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diff --git a/album/of-troles-and-chiptumes.yaml b/album/of-troles-and-chiptumes.yaml index 43d2aa6d..fff2b4ab 100644 --- a/album/of-troles-and-chiptumes.yaml +++ b/album/of-troles-and-chiptumes.yaml @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Commentary: |- One of the few times I did was sampling cheers in [[Oppa Toby Style]], which I miraculously managed to do through audio subtraction and freaking [Audacity](https://www.audacityteam.org/). Like, audio subtraction in Audacity used to extract cheer samples from a song. [[artist:toby-fox|Toby]] is a madman. Let's leave it at that. - But, yeah, every single song on this album, I think, every single song except for one has a remix of Toby Fox or Radiation's music, because he, unlike me, is really good at capturing the personalities of pretty much everything. It shows in his troll themes--like [[track:crustacean|Karkat's song]] is just, is really grouchy but fun to listen to and catchy at the same time. + But, yeah, every single song on this album, I think, every single song except for one has a remix of Toby Fox or Radiation's music, because he, unlike me, is really good at capturing the personalities of pretty much everything. It shows in his troll themes--like [[track:karkats-theme|Karkat's song]] is just, is really grouchy but fun to listen to and catchy at the same time. And then, he has this whole Vriska tone of music with insane guitars, and obviously it shows up in Undertale, which the characters can be pretty much summed up through their music. Like, I don't even need to say things like how, like, Sans and Papyrus's music especially is supposed to define their characters, but... @@ -184,13 +184,13 @@ Commentary: |- Okay, so I accidentally messed up the recording, and I'll need to start over with commenting on Mexican But Not Really. But I guess I can pick up where I left off 20 seconds in. - And yeah, there's the remix of [[track:breathtak1ng|Breathtak1ng]], that song from the fan album [[album:beforus]], which is a really long album with a lot of pre-scratch trolls, and it's generally regarded as a not-very-good album, but it has some gems in, and Breathtak1ng is actually one of them, and it's a pretty similar song to the troll songs on this album. It was a song for Rufio, and it's basically a medley of songs for him and his ancestor and all the Taurus trolls, and it's actually a good song, even though the whole Beforus album encouraged original compositions. + And yeah, there's the remix of [[Breathtak1ng]], that song from the fan album [[album:beforus]], which is a really long album with a lot of pre-scratch trolls, and it's generally regarded as a not-very-good album, but it has some gems in, and Breathtak1ng is actually one of them, and it's a pretty similar song to the troll songs on this album. It was a song for Rufioh, and it's basically a medley of songs for him and his ancestor and all the Taurus trolls, and it's actually a good song, even though the whole Beforus album encouraged original compositions. Oh wait, fuck, that's my solo section of this song. It's one of the few songs I did that, and some people actually particularly like this song out of the album, and I think I turned it out at least somewhat unique and fun to listen to compared to the more dull parts of this album, at least. Oh yeah, and I used [[Penumbra Phantasm]] because that was in the Beforus song Breathtak1ng. - Oh yeah, I think I'm one of the few people on the Cool and New Music Team if not the only one to remix something from Beforus. I don't even know if any songs for any other Homestuck fan music remixes songs from Beforus, and, I mean, it's not that I blame people for not wanting to remix Beforus, but the album does have some highlights, and, I mean, I'm sure someone has remixed, like, [[Skaia ad Infinitum]], one of the album's popular songs, but... + Oh yeah, I think I'm one of the few people on the Cool and New Music Team if not the only one to remix something from Beforus. I don't even know if any songs for any other Homestuck fan music remixes songs from Beforus, and, I mean, it's not that I blame people for not wanting to remix Beforus, but the album does have some highlights, and, I mean, I'm sure someone has remixed, like, [[Skaia Ad Infinitum]], one of the album's popular songs, but... Yeah, this shouldn't be Beforus rambling, this should be rambling about this song sounding, like... @@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ Commentary: |- And the old art for this I still think is pretty funny, this guy took a picture of bread with Gemini symbol and ketchup on it, but recolored it to look like mustard, and... I just can't bring myself to hate this song at all for some reason, just because people like it that much. - I think it's a pretty good medley of Sollux songs, and as before, it uses something from [[album:beforus]], [[track:the-mituna-method|The Mituna Method]], which is actually a really good song, despite all the flack Beforus gets. So let's listen to this one. + I think it's a pretty good medley of Sollux songs, and as before, it uses something from [[album:beforus]], [[The Mituna Method]], which is actually a really good song, despite all the flack Beforus gets. So let's listen to this one. Wait, who am I kidding, I still sometimes listen to this song, because it's on Greatest Hits, and I like listening to the Greatest Hits album, but yeah, the beginning is with that Beforus song. @@ -295,9 +295,9 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Walls Covered In Blood - Olive Rogue - Davesprite -- Catscratch +- catscratch Commentary: |- - <i>cookiefonster:</i> ([album video commentary](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USoHDGQiNVA), 6/12/2017) + <i>cookiefonster:</i> ([album video commentary](https://youtu.be/USoHDGQiNVA?t=1419), 6/12/2017) *(Continued from [[track:the-not-fuckass-not-waltz]])* @@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ Commentary: |- And um, people will probably think that... I think this song actually did end up as a theme for Davepeta, Davepeta, that one Sprite^2 character. - At least I did a passable job of combining the characters' themes, even if the characters' original theme, which like, [[Walls Covered in Blood]], is just— + At least I did a passable job of combining the characters' themes, even if the characters' original theme, which like, [[Walls Covered In Blood]], is just— Oh, I had another interruption there. I guess I'll resume when it's at 1 minute 15 seconds in? @@ -409,9 +409,9 @@ Commentary: |- But some people do like that it's got a completely different feel from most of the album. But as with most of my songs, that's because I completely ripped the style of a song. But... who cares, I'll listen to this thing. - Yeah, I just combined it with pretty much some bits of the song [[track:bl1nd-just1c3-1nv3st1g4t1on|BL1ND JUST1CE 1NV3ST1G4T1ON]], which is more Terezi's theme I guess, and BL1ND JUST1C3 is a really amazing song that's a lot of fun to listen to that I did a chiptune cover when I was bored. It's one of the songs which I was at one point embarrassed to have chiptune covered, but now I'm embarrassed to have chiptune covered different songs I guess. + Yeah, I just combined it with pretty much some bits of the song [[BL1ND JUST1C3 1NV3ST1G4T1ON]], which is more Terezi's theme I guess, and BL1ND JUST1C3 is a really amazing song that's a lot of fun to listen to that I did a chiptune cover when I was bored. It's one of the songs which I was at one point embarrassed to have chiptune covered, but now I'm embarrassed to have chiptune covered different songs I guess. - Oh yeah, I used [[Under the Hat]] or [[Trollcops]] in this song, and that's another really good jazz song. + Oh yeah, I used [[Under The Hat]] or [[Trollcops]] in this song, and that's another really good jazz song. I think—I don't even remember how much material in this song was just straight up ripped from Long Night Ahead. A large, large amount of that song sure was ripped from Long Night Ahead. And most of the work—most of the actual work in this song was transcribing Long Night Ahead. @@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ Commentary: |- In this song, the biggest difficulty was finding material to remix, because Equius doesn't have a lot of music that's actually music and not ambient noise. Like, think about [[Staring]] from Alternia. Or his lack of a redone song by [[artist:toby-fox|Toby]]. He only has like [[track:horschestra-STRONG-version|Horschestra]] and [[Indigo Heir]] to his name, and a bunch of maybe other ambient songs I forgot about? - Guess there's [[Chaotic Strength]], but I forgot to remix that. Then there's the songs from [[album:beforus]] where the—Horuss, the pre-Scratch troll counterpart—that I had really really awful luck finding songs of his to remix. His principal song, [[track:creeping-blue|Creeping Blue]]? Ha ha, good luck finding a melody there. + Guess there's [[Chaotic Strength]], but I forgot to remix that. Then there's the songs from [[album:beforus]] where the—Horuss, the pre-Scratch troll counterpart—that I had really really awful luck finding songs of his to remix. His principal song, [[Creeping Blue]]? Ha ha, good luck finding a melody there. Don't know how it was even pulled off a Beforus version of [[track:rex-duodecim-angelus|Rex]], which is a weird orchestra bullshit song. Oh yeah, orchestra bullshit. I could go on about orchestra bullshit and how it's actually kind of easy to write, but not the good kind. I don't make good orchestra bullshit, I only make shitty string soundfont music. Oh yeah, I settled on using [[Maplehoof's Adventure]], like a minor key version, as a sort of bassline because it's horse-related music and Equius likes horses? @@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ Commentary: |- Okay... now I'm on Eridan's song, which has a really, really, really bad name. Like, if there's any song where I could have come up with a better title, it's this. Well, Eridan actually is pretty dumb, but he is not that great. You need to shut up now. - Start. When I made this song, someone actually said, hey, you should remix [[Eridan's theme...?]] by [[artist:nick-smalley]]. I said, what the hell is Eridan's Theme by Nick Smalley? It's on the [Sound Test](https://sanctferum.tumblr.com/post/638058644066435072/homestuck-sound-test-12202020-edition), and then I heard it, and I was like, hey, for some reason I added it to the beginning of the song. + Start. When I made this song, someone actually said, hey, you should remix [[Eridan's Theme...?]] by [[artist:nick-smalley]]. I said, what the hell is Eridan's Theme by Nick Smalley? It's on the [Sound Test](https://sanctferum.tumblr.com/post/638058644066435072/homestuck-sound-test-12202020-edition), and then I heard it, and I was like, hey, for some reason I added it to the beginning of the song. For some reason I can't remember I added Morse code spelling out "Eridan is not that great". But yeah. @@ -750,11 +750,11 @@ Commentary: |- Anyway, I kind of was rushed through [unintelligible] of the latest sections, though I didn't realize that at the time I was really lazy and short with the sections like Germy's section and Kanaya's section. - Yeah, this song, I could have done it better in a lot of ways. I could have waited til, like, volume 8 or so to have found good melodies to use for all the characters on the volume ii cover, even though Dadd in Cool and New Web Comic still doesn't have any songs associated with him, besides a [[album:canwc-sound-test-1|Sound Test]] song called [dadd: flashback](https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/track/s-dadd-flashback) I could have maybe used [[Under the Hat]], but I couldn't really pass up using one of the many themes for Jack that people had made. + Yeah, this song, I could have done it better in a lot of ways. I could have waited til, like, volume 8 or so to have found good melodies to use for all the characters on the volume ii cover, even though Dadd in Cool and New Web Comic still doesn't have any songs associated with him, besides a [[album:canwc-sound-test-1|Sound Test]] song called [dadd: flashback](https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/track/s-dadd-flashback) I could have maybe used [[Under The Hat]], but I couldn't really pass up using one of the many themes for Jack that people had made. But, all things considered, I'm happy that I actually did finish making Rex Mille Geromius. - [Unintelligible] has some pretty Cool track art there. It's also pretty New, don't you think? + It ended up unpolished, but it has some pretty Cool track art there. It's also pretty New, don't you think? *(Continued in [[track:of-troles-and-frytunes]])* --- |