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diff --git a/album/lofam2.yaml b/album/lofam2.yaml index b39222cd..bcfb8ce8 100644 --- a/album/lofam2.yaml +++ b/album/lofam2.yaml @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ 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. - <i>Skylar:</i> (track artist) + <i>Skylar:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) paige told me the song was about doc scratch, the condesce and lord english, and since the track was titled chronology i tried to show some sort of a progression within the track art while expressing some of the background of each character. --- @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ 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! - <i>8bitkitten:</i> (track artist) + <i>8bitkitten:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) Here's my track art for "Jackpot"! It's a Roxy strife theme, and since we have yet to witness such an event in Homestuck, let's make believe. ;3 --- @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ 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 [[track:planet-healer|"Planet Healer."]] I decided to just swap out a few synonyms and voila, Satellite Physician was done! - <i>grayscaleOddysey:</i> (track artist) + <i>grayscaleOddysey:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) This track and cover art was featured in the Homestuck/Zelda fan adventure, Legend of Homestuck, as John's theme. --- @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ 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>dodostad:</i> (track artist) + <i>dodostad:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) I can admit that I had no idea where this was going when I painted it. I don't think I've ever drawn clouds before either haha. --- @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ Commentary: |- The hardest part was deciding between RamBUNNctious and RABBunctious. - <i>Dawn Davis:</i> (track artist) + <i>Dawn Davis:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) I love Lil Seb he's my baby.<br> I'm proud of this it was really fun to do =w= @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ Commentary: |- He was a good dog, and the best friend anyone could ever hope to have. - <i>Lunise:</i> (track artist) + <i>Lunise:</i> (track artist, booklet 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. --- @@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ 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. - <i>Cap:</i> (track artist) + <i>Cap:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) After the original art file crashed like a piping hot baby on a meteor, I decided to create an Egyptian hieroglyphic-ish piece for this song because you know, DESERTS and WANDERERS and WOW JUST GOSH. But I also wanted to add in some of WV's little chalk drawings too because it's cute! I mean, come on. Look at them, being happy and carefree and unaware. Yes, I know deep in my heart that this story will have a very happy end. No doubts about it. \*insert evil laughter here\* --- @@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ Commentary: |- that's it - <i>dodostad:</i> (track artist) + <i>dodostad:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) I thought about drawing Vriska and Aradia, but somehow this song reminded me of Jade. I don't remember seeing much art of her and Bec so I thought I'd fix that! --- @@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ Commentary: |- Rejected alternate title: 'All the colours of the rainbow (are delicious)' - <i>Maddie Haines:</i> (track artist) + <i>Maddie Haines:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) I saw the name Rainbow Rebirth and immediately wanted to do something cool with Kanaya and her fairly new rainbow drinker status, since I was pretty dang sure that was what the title was referencing. Since it was her care for the matriorb that led up to her transformation, I thought it made the most sense to include it, as well as rainbow colors, obviously, into this picture. --- @@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ 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. - <i>fueledbyanimation:</i> (track artist) + <i>fueledbyanimation:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) I have been listening to Horizon's renditions of Homestuck music with her lyrics for a while now, and Flare has always been my favorite one she did. I hoped I could make a picture that represents the feeling of closeness beween the four kids in getting through the game that I feel in the words she wrote. --- @@ -789,7 +789,7 @@ Commentary: |- <img src="media/misc/commentary-here.png" width="300"> - <i>Spectrumfizz:</i> (track artist) + <i>Spectrumfizz:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) <span style="font-family: Comic Sans, Comic Sans MS, cursive">dude come chekc this out hummusr is like one of my favoprite musicans so i made a thnig for this MAD TRACK</span> --- @@ -833,7 +833,7 @@ Commentary: |- Electrocumulus is a remix of [[track:pyrocumulus-kickstart|Pyrocumulus]] by [[artist:robert-j-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. - <i>plaidcushion:</i> (track artist) + <i>plaidcushion:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) The songs this was remixed from are associated with Skaia and the battlefield, but I thought that Electrocumulus was way too high energy and fun for something like that. I decided to go for the next best thing- John speeding through Skaia and plowing through clouds in his Dad's car! As it turns out, exploded clouds are also rpetty fun to cut out with a scalpel. --- @@ -860,7 +860,7 @@ Commentary: |- yeah i dont know how i feel about that track i guess its a song and i made it and well, thats more than i can say for a lot of things - <i>Lambda Elise Merryberry:</i> (album organizer) + <i>Lambda Elise Merryberry:</i> (album organizer, booklet commentary) kali has such a way with words --- @@ -889,7 +889,7 @@ Commentary: |- Around the time I finished [[Rust Maid]] and [[Orange Hat]], I was approached for the inclusion of the remix in LOFAM2. While I was happy to have the opportunity to give people the download so many of them clamored for, I really, really had to fix so many of it's glaring issuse, and as such I remastered it for the album. - <i>devonianecho:</i> (track artist) + <i>devonianecho:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) [[track:showtime-original-mix|Showtime]] has always been one of the most memorable pieces of music in Homestuck, forever representing a (if not the) quintessential "strife" theme. With this in mind, I think I had almost too much freedom in choosing the conflict I wanted to depict in this piece. Initially, I was going to make it John vs. Dad [[flash:90|from Act 1]]... but that ended up being a little too underwhelming in comparison to the song it was for. So, in the end, I settled upon focusing the piece on a determined-looking John about to face down the underling horde at the beginning of [[flash:4109|Cascade]]. I'm pretty happy with the end result. --- @@ -946,11 +946,11 @@ 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 [[track:guiles-theme|Guile's Theme]]: It goes with everything. - <i>AS:</i> (track artist) + <i>AS:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) Listening to Fighting Spirit the first time kind of got me nostalgic for the old Strife pages, with their chiptune music. You know, waaaay back in the beginning of the comic when the Beta kids were still on planet Earth and were being harassed by trolls. So nearly a year later, I figured that a strife page would make for an excellent cover. Admittedly action poses have always been a weakness of mine, so I probably drew each kid at least twice for this cover until I was satisfied. Still though, I'm happy with how the art came out. Hopefully I did this awesome track justice. - <i>Lambda Elise Merryberry:</i> (album organizer) + <i>Lambda Elise Merryberry:</i> (album organizer, booklet commentary) [[Doctor]], [[track:showtime-original-mix|Showtime]], [[track:beatdown-strider-style|Beatdown]], [[Pumpkin Cravings]], [[Chorale for Jaspers]], [[track:bl1nd-just1c3-1nv3st1g4t1on|BL1ND JUST1C3]], [[Atomyk Ebonpyre]], [[Horschestra]], [[track:MeGaLoVania]], [[Spider's Claw]], [[track:walk-stab-walk-r-and-e|Walk-Stab-Walk]], [[Liquid Negrocity]]. --- @@ -979,7 +979,7 @@ 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. - <i>Spectrumfizz:</i> (track artist) + <i>Spectrumfizz:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) Irradiated is among the first homestuck fanmusic tracks I ever heard, so I was very pleased to be able to create art to accompany it on LOFAM2. I decided to draw inspiration from AutoDevote's [[flash:fan-animation-homestuck|first HS fanimation]], which to this day remains one of my favourite homestuck videos. I'm not particularly apt at composition or shading or several other things, but I'm pretty happy with what I accomplished here. --- @@ -1046,11 +1046,11 @@ Commentary: |- That one terrible LEGENDARY ENDLESS DVS SAX song I made almost went on the album instead of this and I felt like paying tribute to it, so that's where the little sax riff came from. - <i>Lunise:</i> (track artist) + <i>Lunise:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) I had the feeling that I had to meet some pretty high expectations when I was called upon to draw this one, so I was pretty nervous about doing it. I spent a long time mulling over how I was going to go about drawing this track art after I completed the art for [[track:stalemate-play-the-rain]]. We don't know nearly as much about the denizens as we do about the kids or the trolls or even the carapacians, but I took what we do know about the beta kids' denizens and ran with it. - <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) + <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor, booklet commentary) note: Lunise wrote seven paragraphs about the creative process behind this wonderful art piece. I can only fit the first one on the page. @@ -1101,7 +1101,7 @@ 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. - <i>plaidcushion:</i> (track artist) + <i>plaidcushion:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) This really sounded like a night time kind of song to me, which I think went nicely with the baby frog Jade finds on her island as a kid. He's a pretty cute little guy, but his role carries a lot of weight, so I think he fits the song pretty well. --- @@ -1126,7 +1126,7 @@ 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... - <i>Corrina:</i> (track artist) + <i>Corrina:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) Given the fact that the song references [[track:the-beginning-of-something-really-excellent|Jade's theme]], I thought that I'd go with something that has to do with the characters' relationship. In the picture, I had originally intended Jade to be a sort-of ghost image, as if she wasn't really there. I wanted to show that Jack was alone, but I later changed that aspect, despite how much I loved the idea. Making her more faded created imbalance in the work, and the details were also washed out. --- @@ -1222,7 +1222,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - White King - Sburban Jungle Commentary: |- - <i>Lambda Elise Merryberry:</i> (album organizer) + <i>Lambda Elise Merryberry:</i> (album organizer, booklet commentary) Hi. I'm Lambda Merryberry, or Xzaz. I started the project to put LoFaM2 together. @@ -1256,7 +1256,7 @@ 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. - <i>doctoroftime:</i> (track artist) + <i>doctoroftime:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) The song was a Gamebro remix and I had just figured out that Bro Strider probably writes Gamebro so it was obvious that a *Professor Layton x Homestuck* crossover needed to happen. I looked at the covers of the Layton games and basically just went for it. @@ -1444,7 +1444,7 @@ Commentary: |- So again, thank you [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew]] and everyone on the music team; both for that opportunity and for all your creative work which inspired me in the first place. Thanks [[artist:erik-scheele|Jit]] for offering some last minute advice (though I didn't get a chance to implement half of those suggestions...). And, of course, thank you [[artist:lizawithazed|Liza]] and [[artist:lambda-elise-merryberry|Xzaz]] for organizing this second Homestuck Fan Music Album; your dedication and enthusiasm is truly an inspiration. - <i>Racheme:</i> (track artist) + <i>Racheme:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) This shows little John asking his older self if they saved Dad from the game. I wanted to reflect some inner workings in John's mind, he still thinks about his only family rather than simply drawing him as powerful and never giving up like in most pictures. --- @@ -1470,7 +1470,7 @@ Commentary: |- Here's hoping for a happy ending. - <i>Fortnight:</i> (track artist) + <i>Fortnight:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) First of all- I love this track, it sounds to me like the start of something new, with hope and high expectations thrown in. I drew this track art based off that mood and also [[flash:82|the unnamed flash from Act 1]], [page 1982](https://homestuck.com/story/82). --- @@ -1551,7 +1551,7 @@ 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. - <i>Lambda Elise Merryberry:</i> (album organizer) + <i>Lambda Elise Merryberry:</i> (album organizer, booklet commentary) [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|Upward Movement]], [[Endless Climb]], [[track:showtime-original-mix|Showtime]], [[Eridan's Theme]], [[Doctor]], [[Sunsetter]], [[track:MeGaLoVania]], [[Pumpkin Cravings]], [[track:beatdown-strider-style|Beatdown]], [[Chorale for Jaspers]], [[Harlequin]], [[Liquid Negrocity]], [[Crystalanthemums]], [[Ocean Stars]], [[Homestuck Anthem]], [[How Do I Live]]. --- @@ -1613,7 +1613,7 @@ 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." - <i>positivelymorbid:</i> (track artist) + <i>positivelymorbid:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) When I first listened to it, I thought it was a really calm, tranquil song, so I thought maybe Jane relaxing. The more I listened to it, the more adventurous it sounded. Then it hit me, why not Jane having a picnic in LOCAH, picnics are relaxing and adventurous. Overall, I enjoyed the song, and I really enjoyed drawing this art for it. --- @@ -1647,7 +1647,7 @@ Commentary: |- I remember it being a week of musical hell for me, but I'm quite proud of the end results. Perhaps one day, I'll be able to rerecord it with a proper quartet. One can dream at least. - <i>Reid Slater:</i> (track artist) + <i>Reid Slater:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) I wanted to represent the beta kids reaching their godtier status while mixing in the royalty theme that Samm's song gave me. Samm said to me himself that he thought of the crowning scene in Narnia and the four thrones, and I thought it was suitable to represent them with crowns, holding the Skaia they influenced and looking content and almost relieved in each other's company. I wanted to create something happy and a little bitter-sweet, which was the feeling I got from Samm's track. And I wanted to show that sort of unity and friendship the kids have, even after all they've been through. --- @@ -1751,7 +1751,7 @@ 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. - <i>Cap:</i> (track artist) + <i>Cap:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) Originally, I planned to do a sentimental image of Vriska standing in the snow, but it turned out pretty lame. Then I figured hey, since I'm making something for a fantastic song for an amazing troll, why not make the piece almost as gr8t as her? So the snow idea melted and turned into this bizarre, dreambubble-ish creation! @@ -1854,7 +1854,7 @@ Commentary: |- It's not Christmas anymore. - <i>Lambda Elise Merryberry:</i> (album organizer) + <i>Lambda Elise Merryberry:</i> (album organizer, booklet commentary) this entire album was a joke at clark's expense --- @@ -1876,7 +1876,7 @@ 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 [[track:rex-duodecim-angelus|"Rex Duodecim Angelus"]] by [[artist:malcolm-brown]], but not enough to qualify as a remix or arrangement. - <i>Ducky Senpai:</i> (track artist) + <i>Ducky Senpai:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) I initially had no idea what I was going to do for this song. I skimmed through the tracks and noticed this one by Willow Ascenzo (who did some of my favorites on [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a]] like [[Teal Hunter]] and [[Violet Mariner]]), and I was instantly sold probably because of my love for pipe organs. Anyway, for a lack of better inspiration, I used the description left on soundcloud - "Final battle with Lord English." Tie that to Aranea's mentioning that Jake was destined to beat Lord English, and I had my inspiration. The lineart took much longer than it should have since my tablet had been freaking out and I haven't gotten the new one yet, but the coloring went quite smoothly. --- @@ -1902,7 +1902,7 @@ 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. - <i>Lambda Elise Merryberry:</i> (album organizer) + <i>Lambda Elise Merryberry:</i> (album organizer, booklet commentary) there <i>would</i> be lyrics here if i were capable of interpreting them. @@ -1970,7 +1970,7 @@ Commentary: |- Since then I feel that I have improved significantly and so I've given the old remix a quick reworking. Whilst I think that structurally the track is a little too similar to [[track:showtime-original-mix|the original]] and if I were to make another remix I would do things quite differently, this piece was the one which began to outline my chiptune style which I've since developed with my other Homestuck tracks. My main influences with chiptune are from the SID and Yamaha chips found in the C64 and Sega Mega Drive respectively, and as such many synth and percussive elements from each can be heard in my work. - <i>fueledbyanimation:</i> (track artist) + <i>fueledbyanimation:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) To fit a remix of one of my favorite Homestuck themes, I wanted to make the Strife scene between Dad and John in my own style, while still holding somewhat true to the original. A remix of the art as well as the song. @@ -2065,7 +2065,7 @@ 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. - <i>prismatic-void:</i> (track artist) + <i>prismatic-void:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) The first time I heard the song I thought it described Eridan perfectly. It's about being left behind and distrusted by the only people he ever put faith in. He's angry and selfish and decides to forget about them in favor of his own goals. I wanted to show him essentially walking away from the ghosts of his past and doing his best to ignore how much they've hurt him. --- @@ -2134,11 +2134,11 @@ 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 [[track:atomyk-ebonpyre|"Atomyk Ebonpyre"]] section near the end. Those two parts ended up especially fantastic. - <i>xkoraxayomex:</i> (track artist) + <i>xkoraxayomex:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) Overall I feel that the artwork suits the piece in terms of relativity and presentation. I think it looks refined and somewhat detailed, but there is room for improvement. When I read the title for the piece, Ascension, I automatically thought back to Jade's god tier, as it is simply gorgeous and I just love it. It was a milestone for her becoming an even more essential character in Homestuck. - <i>Lambda Elise Merryberry:</i> (album organizer) + <i>Lambda Elise Merryberry:</i> (album organizer, booklet commentary) this song was originally titled "ascension", but there was to be another song on lofam2 with a similar title ("god tier ascension") (except now there isn't) so [[artist:willow-ascenzo|wmm]] changed it to "ave dei novi" which translates to "hail the new gods" --- @@ -2261,7 +2261,7 @@ Commentary: |- A lot of people have asked me whether or not I'm going to make a second Homestuck track. And as much as I love the motivation from fans to do so, I don't think I could handle trying to one-up a piece like this and failing. So, here's to you, Homestuck. - <i>dodostad:</i> (track artist) + <i>dodostad:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) For me the song was about alpha kids, no question about it. It took me a long time to come up with a composition that I liked and that seemed to fit the song. LOOK OUT FOR THE MILES JANE --- @@ -2289,7 +2289,7 @@ Commentary: |- The vocal lines were an afterthought. Actually, no, they were less than an afterthought. They weren't actually something I thought I should include at all, but the assignment had a requirement of at least four recorded audio tracks. I threw those lines together at home on Cubase (I don't actually have a Mac, let alone Logic!) the morning the piece was drew it, slapped them onto the piece with Logic that day and got the assignment in just in time. But in the end, I think they enhanced the feel of the piece, so I'm kind of glad I had to chuck them in there! - <i>Spectrumfizz:</i> (track artist) + <i>Spectrumfizz:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) This is probably my favoured piece from my two more serious ones. I wanted to make a layout reminiscent of an actual planetarium, and I think I achieved that well (the "strings" hanging up the planets are simultaneously that and the kids' houses built up towards Skaia, which indicates that I kind of overthought this). I'm actually pretty fond of how the tiny Beat Mesa and Prospit's moon turned out. |