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diff --git a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml index fdfb28f..293cb5a 100644 --- a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml +++ b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml @@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ Art Tags: - God Cat - Earth - Horses +Cover Art File Extension: png +Track Art File Extension: png Commentary: |- <i>Ucklin:</i> <center>COSMIC CARETAKERS</center> @@ -35,7 +37,7 @@ Commentary: |- <b>AFTERWORDS</b> <i>Blackhole:</i> The concept for this album had its origins more than two years ago, and its basic blueprint was drawn up by me as a follow-up to [[album:beforus]]. Back then it was known as "Rubric of the Guardians", and while that was later changed, and due to management upheavals I wasn't personally involved with its development as "Cosmic Caretakers", I am excited for what the project has become and what these fantastic musicians have in store for us. A comprehensive Guardian album was an idea straight out of my original list of fan-album concepts circa 2015 that spawned Beforus, and now finally the dream of having themes for all of them is realized. Vava la Guardians! (V-l-G, perhaps? Or perhaps not. :P) - <i>ndividedbyzero:</i> + <i>keyboard cait:</i> This album dedicated to the classic fanmusic album reality of progress stalling for months, followed by the completion of half the administrative work in the final three days before release. Seriously, I wrote this afterword 1 hour before the album stream. But if you're reading this, I hope you've enjoyed every last minute of it, because I know I sure did. All our work and unwork was not in vain. <i>Ucklin:</i> Putting together the booklet for this album made me realize just how ambitious the project was. We have said goodbye to a few old faces over the long production time of the album, and some have questioned the team's motivation. However, I think it is a testament to the enduring strength of the team that we have been able to stick with this project, despite delays, until its release. I want to thank everyone who stuck by it, even when it would have been easy to write it off. It's been a long haul, but we've learned a lot about how to avoid similar delays in the future, and the team is facing the next project with renewed enthusiasm. @@ -45,8 +47,10 @@ Commentary: |- <center>YOU ARE NOW GROWN UP. IN SOME WAYS, YOU HAVE MOVED ON. BUT YOU HAVE ALSO LEARNED THAT GROWING UP DOES NOT ALWAYS MEAN SAYING GOODBYE TO THE THINGS YOU ENJOY.</center> <center>I AM SO, SO PROUD OF YOU.</center> <hr> - <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> - (per [[track:jungle|LoFaM 4 standard]], ive highlighted commentary from people besides the original musicians or cover artists in bold!) + <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor) + (per [[track:jungle-3|LoFaM 4 standard]], ive highlighted commentary from people besides the original musicians or cover artists in bold!) + <i>Ngame:</i> + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E90T8poC2sk)) Banner Artists: - melodiousDiscord - Niklink (edits for wiki) @@ -55,12 +59,15 @@ Banner File Extension: png Wallpaper Artists: - Elanor Pam Additional Files: +- Title: Album Booklet + Files: + - Cosmic_Caretakers_Booklet.pdf - Title: Bandcamp Banner and Background Files: - banner.png - bg.jpg --- -Group: Disc 1 +Section: Disc 1 --- Track: Disc 1 Directory: disc1-cosmic-caretakers @@ -79,8 +86,8 @@ Commentary: |- this was done pretty quick, its a simple concept that didnt take much doing. the thing i like most is probably the scratch lightning, ive been drawing a lot of lightning recently. --- Track: Egbert's Kitchen -Artists: -- Pascal van den Bos +Directory: egberts-kitchen-cosmic-caretakers +Originally Released As: track:egberts-kitchen Duration: '3:01' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/egberts-kitchen @@ -91,17 +98,15 @@ Art Tags: - John's dad - Underlings - LoWaS -Referenced Tracks: -- track:under-the-hat Commentary: |- <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> - For this track i went for the style of music i think Dad listens to, [[track:under-the-hat]] but even jazzier haha. The chiptune breakdown in the middle is also kind of a reference to [[track:showtime-original-mix]] which is the Strife! theme you hear when John encountered Dad. It worked pretty well, i think this is what you'd hear when you walk in to the kitchen when Dad is baking something. + For this track i went for the style of music i think Dad listens to, [[Under The Hat]] but even jazzier haha. The chiptune breakdown in the middle is also kind of a reference to [[Showtime (Original Mix)]] which is the Strife! theme you hear when John encountered Dad. It worked pretty well, i think this is what you'd hear when you walk in to the kitchen when Dad is baking something. <i>trip:</i> I want this dad to be my dad. --- Track: Nanna's New Groove Artists: -- ndividedbyzero +- keyboard cait Duration: '3:48' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/nannas-new-groove @@ -113,9 +118,9 @@ Art Tags: - Earth Referenced Tracks: - Homestuck Anthem -- track:nannaquin +- Nannaquin Commentary: |- - <i>ndividedbyzero:</i> + <i>keyboard cait:</i> At first I considered making this track electroswing, but that's a bit out of my range. I think this works well as a compromise! Think of this as the soundscape to an elderly clown grandma (clownma?) throwing pies at you forever, but in a good natured way, a way where you both laugh at the absurdity of it all, except when the fifth pie is thrown you laugh a little less hard because the joke is starting to get stale, and by the time the tenth pie is thrown you start to want to go home and wonder if the clownma still finds it funny, and she does, still not in a mean spirited way, not because of the pie and not because of the frown on your face, but because she knows the joke is stale and you know the joke is stale and yet it keeps happening in spite of its staleness and that mutual understanding really only underlines the absurdity of it all. The clownma is pretty good at pranks, all things considered. @@ -157,12 +162,12 @@ Art Tags: - Dave's bro - Earth Referenced Tracks: -- track:beatdown-strider-style +- Beatdown (Strider Style) - Umbral Ultimatum Commentary: |- <i>Chaosvariant:</i> - Hi I go by Chaosvariant. I worked on this track for Dave's Bro, my original intention was to remix [[track:beatdown-strider-style]] to have a little more flair and fit better into the cool yet dangerous aura Dave's Bro put off then to have that transition into the fight with Jack Noir. My computer halfway through this process bricked so sadly we're kinda stuck with a WIP but I hope you'll like it for the concept alone. - <i>SplitSuns:</i> + Hi I go by Chaosvariant. I worked on this track for Dave's Bro, my original intention was to remix [[Beatdown (Strider Style)]] to have a little more flair and fit better into the cool yet dangerous aura Dave's Bro put off then to have that transition into the fight with Jack Noir. My computer halfway through this process bricked so sadly we're kinda stuck with a WIP but I hope you'll like it for the concept alone. + <i>SplitSuns:</i> (album mastering) SplitSuns here. In addition to writing my own song for this project, which you'll find 24 tracks from now, I mastered the album in general. In theory, this means making sure each song is around the same volume so you don't have to keep adjusting your headphones. However, sometimes I did some extra work just to polish things up. Like with this song, for instance: I took what Chaosvariant had finished, added some EQ to make the mix clearer, and added a small sound effect at the end to smooth things out. <i>ackro:</i> i really like how i did this one. not too much going on but i feel its good for how simple it is. drawing the meteor took a bit of work, and looking at some reference shots from descend, but it really came together, and of course the sense of scale given with bro and the meteor is very well executed id say. pretty much flawless except for the fire which i couldve done better. @@ -183,12 +188,12 @@ Art Tags: - 'cw: animal death' Referenced Tracks: - A Taste for Adventure -- track:dissension-remix +- Dissension (Remix) - track:old-secret Commentary: |- - <b><i>SplitSuns:</i></b> + <i>SplitSuns:</i> (album mastering) With its blend of sharp synths and cinematic orchestration, as well as its dramatic swells in composition, this song does an amazing job capturing Grandpa's famed taste for adventure. Can you feel it? That sense of danger, the palpable tension in the air as the jungle trees sway in the breeze? Quick snatches of animal chatter meet your ears, the rest muffled by the dense canopy above. You grip your rifle a little tighter and adjust your hat towards what lies beyond. You have a feeling it's going to be a long hunt. - <i>tipsy:</i> + <i>Tipsy:</i> i accidentally listened to bec's song instead of grandpa's song (wow well done me), so i HAD to include dogs. but i wanted the image to live up to this song's title. you can see my thought process here. besides which you can see the <i>true danger</i> that grandpa must have put himself in expressed here with his lack of pants. anyway i wanted the animals to all look vaguely real, so i spent a lot of time looking up pictures of them while drawing. i was heavily inspired by hiveswap and the photo frames of grandpa in his past, and wanted to draw a silly looking hunting scenario that could fill the gaps of in your head. there's even a version with joey's comments scribbled on, though it was a bit too busy and standoutish. hope you enjoy [Kanishka]'s song. --- Track: Fetch That Steak @@ -205,9 +210,9 @@ Art Tags: - Jade - Earth Commentary: |- - <b><i>SplitSuns:</i></b> + <i>SplitSuns:</i> (album mastering) Bec is, first and foremost, a good dog. Let's put aside his featureless visage, god-like powers and key role in creating a Sovereign Slayer capable of destroying entire universes. He is a dog that likes to run around, play fetch, and eat treats like any other! This song shows that under-appreciated side of Jade's best friend. How can you say no to those Mario Paint dog barks? (If you think those are great, wait until you listen to the song for Bec's post-Scratch counterpart. Cinematic parallels, I'm telling you.) - <b><i>Ephemerald:</i></b> + <i>Ephemerald:</i> (commentary help) Bec quite clearly doesn't have a care in the world here. You know, it's funny how omnipotent dog brains work. "Yeah, I was brought to this planet with the express purpose of facilitating its ultimate purpose and also ensuring that I exist at all, but, I mean, do I <i>have</i> to do that right now? Can't I just take some time off and go fetch a steak so radioactive it would make the Elephant's Foot seem like a regular old chunk of steel by comparison? The answer is yes, I can. So I will." Good dog. Best friend. Not a superb prioritizer. --- Track: Monatomic Strife @@ -244,6 +249,8 @@ Art Tags: - Jane's grandpa - Jane - Earth +Referenced Tracks: +- Showtime (Original Mix) Commentary: |- <i>Grace Medley:</i> Sorry, sorry to interrupt the booklet, folks, but I've got a cracking idea: see the next time you find yourself in a pub toilet, and you've got a pen on you, write on the door, "Johnny Crocker, R.I.P." Or let's say you're not old enough to get into pubs yet, let's say, you're still in school? Write it on a desk. Scratch it in with a compass. "Johnny Crocker, R.I.P." Or let's say you're online. Let's say you're on Bebo, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, a forum, whatever it is, just get the message out there. "Johnny Crocker, R.I.P." Miss you, big man. Gone, but not forgotten. @@ -265,8 +272,8 @@ Art Tags: - Earth Referenced Tracks: - The Thirteenth Hour -- track:endless-climb -- track:aggrieve +- Endless Climb +- Aggrieve - DAVE STRIDER'S COOL MIXTAPE Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> @@ -274,13 +281,13 @@ Commentary: |- The primary melodic motif opens the piece on the solo violin - a rousing tune representing the character of Alpha Rose and her rebellious aspirations. The trumpet then introduces the secondary motif - that of The Thirteenth Hour, a melodic backbone representing (erroneously?*) the novels to which she devoted the greater part of her life. It rises and dips, shifting between lyrical solos, brassy full-orchestra segments, and percussive interludes. Two of Rose's motifs, Aggrieve and Endless Climb, are also briefly quoted. In all, creating The Light's Rebellion was a joy and a challenge, and possibly the first and last track of its style that I'll ever do. *The video from which I'd heard The Thirteenth Hour featured the cover of Complacency of the Learned, leading me to associate the track with Calmasis and CotL. In retrospect it was probably more about Calliope's Calmasis-like trollsona (i.e. the thirteenth "troll") than Calmasis, but here we are. (Calliope is named for the muse of epics, Mom wrote epics, it works...) - <b><i>ndividedbyzero:</i></b> + <i>keyboard cait:</i> (UMSPAF manager) Her hair is like the sun, rebelling against the oppressive shadow of the night sky. Not complacent, but sure as hell learned enough to punt you down a waterfall with stabby needles. --- Track: The Dave Strider Experience Artists: -- ndividedbyzero +- keyboard cait Duration: '3:54' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-dave-strider-experience @@ -292,10 +299,10 @@ Art Tags: - Earth - SBaHJ Referenced Tracks: -- track:beatdown-strider-style +- Beatdown (Strider Style) - This Is America - Giorgio by Moroder -- Bodies +- track:bodies-drowning-pool - Take Me Away - Running Hell - track:suicide-hotline-icp @@ -303,7 +310,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - What is a Juggalo? - Waters of Nazareth - SWEET BRO AND HELLA JEFF SHOW -- track:upward-movement-dave-owns +- Upward Movement (Dave Owns) Lyrics: |- (backwards dialogue) Waow @@ -317,7 +324,7 @@ Lyrics: |- What is a juggalo? He drinks like a fish and then he starts hugging people like a drunken (WAOW) next thing he's pickin' fights with his best friends, then he starts with the hugging again (unintelligible) IT'S THE SWEET BRO AND HELLA JEFF SHOW! WHOAAAAAAAAa Commentary: |- - <i>ndividedbyzero:</i> + <i>keyboard cait:</i> wilson for wisdom. stiller for power. glover for courage. with the tripartite decree of america's three greatest heralds, backed by a rendition of beatdown so terrifying it can only be described as psychological warfare, the stage has been set for the star of the show. the experience behind the experience. but such titles do not ascribe what importance this fiend deserves. nay, they COULD not ascribe the requisite importance, for only one title suits the hero, the madman, the director and architect to a hall of fame of utter shit. he is THE BIG MAN, and we are all in his court. heads are about to roll. @@ -341,17 +348,17 @@ Art Tags: - Lord English Referenced Tracks: - Rhapsody in Green -- track:verdancy-bassline +- Verdancy (Bassline) - Skaianet - Gardener -- track:mutiny +- Mutiny - Roundabout - Afraid of the Darko -- Piss +- track:piss-neil-cicierega Commentary: |- <i>Interrobang:</i> This piece has been in the works for a LONG time. I started it in March of 2017, and though most of the compositional work was complete by July of that year, I didn't finish polishing everything up until late April 2018, after many months of procrastination and tweaking. The idea of the track is simple, it's Jake's Grandmother, Jade English, writing a song for her signature eclectic bass sometime in the 80's, which you probably already knew from the title. Anyway, I wanted to make a song that you could supposedly 'play' on the eclectic bass, which meant I had to figure out what exactly the components of such an instrument were (see [[media:misc/eclectic-bass-diagram.png|the accompanying diagram]]). I chose the iconic Yamaha DX7 (used in tons of 80's pop) to be the keyboards of the instrument as it could make the sounds I wanted, it was from around the right time, and I had an emulation (Digital Suburban's "Dexed") on hand. Other instruments used in the song were Karfoyer Audio's "Pastabass" and "Swagbass" for the bass guitars themselves, as well as Full Bucket Music's "Ragnarök" (used to flesh out some bass frequencies at the song's peak), and some built-in GarageBand instruments (drums) and effects. - Compositionally, I started out with the ostinato that closes [[track:rhapsody-in-green]] (Clark Powell) from the Felt album, but played in reverse, adding in an FM pad (the aforementioned DX7) and [[track:skaianet]] by Mark Hadley on the other bass guitar. The introduction section transitions into variations on [[track:verdancy-bassline]] by Kalibration, and closes the track's first half with a medley of various Jade-related songs. The second half is an original thing (though the beginning is a variation on [[track:afraid-of-the-darko]] by RJ! Lake) that I had build in complexity and intensity before dropping off to end the piece. Reference-wise, I tried to keep things centered roughly on Jade, as well as some other skaianet/felt sort of stuff that I thought fit the Alpha world and Jade's place in it, but I did end up throwing in a couple memetic references, see if you can find them both! + Compositionally, I started out with the ostinato that closes [[track:rhapsody-in-green]] (Clark Powell) from the Felt album, but played in reverse, adding in an FM pad (the aforementioned DX7) and [[track:skaianet]] by Mark Hadley on the other bass guitar. The introduction section transitions into variations on [[Verdancy (Bassline)]] by Kalibration, and closes the track's first half with a medley of various Jade-related songs. The second half is an original thing (though the beginning is a variation on [[track:afraid-of-the-darko]] by RJ! Lake) that I had build in complexity and intensity before dropping off to end the piece. Reference-wise, I tried to keep things centered roughly on Jade, as well as some other skaianet/felt sort of stuff that I thought fit the Alpha world and Jade's place in it, but I did end up throwing in a couple memetic references, see if you can find them both! <i>Jas:</i> Grandma Harley often wrote her grandson about the tyranny of Lord English, obviously not able to hide everything from the enemy. --- @@ -370,7 +377,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> This song took remarkably long to put together. Less because it was difficult, and more because I kept getting distracted with other projects along the way. Anyway, meow. - <b><i>SplitSuns:</i></b> + <i>SplitSuns:</i> (album mastering) Shu delivers some impressively smooth and refined art for everyone's second-favorite cat whose name begins with a G, GCAT. They say you can tell a lot about someone from their eyes, which makes it more impressive that you can glean this cat's mischievous expression without any eyes at all. GCAT is prepared for action from its carefully positioned placement on a tree branch, ready to pounce at a ball of yarn or teleport to the spot best suited for making your life hell. Some rough glitchy effects in the background add an interesting dimension to the piece, nicely contrasting against its smooth linework. This is one art you won't want to miss, and knowing GCAT's temper, you might miss it if you blink. --- Track: Sweet Talker @@ -394,7 +401,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>nights:</i> This very nice track gave me vibes of a casual setting with the condesce, so I thought to draw her doing a mundane but fun task - baking! I've always liked fanart of HIC as betty crocker, doing crockery things like baking cake and raising post-scratch john/jade. --- -Group: Disc 2 +Section: Disc 2 --- Track: Disc 2 Directory: disc2-cosmic-caretakers @@ -416,7 +423,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>psithurist:</i> This was actually the first of the three disc jingles that I wrote, and uses synths to aim for a more alien-ish vibe for the trolls disc, contrasting the organic instruments present in the humans disc. - <b><i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i></b> + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (UMSPAF manager) Would you believe that both DAD and CRABDAD are looking at the VERY SAME STAR while cradling their children? No? You don't? They both exist in completely different universes you say? That the stars are thematic element used to tie this track art together and to symbolically show the role of each of these GUARDIANS? You're no fun. @@ -442,7 +449,7 @@ Commentary: |- So! I've realized nobody wanted to make a track for this completely relevant character for completely obvious reasons, so I took three days of my entire life to give this beautiful creature the piece it deserves. The whole process of making this was to base it around a small snippet of Famitracker that Cookie made a long time ago, and with that I completely broke it up to a point of being in love with it, so thank you Cookie you gave me an awesome idea as well as a good snippet! <i>cookiefonster:</i> I had the idea of remixing [[track:aradias-theme-pre-death]] from the Homestuck Sound Test for this song and tried to make a track for it but never ended up finishing it. To my surprise, Coy decided that he was going to finish this garbage song. After I posted the project file, he proceeded to work his magic on it, making it actually good in the process, and now it's pretty much his track and he deserves any and all praise for it. - <b><i>Grace Medley:</i></b> + <i>Grace Medley:</i> (It's Grace Time) he wasnt going to let the song just :Die~2: <i>freckledOctopus:</i> I love the track and wanted to try and capture the more haunting side to it. @@ -461,7 +468,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Rust Servant Commentary: |- - <b><i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i></b> + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (UMSPAF manager) Tinkerbull is a daintly and beautiful lusus, who took care of his young troll Tavros to impeccable standards, giving him the kind of love and attention that all trolls in their early sweeps truly need. Until he got crushed painfully to death by Tavros's wheelchair anyway. Kind of a sad end to this tale. <i>Chumi:</i> @@ -484,10 +491,12 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Ducky Senpai:</i> For those who may be curious, the title (suggested by Lambda) is play on the term "Polyphemus" which refers to the cyclops in The Odyssey. It's a really dumb pun, and I love it. - <b><i>SplitSuns:</i></b> + <i>SplitSuns:</i> (album mastering) Polypolyphemus is an intense track, so it's fitting for its art to capture the same intensity. Sollux's Biclops is captured right before its imminent demise as the troll's Mind Honey-induced flip out rips through the ceiling of his hive and surrounds the lusus in a multi-colored beam of energy. The meteors illuminating the night sky further illustrate the carnage present in the scene in a fashion that pops up time and time again in Homestuck proper. If only one of those meteors could break the chain around the Biclops' leg and set it free! Wait, the resulting impact would probably just kill the Biclops anyway. Never mind, that was a stupid idea. --- Track: Rangoon +Directory: rangoon-cosmic-caretakers +Always Reference By Directory: true Artists: - WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES Duration: '2:03' @@ -526,7 +535,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> I had the opportunity to touch up this piece, which I mostly did by polishing up the samples and adding an electric piano as backing. Meow. - <b><i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i></b> + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (UMSPAF manager) If there's one thing that mouse can appreciate, it's that it got to see a two-mouthed cat monster before it died. Coincidentally, it's about to die because of said two-mouthed cat monster eating it. You just can't have it all, unfortunately. --- @@ -598,8 +607,8 @@ Commentary: |- I've always loved Vriska's various themes and tunes through the HS soundtrack's generous selection of tracks; they're nice, they're catchy, and they're just h*ckin' amazing overall. Imagine my surprise, then, when Spidermum's slot laid unclaimed on this very album, ripe for the picking. I swore on that day that I would create the catchiest distortion guitar-filled, 8-legged bop of all time. What I made instead was the track laid before you. I'd like to think that it's pretty snazzy and very Serket, though I have a sneaking suspicion that I may come back to this track l8er and fix it up when I actually have a clue what I'm doing. Yes, it's pretty short and it's kinda flawed in its execution, but I just hope that you can appreciate this humble nerd's first attempt at a somewhat-professional-level tune. - You know what? Since you've gone through all the trouble to read this here commentary, have a free concept guitar riff for this tune. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/arcanegemini/spidermum-initial-riff/s-WaNoN">For you it's on the house.</a> - <i>Caitlyn Beamer:</i> + You know what? Since you've gone through all the trouble to read this here commentary, have a free concept guitar riff for this tune. [For you it's on the house.](https://soundcloud.com/arcanegemini/spidermum-initial-riff/s-WaNoN) + <i>Caitlin Beamer:</i> I understand why hussie didn't draw spider-mom with hair on her. that took way too much time to have to do it more than once. --- Track: STRONG Butler. Best Dad. @@ -629,7 +638,7 @@ Commentary: |- What's this? You don't want all this personal heartfelt guff? You want me to actually talk about the track? Oh alright. Aurthour is, unequivocally, the best character in all of Homestuck. There is no possible way you can disprove this. It was pretty much high blasphemy that so few songs were made to honour him, and so I produced this offer to appease the gods and bring balance to the universe. You're welcome. Also yes, that is me saying 'neigh'. - <i>tipsy:</i> + <i>Tipsy:</i> For every album cover I've drawn so far, I try to make them look a little different and experiment with different styles. In this case I tried to draw a HORSE (crazy i know) and used this very painting-like flat style, and decided to put Equius's signature up, effectively making it his own painting! This went through lots of colour hue alterations and was originally a very light pink desert in a sunny sky before we settled on this darker background to make Aurthour stand out more. I like to think that Equius is simultaneously admiring his surroundings and panicking about their imminent death by sunburn. --- Track: Absent Reflection @@ -648,14 +657,14 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:dilemma Commentary: |- <i>PoisonedElite:</i> - Wow, this is the first song I ever signed up to make, over a year ago in April of 2017. From the beginning writing a song about Gamzee's Lusus provided a challenge due to the fact that it only appears in a panel or two, so I decided to write the song around the lack of it in Gamzee's life. Like Calming Quartz, this also had a different song as the rough Draft, so <a href="https://soundcloud.com/poisonedelite/goat-dad-wip/s-8cX5C">here ya go</a>. + Wow, this is the first song I ever signed up to make, over a year ago in April of 2017. From the beginning writing a song about Gamzee's Lusus provided a challenge due to the fact that it only appears in a panel or two, so I decided to write the song around the lack of it in Gamzee's life. Like Calming Quartz, this also had a different song as the rough Draft, so [here ya go](https://soundcloud.com/poisonedelite/goat-dad-wip/s-8cX5C). Play Hollow Knight, eat your dinner, and never forget the pokemon you lose when you're doing a Nuzlocke challenge. Rest in Peace Oswin ;-;7 <i>Jas:</i> Sometimes you wait a long time to see the people you love. --- Track: Hippocampaternal Artists: -- FrostyMac +- Frost Carter Duration: '2:35' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/hippocampaternal @@ -667,10 +676,10 @@ Art Tags: - Alternia Referenced Tracks: - Eridan's Theme -- track:chorale-for-jaspers +- Chorale for Jaspers - Science Seahorse Commentary: |- - <i>FrostyMac:</i> + <i>Frost Carter:</i> Fun fact: This was the first song I ever made for any Homestuck related project ever, and I lost the original file at some point, so excuse the mixing being a little weird. I still stand by the song's compositional and structural quality though. <i>Jas:</i> Your baby crashed in on a blaze of fire, go get him seahorse daddy @@ -717,10 +726,11 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Kal-la-kal-la:</i> This piece is heavily inspired by the bis radio edit of Turbulence by Arab Strap - 808s and gloomy guitar lines are the order of the day. Mayhaps not the most obvious approach to a track about the Dolorosa but I take a slight measure of pride in that. Quite pleased with the middle section; the cycle of dominant sevenths with the electric piano improvisation atop it. Grief is a strange thing and I find it rarely conveyed well in music. Another for the bonfire pile. - <b><i>Ephemerald:</i></b> - *The sound of a camera flash can be audibly heard over the music.* Yep. That one's going in my Pietà compilation. But really, is there a more appropriate parallel to make? Probably not. The parable of the Sufferer is full of religious iconography by design, which I guess means that Earth based the Bible off of it, and not the other way around? I don't know. I'll leave that commentary for Hussie, when he (doesn't) get around to it. As a side note, I love the "halos" surrounding the Dolorosa and the Sufferer here. Good stuff. + <i>Ephemerald:</i> (commentary help) + \*The sound of a camera flash can be audibly heard over the music.\* Yep. That one's going in my Pietà compilation. But really, is there a more appropriate parallel to make? Probably not. The parable of the Sufferer is full of religious iconography by design, which I guess means that Earth based the Bible off of it, and not the other way around? I don't know. I'll leave that commentary for Hussie, when he (doesn't) get around to it. As a side note, I love the "halos" surrounding the Dolorosa and the Sufferer here. Good stuff. --- Track: The Puppet Master +Directory: the-puppet-master-cosmic-caretakers Artists: - SplitSuns Duration: '4:10' @@ -736,17 +746,17 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - English - Afraid of the Darko -- track:aggrieve -- track:beatdown-strider-style -- track:dissension-original -- track:showtime-original-mix +- Aggrieve +- Beatdown (Strider Style) +- Dissension (Original) +- Showtime (Original Mix) Commentary: |- <i>SplitSuns:</i> When I was first given the opportunity to work on Cosmic Caretakers and saw that there was an open slot for a track centered around Doc Scratch, I jumped at the opportunity to produce it! Scratch has always been one of my favorite characters in Homestuck. When I read through the comic for the first time I loved how he orchestrated the destruction of two entire universes but managed to give an air of dignity and style to such a nefarious event. His demeanor was never overtly evil: it was unsettling at times, sure, but he always acted the part of an excellent host through and through. I tried to represent this atmosphere in my own song. Its jazzy feel ripped from "Drawing Dead" or "The Felt" definitely brings to mind a comfortable stay in Scratch's parlor, but if you listen closely you can notice sinister undertones lurking beneath the surface through the decaying bells and whistling winds. Of course, I had to throw in some reverse piano in the mix as well. It wouldn't be a Felt-centric song without one. Towards the end of the track the piano backmasks some iconic Beta Kid motifs, showing how Scratch is acutely aware of every piece to his puzzle (even when we're not). What kind of an excellent host would he be if he didn't keep tabs on his "guests", after all? <i>Ephemerald:</i> So! The Puppet Master. The laid-back yet sinister vibe this song gives off felt fitting for Scratch, who, for most of the comic, just creepily stands and watches things happen. That's why I decided to not have Scratch do some Cool Actiony Villain Pose - he's a puppetmaster. He just needs to lounge. Yazshu took care of the Alternian planet, moons, and the cueball/sun/thing, so thanks to her for the backdrop! --- -Group: Disc 3 +Section: Disc 3 --- Track: Disc 3 Directory: disc3-cosmic-caretakers @@ -790,8 +800,10 @@ Commentary: |- It's hard being a single mom when you are a teenage boy. At least Caliborn is sitting still for once. --- Track: Singularity +Directory: singularity-cosmic-caretakers +Always Reference By Directory: true Artists: -- ndividedbyzero +- keyboard cait Duration: '4:55' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/singularity @@ -807,13 +819,13 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Isle Unto Thyself Lyrics: Then all the planets fell to dust Commentary: |- - <i>ndividedbyzero:</i> + <i>keyboard cait:</i> This track originates from an idea I had in 2014 to make a track about Calliope and Caliborn's parents. Five years later, it's finally done, stitched together from the composition and/or actual audio clips of like 4 FLPs (I went through about 6, all in all). Funnily enough, the scribbles I had for this song in 2014 then are completely different composition-wise from what ended up being made, but the narrative loosely remains in this track: the cherubs' mother drifts through space, searching for her mate. She spots him, taking off at full speed, following him as he leaves a trail of destruction across the universe. Their eventual meeting is tense, cold. Saying nothing, they transform into unfathomable astral serpents, and battle to create the most innocent muse and most shitheaded gremlin to ever exist. I attribute the latter half of this track to listening to a lot of Hawaii: Part II, which is also sampled at the end. Listen to Hawaii: Part II. - <b><i>Ephemerald:</i></b> + <i>Ephemerald:</i> (commentary help) The game of choice for cherubs seems to be chess, or at least, some neon-green candy-red shitty-twist variant of the game, but I'm getting real playing card motifs here. Two identical, serpentine warriors, millions and millions of miles long, locked in a symmetrical whirlwind of a strife. Reminds me of the art to [[track:noirscape]] back on Volume 9, though that's a more literal example. The spiraling, iconic egg in the middle, shining like a light in the darkness, is a very clear reminder of what these two are fighting for: the right to force their opponent to give birth to literally the worst entity in all of existence. But I suppose it didn't matter who won or who lost. After all, he was already there. --- -Group: Bonus tracks +Section: Bonus tracks --- Track: It's Ogre Artists: |