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diff --git a/album/moons-of-theseus.yaml b/album/moons-of-theseus.yaml index a99537cf..b15a8704 100644 --- a/album/moons-of-theseus.yaml +++ b/album/moons-of-theseus.yaml @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ Album: Moons of Theseus -Cover Art: Nick Tucker -Wallpaper Art: Nick Tucker -Banner Art: Nick Tucker +Banner Art: +- Nick Tucker Banner Dimensions: 1100x203 Wallpaper Style: |- opacity: 0.35; @@ -14,10 +13,13 @@ Groups: - Fandom URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/album/moons-of-theseus +Cover Artists: +- Nick Tucker +Wallpaper Artists: +- Nick Tucker --- Track: Home Artist: Grace Medley, SplitSuns -Track Art: ricemilk Contributors: - Ucklin (vocals) - WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES (vocals, additional guitar) @@ -28,7 +30,8 @@ References: - track:sburban-jungle - The Return - Violet and Gold -Art Tags: Hadron Kaleido +Art Tags: +- Hadron Kaleido URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/home Lyrics: |- @@ -49,6 +52,8 @@ Commentary: |- I honestly can't recall exactly when the first time Grace and I discussed our love for Forever was, or when that love transformed into making a full-blown tribute, but over the many, MANY months, our pact to realize our emotions in song finally came to fruition. This is the first time I've done such a large-scale collaboration, and it's safe to say that it exceeded all my expectations. Neither of us thought that a track tributing a three minute opener would turn into a multi-part 10:25 epic, but life tends to have ways of surprising you. It wasn't easy balancing the track's complexities, which is why I was beyond grateful to have Grace help out with organizing things. This song would not be what it is without her; it wouldn't even exist at all, really! Her skills cannot be overstated. The first components of the song were completed by Grace. She wrote and composed the lyrics for the vocal section, and produced the majority of the guitar breakdown/climax towards the end of the track. From there we planned a road map of the song's progression to link together what had been completed: an ambient intro similar to Forever, a transition to lead into the vocal section, the vocal section, another transition to lead to the climax, the climax, and then an ending. I produced the majority of the intro and first transition, with Grace providing additional production and WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES playing live guitar! My goal was to create a composition with the same sense of scale and drama as Forever while having a unique mood, playful and hopeful all at once. I produced the vocal section to match Grace's songwriting, with additional production from Grace; MINES' lo-fi strains contrasted with Ucklin's ethereal melodies very nicely, right on top of a groove I never anticipated coming out of the project. The second transition was done entirely by Grace, bridging the gap between the dance that came before and the cinematic breakdown coming after. Finally, I provided additional production on the climax and created the ending. We wanted something like, in Grace's words, "the digital-age counterpart to the end of Have a Cigar." The result was a little bit more violent than that, but it provides a thrilling conclusion to the experience all the same, jettisoning off into the Incipisphere. The varied parts of Home take you by the hand and guide you on a journey throughout time and space. It is my belief that by listening, you're taking the same journey Grace, myself, and all the other creatives involved in this album took in the process of making the project a reality. It's been a long and winding road, but I wouldn't have had it any other way. Thank you. +Cover Artists: +- ricemilk --- Track: Traveling Artist: ndividedbyzero @@ -56,7 +61,6 @@ Contributors: - OneDragonArmy (vocals) - Ucklin (vocals) - WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES (vocals) -Track Art: Tipsy References: - track:sburban-jungle - Lies With The Sea @@ -69,7 +73,10 @@ References: - Purgatory - Chain Of Prospit Duration: '4:22' -Art Tags: 'Mobius Trip, Hadron Kaleido, cw: blood' +Art Tags: +- Mobius Trip +- Hadron Kaleido +- 'cw: blood' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/traveling Lyrics: |- @@ -83,10 +90,11 @@ Commentary: |- The opening chords of this song were originally part of a scrapped attempt on [[track:singularity]], a song from the previous album on the bandcamp, [[album:cosmic-caretakers]]. That was the penultimate song on that album, and this is the second on this album. So in a way, they're like weird bookends. More to the point though, this song ended up as an unintentional but fortuitous continuation to the "voyage" brought up in Home, both physical and metaphysical. In literal terms the lyrics are about the crossing of humans along the Bering Strait, but another interpretation is that they're a reflection of a process all humans go through: the pursuit of a purpose, the satisfaction of completing a goal, and the perennial urge to find new things to do, new things to learn, to experience, to travel. It's a fundamental feeling, true from the dawn of you, to your last sail on the pumpkin tide. <i>Tipsy:</i> Naturally when everyone else is going for wild, creative concepts, I fall back on making it Homestuck... when I heard Cait's song it made me think of the Battlefield, and when I read the lyrics, I thought, what better thing to depict than the moment Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido look into the clouds for the first time and witness the secrets of the universe? +Cover Artists: +- Tipsy --- Track: Unchained Artist: Kanishka -Track Art: Skyplayer Duration: '3:24' References: - Chain Of Prospit @@ -99,12 +107,14 @@ Commentary: |- I've always had a soft spot for Chain of Prospit with its quirky lyrics and extremely uplifting chorus, so when the time came to start working on a tribute album it didn't take me long to decide which song I'd bastardize. A departure from MTAHK's mellow sound, Unchained ended up being rather frantic and abrasive, resembling something akin to an explosive release of all the suppressed emotions that have been bottling up inside one's heart for way too long - destruction of emotional shackles, in other words. As for Skyplayer's artwork, I think it compensates for what the song might be lacking in terms of depth. Vivid 3-dimensional imagery paired with vibrant colours definitely makes it stand out from other illustrations. <i>Skyplayer:</i> Chain of Prospit has always been one of my all-time favorite Homestuck songs. Even just the title of Unchained immediately gave me visions of the Prospit Moon's broken connection to Prospit, but unlike [S] Descend, where the event is catastrophic, I wanted to depict the moon coming loose as a moment of freedom. +Cover Artists: +- Skyplayer --- Track: Dinosaur Pill Artist: Ucklin -Track Art: Jas Duration: '5:06' -Art Tags: Mobius Trip +Art Tags: +- Mobius Trip URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/dinosaur-pill Lyrics: |- @@ -128,12 +138,14 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Jas:</i> What waits in the water as it grows more and more? The soft foam of a dinosaur. +Cover Artists: +- Jas --- Track: Ithaca Is Calling Artist: WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES -Track Art: ricemilk Duration: '4:13' -Art Tags: Mobius Trip +Art Tags: +- Mobius Trip References: - Ithaca - track:sburban-jungle @@ -155,10 +167,11 @@ Lyrics: |- Commentary: |- <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> Fun fact, the title track off of Michael Guy Bowman's album Ithaca was initially planned to be part of Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido. This cover is an attempt to capture what the original song might have been had it stayed on the original track listing. This is by far the most complex song I've worked on yet, I think there's like... 30 different instances of synths or instruments? At the very least? And plenty of them only end up playing for a couple seconds in the end. Regardless of all that, I had a lot of fun putting this together, and I hope I managed to capture that MTAHK vibe we all hold so close to our hearts. +Cover Artists: +- ricemilk --- Track: The Fifth Window Artist: Jaspy -Track Art: Kodar Duration: '3:17' References: - The New Window @@ -171,12 +184,15 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Jaspy:</i> i made this song cuz the new window is cool and you know what would be cooler? adding more cool songs to it please nintendo give me animal crossing switch at e3 PLEASE +Cover Artists: +- Kodar --- Track: The Return Artist: SplitSuns -Track Art: nights Duration: '6:12' -Art Tags: Mobius Trip, Hadron Kaleido +Art Tags: +- Mobius Trip +- Hadron Kaleido References: - The Deeper You Go - track:sburban-jungle @@ -195,13 +211,16 @@ Commentary: |- This song has quite the history to it! I made it back in July of 2018 for the Cool and New Music Team's "Volume 11" project, a plan to make a fan-made meme-filled image of a fake Volume 11 from the Homestuck Music Team's Bandcamp page a reality. All the songs, including a 12-hour "extended" version of Penumbra Phantasm, a rock opera made out of Michael Guy Bowman memes, and a sequel to the Baby is You, were painstakingly produced based on the ideas (and jokes) the track names suggested. Each song's length was the same as it was in the original image, and photoshopped reviews were even added on the album's page using dummy accounts! For my song (originally called "The Return of Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido") the team was planning on playing it straight and producing a medley of songs from MTaHK. I went with their idea and made a mega-mix of every song on the album, with the caveat being it had to be 6:12 long exactly! I first planned out the structure of the song on a single piano track to make sure it fit the time limit, then went back in and fleshed out all the instrumentation. I wanted it to be reminiscent of Bowman's work, with his classic guitar flourishes, but put my own spin on it all the same. The whole project kind of crystallized over the course of a single week I spent stuck to my computer 24/7, continually tweaking it to make sure the track flowed despite its disparate parts. If you're interested to find out more about its production process check out <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqpcqEpMndA">this video</a>. All in all, it's a fast-paced schizophrenic redux of the highlights of MTaHK (which is to say, the whole album) that even now I'm still proud of. I'm happy to have the opportunity to put it on this amazing album! +Cover Artists: +- nights --- Track: Pumpkin Tide (Gourdian Sea Version) Artist: Ucklin -Track Art: piskomil Duration: '2:39' -Art Tags: Mobius Trip -References: Pumpkin Tide +Art Tags: +- Mobius Trip +References: +- Pumpkin Tide URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/pumpkin-tide-gourdian-sea-version Lyrics: |- @@ -217,13 +236,17 @@ Commentary: |- The tambourine sound is actually a belly dancing belt with bangles... and yes, I did wear it and dance. This is an update to the version of Pumpkin Tide that I did on my iPad when I was in the hospital, recovering from my bone marrow transplant. I took some comfort in the way that the lyrics seemed to fit my experience leaving school for my treatment and being thrust into an unwanted "adventure." I wanted to keep this version pretty simple, so it's almost entirely just multitracked recordings of my acoustic instruments. I did add a touch of phased and flanged reverb because I wanted it to feel like a live performance on another world. <i>piskomil:</i> A remake of my old piece from 2013. I gave it a proper background that compliments the song. Peaceful but a bit broken up and in the process of healing. +Cover Artists: +- piskomil --- Track: Self-Avoiding Walks Artist: Kanishka -Track Art: Jas Duration: '4:41' -Art Tags: Mobius Trip, Hadron Kaleido -References: The Deeper You Go +Art Tags: +- Mobius Trip +- Hadron Kaleido +References: +- The Deeper You Go URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/self-avoiding-walks Commentary: |- @@ -231,13 +254,17 @@ Commentary: |- In an attempt at making something somber and contemplative I tried to imbue The Deeper You Go motif with just a tad bit of additional mystery. Things... got out of hand at some point, resulting in whatever this is. <i>Jas:</i> With self reflection in mind this is presented on a spiral bound sketchbook, a place for wandering thoughts and discardable ideas, the entire book easily closed and abandoned. I did a bit of multimedia on this one by photographing magazine clppings and editing the beans out of them. +Cover Artists: +- Jas --- Track: Negligent Murmur Artist: Ucklin -Track Art: piskomil Duration: '6:29' -Art Tags: Mobius Trip, Hadron Kaleido -References: Careless Whisper +Art Tags: +- Mobius Trip +- Hadron Kaleido +References: +- Careless Whisper URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/negligent-murmur Commentary: |- @@ -247,17 +274,19 @@ Commentary: |- Ucklin, you are an absolute legend for making this cover. <i>piskomil:</i> With the instruction: "Something like Hadron singing passionately into a microphone while Mobius plays a weird looking saxophone, or whatever." I have set to work on this overcomplicated masterpiece, adding more and more clutter until I have reached the ultimate concert effect. +Cover Artists: +- piskomil --- Track: Violet and Gold Artist: Veritas Unae -Art Tags: Carapacians +Art Tags: +- Carapacians Contributors: - Veritas Unae (composition, lyrics) - Ucklin (additional vocals) - WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES (guitar) - LizaWithAZed (lyrics) - Max Wright (additional help) -Track Art: Jas, Skyplayer Duration: '7:20' References: - Pumpkin Tide @@ -304,3 +333,6 @@ Commentary: |- Violet and gold. <i>Jas:</i> Much like the differences between Prospit and Derse we used two clashing mediums to show how they can work in tandem even better than apart. This is a duet in more ways than one! +Cover Artists: +- Jas +- Skyplayer |