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diff --git a/album/xenoplanetarium.yaml b/album/xenoplanetarium.yaml index c1507e4..ad0ffca 100644 --- a/album/xenoplanetarium.yaml +++ b/album/xenoplanetarium.yaml @@ -37,6 +37,15 @@ Art Tags: - LoTaM - LoWaA - LoDaG +Cover Art File Extension: png +Track Art File Extension: png +Additional Files: +- Title: Album Booklet + Files: + - xenoplanetarium.pdf +- Title: Bandcamp Banner + Files: + - banner.png Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> <center>XENOPLANETARIUM</center> @@ -46,9 +55,9 @@ Commentary: |- <b>Additional Thanks:</b><br>The Homestuck Music Team<br>Andrew Hussie and What Pumpkin <i>nights:</i> I've redrawn this piece 3 times, two were sketches and the third was completed, but I felt it didn't make for a good cover. (Shown <s>on facing page</s> below - It makes for a pretty bangin' wallpaper though!) I tried to stuff as much symbolism in this piece as possible. This is also full of new experiences for me, 'cause it was pretty much the first time I've drawn this many varied characters all in one canvas. It's also the first time I've drawn some of the trolls, too. All in all, it was an absolute delight to work on it and see everything come together, I'm raelly happy for the chance to help with this album. - <img src="media/misc/xenoplanetarium-alt.jpg" width="1400" height="1400"> - <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> - (per [[track:jungle|LoFaM 4 standard]], ive highlighted commentary from people besides the original musicians or cover artists in bold!) + <img src="media/misc/xenoplanetarium-alt.jpg" width="550"> + <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor) + (per [[track:jungle-3|LoFaM 4 standard]], ive highlighted commentary from people besides the original musicians or cover artists in bold!) Banner Artists: - nights Banner Dimensions: 1100x203 @@ -59,6 +68,7 @@ Track: Calming Quartz Artists: - PoisonedElite Duration: '2:05' +Color: '#eb0000' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/calming-quartz - https://youtu.be/i_rH12hll8A @@ -74,18 +84,19 @@ Commentary: |- <i>PoisonedElite:</i> So, uh, hi, I'm PoisonedElite, or Poize. This is actually the second version of Calming Quartz. - The first version (which can be found <a href="https://soundcloud.com/poisonedelite/calming-quartz-beta/s-2FvRp">here</a>) I wasn't very happy with, so I ended up redoing the entire song, and now I like it! + The first version (which can be found [here](https://soundcloud.com/poisonedelite/calming-quartz-beta/s-2FvRp)) I wasn't very happy with, so I ended up redoing the entire song, and now I like it! I started the first version in June and then made the revision over the course of October in about 1-2 weeks. The atmosphere of sounds echoing off of the quartz all over Aradia's land informed how I wrote the entire song. - I want to thank ndividedbyzero, Grace Medley, and everyone else for all of their help and advice on the song, as well as thanks to Nuclear for naming the song. + I want to thank [[artist:keyboard-cait|ndividedbyzero]], Grace Medley, and everyone else for all of their help and advice on the song, as well as thanks to Nuclear for naming the song. (p.s. special thanks to psithurist for being so cool.) - <b><i>SplitSuns:</i></b> + <i>SplitSuns:</i> (album organizer) LOQAM has a very eerie atmosphere to it that is captured to amazing effect in this artwork. The jagged textures of quartz crystals provide a nice backdrop when paired with the howling, almost glowing sky. There's a ton of detail put into every area of this piece, and that's especially noticable in the Aradiabot occupying the left of the composition. Her damaged and decaying appearance helps to add to the unsettling nature of the piece. Aradia herself is also visible in the art as well. Isn't it a little weird that these two different versions of Aradia are in the same piece...? Then again, if there was ever to be a troll that showed up in two places at the same time, it's her. --- Track: Sandy Skyline Artists: -- Aris Martinian +- ostrichlittledungeon Duration: '2:53' +Color: '#c36100' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/sandy-skyline - https://youtu.be/vjMeokNP2E4 @@ -95,16 +106,17 @@ Art Tags: - LoSaZ - Gate Commentary: |- - <b><i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i></b> + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (UMSPAF manager) Decisions must be made. Onward the world must turn. No one can truly understand how the wind blows its way into your heart. King you are not, young page. Even though she might try to be your queen, her manipulations will bring you only misery. Yes, you must attempt to carve your own path instead of having one make a path for you. Of course, you cannot do this. Love, though you possess it not, will be your undoing. Likely it is that you shall be utterly destroyed by your "queen". Inopportune this fate is, but do not let yourself become dejected. Embrace the breeze, and you will become greater than even she could have expected, far in both the past and the future. - <b><i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i></b> + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (UMSPAF manager) This piece by Roxy Scarf paints the scenery of Tavros's planet in very, very warm hues, capturing the desert-y atmosphere of the place quite well in this ghostwriter's opinion. You can also see one of the seven gates above Tavros's hive. --- Track: Deep Fried Artists: - Kanishka Duration: '4:00' +Color: '#a1a100' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/deep-fried - https://youtu.be/VL-k3TDTxSA @@ -130,6 +142,7 @@ Track: Red Pulse Artists: - ehlsea Duration: '3:25' +Color: '#7c7e81' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/red-pulse - https://youtu.be/uZrnoad2yUQ @@ -143,13 +156,14 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>ehlsea:</i> As I was writing this song, I wanted it to sound like a video game styled theme for the land. A pulsing beat drives the song with hazy pads and synths. - <b><i>SplitSuns:</i></b> + <i>SplitSuns:</i> (album organizer) LOPAH is home to an oppressive and bloody landscape, quite literally so. I mean, the oceans are legitimately made of blood. If that isn't metal I don't know what is. Anyway, this artwork conveys the hostility of stepping foot in such an environment masterfully, with the moody skies, foreboding architecture, and blood-rivers that cut into the terrain and seem to take up the entire canvas. There's great care taken into even the most minor aspects of the lighting so that the piece as a whole feels truly complete. The end result: a pretty cool-looking place, all things considered. Just try not to lose your footing; no one should have to experience being submerged in blood. --- Track: Oolongcat Artists: - Ucklin Duration: '2:43' +Color: '#588a00' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/oolongcat - https://youtu.be/bQBkjUo9q10 @@ -167,13 +181,14 @@ Commentary: |- This song was created in less than a week after another artist left the project and took their LOLCAT song with them. (I never heard that one!) I started composing it with the little kalimba riff and added from there. I was excited to create a song using instruments that I actually play, and most of the song is acoustic - but time constraints proved to stop me from getting good ocarina takes for the lead, so I scrambled at the last minute to find a replacement and ended up using touch control erhu on my iPad! I wasn't and still am not completely satisfied with the melody, but I felt better about it after I incorporated a version mostly in the pentatonic scale along with the original version, which was then used as a development. I think my main inspirations for this song were the tea and Asian-looking mountains of Nepeta's land, as well as the "snowy" landscape. <i>TheChaoMaster:</i> This is painted in acrylic, as I was inspired to paint more after finishing my high school major work which also focused on backgrounds and landscapes. I thought it would be good to try my hand at a fantasy setting. Lolcat is a very cute land and is very bright so I incorporated both of those aspects into my piece. The acrylic paints also match the acoustic song. - <b><i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i></b> + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (UMSPAF manager) huzzah the nine kettle pots we<br>on sugar we rest on you see<br>friends of the cat<br>nothing wrong with that<br>now shut up and have some damn tea --- Track: Light Like Raindrops Artists: - Grace Medley Duration: '3:15' +Color: '#008f48' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/light-like-raindrops - https://youtu.be/7at_By7l078 @@ -194,8 +209,9 @@ Commentary: |- --- Track: Delta Divination Artists: -- ndividedbyzero +- keyboard cait Duration: '3:27' +Color: '#008b8b' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/delta-divination - https://youtu.be/GcXi5JoU_94 @@ -207,7 +223,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Retconjuration - Terezi's Theme Commentary: |- - <i>ndividedbyzero:</i> + <i>keyboard cait:</i> "Time is like a river that splits into creeks or pools into lakes or careens down waterfalls. I have the map, and I steer the ship." -Garnet, Steven Universe The above quote is a pretty succinct summary of why I decided to name this track Delta Divination. River deltas are where the flow of water exits into a (generally) larger body of water, whether an ocean, sea, lake, or something else - just like the narrow path of the present branches and exits into endless streams of choices and possibilities. As the planet of the mind player, LOTAF facilitates thinking about each and every direction as its own river delta. Also, LOTAF has rivers too! There's a non-abstract justification for ya! This track let me do a bunch of things I'm always happy to experiment with, like using 80s synths with radical pitch bends, smooth guitars and bitcrushed drums, so I'm glad I got the opportunity to work on it. I made certain parts of this track represent "clearing the mind", in a sense - note how the drums get far less bitcrushy after a certain point, for instance. Also, what kind of loser references their own song??? Pshh, I know, right. [[track:retconjuration]] gave me an opportunity to narratively represent the idea of "making your own luck" though, relevant to the apotheosis of Terezi's journey as a mind player, so that's what counts in the end. @@ -216,9 +232,12 @@ Commentary: |- I love Terezi, as much as I never draw her... and I also love drawing landscapes! Two dragonmoms with one meteor! --- Track: Acquiesce +Directory: acquiesce-xenoplanetarium +Always Reference By Directory: true Artists: - psithurist Duration: '4:25' +Color: '#3796c6' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/acquiesce - https://youtu.be/TS5ibctqo5U @@ -245,6 +264,7 @@ Track: Depths and Water Artists: - Blackhole Duration: '7:15' +Color: '#487aef' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/depths-and-water - https://youtu.be/Y6N6qPUberY @@ -264,6 +284,7 @@ Track: Carnival of Nescience Artists: - WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES Duration: '2:05' +Color: '#a34bff' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/carnival-of-nescience - https://youtu.be/Bjwg6RjvTzI @@ -288,6 +309,7 @@ Track: Round Perdition's Flames Artists: - Kal-la-kal-la Duration: '3:44' +Color: '#db00db' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/round-perditions-flames - https://youtu.be/331ZPNLIdZo @@ -309,6 +331,7 @@ Track: The Hyaline Artists: - Circlejourney Duration: '4:13' +Color: '#e30072' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-hyaline - https://youtu.be/dDbC9VpsMtc |