be perfect for the opening disc jingle, so here we are! I actually managed to knock this recording out in my first three tries, which is kinda crazy... and that's really all there is to say on the matter. --- @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - Egbert's Kitchen - Pascal van den Bos.mid Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) For this track i went for the style of music i think Dad listens to, a jazzier version of [[Under the Hat]] fit this idea. Also the chiptune breakdown in the middle is supposed to reference [[track:showtime-original-mix|the original Strife! theme for dad]]. So later with a bit of saxophone it worked! I think it came out pretty well, and i think this is what you'd hear whenever you walk into the kitchen when Dad is baking. --- @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ Cover Art File Extension: jpg Referenced Tracks: - track:penumbra-phantasm Commentary: |- - <i>Frost Carter:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Frost Carter:</i> (booklet commentary) This song has been in the works for a very long time. The better part of a year, in fact. It went through a LOT of different iterations and versions (at one point even being part of an Undertale fan game that was unfortunately canceled) before landing where it is now. I finally decided to finish it and let the little bird fly for this album. Fun fact: It was originally titled "Penumbra Phantasm (Frosty Edition)," but then, thanks to a typo from [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos|PotatoBoss]], the "Edition" changed to "Style," and, honestly, I prefer it this way. Go figure, there would be one last change to the song before it was finally finished. --- @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Sampled Tracks: - Derse Dreamers Commentary: |- - <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (booklet commentary) Y'know that feeling you get when you've been told by gods to blow up a sun twice the size of a universe? well if you have, i think it'd feel something like Solicide. So I was just spittin' some phat-tunes-y'all, y'know, some chill Dave song, when I was like... "Nah, this is just too spooky for Dave, but maybe spooky enough for Rose?" so I changed the idea from a song about Dave & Time to a song about Rose's (and Dave's kinda) mission to heck up the green sun. (P.S. you can't go wrong with hella' samples + at least 73 different phasers.) (P.P.S if y'all wanna see what this lit jam was like when it was just a simple "chill dave song" then too bad because the Instaudio link is dead R.I.P) (P.P.P.S lol nice name that wasn't used nerd) (P.P.P.P.S oh wait that was me...) --- @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:upward-movement-dave-owns - Another Jungle Commentary: |- - <i>apatheticPianist:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>apatheticPianist:</i> (booklet commentary) As you've probably gathered from listening to it, this song is themed around the first five acts of Homestuck! It has a similar structure to [[Cue the Curtains]], but with five parts instead of four (which is oddly appropriate, in retrospect - five parts, five acts): John, Rose, Dave and Jade, Bec Noir and Vriska's machinations that led to him, and finally the kids' ascensions and the Scratch. The title uses Vriska's quirk for two reasons: because she had a pretty big hand in the creation of Bec Noir... and also becasue she's "stealing the spotlight" from the Beta Kids. Anyways, a huge thanks to [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos|PotatoBoss]] for mastering this song, and I hope y'all enjoy it! --- @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ URLs: Referenced Tracks: - track:megalovania-ebhh Commentary: |- - <i>Frost Carter:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Frost Carter:</i> (booklet commentary) It's funny, you can't seem to go two steps on the internet without stumbling across a remix of [[track:megalovania-undertale|one certain song]] that shall not be named. Y'know, that [[track:megalovania-ssbu|one song]] that's associated with that [[track:sans|one character]] from that [[album:undertale-soundtrack|one game]]? Yeah, you know what I'm talking about. Well, I decided to add to the pile with this remix of [[track:megalovania-ebhh|the OG version of that song]], complete with a sound effect from that other game that probably helped inspire that first game that I mentioned. Gosh, this commentary would probably look so ridicuolous to anyone who hasn't ever been on the internet. --- @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - Hospitalized - Pascal van den Bos.mid Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) I was trying to create kind of a battle theme for a john dave team battle, the name hospitalized is another joke on [[doctor]] because doctor is partially in it. but this is something i'd imagine plays when john and dave are battling together. Fun fact (again): the sick lead is the Romantic Trumpet from Touhou with way too much chorus. --- @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - Temporal Virtuoso - Pascal van den Bos.mid Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) I really like to make dave songs, this song was inspired by a bass player on youtube named [Davie504](https://www.youtube.com/user/Davie504). I wrote the first bass parts with some squares (the square in the middle even sounds like [[track:walk-stab-walk-r-and-e|Walk Stab Walk]] even though i didn't intend it to) to give it some variation. Then some phat beats for dave coolness and [[Time on My Side]] combined with [[track:cascade-beta|Cascade]] to give it max awesomeness, i guess you could see it as a strife theme for alpha Dave fighting those clowns on top of the "purple house". --- @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ URLs: Referenced Tracks: - track:aggrieve Commentary: |- - <i>Frost Carter:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Frost Carter:</i> (booklet commentary) This is, as I'm sure you noticed, a quick one. It didn't really take all that much effort. Honestly, it'll likely take longer to read this than to actually listen to the song, so I won't take anymore of your time. --- @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:aggrieve - track:sburban-jungle Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) With this track i kinda wanted to remake a Strife! theme for Mom. The bass in the beginning is building the tension of Rose trying to sneak out of the house, and when [[Aggrieve]] starts playing you know she got busted. I also added parts of [[Sburban Jungle]] to foreshadow her entering the medium soon, and the guitar just makes everything 10x cooler. --- @@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_-P6O_n1co Cover Art File Extension: jpg Commentary: |- - <i>Frost Carter:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Frost Carter:</i> (booklet commentary) This song just kinda exists. I don't really remember initially making it. Maybe it magically appeared one day, ascended from Heaven to change the world and herald the 2nd coming of Christ himself. Or maybe I made it in the middle of the night on 0 sleep and forgot. Whichever you perfer. I won't make the choice for you. I'm not your mom. --- @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ Duration: 3:06 URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSnh-JprdQU Commentary: |- - <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (booklet commentary) "Rooftop-shenanigans-with-Dirk" might as well be the title since that's what it is. I had an idea where I could make a song on FamiTracker and then master it on FL Studio, so I did! This idea turned out well, I just had to export each track on FamiTracker separately and then import them all to FL Studio and so I could just mix it as much as i wanted like some kind of evil scientist, but way less exciting... --- @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - Daydreamer - Pascal van den Bos.mid Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) This is what happens when you're scrolling through your Touhou soundfont trying to come up with ideas for an original track and you find a funny thing, i also used a fretless bass to have some of Jade's wackiness. Since she's a Prospit dreamer, i based this track on Prospit and it's dreamers. That's why this track sounds so dreamy and dissonant. I was also heavily influenced by Final Fantasy themes while making this. Overall i think it came out pretty much like how i wanted it to. --- @@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Sampled Tracks: - track:gamebro-original-1990-mix Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) This is an idea that came from an emoji we have in our discord server, which is the deliriousbiznasty emoji. I wanted to make a song with that name based on the GameBro, so then [[artist:frost-carter|FrostyMac]] suggested that i use the vocals from [[track:gamebro-original-1990-mix|Jit's GameBro song]] and it worked out pretty fucking hella rad as fuck. --- @@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - Tranquil Downpour - Pascal van den Bos.mid Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) I was messing around with a midi i made of Rob Scallon's [[track:rain-rob-scallon|"Rain"]], and i found out that if everything is a square, it sounds like a Cavestory song. So when i added [["Doctor"]] into it, it got even better. The sweet drums and the high square from [["Windswept Shale"]] by Baleish finished it up and made the song sound as good as it does. Also the title is kind of a nudge at "Rain" if you haven't noticed yet (ahahah I'm so clever HEEHEEHOOHOO). --- @@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ Duration: 0:31 URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4ZlBHrYie8 Commentary: |- - <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (booklet commentary) Chill beats + weird pads with spooky progressions = something that sounds like LoHAC or Dave or something else I don't know don't judge me! (also I pretty much just copied [[Heat]] from the [[album:medium|medium album]] for this because that sounds Dave-y) --- @@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ URLs: Referenced Tracks: - track:beatdown-strider-style Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) This track was inspired by Bro and Dave's battles, the beginning starts out slow and tense (Dave ascending to the roof, that's also what the strings are referencing) and then shit hits the fan. The beat becomes phatter and the Beatdown lead speeds up. I think this is what a typical battle with Bro would be like. --- @@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - Land of Crypts and Helium - Pascal van den Bos.mid Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) I wanted to make an eerie song for the land of crypts and helium, i was struggling to find a fitting instrument until i accidentally knocked over my acoustic guitar (which i can't play, why do i even have that) and i really liked the sound it made. And after adding delay and reverb to a Touhou guitar it was perfect. Very fitting for that planet i'd say. The spooky pads also help give it more of a spooky cryptic vibe in my opinion. --- @@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ URLs: Referenced Tracks: - track:heat Commentary: |- - <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (booklet commentary) This song was kinda having an identity crisis since this was gonna be a song for LoWAS as you can see by the title & intro bit, but then I did the breakdown and the [[Heat]] motif and it didn't seem like it would fit very well so i was just like "heck it." and thought this should be song about the Forge. Nothing else to say besides damn that bass makes me wet. --- @@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - Slammed 8y the Sun!!!!!!!! - Pascal van den Bos.mid Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) Vriska Guitar Sun Vriska Guitar Sun Vriska Guitar Sun Vriska Guitar Sun Vriska Guitar Sun Vriska Guitar Sun Vriska Guitar Sun Vriska Guitar Sun Vriska Guitar Sun Vriska Guitar Sun Vriska Guitar Sun Vriska Guitar Sun Vriska Guitar Sun Vriska Guitar Sun Vriska Guitar Sun Vriska Guitar Sun Vriska Guitar Sun Vriska Guitar Sun Vriska Guitar Sun Vriska Guitar Sun VRISKA GUITAR SUN!!!!!!!! (Vriska ascends to god tier bluh) @@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ Cover Art File Extension: jpg Referenced Tracks: - track:explore Commentary: |- - <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (booklet commentary) Wander was the result of there not being enough [[Explore]] remixes. Back around the time I joined the music team, I was listening to Explore and thought the orchestration of the synths would translate well to strings. I'd also probably been listening to old Apocalyptica at the time, resulting in a cello ensemble with plodding gritty drum loops. While Explore soars above the remains of the world, Wander is grounded and more subdued. The interlude of ambient jungle noises was partially to reflect the world reverting back to nature, and the distant atmosphere and distorted portions are sort of the echoes and ruins left behind. --- @@ -607,7 +607,7 @@ Cover Art File Extension: jpg Referenced Tracks: - track:killed-by-br8k-spider Commentary: |- - <i>Sunbent:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Sunbent:</i> (booklet commentary) A pretty long one, and i guess it's kind of a non cannon afterwards to [[flash:8087|collide]] in my mind. I refrained from using leomotifs because I honestly don't think this song needs it. Now if you watched collide, it never actually showed them killing lord English right? Well this is in my mind the battle theme to what happened there. If you want you can watch the YouTube theories but simply put, after collide vriska summons more powerful beta (and possibly alpha) kids out of her sburb house thingy. So basically it beta kids, vriska and the ghost army vs lord English. And thats the song. I considered calling it "collide v3" but i felt it was too obvious. --- @@ -628,7 +628,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:doctor - track:megalovania-ebhh Commentary: |- - <i>Frost Carter:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Frost Carter:</i> (booklet commentary) This song has a truly awful name, I know. Just ignore that massive blunder on my part, and listen to the song itself. Like with most of my songs, I made this ages back, and, upon refinding it, I simply touched it up and pushed it out of the nest, where it, no doubt, landed on the ground with a thud in spectactular fashion. Oh well. --- @@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ URLs: Referenced Tracks: - track:verdancy-bassline Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) I wanted to use the awesome [[Verdancy bassline]] as a funny jingle, so i learned how to play it and improvised some parts and added a sick drumloop for that [[potential verdancy]] feel... Not much else to say on that... Here, have a Crab Apple. --- @@ -672,7 +672,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:beatdown-strider-style - track:MeGaLoVania Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) This is an interesting one, Fetch the Bullet! Is based entirely on the flash [[flash:980|[S] Jade: Retrieve Package]] (specifically the old version). The song is paying its respects to the removed track [[Mutiny]] which needed some love, it was removed for a reason but it's still a great (and one of my favourites) track. I also used alot of spacey synths to signify Bec traveling to space and teleporting all over the place and shit. And then [[track:MeGaLoVania|MeGaLoVania]] and [[track:beatdown-strider-style|Beatdown]] are in there for some reason. I also put in the Ultimate Guitar kit again for the reference to Jade knowing how to play guitar (man do i love that soundfont). --- @@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ URLs: Referenced Tracks: - track:sburban-jungle Commentary: |- - <i>CALIKID:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>CALIKID:</i> (booklet commentary) The clock is ticking and you and your friends are *doomed*. Or are you? Who's to say? But you gotta act quick! The notorious song heard in the 13th flash of Homestuck. (copyrighted by Andrew Hussie) remixed and remastered by yours truly. Completed with fantastical arpeggios and and drops so massive you'll trip on your feet. Don't hesitate now, click that play button. (You know you want to.) --- @@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:megalovania-ebhh - track:verdancy-bassline Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) I was originally just going to play [[Gardener]] as a cover, but then I realised that's completely unoriginal and i remembered i can play some other random songs. So i just mixed those in and improvised some parts of Gardener and you get this! Fun fact: i had to play this like 30 times over because i kept fucking up (wow that wasn't fun at all). --- @@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ URLs: Referenced Tracks: - track:moonsetter Commentary: |- - <i>CALIKID:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>CALIKID:</i> (booklet commentary) Ahh yes. The rain. Your friends. Your friends and the rain. But under an umbrella of course. Kick back and relax as you listen to this chill jam inspired by Toby Fox's [[Moonsetter]]. It's truly a masterpiece. The melody is so sweet that people can't help but make remixes of it, which is exactly what this is. A remix of just that. With ambience and a sick beat, this song fills every need fitted to *survive* on a barren planet that you made with your chums in a video game that may or may not destroy the world. --- @@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Derse Dreamers - track:endless-climb Commentary: |- - <i>CALIKID:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>CALIKID:</i> (booklet commentary) I was originally planning on doing [[Endless Climb]] but somehow in the middle it changed to [[Derse Dreamers]] too so I decided to go with it. It's full of action and heavy saws. I thought it would be cool to add a bit of a mellow sound to the beginning though so I went with that. I hope you like it! --- @@ -805,6 +805,6 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Even in Death - track:cascade-beta Commentary: |- - <i>apatheticPianist:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>apatheticPianist:</i> (booklet commentary) Somewhat ironically, this song actually came before [[8r8k the 8ottle]] - when I joined the album, a song themed around EOA6 / Collide was the first thing that came to mind, and this is the result! As you've probably noticed, it's separated pretty evenly into four parts: first Vriska vs. Lord English, then Terezi and the Striders vs. Lord Jack and Spades Slick, then the HIC fight, and finally an ending meant to call back (forward?) to Act 7. Also, giant thanks to [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos|PotatoBoss]] for mastering it and 8r8k the 8ottle - they definitely wouldn't have had that extra Homestuck kick without his help, hehe. Aside from that, nothing much else to say about it - it's a giant pile of motifs that I really enjoyed composing! diff --git a/album/stlap2.yaml b/album/stlap2.yaml index 63df5154..96f360af 100644 --- a/album/stlap2.yaml +++ b/album/stlap2.yaml @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ Art Tags: - Doc Scratch - Felt Mansion Commentary: |- - <i>Asian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Asian:</i> (booklet commentary) This was my first song for the team. This is actually a recreation of an old piano melody I made a while back, so redoing the chords was pretty rad. --- @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ Art Tags: - Dirk - LoTaK Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) This song was basically made out of my love for the Alpha kids planets, this one in particular was supposed to be a kinda chill theme for the Land of Tombs and Krypton. The version you hear on the album took several hours as I was very critical and indecisive about what I was writing. In the end I'm proud of what's here but one day I'd like to [[track:miasmic-resurrection|revisit the song]] and hopefully fix the parts I was super unsure about. --- @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Versus - Spider's Claw Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Frank:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Michael Frank:</i> (booklet commentary) This was initially going to be a recreation, utilizing the Secret of Mana soundfont used in the original song. I decided to try out some of the same instruments used in [[track:stronger-monsters]] (from Undertale) as well, which at that point I thought "what the heck, let's just make a full-on remix of this". Fun fact: I was initially following along [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos|PotatoBoss']] [Versus recreation video on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYfZBrReslY), before I knew who he was. --- @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ Lyrics: |- his name <big><big><i>CHRIS</i></big></big> Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) I made this song as a birthday gift to [[artist:rowyn-berlan]], i wanted to kind of parody [[album:the-baby-is-you|"The Baby is You"]] since we had just finished ["The Baby is STLaP2"](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqi0iMdsva_wMBDC1dZgYmg--sJgtXtmG) and it seemed funny to me to make that for them. The only song I referenced was [["Miasmic Decay"]] because Rowyn made it and that would make the song still fit in the album because it's still a remix of a song in the album. Also DVS-Saxophone is the best instrument, change my mind. --- @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Explore - Penumbra Phantasm Commentary: |- - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary) This [[track:crystalanthemums|Crystal]] remix is actually my first attempt at a song vvith entirely digital-sounding instruments (I.e. savvs, skvvares, D>S sax and the like) but it sur<i<ed the dreadful soundtest so.. @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ Commentary: |- It didn’t vvork. - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary, quirk-free) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary, quirk-free) This [[track:crystalanthemums|Crystal]] remix is actually my first attempt at a song with entirely digital-sounding instruments (I.e. saws, squares, DVS sax and the like) but it survived the dreadful soundtest so.. @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Beatdown (Strider Style) - Spider's Claw Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) I wanted to make a beatdown remix that was kind of beach-y i suppose? So basically i took [[track:beatdown-strider-style|Beatdown]], some upbeat drums, Earthbound beach sounds, \*DVS SAX\* and some other cool stuff. I ended up with a pretty cool result, it was basically exactly what i wanted. Near the end i also sampled the original Beatdown for a cool effect, and also at the end because i wanted to make it sound as if you were sitting on the beach, listening to Beatdown through a small radio. The Vriska references where just kinda there because they sound good with the rest, they are in squarewave to match Dave’s intrumentation. And lastly the name is also obviously a reference to Beatdown. --- @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ Art Tags: - Horrorterrors - 'cw: blood' # light, arm Commentary: |- - <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (booklet commentary) I listen to a lot of prog-metal-that’s-also-very-melodic, a good example is Sithu Aye, who is the main inspiration behind this song, I love the way he keeps this melodic flow throughout pretty much every song and has like every other instrument that’s not the lead dedicated to just backing up this melody; So I thought it would be a good idea to turn this style into chiptune. It’s different than my usual chiptune style, and I guess that just kinda developed as I made the song, but honestly I like the way this sounds more than my normal style so I’ll probably make more songs like this. I wanna say more but that’s p much it lol. --- @@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Moonsetter Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) This song is a redone version of an old Lo-Fi Hip-Hop remix i made of the song [[“Moonsetter”]] by Toby Fox. I didn’t like the old one i made but since i was getting so much positive feedback on it i decided to remake it for this album. It turned out way better than the old version in my opinion and i hope everyone who listened to the old version agrees with me. --- @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Penumbra Phantasm - Showtime (Original Mix) Commentary: |- - <i>apatheticPianist:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>apatheticPianist:</i> (booklet commentary) Tbh this’s one of my fav songs I’ve ever made? For a few reasons, one being that admittedly it was made in GarageBand and yet isn’t (totally) awful-sounding instrument-wise, and another being that swapping the “main” instruments of Dave’s and John’s motifs worked out really well, imo, and finally cuz it’s from a transitional period right before I got better software and so sort of marks a personal turning point on the path towards becoming a better composer? It’s a pretty nice jam, regardless of all that, and [[track:spacetime-continuum|I might wind up doing]] either a remaster of it or a version with Jade and Rose for STLaP3 - hope y’all enjoy listening! --- @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ Art Tags: - Sollux - 'cw: blood' Commentary: - <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (booklet commentary) So this was made back when [[album:alternate-hues-and-melodies|AHaM]] was being made, pretty close to it being released the guy who was making the Sollux song didn't finish it for reasons I can't be bothered remembering, and since the position for the Sollux song was open I was like "damn I wanna do the Sollux song because Sollux is cool". So I made the first melody you hear in [[Distortion Navigator]], but before I could do anymore we had to release the album like right then and there, so I didn't get to finish it. Then I just turned it into the full Sollux song I wanted back then and released it here on STLaP 2 instead. --- @@ -378,13 +378,13 @@ Art Tags: - Gate # - Reckoning Commentary: |- - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary) A requiem for those not lucky enough to sur<i<e Sburb. One cannot keep a gentle touch and sur<i<e. Rebirth, vvithout elegance. They must steel themsel<es, and knovv vvhat to do; vvhy to do it. True is resol<e. After all, the game is young. R.E.T.R.Y. GAME. The length is actually a bit of an accident on my end. Sometimes there are just so many inter<als and melodies that need their part, and each one of those need *some* kind of transition. Not sure if it shovvs or not, but this is certainly the track I vvorked hardest on, and ironically I made my longest track at a point vvhere vve had no more room on the album! - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary, quirk-free) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary, quirk-free) A requiem for those not lucky enough to survive Sburb. One cannot keep a gentle touch and survive. Rebirth, without elegance. They must steel themselves, and know what to do; why to do it. True is resolve. After all, the game is young. R.E.T.R.Y. GAME. @@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ Cover Artists: # Art Tags: # - Beat Mesa Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) Got bored one day and wanted to write a quick little song that turned into Disc 2... that's pretty much it lmao --- @@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:mutiny - track:mutiny-remix-caelan-kier Commentary: |- - <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (booklet commentary) I remember like thinking that [my Mutiny remix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3znbbnDOChY) could be totally better, so like I only made this a while after that was uploaded (that's why it sounds so much like my old stuff). I didn't even plan for the song to be said remix, I was just bored in FL Studio and placed down the [[Mutiny]] melody in there and somehow just kept going until it turned into a full song. I was gonna put it in [[album:stlap|STLaP 1]], but then didn't because [[track:fetch-the-bullet|there was already a Mutiny remix]], so first chance I got I dunked it into STLaP 2. --- @@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ Art Tags: - Derse - Prospit Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) A while ago, i worked on an album called [[album:solar-sessions|“Solar Sessions”]] hosted by “Handshake Collaborations”. On this is a song called [[track:earth-solar-sessions|“Earth”]] by psithurist. I was extremely inspired by this song because it’s so good, so i tried to make something in that style. The way it came out, it was pretty perfect for a chill Derse kinda song so i ended up putting it on STLaP 2. --- @@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Sampled Tracks: - Candlelit Contemplation (Beta) Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) Now [[Candles and Clockwork]] over the years has become my favorite song from Homestuck so of course I wanted to try and do something with it. Candlelit originally started out as [[track:candlelit-contemplation-beta|a shitty PXTone cover]] that’s on my YouTube Channel (you’ve been warned) and well after a while I grew unhappy with it. One day I got the stupid idea to reverse the song and boy am I glad I did that. I decided to try and make a remix of Candles and Clockwork that would sound just as good reversed and well what’s there sure is something. (By the way all the reversed bits are actually from the original PXTone version which I thought was a cool little reference) --- @@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ Lyrics: |- [Vriska]: Strider in the house! [Dave]: I'm your man! Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) So this one is pretty odd (obviously wtf). One day i was hanging out on the Bowman Discord server and we were just kinda talking, so then Michael mentions that him and some friends are making a Strider version of the vocals to [[track:cory-in-the-house-theme-song|the Cory in the House opening]], and i was like, ohshit i can make a remix of the theme that uses Strider motifs if you want :eyes:. So i made it and i named the instrumental version CITH Beatdown as a reference to [[WSW Beatdown]]. Later the vocals were added and it became Strider in the House. Thanks for making this Michael your Dave voice is epic lmao. @@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Black Commentary: |- - <i>The Pure Spectre:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>The Pure Spectre:</i> (booklet commentary) So, this song apparently started way back in 2017, where it was just a mere shadow of it’s current self. Simply put, it was the main beginning bit, ‘cept it was at a slower tempo, and sounded decently worse than it does now. I had it lying around when I joined the PMT, and decided it has potential. So, I took it, looked closely at how [[Black]] actually played, and made it into a more fully-fledged remix. Can I say it’s my best work? Probably not. But I would, at the very least, hope that it’s decently enjoyable to listen to if anything. @@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Blue Atom - Softly Commentary: |- - <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rainy:</i> (booklet commentary) This song has a special place in my heart because it my first homestuck remix. I started this song months before I joined the PMT and I remember doing it out of boredom. I wanted to make remix a song the no one had done before, so I decided to remix the first half of the unreleased song [["Jadesprite."]] The [[track:spritely-gardener-beta|original demo]] of the song was like 30 seconds long and wasn't very good imo. Joining the team gave me the impetus I needed to expand upon my original demo and finish the song. Of my remixes, this one is probably my favorite. --- @@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Beatdown (Strider Style) - Atomyk Ebonpyre Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) One day i was just listening to [[“Davesprite”]] by Toby Fox and i was trying to recreate the opening drums. Since i always wanted to remix Davesprite i decided to just lay down the main melody too and remix the song. This song probably took longest to make, not because it was harder than the rest, but because it kept being edited. The first time was because i messed up some notes and pitching, the i removed some parts for no reason which i ended up adding back later. Then i got some disc scratch samples from [[artist:erik-scheele|Erik Scheele]] that sounded really cool so i added those in, that took a while to get decent too. And still with this version i’m not 100% satisfied but it’ll do. And the name is “Davesprite 3” because there’s an unused song by Erik Scheele called [[track:davesprite2|“Davesprite 2”]] so i just followed up after that. --- @@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Cascade (Beta) - track:interstellar-p-s Commentary: |- - <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rainy:</i> (booklet commentary) I Wanted to see what would happen if a mashed up [[track:cascade-beta|cascade]] and [[freefall]]. Also there is a little bit of [[track:interstellar-p-s|interstellar]] in there for good measure. I hope y’all enjoy songs about the 3 year journey Between Mediums lol. --- @@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ Cover Art File Extension: jpg Referenced Tracks: - track:lust-stlap2 Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) This track was actually a commission for a fantroll theme. I basically just based the entire song off one motif that i used from Lust, the rest of the song was based off the track [[“Virgin Orb”]] by Toby Fox. I promised 2 commissioners that i would use their fantroll themes in STLaP 2 and [[track:i-warned-you-about-the-elevator-bro|i did]]. I’m kinda glad i did too because i really like the songs. @@ -707,11 +707,11 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Clockwork Melody - Heir of Grief Commentary: |- - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary) Based off yet another meaningless >ibraphone session, but I guess those stick in your head vvhen you ha<e nothing to do but play randomly for a hour e<ery Monday through Friday. It vvas another one I found pretty fun to make, especially vvith the subtle [[Heir of Grief]] and [[track:candles-and-clockwork|Candles and Clockvvork]]-based bits a little near the end. - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary, quirk-free) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary, quirk-free) Based off yet another meaningless vibraphone session, but I guess those stick in your head when you have nothing to do but play randomly for a hour every Monday through Friday. It was another one I found pretty fun to make, especially with the subtle [[Heir of Grief]] and [[Candles and Clockwork]]-based bits a little near the end. --- @@ -732,7 +732,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - track:deception-paradox-music-team Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) [[artist:rowyn-berlan]] and i were once in a fansession, there she made a song titled: “Deception” which she still hates with a flaming passion, even though i don’t think it’s that bad, around the time that she made that i tried to remix it into a sort of really fast battle theme based on [[Umbral Ultimatum]] by Toby Fox. At first this song sounded really different because i had used sounds from games like Goemon on Nintendo 64 and Earthbound, then i tried to use more orchestral sounds and it just sounded way better. So in the end i think it came out really well for what it is, \*Umbral Ultimatum 2\* B) --- @@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ Art Tags: # - Cue Ball / Cue Stick - 'cw: blood' Commentary: |- - <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rainy:</i> (booklet commentary) I had the idea for for a jazzy version of [[track:cascade-beta|“Cascade”]] for a while. As I started making however, it slowly but surly turned into a remix of [[“Flare (Cascade Cut).”]] I also added a little bit of [[“Liquid Negrocity”]] for added jazziness. I’m pretty sure that this song sucks at being jazz but is pretty alright in being a song. --- @@ -775,13 +775,13 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Doctor - Sburban Jungle Commentary: |- - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary) I am.. extremely surprised this e<en came out decent. This is the bastard child of an inexperienced kid’s old MuseScore composition turned midi and plopped into demo Fruity Loops, mixed into a big bovvl of re<erb. That said, I can ne<er get this one out of my head. I like it. I only vvish demo FL had been a bit nicer and let me sa<e the file, e<en if I couldn’t open it then. You can bet someday there vvould be a remix tvvice as long vvith some real mixing, had that been the case. - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary, quirk-free) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary, quirk-free) I am.. extremely surprised this even came out decent. This is the bastard child of an inexperienced kid’s old MuseScore composition turned midi and plopped into demo Fruity Loops, mixed into a big bowl of reverb. @@ -821,7 +821,7 @@ Art Tags: - Caliborn # the like. etch-a-sketch masterpiece Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) This is nothing special really, it was just a thing i improvised quickly on my midi keyboard because i was bored so uh, yeah. --- @@ -841,7 +841,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Moonsetter Commentary: |- - <i>Asian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Asian:</i> (booklet commentary) I really enjoyed making this. It’s really just [[Moonsetter]] in 3/4, but I got to screw around and add some other stuff in. My addiction to 7ths really shows in this. --- @@ -865,7 +865,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Doctor - Moonsong Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) So ever since I first heard [[Moonsong]] I’ve wanted to mix it in with [[Doctor]], what you hear on the album is roughly my 4th attempt at making this dream a reality. I’m quite happy with how the song turned out and how well I was able to blend in and sorta balance the melodies of both songs. In conclusion CaveStory’s great and Homestuck’s great nuff said. --- @@ -895,7 +895,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Rustblood - Unsheath'd Commentary: |- - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary) This is a remake of a *really* old project file of mine, vvhich is actually composed almost exactly the same. Only noticable difference is the mixing, brought from horrendous to..! @@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ Commentary: |- Yeah.. that’s all. It’s not some secret musical analogy of the Green Sun really causing this or that. I just like it this vvay, though if you can somehovv find the analogy that isn’t there, good for you! It’s just like poetry! - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary, quirk-free) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary, quirk-free) This is a remake of a *really* old project file of mine, which is actually composed almost exactly the same. Only noticable difference is the mixing, brought from horrendous to..! @@ -933,7 +933,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Horschestra - Horsecatska Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) This is a vaporwave remix of [[Horsecatska]], it was suggested as a joke by [[artist:infinite|infiniteInconvenience]] on the Stalemate Discord server. But i made it anyway for some reason lol. --- @@ -949,13 +949,13 @@ Art Tags: - Alternate Calliope # - Space (outfit) Commentary: |- - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, commentary booklet) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (commentary booklet) This is the first thing I made upon getting the full <ersion of Fruity Loops, vvhich I think came out pretty vvell. As such, it took me a lot longer to make than I’d like to admit, e<en at it’s length of a minute and fifty-one seconds. Also, it’s only fitting I should say, at this hea<y-piano track: I actually cannot play the piano. - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, commentary booklet, quirk-free) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (commentary booklet, quirk-free) This is the first thing I made upon getting the full version of Fruity Loops, which I think came out pretty well. As such, it took me a lot longer to make than I’d like to admit, even at it’s length of a minute and fifty-one seconds. @@ -994,7 +994,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Sampled Tracks: - CITH - Beatdown (Strider in the House) Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) Prior to making this song me and my girlfriend had been watching a lot of the anime “Saiki-K” and the music in that is extremely good. When i got to my computer i wanted to write a song like the beach theme in Saiki. That’s where the beginning came from, after that it just became a mesh of a bunch of different things. At some point i just started to add different Homestuck motifs and stuff like the voice clips from Strider in the House. And also Deception, aka, The best song ever made. In the end it turned out as one of my favorite songs that i made for this album. Mayor props to wumby for the art as well, it’s really good. --- @@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Black - Noisemaster Theme Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) I can’t exactly remember how this was made, i just remember really liking [[track:noisemaster-theme|Noisemaster’s Theme]] and wanting to reemix it, just needed an excuse to put it on STLaP 2. I consider this to be in the line of “joke tracks” i made for STLaP 2, or maybe semi-in it, no idea haha. --- @@ -1089,7 +1089,7 @@ Art Tags: # - Vilros Safron - SBaHJ Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) This is [[track:lovely-and-saccharine|another]] commission track, it was commissioned for a fantroll that hears his own themes anywhere he goes. I made it kinda based off of tracks like [[track:elevatorstuck|elevator stuck]]. There’s also [[track:ascending-strife|a track on the soundtest]] that is a battle theme for the same troll and it’s a partial remix of this song. @@ -1114,7 +1114,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Showdown - Crustacean Commentary: |- - <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rainy:</i> (booklet commentary) I know there has already been [[track:dungeness-showdown|a remix of showdown on a PMT album before]] (sorry Calikid), but I really wanted to do a hard rock version of the song so oh well. Funnily enough it was that remix on AHaM that inspired me to write Threxecute, so i guess it’s fine???. This song is also the most controversial song I have ever written. I will admit that part of it was my own stubbornness, but I will also admit that I didn’t think that UGK2 would sound good with this song. If you want to hear that version of the song, check out the soundtest. --- @@ -1141,7 +1141,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Doctor Commentary: |- - <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (booklet commentary) Honestly I don't have much to say about this, I don't remember starting this song, I guess I just put down some drums and then put down some synths and then put down some samples and then boom it's a song now. --- @@ -1163,7 +1163,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Beatdown (Strider Style) Commentary: |- - <i>Asian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Asian:</i> (booklet commentary) This song was really fun to do. The art was actually made before the music, so the entire song is based on the idea of a Dave strife or something. Fast-paced music in general is just really fun to make, especially when I get to do a bunch of riffs. I regret making it so short, but it turned out alright I think. --- @@ -1181,7 +1181,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Doctor Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) Wish Upon a Firefly was made right after [[artist:buzinkai|Usagi Buzinkai]] unfortunately passed away, i wanted to make a tribute song and there was no better track than [[Doctor]]. I tried making it a more upbeat hero version of Doctor. In my opinion i could never get doctor right whenever i tried remixing it but this definitely worked out well. @@ -1205,7 +1205,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Time on My Side - Perfect Cascade of the Heart Commentary: |- - <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rainy:</i> (booklet commentary) So I had this idea for doing solo album in the style of [[album:strife|strife]] and [[album:strife-2|strife 2]]. One of the song ideas I had for the album was remix of the song [[“Temporal Virtuoso”]] by PB. I eventually decided against doing that in favor of different solo album idea, but I still wanted to do a remix of the song. I tried my best to create an [[artist:rj-lake|RJ Lake]] style remix, chopping up various sections of the song and stitching them together. I even added a reference to [[“Perfect Cascade of the heart”]] by Tensei. I’m pretty satisfied with how this turned out and I hope you enjoy. ([[album:p-s|P.[S].]] You guys gotta start remixing more strife 2 songs. The album will be out 2 years by the time you read this and the lack of remixes is disappointing.) --- @@ -1231,11 +1231,11 @@ Duration: 0:17 URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX1zLRxw8bQ Commentary: |- - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary) It vvas really just an old project file from vvhen I first got a certain free guitar plugin and started testing it out. I updated the drums, and apparently made a disc? - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary, quirk-free) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary, quirk-free) It was really just an old project file from when I first got a certain free guitar plugin and started testing it out. I updated the drums, and apparently made a disc? --- @@ -1261,7 +1261,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Upward Movement (Dave Owns) - Descend Commentary: |- - <i>The Pure Spectre:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>The Pure Spectre:</i> (booklet commentary) Note that this particular commentary piece is being written somewhat prematurely in my eyes, as the song is technically unfinished as of writing. Not my fault for doing so - there was a deadline on these. @@ -1354,7 +1354,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Savior of the Waking World - Penumbra Phantasm Commentary: |- - <i>Asian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Asian:</i> (booklet commentary) I had to make this song really quickly, my laptop killed itself for about two months before I could start work on this song. I actually barely finished within the deadline, and I’m grateful it’s complete (lol). This is probably one of my longest songs, kinda proud of it. Had to refrain from adding in a [[track:megalovania-ebhh|Megalovania]] reference in some parts, it’s always tempting when making songs in minor. @@ -1383,7 +1383,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Clockwork Melody - Heir of Grief Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) I’ve wanted to remix [[“An Orange Blue Rose”]] since i first heard it, and here i finally got around to doing so. I tried to make some sort of [[track:savior-of-the-waking-world|SOTWW]] style Orchestral remix of AOBR. I think it worked pretty well, i’m most proud of the intro which is a mix of epic bitcrush effects and a recording i made of the wind outside my house when they were burning stuff at an energy plant. --- @@ -1407,7 +1407,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - First Steps - Crock n' Roll Commentary: |- - <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rainy:</i> (booklet commentary) Check the commentary for [[“Minuteman”]] the full context, but this song is from an old solo album idea. Originally this song was going to have a bunch more references to Jane songs (I.E [[Cyan Beast]], [[Jane Dargason]], Etc), but I decided against this. The reason for this is that I felt like most of the songs I did for this album did not have enough of my own original composition and relied too heavily on references. So I decided to merge the references I had already planned with some original writing. I kept the references to [[“First Steps”]] by David Ellis and added a reference to an unreleased song called [[Crock N’ Roll]] by RJ Lake. As my last song for the album, I’m pretty proud of this one and I hope you enjoy. --- @@ -1431,7 +1431,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - track:lust-stlap2 Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) I immediately fell in love with PotatoBoss’ song [[track:lust-stlap2|Lust]] as soon as he finished it. This is technically my third time messing with it and I’d consider it my best attempt lmao. After I showed pboss the WIP I had for the remix he came up with the idea of having the song be the prospit counterpart to Lust. I then went and added some sick piano cause john and some strings cause why not? In the end I’m happy with how it turned out but the original Lust is still better and you can’t convince me otherwise. --- @@ -1484,7 +1484,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Beatdown (Strider Style) - Liquid Negrocity # credited as black Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) A while before i made this i asked [[artist:erik-scheele|Jit]] if he still has the disc scratches from a bunch of his songs. Later i noticed that these were also used in [[Time on My Side]] by Tensei, so since u had them i wanted to make a 16-bit cover of Time on My Side using the disc scratches. Just seemed like a fun idea. --- @@ -1513,7 +1513,7 @@ Lyrics: |- these lyrics are a genuine upsetter Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) This song started as a joke, i was gonna do a remix of [[Sunslammer]] using only DVS-Sax but i got distracted and remixed it properly while still using DVS-Sax as the main lead. The name was chosen in a poll on the PMT Discord server, some names were listed and voted on, Saxslammer was suggested by [[artist:rowyn-berlan|Rowyn Berlan]]. --- @@ -1531,11 +1531,11 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - track:dimlight-paradox-music-team Commentary: |- - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary) Based off of an excerpt from vvhat I’d call a rather producti<e hour of me hitting a >ibraphone repeatedly on a series of calculated vvhims for an hour and thirty minutes. None of it really felt forced, and I think I enjoyed making this track vvay more than I should ha<e, for no reason vvhatsoe<er, though it vvas definitely also a *really* exhausting process. The ending bit is based off yet another >ibraphone session vvhich came *much* later, but in a nutshell I vvas just playing the same song, or at least vvhat can be played vvith tvvo hunan hands, vvhen I got distracted and missed a note. Sounded nice, so I added it in. - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary, quirk-free) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary, quirk-free) Based off of an excerpt from what I’d call a rather productive hour of me hitting a vibraphone repeatedly on a series of calculated whims for an hour and thirty minutes. None of it really felt forced, and I think I enjoyed making this track way more than I should have, for no reason whatsoever, though it was definitely also a *really* exhausting process. The ending bit is based off yet another vibraphone session which came *much* later, but in a nutshell I was just playing the same song, or at least what can be played with two hunan hands, when I got distracted and missed a note. Sounded nice, so I added it in. --- @@ -1552,7 +1552,7 @@ Art Tags: - Rose # Sorta... - 'cw: blood' Commentary: |- - <i>apatheticPianist:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>apatheticPianist:</i> (booklet commentary) So this song started out as a thing for an original, completely different album, then turned into a song about Grimdarkness in general, and now it’s a fight anthem for Grimdark Rose versus Bec Noir? And also probably some Vriska vs Bec Noir by the end, too, given how heroic-sounding and grandiose the ending gets... which probably means that “Of the Grim” also refers to how that’s a doomed timeline, and so definitely grim in a completely different sense? This was all definitely very intentional, and definitely not a complete coincidence. @@ -1583,7 +1583,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Dance of Thorns - track:rain Commentary: |- - <i>Monobrow:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Monobrow:</i> (booklet commentary) I was enthusiastically approached by [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos|PotatoBoss]] a couple years ago to make music for his projects... About ten days ago (lol) I said, "OK, let's go4it!" and gave it a shot. The result is something I have put off, like getting back into music. Thanks PotatoBoss, he's rad and a gracious manager to a [[group:the-paradox-music-team|bright group of musicians and artists]] I've been welcomed to create with. Homestuck takes me back and the ones who still love it pushed me forward <3. --- @@ -1610,7 +1610,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Derse Dreamers - Sburban Jungle Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) A lot of things were done for the 10th anniversary of Homestuck this year, one of them was the Homestuck Reanimate Project where a bunch of extremely talented artists came together to [reanimate the entire Collide Flash](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdFdXOdfcrc). One of our artists, [[artist:sketchoodles|Sketchoodles]], was also [working on this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEtC2WWffHI) and i decided to check it out. I ended up making this track for the credit sequence that would play after the animation. I also added it to this album because i wanted to officially release it on 4/13 as well. This is basically the track i made specifically to celebrate Homestuck’s 10th birthday, so thanks for being awesome, Homestuck. --- @@ -1638,7 +1638,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Clockwork Apocalypse - Doctor Commentary: |- - <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rainy:</i> (booklet commentary) This song's commentary is going to get a little serious. After doing [[track:spritely-gardener|Spritely Gardener]], I wanted to do another song for the album. I had a bunch of stuff started but I just never had the energy to finish them. One of the ideas was a massive multi movement homestuck medley referencing all the beta kids' land theme. But like the other WIPs, I couldn't bring myself to work on it more. This went on until some time in early November. In November, I learned that [[artist:buzinkai|George Buzinkai]], Creator of homestuck songs like [["Doctor"]] and [["Endless Climb"]], had passed away. I was felt a profound sense of grief at her death. Some time passed, and I wanted to do something to commemorate her memory. So I decided to give my old project file another shot and that how "A Happy Ending" was created. I wanted to create something that embodied how much Homestuck and it's musicians meant to me. Is it perfect? No, it has a lot of issues and is overly long (Sorry [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos|Pb]]). But I think it is something conveys the monumental impact that homestuck had on my life. --- @@ -1659,7 +1659,7 @@ Cover Art Dimensions: 1516x1518 Referenced Tracks: - Passionate Duelists Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) So [[artist:rowyn-berlan|Rowyn]] texts me at 1am asking me to [dub part of the first episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk9MdEWLvHw) of [[artist:yu-gi-oh|Yu-Gi-Oh]] with her and [[artist:beau-brian|Beau]]. I of course say yes B) So we recorded it and i asked Rowyn if we needed a song for the background music, she said yes so i decided to remix [[track:passionate-duelists|Passionate Duelist]] from Yu-Gi-Oh. I tried to make it some sort of F-Zero GX style track.... So yeah a shitpost that's what this is. diff --git a/album/stlap3.yaml b/album/stlap3.yaml index e74821e3..32345169 100644 --- a/album/stlap3.yaml +++ b/album/stlap3.yaml @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ Art Tags: - AH # - Space (aspect) ...technically... Commentary: |- - <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rainy:</i> (booklet commentary) So for Disk 1 I decided to write a character select theme in the vain of Street Fighter 2. I thought it would be a perfect fit for the art [[artist:kiddlescribbles|Kiddles]] made (which is really good btw). --- @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ Art Tags: - Jack Noir # - Ninja Sword # (?) as prototyped Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commmentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commmentary) Escapade is a song i wrote a long time ago under the name "LoSaS" (don't look it up) because i originally wrote it as a land theme for a land [[artist:kiddlescribbles|Kiddles]] made for some stupid dead pmt comic thing we were working on at the time. I later reused it on my shitty solo album for god knows what reason, and now it has made it's way into [[album:desynced-vol-1|Desynced]] and STLaP 3. This version of Escapade was supposed to be a song about a good guy version of Jack Noir which is why it sounds so much like [[Black]], later though when I just joined the Desynced music team, Emily said they would need a song like Escapade for something later on in the comic so i just offered to let her use it and thats pretty much why its also in there now. @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: # order not reviewed - track:megalovania-undertale - track:MeGaLoVania Commentary: |- - <i>Spad3s:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Spad3s:</i> (booklet commentary) basically this is pretty self explanatory because all my remixes are very straightforward with their names, but I wanted to go into a bit more detail with the workflow and progress on each one, and what makes each song what it is @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ Art Tags: - Dave # - Caledfwlch # (arguably) Commentary: |- - <i>Frost Carter:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Frost Carter:</i> (booklet commentary) idk why, since it isn't exactly a super complex song, but this one kinda took a lot out of me. Don't get me wrong, I'm a lazy motherflipper and all, but oh boy was I unmotivated to work on this one more than usual. It probably doesn't help that I was going through some intense imposter syndrome as a musician at the time, and I was kinda getting out of the HS fandom as well. Still, I powered through, and honestly, I think it turned out fairly well, all things considered. --- @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Penumbra Phantasm - Hate You Commentary: |- - <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rainy:</i> (booklet commentary) So [[All Alone]] was a pretty big milestone for me as it was my first original song I wrote for the PMT. Shortly after I initially wrote it, I had this idea for a upbeat battle theme version of the track about the Handmaid's final confrontation with HIC. A Handmaid's Last Stand is that idea fully realized. To make this track I re-arrange the main melody of All Alone into a 4/4 time signature as well as changing the chord progression from the original. Of course, if I was going to make this a song about The Handmaid fighting Condy I had to quote [[Hate You]] by Toby Fox. Overall, I'm pretty happy with how this turned out and I hope you enjoy it. --- @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ Art Tags: Sampled Tracks: - Savior of the Waking World Commentary: |- - <i>Caldw3ll:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Caldw3ll:</i> (booklet commentary) Honestly, this isn't one of my favorite tracks that I've composed. It's supposed to be an entirely original song themed around Dave's planet, the Land of Heat and Clockwork, but it is too... energetic? I don't know, something about it just feels off. This track was originally supposed to be much more slow and foreboding, but I just couldn't get it to sound right with the limited instrument library that the music software that I use, Medley, has at its disposal. I really need to splurge and buy FL Studio already. Anyway, here's a fun-fact -- the "ding" sounds that start after the intro are sampled from [[Savior of the Waking World]]. So that's neat, I guess. Review Points: @@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Sampled Tracks: - Amen, Brother # not reviewed Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) If you can't tell I have an addiction to making a Dirk song on every album I can and STLaP 3 is no exception. Splinter is a song based on Brain Ghost Dirk and because of that I tried to make something atmospheric and kinda glitchy. I started by editing a couple of FLEX synths to my liking then bitcrushed them a bit after I wrote the chords and arps with them. I proceeded to render the chord and arp patterns as audio clips so I could easily cut them up and individually edit them. After I laid down the base structure for the song with the cut up audio clips I layered two amen break loops with a basic loop on an 8bit kit and bitcrushed everything for the drums. Then I wrote the leads and finished the song up by making a sweep out of a static sample. This song was probably the hardest for me to make but also the most enjoyable because of all the things I experimented with while writing it. Splinter is definitely out of my comfort zone but I'm glad I made it how I did cause it's given me ideas for future songs. Enjoy! --- @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - The La2t Frontiier - Perxenic Highlands Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) I never really liked [[Mituna's Theme]] from BeforusBound ever since i just finished it, in my opinion i left in way too many mixing issues and i didn't really like the composition too crazy much. I wanted it to be way more upbeat and to have cooler instruments etc, i wasnt able to do this in the original cause i was using FL Studio 20 and sforzando which is just the worst soundfont player ever which is kinda also why the pitch bending in Mituna's theme is so horrid. There's also this extremely nasty cut near the end of it because it crashed and i basically just glued 2 parts together. Anyway enough rambling about that song, gee i sure do hate my own songs huh. For Dual Voltage i used a lot of the same instruments from [[the La2t Frontiier]], i also referenced it in there. Overall the composition became way fuller and the mixing is a little bit better too, im also really happy with that shamisen solo i thought that was really cool. And for references other than Mituna's theme and the La2t Frontiier, i threw in one of the pmt's most referenced songs [[Fate of the Heir]] and [[Perxenic Highlands]] because Fate of the Heir fits really well for obvious reasons and we had just finished Perxenic when i started working on this song so i wanted to reference it somewhere, and it came out really cool and epic sounding luckily! --- @@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ Art Tags: # - Fluorite Octet # - Magic 8 Ball Commentary: |- - <i>Chromaphasia:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Chromaphasia:</i> (booklet commentary) For starters, this song took absolute ages to create. While writing it, I was listening to a lot of Japanese Alt-Rock/Metal, as well as some of the Homestuck tracks of those genres, like the [[album:strife|Strife]] album and [[artist:david-ellis|David Ellis']] work. Those definitely influenced a lot of the choices I made, especially in reference to the guitar tone and the drums. In terms of the technical theory behind it, I used a Phrygian mode, which is very similar to the Minor mode, which most Rock/Metal uses. The extra flat second from the Phrygian scale really lends a lot of interesting possibilities for resolution, because of the way it clashes with the root note, being only a half step above it. I mostly used a jazz guitar tone for the guitars to keep the sound more clean, however there is definitely a more liberal use of distortion on some of the leads. --- @@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Doctor Commentary: |- - <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rainy:</i> (booklet commentary) So this was the hardest song to bring together for stlap 3. I had started and stopped working on this 4 times during the development of STLaP 3. As for the song itself, there really isn't much to say aside I wanted to make a proper [[doctor]] remix. You can't really calll yourself a homestuck fan musician if you haven't remixed doctor at least once lol. --- @@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ Art Tags: # - Scratch's mansion # - Vinyl Commentary: |- - <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (booklet commentary) I was struggling to come up with a small jingle so I went back to some old projects and found this piano sketch i made way back, so i just sorta made it soudn shiner and, well, ended up with this. --- @@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ Lyrics: |- (Right there) Commentary: |- - <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rainy:</i> (booklet commentary) So I made this song on whim like during the Summer of 2019. I had just discovered the Sonic Rush soundfont and wanted to see how the combo of the samples and Shreddage soundfont sounded together. Much to my surprise it actually turned out decent. --- @@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Eridan's Theme - Hydro City Zone Act 1 Commentary: |- - <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (booklet commentary) I wasn't gonna put this on STLaP 3, it was kinda just a meme song I was saving for the soundtest. I think [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos|Potato Boss]] was making his own Baleishsprite track to put on here but then I made this, so then he just repaced his song with mine I think, lol. The reference to [[track:hydro-city-zone-act-1|Hydrocity Zone]] is inspired from a birthday remix of Hydrocity that was made for me nearly 2 years ago (ty again fo that, pencil and crisp). --- @@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Sampled Tracks: - Amen, Brother # not reviewed Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) One day I was bored and wrote a song. The End... is what I would say if it stopped there, but alas the story continues. That song I wrote ended up becoming the main original melody in Heirflow after I found out that a handful of John motifs complimented it nicely. From there I arranged everything together to the best of my ability by adding distinct sections in between the main melody that introduced the different motifs. I also added an amen break for whatever reason, but it works. This was also my first time heavily using portamento and modulation on my lead which I really like and feel dumb for not diong sooner. Composition wise this might be my favorite song I made on STLaP 3 and I hope to make more songs like it in the future. --- @@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Diamond Dust Commentary: |- - <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rainy:</i> (booklet commentary) Alright so I have quite a bit to say about this track. A last year the PMT put out [our earthbound album](https://pascalpotatovandenbos.bandcamp.com/album/whats-your-favorite-song-earthbound-2019), which was a fun little break from our usual homestuck music thing. I wrote a song on that album called [["Diamond Dust"]] that quickly became one of my favorite songs I had written at the time. Shortly after the album came out I had the desire make a proper follow up to that track. Sometime later, I was improving on the piano and got this really nice sounding chord progression that made me think of snow. I was looking for an idea at the time for STLaP 3 at the time, so I made this my last song for the album. During the process of writing this song, I had the idea of remixing "Diamond Dust" into this, effectively making Snowfall the a sequel to that song. Overall I'm pretty proud how this turned out and I'm glad I got to make the follow up I wanted. --- @@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Unite Synchronization Commentary: |- - <i>Spad3s:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Spad3s:</i> (booklet commentary) This one is probably my favorite one of the 5, and I have to mention that when asking for commentary advice I was told "Spades you could talk about how you don't know [[artist:malcolm-brown|malcolm brown]] and yet remix [[unite synchronization]] which is by him lmao" so,, I guess thats a thing @@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ Cover Art File Extension: jpg Art Tags: - Trolls' meteor # Jackie wuz here Commentary: |- - <i>Chromaphasia:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Chromaphasia:</i> (booklet commentary) This song was an absolute joy to write, its my favorite song I created for the album. Its heavily inspired by the works of Disasterpeace as well as other ambient style electronic mussic producers. It utilizes two chords, in two similar modes. Those two dual modes, Ionian/Major and Dorian, create an interesting motion for the song, while never actually moving anywhere, because of the lack of any traditional functional harmony. (TL;DR for the non-music nerds, the song feels open and spacey because it lacks the chord-to-chord motion created by a traditional chord structure.) All in all I think this song came out great, and I got a chance to utilize some music principles I've never really experimented with before. --- @@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Love You (Feferi's Theme) Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) Last summer my girlfriend had just visited from italy, she had been here for about a bit over 2 months. my neighbor gave me an M-Audio midi keyboard just for free a few days after she left, i was pretty sad at that time because i was completely alone now with just my dog. So one evening i was just improvising on this keyboard and i played the opening piano that you now hear in Color of the Ocean and decided to make it a song. I noticed [[track:love-you-feferis-theme|Love You]] fit with it perfectly too so i made it an entire Love You remix because the original doesnt have enough DVS Sax lol. Anyway i guess you could say this song is a big ol love letter to my girlfriend. Love You! --- @@ -644,7 +644,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Clockwork Melody - Gentle Heat Commentary: |- - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary) I made this song really just to familiarize myself with a more amateur side of EDM, and to just use a few Time motifs ([[Gentle Heat]] just made its way in there when I got stuck). At the time that I made it it was one of the many electronic tracks I had attempted in a short time, but one of the only ones of any merit. @@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Distortion Navigator Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) This song is clearly referencing [[Distortion Navigator]].. right? is it? well yes and no not specifically, but you'll see in a bit ;) @@ -695,7 +695,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Perxenic Highlands Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) So ever since I finished The Nobles™ I wanted to reference [[Perxenic Highlands]] in some fashion. The opportunity presented itself with STLaP 3 in which I took the melody of Perxenic and worked it into a semi-strife theme for Page of Hope Jake. I did this song in one night literally 3 days before the release of the album because I procrastinated and rewatched Initial D as you do. One good thing came of it though, I took a lot of inspiration from the structure and feel of common Eurobeat songs when writing the original parts and then frankensteined the arrangement of Perxenic in. In the end I'm really happy with how the song came out despite all the odds being stacked against me when I made it. hope you enjoy this energetic Jake theme! --- @@ -721,7 +721,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Moonsetter Commentary: |- - <i>Spad3s:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Spad3s:</i> (booklet commentary) whoooooooooooo whe this one had a lot of thought put into it. I went in knowing a lot of people who picked up [[moonsetter]] had done lofi, so i knew i had to do something different, and my first go to was quick chord and key changes, giving it the very intense jazzy feel, wrapped up in the standard lofi palette @@ -752,7 +752,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Versus - Atomyk Ebonpyre Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) One day i was recreating [[Sunsetter]] for a potential funi youtube video, but hten i gave up and wanted to make an "X" remix, kinda in the same idea as [Versus X](https://soundcloud.com/thotska-ridgewell/versus-x). So thats basically what i tried to do here, i took the parts that i had recreated from the original Sunsetter and from there i added stuff that i thought sounded really cool, i also added some songs like [[Atomyk Ebonpyre]] cause that was also in [[Davesprite]] which is just a Sunsetter remix... what a fucking inception. --- @@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ Art Tags: - Victory Platform # - Sburb (the house) Commentary: |- - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary) This song is ALSO pretty different from what I'd been making before, as is to be expected of everything I've made for this album. I didnt really make this with anything in midn; no commentary planned, no art for in in my head - I hadn't even chosen a genre. This was just an improv session that I ended up fleshing out later in a collection of sounds and strange little growths. Still, I kinda like what it turned into, slightly disfigured as it may be. --- @@ -791,7 +791,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - All Alone Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) I had been wanting tom ake an [[All Alone]] remix for a while so i decided to make a [[Lotus Land Story]] style remix, it's a bit old now but i really like how i used Doublesix in this. Nothing else to really say on this other than All Alone is epic and it was very fun to remix. Review Points: @@ -858,7 +858,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Of the Grim and Godlike Commentary: |- - <i>Spad3s:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Spad3s:</i> (booklet commentary) This one was kinda last minute so I wasn't able to do with it as much as I wanted, but it still came out pretty cool! this is a remix of [[track:of-the-grim-and-godlike|a song from stlap2]] that I really liked the composition of, and I thought it would sound sick in a deathstep song, which I think it kinda did so :3 --- @@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Sburban Jungle - Eternity Served Cold Commentary: |- - <i>Levc:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Levc:</i> (booklet commentary) This track its about caliborn/lord english and his life in the comci as a paradox that loops (but this song doesn't loop because it would be boring) @@ -912,7 +912,7 @@ Art Tags: - Damara - 'cw: smoking' Commentary: |- - <i>Chromaphasia:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Chromaphasia:</i> (booklet commentary) Good lord, this song. This song was an absolute pain to write for, due to the technical limitations that come with this kind of music. I had to do a lot of research for this song, such as what types of melodic structures, and what types of instruments to use. This song utilizes Japanese Tetrachords, which are a pain to write around. There are four of them, and you pick two and stack them upon each other to make a full octave scale. Each tetrachord is three notes, which means a sclae is only six notes, instead of the usual eight. This means you have that many less options when writing chord structures and melodies, hence why this song was such a pain. Hopefully the trouble was worth it, at least I think so. --- @@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Lullaby for a Drifter Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) So this is me sampling the original piano sketch for my song [[Lullaby for a Drifter]] and layering it with a rhodes. Lullaby for a Drifter was made for the MSPFA [[group:desynced]] ([Go check it out it epic](https://desynced.xyz/)) for a carapacian girl named Jill which is what the art is a reference to. That's it really... --- @@ -957,7 +957,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Doctor Commentary: |- - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary) One day I opened up my DAW to find out that I suddenly had more plugins, since that's apparently just a thing that has happened on multiple occasions and will probably keep happening until the end of time. This time, the plugins happened to be effects, (as they usually are, but new instruments *have* made their way into my catalog without me updating anything once or twice) so I immediately put them to work to see any real applications they could have, notably on that static-ey, bitcrushed piano heard through the song. @@ -986,7 +986,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Sampled Tracks: - Amen, Brother # not reviewed Commentary: |- - <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rainy:</i> (booklet commentary) This song actually a bit of history. I wrote the original version of this track back in the summer of 2018 a few months before I jined <!-- [sic] --> the PMT. I had this idea for ambitious 2-part final boss theme in the vain of Dancing Mad. To make a long story short, I made the first part and it turned out so bad that I lost all motivation to finish the second part. I returned to the project 2 months later and got a decent demo out of it but I never got around to finishing it. At one point, I was actually going to try to finish it for [[album:stlap2|STLaP 2]] but I was pretty weird about putting original work on a Homestuck Fan-album at the time. Needless to say I've since changed my mind on that and it's honestly been for the best lol. As for the song itself, it borrows elements of second demo I made in 2018 but the song is completely different. The most notable inclusion is the amen break that I sliced up that acts as the rhythmic back bone for the entire song. Aside from that it's a lot of synth, guitar and orchestral nonsense. I even added a small reference to [[Beastly Skirmish]], whose arrangement was based on an early demo of this track. This is probably my favorite song I've ever made and I hope you enjoy it. --- @@ -1013,7 +1013,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Courser - Spider8ite!!!!!!!! Commentary: |- - <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (booklet commentary) I couldn't get [[track:cascade-beta|Cascade]] out of my head so I kinda had to make this, then I sorta kept going and going then ended up with the full song. The cringe guitar you hear in the background was my own actual recording. Just before I made this song I tried to learn the starting chords for Cascade just 'cause, then I recorded it, that was actually the first thing I did to start this remix. Oh yeah I can't tell why of all things I decided to reference [[Spider8ite!]] in this but I did. --- @@ -1064,7 +1064,7 @@ Art Tags: # - Time (outfit) - Frogs Commentary: |- - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary) When I started on this song, I started with blazing progress in a few sessions - I had some mixer presets I had made fro some other, less important tracks at the ready, and I was just itching to put them to good use. I was working on this song *fervently*... @@ -1093,7 +1093,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Make-m-m-make-make her a me-mber of the midnight crew! Commentary: |- - <i>Spad3s:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Spad3s:</i> (booklet commentary) another black remix? yes black is a good song @@ -1123,7 +1123,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Lotus Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) Thsi one was requested by [[artist:wumby|Wumby]] a while back, i can't exactly remember why but it was definitely a fun idea to make a Lo-Fi version of [[Lotus]], even [[artist:seth-peelle]] himself said he liked this remix and that is extremely awesome to me. For the song itself I just used a lot of Major and Minor 7th chords to give it that standard Lo-Fi feel and added a really cool bassline, other than that i also added a choir and rain sounds cause lol. I'm pretty satisfied with it, it came out pretty beautiful. --- @@ -1141,7 +1141,7 @@ Art Tags: - Sollux # - Doom (outfit) Commentary: |- - <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (booklet commentary) Making this was actually pretty exciting, it was the first time I actually finished a LSDj song which I was trying to do for a few weeks now. I came to love the tracker because a lot of my favorite chiptune artists used it and I've grown to love the sound. I eventually bought it, spent a while figuring it out, then spent way longer trying to make a finished song out of it. I'm kind of a sucker for Sollux songs and I thought the timbre of Game Boy fidelity-majyykz were underutilized, hence the inspiration. I especially wanted that kinda pseudo-edm, hard chiptune-esque writing since I dunno I thought it sounded cool and sounded like Sollux aswell <!-- [sic] --> as doom. --- @@ -1188,7 +1188,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - AlL kInDs Of MiRaCuLoUs ShIt - Lust Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) Ah here it is, the big one. I've always wanted to make a giant medley of PMT songs and here it is finally. I decided to do it in a style similar to [[Descend]] because it sounds really cool. In total i've referenced about 30 songs here, i won't list them all because that's way too many but i'm really proud of this song. Other than that i think the song pretty much speaks for itself so i hope you enjoy it as much as i did making it, and uh.. try to find all the references ;) --- @@ -1215,6 +1215,6 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - MeGaLoVania (BeforusBound) Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) So i asked [[artist:tee-vee|Tee-Vee]] cover [[track:megalovania-beforusbound|my remix of MeGaLoVania]] as a bonus song for this album because i originally wanted it to be played live for BefoprusBound <!-- [sic] --> but we ran out of time so i left my original guitars in there. He did an amazing job though, like i didn't think that solo at the end was playable to be honest but whaddaya know, it sounds fucking epic lmao. Now i just gotta get him to play [the DX version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBzLLxBfWPM)... diff --git a/album/synthetica.yaml b/album/synthetica.yaml index c592776f..e6e76b4e 100644 --- a/album/synthetica.yaml +++ b/album/synthetica.yaml @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Crystalline Shards Duration: 4:19 Commentary: |- - <i>SolusLunes:</i> (composer, [Newgrounds description](https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/288975)) + <i>SolusLunes:</i> ([Newgrounds description](https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/288975)) This is the [[album:synthetica]] version of [[track:crystalline-soluslunes]], and since it's been what, a year or so since we've sold any more albums, you can has FOR FREE! @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_5iWAHbjMA Duration: 4:25 Commentary: |- - <i>Quarl:</i> (composer, [YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_5iWAHbjMA), excerpt) + <i>Quarl:</i> ([YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_5iWAHbjMA), excerpt) This song comes off my recent "Exposure" release. You can buy it on Amazon/iTunes, or you could listen to it here for free :P @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ Commentary: |- EDIT: It's 2021 now and I can't believe this linked to a myspace page. Have a recent ["remaster"](https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/997824) download, free. - <i>Quarl:</i> (composer, [Newgrounds remaster description](https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/997824), excerpt) + <i>Quarl:</i> ([Newgrounds remaster description](https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/997824), excerpt) Yet another remaster nobody asked for. Originally written circa 2008, I took this down at some point because I thought I was going to be rich and famous or some shit. Not a single label wanted this however. As a result this was reuploaded at some point but then I took it down again after somebody used it in a <b>really shitty hentai game</b> circa 2010. Truth be told, I'm far more mature now and would be honored if somebody used this in their shitty hentai game. No really, go for it. I'll even provide the <b><i>sex noises</i></b> if you <b>ask nicely.</b> ([dead Shopify image link](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0265/3475/products/3295_largeview_06d4bdc2-ed06-4061-b87f-9ceca33ca248.jpeg?v=1475254019)) diff --git a/album/the-nobles.yaml b/album/the-nobles.yaml index ec8094a8..e5e42a90 100644 --- a/album/the-nobles.yaml +++ b/album/the-nobles.yaml @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Art Tags: - Dirk - Jake Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) So starting this whole thing off we have the introductory song to the first half of the album. Side 1 was well the result of me being tired as hell at 4am trying to write a song. It was originally a lot longer with a really weird intro bit but was cut down once I decided to use it for Side 1. In the end I like how this turned out and I plan to finish the original version one day to make it a full song. --- @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Miasmic Decay Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) So remember that shitty [[album:stlap2|STLaP 2]] song called [[Miasmic Decay]]? Remember how I said that I'd like to revisit it one day? Well here we have what Decay was supposed to be. Resurrection was the first song I made back when The Nobles was still a concept and initially it was gonna be a simple Lo-Fi esque remix of Decay. So it was presumably finished until waaaaay later when most of the album was done and I said "hey I wanna make that better". I went back and drastically changed the b section to be more melodic so the song didn't feel lacking when compared to everything else. This was also when I was obsessed with that custom bass I made for [[track:those-who-tread-the-furthest-ring|Those Who Tread]] so it's in here lol. In the end I feel like I made a pretty decent LoTaK song even though it was my second shot at it. I hope this song represents my favorite character Dirk and his kick ass land more than my previous attempt. Enjoy! --- @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - track:sburban-jungle Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) So this was originally made for the [[album:moons-of-theseus|MTaHK Tribute album]] that [[group:unofficial-mspa-fans|UMSPAF]] was doing until I pussied out for whatever reason which is why it references [[track:sburban-jungle]]. Now with that idea scrapped I looked at the song again and was like "yeah I can make this into a LoCaH song" so I did... The End. Ok but seriously I repurposed what I liked about the original draft which was the vaguely Sburban Jungle lead and built everything around it. With help from [[artist:spad3s]] I made the song very open to capture a feel of endless exploration and I think it works well especially with the panned synth. This is also where \#I first experimented with the Cave Story Plus soundfont which shows up pretty much everywhere in the album in some shape or form kinda like how the ChronoTrigger soundfont was all over my BeforusBound stuff. In the end I think this quaint little song fits Janes land well even though in retrospect its a bit simplistic. --- @@ -147,11 +147,11 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Fate of the Heir Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos|Pascal]] you beautiful lad... He helped me out so much with this song and I couldn't be happier with the end result. - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) Uh yeah so [[artist:rowyn-berlan|Rowyn]] texted me at 3am asking if I wanted to help them on a song that they got stuck on for their solo album, clearly i dont sleep so i replied with a cheerful "HELL YEA". They sent me a pretty cool piano sketch that already had some of that signature "Timeless Sauce" on it, so I started having ideas for it pretty quickly. Prior to making this i had been listening to a lot of 16-bit fast paced stuff, specifically a lot of the Gadobadorrer soundtrack so i used a lot of SC-55 (labeled as the Gadobadorrer soundfont) in this. I also incorporated an old piano sketch called "Driven Factor" which was a [[track:penumbra-phantasm]] ish remix of [["Fate of the Heir"]] at the start of the song but in a more [[track:savior-of-the-waking-world|SotWW]] kinda style with the layered flutes, wind sound effect, strings, piano tuned to C6 etc (there will never be enough Fate of the Heir remixes, they will never stop). Then things start heating up with SC-55 drums, bass and an organ and Rowyn's signature usage of the ChronoTrigger soundfont. I also really wanted to add a bitcrush transition into chiptune breakdown since i had only recently gotten the magical8bitplug and dBlue Crusher (i really love dBlue Crusher holy shit) and i really love how they were used in [[Umbral Ultimatum]]. The tempo changes were inspired by me trying to recreate [[Eridan's theme]] lol, i just thought they were really cool so i wanted to incorporate that myself, and a kid from my class complimented me on it so CHECKMATE CRITICS B). Then some brass in the final section because Rowyn wanted some epic "Jake brass" in there followed up by a final chiptune solo thing with 3 magical8bitplugs playing at once and then to a slow section with the detuned EP and strings again, also a samplepack called "Angstrom Glockenspiel" cause i had also just gotten that and it just sounds perfect for the song imo (really good glockenspiel pack, would use again). In the end this is probably one of my favorite songs that i ever made and it was a lot of fun to work on with Rowyn, overall experience:\ 69 unannounced secret of mana drum soundfont swaps out of 10. Epic job on the album Rowyn B) @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ Art Tags: # - Pumpkins # (What Pumpkin?) # - Void (aspect) Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) So this was by far the hardest of the land themes to write in my opinion but I did it... I think? Radiant Dunes was quite the task to write mainly because I had gone through so many shitty drafts and was really cutting it so close on time but one night inspiration struck. I had listened to [[Cleopatra's Cocktail Party]] and [[track:dominion-lofam3]] from [[album:lofam4|LoFaMs 4]] and [[album:lofam3|3]] respectively and had started transcribing the latter song which I think is pretty apparent. So the following morning I knocked out Radiant Dunes in one sitting, making one of my personal favorite songs. Now I started out the song by writing some chords as you do and built everything off of them at first. Then with the lead I really wanted to focus on harmony which I ended up doing later in the song with the double squares. I'm also a big fan of the appreggiation at the end that I added at the last minute. I think I did LoPaN and the Rox herself justice with the song and well if you want more Roxy tunes then stick around for [[artist:rainy]]'s [solo!](https://pascalpotatovandenbos.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-rox) --- @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Perxenic Highlands - Radiant Dunes Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) The Nobles from [[album:the-nobles]] totally won't be confusing right? Let's hope not. Now The Nobles is supposed to serve as the main theme of sorts of the album and as kind of a culmination of all the land themes before it. I started writing this song when I had the Viridian Forest theme from Pokemon Gold and Silver stuck in my head and I think the chords and bass piano reflect that lol. Anyway I initially wanted to have the song just be full piano but I got feedback from [[artist:rainy]] and [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos|Pascal]] telling me to add more instruments so I did. Pascal in particular wanted me to make a more distinct b section so I did after struggling for a while. He also suggested that I add some strings and woodwind which I'm not too used to writing yet so the [[track:radiant-dunes]] section of the song may be a bit off and I apologize for that. In the end I think this song does what it needs and if it's a bit lacking that's where [[track:the-nobles-reprise|the reprise]] comes in handy. Enjoy! --- @@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ Art Tags: # - Heart (outfit) # - Life (outfit) # technically just barely lol Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) This was a quick little song I made right after the original [[Miasmic Resurrection]] and it shows. I don't remember much about making this song but it was a fairly smooth process and I messed with panning a bit which is cool lol. In the end it does its job so let's hop into Side 2!!! --- @@ -256,12 +256,12 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Aggrieve - On Apocalyptic Shores Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) When I was initially coming up ideas for the Derse track I imagined it incorporating a bunch of derse related motif such as [[Derse Dreamers]] and [[Lust]] off of [[album:stlap2|STLaP 2]]. I made at least 2 other versions of this song before that fated day basing them both on the two motifs I previously mentioned. Then one day I sat down and wrote another shitty draft lol... but this one caught the eye of [[artist:rainy]] so he asked for a midi of it and eventually the FLP itself. In that moment I asked him if he wanted to collab and the rest is history. Now when writing the latest draft I like the idea of used motifs but the ones I had initially planned to use weren't working for me so I took to transcribing parts of [[track:checkmate]], [[track:lets-all-rock-the-heist]], and [[track:time-on-my-side]] which Rainy then worked off of. So now we had like 3 or 4 motifs and the original melody and chords from the draft I wrote in the song. Rainy gave me the project to work on again after he started work on the ending but for whatever reason my computer couldn't handle it and FL repeatedly crashed so I left it up to him giving suggestions here and there. In the end I'm more then pleased with the direction Rainy helped me take this dumb idea I had and I hope you enjoy! - <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rainy:</i> (booklet commentary) [[artist:rowyn-berlan|Timeless]] originally wanted me to use my guitar sample library for the original version of this track. I'm not sure what happened but they decided to scrap that original version. I thought the original demo had promise so I asked them for a midi of the track. Eventually they offered to let me collab with them in order to finish the track. A lot of the elements from that original demo are still present in the finishing version albeit heavily modified and extended. I took the original melody and chords timeless wrote and messed around until I got this fun sounding progression and from there it all came together pretty naturally. Unfortunately, there came a point where timeless could no longer use the project file and so he wasn't able to have as much input as i would have liked. Despite that collabing on this was a pretty fun experience and I wouldn't mind doing it again. --- @@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Time on My Side - Liquid Negrocity Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) So this song was the result of by far one of the smoothest writing processes I've had and boy do I love how this turned out. I went into making Broken Dreams with a bassline in mind and had a little trouble getting it to sound good since it was originally in a different time signature than everything else. From there I wrote the right panned square and doubled it up for harmony cause I be like that. Then I wanted to add the [[track:ruins]] bit from [[Skaian Shrapnel]], so I carefully transcribed it into a different key while testing out like 100 different square sounds just because. Now writing the other half of this song was so fun especially since I found ways to fit in some more motifs and then messed around with manual delay which brings us to it's completion... oh yeah I should talk about the songs thematic purpose shouldn't I... So Broken Dreams is simply just a song about Alpha Jack wrecking shit up on Prospit and the name is pretty self explanatory. --- @@ -306,15 +306,15 @@ Art Tags: - Horrorterrors # - Heart (outfit) Commentary: - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) So I've always wanted to collab with young [[artist:beau-brian|beau]] and I saw this song as the perfect opportunity. I started out by editing a few sytrus synths to better suit my tastes and added some noise buildup for atmosphere. I then passed the song to beau after writing a shitty piano sketch. Sooner than later Beau sent me back his WIP in which he added a lead piano and a bass break before his computer died. I had to finish the rest of the song myself but luckily the work Beau did gave me a clear direction to take the song. For the rest of the song I drew inspiration from songs like [Land of Morytha](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb-LLbh4NW0) and [Yggdrasil](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0gfc6m3qJg) from the Xenoblade 2 OST (good game btw) because I think the atmospheric tone of said songs was perfect for what I wanted. I decided to end the entire song with a combination of all previous motifs present throughout the earlier sections of the song and I think me and beau did well. In retrospect I believe that atmosphere was key when trying to represent Dirk's journey through the Furthest Ring in musical form and well I hope we achieved my goal. - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary) It vvas a really fun albeit rather shortli<\ed experience helping [[artist:rowyn-berlan|Rowyn]] vvith this collab. Simply put, they said they didn't knovv vvhat to do vvith it past a certain point and vve discussed a collaboration. After a bit, they tossed o<\er a copy of the project file and the things it used, and I did my best to go to tovvn on it. I only got the smallest bit added - A piano medley, a little bloopity part, a half a bass break - before I got p tired and hit the hay. I didn't ha<\e time to vvork on it the next morning, so I sent it back to Rowyn knovving I'd be spending all my spare time the next fevv days at vvork. By the time I *could* get around to opening the file again, my computer had practically bricked itself..? I couldn't vvork on the project at all, but Rowyn did an amazing job completing. They'll probably say they vvere stuck, but in reality vvhen they vvas gi<\en just the slightest push they jet right into it, and did a hell of a good job along the vvay. - <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary, quirk-free) + <i>Beau Brian:</i> (booklet commentary, quirk-free) It was a really fun albeit rather shortlived experience helping [[artist:rowyn-berlan|Rowyn]] with this collab. Simply put, they said they didn't know what to do with it past a certain point and we discussed a collaboration. After a bit, they tossed over a copy of the project file and the things it used, and I did my best to go to town on it. I only got the smallest bit added - A piano medley, a little bloopity part, a half a bass break - before I got p tired and hit the hay. I didn't have time to work on it the next morning, so I sent it back to Rowyn knowing I'd be spending all my spare time the next few days at work. By the time I *could* get around to opening the file again, my computer had practically bricked itself..? I couldn't work on the project at all, but Rowyn did an amazing job completing. They'll probably say they were stuck, but in reality when they was given just the slightest push they jet right into it, and did a hell of a good job along the way. --- @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Fate of the Heir - Gold Pilot Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) Stardust Glitches was made right after I made [[Fate of the Heir]] which is probably why it's a remix of it. Yeah I also don't remember much about the creation of this song... sorry. What I do know is that I also added a [[gold pilot]] reference cause of the [[flash:6278|stardust glitch edit in the comic]] which is cool. OH! and there's a lot of grossbeat and I have many regrets lol. In retrospect this song is probably the weakest on [[album:the-nobles|the album]] mainly because it's one of the older songs and it was mostly experimental. Anyway I hope you enjoy glitch hell!!! --- @@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ Art Tags: # - Void (aspect) # - Hope (aspect) Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) You like slides? you like Earthbound? well boy oh boy do I have the song for you. So All's Well was made shortly after [the Earthbound tribute album](https://pascalpotatovandenbos.bandcamp.com/album/whats-your-favorite-song-earthbound-2019) came out with a combination of the Earthbound and Cave Story Plus soundfonts. I started off by writing the opening arpeggio which I later went back and changed and the synth pad. From there I really wanted to focus on writing a good bassline and luckily for me the EB fingered bass is a heavenly instrument so let's just say mission accomplished.The lead on All's Well is one of my favorite melodies that I've ever written and yes I did cram in the ChronoTrigger soundfont for the second lead B). Now you might be asking yourself what's well? well all's well silly... for the alpha kids... [[flash:8127|at the end of homestuck...]] yeah lets go with that. Anyway I hope you feel well and enjoy All's Well! --- @@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - The Nobles Commentary: |- - <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (booklet commentary) So we finally did it... we're at the end. To close out this passion project we have the reprise of the albums main theme. I decided that a somber take on [[the nobles]] would be a fitting end to our journey throughout the alpha session so I wrote just that. So lets keep this short... thanks so much for listening and giving my music a chance and for the last time I hope you enjoy!<br> (Alternate Title: Goodnight) diff --git a/album/the-strider-mixtape.yaml b/album/the-strider-mixtape.yaml index 2cbec53d..2afe2753 100644 --- a/album/the-strider-mixtape.yaml +++ b/album/the-strider-mixtape.yaml @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - track:heir-of-grief Commentary: |- - <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) + <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (booklet commentary) So i was watching some old Pokemon movies and i got a bit inspired by the music in said old Pokemon movies, i wanted to make a part orchestral piece for the epic Brobot battle that takes place in [[flash:4572|[S] Prince of Heart: Rise Up.]] When i finished the song i posted it in the Music channel to see if anyone had feedback, when i checked back [[artist:funk-mclovin|JoJo]] had offered to play live trumpet since the horns i used were pretty trashy, so obviously i took that and now the song sounds amazing. --- diff --git a/album/the-wanderers.yaml b/album/the-wanderers.yaml index cfc5d543..2403cb36 100644 --- a/album/the-wanderers.yaml +++ b/album/the-wanderers.yaml @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ Art Tags: - Serenity - Ruined Earth Commentary: |- - <i>Steve Everson:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/tenebrais/19896197965/could-you-do-some-commentary-on-your-homestuck), excerpt, 3/25/2012) + <i>Steve Everson:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/tenebrais/19896197965/could-you-do-some-commentary-on-your-homestuck), excerpt, 3/25/2012) My most recent contribution to Homestuck's music, and another of my favourites. This piece is actually pretty old, going back to before [[album:homestuck-vol-5|Volume 5]], where it was much simpler (playing out more like a round) and with poorer sound quality in general. Like most of my music it was inspired by a similar piece from somewhere else - in this case, [the original Bionicle flash adventure game](https://biomediaproject.com/bmp/play/web-games/mnog/) that used to be on the Lego website way back. If you've played it, you might notice the similarity, at least as far as instrumentation goes. It had been many years since I'd last even seen the game, long after it fell off the site, so I couldn't recognise what I liked about the piece and so the imitation I'd made was pretty poor! @@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ Lyrics: |- (Now w8ke up) (I said W88888888KE!) Commentary: |- - <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://albatrossthesoup.tumblr.com/post/25964085415/commentary-for-what-a-daring-dream), excerpt, 6/26/2012) + <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> ([Tumblr](https://albatrossthesoup.tumblr.com/post/25964085415/commentary-for-what-a-daring-dream), excerpt, 6/26/2012) The Wanderers is my favorite Homestuck album. Its focused premise, interesting takes on a theme, and general aesthetic all appeal to me. Not to mention the fact that it contains some of the best songs in the Homestuck discography. This song is not one of those. diff --git a/album/vast-error-vol-5-side-1.yaml b/album/vast-error-vol-5-side-1.yaml index 29e960e8..f0b2b064 100644 --- a/album/vast-error-vol-5-side-1.yaml +++ b/album/vast-error-vol-5-side-1.yaml @@ -703,7 +703,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Oh– oh GOD– it's happening again! AAA- Commentary: |- - <i>Ash Taylor:</i> (composer, [YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWhIBaKPC8U), excerpt) + <i>Ash Taylor:</i> ([YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWhIBaKPC8U), excerpt) well, i've peaked. time to pack it up diff --git a/album/vast-error-vol-5-side-2.yaml b/album/vast-error-vol-5-side-2.yaml index c4d1011b..1f5eab50 100644 --- a/album/vast-error-vol-5-side-2.yaml +++ b/album/vast-error-vol-5-side-2.yaml @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Commentary: |- III. Prospit IV. The Battlefield - <i>Ash Taylor:</i> (composer, [YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1wMjmRDH8k), excerpt) + <i>Ash Taylor:</i> ([YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1wMjmRDH8k), excerpt) Too little. Too late. @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ Lyrics: |- MAKE HER A MEMBER OF THE- OF THE DEAD SHUFFLERS Commentary: |- - <i>Ash Taylor:</i> (composer, [YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he1btrO8IFs), excerpt) + <i>Ash Taylor:</i> ([YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he1btrO8IFs), excerpt) Is there anything more to to Jack Noir? diff --git a/album/your-majesty.yaml b/album/your-majesty.yaml index e6703249..d319f613 100644 --- a/album/your-majesty.yaml +++ b/album/your-majesty.yaml @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Commentary: |- And yet, occasionally, we must indulge these fantasies. We romanticize the past because we remember once that we were able to romanticize the future. To permit legendary origins is to hope for a destiny beyond our crude surroundings. We have the choice to see life as a brief epitaph or as the unfolding chapters of a grand saga. Which way will you turn? - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=2792), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=2792), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) "How much has your process changed between [[album:mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido|Mobius Trip]] and earlier works, and [[album:ulterior-motives|Ulterior Motives]]?" You know, aside from like, the software changes, I think I have experimented with - doing things in different orders. Some of the time I was doing things with, like, intention to produce the beat, or come up with the instrumentation or something first, and sometimes I was doing things lyrically first, and trying to have um, a song written in an instrument. Actually, lately, *since* Ulterior Motives, coming up on this new album - that's been the main focus, is to move over from trying to do things with any production idea really in place, and have complete demos, just like a normal singer-songwriter, and then go in and start arranging them as if you're in the studio, and be your own producer. |