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diff --git a/album/moons-of-theseus.yaml b/album/moons-of-theseus.yaml index 0b15f66..95f7fd3 100644 --- a/album/moons-of-theseus.yaml +++ b/album/moons-of-theseus.yaml @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ Art Tags: - Hadron Kaleido - Carapacians - Can Town +Cover Art File Extension: png +Track Art File Extension: png Color: '#ffec14' Groups: - Unofficial MSPA Fans @@ -23,6 +25,17 @@ Wallpaper Artists: Wallpaper Style: |- opacity: 0.4; background-position: center 30%; +Additional Files: +- Title: Album Booklet + Files: + - Moons of Theseus Booklet.pdf +- Title: Bandcamp Banner and Background + Files: + - banner.png + - bg.jpg +Commentary: |- + <i>Ngame:</i> + ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zzLgUZ7N-s)) --- Track: Home Artists: @@ -41,18 +54,58 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Forever - Dawn of Man -- track:sburban-jungle -- The Return +- Sburban Jungle +- The Return of Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido - Violet and Gold +Sampled Tracks: +- Apollo 8 communications 069:37:00 Lovell Lyrics: |- - O darling, what have we become?<br>Has all been said, has all been done?<br>And after all that we’ve been through<br>Am I still me, are you still you? - O darling, what is it we seek?<br>Perhaps I think myself a freak<br>Perhaps I crave a second chance<br>In the universe’s endless dance - If I had a choice<br>Still I wouldn’t stay<br>Set out on a voyage for forever and a day - Exiled from our world<br>Into parts unknown<br>Wholly unfamiliar and yet it feels like home - And yet the pyramid still looms<br>And life still fades and life still blooms<br>And as the centuries they pass<br>We’re not the first and not the last - The dawn consumed the night<br>Bathed in the sentinel’s light<br>Clinging onto that bone<br>Ready to put up a fight<br>My bone came down again<br>I threw it up to the sky<br>That was the day I knew<br>I’d never really die - If I had a choice<br>Still I wouldn’t stay<br>Set out on a voyage for forever and a day - Exiled from our world<br>Into parts unknown<br>Wholly unfamiliar and yet it feels like home + (VGY was zero, VGZ was plus 0.2, Delta-VC was minus 20.2, orbit 169.1 by 60.5.) + + O darling, what have we become? + Has all been said, has all been done? + And after all that we've been through + Am I still me, are you still you? + + O darling, what is it we seek? + Perhaps I think myself a freak + Perhaps I crave a second chance + In the universe's endless dance + + If I had a choice + Still I wouldn't stay + Set out on a voyage for forever and a day + + Exiled from our world + Into parts unknown + Wholly unfamiliar and yet it feels like home + + And yet the pyramid still looms + And life still fades and life still blooms + And as the centuries they pass + We're not the first and not the last + + The dawn consumed the night + Bathed in the sentinel's light + Clinging onto that bone + Ready to put up a fight + My bone came down again + I threw it up to the sky + That was the day I knew + I'd never really die + + If I had a choice + Still I wouldn't stay + Set out on a voyage for forever and a day + + Exiled from our world + Into parts unknown + Wholly unfamiliar and yet it feels like home + + [Reversed] + Exiled from our world + Into parts unknown + Wholly unfamiliar and yet it feels like home Commentary: |- <i>Grace Medley:</i> Moons of Theseus is an album idea we had lying around from before UnofficialMSPAFans' recent year of 0 content, and it's a project a lot of us had been looking forward to for a long time. Fitting, too, that it's named for the paradox in which every piece of an object is replaced gradually until it has nothing physically in common with its original state. The idea for Home we had back then is nothing like what you hear now. SplitSuns and I didn't know what we wanted back then, beyond "Oh hey, you want to make a tribute to Forever? Me too!" It's safe to say that little to none of that initial desire to reimagine Mobius Trip's overture has bled through into the finished product, but it's safer still to say that this song wouldn't be possible if it had been approached any other way. That's not the only thing that's changed in the meantime, either: since we initially promised to collaborate on this, we've both improved as composers and producers, and our styles have evolved, our influences are different, and the zeitgeist of what it means to be a Homestuck fan, particularly a Homestuck music fan, is practically unrecognisable. @@ -64,8 +117,10 @@ Commentary: |- 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. --- Track: Traveling +Directory: traveling-moons-of-theseus +Always Reference By Directory: true Artists: -- ndividedbyzero +- keyboard cait Contributors: - OneDragonArmy (vocals) - Ucklin (vocals) @@ -84,7 +139,7 @@ Art Tags: - Skaia - 'cw: blood' Referenced Tracks: -- track:sburban-jungle +- Sburban Jungle - Lies With The Sea - Polyominoes - Airwaves @@ -92,7 +147,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Old Buggy Now - Light Of Apollo - Wrong Or Right -- Purgatory +- track:purgatory-electric-daydreams - Chain Of Prospit Lyrics: |- I see the dawn rise again<br>The radiance anew<br>I catch my breath<br>I see the world spanning out<br>Unbounded in the view<br>The limit is my home @@ -101,12 +156,14 @@ Lyrics: |- The fertile fields I have roamed<br>One journey soon to end<br>I have what I need<br>Within the stalks, my cocoon<br>The nature nurtures me<br>Yet deep within, I know... And the travel never ends<br>And you want to witness all<br>And you'll witness all you can Commentary: |- - <i>ndividedbyzero:</i> - 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>keyboard cait:</i> + The opening chords of this song were originally part of a scrapped attempt on [[track:singularity-cosmic-caretakers]], 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? --- Track: Unchained +Directory: unchained-moons-of-theseus +Always Reference By Directory: true Artists: - Kanishka Duration: '3:24' @@ -139,20 +196,20 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Mobius Trip Lyrics: |- - You’re awake, the line is dead<br>The wires are coiled up in your head<br>Your unexpected telegram is over + You're awake, the line is dead<br>The wires are coiled up in your head<br>Your unexpected telegram is over Connected to a time and space<br>A trophy in a rotten case<br>That licked you on your sleeping face like Rover A fossilized remain of a foreign age<br>Try not to let it out of its gelatin cage<br>You didn't dig the bones out of some old hill<br>Just found them in a cabinet... - Dinosaur Pill, you know it will<br>Expand in your brain, the water will drain<br>But it’s still there, it makes you scared<br>That all of the schemes, the threads and the themes<br>That make you you<br>Will flee now too + Dinosaur Pill, you know it will<br>Expand in your brain, the water will drain<br>But it's still there, it makes you scared<br>That all of the schemes, the threads and the themes<br>That make you you<br>Will flee now too Curtains draw, the stage is set<br>Come on, has it started yet?<br>You're contemplating in a cloud of clover A castle with a gear outside<br>A couple props your mind still hides<br>To stumble on when busy days are over You never wrap them up but you can't let go<br>You find yourself in one and they overflow<br>Just distract yourself to control the spill<br>You want to but you haven't yet... - Dinosaur Pill, you know it will<br>Expand in your brain, the water will drain<br>But it’s still there, it makes you scared<br>That all of the schemes, the threads and the themes<br>That flesh you out<br>Will walk about - Dinosaur Pill, you know it will<br>Expand in your brain, the water will drain<br>But it’s still there, it makes you scared<br>That all of the schemes, the threads and the themes<br>That hold you stuck<br>Will run amok + Dinosaur Pill, you know it will<br>Expand in your brain, the water will drain<br>But it's still there, it makes you scared<br>That all of the schemes, the threads and the themes<br>That flesh you out<br>Will walk about + Dinosaur Pill, you know it will<br>Expand in your brain, the water will drain<br>But it's still there, it makes you scared<br>That all of the schemes, the threads and the themes<br>That hold you stuck<br>Will run amok Loyalty to your identity<br>What did that thing ever do for you? - Come with me, you don’t need memories<br>To be the you that’s listening right now + Come with me, you don't need memories<br>To be the you that's listening right now You can coast, the parts that matter most<br>Are too far in to carelessly shake out<br>To fall off or fall out Look at all the Stockholm syndrome<br>Piling up in your childhood home - Dinosaur Pill, you know it will<br>Expand in your brain, the water will drain<br>But it’s still there + Dinosaur Pill, you know it will<br>Expand in your brain, the water will drain<br>But it's still there Commentary: |- <i>Ucklin:</i> This song actually started as two separate ideas. I started the song months ago, but wasn't able to quite capture the themes that I intended, so I decided to go back to the drawing board to create what is now the chorus. I decided it was worthwhile to find a way t ocombine the two ideas because I didn't want to think of more, and the verse did capture a mood that I didn't want to get rid of. I think the resulting transitions are potentially jarring, but I feel okay with the atmosphere that creates. I wanted to make a true MTaHK koan, so I won't tell you what the song is about eaxctly. You should tell me! @@ -173,16 +230,16 @@ Art Tags: - Prospit Referenced Tracks: - Ithaca -- track:sburban-jungle +- Sburban Jungle Lyrics: |- I spent the best years of my life waiting<br>For this moment<br>A time to call my own, a place to call my homeland - It’s come here far too soon<br>I sit around my room<br>Hatching my plans and schemes I mostly leave forgotten + It's come here far too soon<br>I sit around my room<br>Hatching my plans and schemes I mostly leave forgotten I spent my longest nights awake wondering through the outside<br>Amused but still deranged, divided on the inside - Returning to the core<br>The place i can’t ignore<br>The wonder behind the fear I just can’t seem to shake off + Returning to the core<br>The place i can't ignore<br>The wonder behind the fear I just can't seem to shake off Oo-ee-oo<br>To dream or do<br>To do or die<br>To sink or fly Oo-ee-oo<br>To get a clue<br>To run and hide<br>To laugh and cry I turned my back on battles won and sailed to new adventure<br>The journey made by all, a lonely mortal tenure - To Ithaca I sailed<br>And though I have not failed<br>My home is a fleeting camp, the journey’s just beginning + To Ithaca I sailed<br>And though I have not failed<br>My home is a fleeting camp, the journey's just beginning Oo-ee-oo<br>To dream or do<br>To do or die<br>To sink or fly Oo-ee-oo<br>To get a clue<br>To run and hide<br>To laugh and cry I spent the morning hours awake writing down the lyrics<br>Resolved to get it right - to capture the true spirit @@ -201,17 +258,16 @@ Cover Artists: - Kodar Referenced Tracks: - The New Window -- track:sburban-jungle +- Sburban Jungle - The Deeper You Go - Got It? Commentary: |- - <i>Jaspy:</i> + <i>artist:kobacat:</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 --- Track: The Return -Artists: -- SplitSuns +Originally Released As: track:the-return-of-mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido Duration: '6:12' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-return @@ -222,21 +278,10 @@ Art Tags: - Hadron Kaleido - Prospit - Derse -Referenced Tracks: -- The Deeper You Go -- track:sburban-jungle -- Beta Version -- Chain Of Prospit -- Fly -- No Release -- Pumpkin Tide -- Lies With The Sea -- Dawn of Man -- Forever Commentary: |- <i>SplitSuns:</i> 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>. + 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 [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqpcqEpMndA). 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! --- Track: Pumpkin Tide (Gourdian Sea Version) @@ -304,7 +349,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Ucklin:</i> I guess all 80s music sounds like MTaHK... - <b><i>SplitSuns:</i></b> + <i>SplitSuns:</i> (UMSPAF manager) 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. @@ -340,7 +385,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Derse Dreamers - Chain Of Prospit - Dawn of Man -- track:sburban-jungle +- Sburban Jungle - Forever - Beta Version - Fly |