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diff --git a/album/hiveswap-act-1-ost.yaml b/album/hiveswap-act-1-ost.yaml index 2e2a0ae1..38765dad 100644 --- a/album/hiveswap-act-1-ost.yaml +++ b/album/hiveswap-act-1-ost.yaml @@ -13,10 +13,14 @@ Cover Artists: Cover Art File Extension: png Color: '#33cc77' Groups: +- James Roach +- Toby Fox - group:official Art Tags: - Joey - Alternia +- Pink Moon +- Green Moon Commentary: |- <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> (game director) Hey, it's Cohen. But more interestingly, it's James and Toby, giving some commentary on the first half of the HIVESWAP: Act 1 soundtrack, available now on Bandcamp or bundled with HIVESWAP: Act 1 on Steam and Humble. We've got the first half of the discussion today, with the next half going up next Wednesday. Wait...did I say all this once before already? No. Impossible. @@ -56,7 +60,7 @@ Commentary: |- In its current form, I think this is one of the best examples on this soundtrack of what Toby and I's respective styles sound like mixed together. Toby doesn't like to use a lot of percussion, so I wrote this based on what was originally a piano piece. It is one of the VERY first things written for the game. WOW. The original version of this sounds a lot more like "SINGULAR PERIL" without any drums and not sampled, so just like, straight 8ths. --- Track: Joey Claire, Extraordinaire -Duration: '2:50' +Duration: 2:50 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/joey-claire-extraordinaire-2 - https://youtu.be/LL5qZ5zBAIc @@ -71,7 +75,7 @@ Commentary: |- I think my original version of this was like 40 seconds long or something... James did a really good job fleshing it out and making it something that's listenable for long enough to look at the Bubsy poster 40 times in a row. --- Track: Half-Harley Manor -Duration: '2:52' +Duration: 2:52 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/half-harley-manor-2 - https://youtu.be/jfdTeNsU4ow @@ -88,7 +92,7 @@ Commentary: |- This is one of the first tracks I did for the game. I'm pretty proud of how it turned out from a musical standpoint, though I guess it's kind of serious given how goofy the house looks. Whoops... --- Track: Relatively Visible Darkness -Duration: '2:02' +Duration: 2:02 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/relatively-visible-darkness-2 - https://youtu.be/7ht1khfdGzo @@ -103,7 +107,7 @@ Commentary: |- We just kept telling each other to add Tuba to things. Like some sort of Will They/Won't They Tuba standoff. --- Track: Bedroom for an Annoying Dog -Duration: '3:32' +Duration: 3:32 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/bedroom-for-an-annoying-dog-2 - https://youtu.be/y6R4A-3VQIU @@ -118,7 +122,7 @@ Commentary: |- Toby what the hell. --- Track: That's How I Beat Snake -Duration: '2:11' +Duration: 2:11 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/thats-how-i-beat-snake-2 - https://youtu.be/xq9PkYNsTLU @@ -138,7 +142,7 @@ Commentary: |- (Hey Cohen here. several people have asked if the title is a reference to the aaron carter song. obviously it is, yes, that. James' song titles were good but they were usually a very direct reference to what actually happened in the scene they were playing for. So I renamed them, because I didn't want people poring over the tracklist to decode the entire plot before actually playing the game. because you would have. I know you.) --- Track: Jude Harley, Bizarrely -Duration: '1:38' +Duration: 1:38 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/jude-harley-bizarrely-2 - https://youtu.be/nLTcCJH4QQg @@ -152,7 +156,7 @@ Commentary: |- Besides tubas, I think James's weird voicey grubble synths that sound like they're yelling are maybe the most defining instrument of this soundtrack. --- Track: Table for Tooth -Duration: '2:15' +Duration: 2:15 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/table-for-tooth-2 - https://youtu.be/iSHxqEXZ_YU @@ -175,7 +179,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:alternate-recipe Commentary: |- <i>James Roach:</i> - Toby sent me <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGYu_epVxpo">this</a> as a piano sketch (as he often did) and then I sent him a semi chiptune (ALTERNATE RECIPE) version with drums and stuff and then he sent me back the final version this was actually an incredibly simple process what an absolute joy. This is the most purely Toby track on the whole album and I love it. + Toby sent me [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGYu_epVxpo) as a piano sketch (as he often did) and then I sent him a semi chiptune (ALTERNATE RECIPE) version with drums and stuff and then he sent me back the final version this was actually an incredibly simple process what an absolute joy. This is the most purely Toby track on the whole album and I love it. <i>Toby Fox:</i> I thought it would be kind of funny if there was a JRPG battle theme mixed in with all the other ones. I think this is just what I make by default without any specific direction. <i>James Roach:</i> @@ -184,7 +188,7 @@ Commentary: |- (hi it's Cohen I intentionally made this strife more convoluted and complex as a result of how much I love this song, sorry) --- Track: Living Legend -Duration: '1:22' +Duration: 1:22 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/living-legend-2 - https://youtu.be/2h1AwHOqSyM @@ -193,12 +197,12 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Joey Claire, Extraordinaire Commentary: |- <i>James Roach:</i> - I wanted to write something very Final Fantasy Boss Battle™ and around the time I wrote this an article came out where Nobuo Uematsu says he just wrote phrases a few measures at a time and put them together so that's what I did. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvyE9AJoUCM">youtube.com/watch?v=mvyE9AJoUCM</a>) + I wanted to write something very Final Fantasy Boss Battle™ and around the time I wrote this an article came out where Nobuo Uematsu says he just wrote phrases a few measures at a time and put them together so that's what I did. ([youtube.com/watch?v=mvyE9AJoUCM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvyE9AJoUCM)) <i>Toby Fox:</i> Basically James is saying this is the One Winged Angel of the Hiveswap soundtrack. --- Track: Singular Peril -Duration: '1:22' +Duration: 1:22 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/singular-peril-2 - https://youtu.be/fQyCThoSwCA @@ -219,12 +223,12 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Half-Harley Manor Commentary: |- <i>James Roach:</i> - This is a Toby Track 100% he just goes ham with echo. If you ever look at his work files it's like a thousand tracks and half of them are just echoes. This sounds so good toby is so good. I think this was originally a loop for... <a href="https://soundcloud.com/hiveswap/conversation-loops">in between conversations or something</a>? + This is a Toby Track 100% he just goes ham with echo. If you ever look at his work files it's like a thousand tracks and half of them are just echoes. This sounds so good toby is so good. I think this was originally a loop for... [in between conversations or something](https://soundcloud.com/hiveswap/conversation-loops)? <i>Toby Fox:</i> I think it was just written for the attic in general. --- Track: Open The Door -Duration: '1:01' +Duration: 1:01 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/open-the-door-2 - https://youtu.be/VEQt6FPj3-g @@ -237,13 +241,13 @@ Commentary: |- My main contribution to this track is the piano riff 10 seconds in... Hell yeah... --- Track: Keep Your Head Down -Duration: '1:10' +Duration: 1:10 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/keep-your-head-down-2 - https://youtu.be/47IOSYnYiRc Referenced Tracks: - Rustblood -- track:drone-pq +- track:drone-pesterquest Commentary: |- <i>Toby Fox:</i> I think I was asked to make this sound kind of 80's back when the game was going to be in 3D. I mean, either that, or I made it sound kind of 80's for no reason. Anyway, it's just an arrangement of Xefros's theme that I made for when tense stuff is happening. @@ -255,7 +259,7 @@ Commentary: |- We are frauds. --- Track: Oh Whoa, What's This -Duration: '1:05' +Duration: 1:05 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/oh-whoa-whats-this-2 - https://youtu.be/a1fm7sHekVE @@ -272,7 +276,7 @@ Commentary: |- <img src="media/misc/owo.png" width="500"> --- Track: Some Kind of Alien -Duration: '1:30' +Duration: 1:30 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/some-kind-of-alien-2 - https://youtu.be/PDZfnEW86Qc @@ -296,7 +300,7 @@ Commentary: |- My contribution to this track is that I made <i>Toby</i> go in and add in more tuba. There is a disgusting tuba-less version of this song that will never see the light of day. --- Track: Rustblood -Duration: '1:17' +Duration: 1:17 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/rustblood-2 - https://youtu.be/GqRXX0vFNqQ @@ -313,7 +317,7 @@ Commentary: |- (fight your own battles James I can't be there to protect you from Toby every day of your life) --- Track: Filthy Nuclear Bunker -Duration: '4:34' +Duration: 4:34 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/filthy-nuclear-bunker-2 - https://youtu.be/Du1cFu4zl4o @@ -329,14 +333,14 @@ MIDI Project Files: - 'Filthy Nuclear Bunker - Unknown B.mid' Commentary: |- <i>James Roach:</i> - James: This is the most James Roach™ track on the album and it's extremely good. I wrote <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwXIB50mB3k">this melody</a> when I was 12 and I sneak it into every major project I'm in. I have rewritten and remixed and remastered this song about a thousand times. The melody is named "Nuclear" so I made sure that was somewhere in the title. + James: This is the most James Roach™ track on the album and it's extremely good. I wrote [this melody](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwXIB50mB3k) when I was 12 and I sneak it into every major project I'm in. I have rewritten and remixed and remastered this song about a thousand times. The melody is named "Nuclear" so I made sure that was somewhere in the title. <i>Toby Fox:</i> I actually think this is James's best arrangement of the song that he wrote when he was 12 that he keeps putting into everything. I'm glad it could be used somewhere the player will be forced to listen to it for a really long time. It's great. <i>James Roach:</i> I made it his hive theme just to force people to listen to it again. --- Track: SPORTS! Personally, I Love Them. -Duration: '3:36' +Duration: 3:36 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/sports-personally-i-love-them-2 - https://youtu.be/jNtIznTXLpo @@ -344,7 +348,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Rustblood Commentary: |- <i>James Roach:</i> - This was another title I managed to slip in there. I love to name things in a stupid way. If somethings really bad it's funny. It's also funny if something's really good too. Maybe I just like to laugh. I am a man of much nuance. Anyway here is the ska song you begged me for. I wanted it to be a cheery version of Xefros's theme because it is the place in his house he probably feels most like himself. Surrounded by Anime and SPORTS! Quite possibly.. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/hiveswap/redacted-rumpus-room-refrain">the biggest mood imaginable</a>? + This was another title I managed to slip in there. I love to name things in a stupid way. If somethings really bad it's funny. It's also funny if something's really good too. Maybe I just like to laugh. I am a man of much nuance. Anyway here is the ska song you begged me for. I wanted it to be a cheery version of Xefros's theme because it is the place in his house he probably feels most like himself. Surrounded by Anime and SPORTS! Quite possibly.. [the biggest mood imaginable](https://soundcloud.com/hiveswap/redacted-rumpus-room-refrain)? <i>Toby Fox:</i> I couldn't stop him from putting a ska song on the soundtrack sorry guys <i>James Roach:</i> @@ -353,7 +357,7 @@ Commentary: |- (I don't know what anime he's talking about. I guess the paused Arena Stickball match on the TV is pretty anime-looking. But James also sees anime everywhere, wherever he goes. One time I saw him pick a rotten peach up off the ground, call it a "tsun-momo," and take a huge bite. He bit right through the pit) --- Track: Lofted Gunpile -Duration: '4:08' +Duration: 4:08 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/lofted-gunpile-2 - https://youtu.be/zNrEIxvGA8M @@ -367,7 +371,7 @@ Commentary: |- Your advice didn't work on me because I just like things to be really loud all the time. --- Track: SERPENT GENESIS -Duration: '1:14' +Duration: 1:14 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/serpent-genesis-2 - https://youtu.be/QpYpoQ-9XYc @@ -382,7 +386,7 @@ Commentary: |- (I am glad Toby had to brute-force this puzzle. When I played Undertale I got stuck on that stupid piano puzzle because the beta version he let me play didn't cut you off after 8 notes or whatever. I was one note off, trying to play what I thought was this 32-note song. I also took a break for a week and was still stuck on it when I came back, so Toby thought I'd spent a week just beating my head against the wall on that one puzzle. Toby thinks everyone is a brilliant musician like him and his stupid piano puzzle was too hard the end) --- Track: We Shall Go Together -Duration: '3:18' +Duration: 3:18 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/we-shall-go-together-2 - https://youtu.be/IzsFUuvWIuI @@ -390,7 +394,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Joey Claire, Extraordinaire Commentary: |- <i>James Roach:</i> - OK I know what you're thinking, "This gets its own track on the OST, but OLD SECRET isn't even here??" Hey look I love old secret too but <i>(COHEN: redacted)</i>. I only put it in that cutscene for you, the fans. Also it fit really well. Anyway, this track is inspired a lot by <a href="https://tobyfox.bandcamp.com/track/quiet-water">Quiet Water</a> by Toby Fox maybe you've heard of him. It is just a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwICiHW-Pyk">very slowed down</a> version of Joey's theme. + OK I know what you're thinking, "This gets its own track on the OST, but OLD SECRET isn't even here??" Hey look I love old secret too but <i>(COHEN: redacted)</i>. I only put it in that cutscene for you, the fans. Also it fit really well. Anyway, this track is inspired a lot by [Quiet Water](https://tobyfox.bandcamp.com/track/quiet-water) by Toby Fox maybe you've heard of him. It is just a [very slowed down](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwICiHW-Pyk) version of Joey's theme. <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> (game director) (if you want to know what the title of this song is from google it with quotes) --- @@ -407,10 +411,10 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Toby Fox:</i> This song is cool <i>Cohen Edenfield:</i> (game director) - (James thought I wouldn't <s>embed</s> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkBMXQ47d7s">link</a> this video! he underestimates me every single day of my life) + (James thought I wouldn't <s>embed</s> [link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkBMXQ47d7s) this video! he underestimates me every single day of my life) --- Track: Intermission 1 -Duration: '2:12' +Duration: 2:12 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/intermission-1-2 - https://youtu.be/CbhUNkmqMHA @@ -420,7 +424,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Filthy Nuclear Bunker Commentary: |- <i>James Roach:</i> - This has a bunch of different themes but is mostly the Heiress's theme, which is based off a <a href="https://soundcloud.com/hiveswap/original-heiress-piano-concept">really old really simple piano sketch toby sent me</a>. It's got Nuclear in it too. also Joeys theme and Xefros's theme. I am explicitly not saying the word "leitmotif" out of a sort of... <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0ySY6xyvf0">indignant disgust</a>. + This has a bunch of different themes but is mostly the Heiress's theme, which is based off a [really old really simple piano sketch toby sent me](https://soundcloud.com/hiveswap/original-heiress-piano-concept). It's got Nuclear in it too. also Joeys theme and Xefros's theme. I am explicitly not saying the word "leitmotif" out of a sort of... [indignant disgust](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0ySY6xyvf0). <i>Toby Fox:</i> There was a longer Heiress sketch too where it got really loud. Anyway I guess we'll talk about that later when <i>(redacted)</i> <i>James Roach:</i> @@ -429,7 +433,15 @@ Commentary: |- Section: B-Sides --- Track: Old Steps -Directory: old-steps +Additional Names: +- Name: >- + B-SIDE: Old Steps + Annotation: >- + [original Bandcamp release](https://web.archive.org/web/20170915144245/https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/b-side-old-steps) +- Name: >- + B-SIDE- Old Steps + Annotation: >- + [Bandcamp compilation release](https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/b-side-old-steps-2) Duration: 0:23 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/b-side-old-steps-2 @@ -441,8 +453,16 @@ Commentary: |- When I was listening to this on bandcamp the next song started playing and I was like "Oh shit when does Joey do THIS dance???" --- Track: How it Could Have Gone -Directory: how-it-could-have-gone -Duration: '1:14' +Additional Names: +- Name: >- + B-SIDE: How it Could Have Gone + Annotation: >- + [original Bandcamp release](https://web.archive.org/web/20170915144227/https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/b-side-how-it-could-have-gone) +- Name: >- + B-SIDE- How it Could Have Gone + Annotation: >- + [Bandcamp compilation release](https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/b-side-how-it-could-have-gone-2) +Duration: 1:14 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/b-side-how-it-could-have-gone-2 - https://youtu.be/nQcQxJhk6ak @@ -455,8 +475,16 @@ Commentary: |- This was basically James's arrangement of MY arrangement of the cutscene where, spoilers, Joey gets HIVE-SWAPPED!!!!!! The part where the choirs are soft was going to be the part when her and Dammek look at each other. --- Track: Alternate Recipe -Directory: alternate-recipe -Duration: '1:30' +Additional Names: +- Name: >- + B-SIDE: Alternate Recipe + Annotation: >- + [original Bandcamp release](https://web.archive.org/web/20170915145317/https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/b-side-alternate-recipe) +- Name: >- + B-SIDE- Alternate Recipe + Annotation: >- + [Bandcamp compilation release](https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/b-side-alternate-recipe-2) +Duration: 1:30 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/b-side-alternate-recipe-2 - https://youtu.be/-7hHMdXey9c @@ -469,8 +497,16 @@ Commentary: |- I think I've just been like.. Owned by proximity. --- Track: Heavy Snaking -Directory: heavy-snaking -Duration: '2:00' +Additional Names: +- Name: >- + B-SIDE: Heavy Snaking + Annotation: >- + [original Bandcamp release](https://web.archive.org/web/20170915144338/https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/b-side-heavy-snaking)' +- Name: >- + B-SIDE- Heavy Snaking + Annotation: >- + [Bandcamp compilation release](https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/b-side-heavy-snaking-2) +Duration: 2:00 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/b-side-heavy-snaking-2 - https://youtu.be/GL3l_Klo8ic @@ -491,7 +527,15 @@ Commentary: |- Yeah like wearing sunglasses and its attack is to tell you to not do drugs. --- Track: SPOOKTUNE -Directory: spooktune +Additional Names: +- Name: >- + B-SIDE: SPOOKTUNE + Annotation: >- + [original Bandcamp release](https://web.archive.org/web/20170915144219/https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/b-side-spooktune) +- Name: >- + B-SIDE- SPOOKTUNE + Annotation: >- + [Bandcamp compilation release](https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/b-side-spooktune-2) Duration: 0:50 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/b-side-spooktune-2 |