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diff --git a/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.yaml b/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.yaml index 2696229f..d189f789 100644 --- a/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.yaml +++ b/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.yaml @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ Album: 'Midnight Crew: Drawing Dead' +Directory Suffix: mc-dd Date: February 4 2010 Date Added: November 15, 2019 URLs: @@ -23,14 +24,18 @@ Color: '#dd0000' Groups: - group:official Additional Files: -- Title: Album Cover Wallpaper (shared separately) +- Title: Cover artwork wallpaper + Description: >- + Officially shared through [MSPA's desktop wallpaper page](http://www.mspaintadventures.com/desktops.html), in three sizes. Files: - mcwpp_1280x1024.jpg - mcwpp_1440x900.jpg - mcwpp_1920x1080.jpg Commentary: |- - <i>Andrew Hussie:</i> - <b>FAKE BANDS (they are not real)</b><br> + <i>Andrew Hussie:</i> ([MSPA news post](https://web.archive.org/web/20100207224423/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/), excerpt) + + <b>FAKE BANDS (they are not real)</b> + I am here today to blindside you with a completely unanticipated, unforeshadowed album by the Midnight Crew. Only two songs in this album have appeared in Homestuck pages: [[flash:1267|Three in the Morning]], and [[flash:833|Nightlife]] (both are extended versions in the album). The rest are new, never before heard, and all of them (including the first two I mentioned) were made specifically for this album. @@ -43,17 +48,49 @@ Commentary: |- In addition to some familiar names like Hadley and Bowman, there are a lot of great new artists represented in this album, who haven't yet authored something appearing in HS. But the newer folks made some of my favorite stuff there. I recommend you give the whole thing a thorough listen. Thanks to everyone for working on this, and as always, thanks to [[artist:cindy-dominguez|Cindy]] for configuring all the tedious Bandcamp stuff. - A final note: when I said it was unforshadowed, I guess that <a href="https://homestuck.com/story/353">wasn't entirely true</a>. + And just to remind you, the artists make most of the money you pay for it. At $5.25 for 19 songs, we're talking a pretty serious bargain. + + A final note: when I said it was unforshadowed, I guess that [wasn't entirely true](https://homestuck.com/story/353). + + <i>Homestuck:</i> ([Bandcamp credits blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20100206233406/https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead-2)) + + [[artist:clark-powell|Clark "Plazmataz" Powell]]<br> + [[artist:david-ko]]<br> + [[artist:mark-j-hadley|Mark Hadley]]<br> + [[artist:kevin-regamey]]<br> + [[artist:toby-fox|Toby "Radiation" Fox]]<br> + [[artist:alex-rosetti|Alexander Rosetti]]<br> + [[artist:michael-guy-bowman]]<br> + [[artist:fenris]]<br> + [[artist:andrew-huo]]<br> + [[artist:rj-lake|Robert J! Lake]]<br> + [[artist:hilary-troiano|Hilary "Pie" Troiano]]<br> + [[artist:gabriel-nezovic|Gabe Nezovic]]<br> + [[artist:ian-taylor]]<br> + [[artist:bill-bolin]] + + <i>Homestuck:</i> ([whatpumpkin.com side blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20100615225737/http://www.whatpumpkin.com/)) + + The first "fake band" album. Composed and performed by the Midnight Crew. Or it would have been if they were real. + + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Music and Stuff](https://web.archive.org/web/20110326020456/http://www.iambowman.com/music.html)) - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> The Midnight Crew album was the first of our really high-concept releases with the fake bands, especially since we attempted to invent some kind of goth-jazz genre out of thin air, despite the team's minimal understanding of goth music or jazz. + + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=861), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) + + This was, I think, right at the cusp of Bandcamp being a known platform, and for a minute when we started releasing these albums, they were, like, routinely the best sellers on there. At the same time that the Alabama Shakes were on there, like, breaking out as a band, it's like - "Wow! Look at this big indie band that's doing numbers using Bandcamp - this obscure platform!" We were routinely outselling (laugh) the Alabama Shakes. We were super stoked to just expand on that, with, uh, non-animation, non-interactive element contributions. + + And, the first big thing that we did with that was the Midnight Crew album, where we took the Midnight Crew characters and said, well, they're actually a band, and this is their album, containing video-game-style jazz music on it. [...] + + This was one of Andrew's initial ideas, which was like, there were going to be many many bands within the comic. He wanted to do something like, Gorillaz, but, different sets of characters. So, the Midnight Crew would be a band. And the Felt would be a band, and they made orchestral stuff for that - I wasn't a participant on that one, I was a little busy. And, I think we drifted away from the band concept... there were proposed bands that were never done, there was the two robot rappers who cameod but never really were expanded on, there was an interest in doing, sort of like, a robot hip-hop album, which would have been fun, had those characters gone anywhere... There was also the idea that, of course, each of the kids were going to have their signature instrument, you know, the piano, the violin, the beat maker, and the bass. The culmination of that would have been music that features those four instruments, as if it's like, well, here's the demo the band was making. This is what the four beta kids were doing in their spare time. I would have loved that one to see the light of day, I think that would have tied the comic together. --- Track: Three in the Morning Artists: - Clark Powell Art Tags: - Snowman -Duration: '2:49' +Duration: 2:49 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/three-in-the-morning-3 - https://youtu.be/zSg6talwzbU @@ -92,13 +129,16 @@ Track: Dead Shuffle Artists: - Mark J. Hadley Art Tags: -- Felt Manor -Duration: '2:17' +- Felt Mansion +- Pink Moon +- Alternia +Duration: 2:17 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/dead-shuffle-2 - https://youtu.be/jTIQhTdy4ZU Commentary: |- - <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> + <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + The first MC-related thing I wrote, and retroactively became the MC theme song. This was actually a remake of a midi I made years ago intended for part of an RPG a friend was making, until the RPG was cancelled. It's mostly the same, except that I went back and made it more jazzy (added saxophone and a swing rhythm). The original title of it was "Seriousness". --- Track: Hearts Flush @@ -106,14 +146,16 @@ Artists: - Mark J. Hadley Art Tags: - CD -- The Felt -- Felt Manor -Duration: '2:12' +- DD +- Trace +- Felt Mansion +Duration: 2:12 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/hearts-flush-2 - https://youtu.be/nb7PoT9w6Tc Commentary: |- - <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> + <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + My favorite of the MC ones I wrote. I've always wanted to write a bass solo, and this gave me the opportunity. There's not much else to add, other than I had a blast writing it. --- Track: Knives and Ivory @@ -121,8 +163,24 @@ Artists: - Kevin Regamey Art Tags: - Jack Noir -- Felt Manor -Duration: '1:10' +- Bing Crosby +- Itchy +- Doze +- Trace +- Clover +- Fin +- Die +- Crowbar +- Stitch +- Sawbuck +- Matchsticks +- Eggs +- Biscuits +- Quarters +- Cans +- Bladekind +- Felt Mansion +Duration: 1:10 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/knives-and-ivory-2 - https://youtu.be/D1C7y1u2K5M @@ -135,7 +193,8 @@ Art Tags: - DD - CD - HB -Duration: '2:10' +- Wasps +Duration: 2:10 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/liquid-negrocity-2 - https://youtu.be/r8sBtl3WYZo @@ -147,9 +206,6 @@ Sheet Music Files: Files: - 'Liquid Negrocity - Nocturne.pdf' MIDI Project Files: -- Title: MIDI by Toby Fox (original composer) - Files: - - 'Liquid Negrocity - Toby Fox.mid' - Title: MIDI by Miff Files: - 'Liquid Negrocity - Miff.mid' @@ -161,38 +217,50 @@ Track: Hollow Suit Artists: - Alex Rosetti Art Tags: -- The Felt -- Felt Manor -Duration: '2:24' +- Stitch +- Felt Mansion +Duration: 2:24 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/hollow-suit-2 - https://youtu.be/k7El193pVkM Commentary: |- - <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> - Hollow Suit was my other song on that album and it was a little more popular than Moonshine, though I can't say either even came close to being hits. Like Moonshine it still has a soft spot in my heart. It's not as compositionally impressive in my opinion, but it was the first in a long line of quirky tracks I have made for Homestuck. The vibraphone and electric organ were incredibly fun to use, and the whole thing ended up having an Elfman/Kirkhope vibe to it. Now, I don't have synesthesia, but for some reason whenever I think about this song, I think "green". Just some useless trivia for you. - Looking back on Drawing Dead as a whole, do I think it was a good album? No, not really. It was good for us at the time, but it was so all over the place, almost completely devoid of mastering, many of the songs used inferior samples, and most of us just weren't as experienced with composing back then. Mostly it was a case of having no centralized idea of what the style of music should be, and the clashes that followed. I don't mean that to knock any of us in any way. It was an important step for all of us as musicians and we have been constantly improving since then. I still look back fondly at it, since it was my first ever album release, after all. + <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> ([Tumblr](https://albatrossthesoup.tumblr.com/post/46685117866/looking-back-at-midnight-crew-drawing-dead), excerpt) + + <i>(Continued from [[track:moonshine]])</i> + + Hollow Suit was my other song on that album and it was a little more popular than Moonshine, though I can’t say either even came close to being hits. Like [[Moonshine]] it still has a soft spot in my heart. It’s not as compositionally impressive in my opinion, but it was the first in a long line of quirky tracks I have made for Homestuck. The vibraphone and electric organ were incredibly fun to use, and the whole thing ended up having an Elfman/Kirkhope vibe to it. Now, I don’t have synesthesia, but for some reason whenever I think about this song, I think “green”. Just some useless trivia for you. + + Looking back on Drawing Dead as a whole, do I think it was a good album? No, not really. It was good for us at the time, but it was so all over the place, almost completely devoid of mastering, many of the songs used inferior samples, and most of us just weren’t as experienced with composing back then. Mostly it was a case of having no centralized idea of what the style of music should be, and the clashes that followed. I don’t mean that to knock any of us in any way. It was an important step for all of us as musicians and we have been constantly improving since then. I still look back fondly at it, since it was my first ever album release, after all. --- Track: Ante Matter Artists: - Mark J. Hadley Art Tags: -- The Felt -Duration: '2:33' +- Itchy +- Doze +- Trace +- Die +- Crowbar +- Matchsticks +- Eggs +- Biscuits +Duration: 2:33 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/ante-matter-2 - https://youtu.be/2uYFtCSxoPk Commentary: |- - <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> + <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + It's hard to find things to say about this one. I wanted to make a slower song, compared to the other ones I did for Drawing Dead. I'm still technically new at writing jazz, so it was nice getting to practice it a bit more. Overall though, I think I liked the title best on this one; I enjoy a good pun. --- Track: The Ballad of Jack Noir -Directory: the-ballad-of-jack-noir Artists: - Toby Fox Art Tags: - Jack Noir -- Felt Manor -Duration: '1:48' +- Clocks +- Felt Mansion +Duration: 1:48 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/the-ballad-of-jack-noir-2 - https://youtu.be/EAlt8IgOgPQ @@ -206,18 +274,29 @@ MIDI Project Files: Track: Lunar Eclipse Artists: - Michael Guy Bowman -- Fenris +Contributors: +- Fenris (saxophone) Art Tags: - CD -- The Felt -- Felt Manor -Duration: '2:59' +- Doze +- Clocks +- Felt Mansion +Duration: 2:59 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/lunar-eclipse-2 - https://youtu.be/06SVUSwu8Xk Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Music and Stuff](https://web.archive.org/web/20110326020456/http://www.iambowman.com/music.html)) + I opted to imitate Weather Report and the sort of spacey, insidious-sounding grooves they put together on Mysterious Traveler to create "Lunar Eclipse". I like the atmospheric nature of the track, plus Fenris' sax solo that I diced up and added a ton of digital reverb to, although Fenris has completely disappeared since recording the solo in 2009. + + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (Bowmantown Discord, excerpt, 8/5/2017) + + I tend to hold on to ideas and use them when they're ready. [[track:forever|Forever]] was an idea I'd been holding on to for about five years. Lunar eclipse I think was 3 or 4 before I arranged it. Lots of my stuff bakes for months or years. Sometimes the first drafts suck but I find myself humming it later. That's how I know. + + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=919), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) + + My contribution on the Midnight Crew album was an original called Lunar Eclipse, featuring sax by someone named Fenris, who we've never heard from again! We don't know what happened to them. --- Track: Hauntjam Artists: @@ -225,46 +304,72 @@ Artists: - Michael Guy Bowman Art Tags: - DD -- The Felt -- Felt Manor +- Trace +- Clocks +- Felt Mansion - 'cw: blood' -Duration: '2:16' +Duration: 2:16 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/hauntjam-2 - https://youtu.be/K9s0vr15Gvw Referenced Tracks: - track:haunt-andrew-hussie Commentary: |- - <i>Andrew Huo:</i> - Hauntjam and Hauntjelly are interesting things. They were actually made based on a short fruity loop that The Big Man Andrew did, called haunt.wav or haunt.mp3 or something like that. A jam on his theme, logically, would therefore be called "hauntjam," with the opportunity for naming puns including "hauntjelly." His theme appears mostly unchanged as the bassline for the first part of the pieces. At this point in terms of instrumentation, we were still mostly striving for faithfulness to the canon Midnight Crew "band," as can be seen in <a href="http://www.mspaintadventures.com/extras/ps000018.html">the Extras page</a> wherein the MC fill 'em with midnight (bottom), so Hauntjam employs trombone, string bass, piano, clarinet, and sax (I forget which because I've lost the file and am not a band person, but I think it was alto). From there on, it was fairly straightforward to write a haunting refrain and then solos for each instrument. I will admit I got a little writerblock'd for the second part, which was sort of a brief modulation to the dominant, so it sounds a little strange. But it still has its own little charm, with the almost annoying trill put in for a spooky ghost-like effect. In Hauntjam, Bowman did some good stuff with bringing out moving parts in the first refrain. In Hauntjelly, [[artist:ian-taylor|Xerxes]] emphasizes the spookiness by changing instruments for more electric organ. + <i>Andrew Huo:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + + Hauntjam and Hauntjelly are interesting things. They were actually made based on [[track:haunt-andrew-hussie|a short fruity loop]] that The Big Man Andrew did, called haunt.wav or haunt.mp3 or something like that. A jam on his theme, logically, would therefore be called "hauntjam," with the opportunity for naming puns including [[track:hauntjelly|"hauntjelly."]] His theme appears mostly unchanged as the bassline for the first part of the pieces. At this point in terms of instrumentation, we were still mostly striving for faithfulness to the canon Midnight Crew "band," as can be seen in [the Extras page](http://www.mspaintadventures.com/extras/ps000018.html) wherein the MC fill 'em with midnight (bottom), so Hauntjam employs trombone, string bass, piano, clarinet, and sax (I forget which because I've lost the file and am not a band person, but I think it was alto). From there on, it was fairly straightforward to write a haunting refrain and then solos for each instrument. I will admit I got a little writerblock'd for the second part, which was sort of a brief modulation to the dominant, so it sounds a little strange. But it still has its own little charm, with the almost annoying trill put in for a spooky ghost-like effect. In Hauntjam, Bowman did some good stuff with bringing out moving parts in the first refrain. In Hauntjelly, [[artist:ian-taylor|Xerxes]] emphasizes the spookiness by changing instruments for more electric organ. + + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Music and Stuff](https://web.archive.org/web/20110326020456/http://www.iambowman.com/music.html)) - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> I also went ahead a dropped some good synths and fairly convincing drum part on Andrew Huo's "Hauntjam". + + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (Bowmantown Discord, excerpts, 7/28/2017) + + Uhhh the main thing I did was pick the instruments and arrange drums + + But I was really pushy about those drums. I never use FPC, so each drum had its own piano roll in FL studio. Bobby Blaker always said that drums take at least a day to figure out on any of his EDM tracks, and that was back when he was less developed as an artist. So, I'm assuming he probably takes even more time now, if he doesn't just have some presets or something… + + I just remember touching in with ham on that and thinking, "good, I'm not wasting my time." I mean, there are ways to have drums centralized on one master application and then route it to different channels, but in FL studio, it rarely made sense to do it any other way than having separate sampler tracks were sound font tracks, especially since you get to work with pattern blocks anyway. + + I think drums, more than any other instrument, define the genre of the music. Even very minor choices can change the character of a whole song. At the very least there's been only two songs with no drums on them on the billboard number one slot in the last 50 years. + + I still do it by spreading of the parts across different instruments. Just in logic now. [[album:electric-daydreams|Electric daydreams]] is deliberately simple, and a couple of the songs just have a normal exs24 on there with all the drums going to the same channel. I wanted to imitate what I would be able to achieve if I were just a guy taping himself playing in a room. + + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=929), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) + + And, the other thing was an arrangement of Hauntjam, which I just added drums on and synthesized out and did the bounces[?] for. The original on that one is by Andrew Huo, and supposedly it's based around a track that Andrew Hussie himself wrote, that was just called [[track:haunt-andrew-hussie|"haunt"]]. --- -Track: Carbon Nadsat / Cuestick Genius +Track: Carbon Nadsat/Cuestick Genius +Additional Names: +- jazzjazzjazzthejazzatronjazzer (early name) Artists: -- Robert J! Lake +- rj lake Art Tags: - DD -Duration: '2:56' +Duration: 2:56 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/carbon-nadsat-cuestick-genius-2 - https://youtu.be/g5jyNbOePJ8 +Commentary: |- + <i>rj lake:</i> ([[album:stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1|Stuckhome Syndrome]] [pre-order announcement](https://www.tumblr.com/spellmynamewithabang/140367744668/ok-actual-stuckhome-syndrome-big-post-and-whatever), excerpt, 3/2/2016) + + [...] for reference, Carbon Nadsat/Cuestick Genius was “jazzjazzjazzthejazzatronjazzer” until a day before it came out --- Track: Ace of Trump Artists: - Hilary Troiano Art Tags: -- The Felt -Duration: '6:29' +- Die +Duration: 6:29 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/ace-of-trump-2 - https://youtu.be/Leb48RHyrWs Commentary: |- - <i>Hilary Troiano:</i> - Someone sent me a PM asking for some commentary about my two MSPA songs, so [[media:misc/hilary-troiano-commentary.mp3|here it is]]. (<a href="https://jaydeis.tumblr.com/post/19609363685/someone-sent-me-a-pm-asking-for-some-commentary">source</a>) + <i>Hilary Troiano:</i> ([Tumblr](https://jaydeis.tumblr.com/post/19609363685/someone-sent-me-a-pm-asking-for-some-commentary), 3/19/2012) - <b>Transcript:</b> + Someone sent me a PM asking for some commentary about my two MSPA songs, so [[media:misc/hilary-troiano-commentary.mp3|here it is]]. ([source](https://jaydeis.tumblr.com/post/19609363685/someone-sent-me-a-pm-asking-for-some-commentary)) + + <i>Hilary Troiano:</i> ([[media:misc/hilary-troiano-commentary.mp3|audio commentary transcript]], 3/19/2012) So, someone on the MS Paint Adventures Forums asked me if I would be willing to give some commentary on my songs which have appeared on the Homestuck albums. Well, two of them. For those who don't know me, my name is Hilary Troiano, and I'm the artist behind Ace of Trump on the Midnight Crew album and [[track:homefree|Homefree]] on [[album:homestuck-vol-8|Volume 8]]. I'm entirely self taught, I never really took a music theory class or anything, in fact in high school I was trying to learn how to perform music, you know playing trumpet in orchestra... but I wasn't really all that good at it. I spent more of my days in middle school and high school kinda playing around with the music synthesizing program on my computer and I guess somewhere along the way I figured things out. @@ -292,8 +397,8 @@ Track: Moonshine Artists: - Alex Rosetti Art Tags: -- Felt Manor -Duration: '2:39' +- Felt Mansion +Duration: 2:39 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/moonshine-2 - https://youtu.be/W5p7sEFMYHE @@ -305,18 +410,24 @@ Sheet Music Files: Files: - 'Moonshine - Kraethi.pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> - Fake bands, man. I so wish we had done more with this concept. Since the very beginning of Homestuck, Andrew had this idea that the kids would have fake bands they were into, and we would make MySpace band pages with a few of their songs on them as a fun supplement to the comic, in the same spirit as <a href="https://dstrider.blogspot.com/">dave strider's blog</a> or <a href="https://www.homestuck.com/sweet-bro-and-hella-jeff">SBaHJ</a>. <s>(both of which I would link to if tumblr wasn't bugging out right now and preventing me from doing so)</s> - The first one was the Midnight Crew, and Andrew made the cover art before anything else happened, if I recall correctly. That project hung around for a while until the Midnight Crew Intermission, when Andrew decided to expand the "fake band" idea and release our MC as a full album on bandcamp, along with the Homestuck Volumes. Incidentally, I believe Squarewave and Sawtooth were originally going to be a fake band as well, and Dave even had a poster of them on his wall. Reeeaaally wish we did that one, but oh well. At least we got Anbroids. - In light of the fact that the Midnight Crew were going to have a real album and that I had just rejoined the team, I was eager to contribute to it. The first song I made for it was Moonshine, which strangely enough to some I'm sure, I still consider one of my better Homestuck tunes, if only technically. Yeah, the instruments I used were atrocious, but I think it would be a fun piece if it were actually played by people. I had a good idea of its form and I was really able to get into the style of music I perceived the Midnight Crew would play. - The instrumentation was based off the instruments each character played, with Slick on piano, Droog on sax, Boxcars on bass, and the last one I changed from Deuce's oboe to clarinet, which is seen much more in jazz. Not that jazz oboe doesn't exist! Still, it seems very like CD to play jazz on such an instrument. The song itself is more dissonant than most Homestuck music, having a lot of clashing harmonies and tritones which I love but can understand a lot of Homestuckers probably don't, at least not in this context. The name "Moonshine" came out of how drunk the music sounds, especially in the middle where it picks up a bit and is more obviously in 6/8. But yeah, it uses its motivic material well and is consistent with itself, much more than I can say about many tracks in Genesis Frog for instance, which I'll admit I got much too carried away with. + <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> ([Tumblr](https://albatrossthesoup.tumblr.com/post/46685117866/looking-back-at-midnight-crew-drawing-dead), excerpt) + + Fake bands, man. I so wish we had done more with this concept. Since the very beginning of Homestuck, [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew]] had this idea that the kids would have fake bands they were into, and we would make MySpace band pages with a few of their songs on them as a fun supplement to the comic, in the same spirit as [dave strider’s blog](https://dstrider.blogspot.com/) or [SBaHJ](https://www.homestuck.com/sweet-bro-and-hella-jeff). (both of which I would link to if tumblr wasn’t bugging out right now and preventing me from doing so) + + The first one was the Midnight Crew, and Andrew made the cover art before anything else happened, if I recall correctly. That project hung around for a while until the Midnight Crew Intermission, when Andrew decided to expand the “fake band” idea and release our MC as a full album on bandcamp, along with the Homestuck Volumes. Incidentally, I believe Squarewave and Sawtooth were originally going to be a fake band as well, and Dave even had a poster of them on his wall. Reeeaaally wish we did that one, but oh well. At least we got [[track:anbroids-v2|Anbroids]]. + + In light of the fact that the Midnight Crew were going to have a real album and that I had just rejoined the team, I was eager to contribute to it. The first song I made for it was Moonshine, which strangely enough to some I’m sure, I still consider one of my better Homestuck tunes, if only technically. Yeah, the instruments I used were atrocious, but I think it would be a fun piece if it were actually played by people. I had a good idea of its form and I was really able to get into the style of music I perceived the Midnight Crew would play. + + The instrumentation was based off the instruments each character played, with Slick on piano, Droog on sax, Boxcars on bass, and the last one I changed from Deuce’s oboe to clarinet, which is seen much more in jazz. Not that jazz oboe doesn’t exist! Still, it seems very like CD to play jazz on such an instrument. The song itself is more dissonant than most Homestuck music, having a lot of clashing harmonies and tritones which I love but can understand a lot of Homestuckers probably don’t, at least not in this context. The name “Moonshine” came out of how drunk the music sounds, especially in the middle where it picks up a bit and is more obviously in 6/8. But yeah, it uses its motivic material well and is consistent with itself, much more than I can say about many tracks in [[album:genesis-frog|Genesis Frog]] for instance, which I’ll admit I got much too carried away with. + + <i>(Continued in [[track:hollow-suit]])</i> --- Track: Tall, Dark and Loathsome Artists: - Clark Powell Art Tags: - Jack Noir -Duration: '1:33' +Duration: 1:33 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/tall-dark-and-loathsome-2 - https://youtu.be/DxsUKjGirKc @@ -329,23 +440,24 @@ Track: Joker's Wild Artists: - Mark J. Hadley Art Tags: -- The Felt -Duration: '2:16' +- Itchy +Duration: 2:16 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/jokers-wild-2 - https://youtu.be/MDaWJUfxFCM Referenced Tracks: - Harlequin Commentary: |- - <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> + <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + When we were writing music for Drawing Dead, I just HAD to make a jazz remix of Harlequin. The song pretty much wrote itself after that. I think if I was going to change anything about it though, I'd have tried to get a live saxophone; the synth sounds a bit off. But then, any of the songs off of Drawing Dead would probably sound amazing by a live band. --- Track: Livin' It Up Artists: -- Gabe Nezovic +- Gabriel Nezovic Art Tags: -- The Felt -Duration: '2:00' +- Die +Duration: 2:00 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/livin-it-up-2 - https://youtu.be/HPad4cPmEVI @@ -355,9 +467,11 @@ Artists: - Andrew Huo - artist:ian-taylor Art Tags: -- The Felt -- Felt Manor -Duration: '2:02' +- DD +- Fin +- Clocks +- Felt Mansion +Duration: 2:02 URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/hauntjelly-2 - https://youtu.be/MccD13jZSTU @@ -367,9 +481,9 @@ Sampled Tracks: - track:hauntjam --- Track: Nightlife (Extended) -Directory: nightlife-extended-mc-dd -Originally Released As: track:nightlife-extended -Duration: '2:34' +Suffix Directory: true +Main Release: track:nightlife-extended +Duration: 2:34 URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L55OrtyUMko - https://archive.org/details/exile-pinkushion/04%20Nightlife.mp3 |