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diff --git a/album/7th-gate-project.yaml b/album/7th-gate-project.yaml index 4430ab18..95dfe3ea 100644 --- a/album/7th-gate-project.yaml +++ b/album/7th-gate-project.yaml @@ -169,8 +169,8 @@ Referencing Sources: |- <i>Catboss:</i> ([Tumblr](https://konec0.tumblr.com/post/7561460690/seventh-gate-lolar), excerpt, 7/12/2011) Originals:<br> - [[track:black-rose-green-sun|"Black Rose / Green Sun"]] by [[artist:malcolm-brown]]<br> - [[Endless Climb|"Endless Climb"]] by [[artist:buzinkai]] + [["Black Rose / Green Sun"]] by [[artist:malcolm-brown]]<br> + [["Endless Climb"]] by [[artist:buzinkai]] --- Track: Through the Seventh Gate ~Land of Frost and Frogs~ Duration: 5:43 @@ -223,5 +223,5 @@ Referencing Sources: |- Originals:<br> [[track:frost-vol6|"Frost"]] by [[artist:solatrus]]<br> - [[track:dissension-original|"Dissension (Original)"]] by [[artist:david-ko]]<br> - [[track:sunsetter|"Sunsetter"]] by [[artist:toby-fox]] + [["Dissension (Original)"]] by [[artist:david-ko]]<br> + [["Sunsetter"]] by [[artist:toby-fox]] diff --git a/album/9.yaml b/album/9.yaml index bbeb1db6..8c9274fc 100644 --- a/album/9.yaml +++ b/album/9.yaml @@ -131,9 +131,9 @@ Lyrics: |- D-D-D-D-DO IT! Commentary: |- <i>Cryptanark:</i> (Composer) - Okay so when I make songs I usually start out with a dumb gimmick and then I haphazardly flesh it out to an acceptable point (ex. with 72.0x SHOWDOWN COMBO it was the name, with [[track:tick|Tick]] and [[track:tock|Tock]] it was the songs being able to be layered and panned, and with [[track:ringleader-canmt|Ringleader]] it was the time signature). Here I sort of started out with that--I was buying Dr. Pepper for a meme at the grocery store when an 11/8 tune came into my mind and I decided to run with it. It was pretty standard, and as usual I made progress rather slowly. The idea was to slowly build up time signatures to reflect the song building up in intensity and soundscape thickness (you might be able to pick out the song going from 11/8, to 12/8, to 13/4, to 14/8, to 4/4). Then later that week [[artist:cecily-renns|JohnJRenns]] gave a whole spiel on how people take too long to make songs for the sake of making them "the best ever" and that in order to improve we should be maximizing speed over quality to gain experience in retrospect. At first I said "okay that's a good idea maybe I'll do that" but then I thought to myself "no, f*** that, I'm going to do whatever the hell I want with this dumb song, it doesn't even need a gimmick". So I did that, and it took a long time, and it was a little bit tiring, but it was fun. I'll probably do this more often: just having fun. + Okay so when I make songs I usually start out with a dumb gimmick and then I haphazardly flesh it out to an acceptable point (ex. with 72.0x SHOWDOWN COMBO it was the name, with [[Tick]] and [[Tock]] it was the songs being able to be layered and panned, and with [[track:ringleader-canmt|Ringleader]] it was the time signature). Here I sort of started out with that--I was buying Dr. Pepper for a meme at the grocery store when an 11/8 tune came into my mind and I decided to run with it. It was pretty standard, and as usual I made progress rather slowly. The idea was to slowly build up time signatures to reflect the song building up in intensity and soundscape thickness (you might be able to pick out the song going from 11/8, to 12/8, to 13/4, to 14/8, to 4/4). Then later that week [[artist:cecily-renns|JohnJRenns]] gave a whole spiel on how people take too long to make songs for the sake of making them "the best ever" and that in order to improve we should be maximizing speed over quality to gain experience in retrospect. At first I said "okay that's a good idea maybe I'll do that" but then I thought to myself "no, f*** that, I'm going to do whatever the hell I want with this dumb song, it doesn't even need a gimmick". So I did that, and it took a long time, and it was a little bit tiring, but it was fun. I'll probably do this more often: just having fun. The song uses a lot of synths, which is relatively new to me. But it was interesting to get a little bit more room to work with, EQ-wise. Also, my motif spacing was really weird. There's this one section before the piano Aggrieve where I vomited out like 3 or 4 motifs because I realized I wasn't being canwc-relevant enough. Probably the hardest part of making the song was the length. In general, it's really hard for me to make anything longer than 2 minutes because I hate looping/repeating sections. - At the end of the day I guess the song was supposed to serve as the next in a long line of "songs that Crypt made to experiment with new genres"" but I think Spacetime Starstriker sounds too much like a more realized form of [[track:light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel|Light at the End of the Tunnel]] from [[album:call-and-new-2-locomotif|Train Game]]. But hey, it got me to listen to more electronic music, which I almost never do outside of Homestuck. If I never release my solo album, imagine this as track three. Well, have fun with the rest of the album. It's probably our best one. Don't let [[artist:makin|Makin]] tell you otherwise. MEME + At the end of the day I guess the song was supposed to serve as the next in a long line of "songs that Crypt made to experiment with new genres"" but I think Spacetime Starstriker sounds too much like a more realized form of [[Light at the End of the Tunnel]] from [[album:call-and-new-2-locomotif|Train Game]]. But hey, it got me to listen to more electronic music, which I almost never do outside of Homestuck. If I never release my solo album, imagine this as track three. Well, have fun with the rest of the album. It's probably our best one. Don't let [[artist:makin|Makin]] tell you otherwise. MEME --- Track: Harlecoaster (Not Voul. 1 Mix) Artists: @@ -1122,7 +1122,7 @@ Sampled Tracks: - track:redial-bomberman-hero Commentary: |- <i>Difarem:</i> (Composer) - I'm not really pleased with how this one turned out, especially the ending. It was originally concieved as a corresponding jungle for [[artist:mrcheeze|MrCheeze's]] [[track:cool-and-new-countdown|Cool and New Countdown]], from [[album:call-and-new|call and new]]. + I'm not really pleased with how this one turned out, especially the ending. It was originally concieved as a corresponding jungle for [[artist:mrcheeze|MrCheeze's]] [[Cool and New Countdown]], from [[album:call-and-new|call and new]]. <i>groeuf:</i> (Artist) sounded like some mission impossible shit. idk ive got nothing @@ -1327,7 +1327,7 @@ Sampled Tracks: - track:moshi-moshi Commentary: |- <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (Composer) - I'm so fucking sick of [[track:moshi-moshi|Moshi Moshi]] + I'm so fucking sick of [[Moshi Moshi]] <i>Wheals:</i> (Someone, Somewhere) they're good melodies bront @@ -1362,7 +1362,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:frost-vol6 Commentary: |- <i>Viridian:</i> (Composer) - This originally started as a sequel to [[track:of-orchids-and-roses|Of Orchids and Roses]]. I wanted to remix Mutiny, it was incredibly necessary. It is also probably the only reason this song exists. I also wanted to experiment with slightly more discordant and offputting compositions. + This originally started as a sequel to [[Of Orchids and Roses]]. I wanted to remix Mutiny, it was incredibly necessary. It is also probably the only reason this song exists. I also wanted to experiment with slightly more discordant and offputting compositions. <i>olkiswerve:</i> (Artist) please listen to the phenomenal "still bummed" album by the bandcamp artist "nouns". it's fucking incredible and I love it. link at [https://nounss.bandcamp.com/album/still-bummed](https://nounss.bandcamp.com/album/still-bummed) @@ -1485,7 +1485,7 @@ Commentary: |- I started off trying to make a parody of [[track:oppa-toby-style|OTS]] but using [[artist:cookiefonster|cookie's]] Rex Mille Geromius motif which is quite beautiful in itself. I then lost track and started making chaotic bullshit. I think it turned out well. (I haven't made a decent song since I made this, and it was 5 weeks ago, please help) <i>Makin:</i> (Artist) - This was originally for [[track:the-souns-of-justis|The Souns of Justis]], but someone forgot to mention they had already done art for it, so I moved the art to something with femora's elitemotif. I painstakingly composed "justice must be a serve" using the Wub Machine DAW (Digital Audio Wubstation). Too advanced for most people. Don't even look it up. + This was originally for [[The Souns of Justis]], but someone forgot to mention they had already done art for it, so I moved the art to something with femora's elitemotif. I painstakingly composed "justice must be a serve" using the Wub Machine DAW (Digital Audio Wubstation). Too advanced for most people. Don't even look it up. <i>ft-rj:</i> (Composer) what the fuck is an elitemotif @@ -1734,7 +1734,7 @@ Commentary: |- I had fun messing with synths and then suddenly sunsetter happened <i>XenoZane:</i> (Artist) - im not an artist but its fun to mess with some of gimp's default brushes. if that jhon looks good its because he was basically traced from the [[track:conclude|conclude]] art. + im not an artist but its fun to mess with some of gimp's default brushes. if that jhon looks good its because he was basically traced from the [[conclude]] art. Lyrics: |- [Nonsense Vocaloid syllables] --- @@ -2185,7 +2185,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>StarlightCalliope:</i> (Composer) Dear god, where do I even start talking about this song? As I’m pretty darn sure you can tell based on both the title, theme, and general feel of the song, this song is intended to be a, “Descend-like,” medley for Cool and New Webcomic. It’s taken a long time to finish working on, (300 hours and work on it since January!!), but I am honestly really proud of how this song turned out. In the song, I referenced... about 44 different songs? Primarily songs released by this very Cool and New Music Team, with a decent bit of songs coming from the Homestuck Music Team, and one reference to a song from the, “[[album:weird-puzzle-tunes|Weird Puzzle Tunes]],” album. - I think one of my favourite things about this, at least in terms of composing, was setting up specific musical ideas/motifs (and that’s the regular use of the term motif, not leitmotif/reference you fricks) and capitalizing on those ideas/motifs throughout the song. One of the most key ideas to the song as a whole, that’s rather integral to it feeling as fast as it does in certain sections, is the use of 32nd notes during portions using Synths. This is first set up during the Moshi Moshi section, and I used this repeatedly in the song both as a way to build tension and keep the listener engaged, and to add an extra bit of cohesivness to the piece as a whole. Repeating references/ideas is another method I used. Such as ending the song the same way it started, with this weird synthy thing from Final Fantasy 6 that has a bunch of delay on it playing a chord. I started the song using an E Minor chord using that thing, and ended the song on a big resolution using an E Major chord. Another example of this was through starting the song off using the same clocks that were used in [[track:cascante|Cascante]], and ending the song with those same clocks. (Albiet, it’s the end of the main part of the song, before the [[Penumbra Phantasm|Penumbra]]-esque bit on the piano with the Horrorterror noises.) + I think one of my favourite things about this, at least in terms of composing, was setting up specific musical ideas/motifs (and that’s the regular use of the term motif, not leitmotif/reference you fricks) and capitalizing on those ideas/motifs throughout the song. One of the most key ideas to the song as a whole, that’s rather integral to it feeling as fast as it does in certain sections, is the use of 32nd notes during portions using Synths. This is first set up during the Moshi Moshi section, and I used this repeatedly in the song both as a way to build tension and keep the listener engaged, and to add an extra bit of cohesivness to the piece as a whole. Repeating references/ideas is another method I used. Such as ending the song the same way it started, with this weird synthy thing from Final Fantasy 6 that has a bunch of delay on it playing a chord. I started the song using an E Minor chord using that thing, and ended the song on a big resolution using an E Major chord. Another example of this was through starting the song off using the same clocks that were used in [[Cascante]], and ending the song with those same clocks. (Albiet, it’s the end of the main part of the song, before the [[Penumbra Phantasm|Penumbra]]-esque bit on the piano with the Horrorterror noises.) Honestly, this track is by and far the song that I’ve put the most effort into out of everything that I’ve tried to make thus far, and I really am proud of it. Although, I do feel like the mixing is a tad lacklustre and there’s literally no mastering. I suppose this shows that I probably should try to improve in terms of Production, though according to a decent portion of the team I am fairly good at Composition, as based on this piece. Really, I am happy with it, and I’m glad to have finally made a song for a main album, as this is my first time doing so. I really hope you folks enjoy the song as much as I enjoyed composing it! :) --- diff --git a/album/adventurous-ascent-lofam5a2-version.yaml b/album/adventurous-ascent-lofam5a2-version.yaml index 064102a1..edc4b24b 100644 --- a/album/adventurous-ascent-lofam5a2-version.yaml +++ b/album/adventurous-ascent-lofam5a2-version.yaml @@ -45,4 +45,4 @@ Crediting Sources: |- Referencing Sources: |- <i>LudicrousFalcon:</i> ([Bandcamp credits blurb](https://ludicrousfalcon.bandcamp.com/track/adventurous-ascent-land-of-fans-music-5-act-2-version), excerpt) - References [[track:sburban-jungle|"Sburban Jungle"]] by [[artist:michael-guy-bowman]] and [[track:showtime-piano-refrain|"Showtime (Piano Refrain)"]] by [[artist:kevin-regamey]]. + References [["Sburban Jungle"]] by [[artist:michael-guy-bowman]] and [["Showtime (Piano Refrain)"]] by [[artist:kevin-regamey]]. diff --git a/album/alterniabound.yaml b/album/alterniabound.yaml index eeedac46..af6d3123 100644 --- a/album/alterniabound.yaml +++ b/album/alterniabound.yaml @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ Commentary: |- Inspired by Lexxy's awesome Art Team Tip Jar wallpaper and the scene in which Terezi conducts a rather silly investigation RP into Tavros' murder. It's a delightful bit of dark humour sandwiched between lots of murder and grimdark. - It's a combination of her theme (Elements of [[track:the-lemonsnout-turnabout|'The Lemonsnout Turnabout']]) blended into a track inspired by various pieces from the Pheonix Wright/Gyakuten Saiban games and a bit of those modern, dancey crime drama series' theme tunes (NCIS springs to mind). [[Sburban Countdown]] also makes an appearance because it's awesome and fits really well. + It's a combination of her theme (Elements of [['The Lemonsnout Turnabout']]) blended into a track inspired by various pieces from the Pheonix Wright/Gyakuten Saiban games and a bit of those modern, dancey crime drama series' theme tunes (NCIS springs to mind). [[Sburban Countdown]] also makes an appearance because it's awesome and fits really well. I've also tried to sync in bits of the story as it happens, so you'll hear a bit of Gamzee honking in the distanec, andthe whole thing builds up to that special climax. diff --git a/album/archive.yaml b/album/archive.yaml index dc19e7b0..c023051a 100644 --- a/album/archive.yaml +++ b/album/archive.yaml @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Additional Files: Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/archive), 10/11/2024) - Extraneous tracks from 2012-2016 presented in reverse chronological order. Tracks 1-4, 12-13 are commissions from various projects, including [[track:jungle-boogie|"Jungle Boogie"]]\, an outtake from [[album:homestuck-vol-10|Homestuck Vol. 10]]. Tracks 5-11 are single tracks off of Soundcloud selected from 2013. Tracks 14-30 were created by request as rewards for my Kickstarter from 2012. Tracks 31 and 32 are remixes by a couple of friends of tracks off of [[album:ithaca|Ithaca]]. + Extraneous tracks from 2012-2016 presented in reverse chronological order. Tracks 1-4, 12-13 are commissions from various projects, including [["Jungle Boogie"]], an outtake from [[album:homestuck-vol-10|Homestuck Vol. 10]]. Tracks 5-11 are single tracks off of Soundcloud selected from 2013. Tracks 14-30 were created by request as rewards for my Kickstarter from 2012. Tracks 31 and 32 are remixes by a couple of friends of tracks off of [[album:ithaca|Ithaca]]. <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor, 10/12/2024) @@ -107,9 +107,9 @@ Commentary: |- 2. The new album art will remain in place due to the copyright claim on my original art, personally I think it's superior work anyway and I'm satisfied with what [[artist:hadron|Hadron]] was able to cook up for me. - 3. [[track:crimesters-theme|"Crimesters Theme"]] and [[track:crimesters-credits|"Crimesters Credits"]] will have their titles restored. + 3. [["Crimesters Theme"]] and [["Crimesters Credits"]] will have their titles restored. - 4. [[track:awake-2013-version|"Awake (2013 Version)"]] and [[track:awake-2012-version|"Awake (2012 Version)"]] will remain labeled as such, I think choosing one version over the other to not have a dated version behind it would overemphasize one or the other which doesn't really make sense. + 4. [["Awake (2013 Version)"]] and [["Awake (2012 Version)"]] will remain labeled as such, I think choosing one version over the other to not have a dated version behind it would overemphasize one or the other which doesn't really make sense. 5. It will be re-distributed to platforms, replacing the currently uploaded version. This may create some issues with playlists, but I'd rather have one single complete edition of the album available rather than competing versions. @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20160802045455/https://bowman.bandcamp.com/), 7/19/2016) - A compilation of non-album tracks going back a few years presented in reverse chronological order. Tracks 1-4, 12-13 are commissions from various projects, including [[track:jungle-boogie|"Jungle Boogie"]], an outtake from [[album:homestuck-vol-10|Homestuck Vol. 10]]. Tracks 5-11 are single tracks off of Soundcloud selected from 2013. Tracks 14-30 were created by request as rewards for [my Kickstarter from 2012](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/206640136/send-bowman-and-his-band-to-sxsw-2012/). Tracks 31 and 32 are remixes by a couple of friends of tracks off of [[album:ithaca|Ithaca]]. + A compilation of non-album tracks going back a few years presented in reverse chronological order. Tracks 1-4, 12-13 are commissions from various projects, including [["Jungle Boogie"]], an outtake from [[album:homestuck-vol-10|Homestuck Vol. 10]]. Tracks 5-11 are single tracks off of Soundcloud selected from 2013. Tracks 14-30 were created by request as rewards for [my Kickstarter from 2012](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/206640136/send-bowman-and-his-band-to-sxsw-2012/). Tracks 31 and 32 are remixes by a couple of friends of tracks off of [[album:ithaca|Ithaca]]. There's a lot of jingle length stuff on here, so individual tracks less than a minute long are pay-what-you-want. Enjoy! @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ Commentary: |- Crediting Sources: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Bandcamp credits blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20160802045455/https://bowman.bandcamp.com/), excerpt, 7/19/2016) - Written and produced by [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|Michael Guy Bowman]]. [[track:aba-daba-honeymoon-archive|"Aba Daba Honeymoon"]] written by Arthur Fields and Walter Donovan. Featuring [[artist:clark-powell|Clark Powell]] (cello; [[track:awake-2012-version|track 17]]), [[artist:erik-scheele|Erik Scheele]] (piano; [[track:ismelda-the-bearded-mermaid|track 23]]), and [[artist:riki-tsuji|Riki Tsuji]] (additional synths, vocals, arrangement; [[track:get-start|track 25]]). [[track:old-buggy-now|"Old Buggy Now"]] remixed by [[artist:solatrus|Jeremy Iamurri]] ([[track:old-buggy-now-solatrus-remix|track 31]]). [[track:ithaca|"Ithaca"]] remixed by [[artist:jamie-paige|Jamie Paige]] ([[track:ithaca-hrmnzr-remix|track 32]]). + Written and produced by [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|Michael Guy Bowman]]. [[track:aba-daba-honeymoon-archive|"Aba Daba Honeymoon"]] written by Arthur Fields and Walter Donovan. Featuring [[artist:clark-powell|Clark Powell]] (cello; [[track:awake-2012-version|track 17]]), [[artist:erik-scheele|Erik Scheele]] (piano; [[track:ismelda-the-bearded-mermaid|track 23]]), and [[artist:riki-tsuji|Riki Tsuji]] (additional synths, vocals, arrangement; [[track:get-start|track 25]]). [["Old Buggy Now"]] remixed by [[artist:solatrus|Jeremy Iamurri]] ([[track:old-buggy-now-solatrus-remix|track 31]]). [["Ithaca"]] remixed by [[artist:jamie-paige|Jamie Paige]] ([[track:ithaca-hrmnzr-remix|track 32]]). <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Bandcamp credits blurb](https://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/archive), excerpt, 10/11/2024) @@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ Commentary: |- As commissioned by [[artist:chris-sweet|Chris Sweet]] for Effing Decaf's Transdimensional Mormon Summer Vacation! - "[[track:aba-daba-honeymoon|Aba Daba Honeymoon]]" is a classic song by [[artist:arthur-fields|Arthur Fields]] and [[artist:walter-donovan|Walter Donovan]] from 1914. This particular butchering is an assault on the senses with the whimsical sci-fi flavor we've come to know and love from the many adventures chronicled in Effing Decaf, specifically a recent episode concerned with a variety of magic words. Enjoy! + [[track:aba-daba-honeymoon|"Aba Daba Honeymoon"]] is a classic song by [[artist:arthur-fields|Arthur Fields]] and [[artist:walter-donovan|Walter Donovan]] from 1914. This particular butchering is an assault on the senses with the whimsical sci-fi flavor we've come to know and love from the many adventures chronicled in Effing Decaf, specifically a recent episode concerned with a variety of magic words. Enjoy! READ THE COMIC: [effingdecaf.blogspot.com/](https://effingdecaf.blogspot.com/) @@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([SoundCloud description](https://web.archive.org/web/20150727213154/http://soundcloud.com/michael-guy-bowman/this-sunset)) - This is a chill-as-ice spoken word track commissioned by Leigh-Ann Peach called "This Sunset". If "[[track:awake-2012-version|Awake]]" is my ode to dawn, this is my ode to dusk. The original request is as follows: + This is a chill-as-ice spoken word track commissioned by Leigh-Ann Peach called "This Sunset". If [[track:awake-2012-version|"Awake"]] is my ode to dawn, this is my ode to dusk. The original request is as follows: "I'd like a song about being happy for the sake of it, featuring blue skies and space. Because those two things are cool. anything hopeful and would cheer people up if they were sad too." @@ -1075,7 +1075,7 @@ Commentary: |- This is a birthday song you can sing whenever wherever - I don't care if it's in a movie or any derivative work of any kind! Let the jerks that own "Happy Birthday To You" go straight to hell! - PARTICIPATION INSTRUCTIONS: Play either this song or its alternate version, "[[track:you-are-the-birthday-boy|You Are the Birthday Boy]]" and then say their name at the end after "Happy Birthday to..." + PARTICIPATION INSTRUCTIONS: Play either this song or its alternate version, [["You Are the Birthday Boy"]] and then say their name at the end after "Happy Birthday to..." Commissioned by fellow MSPA musician [[artist:solatrus|Jeremy Iamurri]] for the "Send Bowman and His Band to SXSW 2012" fundraiser whose birthday was a couple of days ago and for whom I attempted to make this birthday jingle. @@ -1120,7 +1120,7 @@ Commentary: |- This is a birthday song you can sing whenever wherever - I don't care if it's in a movie or any derivative work of any kind! Let the jerks that own "Happy Birthday To You" go straight to hell! - PARTICIPATION INSTRUCTIONS: Play either this song or its alternate version, "[[track:you-are-the-birthday-girl|You Are the Birthday Girl]]" and then say their name at the end after "Happy Birthday to..." + PARTICIPATION INSTRUCTIONS: Play either this song or its alternate version, [["You Are the Birthday Girl"]] and then say their name at the end after "Happy Birthday to..." Commissioned by fellow MSPA musician [[artist:solatrus|Jeremy Iamurri]] for the "Send Bowman and His Band to SXSW 2012" fundraiser whose birthday was a couple of days ago and for whom I attempted to make this birthday jingle. diff --git a/album/bee-forus-seatbelt-safebee.yaml b/album/bee-forus-seatbelt-safebee.yaml index 493ca9f8..634b429d 100644 --- a/album/bee-forus-seatbelt-safebee.yaml +++ b/album/bee-forus-seatbelt-safebee.yaml @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Commentary: |- Special thanks to [[artist:squid|Squid]] and [[artist:gilwing|Gilwing]] for letting us use their art, and [[artist:veritas-unae|VeritasUnae]] for hosting the tracks. <b>About this album</b> - The Cronus Seatbelt Safety meme was born during the livestream of the [[album:beforus|Beforus album]], during the track [[track:land-of-cruisin-and-bruisin|Land of Cruisin and Bruisin]] by [[artist:nate-tronerud|Nate Tronerud]]. Tumblr user princeskytoe remarked upon Cronus' lack of a visible seatbelt in the track art, which resulted in various users joking about his disregard for road safety and the fact that he was "cruising for a bruising". + The Cronus Seatbelt Safety meme was born during the livestream of the [[album:beforus|Beforus album]], during the track [[Land of Cruisin and Bruisin]] by [[artist:nate-tronerud|Nate Tronerud]]. Tumblr user princeskytoe remarked upon Cronus' lack of a visible seatbelt in the track art, which resulted in various users joking about his disregard for road safety and the fact that he was "cruising for a bruising". Bee memes made an appearance during the Beforus Album stream when album director and stream manager [[artist:blackhole|Blackhole (Not-Terezi-Pyrope)]] imposed various bee images over the booklet pages being shown in the stream, causing users to flood the stream chat with exclamations about bees. Soon after the Q&A session, the artists from the Q&A Skype group got talking, composing, and drawing. Six days later, we had an album on our hands. Ladies, gentlemen, and non-binary folks: Bee-forus: Seatbelt Safebee. @@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ Lyrics: |- (They didn't even have legs, like Safety Bot... what's the point?) Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> - it's my album track ([[track:fuchsia-moonrise|fuchsia moonrise]]) with a car horn, bees buzzing and a "buckle up" voice sample in place of some instruments + it's my album track ([[fuchsia moonrise]]) with a car horn, bees buzzing and a "buckle up" voice sample in place of some instruments --- Track: Sleep Tite, Veri Duration: 2:00 diff --git a/album/beforus.yaml b/album/beforus.yaml index ba2a0346..37cfd40e 100644 --- a/album/beforus.yaml +++ b/album/beforus.yaml @@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - dESPERADO ROCKET CHAIRS, Commentary: |- <i>Toris Crow:</i> - This piece was written for Rufioh Nitram and specifically, his clan, the Lost Weeaboos. The instrumentation was based off [[track:the-brave-and-the-bronze|"The Brave and the Bronze"]] by Yan "Nucleose" Rodriguez, with the percussion beat coming from Tavros's song [[track:desperado-rocket-chairs|"dESPERADO ROCKET CHAIRS,"]] by Toby "Radiation" Fox. Its musical connection to Rufioh is mostly open for interpretation. This song's alternate name in my own album is "La Tauromaquia," meaning "bullfighting" in Spanish. + This piece was written for Rufioh Nitram and specifically, his clan, the Lost Weeaboos. The instrumentation was based off [["The Brave and the Bronze"]] by Yan "Nucleose" Rodriguez, with the percussion beat coming from Tavros's song [["dESPERADO ROCKET CHAIRS,"]] by Toby "Radiation" Fox. Its musical connection to Rufioh is mostly open for interpretation. This song's alternate name in my own album is "La Tauromaquia," meaning "bullfighting" in Spanish. <i>rockytoad:</i> When I was figuring out what th draw for the song, I did pay attention to the song's name and also alternate name. Hearing "weeaboo" made me want to put kitty ears on Rufioh, but I scrapped that idea and instea dfocussed on the bullfighting aspect of the song first and foremost. Since Rufioh is kind of a silly character, I thught that it'd be great to gie him one of those little pony riding sticks with a bull for the head. After I finished drawing the main part of the drawing, I was still trying to figure out how to incorporate "weeaboo"-ness into it. Well, weeaboo makes me think of kitties and anime, so my mind went to Nyan Cat. Perfect, I thought, I'll add some Goold Ol' Nyan Cat rainbows, haha. And then, of course, glitter becaus anime. It came out really colorful and I'm happy with it. --- @@ -717,7 +717,7 @@ Art Tags: - Kankri Commentary: |- <i>Toris Crow:</i> - This piece was written for Kankri Vantas. It was made as a march because marches signify authority and Kankri attempts to command the respect of his fellow teammates throughout his session. The faster parts represent that his calm demeanor can be easily shattered by his short temper. I used piano and violin to connect it to the song that I had made earlier for Porrim called [[track:antevorta|"Antevo+rta."]] This song's alternate name in my own album is "The Pariah." + This piece was written for Kankri Vantas. It was made as a march because marches signify authority and Kankri attempts to command the respect of his fellow teammates throughout his session. The faster parts represent that his calm demeanor can be easily shattered by his short temper. I used piano and violin to connect it to the song that I had made earlier for Porrim called [["Antevo+rta."]] This song's alternate name in my own album is "The Pariah." <i>ARTistotel:</i> The idea behind the picture was tightly tied to the piece itself, and author's description. Kankri is trying to be a leader, but all his protection falls back on the civilization long lost and destroyed - that's why it's Beforan skulls marching right after him. His leadership, his protection is aimed more at dusty pieces and bits of no longer existing Beforan society, rather than his friends in afterlife. --- @@ -1659,7 +1659,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Theme Commentary: |- <i>Toris Crow:</i> - Early last year, I wrote a song called [[track:featherlight|"Featherlight."]] This is an extended and improved version of it made exclusively for the Beforus Album project and will not appear in any of my own albums. It serves as a mirror for the song [[Alternia]] in the album "AlterniaBound." This song is dedicated to Not-Terezi-Pyrope (Blackhole) for making this project possible. + Early last year, I wrote a song called [["Featherlight."]] This is an extended and improved version of it made exclusively for the Beforus Album project and will not appear in any of my own albums. It serves as a mirror for the song [[Alternia]] in the album "AlterniaBound." This song is dedicated to Not-Terezi-Pyrope (Blackhole) for making this project possible. <i>Blackhole:</i> (album organizer) <3 <i>Elanor Pam:</i> diff --git a/album/beforusbound.yaml b/album/beforusbound.yaml index da5b6448..b466bb8e 100644 --- a/album/beforusbound.yaml +++ b/album/beforusbound.yaml @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - This was actually my second take at writing a mituna theme for Beforusbound the first of which was repurposed into [[track:mitunas-theme|Mituna's Theme]] by PBoss (hella proud of what you did with it by the way). + This was actually my second take at writing a mituna theme for Beforusbound the first of which was repurposed into [[Mituna's Theme]] by PBoss (hella proud of what you did with it by the way). Now I really wanted to write a song that focused on how Mituna lost his psychic powers and I feel like I did a decent job (also [[track:the-blind-prophet|blind prophet]] reference cause good song), the whole feel of the song is hella supported by the amazing art Wumby did. @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ Commentary: |- Biggest props to [[artist:chronicrusader|chroniCrusader]] for suggesting the title of the song. - So during [[album:stlap2|STLaP 2's]] development, I got an idea for doing a [[track:serenade-vol8|serenade]] remix. Obviously, that never panned out for STLaP 2 but when I found out that were doing Beforusbound I saw my opportunity to make it. + So during [[album:stlap2|STLaP 2's]] development, I got an idea for doing a [[serenade]] remix. Obviously, that never panned out for STLaP 2 but when I found out that were doing Beforusbound I saw my opportunity to make it. I apologize if you wanted a more goofy sounding Meulin theme with like meows or something like that but I feel like that's been done to death. @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ Commentary: |- This is another example of me being inspired by EarthBound music, i basically wanted to make a song that had slight hip hop influences while keeping a videogame style for Latula. - I also referenced [[track:gameglr|Game Glr]] and [[track:gamegrl-original-1993-mix|Game Grl]] in it for the Latula vibes, and [[track:mitunas-theme|Mituna's theme]] for the relationship nod. + I also referenced [[track:gameglr|Game Glr]] and [[track:gamegrl-original-1993-mix|Game Grl]] in it for the Latula vibes, and [[Mituna's theme]] for the relationship nod. --- Track: Dwelling Among the Dream Bubbles Additional Names: @@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ Commentary: |- Yeah, the title is almost literal. - I made a whole song in one day, because I don't have much time. So, I almost plagiarized(?) [[track:purple-tyrant|'Purple Tyrant']]. + I made a whole song in one day, because I don't have much time. So, I almost plagiarized(?) [['Purple Tyrant']]. Well, it was successful and I really like it. (better than [[track:arsenic-cat|Arsenic Cat]] lol) And yeah, Purple Tyrant is a great song. (except for overuse) @@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ Commentary: |- I wanted to make a song about the shifting landscapes created by the dreambubbles. This is probably one of my favorite songs I did for this album. - Oh and it quotes a song i wrote called [[track:sleepwalker|"Sleepwalker."]] You'll probably hear it in the future... + Oh and it quotes a song i wrote called [["Sleepwalker."]] You'll probably hear it in the future... --- Track: MeGaLoVania (BeforusBound) Duration: 2:46 diff --git a/album/bowmanstuck.yaml b/album/bowmanstuck.yaml index 70c1a220..771a5b5e 100644 --- a/album/bowmanstuck.yaml +++ b/album/bowmanstuck.yaml @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Commentary: |- The songs on this album are presented sequentially by release date with a slight exception for [[track:sburban-jungle-bowmanstuck|“Sburban Jungle”]], which was previewed in abridged form as [[track:sburban-jungle-brief-mix-bowmanstuck|“Sburban Jungle (Brief Mix)”]] on [[album:homestuck-vol-1|Homestuck Vol. 1]] (2009). I’ve swapped its full version from [[album:homestuck-vol-4|Homestuck Vol. 4]] (2010) to the opening spot and saved the short version for the last track to avoid repetition. - The journey does not stop here, True Bowlievers. My first solo album [[album:mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido]] (2011) was originally released by What Pumpkin and weaves the themes of Homestuck into a psychedelic rock / electronic concept album. I also returned to the [[track:sburban-jungle-bowmanstuck|“Sburban Jungle”]] theme on my song [[track:jungle-boogie|“Jungle Boogie”]], which was originally meant for [[album:homestuck-vol-10]] (2016) but ultimately released on my own album [[album:archive]] (2016). And of course, I was only one of many, many other musicians involved in Homestuck whose music you can discover. + The journey does not stop here, True Bowlievers. My first solo album [[album:mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido]] (2011) was originally released by What Pumpkin and weaves the themes of Homestuck into a psychedelic rock / electronic concept album. I also returned to the [[track:sburban-jungle-bowmanstuck|“Sburban Jungle”]] theme on my song [[“Jungle Boogie”]], which was originally meant for [[album:homestuck-vol-10]] (2016) but ultimately released on my own album [[album:archive]] (2016). And of course, I was only one of many, many other musicians involved in Homestuck whose music you can discover. While I’ve gone in all kinds of completely different directions since Homestuck, few experiences can compare to the mix of viral success and creative freedom we all had during those extraordinarily unusual years. The songs included here are as often toweringly anthemic as they are incredibly silly, a testament to the wide-eyed millennial whimsy of an era when Internet culture took over real life. Cosplay went mainstream. I was crashing conventions with a guitar and leading hordes of weirdos in gray face paint to sing [[track:how-do-i-live-bunny-back-in-the-box-version-bowmanstuck|“How Do I Live”]] at the top of their lungs. The in-jokes had all finally spilled out. diff --git a/album/candles-potency.yaml b/album/candles-potency.yaml index 86124bc4..47d2bfb0 100644 --- a/album/candles-potency.yaml +++ b/album/candles-potency.yaml @@ -31,4 +31,4 @@ Commentary: |- Heck yeah it's here! - This is a remix of James Dever's [[track:candles-and-clockwork|Candles and Clockwork]] from the Homestuck soundtrack! + This is a remix of James Dever's [[Candles and Clockwork]] from the Homestuck soundtrack! diff --git a/album/cherubim.yaml b/album/cherubim.yaml index 408e249a..3f4d5aea 100644 --- a/album/cherubim.yaml +++ b/album/cherubim.yaml @@ -301,9 +301,9 @@ Commentary: |- I floated the idea for a UU + uu album last year in about June as a concept record divided in half with equal and analogous parts Calliope and Caliborn. While we really wanted to jump in and get to making more Homestuck music following [[album:homestuck-vol-9|Volume 9]], we decided to wait and discover more of the two characters until December when [[artist:toby-fox|Radiation]] re-organized the effort. He proposed the Jekyll / Hyde alternating pace of the album culminating in "Eternity Served Cold" and had the group split into pairs, each musician working with a partner on a track with the same themes and motifs. - I worked with Erik, who sent me the at-the-time unfinished Calliope composition [[track:constant-confinement|"Constant Confinement"]] for me to base my Caliborn track around. Erik's track was so meditative, it was actually difficult to recognize the slow-paced woodwind melody over the course of the piece, which pulses onward without any strict meter. This melody had to be expanded upon a lot to match the pace of "Constant Conquest" - it actually flies by at breakneck pace in the first measure of the piece before settling into its groove. + I worked with Erik, who sent me the at-the-time unfinished Calliope composition [["Constant Confinement"]] for me to base my Caliborn track around. Erik's track was so meditative, it was actually difficult to recognize the slow-paced woodwind melody over the course of the piece, which pulses onward without any strict meter. This melody had to be expanded upon a lot to match the pace of "Constant Conquest" - it actually flies by at breakneck pace in the first measure of the piece before settling into its groove. - Conquest in many ways resembles [[track:ruins-rising|"Ruins Rising"]], another electronic track based around one of Erik's piano compositions. Like in my approach to "Ruins" I arranged the melody sparsely and created a very dense environment of drums and percussion sounds to convert Erik's pulse into a groove. Same input, same solution, although this time I went much, much heavier than ever before. I had a handful of different drum kits going all at once, each with unique effects chains, to create more of an ensemble sound than a clean dance beat. + Conquest in many ways resembles [["Ruins Rising"]], another electronic track based around one of Erik's piano compositions. Like in my approach to "Ruins" I arranged the melody sparsely and created a very dense environment of drums and percussion sounds to convert Erik's pulse into a groove. Same input, same solution, although this time I went much, much heavier than ever before. I had a handful of different drum kits going all at once, each with unique effects chains, to create more of an ensemble sound than a clean dance beat. What really sealed in the atmosphere of this track was the huge slather of pads that adorned the track, most of which were created using analog equipment. I fed the signal from an old Radio Shack keyboard with basic midi patches through a pawn shop guitar pedal to create the many layers of sound that fill the background. Some of the most excellent sounds on the track (especially that snarling synth at 2:57) were created by hammering the mod knobs and wah-wah pedal while playing atonal pitches. The result is distorted synth excellence. diff --git a/album/cognitive-coalescence.yaml b/album/cognitive-coalescence.yaml index bf96a882..312c94fe 100644 --- a/album/cognitive-coalescence.yaml +++ b/album/cognitive-coalescence.yaml @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Crediting Sources: |- Referencing Sources: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> ([Bandcamp credits blurb](https://witchscadence.bandcamp.com/track/cognitive-coalescence) / [SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/witchs-cadence/cognitive-coalescence), excerpts) - References: [[Doctor]] by [[artist:buzinkai]], [[Moonsetter]] and [[track:penumbra-phantasm]] by [[artist:toby-fox]], [[Showtime (Original Mix)|Showtime]] by [[artist:malcolm-brown]] and [[track:under-the-hat|Under the Hat]] by [[artist:erik-scheele]] + References: [[Doctor]] by [[artist:buzinkai]], [[Moonsetter]] and [[track:penumbra-phantasm]] by [[artist:toby-fox]], [[Showtime (Original Mix)|Showtime]] by [[artist:malcolm-brown]] and [[Under the Hat]] by [[artist:erik-scheele]] <i>Quasar Nebula, Witch's Cadence|[[artist:witchs-cadence]]:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/779895315750715422/1366846292570931248), excerpt, 4/29/2025) diff --git a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml index de6f284e..f71082e9 100644 --- a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml +++ b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml @@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Kezinox:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) - Obviously with a name like Witc)(ing )(our, this song is for the condesce/batterwitch/etc. I always figured a sexy psychotic space empress bent on universal domination needed an over-the-top evil, but also dance-able track. I'd actually been planning to do a song like this for her for quite a while since she's one of—if not my favorite—characters. Every 30 seconds or so represents a time in the Condesce's life as we know it up to now and, while the song is almost wholly original, I did pull a few minor, but very recognizable things from songs like [[track:liquid-negrocity|liquid negrocity]] and [[track:twoward2-the-heaven2|Twoard2 the Heaven2]] to help really nail the connection. + Obviously with a name like Witc)(ing )(our, this song is for the condesce/batterwitch/etc. I always figured a sexy psychotic space empress bent on universal domination needed an over-the-top evil, but also dance-able track. I'd actually been planning to do a song like this for her for quite a while since she's one of—if not my favorite—characters. Every 30 seconds or so represents a time in the Condesce's life as we know it up to now and, while the song is almost wholly original, I did pull a few minor, but very recognizable things from songs like [[liquid negrocity]] and [[track:twoward2-the-heaven2|Twoard2 the Heaven2]] to help really nail the connection. <i>Kezinox:</i> ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/kezinox/witching-hour), excerpt, 2/3/2012) @@ -906,7 +906,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Makin, Kera L. Jones|[[artist:kera-l-jones]]:</i> (unpublished Tumblr ask, [via Homestuck Discord](https://discord.com/channels/152981670507577344/184908151185866752/1231122466521481256), excerpt, 4/20/2024) - > *[[artist:makin]]:* I just discovered your (?) track "Teal Seer" is actually the track [[track:somethings-different|"Something's Different"]] by [[artist:paul-lawler|Paul Lawler]], from a 2007 album for APM (a group that makes cheap albums for Hollywood/TV royalties). So the question is, did you plagiarize the track, or are you pretending to be a long gone grifter? I thought I'd give you a heads up before you find out through someone else. + > *[[artist:makin]]:* I just discovered your (?) track "Teal Seer" is actually the track [["Something's Different"]] by [[artist:paul-lawler|Paul Lawler]], from a 2007 album for APM (a group that makes cheap albums for Hollywood/TV royalties). So the question is, did you plagiarize the track, or are you pretending to be a long gone grifter? I thought I'd give you a heads up before you find out through someone else. i am going to be so completely honest with you- I have no clue what you're talking about. hand to god, i've never heard of paul lawler or APM before today. diff --git a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b.yaml b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b.yaml index 00bfc2c4..3e07a6c3 100644 --- a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b.yaml +++ b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b.yaml @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ Commentary: |- I wrote some track commentary for my tunes, thought I’d post it here as I don’t know when/if all the submitted commentary will be posted. Feel free to ask me stuff if there are things about the songs I don’t cover that you want to know about or if you have any recording questions. - When I started writing the pieces for the contest I knew I wanted one of them to be based around a theme that already existed. Running through a few ideas I landed on doing a kind of jazzy shuffle piece around the main theme from [[track:the-beginning-of-something-really-excellent|'The Beginning of Something Really Excellent’]]. As soon as I hit the first chord with the Rhodes piano it became smooth. The writing process was really quick and the piece was almost completely sketched out on the keyboard in one go. As the piece was intended for Jade - given the use of the earlier theme - I added in a little bass solo. + When I started writing the pieces for the contest I knew I wanted one of them to be based around a theme that already existed. Running through a few ideas I landed on doing a kind of jazzy shuffle piece around the main theme from [['The Beginning of Something Really Excellent’]]. As soon as I hit the first chord with the Rhodes piano it became smooth. The writing process was really quick and the piece was almost completely sketched out on the keyboard in one go. As the piece was intended for Jade - given the use of the earlier theme - I added in a little bass solo. Technical note: Sometimes when I think I've finished writing something I'll find that it's a bit too long and something needs to change, this was one of those times. The sound you hear at 3:53 is the sound of me finding a way to avoid playing an extra intro/verse and tightening up the song a bit. Using almost the same build up heard earlier in the piece and changing the resolution at the end has the added advantage of (hopefully) making you think it's heading back towards the intro riff until the key shifts in the last bar and the song jumps straight to the final chorus. @@ -979,7 +979,7 @@ Commentary: |- <b>TIME/TEMPO:</b> 5'55"/127/135/120/16 0/105 BPM (4/4 and 6/4 time)<br> <b>KEY:</b> C Minor - <b>ORIGINAL THEMES:</b> [[Beatdown (Strider Style)|"Beatdown (Strider Style)"]] and [[Beatdown Round 2|"Beatdown Round 2"]] by [[artist:curt-blakeslee]], [[Atomyk Ebonpyre|"Atomyk Ebonpyre"]] by [[artist:toby-fox]] and [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|"Upward Movement (Dave Owns)"]] by [[artist:kalibration]]. Some melodic work in the breakdown of "Beatdown" by Joseph Brown (pixelseph/viaSatellite).<br> + <b>ORIGINAL THEMES:</b> [["Beatdown (Strider Style)"]] and [["Beatdown Round 2"]] by [[artist:curt-blakeslee]], [["Atomyk Ebonpyre"]] by [[artist:toby-fox]] and [["Upward Movement (Dave Owns)"]] by [[artist:kalibration]]. Some melodic work in the breakdown of "Beatdown" by Joseph Brown (pixelseph/viaSatellite).<br> <b>MIDI TRANSCRIPTIONS:</b> "Beatdown (Strider Style)" and "Atomyk Ebonpyre" by [[artist:mrcheeze|MrCheese]] on the MSPA forum. "Upward Movement" was transcribed for piano by BRPXQZME on the MSPA forum. @@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@ Commentary: |- <hr> - The second of my three entries to the Homestuck Music Contest, the other two being [[track:guns-blazing|[Guns Blazing\]]] and [[track:daywalker-rise-contest|Daywalker ~Rise~]]. + The second of my three entries to the Homestuck Music Contest, the other two being [[[Guns Blazing\]]] and [[track:daywalker-rise-contest|Daywalker ~Rise~]]. This one actually got in! It can be found on coloUrs and mayhem: Universe B, the second of two albums released as a result of the contest. diff --git a/album/cookiefonsters-2016-famitracker-covers.yaml b/album/cookiefonsters-2016-famitracker-covers.yaml index b2aac216..1e40334c 100644 --- a/album/cookiefonsters-2016-famitracker-covers.yaml +++ b/album/cookiefonsters-2016-famitracker-covers.yaml @@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ Additional Files: Commentary: |- <i>cookiefonster:</i> ([YouTube description](https://youtu.be/ylPT_eyotEc), excerpt, 11/11/2016) - If you didn't know, [[Psychedelic Psychodelic]] is a song from Land of Fans and Music 2, a Homestuck fan album with a lot of awesome songs. This one is one of my favorites from that album. Also it has bits of some other songs I've covered ([[track:lets-all-rock-the-heist|Let's All Rock the Heist]] and [[track:walk-stab-walk-r-and-e|Walk-Stab-Walk]]) which is pretty cool. + If you didn't know, [[Psychedelic Psychodelic]] is a song from Land of Fans and Music 2, a Homestuck fan album with a lot of awesome songs. This one is one of my favorites from that album. Also it has bits of some other songs I've covered ([[Let's All Rock the Heist]] and [[track:walk-stab-walk-r-and-e|Walk-Stab-Walk]]) which is pretty cool. Also happy 11/11. --- @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>cookiefonster:</i> ([YouTube description](https://youtu.be/NWgo9AwmrM0), excerpt, 12/25/2016) - As you can probably tell by now, I’ve lately become unbearably addicted to [[track:snow-halation|Snow Halation]]. That song goes incredibly well with everything, and let’s face it: it’s catchy as all fuck. So it’s only worth trying to do this song justice with Famitracker. + As you can probably tell by now, I’ve lately become unbearably addicted to [[Snow Halation]]. That song goes incredibly well with everything, and let’s face it: it’s catchy as all fuck. So it’s only worth trying to do this song justice with Famitracker. You’d think chiptune covers of Snow Halation would’ve been done to death by now, which is in a way true. But I feel that any other covers I could find on YouTube at the time were missing something, and I’m not even saying this ironically. All those covers either lacked drums, had all instruments the same for some reason, were blatantly plugged into GXSCC (snore!), or weren’t the whole thing. This cover reaches some seriously uncharted depths, people. You better appreciate that. diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-2.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-2.yaml index d612459c..daf7a3d1 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-2.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-2.yaml @@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ Sampled Tracks: - track:jungle-3 Commentary: |- <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Composer) - [[track:another-jungle|Another Jungle]] is a criminally underrated song, which is why I'm glad I took it and ruined anyone else's chances at remixing it. As with [[track:cool-and-new-anthem|cool and new Anthem]], this is me fanboying over a song and making one that resembles it. It doesn't actually quote anything though which is pretty cool. + [[Another Jungle]] is a criminally underrated song, which is why I'm glad I took it and ruined anyone else's chances at remixing it. As with [[cool and new Anthem]], this is me fanboying over a song and making one that resembles it. It doesn't actually quote anything though which is pretty cool. <i>NyashAlex:</i> (Artist) This shot was taken on a beautiful friday sunset, because I felt like the sunset's lighting would blend well with the colors of the Condy's ship (but VSCOCam's preset sorta ate the colors, welp). Also, because I wanted to be done with this asap (that's why it wasn't taken on a saturday afternoon). @@ -464,13 +464,13 @@ Commentary: |- Referencing Sources: |- <i>Interrobang:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/935007764042874931/1272903306322116608), excerpt, 8/13/2024) - missing [[track:showtime-original-mix|showtime (original mix)]] reference (this is my bad for not putting it down when I made it, but it definitely goes beyond the showtime quote in [[track:unite-synchronization|unite sync]]) + missing [[showtime (original mix)]] reference (this is my bad for not putting it down when I made it, but it definitely goes beyond the showtime quote in [[track:unite-synchronization|unite sync]]) - additionally, im highly sus on the [[track:all-were-gonna-get|“all we’re gonna get”]] reference, I don’t remember putting that in there (although it’s on the canmt bandcamp???) and the song released months later add is just backwards slowed flare, so if it’s in there at all it’s a sample and not a reference + additionally, im highly sus on the [[“all we’re gonna get”]] reference, I don’t remember putting that in there (although it’s on the canmt bandcamp???) and the song released months later add is just backwards slowed flare, so if it’s in there at all it’s a sample and not a reference <i>Interrobang:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/779895315750715422/1340761992582922252), excerpt, 2/16/2025) - ok i can put the [[track:all-were-gonna-get|"all we're gonna get"]] in "enter with caliborn" issue to rest once and for all - its a sample, it is in the project file, i didn't recognize it because it had a different name (presumably i downloaded this random wip clip from the canmt discord and then just stuck it in the piece and then forgot where it came from) + ok i can put the [["all we're gonna get"]] in "enter with caliborn" issue to rest once and for all - its a sample, it is in the project file, i didn't recognize it because it had a different name (presumably i downloaded this random wip clip from the canmt discord and then just stuck it in the piece and then forgot where it came from) <img src="media/misc/enter-with-caliborn-boomer.png" width="277" height="162"> --- @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Harlequin Commentary: |- <i>ostrichlittledungeon:</i> (Composer) - Ugh, [[track:pipeorgankind|Pipeorgankind]]. The tempo is nowhere near steady. I basically had to play bits and then line them up with each other, which I guess kind of fits how the original sounds? + Ugh, [[Pipeorgankind]]. The tempo is nowhere near steady. I basically had to play bits and then line them up with each other, which I guess kind of fits how the original sounds? <i>William Leonard:</i> (Artist) I actually had to PLAY rct2 - gasp! - in order to figure out what the ice cream shop looked like in that game. (i am dedicated to my craft!) i like to think that this is what the planet created by rose and hecka's SBURB session would look like, just a massive game of rollercoaster tycoon - though without typheus' lair being there, of course. diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3.yaml index 91913007..0128bda9 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3.yaml @@ -407,10 +407,10 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Courser Commentary: |- <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Interloper) - If this song had [[track:snow-halation|Snow Halation]] in it, it wouldn't be the worst song on the soundtrack anymore. + If this song had [[Snow Halation]] in it, it wouldn't be the worst song on the soundtrack anymore. <i>StarlightCalliope:</i> (Composer) - Cookie, please, we all know that [[track:we-are-number-one|We Are Number One]] is a vastly superior [[artist:siivagunner|Siiva]] meme to Snow Halation. Snow Halation would make this the worstest song on the soundtrack. Anyways, I'll start talking about the song itself. Originally, I was inspired by how one Homestuck Musician, (if I recall correctly it was [[artist:erik-scheele|Jit]],) said that he felt like Crystalanthemums was going to be Jade's Land Theme. As this was to be a remix for Jade's Land reveal, my original starting concept was, "Frost but with Crystalanthemums." I had started a version of this concept back before [[album:cool-and-new-volume-2|CANH2]] had even been released, although I mostly reworked this old version from the ground up. The only thing that really remained unchanged was the Violin Arpeggio. I had planned to use [[track:frog-forager|Frog Forager]] as a continuation melody to Crystalanthemums at this time, but that melody didn't quite seem to fit the song, and I instead replaced it with a change to the Drum Beat at that point (said drum beat pretty heavily inspired/referencing Crystamanthequins or whatever the name was for the one in [[flash:2578|[S] Make Her Pay]]. One part of this song I am overall dissatisfied with is the Cymbals that come in near the end of the portion referencing Courser. I originally had a version where I had arranged the Cymbals in a manner where I was happy with them, but this version was poorly mastered and I was too lazy to transcribe what I had done for the old version. Anyways, I feel like this song was very much useful in helping me figure out how to better arrange orchestral percussion lines and to not make them completely uninteresting. + Cookie, please, we all know that [[We Are Number One]] is a vastly superior [[artist:siivagunner|Siiva]] meme to Snow Halation. Snow Halation would make this the worstest song on the soundtrack. Anyways, I'll start talking about the song itself. Originally, I was inspired by how one Homestuck Musician, (if I recall correctly it was [[artist:erik-scheele|Jit]],) said that he felt like Crystalanthemums was going to be Jade's Land Theme. As this was to be a remix for Jade's Land reveal, my original starting concept was, "Frost but with Crystalanthemums." I had started a version of this concept back before [[album:cool-and-new-volume-2|CANH2]] had even been released, although I mostly reworked this old version from the ground up. The only thing that really remained unchanged was the Violin Arpeggio. I had planned to use [[Frog Forager]] as a continuation melody to Crystalanthemums at this time, but that melody didn't quite seem to fit the song, and I instead replaced it with a change to the Drum Beat at that point (said drum beat pretty heavily inspired/referencing Crystamanthequins or whatever the name was for the one in [[flash:2578|[S] Make Her Pay]]. One part of this song I am overall dissatisfied with is the Cymbals that come in near the end of the portion referencing Courser. I originally had a version where I had arranged the Cymbals in a manner where I was happy with them, but this version was poorly mastered and I was too lazy to transcribe what I had done for the old version. Anyways, I feel like this song was very much useful in helping me figure out how to better arrange orchestral percussion lines and to not make them completely uninteresting. <i>koykoy13:</i> (Artist) <img src="media/misc/pic-of-koykoy13-message.jpg" width="400"> @@ -1020,7 +1020,7 @@ Commentary: |- Fun fact 2x combo: I didn't actually make this song for act7 originally. Regardless of that, it was a pleasure to make this song for any productive work, and to have hadron remake it in his own style. This song was made without any real acquired inspiration from other songs, which believe it or not is what I typically don't do when I make music. I really like the way I arranged the song, and how it sorta shifts into a piratey theme towards the second half in the full version (I'm not sure if that makes it into the overall act 7 theme). <i>Wheals:</i> (Composer, 2:12-2:35) - CRASH. I had a lot of fun with this, my first time trying anything orchestral, and it's probably the best thing I've made so far. For a little extra fun I made it entirely with one sample pack that I had just gotten. Unfortunately I scrapped my original plan to use [[track:voidlight|Voidlight]] in this section, so the song has still never been referenced. + CRASH. I had a lot of fun with this, my first time trying anything orchestral, and it's probably the best thing I've made so far. For a little extra fun I made it entirely with one sample pack that I had just gotten. Unfortunately I scrapped my original plan to use [[Voidlight]] in this section, so the song has still never been referenced. <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (Composer, 2:35-3:21) SUDDENLY, THE LONGEST PART WRITTEN BY ONE PERSON COMES. This section was made in the span of about 2 days, after the people originally slotted in for this section bailed/didn't finish/were rejected. I think it kind of shows? Still, even if I'm not entirely happy with my piece for this collaboration, it at least blends well with the next section. (Fun fact, originally, the second half of this was just snow halation layered over the original audio. Sadly, that was rejected, but I kept its memory alive with a snow halation piano arrangement instead.) diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck.yaml index 03dd9147..defca8e8 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck.yaml @@ -863,7 +863,7 @@ Commentary: |- <big><b>[[artist:bill-bolin|YOU DO NOT HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO TALK PROFESSIONALISM WITH ME.]]</b></big> <i>Cecily Renns:</i> - go down is definitely my favorite vol 1 song. It is the complete opposite of [[track:descend|Descend]] - while Descend was loud, jam packed, filled with different motifs and sounds, and overall fucking crazy, go down is more simple, even... relaxing? Not *that* many motifs, but still enough to call it a great medley, combining different - at the time marginally related to CANWC - melodies.<br> + go down is definitely my favorite vol 1 song. It is the complete opposite of [[Descend]] - while Descend was loud, jam packed, filled with different motifs and sounds, and overall fucking crazy, go down is more simple, even... relaxing? Not *that* many motifs, but still enough to call it a great medley, combining different - at the time marginally related to CANWC - melodies.<br> I've always wanted to remix it, while keeping that simpleness to it. You can probably see that in the beginning - just piano, bass and Upward Movement drums. But as I continued with the song, it became probably as loud as Descend. It has what, 20 or something melodies in it now? Can't really keep track.<br> I think overall I did a good job of making a cohesive yet a diverse medley with different shit going on. Also I am keeping the fucking name. It is a good name diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-volume-ii.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-volume-ii.yaml index fe92c136..19b65d72 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-volume-ii.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-volume-ii.yaml @@ -750,6 +750,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: --- Track: Conflict? Directory: conflict-question-mark +Always Reference By Directory: true Artists: - Cryptanark Cover Artists: diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-volume-s-x.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-volume-s-x.yaml index d9577b67..d055a90d 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-volume-s-x.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-volume-s-x.yaml @@ -868,7 +868,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:MeGaLoVania - The Will to Fight Further [Denizen Strife] - Sweet Bro Theme Song -- Conflict? +- track:conflict-question-mark - Bowmanquest - '((S) Dabe: Acellerate' - The Baby is You @@ -1354,7 +1354,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/ifXRlSFYOB8 Commentary: |- <i>Makin:</i> (team manager) - This is obviously a reference to [[track:bowmans-credit-score|Bowman's Credit Score]], run through Google Translate. + This is obviously a reference to [[Bowman's Credit Score]], run through Google Translate. --- Track: Pypes Artists: diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-volume-v.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-volume-v.yaml index 1f377dc5..eaaa6022 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-volume-v.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-volume-v.yaml @@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: # - rct sound effects maybe? Commentary: |- <i>Wheals:</i> - The idea for this track dates more or less back to the beginning of the idea of an all-Doctor album. With heavy inspiration from the awesome [[track:can-you-give-me-a-hand|can you give me a HAND]], I decided to try out a combo of [[track:savior-of-the-waking-world|SotWW]] + the [[track:rollercoaster-tycoon-theme|RCT theme]]. After transposing the 4/4 RCT melody in the aforementioned song, from a MIDI [[artist:pipko-fanfare|dragonChaser]] kindly provided me, to E♭ minor (let's face it, [[group:toby-fox|Toby]] is the absolute madman), I had some help from [[artist:mrcheeze|MrCheeze]] and dC tweaking the rhythm so it matched SotWW a little better. [[artist:cecily-renns|JohnJRenns]] was a big help in getting the bass and drums to sound passable, though it was Makin's suggestion to use Doctor for the melody in the bass in the part where the piano comes in. The project became a lot more fun once I let it turn into a real remix, rather than an attempt to recreate something as complicated as the original -- I never appreciated just how much is going on during the main middle section of the song before. Anyways, I think it turned out pretty well for my first real remix (as opposed to an Audacity mashup). + The idea for this track dates more or less back to the beginning of the idea of an all-Doctor album. With heavy inspiration from the awesome [[can you give me a HAND]], I decided to try out a combo of [[track:savior-of-the-waking-world|SotWW]] + the [[track:rollercoaster-tycoon-theme|RCT theme]]. After transposing the 4/4 RCT melody in the aforementioned song, from a MIDI [[artist:pipko-fanfare|dragonChaser]] kindly provided me, to E♭ minor (let's face it, [[group:toby-fox|Toby]] is the absolute madman), I had some help from [[artist:mrcheeze|MrCheeze]] and dC tweaking the rhythm so it matched SotWW a little better. [[artist:cecily-renns|JohnJRenns]] was a big help in getting the bass and drums to sound passable, though it was Makin's suggestion to use Doctor for the melody in the bass in the part where the piano comes in. The project became a lot more fun once I let it turn into a real remix, rather than an attempt to recreate something as complicated as the original -- I never appreciated just how much is going on during the main middle section of the song before. Anyways, I think it turned out pretty well for my first real remix (as opposed to an Audacity mashup). The song was originally called Slower of the Coasting Roll, but I realized that throwing in Slow your roll memes would make the song a little sillier than I was going for. Getting rid of that also let the name almost rhyme with the original name. @@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:doctor-remix Commentary: |- <i>MrCheeze:</i> - Not gonna lie, the only reason for this track existing is because of how ridiculous the name would sound. But [[track:doctor-remix|Doctor Remix]] is such a weird, experimental song to begin with that I really had no idea how I could possibly do a remix of it... so I just took the easy way out, throwing it in the wub machine and calling it a day. The end result is about as easy on the ears as the original Doctor Remix is, at least. + Not gonna lie, the only reason for this track existing is because of how ridiculous the name would sound. But [[Doctor Remix]] is such a weird, experimental song to begin with that I really had no idea how I could possibly do a remix of it... so I just took the easy way out, throwing it in the wub machine and calling it a day. The end result is about as easy on the ears as the original Doctor Remix is, at least. <i>XenoZane:</i> I wanted to make some really rad DJ are to reflect how sicknasty this beat was, yo. I snagged myself up some dank-ass pictures of gnarly DJing, skateboarding, and surfing and shit. I got slick-ass tubular sound bar things and a wub machine logo. @@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Pepsi lies dead in the street, it's Dr Pepper, Dr Pepper Commentary: |- <i>Pipko Fanfare:</i> - This is one of those rare times where as soon as I had the idea, most of the details came rushing into my mind on how I wanted it to go. Which is great, because it makes the process way easier! Despite this, lyrics are still hard. I think the biggest challenge was keeping it recognizable as a "doctor" remix despite the completely different chord progression, melody, etc, but in the end I feel like I pulled it off about as well as I reasonably could have. Fun fact: I finally bought a pop filter for my microphone after doing this and [[track:dr-doctor-phd|Dr. Doctor, PhD]], so while there's <b>P</b>lenty of <b>P</b>losives in this one, if I ever dare to sing again it should sound better next time. (Well, the singing would still be bad, but the recording would be better!) + This is one of those rare times where as soon as I had the idea, most of the details came rushing into my mind on how I wanted it to go. Which is great, because it makes the process way easier! Despite this, lyrics are still hard. I think the biggest challenge was keeping it recognizable as a "doctor" remix despite the completely different chord progression, melody, etc, but in the end I feel like I pulled it off about as well as I reasonably could have. Fun fact: I finally bought a pop filter for my microphone after doing this and [[Dr. Doctor, PhD]], so while there's <b>P</b>lenty of <b>P</b>losives in this one, if I ever dare to sing again it should sound better next time. (Well, the singing would still be bad, but the recording would be better!) I was going to pretend that I'm actually capable of singing better than this but was just imitating [[artist:scott-stutzman|Stutzman]], but we all know that's a lie. --- @@ -769,7 +769,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - The Island – Pt.II (Dusk) Commentary: |- <i>Interrobang:</i> - One day I asked the chat for ideas on another Doctor remix, and several people threw ideas at me. I deftly avoided all these ideas and decided to make a dance track instead. The name was inspired by [[track:doctoral-degree|Doctoral Degree]] by [[artist:difarem|Difarem]] from [[album:cool-and-new-voulem1|Volume 1]], since that was a dancey Doctor and this is basically a dancey [[track:savior-of-the-waking-world|Savior of the Waking World]], I named it after what one would do after earning their doctorate. + One day I asked the chat for ideas on another Doctor remix, and several people threw ideas at me. I deftly avoided all these ideas and decided to make a dance track instead. The name was inspired by [[Doctoral Degree]] by [[artist:difarem|Difarem]] from [[album:cool-and-new-voulem1|Volume 1]], since that was a dancey Doctor and this is basically a dancey [[Savior of the Waking World]], I named it after what one would do after earning their doctorate. <i>Minkt:</i> The GIMP blur and smudge tools make me look like a good artist @@ -789,7 +789,7 @@ Lyrics: |- [Unintelligible clips of people talking overlaid on each other] Commentary: |- <i>BitesizeBird:</i> - So, basically, I wanted to make at least one song for the album. I wanted to make something unique in some aspect and since I can hardly compose something original, Doctor played by heart monitors seemed to be reach my shitpost standards. The track was underwhelming though so to add to the scene of a patient on their deathbed, I added the background arguments from a sound effects website. It was really fucking funny to me so I left it at that. Shitpost done. I didn't realize [[artist:bin|Bin]] essentially did the same thing with [[track:orderly|Orderly]] until writing this commentary, so my fault for being a lazy git and not listening to other people's songs first. + So, basically, I wanted to make at least one song for the album. I wanted to make something unique in some aspect and since I can hardly compose something original, Doctor played by heart monitors seemed to be reach my shitpost standards. The track was underwhelming though so to add to the scene of a patient on their deathbed, I added the background arguments from a sound effects website. It was really fucking funny to me so I left it at that. Shitpost done. I didn't realize [[artist:bin|Bin]] essentially did the same thing with [[Orderly]] until writing this commentary, so my fault for being a lazy git and not listening to other people's songs first. I was going to add a doctor reading the time of death at the end of the song (being 7:20) but it seemed forced and I couldn't be bothered to do it. <i>XenoZane:</i> @@ -926,7 +926,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Pipko Fanfare:</i> My first completely serious track for Cool and New, this one exists only because MEME NUMBERS (and I'm glad that it does!) I did 4 songs for [[album:cool-and-new-voulem1|Vol 1]] and [[track:err-on-greif-acoostic-covre|1 song for Vol 2/II]], so naturally I had to do 3 for this volume to complete the mythical 413. You may also notice that all three of my tracks on this one have lengths that are permutations of 413 just to take it that extra mile (including awkwardly cutting off [[track:dr-doctor-phd|Dr. Doctor]] mid-phrase to force it to fit!) - By this point I had used up the low hanging fruit with Dr. Doctor and [[track:dr-pepper|Dr. Pepper]], so my original thought was to do a cover with mostly or entirely real instruments. I already had done a cover using nothing but bass guitar back before CaN was a thing, and I figures I could expand that into something bigger. Obviously that's not what ended up happening here at all! This song went through a lot of changes as I was making it, and the final product bears pretty much zero resemblance to anything I was imagining at the start. There are still quite a few real instruments - the acoustic and electric guitars, as well as the bass guitar are all live recordings. But everything else is synths, soundfonts, and VSTis. Even the name wasn't decided until the track was totally complete - it was just "doctor 3.rpp" on my computer until it was done and I realized that some [[track:savior-of-the-waking-world|Savior of the Waking World]] and [[Penumbra Phantasm]] had snuck in. After using up all my creativity on the track itself, none was left for the title, and so this shitty name is what we get to live with. Oh well. + By this point I had used up the low hanging fruit with Dr. Doctor and [[Dr. Pepper]], so my original thought was to do a cover with mostly or entirely real instruments. I already had done a cover using nothing but bass guitar back before CaN was a thing, and I figures I could expand that into something bigger. Obviously that's not what ended up happening here at all! This song went through a lot of changes as I was making it, and the final product bears pretty much zero resemblance to anything I was imagining at the start. There are still quite a few real instruments - the acoustic and electric guitars, as well as the bass guitar are all live recordings. But everything else is synths, soundfonts, and VSTis. Even the name wasn't decided until the track was totally complete - it was just "doctor 3.rpp" on my computer until it was done and I realized that some [[Savior of the Waking World]] and [[Penumbra Phantasm]] had snuck in. After using up all my creativity on the track itself, none was left for the title, and so this shitty name is what we get to live with. Oh well. I'm also getting REALLY sick of Doctor... --- @@ -989,7 +989,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Doctor's Ringtone (No SFX) Commentary: |- <i>VulkanShawl:</i> - So. I was messing with Earthbound soundfont when i found a "Telephone Ring Thingy". I just did the soundfont swap and... the art. It was easy to do. Change name and put a John photo in a mobile call GUI. Actually the John's looks like deciding if Accept or Decline the call. Fun Fact tho. *insert [[track:snow-halation|snow halation]] joke here* + So. I was messing with Earthbound soundfont when i found a "Telephone Ring Thingy". I just did the soundfont swap and... the art. It was easy to do. Change name and put a John photo in a mobile call GUI. Actually the John's looks like deciding if Accept or Decline the call. Fun Fact tho. *insert [[snow halation]] joke here* --- Track: same bpm Artists: @@ -1048,7 +1048,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Cecily Renns:</i> On one bright summer morning in mid-to-late july, our JohnJRenns was whistling a tune. That tune is a mysterious number that is repeated aplenty that happens to be [[track:bowmans-credit-score|seven hundred and twenty]] I mean [[track:do-you-remem8er-me|Do You Remem8ber Me]] by [[artist:malcolm-brown|Malcolm Brown]]. - I like that song, I said to myself. Man, I want to remix this song, I said. I wonder how good it will sound with Doctor, I said. man let's throw in some fucking [[track:oppa-toby-style|Oppa Toby Style]] in as well. + I like that song, I said to myself. Man, I want to remix this song, I said. I wonder how good it will sound with Doctor, I said. man let's throw in some fucking [[Oppa Toby Style]] in as well. So was formed the first version of Do You Remember the Doctor. Then I showed it to people. Then Tirantbacon, AKA Music God Probably Maybe, told me he had some Problems™ with it. So he told me to give him the .flp file for the song. So I did. Then he did, um, whatever a Music God Probably Maybe does, and made this thing, which made the song infinitely better overall. So basically it's his song at this point. And I'm proud of him. <img src="media/misc/JaedHapy.png" width="24"> @@ -1463,7 +1463,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Doctor Commentary: |- <i>VulkanShawl:</i> - Actually the theme was a dumb Doctor Remix soundfont swap. But I'm going to talk about the track art instead. It was my first "serious" art. I thinked "What would be a nice [[flash:3297|[S] Wake]] reference that is not Vriska or Jack?" Welp. Feferi cut in two. I just changed Feferi for John. Changing head and skin colour and the dress colour. (Yeah. John with a Dress.) Actually i like it so much. *insert [[track:gangnam-style|gangnam style]] or triple q joke here* + Actually the theme was a dumb Doctor Remix soundfont swap. But I'm going to talk about the track art instead. It was my first "serious" art. I thinked "What would be a nice [[flash:3297|[S] Wake]] reference that is not Vriska or Jack?" Welp. Feferi cut in two. I just changed Feferi for John. Changing head and skin colour and the dress colour. (Yeah. John with a Dress.) Actually i like it so much. *insert [[gangnam style]] or triple q joke here* --- Track: Doc in ruins Artists: @@ -1509,7 +1509,7 @@ Commentary: |- I made this the day that songs for Volume 5 were due, when we thought we were one or two songs short from 52 tracks, 52 being a prime CANWC music team M E M E N U M B E R. So, I threw this together in Musescore by abusing [[artist:mrcheeze|MrCheeze's]] Doctor MIDI, and then took it to Audacity to do the panning. The plugin used for that was 'Random Panning', which can be found on the Audacity Wiki under 'Nyquist Plugins'. I highly recommend it. <i>bobthetacocat:</i> - So it all started when a few people were asking about who on the team could create glitch art. After I metaphorically raised my hand, we started throwing up ideas for a potential [[track:doctor-remix-remix|Doctor Remix Remix]] cover art (which never happened.) + So it all started when a few people were asking about who on the team could create glitch art. After I metaphorically raised my hand, we started throwing up ideas for a potential [[Doctor Remix Remix]] cover art (which never happened.) Eventually, interrobang came up to me and asked if i could make Doctor glitch art. I accepted, and after some mumbo jumbo that no one cares about and some pixel sorting, I had a widescreen glitched picture of Doctor. I then put it into a cinematic framing, where the picture stands now. --- diff --git a/album/dead-maams-chest.yaml b/album/dead-maams-chest.yaml index 481bb2a2..6a71b240 100644 --- a/album/dead-maams-chest.yaml +++ b/album/dead-maams-chest.yaml @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Commentary: |- 【告知 / NEW WORK】<br> 宝鐘マリンさんの新曲「[[track:dead-maams-chest|幽霊船戦]]」作詞と編曲を担当しました！<br> - For [[artist:houshou-marine|Marine Senchou]]'s new song "[[track:dead-maams-chest|Dead Ma'am's Chest]]", I did lyrics and arrangement! 👻 + For [[artist:houshou-marine|Marine Senchou]]'s new song "[[Dead Ma'am's Chest]]", I did lyrics and arrangement! 👻 作曲(Composition): [[artist:toby-fox|Toby Fox]]<br> 作詞・編曲(Lyrics/Arrangement): [[artist:camellia|かめりあ (Camellia)]] @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ Commentary: |- 💎NEW SONG👻 - [[track:dead-maams-chest|Dead Ma'am's Chest]] + [[Dead Ma'am's Chest]] Me and [[artist:camellia|@cametek]] had the honor of creating a track for the legendary pirate, [[artist:houshou-marine|@houshoumarine]]! @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Toby Fox:</i> ([UNDERTALE / DELTARUNE MINI NEWSLETTER: Summer 2024](https://toby.fangamer.com/newsletters/summer24/), excerpt) - <center><b>[[track:dead-maams-chest|DEAD MA’AM’S CHEST]]</b></center> + <center><b>[[DEAD MA’AM’S CHEST]]</b></center> It's Hololive again! diff --git a/album/deltarune-ch2-rejected-tracks.yaml b/album/deltarune-ch2-rejected-tracks.yaml index a10bd291..fbe911ac 100644 --- a/album/deltarune-ch2-rejected-tracks.yaml +++ b/album/deltarune-ch2-rejected-tracks.yaml @@ -43,13 +43,13 @@ Commentary: |- <audio nameless align="center" src="media/misc/archive/power_of_neo_unfinished_wip.mp3"></audio> - After creating UNDERTALE, one of my goals for DELTARUNE was for players to finally be able to challenge a "real" version of Mettaton NEO that didn't just end in one turn. For that purpose, I actually created a few music mockups for an extended version of [[track:power-of-neo|Power of NEO]].<br> + After creating UNDERTALE, one of my goals for DELTARUNE was for players to finally be able to challenge a "real" version of Mettaton NEO that didn't just end in one turn. For that purpose, I actually created a few music mockups for an extended version of [[Power of NEO]].<br> There's even another one from 2016 (lol) … Unfortunately, try I might, I could never create a full-length version of the song that I was satisfied with. Eventually, the boss concept evolved to involve Spamton, and with that, the music changed as well. I still like the last half of the song. The guitar section was inspired by Brandish's song ["Ending 2"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbW1vBBlEMc). All of it is pretty placeholder though.<br> - It's still fun to imagine fighting something to this... Though, if I was given another opportunity to extend [[track:power-of-neo|POWER OF NEO]], I would probably do something different. + It's still fun to imagine fighting something to this... Though, if I was given another opportunity to extend [[POWER OF NEO]], I would probably do something different. --- Track: Power of SPAMTON (Older) Artists: @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ Commentary: |- Apparently this was the first concept I came up with for Spamton's battle theme. To be honest, I have absolutely no memory of this. When I found it in my files I was quite surprised. (Maybe Spamton made it himself...) - By the way, originally I was planning to have Spamton's intro song, "[[track:hey-every|HEY EVERY !]]", also be his shop theme. It was planned that it would slowly drop in pitch the longer you stayed in the shop until it was unrecognizable. But, that ultimately did not match the tone of the dialogue, so I ended up using [[track:dialtone|Dialtone]] for that. + By the way, originally I was planning to have Spamton's intro song, "[[HEY EVERY !]]", also be his shop theme. It was planned that it would slowly drop in pitch the longer you stayed in the shop until it was unrecognizable. But, that ultimately did not match the tone of the dialogue, so I ended up using [[Dialtone]] for that. --- Track: Giga Queen (Old) Artists: diff --git a/album/desynced-vol-1.yaml b/album/desynced-vol-1.yaml index d2553b17..da14d015 100644 --- a/album/desynced-vol-1.yaml +++ b/album/desynced-vol-1.yaml @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OW21SMg2g0) / [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/andyomon00/3-winds-of-change) descriptions, excerpt) - Winds of Change has an interesting history. Back when I joined the DMT, I wrote a song called [[track:cooldown-desynced|"Cooldown"]] that was intended to be Dad Bedford's Strife theme. Initially I had intended it to be a strife theme for both Dad and Kate sort of how [[track:aggrieve|"Aggrieve"]] from the Homestuck OST was a strife theme for both Rose and Her Mom. However, as I read the comic further, I understood that Dad probably would never raise a hand toward toward his daughter (but dear-person is different story). With this in mind, I decided to set out and make a strife theme specifically for Kate. I had intended this song to be on [[album:desynced-vol-2|Volume 2]] but we needed to round out the track list for Volume 1 and my song fit the general tone of the album. As for the song itself, I decided to go for a more 8-bit direction that was reminiscent of the early Homestuck strife themes like [[track:showtime-original-mix|Showtime]] and Aggrieve. I incorporated elements of Kate's theme, [[track:daughter-desynced|"Daughter"]] as well as the previously mentioned "Cooldown" I'm fairly proud of how this track turned out, especially with the Cooldown section towards the middle. + Winds of Change has an interesting history. Back when I joined the DMT, I wrote a song called [[track:cooldown-desynced|"Cooldown"]] that was intended to be Dad Bedford's Strife theme. Initially I had intended it to be a strife theme for both Dad and Kate sort of how [["Aggrieve"]] from the Homestuck OST was a strife theme for both Rose and Her Mom. However, as I read the comic further, I understood that Dad probably would never raise a hand toward toward his daughter (but dear-person is different story). With this in mind, I decided to set out and make a strife theme specifically for Kate. I had intended this song to be on [[album:desynced-vol-2|Volume 2]] but we needed to round out the track list for Volume 1 and my song fit the general tone of the album. As for the song itself, I decided to go for a more 8-bit direction that was reminiscent of the early Homestuck strife themes like [[track:showtime-original-mix|Showtime]] and Aggrieve. I incorporated elements of Kate's theme, [[track:daughter-desynced|"Daughter"]] as well as the previously mentioned "Cooldown" I'm fairly proud of how this track turned out, especially with the Cooldown section towards the middle. --- Track: Temporal Guardian Artists: @@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ Commentary: |- (0:17–0:42) - I took inspiration from [[track:nyeh-heh-heh|payrus theme]] from Undertale,and [[track:frogs-theme|Frog's theme]] From Chrono Trigger, even tho its not obvius at first. + I took inspiration from [[track:nyeh-heh-heh|payrus theme]] from Undertale,and [[Frog's theme]] From Chrono Trigger, even tho its not obvius at first. and you will say, "oh levc i get Papyrus as a inspiration, i mean, goofy villian goofy song but, how did Frog's theme inspired this at all???" @@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lfj9Et420Q) / [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/andyomon00/16-mother-dearest) descriptions, excerpt) - [[artist:dizzims|Dizzy]] wanted a theme for Kate's Denizen, Gaea, that was a variation of The song [[track:daughter-desynced|"Daughter"]] by PotatoBoss. So I took the opening chords and arranged them into the repeating motif you hear throughout the song. I got the idea from listening to the track [[track:penumbra-phantasm|"Penumbra phantasm"]] and hearing how that track arranged the chords for [[Doctor]]. + [[artist:dizzims|Dizzy]] wanted a theme for Kate's Denizen, Gaea, that was a variation of The song [[track:daughter-desynced|"Daughter"]] by PotatoBoss. So I took the opening chords and arranged them into the repeating motif you hear throughout the song. I got the idea from listening to the track [["Penumbra phantasm"]] and hearing how that track arranged the chords for [[Doctor]]. --- Track: Noir Suffix Directory: true @@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgJWjLDRdxs) / [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/andyomon00/19-mirror-mirror) descriptions, excerpt) - I initially wrote this track for [[album:homestuck-vol-2|Volume 2]] as theme for Evan's Land. At time of writing, the land has yet to be revealed so I am somewhat limited in what I can say right now. Given that I was writing a land theme, I took major inspiration from some of the Homestuck land themes (I.E [[track:doctor|Doctor]], [[track:candles-and-clockwork|CaC]], [[track:endless-climb|Endless Climb]]).In terms of the song itself, I decided to mess around with counterplay between melodic lines.This experimentation led to some interesting results melody and motif wise. I played around with that style a whole lot more in [[track:heartbreaker|Evan's strife theme]] but that a discussion best saved for Volume 2's commentary... + I initially wrote this track for [[album:homestuck-vol-2|Volume 2]] as theme for Evan's Land. At time of writing, the land has yet to be revealed so I am somewhat limited in what I can say right now. Given that I was writing a land theme, I took major inspiration from some of the Homestuck land themes (I.E [[Doctor]], [[track:candles-and-clockwork|CaC]], [[Endless Climb]]).In terms of the song itself, I decided to mess around with counterplay between melodic lines.This experimentation led to some interesting results melody and motif wise. I played around with that style a whole lot more in [[track:heartbreaker|Evan's strife theme]] but that a discussion best saved for Volume 2's commentary... --- Track: Lunar Dance Artists: @@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ Commentary: |- (1:24–1:58) - This melody was originally intended for [[track:behind-the-door|"Behind The Door"]] + This melody was originally intended for [["Behind The Door"]] i Named the piano improv file "anthem" because it had a really antehm-ish rythnm. but then they liked it and had the idea to make it the anthem of the comic. diff --git a/album/desynced-vol-2.yaml b/album/desynced-vol-2.yaml index c6135933..4ad76a8e 100644 --- a/album/desynced-vol-2.yaml +++ b/album/desynced-vol-2.yaml @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5lNJX_K5Ng) / [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/user-552040225/desynced-vol2-tsukuyomi) descriptions, excerpt) - If it wasn't apparent already, I was on a bit of a kick writing Strife themes for vol.2 lol. I wrote Tsukuyomi as a strife theme for Momo Tanaka. The idea was to write a intense rock/metal track with Japanese instruments in the vain of [[Atomic Bonsai]] and [Fuuga](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUKstGOfcVA) from Guilty Gear. I named it Tsukuyomi as a short of cheeky call back to "Moon" naming convention PB used with his track [[track:lunar-dance|"Lunar Dance."]] In hindsight maybe the naming scheme wasn't a great idea considering what role the moon plays in the comic. No I will not elaborate on what I mean by this. + If it wasn't apparent already, I was on a bit of a kick writing Strife themes for vol.2 lol. I wrote Tsukuyomi as a strife theme for Momo Tanaka. The idea was to write a intense rock/metal track with Japanese instruments in the vain of [[Atomic Bonsai]] and [Fuuga](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUKstGOfcVA) from Guilty Gear. I named it Tsukuyomi as a short of cheeky call back to "Moon" naming convention PB used with his track [["Lunar Dance."]] In hindsight maybe the naming scheme wasn't a great idea considering what role the moon plays in the comic. No I will not elaborate on what I mean by this. --- Track: What was Ya'll Thinking? Additional Names: @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiiWmL0WN-8) / [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/user-552040225/desynced-vol2-what-was-yall-thinkin-joshs-theme) descriptions, excerpt) - When I asked if we needed any more tracks for Vol.2, [[artist:dizzims|Dizzy]] told me that she wanted a theme for everyone's favorite gamer, Josh Summer. She and Joseph said wanted something in a similar vain to [[track:arcjecs-theme|"Arcjec's theme"]] from the Vast Error Album, [[album:catch-322|Catch 322]]. Since that's like one of my favorite tracks from the Vast Error soundtrack, I was very much chomping at the bit to do Josh's theme. In terms of actual inspiration, I took influence from Walkaround style music found on albums like [[album:alterniabound|Alterniabound]] and the aforementioned catch 322. I also took notable influence from [[track:red-sucker|"Red Sucker"]] and the works of Carpenter Brute to create this really intense electronic rock song. Also before y'all ask, the title is a reference to a tik-tok that Joseph likes. + When I asked if we needed any more tracks for Vol.2, [[artist:dizzims|Dizzy]] told me that she wanted a theme for everyone's favorite gamer, Josh Summer. She and Joseph said wanted something in a similar vain to [["Arcjec's theme"]] from the Vast Error Album, [[album:catch-322|Catch 322]]. Since that's like one of my favorite tracks from the Vast Error soundtrack, I was very much chomping at the bit to do Josh's theme. In terms of actual inspiration, I took influence from Walkaround style music found on albums like [[album:alterniabound|Alterniabound]] and the aforementioned catch 322. I also took notable influence from [["Red Sucker"]] and the works of Carpenter Brute to create this really intense electronic rock song. Also before y'all ask, the title is a reference to a tik-tok that Joseph likes. --- Track: Do You Dream of Electric Sheep? Additional Names: @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/user-552040225/desynced-vol2-do-you-dream-of-electric-sheep), excerpt) - So this is a song I've wanted to do for a long time. Early in the development of [[album:desynced-vol-1|Desynced Vol.1]], I attempted to write a theme for Yellow. Seeing as the comic was still in it's relative infancy it was a pretty big swing and miss on my part in terms of writing a song that fit them as a character. I decided to scrap it but I very much wanted to try again down the line when we knew more. Flash forward to when i got a chance to write some music for Yellow in the form [[track:asimov-3|"ASIMOV 3つの法律 (Lofi Beats To Engineer Alone To)"]] that I would get my chance. In terms of the song itself, [[artist:dizzims|dizzy]] wanted to me to take some influence from the track [[track:hip-shop|"Cool Shop"]] from the Deltarune soundtrack and write a chill song. I definitely tried my best but I do think I went a little hard towards the middle which might negate the chill vibe. I took a lot of the original melody elements from the lo-fi track I wrote for yellow and spiced it up with some swing. While I'm not the happiest in terms how the instrumentation came together, I'm glad I was able to do it + So this is a song I've wanted to do for a long time. Early in the development of [[album:desynced-vol-1|Desynced Vol.1]], I attempted to write a theme for Yellow. Seeing as the comic was still in it's relative infancy it was a pretty big swing and miss on my part in terms of writing a song that fit them as a character. I decided to scrap it but I very much wanted to try again down the line when we knew more. Flash forward to when i got a chance to write some music for Yellow in the form [["ASIMOV 3つの法律 (Lofi Beats To Engineer Alone To)"]] that I would get my chance. In terms of the song itself, [[artist:dizzims|dizzy]] wanted to me to take some influence from the track [[track:hip-shop|"Cool Shop"]] from the Deltarune soundtrack and write a chill song. I definitely tried my best but I do think I went a little hard towards the middle which might negate the chill vibe. I took a lot of the original melody elements from the lo-fi track I wrote for yellow and spiced it up with some swing. While I'm not the happiest in terms how the instrumentation came together, I'm glad I was able to do it <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YiFDpXlaAs), excerpt) @@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxqQK3VXnJk) / [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/user-552040225/desynced-vol2-her-loving-embrace) descriptions, excerpt) - I wrote this track for the scrapped walkaround flash [S]Kate:Explore. Initially for the flash, the team was going to use the track [[track:mother-dearest|"Mother Dearest"]] as the theme for the Good Dear. I personally felt that it was a bit weird to use that song for some normal deer people, so I decided to make a quick remix that was more folksy and down to earth. While the song didn't get used like I wanted, the song did give me some interesting ideas for potential gaea songs I could do in the future. + I wrote this track for the scrapped walkaround flash [S]Kate:Explore. Initially for the flash, the team was going to use the track [["Mother Dearest"]] as the theme for the Good Dear. I personally felt that it was a bit weird to use that song for some normal deer people, so I decided to make a quick remix that was more folksy and down to earth. While the song didn't get used like I wanted, the song did give me some interesting ideas for potential gaea songs I could do in the future. --- Track: Evanhenare1 Artists: @@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ Sampled Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdjH5u2Lp1Y), excerpt) - As my last track for Vol.2, I figured that it might be fun to do a theme for Mum Henare. This song was actually my very first attempt writing something in the vain of Synth Funk/Disco, and think it turned out pretty well all things considered. I was heavily influenced by songs like ["Soda City Funk"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhIScvlFn2w) by Tim Legend and [[track:made-for-spades|"Made for Spades"]] by Cerulean. I chose the name Allegro less because the song is actually being played in Allegro and more because Allegro are described as being played in "a lively, spirited way." I felt like that description fit Mum Henare to a tee. + As my last track for Vol.2, I figured that it might be fun to do a theme for Mum Henare. This song was actually my very first attempt writing something in the vain of Synth Funk/Disco, and think it turned out pretty well all things considered. I was heavily influenced by songs like ["Soda City Funk"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhIScvlFn2w) by Tim Legend and [["Made for Spades"]] by Cerulean. I chose the name Allegro less because the song is actually being played in Allegro and more because Allegro are described as being played in "a lively, spirited way." I felt like that description fit Mum Henare to a tee. <i>Rainy:</i> ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/user-552040225/desynced-vol2-allegro), excerpt) @@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2PIOuVMCow) / [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/user-552040225/desynced-vol2-asimov-3-lofi-beats-to-engineer-alone-to) descriptions, excerpt) - so I wanted to write some lo-fi hip hop for Desynced. When I asked [[artist:dizzims|dizzy]] who it would fit the best, she mentioned that something like that could fit yellow. As mentioned in my commentary for [[track:do-you-dream-of-electric-sheep|"Do You Dream of Electric Sheep?,"]] I really wanted to work on a song for Yellow for a while, so I saw this as a golden opportunity to make some music for them. When I wrote this song I tried to make a motif that I could remix into a full theme for Yellow. The end result is a bit mixed as it doesn't sound as lo-fi as it maybe could be. It was definitely a fun little diversion I did for Vol.2. + so I wanted to write some lo-fi hip hop for Desynced. When I asked [[artist:dizzims|dizzy]] who it would fit the best, she mentioned that something like that could fit yellow. As mentioned in my commentary for [["Do You Dream of Electric Sheep?,"]] I really wanted to work on a song for Yellow for a while, so I saw this as a golden opportunity to make some music for them. When I wrote this song I tried to make a motif that I could remix into a full theme for Yellow. The end result is a bit mixed as it doesn't sound as lo-fi as it maybe could be. It was definitely a fun little diversion I did for Vol.2. --- Track: Pugnae Pythonissam Artists: @@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSEtjjWy4T0), excerpt) - I thought since there was a [[Desynced Anthem]] and figured a song just called Desynced would be a fun inclusion to make for Vol.2. Obviously, I took a lot of inspiration from [[track:homestuck|Mark Hadley's arrangement]] of [[track:homestuck-anthem|"Homestuck Anthem]] as well bit of influence from [[track:theme|"Theme"]] by Toby Fox. Not Really a whole lot to say about this since it's a pretty straightforward track. + I thought since there was a [[Desynced Anthem]] and figured a song just called Desynced would be a fun inclusion to make for Vol.2. Obviously, I took a lot of inspiration from [[track:homestuck|Mark Hadley's arrangement]] of [["Homestuck Anthem]] as well bit of influence from [["Theme"]] by Toby Fox. Not Really a whole lot to say about this since it's a pretty straightforward track. <i>Rainy:</i> ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/user-552040225/desynced-vol2-desynced), excerpt) diff --git a/album/dialed-to-11.yaml b/album/dialed-to-11.yaml index 9e9f7091..71a7a65c 100644 --- a/album/dialed-to-11.yaml +++ b/album/dialed-to-11.yaml @@ -200,17 +200,17 @@ Commentary: |- <i>LudicrousFalcon:</i> I technically included all the previous tracks from the album in this song, but some of the references are either very short, hard to catch, or include motifs from bridge sections or background melodies. I don't blame you for having a hard time, especially since there's parts where 2 or more motifs are layered over each other at the same time. Overall, the album references tracks in the order they appear in the album. - At the part where "[[track:fight-against-the-narrative-napoleon|Fight Against The Narrative Napoleon]]" plays, the looping melody that you hear at the very end of "[[track:crystal-horizons|Crystal Horizons]]" is also playing. During that section of CF Anthem, there's ALSO a reference to a bridge section in "[[track:the-last-dance|The Last Dance]]" that you hear at about 1:53 into that track. In CF Anthem, it's kinda hard to catch, but the little "bell" instrument (i forgot what it was called sorry) that plays alongside the FATNN guitars and Crystal Horizons melody is referencing Last Dance, so you get the first 3 tracks referenced. + At the part where "[[Fight Against The Narrative Napoleon]]" plays, the looping melody that you hear at the very end of "[[Crystal Horizons]]" is also playing. During that section of CF Anthem, there's ALSO a reference to a bridge section in "[[The Last Dance]]" that you hear at about 1:53 into that track. In CF Anthem, it's kinda hard to catch, but the little "bell" instrument (i forgot what it was called sorry) that plays alongside the FATNN guitars and Crystal Horizons melody is referencing Last Dance, so you get the first 3 tracks referenced. - The "[[track:decently-destructive-battle|Decently Destructive Battle]]" reference plays by itself starting at 1:10 in CF, but then if you listen closely, a piano and bells join in at 1:22. It's hard to tell what it's referencing, but it's supposed to reference a melody loop in "[[track:like-clockwork|Like Clockwork]]" that starts at 0:25 in the latter song; we now have tracks 4 and 5 referenced, even if 5 is kinda obscure and hard to catch. + The "[[Decently Destructive Battle]]" reference plays by itself starting at 1:10 in CF, but then if you listen closely, a piano and bells join in at 1:22. It's hard to tell what it's referencing, but it's supposed to reference a melody loop in "[[Like Clockwork]]" that starts at 0:25 in the latter song; we now have tracks 4 and 5 referenced, even if 5 is kinda obscure and hard to catch. - [[track:the-infinity-march|Infinity March]] starts by itself in CF Anthem, but at 1:44, [[track:checkered-crypts|Checkered Crypts]] joins in as well. The part of Crypts that's being referenced is a melody that begins at 1:18 (in Checkered Crypts), but in CF it appears as a relatively quiet piano, so it's not immediately apparent. Either way, that's tracks 6 and 7. + [[track:the-infinity-march|Infinity March]] starts by itself in CF Anthem, but at 1:44, [[Checkered Crypts]] joins in as well. The part of Crypts that's being referenced is a melody that begins at 1:18 (in Checkered Crypts), but in CF it appears as a relatively quiet piano, so it's not immediately apparent. Either way, that's tracks 6 and 7. - Then there's [[track:a-window-in-time|a Window in Time]], we get both the intro section and the looping melody from that song, playing along a quiet (& hard to catch) bell melody that references the melody in "[[track:cloudscape-dialed-to-11|Cloudscape]]" (entire song). Halfway through this section, the bell melody stops and is replaced with a bridge section referencing Last Dance again, except it's [[track:the-last-dance-oops-all-piano-version|the piano version]] this time. The section of Last Dance (piano) that's being referenced is a part that starts at the 2:50 mark. So now we have songs 8, 9 and 10, even though 9 (cloudscape) is hidden in there very well. + Then there's [[a Window in Time]], we get both the intro section and the looping melody from that song, playing along a quiet (& hard to catch) bell melody that references the melody in "[[track:cloudscape-dialed-to-11|Cloudscape]]" (entire song). Halfway through this section, the bell melody stops and is replaced with a bridge section referencing Last Dance again, except it's [[track:the-last-dance-oops-all-piano-version|the piano version]] this time. The section of Last Dance (piano) that's being referenced is a part that starts at the 2:50 mark. So now we have songs 8, 9 and 10, even though 9 (cloudscape) is hidden in there very well. - Ok for this next section, I guess I told a little white lie when I said all songs are referenced in order, because upon relisten, I've noticed that the [[track:battle-of-the-bridges|Battle of the bridges]] melody kicks in before the [[track:dialed-to-11|Dialed to 11]] melody. Either way, we got Bridges, but then at 2:54, we get both a different melody from Bridges (this melody of Bridges can be heard at the 1:40 mark), AND a melody from Dialed to 11 (which can be heard at 3:53 in the namesake song). Guitars kick in at 3:30, followed by ANOTHER melody from Battle of the bridges (begins at 4:08 in Bridges). Tracks 11 and 12 are now referenced as we transition to a quieter section that references tracks 13 and 14. + Ok for this next section, I guess I told a little white lie when I said all songs are referenced in order, because upon relisten, I've noticed that the [[Battle of the bridges]] melody kicks in before the [[Dialed to 11]] melody. Either way, we got Bridges, but then at 2:54, we get both a different melody from Bridges (this melody of Bridges can be heard at the 1:40 mark), AND a melody from Dialed to 11 (which can be heard at 3:53 in the namesake song). Guitars kick in at 3:30, followed by ANOTHER melody from Battle of the bridges (begins at 4:08 in Bridges). Tracks 11 and 12 are now referenced as we transition to a quieter section that references tracks 13 and 14. - At 3:53 in CF Anthem, we have a violin melody that references a part of [[track:rude-awakening|Rude Awakening]] that begins at 3:12 in Rude Awakening. Alongside that is a quieter reference to "[[track:dream-sequence|Dream Sequence]]". The 2 play alongside eachother before Rude Awakening fades out, leaving us with just Dream Sequence. --- At 4:39 in CF Anthem, we get the 2 of the last 3 references for this song: the base melody for "[[track:fell-into-the-nexus|Fell Into The Nexus]]" (plays throughout entirety of Nexus), along with a return of the bell melody that you hear at the very beginning of CF Anthem, though I dunno if that actually counts as a reference lol. + At 3:53 in CF Anthem, we have a violin melody that references a part of [[Rude Awakening]] that begins at 3:12 in Rude Awakening. Alongside that is a quieter reference to "[[Dream Sequence]]". The 2 play alongside eachother before Rude Awakening fades out, leaving us with just Dream Sequence. --- At 4:39 in CF Anthem, we get the 2 of the last 3 references for this song: the base melody for "[[Fell Into The Nexus]]" (plays throughout entirety of Nexus), along with a return of the bell melody that you hear at the very beginning of CF Anthem, though I dunno if that actually counts as a reference lol. We then get one last section with the guitars, then a quieter piano section that references [[Sburban Jungle]] from the Homestuck OST before the song ends. --- Section: Bonus track diff --git a/album/doctor-raid-remix.yaml b/album/doctor-raid-remix.yaml index 93d0f800..d7029132 100644 --- a/album/doctor-raid-remix.yaml +++ b/album/doctor-raid-remix.yaml @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Raid:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://rudecustard.bandcamp.com/track/doctor-raid-remix)) - This is a remix of [[track:doctor|"Doctor,"]] composed by [[artist:buzinkai]] for Homestuck. Doctor is possibly my favorite Homestuck track of all time and I wanted to pay my respects by producing a remix. This is the first proper EDM track I've done, with a legit structure, motivic development, section transitions, and all that. I did a ton of Googling how to use Ableton plugins and effects and instruments to make this track. I'm not usually very proud of my own work, but I really like this remix. I put a great amount of effort into it. I hope you like it too! + This is a remix of [["Doctor,"]] composed by [[artist:buzinkai]] for Homestuck. Doctor is possibly my favorite Homestuck track of all time and I wanted to pay my respects by producing a remix. This is the first proper EDM track I've done, with a legit structure, motivic development, section transitions, and all that. I did a ton of Googling how to use Ableton plugins and effects and instruments to make this track. I'm not usually very proud of my own work, but I really like this remix. I put a great amount of effort into it. I hope you like it too! <i>Raid:</i> ([YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOb95BdDAXA), excerpt) diff --git a/album/earthbound-halloween-hack.yaml b/album/earthbound-halloween-hack.yaml index ca7be3f0..1ca33c07 100644 --- a/album/earthbound-halloween-hack.yaml +++ b/album/earthbound-halloween-hack.yaml @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ Sampled Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Toby Fox:</i> ("THE MAKING OF RADIATION'S HALLOWEEN HACK") - I took [[track:giygass-lair|Giygas's lair]] and just added a creepy sound to it. So easy, so effective. + I took [[Giygas's lair]] and just added a creepy sound to it. So easy, so effective. --- Track: Andonuts Magicant Duration: 2:53 @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ Sampled Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Jebb:</i> (wiki editor, 10/24/2023) - This is a slightly altered version of [[track:bad-morning-to-you|"Bad Morning to You"]] with an additional instrument added. It has no official title. + This is a slightly altered version of [["Bad Morning to You"]] with an additional instrument added. It has no official title. --- Track: Power (Edit) Duration: 0:49 @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Toby Fox:</i> ("THE MAKING OF RADIATION'S HALLOWEEN HACK") - This is it, the final boss theme. I wanted to put Live A Live's [[track:megalomania|Megalomania]] in here but I didn't get to so I made my own last boss song. I pretty much just yelled whatever I felt like into a mike and copied it down. Yep. Took forever, but it was superkickass-worth-it. Total embodiment of final bossitude. + This is it, the final boss theme. I wanted to put Live A Live's [[Megalomania]] in here but I didn't get to so I made my own last boss song. I pretty much just yelled whatever I felt like into a mike and copied it down. Yep. Took forever, but it was superkickass-worth-it. Total embodiment of final bossitude. <i>Toby Fox:</i> ("THE MAKING OF RADIATION'S HALLOWEEN HACK", excerpt) diff --git a/album/election-season.yaml b/album/election-season.yaml index 5084cf53..f1dfdb33 100644 --- a/album/election-season.yaml +++ b/album/election-season.yaml @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyRapBAcyA0) / [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/user-552040225/election-season-saving-grace) descriptions, excerpt) - My first track for the prospit half of the album and probably one of my most notable songs on the album motif-wise. If it sound familiar, it's probably cause you heard it either at the end of Levc's [[Under the Sun]] or [[Antigone]]. For Grace's theme I wanted to convey both her importance to prospit as a member of the Kameron Family and the isolation that comes with that. For most of my music for the Prospit half, I took a lot of influences from JRPG soundtracks like final fantasy. This one was specifically inspired by [[track:aeriths-theme|Aerith's theme]] from FFVII and [the sacrifice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNfozTlye7w) from LISA the Painful. Not really much else to say about this one other than I want nothing more than Grace to be happy. + My first track for the prospit half of the album and probably one of my most notable songs on the album motif-wise. If it sound familiar, it's probably cause you heard it either at the end of Levc's [[Under the Sun]] or [[Antigone]]. For Grace's theme I wanted to convey both her importance to prospit as a member of the Kameron Family and the isolation that comes with that. For most of my music for the Prospit half, I took a lot of influences from JRPG soundtracks like final fantasy. This one was specifically inspired by [[Aerith's theme]] from FFVII and [the sacrifice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNfozTlye7w) from LISA the Painful. Not really much else to say about this one other than I want nothing more than Grace to be happy. --- Track: Antigone Artists: @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsOg6-2ZRdU) / [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/user-552040225/election-season-antigone) descriptions, excerpt) - Probably my favorite track that I did on the entire album. For this song I wanted to make a theme for the dynamic and bold socialite that is Lydia Kameron. As I mentioned on the commentary for [[Saving Grace]], all my prospect songs were inspired by JRPG sound tracks. This one was inspired by [[track:terras-theme|Terra's theme]] from Final Fantasy as well's as [Primrose's theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErEGz0HHHOo) from Octopath Traveler. This is probably my favorite song composition wise cause it is so dense with harmony and counter melody. Eagle Eared listens might notice Saving Grace spiced through out the track but there might be something else in here as well. I wonder what it could be... + Probably my favorite track that I did on the entire album. For this song I wanted to make a theme for the dynamic and bold socialite that is Lydia Kameron. As I mentioned on the commentary for [[Saving Grace]], all my prospect songs were inspired by JRPG sound tracks. This one was inspired by [[Terra's theme]] from Final Fantasy as well's as [Primrose's theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErEGz0HHHOo) from Octopath Traveler. This is probably my favorite song composition wise cause it is so dense with harmony and counter melody. Eagle Eared listens might notice Saving Grace spiced through out the track but there might be something else in here as well. I wonder what it could be... --- Track: Capitalistmania Artists: @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnK1i05UwyA) / [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/user-552040225/election-season-divine-counsel) descriptions, excerpt) - So I wrote this song as a sort a more general theme for the Scholars of Skaia. I've personally found the gods in desynced to be the distinguishing factor between it and homestuck. In the desynced, the Scholars are far more realized as a concept than the Denizens, so they've had my attention for a while. For the song, I want to compose a piece that you would hear you were being told the lore about Skaia and her Scholars. [The latest update](https://mspfa.com/?s=28296&p=769) at time of writing (1/10/2021) would be a good example of a place you would here it. It took pretty major influence from the song [[track:lotus|"Lotus"]] by [[artist:seth-peelle|Beatfox]] both in terms of composition and instrumentation. The song also serves as a preview of something to come but I'll talk more about that when the time comes. + So I wrote this song as a sort a more general theme for the Scholars of Skaia. I've personally found the gods in desynced to be the distinguishing factor between it and homestuck. In the desynced, the Scholars are far more realized as a concept than the Denizens, so they've had my attention for a while. For the song, I want to compose a piece that you would hear you were being told the lore about Skaia and her Scholars. [The latest update](https://mspfa.com/?s=28296&p=769) at time of writing (1/10/2021) would be a good example of a place you would here it. It took pretty major influence from the song [["Lotus"]] by [[artist:seth-peelle|Beatfox]] both in terms of composition and instrumentation. The song also serves as a preview of something to come but I'll talk more about that when the time comes. --- Track: Absolution Suffix Directory: true @@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeLyyoIkL8U) / [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/user-552040225/election-season-twilight-dreamers) descriptions, excerpt) - So back when I wrote [[track:do-you-dream-of-electric-sheep|"Do You Dream of Electric Sheep?"]] I had this idea for a track that was a combined all of the motifs for the Derse Dreamers in Desynced (I.E Evan, Josh, [Redacted]). Seeing as this was essentially our Prospit and Derse album, I figured it might fit nicely on Election Season. If it wasn't already obvious, this track is meant to be the Desynced equivalent of Solatrus's track [[track:derse-dreamers|"Derse Dreamers."]] The song follows as fairly similar compositional style, where I have an original melody serving as a base and then throwing in leitmotifs like nuts. Something that is unique to this track is how the song changes feels. The song goes between a more typical swing feel to some thing that more akin to a break beat. This was inspired by a song that we played for Jazz ensemble that went between latin and swing feels. Honestly this might be my second favorite track compositionally after [[Antigone]] and I'm happy with how this turned out. + So back when I wrote [["Do You Dream of Electric Sheep?"]] I had this idea for a track that was a combined all of the motifs for the Derse Dreamers in Desynced (I.E Evan, Josh, [Redacted]). Seeing as this was essentially our Prospit and Derse album, I figured it might fit nicely on Election Season. If it wasn't already obvious, this track is meant to be the Desynced equivalent of Solatrus's track [["Derse Dreamers."]] The song follows as fairly similar compositional style, where I have an original melody serving as a base and then throwing in leitmotifs like nuts. Something that is unique to this track is how the song changes feels. The song goes between a more typical swing feel to some thing that more akin to a break beat. This was inspired by a song that we played for Jazz ensemble that went between latin and swing feels. Honestly this might be my second favorite track compositionally after [[Antigone]] and I'm happy with how this turned out. --- Track: Gestalt Suffix Directory: true diff --git a/album/fighting-further.yaml b/album/fighting-further.yaml index 2dd2099a..f088cc8d 100644 --- a/album/fighting-further.yaml +++ b/album/fighting-further.yaml @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7QygJd3SOQ) / [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/user-552040225/no-ones-prisoner-taz-is-unbreakable) descriptions, excerpt) - And now time for something entirely different. Like Arcjec’s song for the album, I knew what wanted this track be very early on. If it wasn’t already apparent, this song takes heavy influence from Yoko Shimamura’s work on the Street Fighter 2 soundtrack. I wanted a song that felt intense but heavy like many of the tracks from SF2 and Taz’s songs more generally. Specifically, I took influences from [Ryu](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO7JEqIPQv0) and [[track:guiles-theme|Guile’s themes]] as well as [[track:tazs-theme|Taz’s Theme]] for Catch 322. I like how the main melody develops over the whole song with more and more added layers of harmony. Really helps convey a somewhat triumphant feel, like it’s as if Taz is overcoming her adversity and coming out the other side stronger. + And now time for something entirely different. Like Arcjec’s song for the album, I knew what wanted this track be very early on. If it wasn’t already apparent, this song takes heavy influence from Yoko Shimamura’s work on the Street Fighter 2 soundtrack. I wanted a song that felt intense but heavy like many of the tracks from SF2 and Taz’s songs more generally. Specifically, I took influences from [Ryu](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO7JEqIPQv0) and [[track:guiles-theme|Guile’s themes]] as well as [[Taz’s Theme]] for Catch 322. I like how the main melody develops over the whole song with more and more added layers of harmony. Really helps convey a somewhat triumphant feel, like it’s as if Taz is overcoming her adversity and coming out the other side stronger. --- Track: On The Hunt For Something Dangerous (Redux) Cover Artists: @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8FO8H_twow) / [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/user-552040225/atomsplitterdestroyer-of-worlds-feat-votl) descriptions, excerpt) - Indecision is a funny thing. So, the idea with this track is that it was supposed to be a Shin Megami Tensei inspired battle theme. Thing is about SMT’s battle themes is that they are wildly different depending on what game you are talking about. I was torn between the thrash metal sound of classic SMT battle themes like [[track:old-enemy|“Old Enemy”]] and Synth infused Apocalyptic rock sounds of [“Normal Battle”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH82gJ7fYtk) from Nocturne. Then a thought occurred to me: what if I did both? And that’s what I did. In the move inspired by Tyler, The Creator I decided to make this song two parter. Part 1 is “Atomsplitter” which focused on delivering a fast as fuck thrash metal sound fill with synths and funny midi guitar solo. Part 2 “,Destroyer of Worlds” is a bit slower with meatier riffs and fucked up text to speech lyrics. Shout out to Votl who played the live guitar I layered with the Shreddage guitar to beef up the song. Not really much else to say about this track, I like how I arranged the [[track:battle-against-an-unyielding-foe|“Battle Against an Unyielding Foe”]] Riff in part 2 + Indecision is a funny thing. So, the idea with this track is that it was supposed to be a Shin Megami Tensei inspired battle theme. Thing is about SMT’s battle themes is that they are wildly different depending on what game you are talking about. I was torn between the thrash metal sound of classic SMT battle themes like [[“Old Enemy”]] and Synth infused Apocalyptic rock sounds of [“Normal Battle”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH82gJ7fYtk) from Nocturne. Then a thought occurred to me: what if I did both? And that’s what I did. In the move inspired by Tyler, The Creator I decided to make this song two parter. Part 1 is “Atomsplitter” which focused on delivering a fast as fuck thrash metal sound fill with synths and funny midi guitar solo. Part 2 “,Destroyer of Worlds” is a bit slower with meatier riffs and fucked up text to speech lyrics. Shout out to Votl who played the live guitar I layered with the Shreddage guitar to beef up the song. Not really much else to say about this track, I like how I arranged the [[“Battle Against an Unyielding Foe”]] Riff in part 2 <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor, 3/3/2024) @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4ntWDYWU10) / [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/user-552040225/7-the-fool-does-not-laugh) descriptions, excerpt) - This song might be a controversial given what it was taking influence from. Serpaz has big earthbound energy and so I wanted to write a battle theme in that style. However, I quickly realized that a more traditional earthbound battle theme would not fit the more intense feel of the record. So I decided to get a little bit…extracurricular with the influence on this. If it wasn’t already immediately apparent, this song takes heavy influence from [[track:megalo-strike-back|“Megalo Strike Back”]] by Toby Fox. “But Rainy” I hear you ask “Isn’t Megalo Strike Back a song from Undertale/Deltarune?” The answer is no, it’s from [[album:i-miss-you-earthbound-2012|an Earthbound tribute]] so that’s how I can still connect this to Earthbound even if it’s tangential. That being said I didn’t just want to make my own version of a Toby track but I wanted add my own spin. To do that I did incorporate more earthbound-y influences like those from [“Sanctuary Guardian”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M-NkQAo-3E) and [“Pokey Means Business.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMCXMg8p9sc) In addition, I pulled a little bit of influence from [[track:welcome-to-hell|“Welcome to Hell”]] by Black Midi. The final song is a bit unhinged and all over the place but I think that fits the feel of the song perfectly imo. Fun Fact: I finished this song on April 1st. + This song might be a controversial given what it was taking influence from. Serpaz has big earthbound energy and so I wanted to write a battle theme in that style. However, I quickly realized that a more traditional earthbound battle theme would not fit the more intense feel of the record. So I decided to get a little bit…extracurricular with the influence on this. If it wasn’t already immediately apparent, this song takes heavy influence from [[“Megalo Strike Back”]] by Toby Fox. “But Rainy” I hear you ask “Isn’t Megalo Strike Back a song from Undertale/Deltarune?” The answer is no, it’s from [[album:i-miss-you-earthbound-2012|an Earthbound tribute]] so that’s how I can still connect this to Earthbound even if it’s tangential. That being said I didn’t just want to make my own version of a Toby track but I wanted add my own spin. To do that I did incorporate more earthbound-y influences like those from [“Sanctuary Guardian”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M-NkQAo-3E) and [“Pokey Means Business.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMCXMg8p9sc) In addition, I pulled a little bit of influence from [[“Welcome to Hell”]] by Black Midi. The final song is a bit unhinged and all over the place but I think that fits the feel of the song perfectly imo. Fun Fact: I finished this song on April 1st. --- Track: The Curtain Rises ~ Millenium Actress Additional Names: @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTYUP381xmI) / [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/user-552040225/10-at-the-gates-of-truth) descriptions, excerpt) - I’ll tell you what I very much felt out of my depth with this track. I wanted to write a Super Metroid inspired battle theme for Occeus in the vein of [[track:big-boss-confrontation-bgm-ridley-draigon|“Ridley’s Theme.”]] I was initially going to use soundfonts for this song but quickly realized that the Metroid soundfont sucked and decided to utilize synths instead. Personally, I don’t feel like I’m as well versed in utilizing synths compared to other music team members, so figuring out how to make my composition shine while using them was an uphill battle. Making things more difficult is the fact that Metroid’s music is typically less melody driven which contrasts starkly with my style. All that being said I began to pull in other influences to help move the song along. Aside from Ridley’s theme, the other big influence on this track was [[track:atomyk-ebonpyre|“Atomyk Ebonpyre”]] with its industrial feel, abrasive synths and early Toby’s signature winding melodic lines. Through combination of these two influences, I got something that was distinctly dark, alien, and futuristic. I think that song is a standout not just on the album but in whole of my composing career thus far + I’ll tell you what I very much felt out of my depth with this track. I wanted to write a Super Metroid inspired battle theme for Occeus in the vein of [[track:big-boss-confrontation-bgm-ridley-draigon|“Ridley’s Theme.”]] I was initially going to use soundfonts for this song but quickly realized that the Metroid soundfont sucked and decided to utilize synths instead. Personally, I don’t feel like I’m as well versed in utilizing synths compared to other music team members, so figuring out how to make my composition shine while using them was an uphill battle. Making things more difficult is the fact that Metroid’s music is typically less melody driven which contrasts starkly with my style. All that being said I began to pull in other influences to help move the song along. Aside from Ridley’s theme, the other big influence on this track was [[“Atomyk Ebonpyre”]] with its industrial feel, abrasive synths and early Toby’s signature winding melodic lines. Through combination of these two influences, I got something that was distinctly dark, alien, and futuristic. I think that song is a standout not just on the album but in whole of my composing career thus far --- Track: A Portrait Of Ruin Additional Names: @@ -356,10 +356,10 @@ Lyrics: |- Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXFMBpO-V3Q), excerpt) - Here it is, the longest, most ambitious song I’ve ever written. I knew when I pitched the album to [[artist:austinado|Austin]] back in early January, I wanted to do a big medley encompassing all the songs on the album as a closer. The obvious point of comparison for this track is [[track:rex-duodecim-angelus|“Rex Duodecim Angelus”]] by Malcolm Brown. It’s an iconic homestuck and pretty anyone would jump to write something like. That being said I grossly underestimated how much work would be involved. The track took about 70 hours across 5-6 different projects files and took about a full month to write. With no hyperbole, this is probably the largest undertaking I have ever done musically. I will talk about this song more but for the sake of ease I’ll break it into 2 parts just like the song. + Here it is, the longest, most ambitious song I’ve ever written. I knew when I pitched the album to [[artist:austinado|Austin]] back in early January, I wanted to do a big medley encompassing all the songs on the album as a closer. The obvious point of comparison for this track is [[“Rex Duodecim Angelus”]] by Malcolm Brown. It’s an iconic homestuck and pretty anyone would jump to write something like. That being said I grossly underestimated how much work would be involved. The track took about 70 hours across 5-6 different projects files and took about a full month to write. With no hyperbole, this is probably the largest undertaking I have ever done musically. I will talk about this song more but for the sake of ease I’ll break it into 2 parts just like the song. Part I – The Battle Begins<br> - I like to think that every VGM composer wants to compose an absolutely nutty final boss song to show off their composition chops. That ethos is basically what is driving this part of the track. I wanted to write a song that would basically soundtrack the final battle against The Naughtfather, Gaiaeon. It might surprise you that I took a very normal song writing approach for this track. The song has typical Verse-Bridge-Chorus structure with the only twist being the 4-medley section between the various parts and those riff breakdown parts in 7/4. My concern with writing a song this ambitious is that it can quickly get stale if you don’t pace it right. I used this track structure to create a cohesive “shell” that would help guide the listener along and make the track feel like it’s constantly moving forward without disorienting the listener too much. It’s at this point I’d like to thank Tee-vee for bringing this song to life with his guitar performance In terms of influences aside from RDA, I took major influence from both [“Raise Thy Sword in Pride”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4S37F7YZvw) by Yuzo Koshiro and [“The Ones Who Gather Stars in the Night”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OkSmLK1jUg) by Revo. The former is where I took symphonic rock influence from and the latter, I took the overall structure for the song from. In terms of the medley section, I tried my best to make so that every character had their chance to shine musically. Given how disparate the song on the album have been up to this point, getting them to cohesively transition into each other was a pain to put it lightly. Some segments with in the various medley sections are pretty close to original songs but some had more or less complete rearrangements to better fit the tempo of the song. The end result is a song that is largely cobbled together sounding but is that way by choice. Given that eclectic nature of the album, I think it works. This song is also notable because it’s only time that leitmotifs written other than me pop up on the album. What final battle theme would it be it I didn’t references some of the key leitmotifs from VE. Probably the most notable one of these is the interpolation of [[track:perfection-vast-error|“Perfection”]] by Rom which I arranged over the off-kilter 7/4 riff breakdown. I wanted the utilization of these motif in a way that created a loose-ish narrative of how the battle went. Those riff breakdowns represent Gaiaeon’s unnerving, hostly presence while the more heroic motifs signify the growing confidence of our heroes as the battle goes on. This confidence culminates in the reprise of [[track:a-new-world|“A New World”]] and [[track:courage-catch-322|“Courage”]] as the battle ends with our heroes battered but ultimately triumphant…right? + I like to think that every VGM composer wants to compose an absolutely nutty final boss song to show off their composition chops. That ethos is basically what is driving this part of the track. I wanted to write a song that would basically soundtrack the final battle against The Naughtfather, Gaiaeon. It might surprise you that I took a very normal song writing approach for this track. The song has typical Verse-Bridge-Chorus structure with the only twist being the 4-medley section between the various parts and those riff breakdown parts in 7/4. My concern with writing a song this ambitious is that it can quickly get stale if you don’t pace it right. I used this track structure to create a cohesive “shell” that would help guide the listener along and make the track feel like it’s constantly moving forward without disorienting the listener too much. It’s at this point I’d like to thank Tee-vee for bringing this song to life with his guitar performance In terms of influences aside from RDA, I took major influence from both [“Raise Thy Sword in Pride”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4S37F7YZvw) by Yuzo Koshiro and [“The Ones Who Gather Stars in the Night”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OkSmLK1jUg) by Revo. The former is where I took symphonic rock influence from and the latter, I took the overall structure for the song from. In terms of the medley section, I tried my best to make so that every character had their chance to shine musically. Given how disparate the song on the album have been up to this point, getting them to cohesively transition into each other was a pain to put it lightly. Some segments with in the various medley sections are pretty close to original songs but some had more or less complete rearrangements to better fit the tempo of the song. The end result is a song that is largely cobbled together sounding but is that way by choice. Given that eclectic nature of the album, I think it works. This song is also notable because it’s only time that leitmotifs written other than me pop up on the album. What final battle theme would it be it I didn’t references some of the key leitmotifs from VE. Probably the most notable one of these is the interpolation of [[track:perfection-vast-error|“Perfection”]] by Rom which I arranged over the off-kilter 7/4 riff breakdown. I wanted the utilization of these motif in a way that created a loose-ish narrative of how the battle went. Those riff breakdowns represent Gaiaeon’s unnerving, hostly presence while the more heroic motifs signify the growing confidence of our heroes as the battle goes on. This confidence culminates in the reprise of [[“A New World”]] and [[track:courage-catch-322|“Courage”]] as the battle ends with our heroes battered but ultimately triumphant…right? Part II – All for Naught<br> And this is where the albums concept becomes apparent. On top of being VE’s “Strife” album it also the Probability album. Every song you’ve so far depicts a different alternate reality with this song being about the Alt! probability depicted in [\[S]Murrit: REW/FFW](https://www.deconreconstruction.com/vasterror/2190). If Part I is long but successful battle to save the world, Part II is our heroes realizing that the battle was over before it started. Those who’ve listened to the Hollownull album will recognize the narrator as the wonderful Marcie Hobbs (NezumiVA) reprising her role as Mimesis’s canon voice. Her performance here adds so much to the desolate tone I was going for. I couldn’t think of a better way close out this album especially considering the 1 Year Anniversary of PoP. Maybe things will wind up better for our heroes next time. @@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Rabooski:</i> ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/rab-cant-think-of-a-url/rabooski-fools-plea), excerpt) - Rabooski's Remix of the talented Rainy's [[track:the-fool-does-not-laugh|'The Fool Does Not Laugh']]. + Rabooski's Remix of the talented Rainy's [['The Fool Does Not Laugh']]. --- Track: On The Hunt For Something Dangerous [Beta] Additional Names: diff --git a/album/flare-raid-remix.yaml b/album/flare-raid-remix.yaml index 890e8fe1..fd5705db 100644 --- a/album/flare-raid-remix.yaml +++ b/album/flare-raid-remix.yaml @@ -47,11 +47,11 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Raid:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://rudecustard.bandcamp.com/track/flare-raid-remix)) - a breakcore/glitch hop/drum 'n' bass remix of [[track:flare|flare]] by [[artist:clark-powell|clark powell]]! i played a real electric guitar for the first time ever in this one. that shit hurts my fingers + a breakcore/glitch hop/drum 'n' bass remix of [[flare]] by [[artist:clark-powell|clark powell]]! i played a real electric guitar for the first time ever in this one. that shit hurts my fingers <i>Raid:</i> ([YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbBGCwfPbR0), excerpt) - It is 4/13. I present to you my remix of Clark Powell's [[track:flare|"Flare."]] I broke my first tom and shattered a brand new drumstick while recording the drum solo. Look at how I suffer for you. You're welcome. + It is 4/13. I present to you my remix of Clark Powell's [["Flare."]] I broke my first tom and shattered a brand new drumstick while recording the drum solo. Look at how I suffer for you. You're welcome. This is some breakcore, drum 'n' bass, glitch stuff, with some of my own organic acoustic live drums, piano, and electric guitar playing mixed in. Yeah, that's right! You're hearing a real electric guitar in this track. I went and bought my first axe. I still barely know how to wield this thing but I'm super excited to continue learning how. diff --git a/album/fnf-colors-and-mayhem-vol-1.yaml b/album/fnf-colors-and-mayhem-vol-1.yaml index 9a863f52..1a8e069e 100644 --- a/album/fnf-colors-and-mayhem-vol-1.yaml +++ b/album/fnf-colors-and-mayhem-vol-1.yaml @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>bb-panzu:</i> - if im being honest this is my least favorite only cause it was a pain to sample crappy 2013 mobile phone quality voice clips to a pitchable format. so eridan's voice sounds kinda gnaggly. But i dig the inst. if i had the chance i would definately make it feel for rounded out. I was originally gonna call this song 'Troll Fascist' because Eridan being hemophobic and all and to constrant the song [[track:troll-fashion|'Troll Fashion']] but i prioritzed the quirk and plus ehhhhh yea yk yea + if im being honest this is my least favorite only cause it was a pain to sample crappy 2013 mobile phone quality voice clips to a pitchable format. so eridan's voice sounds kinda gnaggly. But i dig the inst. if i had the chance i would definately make it feel for rounded out. I was originally gonna call this song 'Troll Fascist' because Eridan being hemophobic and all and to constrant the song [['Troll Fashion']] but i prioritzed the quirk and plus ehhhhh yea yk yea --- Track: --Ec)(obo Directory: echobo @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>bb-panzu:</i> - I really like the melodies of this one. I heavily based it off of Anamanaguchi's [[track:echobo|Echobo]] (even the namesake) cause of it's watery feel and fef needed a cheery bubbly(;P) song that fit her nice. thanks you [[artist:cheebs|CheebsVA]] for the cool 'glubs' i begged for. + I really like the melodies of this one. I heavily based it off of Anamanaguchi's [[Echobo]] (even the namesake) cause of it's watery feel and fef needed a cheery bubbly(;P) song that fit her nice. thanks you [[artist:cheebs|CheebsVA]] for the cool 'glubs' i begged for. --- Section: Mayhem --- diff --git a/album/foresight-and-retrospect.yaml b/album/foresight-and-retrospect.yaml index 3e596b42..de7e8023 100644 --- a/album/foresight-and-retrospect.yaml +++ b/album/foresight-and-retrospect.yaml @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ Commentary: |- *NyarVAthotep:* guy whos only heard homestuck music: this is just like [[album:midnight-crew-drawing-dead|drawing dead]] - *cait:* i come from the future. this is the famous [[track:black-cat|"black cat"]] motif + *cait:* i come from the future. this is the famous [["black cat"]] motif *nights:* This is because lune is secretly a black cat @@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ Commentary: |- *Wights End:* 🙏 - *Wights End:* ([6:13](https://youtu.be/A2XcAmgH3Ko?t=1844)) this part has a very similar chord progression to [[track:rainfalls|rainfalls]] actually, though it's a lot less obvious in that song + *Wights End:* ([6:13](https://youtu.be/A2XcAmgH3Ko?t=1844)) this part has a very similar chord progression to [[rainfalls]] actually, though it's a lot less obvious in that song *nights:* Cool music to lose to --- diff --git a/album/fraymotif-fighters.yaml b/album/fraymotif-fighters.yaml index 3662f8db..a6980de1 100644 --- a/album/fraymotif-fighters.yaml +++ b/album/fraymotif-fighters.yaml @@ -129,36 +129,36 @@ Commentary: |- in the back part i got it to spell out every aspect, isnt that neat? - i wanted to do more with troll themes, but i just kinda shoved a [[track:rex-duodecim-angelus|rex duodecim angelus]] in there by the start and end, while the middle gets [[track:showtime-original-mix|showtime]], [[track:aggrieve|aggrieve]], [[track:beatdown-strider-style|beatdown]] and [[track:dissension-original|dissension]] for the kids. + i wanted to do more with troll themes, but i just kinda shoved a [[rex duodecim angelus]] in there by the start and end, while the middle gets [[track:showtime-original-mix|showtime]], [[aggrieve]], [[track:beatdown-strider-style|beatdown]] and [[track:dissension-original|dissension]] for the kids. the horns were the last moment thing i added, and literally add like 15 minutes onto the load time of the session?? its rough out here in pro tools land. i just wanted something to fill space because it felt empty without it, ESPECIALLY the intro. oh yeah theres also an old vinyl sound going in the background bc there was a texture in those thps3 tracks which was missing and this seemed to give it that? it also helped with the spindown at the end lol - oh also post deadline i added an organ with some [[track:homestuck-anthem|homestuck anthem]] or whatever + oh also post deadline i added an organ with some [[homestuck anthem]] or whatever mama mia <i>Guffy:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/749067042250031214/1325072771147108473), 1/4/2025) - i do see you have [[track:homestuck-anthem|Homestuck Anthem]] `# per commentary?`<br> + i do see you have [[Homestuck Anthem]] `# per commentary?`<br> its in the organ under the aspect spelling out part<br> its a little fucked up but its There - (it could also just be [[track:homestuck|Homestuck]] but i dont remember)<br> + (it could also just be [[Homestuck]] but i dont remember)<br> (i wrote this thing within like a 16 hour span) Referencing Sources: |- <i>Guffy:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://sahcon.bandcamp.com/track/thats-what-im-classspectin-character-select), excerpt) - oh also post deadline i added an organ with some [[track:homestuck-anthem|homestuck anthem]] or whatever + oh also post deadline i added an organ with some [[homestuck anthem]] or whatever <i>Guffy:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/749067042250031214/1325072771147108473), 1/4/2025) - i do see you have [[track:homestuck-anthem|Homestuck Anthem]] `# per commentary?`<br> + i do see you have [[Homestuck Anthem]] `# per commentary?`<br> its in the organ under the aspect spelling out part<br> its a little fucked up but its There - (it could also just be [[track:homestuck|Homestuck]] but i dont remember) [...] + (it could also just be [[Homestuck]] but i dont remember) [...] --- Track: KrabKlash (vs. Karkat) Directory: krabklash @@ -180,11 +180,11 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>gr1mv4d3r:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://sahcon.bandcamp.com/track/krabklash-vs-karkat)) - this is basically just how I envisioned [[track:karkats-theme|karkat’s theme]] (by toby fox) sounding if it was arranged into the style of a fighting game esque track. the middle section references a bit of [[track:sburban-jungle|suburban jungle]] (by michael guy bowman) and there’s a section after that referencing my own track [[track:chr0mmat1kk|chr0mat1kk]] from my fanventure called paradox struck. [you all should read paradox struck.](https://mspfa.com/?s=50076&p=1) + this is basically just how I envisioned [[karkat’s theme]] (by toby fox) sounding if it was arranged into the style of a fighting game esque track. the middle section references a bit of [[track:sburban-jungle|suburban jungle]] (by michael guy bowman) and there’s a section after that referencing my own track [[track:chr0mmat1kk|chr0mat1kk]] from my fanventure called paradox struck. [you all should read paradox struck.](https://mspfa.com/?s=50076&p=1) Referencing Sources: |- <i>gr1mv4d3r:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://sahcon.bandcamp.com/track/krabklash-vs-karkat), excerpt) - this is basically just how I envisioned [[track:karkats-theme|karkat’s theme]] (by [[artist:toby-fox|toby fox]]) sounding if it was arranged into the style of a fighting game esque track. the middle section references a bit of [[track:sburban-jungle|suburban jungle]] (by [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|michael guy bowman]]) and there’s a section after that referencing my own track [[track:chr0mmat1kk|chr0mat1kk]] from my fanventure called [paradox struck](https://mspfa.com/?s=50076&p=1). [...] + this is basically just how I envisioned [[karkat’s theme]] (by [[artist:toby-fox|toby fox]]) sounding if it was arranged into the style of a fighting game esque track. the middle section references a bit of [[track:sburban-jungle|suburban jungle]] (by [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|michael guy bowman]]) and there’s a section after that referencing my own track [[track:chr0mmat1kk|chr0mat1kk]] from my fanventure called [paradox struck](https://mspfa.com/?s=50076&p=1). [...] --- Track: Gale-Force (vs. John) Directory: gale-force @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ Commentary: |- yoko shimomura's work has this powerful, but beautiful sounding piano, and since i'm doing stuff for John this is a good time for piano - im borrowing bits from [[track:showtime-original-mix|showtime]], [[track:doctor|doctor]], [[track:sburban-jungle|sburban something]], and [[track:harlequin|harlequin]] in places + im borrowing bits from [[track:showtime-original-mix|showtime]], [[doctor]], [[track:sburban-jungle|sburban something]], and [[harlequin]] in places there was an electric guitar i had which i felt happy with in the intro but Pro Tools crashed and my backup lost a bunch of changes i had made to it i couldnt recover, so it had to say goodbye :( @@ -232,10 +232,10 @@ Commentary: |- yo i wrote this and im doing my best to remember whats what - 0:00-0:10 - i dont remember if this is a direct reference oops - - 0:10-0:13 - [[track:showtime-piano-refrain|showtime (piano refrain)]] - - 0:12-0:35 - [[track:doctor|doctor]] [the organ, the piano runs are just embellishment] + - 0:10-0:13 - [[showtime (piano refrain)]] + - 0:12-0:35 - [[doctor]] [the organ, the piano runs are just embellishment] - 0:48-1:10 - ??? [NO IDEA as of this moment, going through backups to try pick it apart] - - 1:36-2:00 - [[track:harlequin|harlequin]] + - 1:36-2:00 - [[harlequin]] thankfully i have 150 backups, apparently @@ -251,21 +251,21 @@ Commentary: |- alright so for gale force its like - 0:00–0:10 ??? [no reference i think? i do not Remember] - - 0:10-0:13 [[track:showtime-piano-refrain|showtime (piano refrain)]] - - 0:12-0:35 [[track:doctor|doctor]] [the organ], [[track:showtime-piano-refrain|showtime (piano refrain)]] [the end of some of the piano runs] - - 0:35-0:47 [[track:showtime-piano-refrain|showtime (piano refrain)]] [i think this is the piano refrain? [[track:showtime-original-mix|the original mix]] has different embellishments and the refrain specific phrase ending i keep quoting that the original mix doesnt have] + - 0:10-0:13 [[showtime (piano refrain)]] + - 0:12-0:35 [[doctor]] [the organ], [[showtime (piano refrain)]] [the end of some of the piano runs] + - 0:35-0:47 [[showtime (piano refrain)]] [i think this is the piano refrain? [[track:showtime-original-mix|the original mix]] has different embellishments and the refrain specific phrase ending i keep quoting that the original mix doesnt have] - 0:47–0:58 ??? [i genuinely have NO idea what this is. could be filler? could be pre-emptive chords for the next part? i have 150 backups of this track working on it and theres an ominous gap where this section was worked on] - - 0:58–1:10 [[track:harlequin|harlequin]] [pitch changed and note length fuckery] + - 0:58–1:10 [[harlequin]] [pitch changed and note length fuckery] - 1:10–1:33 [[track:sburban-jungle|Sburban (something)]] - - 1:22–1:36 [[track:showtime-piano-refrain|showtime (piano refrain)]] [again :)] - - 1:36–2:00 [[track:harlequin|harlequin]] [this time quicker paced than the first tee hee] + - 1:22–1:36 [[showtime (piano refrain)]] [again :)] + - 1:36–2:00 [[harlequin]] [this time quicker paced than the first tee hee] - 2:02- ??? [this is just the intro again, but without the showtime ending] Referencing Sources: |- <i>Guffy:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://sahcon.bandcamp.com/track/gale-force-vs-john), excerpt) so i took the chance to do something ive wanted to for a while, emulate some kinda yoko shimomura style stuff [...] - im borrowing bits from [[track:showtime-original-mix|showtime]], [[track:doctor|doctor]], [[track:sburban-jungle|sburban something]], and [[track:harlequin|harlequin]] in places [...] + im borrowing bits from [[track:showtime-original-mix|showtime]], [[doctor]], [[track:sburban-jungle|sburban something]], and [[harlequin]] in places [...] i got stuck with this track a lot and i feel like you can probably hear it by the way its kinda segmented around where i started playing with motifs and sections from other john-related songs but i'd like to think it works out. @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ Commentary: |- one thing i knew i had to do was using those typical soundfont orchestra hits you can hear in a lot of retro videogame music to give it some intensity just as a real fight would, well i mean, i guess they’re mostly intense idk i have never been to a fight maybe i should try - the next thing for me was using the two songs i find more recognizable for rose: [[track:even-in-death|Even in death]] and [[track:derse-dreamers|Derse Dreamers]] + the next thing for me was using the two songs i find more recognizable for rose: [[Even in death]] and [[Derse Dreamers]] of course, derse dreamers is (allegedly) dave’s theme too, but who looks bigger on the cover art? exactly. @@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ Referencing Sources: |- one thing i knew i had to do was using those typical soundfont orchestra hits you can hear in a lot of retro videogame music to give it some intensity just as a real fight would [...] - the next thing for me was using the two songs i find more recognizable for rose: [[track:even-in-death|Even in death]] and [[track:derse-dreamers|Derse Dreamers]] [...] i pretty much just used their beginning melodies as the main melodies of each part because they’re recognizable and are also hard as fuck [...] + the next thing for me was using the two songs i find more recognizable for rose: [[Even in death]] and [[Derse Dreamers]] [...] i pretty much just used their beginning melodies as the main melodies of each part because they’re recognizable and are also hard as fuck [...] for the bass and the even in death main melody i used more retro-like sounds (touhou soundfont bass and a generic square layered with a soundfont piano-y thingy) [...] --- @@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ Referencing Sources: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39KXnY8KynY), excerpt) References:<br> - [[track:first-steps|"First Steps"]] by [[artist:david-ellis]]<br> + [[="First Steps"]] by [[artist:david-ellis]]<br> [[track:lifesaver-stlap2|"Lifesaver"]] by [[artist:rainy]] --- Track: Hopy Orders (Be JUST Be HEROIC or be DEAD) @@ -418,9 +418,9 @@ Referencing Sources: |- <i>Tee-vee:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://sahcon.bandcamp.com/track/hopy-orders-be-just-be-heroic-or-be-dead), excerpt) References:<br> - [[track:now-im-a-villain|Now I'm a Villain]] by [[artist:david-ellis]]<br> - [[track:stress|Stress]] by [[artist:buzinkai]] and [[artist:toby-fox]]<br> - [[track:moonsetter|Moonsetter]] by [[artist:toby-fox]] + [[Now I'm a Villain]] by [[artist:david-ellis]]<br> + [[Stress]] by [[artist:buzinkai]] and [[artist:toby-fox]]<br> + [[Moonsetter]] by [[artist:toby-fox]] --- Track: Nyantusion (vs. Roxy) Directory: nyantusion @@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ Commentary: |- A song dedicated Jack Noir (D.O.G. Mode) - I wanted to make a song that makes you feel cool while fighting. So the use of metal guitars + Jazz was a really good choice to evoke that feeling while also fitting into the Jack aesthetic. This is also why I didn't go with a straight version of the [[track:black|"BLACK"]] motif. + I wanted to make a song that makes you feel cool while fighting. So the use of metal guitars + Jazz was a really good choice to evoke that feeling while also fitting into the Jack aesthetic. This is also why I didn't go with a straight version of the [["BLACK"]] motif. While totally cool, it is a really cheesy pick to go with the really straight forward version of the iconic melody. It needs to make you feel like ANIME IS REAL. So a song that takes that motif and "evolves" it will make you ASCEND to the sky as you wavedash into that bastard. (IDK about fighting game lingo...) @@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ Commentary: |- Referencing Sources: |- <i>Levc:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://sahcon.bandcamp.com/track/midnight-carnage-boss-bec-noir), excerpt) - I wanted to make a song that makes you feel cool while fighting. [...] This is also why I didn't go with a straight version of the [[track:black|"BLACK"]] motif. + I wanted to make a song that makes you feel cool while fighting. [...] This is also why I didn't go with a straight version of the [["BLACK"]] motif. While totally cool, it is a really cheesy pick to go with the really straight forward version of the iconic melody. It needs to make you feel like ANIME IS REAL. So a song that takes that motif and "evolves" it will make you ASCEND to the sky as you wavedash into that bastard. [...] @@ -566,12 +566,12 @@ Referencing Sources: |- Just noticed something <br> Midnight carnage doesn't list it but it 100% references levc's other song, "The one who should pay is"<br> - errr I mean [[track:the-person-that-should-pay-is|the person that should pay is]]<br> + errr I mean [[the person that should pay is]]<br> That's the og on his channel <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/749067042250031214/1326197636323217420), 1/6/2025) - The main little bit of [[track:the-person-that-should-pay-is|the person that should pay is]] plays like right after 1:00 + The main little bit of [[the person that should pay is]] plays like right after 1:00 --- Track: Pumpkin Party in Sea Hitler's Water Apocalypse (1982 Cabinet Rip) Artists: diff --git a/album/hammerkind-ost.yaml b/album/hammerkind-ost.yaml index ee793210..625c2b76 100644 --- a/album/hammerkind-ost.yaml +++ b/album/hammerkind-ost.yaml @@ -57,11 +57,11 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Stephen Maxwell:</i> (in-game credits) - [[track:guardian|"GUARDIAN"]] by [[artist:bill-bolin|BILL BOLIN]] (since removed from MSPA canon due to DRAMA) has been senselessly mutilated in order to make "IMPOCALYPSE". + [["GUARDIAN"]] by [[artist:bill-bolin|BILL BOLIN]] (since removed from MSPA canon due to DRAMA) has been senselessly mutilated in order to make "IMPOCALYPSE". <i>Stephen Maxwell:</i> ([MSPA forums](https://web.archive.org/web/20100826164647/http://www.mspaforums.com:80/showthread.php?26512-Homestuck-Fan-Music-thread/page2&s=66b11e625cfee7a2a4191267582bdbea#post_message_3390859), excerpt) - Impocalypse (based on [[track:guardian|Guardian]]. This one is a little messy, but it has its moments.) + Impocalypse (based on [[Guardian]]. This one is a little messy, but it has its moments.) <i>Makin:</i> (wiki editor, 5/5/2024) @@ -81,11 +81,11 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Stephen Maxwell:</i> (in-game credits) - [[track:skies-of-skaia|"SKIES OF SKAIA"]] by [[artist:mark-j-hadley|MARK HADLEY]] and [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|"UPWARD MOVEMENT"]] by [[artist:kalibration|KALIBRATION]] were unsubtly crammed together to create "STAIRS TO SKAIA". + [["SKIES OF SKAIA"]] by [[artist:mark-j-hadley|MARK HADLEY]] and [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|"UPWARD MOVEMENT"]] by [[artist:kalibration|KALIBRATION]] were unsubtly crammed together to create "STAIRS TO SKAIA". <i>Stephen Maxwell:</i> ([MSPA forums](https://web.archive.org/web/20100826164647/http://www.mspaforums.com:80/showthread.php?26512-Homestuck-Fan-Music-thread/page2&s=66b11e625cfee7a2a4191267582bdbea#post_message_3390859), excerpt) - Hammerkind main theme (based on [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|Dave Fucking Owns/Upward Movement]] and [[track:skies-of-skaia|Skies of Skaia]]. This version, used in the game, is kind of a cross between the two I already posted in this thread, with a few other minor changes.) + Hammerkind main theme (based on [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|Dave Fucking Owns/Upward Movement]] and [[Skies of Skaia]]. This version, used in the game, is kind of a cross between the two I already posted in this thread, with a few other minor changes.) <i>Makin:</i> (wiki editor, 5/5/2024) @@ -103,11 +103,11 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Stephen Maxwell:</i> (in-game credits) - [[track:explore|"EXPLORE"]] by [[artist:buzinkai|BUZINKAI]] was disrespected by the amateur duplication called "EXPLODE". + [["EXPLORE"]] by [[artist:buzinkai|BUZINKAI]] was disrespected by the amateur duplication called "EXPLODE". <i>Stephen Maxwell:</i> ([MSPA forums](https://web.archive.org/web/20100826164647/http://www.mspaforums.com:80/showthread.php?26512-Homestuck-Fan-Music-thread/page2&s=66b11e625cfee7a2a4191267582bdbea#post_message_3390859), excerpt) - Explode (Candy) (based on [[track:explore|Explore]]) + Explode (Candy) (based on [[Explore]]) <i>Makin:</i> (wiki editor, 5/5/2024) @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Stephen Maxwell:</i> (in-game credits) - [[track:chorale-for-jaspers|"CHORALE FOR JASPERS"]] by [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|MICHAEL GUY BOWMAN]] was twisted into "FORGERY". + [["CHORALE FOR JASPERS"]] by [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|MICHAEL GUY BOWMAN]] was twisted into "FORGERY". <i>Makin:</i> (wiki editor, 5/5/2024) diff --git a/album/homestuck-anniversary-act-6.yaml b/album/homestuck-anniversary-act-6.yaml index ff9644c2..8a8eca0c 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-anniversary-act-6.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-anniversary-act-6.yaml @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Groups: - Fandom Commentary: |- <i>Maukustus:</i> - An album celebrating Homestuck Act 6 anniversary. This ones an individual release because I simply didn't want to wait this long to release the other one. Also includes a cover of [[track:moonsetter|Moonsetter]] by [[artist:toby-fox|Toby "Radiation" Fox]] + An album celebrating Homestuck Act 6 anniversary. This ones an individual release because I simply didn't want to wait this long to release the other one. Also includes a cover of [[Moonsetter]] by [[artist:toby-fox|Toby "Radiation" Fox]] --- Track: "[11/11/11] What do you suppose the name on the envelopes will be?" Duration: 3:46 diff --git a/album/homestuck-anniversary-excl-act-6.yaml b/album/homestuck-anniversary-excl-act-6.yaml index f489de2b..aeff5dce 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-anniversary-excl-act-6.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-anniversary-excl-act-6.yaml @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Groups: - Fandom Commentary: |- <i>Maukustus:</i> - An album celebrating Homestuck's anniversary. Tracks released on April 13th and June 12th for Homestuck and Hivebent respectively. Also includes covers of [[track:showtime-original-mix|Showtime]] by [[artist:malcolm-brown]] and [[track:theme|Theme]] by [[artist:toby-fox|Toby "Radiation" Fox]]. + An album celebrating Homestuck's anniversary. Tracks released on April 13th and June 12th for Homestuck and Hivebent respectively. Also includes covers of [[track:showtime-original-mix|Showtime]] by [[artist:malcolm-brown]] and [[Theme]] by [[artist:toby-fox|Toby "Radiation" Fox]]. <i>Maukustus:</i> (original album art) <img src="media/misc/homestuck-anniversary-excl-act-6.jpg" width="250"> diff --git a/album/homestuck-technolich.yaml b/album/homestuck-technolich.yaml index 2867392f..3cf18165 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-technolich.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-technolich.yaml @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>technolich:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://plaidumbrella.bandcamp.com/track/even-in-death-ver-2)) - Redone version of [[track:even-in-death|Even In Death]]. It's one of my favorite songs from Homestuck so I really wanted to do something else with it. + Redone version of [[Even In Death]]. It's one of my favorite songs from Homestuck so I really wanted to do something else with it. --- Track: Even In Death # new_date: 08 Nov 2012 23:09:44 GMT @@ -183,4 +183,4 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>technolich:</i> ([YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJcxy5NDip8), excerpt, 1/25/2013) - Ummm something I put together in Reason. THERE IS NO SHEET MUSIC. NONE. DON'T ASK FOR IT. IT WOULD BE BORING TO PLAY, ANYWAY. WORSE THE [[track:canon-in-d|CANON IN D]]. + Ummm something I put together in Reason. THERE IS NO SHEET MUSIC. NONE. DON'T ASK FOR IT. IT WOULD BE BORING TO PLAY, ANYWAY. WORSE THE [[CANON IN D]]. diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-1-4.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-1-4.yaml index 2afb6bc6..e1628866 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-1-4.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-1-4.yaml @@ -517,6 +517,6 @@ Commentary: |- I don't expect anyone to play that at full speed. I've actually seen someone play about the right thing at full speed and that still freaking amazes me. I wouldn't expect that kind of thing. I thought that was unplayable. Also, this may seem lazy now, but it's probably lazy then too, but I copy and pasted this whole section and then added an extra melody line to make it interesting. - Now here's a secret, why this song is called Doctor, and what this song is based on. Believe it or not this song is actually based on [[track:moonsong|Moonsong]] and Mischievous Robot from [[artist:cave-story|Cave Story]]. I wrote this song right shortly after Super Smash Brothers Brawl came out for the Wii. I know because I was playing that while I wrote it. There is a constant tone much like in Mischievous Robot that plays in the background and it's actually supposed to be a heartbeat monitor. This actually just stays constant the entire time (tone changes) except for when it changes right there (tone changes again) yeah it shows you how much I know about my own music (tone switches to alternating between two different tones.) But I try to keep that a constant side beat in the back there. + Now here's a secret, why this song is called Doctor, and what this song is based on. Believe it or not this song is actually based on [[Moonsong]] and Mischievous Robot from [[artist:cave-story|Cave Story]]. I wrote this song right shortly after Super Smash Brothers Brawl came out for the Wii. I know because I was playing that while I wrote it. There is a constant tone much like in Mischievous Robot that plays in the background and it's actually supposed to be a heartbeat monitor. This actually just stays constant the entire time (tone changes) except for when it changes right there (tone changes again) yeah it shows you how much I know about my own music (tone switches to alternating between two different tones.) But I try to keep that a constant side beat in the back there. We're here to talk about music so if you want to see any more of my music in this fashion, perhaps with a little more in-depth viewer, if you think there's something I missed or something that you're curious about with the music please let me know. I'm actually really open to talking about it, I think it's kind of cool that it went this far. I'm still actually listening to all the freaking remixes of this song that are online right now. You have to understand that I'm completely blown away. diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-1.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-1.yaml index 36490e39..e9ad1af9 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-1.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-1.yaml @@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Commentary: |- <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) - A [[track:harlequin|"Harlequin"]] remix obviously. In order to give it an old-timey feel, I used sounds of a saloon piano and a muted trumpet. Once it was done, I ran it through a filter to make it sound... less good (pitch warping and reducing the bass) and added a loop of some vinyl pops and cracks. For the soundtrack version, I added the needle coming down onto the record at the beginning, and then I thought it would be fun to end it by having the record skip before the needle is pulled off the record. Needless to say, this was fun to make. + A [["Harlequin"]] remix obviously. In order to give it an old-timey feel, I used sounds of a saloon piano and a muted trumpet. Once it was done, I ran it through a filter to make it sound... less good (pitch warping and reducing the bass) and added a loop of some vinyl pops and cracks. For the soundtrack version, I added the needle coming down onto the record at the beginning, and then I thought it would be fun to end it by having the record skip before the needle is pulled off the record. Needless to say, this was fun to make. --- Track: Skies of Skaia Bandcamp Track ID: 2603977158 diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml index 2b581754..a0778b7c 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ Commentary: |- The original plan for Homestuck Vol. 10 was to release it through [[group:homestuck-gaiden|Gaiden]] I think which is why I initially refused to get involved - When it suddenly got anointed as an official album out of basically nowhere I hadn't been contacted at all and scrambled to write [[track:jungle-boogie|"Jungle Boogie"]] only to be told there were no spots left on it + When it suddenly got anointed as an official album out of basically nowhere I hadn't been contacted at all and scrambled to write [["Jungle Boogie"]] only to be told there were no spots left on it Because Meme Numbers<br> IDK once bitten twice shy diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-3.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-3.yaml index 6b50795b..7ec94841 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-3.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-3.yaml @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Referencing Sources: |- <i>HunZhen:</i> ([[static:feedback|email feedback]], excerpt, 2/25/2025) - I think the melody from "Dissension (Remix)" at 0:17 might be a reference to [[track:guardian|"Guardian"]] by Bill Bolin at 0:25, I'll show you some picture about the melody among [[track:land-of-the-salamanders|"Land of the Salamanders"]], [[track:clockwork-sorrow|"Clockwork Sorrow"]], "Dissension (Remix)" and "Guardian" + I think the melody from "Dissension (Remix)" at 0:17 might be a reference to [["Guardian"]] by Bill Bolin at 0:25, I'll show you some picture about the melody among [["Land of the Salamanders"]], [["Clockwork Sorrow"]], "Dissension (Remix)" and "Guardian" <img width="390" height="180" src="media/misc/dissension-remix/Guardian 1.jpg"> <img width="390" height="180" src="media/misc/dissension-remix/Clockwork Sorrow 1.jpg"> @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ Referencing Sources: |- <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/749067042250031214/1352579532389093397), excerpt, 3/21/2025) - For what it's worth, this would-be usage of [[track:guardian|Guardian]] in Dissension (Remix) would also be the first of David's uses of it. Guardian is [[album:homestuck-vol-2|Vol. 2]], both Dissension tracks are [[album:homestuck-vol-3|Vol. 3]]—and remember these albums were released as a pair (12/14/2009). Guardian was [[flash:822|used in the comic]] firmly associated with Jade 10/27/2009, and Dissension obviously is [[flash:918|a Jade strife track]]. + For what it's worth, this would-be usage of [[Guardian]] in Dissension (Remix) would also be the first of David's uses of it. Guardian is [[album:homestuck-vol-2|Vol. 2]], both Dissension tracks are [[album:homestuck-vol-3|Vol. 3]]—and remember these albums were released as a pair (12/14/2009). Guardian was [[flash:822|used in the comic]] firmly associated with Jade 10/27/2009, and Dissension obviously is [[flash:918|a Jade strife track]]. [[Clockwork Sorrow]] and [[Land of the Salamanders]] are both [[album:homestuck-vol-5|Vol. 5]] (6/13/2010), so not very long later either. --- @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (arranger, [Music and Stuff](https://web.archive.org/web/20110326020456/http://www.iambowman.com/music.html)) - The remix of Nick's [[track:ohgodwhat|"Ohgodwhat"]] is a terrifying little affair - that I even made it mystifies me. + The remix of Nick's [["Ohgodwhat"]] is a terrifying little affair - that I even made it mystifies me. <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=751), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) @@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ Sheet Music Files: Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Music and Stuff](https://web.archive.org/web/20110326020456/http://www.iambowman.com/music.html)) - My signature efforts from this album, of course, are "Chorale for Jaspers" and its corollary (or chorale-ary?) [[track:pony-chorale|"Pony Chorale"]]. They were the first two Homestuck tracks to feature vocals with me as the cat and [[artist:tavia-morra|Tavia]] as Maplehoof - for this I am proud. + My signature efforts from this album, of course, are "Chorale for Jaspers" and its corollary (or chorale-ary?) [["Pony Chorale"]]. They were the first two Homestuck tracks to feature vocals with me as the cat and [[artist:tavia-morra|Tavia]] as Maplehoof - for this I am proud. <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Twitter](https://twitter.com/mguybowman/status/1669411378359328771), 6/15/2023) @@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Music and Stuff](https://web.archive.org/web/20110326020456/http://www.iambowman.com/music.html)) - My signature efforts from this album, of course, are [[track:chorale-for-jaspers|"Chorale for Jaspers"]] and its corollary (or chorale-ary?) "Pony Chorale". They were the first two Homestuck tracks to feature vocals with me as the cat and [[artist:tavia-morra|Tavia]] as Maplehoof - for this I am proud. + My signature efforts from this album, of course, are [["Chorale for Jaspers"]] and its corollary (or chorale-ary?) "Pony Chorale". They were the first two Homestuck tracks to feature vocals with me as the cat and [[artist:tavia-morra|Tavia]] as Maplehoof - for this I am proud. <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=770), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-5.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-5.yaml index 1b553f9c..1c1d0c66 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-5.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-5.yaml @@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (co-composer, [new Homestuck album!](https://web.archive.org/web/20100618035217/http://www.iambowman.com/), 06/13/2010) - Radiation, or [[artist:toby-fox|Toby]] as I've never actually had the chance to refer to him, sent me his midi arrangement of Happy Cat Song, a sort of lighthearted version of [[track:chorale-for-jaspers|Chorale for Jaspers]], so I loaded VSTs for each part and balanced it, along with adding a "meow" sample in for good measure. The effect of it reminds [[artist:tavia-morra|Tavia]] of arriving in a village in "final fantasy or chrono cross or something and it's initially all peaceful and then by the end of the game it's totally raped and pillaged." So the calm before the storm then? MEOW + Radiation, or [[artist:toby-fox|Toby]] as I've never actually had the chance to refer to him, sent me his midi arrangement of Happy Cat Song, a sort of lighthearted version of [[Chorale for Jaspers]], so I loaded VSTs for each part and balanced it, along with adding a "meow" sample in for good measure. The effect of it reminds [[artist:tavia-morra|Tavia]] of arriving in a village in "final fantasy or chrono cross or something and it's initially all peaceful and then by the end of the game it's totally raped and pillaged." So the calm before the storm then? MEOW <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Music and Stuff](https://web.archive.org/web/20110326020456/http://www.iambowman.com/music.html), sometime 6/13/2010 - 3/26/2011) @@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Music and Stuff](https://web.archive.org/web/20110326020456/http://www.iambowman.com/music.html), sometime 6/13/2010 - 3/26/2011) - A lot of tracks on <i>Volume 5</i>. There's a few different [[Chorale for Jaspers|"Chorale"]] arrangements on here, of which I participated in two - for [[track:happy-cat-song|"Happy Cat Song!"]] I produced and provided vocal samples, and for "Hardchorale" I brought the house down with a series of loud meows that almost got me evicted from my apartment (the video does exist, I promise). + A lot of tracks on <i>Volume 5</i>. There's a few different [[Chorale for Jaspers|"Chorale"]] arrangements on here, of which I participated in two - for [["Happy Cat Song!"]] I produced and provided vocal samples, and for "Hardchorale" I brought the house down with a series of loud meows that almost got me evicted from my apartment (the video does exist, I promise). <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1184), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) @@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ Commentary: |- Referencing Sources: |- <i>HunZhen:</i> ([[static:feedback|email feedback]], excerpt, 2/25/2025) - At 1:07 in "White", there is a little reference about [[track:skies-of-skaia|"Skies of Skaia"]] from vol.1 + At 1:07 in "White", there is a little reference about [["Skies of Skaia"]] from vol.1 <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/1353743089164095548/1381953184569884754) re: [[track:skies-of-skaia]] ref, excerpt, 6/10/2025) @@ -690,13 +690,13 @@ Referencing Sources: Body: |- List of leitmotifs used in here: - 0:03 [[track:im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew|I'm a member of the Midnight Crew]]<br> + 0:03 [[I'm a member of the Midnight Crew]]<br> 0:19 [[track:chorale-for-jaspers|Chorale]]<br> - 0:27 [[track:black|Black]]<br> + 0:27 [[Black]]<br> 0:48 [[track:the-ballad-of-jack-noir|Ballad of Jack Noir]]<br> - 0:59 [[track:im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew|I'm a member of the Midnight Crew]]<br> - 1:05 [[track:penumbra-phantasm|Penumbra Phantasm]] (along with [[track:im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew|I'm a member of the Midnight Crew]])<br> - 1:18 [[track:non-compos-mentis|Non Compos Mentis]]<br> + 0:59 [[I'm a member of the Midnight Crew]]<br> + 1:05 [[Penumbra Phantasm]] (along with [[I'm a member of the Midnight Crew]])<br> + 1:18 [[Non Compos Mentis]]<br> 1:23 [[track:chorale-for-jaspers|Chorale]] (variation, mixed with [[track:the-ballad-of-jack-noir|Ballad of Jack Noir]])<br> 1:33 [[Black]] (again, along with [[track:chorale-for-jaspers|Chorale]])<br> 1:47 [[track:the-ballad-of-jack-noir|Ballad of Jack Noir]]<br> @@ -875,7 +875,7 @@ Commentary: |- I've been writing music among the longest out of all of the team members (9 and a half years now), but definitely not <i>the</i> longest. However, I definitely have to say I've improved more over the past two years than the seven years before that just from working with so many talented people. - But the difference in improvement between then and now is a story for another day. Let's zip right just before I joined the team. While Skaia (Incipisphere Mix) is my first official Homestuck song, [[track:doctor-deep-breeze-mix|Doctor (Deep Breeze Mix)]] is my first Homestuck-related song, which you can download [here](https://homestuckgaiden.bandcamp.com/track/doctor-deep-breeze-mix). + But the difference in improvement between then and now is a story for another day. Let's zip right just before I joined the team. While Skaia (Incipisphere Mix) is my first official Homestuck song, [[Doctor (Deep Breeze Mix)]] is my first Homestuck-related song, which you can download [here](https://homestuckgaiden.bandcamp.com/track/doctor-deep-breeze-mix). The reason I'm mentioning my Doctor remix is because it <i>very much</i> helped put Incipisphere Mix on Volume 5. From what I was told, it turned a few heads on the team. Kind of hilarious to go back and look at the thread, because multiple of my chums posted just after I did and I wasn't even aware of who they were at the time. Then again, I was still VERY new to the community at the time. My very first post on the MSPA Forums was of a WIP of my Doctor remix. @@ -975,7 +975,7 @@ Commentary: |- Referencing Sources: |- <i>HunZhen:</i> ([[static:feedback|email feedback]], excerpt, 2/25/2025) - At 0:41 in "Clorkwork Sorrow" there is a melody that reference to David's another track [[track:dissension-remix|"Dissension (Remix)"]] at 0:17 (vol.3) + At 0:41 in "Clorkwork Sorrow" there is a melody that reference to David's another track [["Dissension (Remix)"]] at 0:17 (vol.3) <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor, 6/10/2025) @@ -1593,7 +1593,7 @@ Commentary: |- By applying an incredibly enormous amount of reverb to the piano part, I hid the low fidelity of the original recording and made it sound as though it was hauntingly played to the listener from the other end of a cave. Given my lack of any truly convincing string samples, I chose instead to use deliberately mechanical strings, gently de-tuning them to sound a bit reminiscent of early string synthesizers, somewhat inspired by ["Crystal Japan"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AELO0h04P5k), a creepy instrumental by David Bowie. - Some of the other elements of the ambiance (the wind, the really high notes that echo for a long time) I drew from the soundtrack to World of Goo, specifically the track ["Jelly"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qznYSE7J4ZQ) which I noticed bore a strong resemblance tonally to Jit's composition. To seal the melancholy, I doubled the piano melody on guitar using a very cool, muted sound with a lot of echoes and pitch bends. I signed the tune by adding a cadence from [[track:sburban-jungle|"Sburban Jungle"]] at the very end. + Some of the other elements of the ambiance (the wind, the really high notes that echo for a long time) I drew from the soundtrack to World of Goo, specifically the track ["Jelly"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qznYSE7J4ZQ) which I noticed bore a strong resemblance tonally to Jit's composition. To seal the melancholy, I doubled the piano melody on guitar using a very cool, muted sound with a lot of echoes and pitch bends. I signed the tune by adding a cadence from [["Sburban Jungle"]] at the very end. Really, the track should probably be listed simply as "Ruins" if not for the fact that there is not official piano rendition of the piece. I think it would be really cool to hear such a version of the tune if Jit ever found himself recording material in a studio again (as he did for [[artist:james-dever|James's]] piano suite [[album:sburb|Sburb]]). @@ -1699,7 +1699,7 @@ Track Artwork: Commentary: |- <i>Steve Everson:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/tenebrais/19896197965/could-you-do-some-commentary-on-your-homestuck), excerpt, 3/25/2012) - My other favourite from Volume 5. It started life as a theme for the Aimless Renegade, inspired by a [[track:desperado|"Desperado"]] theme which I believe was written by [[artist:bill-bolin|Bolin]] back when he was still part of the team. I wasn't really running on any particular goal of contributing so much as liking the style and wanting to make something similar. Imagine the piece as it is now played by some sort of mariachi band and you might have the right idea of what it originally sounded like. Naturally, it didn't quite fit. I liked the melody but it just wasn't working for the whole desert hero thing. So I flipped through my library of voices (small though it was back then) and came across the more electronic one that plays the melody now. I re-tooled the accompaniment to fit, and it became a piece that I always considered a theme for Derse. Hence its title. + My other favourite from Volume 5. It started life as a theme for the Aimless Renegade, inspired by a [["Desperado"]] theme which I believe was written by [[artist:bill-bolin|Bolin]] back when he was still part of the team. I wasn't really running on any particular goal of contributing so much as liking the style and wanting to make something similar. Imagine the piece as it is now played by some sort of mariachi band and you might have the right idea of what it originally sounded like. Naturally, it didn't quite fit. I liked the melody but it just wasn't working for the whole desert hero thing. So I flipped through my library of voices (small though it was back then) and came across the more electronic one that plays the melody now. I re-tooled the accompaniment to fit, and it became a piece that I always considered a theme for Derse. Hence its title. <i>Koukouvayia:</i> (anthology artist, [Tumblr](https://koukouvayia.tumblr.com/post/159549489998/happy-413-heres-the-full-version-of-the-thing-i), 4/13/2017) @@ -1747,7 +1747,7 @@ Commentary: |- (The mental images of one of the kid's planets getting broken/torn apart like I'd imagined still give me the shivers. I still love Hussie so much for creating a villain that actually did something upon gaining obscene amounts of power; rather than just retreating and launching some master plan, he actually went around and started doing shit with his powers. Not something you even really see in Hollywood villains nowadays, far as I know. The protagonists and antagonists are always very separated, no interaction between one or the other, nothing like what Noir does. At least, that was my experience at the time.) - As for the second bit, well, I'd wanted to make an "industrial, heavy action, stuff going to shit" remix of Perrybob's [[track:mannequin|Mannequin]] for quite some time, and it seemed to fit to transition over to that. In my head, the action was going to shift from Jade's planet to LOHAC, where unspecific action was going to take place. I really don't think I gave the Mannequin section enough time to develop, or really do much, but time constraints dictated I give the music over to the volume 5 collaborative -right then and there-, so it had to be cut off. Mannequin's really great, though, you should give it [a listen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAyPFa3nEK4&feature=youtu.be). + As for the second bit, well, I'd wanted to make an "industrial, heavy action, stuff going to shit" remix of Perrybob's [[Mannequin]] for quite some time, and it seemed to fit to transition over to that. In my head, the action was going to shift from Jade's planet to LOHAC, where unspecific action was going to take place. I really don't think I gave the Mannequin section enough time to develop, or really do much, but time constraints dictated I give the music over to the volume 5 collaborative -right then and there-, so it had to be cut off. Mannequin's really great, though, you should give it [a listen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAyPFa3nEK4&feature=youtu.be). Also, as a sidenote, my like for Beck is rather shown in this piece, as is evidenced by my direct attempt to semi-recreate main beat in [Replica](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwSzYOiCinc) to transition between the two sections. #MUSICSECRETSSSSSSSS --- @@ -2152,7 +2152,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Commentary: |- <i>Erik Scheele:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) - This one, man. Not really as well-known as the other three, I don't think, but I'm still happy with various aspects of it. Not really any specific inspiration, I just started out with the thought of wanting to make a contrasting piece to [[Black]]. Especially with the opening piano line, but overall, something more pure and light. Of course, by the time I got around to finishing it, [[artist:toby-fox|Radiation]] had already stolen the title [[track:white|"White"]], so I called mine "Light" instead. + This one, man. Not really as well-known as the other three, I don't think, but I'm still happy with various aspects of it. Not really any specific inspiration, I just started out with the thought of wanting to make a contrasting piece to [[Black]]. Especially with the opening piano line, but overall, something more pure and light. Of course, by the time I got around to finishing it, [[artist:toby-fox|Radiation]] had already stolen the title [["White"]], so I called mine "Light" instead. About the middle section, I think that needs a bit of talk about it. I'd just been talking with a friend about Homestuck, telling him about the numerical motif 413, and telling him various examples, and he went and said "Yeah, that could be a chord progression too", and I was like "whooooooooooooooooah". So I used it as a chord progression. For the first while, though, I had this dual guitar line instead of [[track:showtime-piano-refrain|Showtime]], and it was sorta eeeeenh and I didn't know where to go from there. It sat for a while, then suddenly one day in church I was like "oh holy shit showtime would work so well in there". It was like suddenly remembering you left a cake in the oven on 500 degrees for the last two nights, that sort of realization. So it went in, and it worked much better than the stupid two-guitar thing. diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-7.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-7.yaml index 66c3b36e..adf128b8 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-7.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-7.yaml @@ -677,7 +677,7 @@ Commentary: |- Referencing Sources: |- <i>Grace Medley:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/779895315750715422/1362590968557207553), excerpt, 4/17/2025) - ok first thing i wanted to mention: i noticed that the wiki doesnt list earthsea borealis as referencing [[track:double-midnight|double midnight]] even though [the nsnd did used to say that.](https://homestuck.net/music/references.html) heres proof that it does i pitch shifted earthsea borealis to be in the same key as the double midnight snippet from [[track:additional-mayhem-universe-a|additional mayhem]] + ok first thing i wanted to mention: i noticed that the wiki doesnt list earthsea borealis as referencing [[double midnight]] even though [the nsnd did used to say that.](https://homestuck.net/music/references.html) heres proof that it does i pitch shifted earthsea borealis to be in the same key as the double midnight snippet from [[track:additional-mayhem-universe-a|additional mayhem]] <audio src="media/misc/Double Midnight in Earthsea Borealis.wav"></audio> --- diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index c9d8f7f6..465cf61a 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ Commentary: |- There was a certain difficulty in making "Calamity" really work for me. I had a couple of different sounds I was attempting all at once, each working on their own but sort of fighting for control when mashed together. The introduction and conclusion of the song using a theme from [[track:walk-stab-walk-r-and-e|"Walk-Stab-Walk"]] needed to be really punchy, while I really needed the middle of the song to glide, and the connecting bits with the chanting needed to build and build in tension. There are a lot of different sounds in the song's palette, the most difficult of which to utilize was the enormous saw synth that dominates the middle. Getting that thing to be grand without utterly overpowering the rest of the song was incredibly difficult. - Overall I was really satisfied with how much excitement there is in this song. It's got a big simple melody but it doesn't outstay its welcome. As the album opener, it sets up the stakes and excitement of Homestuck without sort of beating the point into you by lasting too long. I think of it as a cousin to [[track:sburban-jungle|"Sburban Jungle"]] or at least another song approached in that dramatic, electronic way. + Overall I was really satisfied with how much excitement there is in this song. It's got a big simple melody but it doesn't outstay its welcome. As the album opener, it sets up the stakes and excitement of Homestuck without sort of beating the point into you by lasting too long. I think of it as a cousin to [["Sburban Jungle"]] or at least another song approached in that dramatic, electronic way. The countdown sample is from a NASA recording, I believe it's the launch of Apollo 11. @@ -206,9 +206,9 @@ MIDI Project Files: Commentary: |- <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, "original commentary", via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) - Alas poor Vriska. This scene stood out quite a bit from the Scrapbook Near-end-of-act Scratch-a-thon as being yet more humility to Vriska as a character - first hinted at during John's talk with her around the whole 'lifdoff' time (which is also why most of the song is taken from [[track:lifdoff|lifdoff]].) + Alas poor Vriska. This scene stood out quite a bit from the Scrapbook Near-end-of-act Scratch-a-thon as being yet more humility to Vriska as a character - first hinted at during John's talk with her around the whole 'lifdoff' time (which is also why most of the song is taken from [[lifdoff]].) - The idea was to create something vaguely romantic and a bit tragic for the whole 'd8' thing. I used lifdoff as a starting point because that's become my sort of unofficial 'John' theme - It's quite light and goofy but reasonably heroic and fantastical. [[track:showtime-original-mix|Showtime]] shows up at around 2:17, shortly followed by a slightly modified lift from [[track:death-of-the-lusii|Death of the Lusii]] (as mentioned previously in this topic). After that it slides into an additionally modified version of [[track:ruins|Ruins]]/[[track:awakening|Awakening]] for reasons that are hopefully obvious and also because I like that tune + The idea was to create something vaguely romantic and a bit tragic for the whole 'd8' thing. I used lifdoff as a starting point because that's become my sort of unofficial 'John' theme - It's quite light and goofy but reasonably heroic and fantastical. [[track:showtime-original-mix|Showtime]] shows up at around 2:17, shortly followed by a slightly modified lift from [[Death of the Lusii]] (as mentioned previously in this topic). After that it slides into an additionally modified version of [[track:ruins|Ruins]]/[[Awakening]] for reasons that are hopefully obvious and also because I like that tune The main reason I made this is because Vriska's had a but few moments when she wasn't terrorizing everybody and generally acting the huge bitch. Add to this the whole 'fat vriska' thing, and the very bombastic music she's had thus far... It was nice to give her last bit of humility a soundtrack. @@ -236,11 +236,11 @@ Commentary: |- <b>THE TRACK</b> - It's primarily [[track:lifdoff|"lifdoff"]], which I started using a sort of personal theme of John. Other slight inspirations for this track are ["Anthem Part 2"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-EHT3N5sOI) from The Truman Show and a little 8it of the music of Little 8ig Adventure (primarily the use of woodwinds/percussion). + It's primarily [["lifdoff"]], which I started using a sort of personal theme of John. Other slight inspirations for this track are ["Anthem Part 2"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-EHT3N5sOI) from The Truman Show and a little 8it of the music of Little 8ig Adventure (primarily the use of woodwinds/percussion). It starts off with a simple lightened lifdoff, which carries it for a while. The percussion at 1:09 was fun to sequence - It's mostly just a collection of taiko samples from the EWQL play library that are quite fun to work with, particularly some the articulation (The 'roll' you hear is one of 'em). What I think works quite well is the power of the Taikos with the lightness of the woodwinds - Gives it quite an emotional punch. - 1:33 is almost directly L8A inspired (The layering of the woodwind melody on 8rass I'm sure I got from there). At this point we're 8uilding up to play the [[track:death-of-the-lusii|'Death of the Lusii]]/[[track:awakening|Awakening']] 8it with a sort of alternate chord progression, but we sneak in a [[track:showtime-original-mix|Showtime]] reference around 2:16. + 1:33 is almost directly L8A inspired (The layering of the woodwind melody on 8rass I'm sure I got from there). At this point we're 8uilding up to play the [['Death of the Lusii]]/[[Awakening']] 8it with a sort of alternate chord progression, but we sneak in a [[track:showtime-original-mix|Showtime]] reference around 2:16. 2:26 is meant to directly correlated to These Two panels and is a reference to this track. @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ Commentary: |- Overall there's quite a 8it I like about this one. The Percussion doesn't vary much, which lets it down I think (It's 8asically just the same loop for most of the song, something I'm hilariously guilty of in most everything I make :p) but it did the jo8 in giving Vriska a good sendoff. - Oh yeah - The reason it doesn't use any of [[track:vriskas-theme|Vriska's theme]] is because I find that theme a 8it........ All over the place ::::p Don't get me wrong, it's a cool 8it of music, 8ut I don't find it as easy to play a8out with than other tracks. 8lame my laziness! + Oh yeah - The reason it doesn't use any of [[Vriska's theme]] is because I find that theme a 8it........ All over the place ::::p Don't get me wrong, it's a cool 8it of music, 8ut I don't find it as easy to play a8out with than other tracks. 8lame my laziness! I also fully suspect I missed some '8's somewhere........ This stuff's harder than it looks. God help me if I try to commentary another gorram Terezi track ::::p --- @@ -397,9 +397,9 @@ Commentary: |- The [[album:squiddles|Squiddles]] album gets no love. There, I said it. I've mentioned before how awesome it is and how dramatically it has undersold compared to the rest of our material, but apparently everyone is too terrified of its My Little Pony meets Cthulu approach to give it a shot. Trust me, you'll like it more than you think you will. - Anyway, one of the most surprising tracks on that particular album is [[track:ocean-stars|"Ocean Stars"]], a peaceful, mysterious little ditty imagined by Mark with a nautical theme in mind. I thought it had a beautiful little structure, and I guess the song must have stuck with me because at some point I found myself playing its chords over and over on my keyboard faster and faster until I was sure it would make for a great little indie rock inspired track. So I did just that. + Anyway, one of the most surprising tracks on that particular album is [["Ocean Stars"]], a peaceful, mysterious little ditty imagined by Mark with a nautical theme in mind. I thought it had a beautiful little structure, and I guess the song must have stuck with me because at some point I found myself playing its chords over and over on my keyboard faster and faster until I was sure it would make for a great little indie rock inspired track. So I did just that. - This song takes its cues most heavily from ["Regatta de Blanc"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN-nXWHkVpA) by the Police and [[track:life-in-technicolor|"Life in Technicolor"]] by Coldplay - the meditatively simple rock backup is accompanied by a huge chorus of wordless vocals provided by countless overdubs of [[artist:tavia-morra|Tavia]] and myself. These middle voices are bookended by the twinkling bell sounds in the high range and the rumbling drums and guitar in the low range to make for a very full mix that really surprised me with its depth. I threw in some slowed-down bubble sounds (the same samples from [[track:mister-bowman-tells-you-about-the-squiddles|"Mister Bowman Tells You About the Squiddles"]]) to create the ocean ambiance, something I'd really gotten the chance to hear on a scuba dive I'd done over the summer. + This song takes its cues most heavily from ["Regatta de Blanc"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN-nXWHkVpA) by the Police and [["Life in Technicolor"]] by Coldplay - the meditatively simple rock backup is accompanied by a huge chorus of wordless vocals provided by countless overdubs of [[artist:tavia-morra|Tavia]] and myself. These middle voices are bookended by the twinkling bell sounds in the high range and the rumbling drums and guitar in the low range to make for a very full mix that really surprised me with its depth. I threw in some slowed-down bubble sounds (the same samples from [["Mister Bowman Tells You About the Squiddles"]]) to create the ocean ambiance, something I'd really gotten the chance to hear on a scuba dive I'd done over the summer. This is another example of a song that has the "just right" feeling about its length. I could probably have easily repeated the vocals endlessly as though I was attempting to induce transcendental meditation - it would probably have had the same effect as ["Hey Jude"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_MjCqQoLLA) or any number of other great songs. Owing though to my sense that this album was going to be a long one (my contributions alone come out to more than 20 minutes of music) I decided to capitalize on having achieved the harmony and just let it end when its thought was fully expressed, not unlike the original composition by Mark. @@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ Commentary: |- The track also pulls a lot from actual rock music - the Roxy Music track ["Street Life"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_dTFdRAvN0) was a big cue here, and the start-stop structure on the second chorus was really inspired by Tally Hall's track ["Greener"](https://youtu.be/8sV1EOJQTEI) of which the effect can only be described in exotic dance. I really wanted to pull out the stops on this one and make it catchy as hell, but apparently the [[track:ocean-stars-falling|two]] [[track:davesprite|tracks]] book-ending it on Volume 8 steal its thunder. - What more can be said about it? This is about as totally poppy (or perhaps J-poppy) as I get. Compared to stuff like [[track:greenhouse|"Greenhouse"]] and [[track:squiddle-samba|"Squiddle Samba"]] this track is right up my alley. It in contrast with some of the other stuff that I've made appearing on the very same album (the minimalist piece [[track:gust-of-heir|"Gust of Heir"]] which I collaborated on with [[artist:james-dever|James Dever]] comes to mind) you'll see that I can go just as far in the saccharine direction as I can into the abstract. For me range has always been an asset I've felt was important to nurture, so with Volume 8 I set the pace for my work ethic on [[album:ithaca|Ithaca]] in terms of never settling to have "found my sound" no matter how well any one idea works. + What more can be said about it? This is about as totally poppy (or perhaps J-poppy) as I get. Compared to stuff like [["Greenhouse"]] and [["Squiddle Samba"]] this track is right up my alley. It in contrast with some of the other stuff that I've made appearing on the very same album (the minimalist piece [["Gust of Heir"]] which I collaborated on with [[artist:james-dever|James Dever]] comes to mind) you'll see that I can go just as far in the saccharine direction as I can into the abstract. For me range has always been an asset I've felt was important to nurture, so with Volume 8 I set the pace for my work ethic on [[album:ithaca|Ithaca]] in terms of never settling to have "found my sound" no matter how well any one idea works. <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1849), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) @@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ Commentary: |- Uh oh, [[artist:erik-scheele|Jit]] and I showed up to the album with the same song idea. That's like two girls showing up the party in the same dress. Awkward! Good thing for Jit and I that, like the two girls in that famous scenario, we each have our own swagga and wear those dresses like the hot young messes we are. Wow, don't quote me on that. - Anyway, while [[track:frog-forager|"Frog Forager"]] is almost immediate in its "aw man, yeah, it's THIS kind of tune" factor for avid listeners of Homestuck music, my ditty "Frog Hunt" seems to hit a lot of people out of left field. Maybe it's because I was busy surprising myself with this one as well. + Anyway, while [["Frog Forager"]] is almost immediate in its "aw man, yeah, it's THIS kind of tune" factor for avid listeners of Homestuck music, my ditty "Frog Hunt" seems to hit a lot of people out of left field. Maybe it's because I was busy surprising myself with this one as well. I've mentioned Weather Report a few times as an influence, and while I can't bring even a fraction of that band's musicianship to my work, I really attempted to bring their sense of atmosphere to the piece. There's a lot of elements thrown in there - the wacky time signature (17/8 if I recall correctly), the meandering syncopated piano, the funk breaks, all that latin percussion, plus a pile of odd sound effects. I threw in some frog ambiance using some really odd synthesizers and a toy accordion as well. @@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ Commentary: |- <b>Concept</b> - The idea behind this guy was something similar to the traditional idea of some HS songs being about movement ([[track:descend|"Descend"]], [[flash:1668|"Ascend"]], [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|"Upward Movement"]]), so in this case it's 4 things moving, together as one. It was becoming reasonably clear that post-scratch, we'd be separating The beta kids up a bit, and ideally, once the dust settled, they would all meet up again - This track's effectively the kids overcoming whatever barriers in their way to unite. + The idea behind this guy was something similar to the traditional idea of some HS songs being about movement ([["Descend"]], [[flash:1668|"Ascend"]], [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|"Upward Movement"]]), so in this case it's 4 things moving, together as one. It was becoming reasonably clear that post-scratch, we'd be separating The beta kids up a bit, and ideally, once the dust settled, they would all meet up again - This track's effectively the kids overcoming whatever barriers in their way to unite. That was the original idea, anyway. @@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>(Before talking about this song, Hilary talks about her other song, [[track:ace-of-trump]], with those sections transcribed on that song's page.)</i> - Um, my other song, Homefree. This one's got less to it, like [laughter] my first goal of this song was actually for me to learn how-how to use a program called Fruity Loops Studio, um... 'cuz, up until this point all of my music had been done with a program called Melody Assistant, and in some ways I really love Melody Assistant like, I have this whole sound database to it that makes it really have an incredibly authentic sound to the instruments but, on the other side of the spectrum it has very little synth options, which, whi-which is really the direction that the MS Paint Adventures music team has moved in, um. So I was like alright alright, let's learn how to synth a bit. Um, and so, in some ways um, Homefree draws a lot from a song I wrote AGES and ages ago, it was a song called [[track:shooting-star|Shooting Star]] which, I mean i-it was kind of basically supposed to sound like an anime opening and it did but i-it... it was missing something. Like, it was very mor— it was more of in a minor key and it was slower, and so I was like, alright. Well first things first I'm gonna try and get this up to, what was it the tempo of [incomprehensible] I don't know how you say that. It's an opening of an anime that you may or may not have heard that just is really high energy and I was like 'Okay, so, if I wanna have a high energy song I probably should try and make it sound about this fast' [laughter]. + Um, my other song, Homefree. This one's got less to it, like [laughter] my first goal of this song was actually for me to learn how-how to use a program called Fruity Loops Studio, um... 'cuz, up until this point all of my music had been done with a program called Melody Assistant, and in some ways I really love Melody Assistant like, I have this whole sound database to it that makes it really have an incredibly authentic sound to the instruments but, on the other side of the spectrum it has very little synth options, which, whi-which is really the direction that the MS Paint Adventures music team has moved in, um. So I was like alright alright, let's learn how to synth a bit. Um, and so, in some ways um, Homefree draws a lot from a song I wrote AGES and ages ago, it was a song called [[Shooting Star]] which, I mean i-it was kind of basically supposed to sound like an anime opening and it did but i-it... it was missing something. Like, it was very mor— it was more of in a minor key and it was slower, and so I was like, alright. Well first things first I'm gonna try and get this up to, what was it the tempo of [incomprehensible] I don't know how you say that. It's an opening of an anime that you may or may not have heard that just is really high energy and I was like 'Okay, so, if I wanna have a high energy song I probably should try and make it sound about this fast' [laughter]. So, the opening of Homefree is basically the opening of Shooting Star and, then, then I started like, I was like you know, after you get past the opening it's not really good until you get to the ending and so I was like 'What else can I put in here?' and so I started putting down the [[track:homestuck-anthem|Homestuck theme]] just because it was easy and jumped to mind, and so, when that, when that really seemed to work I was like 'You know what? Let's throw in more bits of different Homestuck songs in there' like, after the um Homestuck theme, what really... what I think most people don't really notice is that the next part actually sounds like, like the like [[Sburban Jungle|Suburban Jungle]] like, it's-it's moved down about one note but it's like, Suburban Jungle is like [singing] and then, and then in Homefree it's [singing] y'know it's basically the same melody. @@ -1035,7 +1035,7 @@ Commentary: |- Basically, heavily influenced by the Pink Panther theme ([You know the one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyZiIuMufTA&pp=ygUScGluayBwYW50aGVyIHRoZW1l)). While making this all I could imagine was a bizarre Andrew Hussie Elmer Fudd hunting 'Scwatches'... - More or less my first attempt to do something in this style. Also, surprisingly, most of it was played live on keyboard into the sequencer (not something I normally do) and then heavily quantized to fix my wonky playing. It gives it a <i>slightly</i> more organic feel, most noticeable on the chords during the [[track:explore|'Explore']] section at the end (Which may also owe a little bit to the Monkey Island soundtrack). + More or less my first attempt to do something in this style. Also, surprisingly, most of it was played live on keyboard into the sequencer (not something I normally do) and then heavily quantized to fix my wonky playing. It gives it a <i>slightly</i> more organic feel, most noticeable on the chords during the [['Explore']] section at the end (Which may also owe a little bit to the Monkey Island soundtrack). Basically a bit of music for [Andrew's huntin' of Scratch](https://www.homestuck.com/story/4056) shortly before the end of act. Included is the ["AAAAAHHH FUCKING WOLF!!"](https://www.homestuck.com/story/4063) moment for good measure (That was added after the first draft to [[artist:toby-fox|Rad's]] suggestion). There was even talk of getting some grumbly vocals from [[artist:andrew-hussie|the man 'imself]], but alas... @@ -1143,7 +1143,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (co-composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) - "Revered Return" began as a track called [[track:dirgeish|"Dirgeish"]], a .pxtone composition that [[artist:nick-smalley|Nick]] had completed some time ago but never managed to squeeze into an album. Because as a chip tune it had been long overlooked, I decided to take a whack at producing it in a different style for inclusion on Volume 8. I had been looking for a piece that would work as a rock tune, and "Dirgeish" really struck me because of the heavy involvement of drums, its steady pace, and dynamic structure. + "Revered Return" began as a track called [["Dirgeish"]], a .pxtone composition that [[artist:nick-smalley|Nick]] had completed some time ago but never managed to squeeze into an album. Because as a chip tune it had been long overlooked, I decided to take a whack at producing it in a different style for inclusion on Volume 8. I had been looking for a piece that would work as a rock tune, and "Dirgeish" really struck me because of the heavy involvement of drums, its steady pace, and dynamic structure. The unique challenge of arranging "Revered Return" was pinning down exactly what was what - "Dirgeish" had maximized use of its resources as an electronic composition, shifting instrumentation several times in ways that wouldn't translate to a rock context. I found myself in a very subjective position, kind of picking and choosing what things would stay in and what things would be changed, while overall trying to maintain the original structure of the song. @@ -1371,7 +1371,7 @@ Commentary: |- So, like it or not, [[track:how-do-i-live-bunny-back-in-the-box-version|my signature song]] seems to be the country ballad made famous by a movie about how Nicolas Cage and John Cusack screw up absolutely everything and destroy the Las Vegas strip. Hence, for Volume 8, I decided to do a more serious version of "How Do I Live" that doesn't mortify me entirely. - I always had thought of [[track:how-do-i-live|"How Do I Live"]] as a breakup song, so as an anthem of dependency between generic 90's lovers I was underwhelmed. However, in Con Air it's meant to be the love theme of a woman whose husband serves in the military, giving the song a very different meaning. The stakes are not whether the singer's lover will stay or leave but whether they will live or die, a thought that is instantly more resonant for anyone who has been in love I think. + I always had thought of [["How Do I Live"]] as a breakup song, so as an anthem of dependency between generic 90's lovers I was underwhelmed. However, in Con Air it's meant to be the love theme of a woman whose husband serves in the military, giving the song a very different meaning. The stakes are not whether the singer's lover will stay or leave but whether they will live or die, a thought that is instantly more resonant for anyone who has been in love I think. The trick to this one for me was cutting out all the bullshit really - the ridiculous key change is removed and the drums are minimal to the extent of sounding like a funeral march. Rather than starting off with chipper little electric organs and keyboards, this version takes a cue from ["Purple Rain"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Y1gohk5-A) and uses only electric guitar and vocals for the first minute. The vocals start off sounding a million miles away and are subtly brought closer and closer until the other instruments join in on the second verse. @@ -1445,11 +1445,11 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) - Back when we knew Jade as just GG, I wrote the first part of Carefree Action as a possible upbeat strife theme for her. It never ended up getting used, but other people liked it, and eventually a remix of it ([[track:carefree-victory|Carefree Victory]]) made it into the comic. The original was pretty short, so I lengthened it so that I could eventually get it onto an album. Like [[track:sburban-reversal|Sburban Reversal]], I recommended it as a bonus track. + Back when we knew Jade as just GG, I wrote the first part of Carefree Action as a possible upbeat strife theme for her. It never ended up getting used, but other people liked it, and eventually a remix of it ([[Carefree Victory]]) made it into the comic. The original was pretty short, so I lengthened it so that I could eventually get it onto an album. Like [[Sburban Reversal]], I recommended it as a bonus track. <i>8bitkitten:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://kitten-burrito.tumblr.com/post/11905462064), 10/25/2011) - Days before the release of *Homestuck Volume 8,* I lucked out and was offered the opportunity to make track art. I chose “Carefree Action” and wound up with a cute 8-bit tune. It’s a lighter version of [[track:carefree-victory|“Carefree Victory”]] from *[[album:homestuck-vol-4|Volume 4]]*. The 8-bit sound and peppiness of the song gave me the idea of Jade and Dave collecting frogs as they would coins in a video game. + Days before the release of *Homestuck Volume 8,* I lucked out and was offered the opportunity to make track art. I chose “Carefree Action” and wound up with a cute 8-bit tune. It’s a lighter version of [[“Carefree Victory”]] from *[[album:homestuck-vol-4|Volume 4]]*. The 8-bit sound and peppiness of the song gave me the idea of Jade and Dave collecting frogs as they would coins in a video game. <s>I have a hi-res image, but this is all I can post for now.</s> --- diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml index 6f2a2069..628342c8 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml @@ -494,9 +494,9 @@ MIDI Project Files: Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20181217221129/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/post/25249439835/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-another), excerpt, 6/16/2012) - Before this track was [[flash:4665|used]] in Homestuck along with Beatfox's [[track:a-taste-for-adventure|"A Taste for Adventure"]], it was actually made for a nearly 3-year-old defunct fan project. Housetrapped was a story about an alternate Sburb session and "Another Jungle" was a the-same-but-different theme for the loading screen of that universe's Sburb client. Sound familiar? + Before this track was [[flash:4665|used]] in Homestuck along with Beatfox's [["A Taste for Adventure"]], it was actually made for a nearly 3-year-old defunct fan project. Housetrapped was a story about an alternate Sburb session and "Another Jungle" was a the-same-but-different theme for the loading screen of that universe's Sburb client. Sound familiar? - When we shifted into gear to create new Homestuck music following the start of Act 6, I was asked to refurbish the forgotten 40-second theme I'd written as the theme to Sburb Alpha. "Another Jungle" is thus the alpha equivalent of [[track:sburban-jungle|"Sburban Jungle"]] which I had written back when Homestuck began - structurally both songs are very similar, but each with their own melodies and sound choices. + When we shifted into gear to create new Homestuck music following the start of Act 6, I was asked to refurbish the forgotten 40-second theme I'd written as the theme to Sburb Alpha. "Another Jungle" is thus the alpha equivalent of [["Sburban Jungle"]] which I had written back when Homestuck began - structurally both songs are very similar, but each with their own melodies and sound choices. "Another Jungle" has the benefit of years of experience with production I did not have when Homestuck began, and to me the fidelity difference really shows. Since writing "Sburban Jungle" I'd become far more familiar with automation, recording, eq, mixing, mastering, and all the techniques that polish a music project. "Another Jungle" is far more dynamic than its predecessor, with each subsequent section of the song having its own unique way of using the instruments and sounds in the project. @@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20181217213819/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/post/25256423852/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-gamegrl), 6/16/2012) - Originally we'd planned on doing a Homestuck album that was devoted entirely to the Sburb Alpha kids and their session, all of us doing tracks that would parallel earlier tracks in a same-but-different fashion. While this album became Homestuck Vol. 9, a lot of analogous tracks remained from the original concept, including this track as an alternative to [[track:gamebro-original-1990-mix|"GameBro (Original 1990 Mix)"]] from Homestuck Vol. 6: Heir Transparent. + Originally we'd planned on doing a Homestuck album that was devoted entirely to the Sburb Alpha kids and their session, all of us doing tracks that would parallel earlier tracks in a same-but-different fashion. While this album became Homestuck Vol. 9, a lot of analogous tracks remained from the original concept, including this track as an alternative to [["GameBro (Original 1990 Mix)"]] from Homestuck Vol. 6: Heir Transparent. While we can only imagine what the set-decorating GameGrl magazine from Jane Crocker's bedroom might actually be like, it's pretty easy for me as a child of the 90's to imagine how the magazine might have looked in the era of the Burger King Kid's Club and Lisa Frank. With GameGrl I attempted to capture a lot of the basic messages perpetuated to girls by children's advertising in the 90's: @@ -1330,7 +1330,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Commentary: |- <i>Erik Scheele:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://erikscheele.tumblr.com/post/24963696053/volume-9), excerpt, 6/12/2012) - I don't remember how long ago it was that [[artist:clark-powell|Plaz]] asked me to do an improvisation around her [[track:three-in-the-morning|Three In The Morning]], but I did it, and here it is! + I don't remember how long ago it was that [[artist:clark-powell|Plaz]] asked me to do an improvisation around her [[Three In The Morning]], but I did it, and here it is! --- Track: Lancer Artists: @@ -2046,7 +2046,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20181217213920/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/post/25389363191/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-another), excerpt, 6/18/2012) - I've mentioned a few times that Homestuck Vol. 9, in its early planning stages, was conceived as an album that would be dedicated to the new session of Homestuck, and most of the tracks would mimic older songs re-imagined in the new universe presented in Act 6. "Another Countdown" was thus the sister song of [[track:sburban-countdown|"Sburban Countdown"]] - both are brief arrangements of their parent songs ([[track:another-jungle|"Another Jungle"]] and [[track:sburban-jungle|"Sburban Jungle"]] respectively) meant to crescendo towards a major climax. + I've mentioned a few times that Homestuck Vol. 9, in its early planning stages, was conceived as an album that would be dedicated to the new session of Homestuck, and most of the tracks would mimic older songs re-imagined in the new universe presented in Act 6. "Another Countdown" was thus the sister song of [["Sburban Countdown"]] - both are brief arrangements of their parent songs ([["Another Jungle"]] and [["Sburban Jungle"]] respectively) meant to crescendo towards a major climax. "Another Countdown" was retooled from its parent track to be far mellower at first - the bass and drum comping is a bit latin in flavor, and much of the song's first half is almost completely quiet until the explosion that finishes off the track. When the concept of the record was changed, it was decided that this relatively short song would be included as a bonus when you purchase the full album. diff --git a/album/i-miss-you-earthbound-2012.yaml b/album/i-miss-you-earthbound-2012.yaml index 1a39c306..7f15cf15 100644 --- a/album/i-miss-you-earthbound-2012.yaml +++ b/album/i-miss-you-earthbound-2012.yaml @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ Commentary: |- From the collaborative EarthBound fan-album I was a part of a while back. - Clearly callback to the [final boss theme in the original game](https://youtu.be/tMCXMg8p9sc), in both instrumentation and structure. I’m not as good at writing dissonant, alien metal, so I took a more melodic approach, integrating the low-intensity NES section into the rest of the song instead of dropping it once the guitars kick in. The melodic section is a little bit inspired by [[artist:malcolm-brown|Malcolm Brown]]’s [[track:rex-duodecim-angelus|Rex Duodecim Angelus]]. + Clearly callback to the [final boss theme in the original game](https://youtu.be/tMCXMg8p9sc), in both instrumentation and structure. I’m not as good at writing dissonant, alien metal, so I took a more melodic approach, integrating the low-intensity NES section into the rest of the song instead of dropping it once the guitars kick in. The melodic section is a little bit inspired by [[artist:malcolm-brown|Malcolm Brown]]’s [[Rex Duodecim Angelus]]. I snuck in some warping, pitch-bended bass notes like the original did. See if you can hear them at 1:09-1:15. Another little musical detail that I’m proud of is that I managed to re-use the sample from the guitar solo that plays on the [[track:prologue-earthbound|opening Gas Station screen]] of the game. diff --git a/album/in-isolation.yaml b/album/in-isolation.yaml index c4984a68..f41f562d 100644 --- a/album/in-isolation.yaml +++ b/album/in-isolation.yaml @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Commentary: |- Words and Music by [[artist:david-ellis]] - [[artist:malik-refaat]]: Saxophones on [[track:our-choice|'Our Choice']] and [[track:last-message|'Last Message']] + [[artist:malik-refaat]]: Saxophones on [['Our Choice']] and [['Last Message']] Artwork by [[artist:tom-yorath]] diff --git a/album/in-medias-res.yaml b/album/in-medias-res.yaml index ddcfabaa..f6586ea6 100644 --- a/album/in-medias-res.yaml +++ b/album/in-medias-res.yaml @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVei_d8DYvs), excerpt) - Another older song for Vol.6 but one that you might have heard elsewhere already. I wrote Little Miss Fortune as a sad song for Serpaz. I felt like a lot of Serpaz’s music leaned heavily on being silly and goofy, so to stand out I decided to write something distinctly sad sounding. I remember the unreleased Homestuck song “Aradia’s Theme” was the main point of inspiration for this song. I do find it somewhat amusing that the song wound up forecasting the direction Serpaz’s story would go. Returning to the point I made at the start, if the b-section melody sounds familiar it’s because I remixed it in [[The Fool Does Not Laugh]], which was in turn remixed by both Rab in [[track:fools-plea|Fool’s plea]]. The song has a pretty far reaching musical legacy despite only now getting released. + Another older song for Vol.6 but one that you might have heard elsewhere already. I wrote Little Miss Fortune as a sad song for Serpaz. I felt like a lot of Serpaz’s music leaned heavily on being silly and goofy, so to stand out I decided to write something distinctly sad sounding. I remember the unreleased Homestuck song “Aradia’s Theme” was the main point of inspiration for this song. I do find it somewhat amusing that the song wound up forecasting the direction Serpaz’s story would go. Returning to the point I made at the start, if the b-section melody sounds familiar it’s because I remixed it in [[The Fool Does Not Laugh]], which was in turn remixed by both Rab in [[Fool’s plea]]. The song has a pretty far reaching musical legacy despite only now getting released. --- Track: Paradise Shatters Duration: 3:11 @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SuHe2Vblu0), excerpt) - Accel/Exceed was the first track of the new batch of songs I wrote for Vol.6 and is easily one of my favorites of the bunch. I initially wrote the main synth/piano motif when I was doing a bit of riff writing practice. I wanted to get a piano motif that sounded like the main riff from [“Lust Sin”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRMEZNW5Ais) by Daisuke Ishiwatari. I wasn’t even going to use it for Vast Error, but I felt like it was too good to not use for something. I remember reading the post-incursion part of the comic and having Hamifi fresh on the mind, so I decided to make a song for her using the motif I had written previously. When I started the song, I decided to take the song from the initial riff in a more action-y breakbeat direction in the vein of [“Fairfrozen”](https://ristaccia.bandcamp.com/track/fairfrozen-selicys-theme) by STEEL_PLUS. I’ve always associated Hamifi with “elegant” instrumentation like strings and piano in addition to corporate’s more electronic soundscape, so those made up the instrumental pallet I was working with. Writing this was different from the usual approach to song writing. Rather than focus on developing a melodic idea over the span of an entire track, I built the song with the main motif as the main backbone of the song. I think it allowed me to do a lot of different stuff structurally, such as meter changes and solos, as motif tied the whole song together. I did sneak a cheeky call back to [[track:like-tears-in-rain|“Like Tears in Rain”]] given the context of the song. I feel like its inclusion highlights how much Cecily’s memory weighs on Hamifi during her confrontation with Edolon. I’m not sure if it’s too self-indulgent to use my own track as a leitmotif like this but I like how it gives the songs layers. + Accel/Exceed was the first track of the new batch of songs I wrote for Vol.6 and is easily one of my favorites of the bunch. I initially wrote the main synth/piano motif when I was doing a bit of riff writing practice. I wanted to get a piano motif that sounded like the main riff from [“Lust Sin”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRMEZNW5Ais) by Daisuke Ishiwatari. I wasn’t even going to use it for Vast Error, but I felt like it was too good to not use for something. I remember reading the post-incursion part of the comic and having Hamifi fresh on the mind, so I decided to make a song for her using the motif I had written previously. When I started the song, I decided to take the song from the initial riff in a more action-y breakbeat direction in the vein of [“Fairfrozen”](https://ristaccia.bandcamp.com/track/fairfrozen-selicys-theme) by STEEL_PLUS. I’ve always associated Hamifi with “elegant” instrumentation like strings and piano in addition to corporate’s more electronic soundscape, so those made up the instrumental pallet I was working with. Writing this was different from the usual approach to song writing. Rather than focus on developing a melodic idea over the span of an entire track, I built the song with the main motif as the main backbone of the song. I think it allowed me to do a lot of different stuff structurally, such as meter changes and solos, as motif tied the whole song together. I did sneak a cheeky call back to [[“Like Tears in Rain”]] given the context of the song. I feel like its inclusion highlights how much Cecily’s memory weighs on Hamifi during her confrontation with Edolon. I’m not sure if it’s too self-indulgent to use my own track as a leitmotif like this but I like how it gives the songs layers. --- Track: Club Can't Handle Me Duration: 2:14 diff --git a/album/induction.yaml b/album/induction.yaml index d0a65898..2684a28e 100644 --- a/album/induction.yaml +++ b/album/induction.yaml @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: <i>Svix:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://svix.bandcamp.com/track/induction)) - Originally appeared as [[track:havoc|'Havoc']] on [[album:homestuck-vol-8|Homestuck Volume 8]] + Originally appeared as [['Havoc']] on [[album:homestuck-vol-8|Homestuck Volume 8]] --- Track: My Hibernation Duration: 3:32 diff --git a/album/infinite-cataclysm.yaml b/album/infinite-cataclysm.yaml index 21e2b231..8f53e26f 100644 --- a/album/infinite-cataclysm.yaml +++ b/album/infinite-cataclysm.yaml @@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ Crediting Sources: |- Referencing Sources: |- <i>LudicrousFalcon:</i> ([Bandcamp credits blurb](https://ludicrousfalcon.bandcamp.com/track/infinite-cataclysm), excerpt) - Track references [[track:crystamanthequins|"Crystamanthequins"]] by [[artist:erik-scheele|Erik "Jit" Scheele]], from [[album:homestuck-vol-5|Homestuck Volume 5]] + Track references [["Crystamanthequins"]] by [[artist:erik-scheele|Erik "Jit" Scheele]], from [[album:homestuck-vol-5|Homestuck Volume 5]] - Track references [[track:doctor|"Doctor"]] by [[artist:buzinkai]], [[artist:michael-vallejo]] and [[artist:clark-powell|Clark "Plazmataz" Powell]], from [[album:homestuck-vol-4|Homestuck Volume 4]] + Track references [["Doctor"]] by [[artist:buzinkai]], [[artist:michael-vallejo]] and [[artist:clark-powell|Clark "Plazmataz" Powell]], from [[album:homestuck-vol-4|Homestuck Volume 4]] - Track references [[track:sburban-jungle|"Sburban Jungle"]] by By [[artist:michael-guy-bowman]] from [[album:homestuck-vol-4|Homestuck Volume 4]] + Track references [["Sburban Jungle"]] by By [[artist:michael-guy-bowman]] from [[album:homestuck-vol-4|Homestuck Volume 4]] diff --git a/album/intermishin.yaml b/album/intermishin.yaml index 9202556c..dff3bc98 100644 --- a/album/intermishin.yaml +++ b/album/intermishin.yaml @@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/25Rf6-EkMdI Commentary: |- <i>Cecily Renns:</i> (Composer) - a wacky and zany song i made for the felt, but crypt said the blues feel makes it better for the MC, but the instrumentation is all orchestral which is felt, this is a [[track:conflict|CONFLICT]] but i just did what [[artist:cryptanark|crypt]] said anyways + a wacky and zany song i made for the felt, but crypt said the blues feel makes it better for the MC, but the instrumentation is all orchestral which is felt, this is a [[CONFLICT]] but i just did what [[artist:cryptanark|crypt]] said anyways <i>Makin:</i> (Artist) <img src="media/misc/wacky-zany-collage.jpg" width="300px"> @@ -1004,7 +1004,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/5gL9HCntBfc Commentary: |- <i>artist:kobacat:</i> (Composer) - So this song was made as a more of an album ender, incorporating (rather just editing together) songs from the album into one. Its mostly taking inspiration from [[track:variations|Variations]] which was the album ender in the original [[album:the-felt|Felt album]]. Before this, I was going to make a [[track:jade-dragon|Jade Dragon]]-type song, but halfway through it started to take too long so I scrapped it. There's still a snippet in the song though, at the end, so it didn't go to waste. Maybe I'll finish it one day and it'll be the best thing you have ever fucking heard idk + So this song was made as a more of an album ender, incorporating (rather just editing together) songs from the album into one. Its mostly taking inspiration from [[Variations]] which was the album ender in the original [[album:the-felt|Felt album]]. Before this, I was going to make a [[Jade Dragon]]-type song, but halfway through it started to take too long so I scrapped it. There's still a snippet in the song though, at the end, so it didn't go to waste. Maybe I'll finish it one day and it'll be the best thing you have ever fucking heard idk <i>Makin:</i> (Seer) This does reference the song "jaed dargon" by [[artist:kobacat]], which has not been released as of 2023. diff --git a/album/jailbreak-vol-1.yaml b/album/jailbreak-vol-1.yaml index 11e9de5c..b41a6e48 100644 --- a/album/jailbreak-vol-1.yaml +++ b/album/jailbreak-vol-1.yaml @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman, B. A. Baker|[[artist:michael-guy-bowman]]:</i> (Bowmantown Discord, excerpt, 9/30/2024) - The long, long list on hsmusic.wiki reminds me that around this time I submitted something to the Homestuck Gaiden fan album for Jailbreak (Jailbreak Vol. 1) - this piece called [[track:mechanic-panic|"Mechanic Panic"]] is one of the first things I wrote for Homestuck and I submitted it as a last minute inclusion to the Jailbreak album which was helmed by [[artist:rj-lake|RJ Lake]] + The long, long list on hsmusic.wiki reminds me that around this time I submitted something to the Homestuck Gaiden fan album for Jailbreak (Jailbreak Vol. 1) - this piece called [["Mechanic Panic"]] is one of the first things I wrote for Homestuck and I submitted it as a last minute inclusion to the Jailbreak album which was helmed by [[artist:rj-lake|RJ Lake]] In retrospect I wish I had never, ever touched that album. I was not exactly dying to have this one released in any official capacity and it was basically just a leftover. @@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ Commentary: |- GFD: Jit, how do you feel about yourself when you listen to this?<br> Jit: Um... Nick: Probably the same way you feel about how you listen to your stuff.<br> GFD: I feel amazing.<br> - Jit: It's like... I don't know, I think it could've been better 'cause Famitracker could do a whole lot more as evidenced by like, [[track:pumpkin-cravings|Pumpkin Cravings]]. But it kinda shows like my inexperience with the whole thing in general.<br> + Jit: It's like... I don't know, I think it could've been better 'cause Famitracker could do a whole lot more as evidenced by like, [[Pumpkin Cravings]]. But it kinda shows like my inexperience with the whole thing in general.<br> RJ!: But, I don't like Pumpkin Cravings as much as this.<br> Nick: I don't like Pumpkin Cravings. It's not my favorite. Jit: Oh you shut your face. You shut your face, RJ.<br> RJ!: It's true, though, this is awesome and I kinda... Like, I look at Pumpkin Cravings as this weird little, kind of off-side thing that's not as good as [[artist:seth-peelle|Beatfox's]] other stuff.<br> @@ -478,8 +478,8 @@ Commentary: |- Jit: I think I have that in my computer somewhere.<br> RJ!: You should give it to me so I can remix it.<br> Jit: I kind of store everything I ever download Homestuck and I put it in like a, in a folder on my computer.<br> - RJ!: The [[track:elf-shanty|Elf Shanty]] artwork is scaring me. Jit: It's some old stuff and there is that one song that Bowman made for the Crowsprite that never got used.<br> - GFD: Awh... Anybody remember [[track:mechanic-panic|Mechanic Panic]]?<br> + RJ!: The [[Elf Shanty]] artwork is scaring me. Jit: It's some old stuff and there is that one song that Bowman made for the Crowsprite that never got used.<br> + GFD: Awh... Anybody remember [[Mechanic Panic]]?<br> RJ!: Yes.<br> Jit: Yeah, I think I have that one on my computer too— RJ!: That didn't make it onto this album, sadly.<br> GFD: I know, it was one of the very first songs that I remember from the forums... when [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew]] was like "Here, make a boss battle song." @@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ Commentary: |- GFD: And unfortunately, we lost the Famitracker files, so we don't have an NSF of this one either. And we cry.<br> RJ!: Yeah, this art is really scaring me now.<br> GFD: Are you still drawing this? What are you drawing now?<br> - RJ!: I'm still drawing— [[track:elf-shanty|Elf Shanty]]. GFD: Oh. Oh, boy.<br> + RJ!: I'm still drawing— [[Elf Shanty]]. GFD: Oh. Oh, boy.<br> Nick: That silly... Oh man, this is a high quality clip.<br> RJ!: Isn't it?<br> Nick: Dude, yeah.<br> @@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ Commentary: |- Jit: I don't think I've actually seen... RJ!: It's not actually hyper-realistic— GFD: Now we're halfway.<br> RJ!: —it's actually kind of cartoon-y. GFD: We hit halfway.<br> RJ!: But, it's um... Relative to the stick figures in the actual comic, it's realistic, and it's terrifying.<br> - GFD: Then [[track:drillgorg|Drillgorg]], Drillgorg was amazing.<br> + GFD: Then [[Drillgorg]], Drillgorg was amazing.<br> RJ!: It's like nightmare, nightmare-ish. It's yeah, then Drillgorg, uh um, Drillgorg is, [blubbering] It's good.<br> Jit: I don't think—<br> RJ!: I'll agree with that.<br> @@ -776,7 +776,7 @@ Commentary: |- GFD: He says [unintelligible] change the title. RJ!: Probably... I can change the title and I probably will, it was originally "With Friends", that's most likely what it's going to be but... I don't know.<br> GFD: It's going to be "With Friends" again?<br> RJ!: "With Friends Again", that's actually... No no, wait... I don't know.<br> - Nick: How about "Be The Other Guy"? Jit: Man, you know, I wish [[track:mannequin|Mannequin]] was on this album.<br> + Nick: How about "Be The Other Guy"? Jit: Man, you know, I wish [[Mannequin]] was on this album.<br> RJ!: Be The Other Guy is actually a perfect title.<br> GFD: Be The— Jit: Actually, now that I'm suddenly thinking about it, Mannequin should be on this album.<br> RJ!: Well, you can't change that now because the track list has already been mastered and finalized.<br> @@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ Commentary: |- RJ!: Yeah, Jesus Christ Superstar, this is scary art. Jit: That's a Heavy [unintelligible].<br> RJ!: What am I doing?<br> GFD: RJ, what are you doing?<br> - Jit: Hey, Jesus Christ Superstar is... RJ!: No, I'm saying the [[track:elf-shanty|Elf Shanty]] art is really terrifying.<br> + Jit: Hey, Jesus Christ Superstar is... RJ!: No, I'm saying the [[Elf Shanty]] art is really terrifying.<br> GFD: Okay, uh... Nick: It should be.<br> Jit: Yeah, the elves are terrifying in Jailbreak, they aren't like the nice ones in Problem Sleuth. These ones are like "Hey, you want our help?" "Take this as a warning, and go away."<br> RJ!: No, I'm just saying I made this elf look kind of like Venom from Spider-Man. [laughter]<br> @@ -871,7 +871,7 @@ Commentary: |- Jit: I swear this sounds familiar, like it's a Homestuck track.<br> RJ!: Because it is a Homestuck track!<br> GFD: It is, it's the...<br> - RJ!: It's, uh, it's a rearrangement of [[track:softly|Softly]] from Volume 5 that I wrote.<br> + RJ!: It's, uh, it's a rearrangement of [[Softly]] from Volume 5 that I wrote.<br> Jit: Oh, okay... I hardly remember that track, unfortunately.<br> RJ!: It's okay, most people don't remember my songs. [fake sniffles]<br> Jit: I doubt most people remember my songs either, but I mean, Volume 5 was massive.<br> @@ -943,9 +943,9 @@ Commentary: |- Jit: Hey, you do good things with voice samples though.<br> Nick: Shut up!<br> Jit: Well, let's see, who does shoehorn voice samples in? There's RJ, [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|Bowman]] I guess, I can think of [[artist:toby-fox|Radiation]]...<br> - GFD: [[track:mayor-maynot|Mayor Maynot]]?<br> + GFD: [[Mayor Maynot]]?<br> RJ!: [[track:nic-cage-song|Boner boner bo-bo bo-boner boner!]]<br> - Nick: Yeah, that was cute. Jit: Yeah and also [[track:gaia-queen|Gaia Queen]], uhh, and then, [unintelligible]. + Nick: Yeah, that was cute. Jit: Yeah and also [[Gaia Queen]], uhh, and then, [unintelligible]. --- Track: Retrobution Artists: @@ -1132,7 +1132,7 @@ Cover Artists: Commentary: |- <i>rj lake, Nick Smalley, Luke Benjamins, Erik Scheele:</i> ([[track:audio-commentary-featuring-robert-j-lake-nick-smalley-luke-gfd-benjamins-and-erik-jit-scheele|album audio commentary]]) - [[artist:erik-scheele|Jit:]] And now, "This is the End". [[artist:nick-smalley|Nick:]] [[track:is-this-the-end|Is this the end?]]<br> + [[artist:erik-scheele|Jit:]] And now, "This is the End". [[artist:nick-smalley|Nick:]] [[Is this the end?]]<br> [[artist:rj-lake|RJ!:]] "This is the End".<br> [[artist:luke-benjamins|GFD:]] It's overrrr! Jit: This is really stereo.<br> Nick: That was good comments.<br> diff --git a/album/janestuck-volume-2.yaml b/album/janestuck-volume-2.yaml index e09981d3..e5706e0e 100644 --- a/album/janestuck-volume-2.yaml +++ b/album/janestuck-volume-2.yaml @@ -119,14 +119,14 @@ Referencing Sources: |- <i>Nexx Mowarek:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://janestuckofficial.bandcamp.com/track/pure-breath-tainted-light), excerpt) References<br> - [[track:savior-of-the-corrupted-lands|"Savior of the Corrupted Lands"]] by Nexx Mowarek<br> - [[track:black-rose-green-sun|"Black Rose / Green Sun"]] by Malcolm Brown<br> + [["Savior of the Corrupted Lands"]] by Nexx Mowarek<br> + [["Black Rose / Green Sun"]] by Malcolm Brown<br> "Showtime" by Malcolm Brown<br> - [[track:aggrieve|"Aggrieve"]] by Mark Hadley<br> - [[track:versus|"Versus"]] by Toby Fox<br> - [[track:jane-dargason|"Jane Dargason"]] by Clark "Plazmataz" Powell and Robert J! Lake<br> - [[track:cupcake-girl|"Cupcake Girl"]] by Liam O'Donnell<br> - [[track:janes-theme|"Jane's Theme"]] by David "Dirtiest" Dycus (dirtiestmusic.tumblr.com) + [["Aggrieve"]] by Mark Hadley<br> + [["Versus"]] by Toby Fox<br> + [["Jane Dargason"]] by Clark "Plazmataz" Powell and Robert J! Lake<br> + [["Cupcake Girl"]] by Liam O'Donnell<br> + [["Jane's Theme"]] by David "Dirtiest" Dycus (dirtiestmusic.tumblr.com) <i>Lilithtreasure:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/1353743089164095548/1371057573473816588), excerpt, 5/11/2025) diff --git a/album/jpeg.yaml b/album/jpeg.yaml index cd54c2b8..7f24c067 100644 --- a/album/jpeg.yaml +++ b/album/jpeg.yaml @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ Commentary: |- searching around for a CANWC page to make a track art out of, i came across a funny scene of hecka jef being accosted by furry prospit guards after jaed spots him not wearing a fursuit. it looked very neat for doing a track art, and i figured that people could easily make a song for it using motifs for hecka jef and jaed, so i did it! (this is now several months old at this point :O can you believe it??) <i>Pipko Fanfare:</i> (Composer) - Before I picked this track art to do a song for, I knew I wanted to try to pull off something similar to what CANWC itself does - the seamless mixing of remarkably low quality with suprisingly high quality, based on familiar homestucky goodness but with some unexpected twists - more like Vol 1 than our more recent (at the time) work. I also wanted to play with some more of Jade's tracks, and with the prositan guards under her control this was one of the track arts that would let me do so. (The other option at the time was Yiff Confirmed, which I may have chosen instead except it was the same artist as [[track:thank-you-for-playing|Thank You For Playing]] and I wanted to spread the love around more. Besides, this art is \*awesome*.) + Before I picked this track art to do a song for, I knew I wanted to try to pull off something similar to what CANWC itself does - the seamless mixing of remarkably low quality with suprisingly high quality, based on familiar homestucky goodness but with some unexpected twists - more like Vol 1 than our more recent (at the time) work. I also wanted to play with some more of Jade's tracks, and with the prositan guards under her control this was one of the track arts that would let me do so. (The other option at the time was Yiff Confirmed, which I may have chosen instead except it was the same artist as [[Thank You For Playing]] and I wanted to spread the love around more. Besides, this art is \*awesome*.) Unlike nearly everything I've done here, this track had a surprising amount of planning before I set down the first note. For the sake of history, here's my original plan for the structure of the piece, cut and paste from discord [[Umbral Ultimatum|uu]] but the piano intro is [[track:where-making-this-hapen|h*cka (probs sbhj theme)]] then 0:25 low-quality uu with barks and meows then 0:45 kick into higher quality to build up to 0:55 hq except with a mario paint bark lead then at 1:20 at the melody switch go to a skaia theme or something instead for the prospitans but keep the style of uu, 1:56 refrain of hj intro, 2:15 8-bit dogsong holy shit this song is longer than i remembered (Okay, so that's only a lot of planning compared to my usual zero. And you can see I changed my mind on a few things later.) @@ -794,7 +794,7 @@ Commentary: |- this art was made because links made a theory about caliborns derse not being real, due to cherub shenanigans. im not links but hes not even on this team so he cant do commentary. im links and i love eating buttholes and smelling big balls <i>Kal-la-kal-la:</i> (Composer) - OK so I found out there were still unclaimed track arts for jpeg a couple of days before the deadline. My first instinct was to pick this one since any opportunity to utilise the Calliope themes Voidlight and The Lyrist, by [[artist:thomas-ferkol|Thomas Ferkol]], is a good opportunity to me. Of course, the other important character here is Jack Noir, who I represented with Walk-Stab-Walk by [[artist:erik-scheele|Erik Scheele]], a lovely piece with wonderful melodies tbh, as well as an attempt to incorporate features of Archagent Everlasting by [[artist:cecily-renns|JohnJRenns]] (and I say an attempt because that song is dissonant as hell god *damn*). Reverie by [[artist:alex-rosetti|Alex Rossetti]] makes an appearance in the synth arps, faultily transcribed by yours truly. And then there's Carne Vale, which is strictly speaking a Caliborn theme, but Caliborn is an important player in the grand theory of a Derse-less Cherub Session. So I combined these motifs into this tune presented here, the steady pulsing rhythm of the first half somewhat inspired by To Cross The Void by NiceWizard from Redditstuck Vol. 2, and the second half perhaps subconsciously inspired by [[track:another-chance|Another Chance]] by Eston 'Silence' Schweickart, from [[album:one-year-older|One Year Older]]. Having put that together I figured I'd put a drum solo at the end, being entirely devoid of other ideas as to how close off the piece. I'd like to think that I did the art justice on the whole. + OK so I found out there were still unclaimed track arts for jpeg a couple of days before the deadline. My first instinct was to pick this one since any opportunity to utilise the Calliope themes Voidlight and The Lyrist, by [[artist:thomas-ferkol|Thomas Ferkol]], is a good opportunity to me. Of course, the other important character here is Jack Noir, who I represented with Walk-Stab-Walk by [[artist:erik-scheele|Erik Scheele]], a lovely piece with wonderful melodies tbh, as well as an attempt to incorporate features of Archagent Everlasting by [[artist:cecily-renns|JohnJRenns]] (and I say an attempt because that song is dissonant as hell god *damn*). Reverie by [[artist:alex-rosetti|Alex Rossetti]] makes an appearance in the synth arps, faultily transcribed by yours truly. And then there's Carne Vale, which is strictly speaking a Caliborn theme, but Caliborn is an important player in the grand theory of a Derse-less Cherub Session. So I combined these motifs into this tune presented here, the steady pulsing rhythm of the first half somewhat inspired by To Cross The Void by NiceWizard from Redditstuck Vol. 2, and the second half perhaps subconsciously inspired by [[Another Chance]] by Eston 'Silence' Schweickart, from [[album:one-year-older|One Year Older]]. Having put that together I figured I'd put a drum solo at the end, being entirely devoid of other ideas as to how close off the piece. I'd like to think that I did the art justice on the whole. --- Track: The Art of Stealing Faces Artists: diff --git a/album/kindred-souls.yaml b/album/kindred-souls.yaml index 41afbc64..0e016723 100644 --- a/album/kindred-souls.yaml +++ b/album/kindred-souls.yaml @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Dogsong Commentary: |- <i>yuuDii:</i> - There's an '[[track:enemy-approaching|Enemy Approaching]]' but they kind of aren't feeling it, and they've heard the human's pretty chill, so they're just going to slowly make their way over because they're not in a real rush to start the battle or anything. + There's an '[[Enemy Approaching]]' but they kind of aren't feeling it, and they've heard the human's pretty chill, so they're just going to slowly make their way over because they're not in a real rush to start the battle or anything. <i>Skyplayer:</i> Watch out... here he comes... oh no... he's on his way... you'll never be able to defeat him... he's almost here... any second now... prepare yourself... anytime now... uh oh... get those mitts ready... for a brawl like the world has never seen before... any moment now... do you see him on the horizon... be careful... he's about to attack... it's time... for a good boy... his appetite for pets can never be satiated... look out... @@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Waterfall Commentary: |- <i>Awkward:</i> - The colour palette is actually reused from the art for [[track:twilight-reverie-penumbra-phantasm|Twilight Reverie ~ Penumbra Phantasm]]. There's no reasoning behind it beyond "I'm lazy," but it's nice that they visually complement each other. + The colour palette is actually reused from the art for [[Twilight Reverie ~ Penumbra Phantasm]]. There's no reasoning behind it beyond "I'm lazy," but it's nice that they visually complement each other. --- Track: THUNDERTALE Artists: @@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Penumbra Phantasm Commentary: |- <i>Gryotharian:</i> - This was an attempt at any dnb/breakcore type song to demonstrate my music to a friend but it quickly became [[track:battle-against-a-true-hero|battle against a true hero]] and I thought 'well shit guess its undertale now' and comitted. + This was an attempt at any dnb/breakcore type song to demonstrate my music to a friend but it quickly became [[battle against a true hero]] and I thought 'well shit guess its undertale now' and comitted. <i>Gryotharian:</i> undyn. @@ -355,10 +355,10 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Green Ghost Commentary: |- <i>ruby:</i> - [[track:another-medium|Another Medium]] is such a special track to me. it's a very unique track in the [[album:undertale-soundtrack|undertale soundtrack]]. I just wish it was longer, which is why I made this remix longer than the original. this is actually an older remix that I overhauled for this album, fixing errors and improving the mix. + [[Another Medium]] is such a special track to me. it's a very unique track in the [[album:undertale-soundtrack|undertale soundtrack]]. I just wish it was longer, which is why I made this remix longer than the original. this is actually an older remix that I overhauled for this album, fixing errors and improving the mix. <i>Ender:</i> - [[track:another-medium|Another Medium]] has always been my favorite Undertale track, since before I even knew the context of the name. I don't know what about it has always given me this grand, adventurous sense of wonder. It must be magic. Or that you hear it for so long while doing the arrow puzzle that it melds with your brain. + [[Another Medium]] has always been my favorite Undertale track, since before I even knew the context of the name. I don't know what about it has always given me this grand, adventurous sense of wonder. It must be magic. Or that you hear it for so long while doing the arrow puzzle that it melds with your brain. --- Track: CORE [BRUTALIZED] Artists: @@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Gaster's Theme Commentary: |- <i>Jebb:</i> - I really like Carpenter Brut's stuff. Like, it's REALLY good. At the time of writing this commentary, i have semi-recently checked out all of their non-soundtrack albums. A big reason for me doing that was because when this album rolled around, "[[track:core|CORE]] but in the style of a Carpenter Brut track" was one of the ideas i had come up with. This was the result. + I really like Carpenter Brut's stuff. Like, it's REALLY good. At the time of writing this commentary, i have semi-recently checked out all of their non-soundtrack albums. A big reason for me doing that was because when this album rolled around, "[[CORE]] but in the style of a Carpenter Brut track" was one of the ideas i had come up with. This was the result. I felt like Brut's heavy, electronic, very rhythmically straightforward style fit Core - it's a track for a "final stretch battle gauntlet" after all, the area putting you up against the underground's toughest monsters, so it makes sense for it to fit an intense style.<br> (Actually, that being said, i feel like [[artist:ender|EnderSlime]]'s wonderful cover art made for this track reflects that idea very much! A literal wave of enemies isn't something to scoff at.) @@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ Commentary: |- - huge thanks to [[artist:yuudii|yuuDii]] for allowing me to use her [[track:super-killer-robot|Super Killer Robot]] track! when i thought i got everything out of [[track:power-of-neo|Power of NEO]] that i could get, she dropped it and told me i could use it for my track if i wanted to. i ended up making an entire extra phase! + huge thanks to [[artist:yuudii|yuuDii]] for allowing me to use her [[Super Killer Robot]] track! when i thought i got everything out of [[Power of NEO]] that i could get, she dropped it and told me i could use it for my track if i wanted to. i ended up making an entire extra phase! also thanks to [[artist:ender|EnderSlime]] for helping out with the song title, in addition to the awesome art! @@ -516,14 +516,14 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Mysterious Place Commentary: |- <i>Jebb:</i> - So, tell me for a second. WHY is Glyde THE only one of the Kickstarter bosses to not have a boss theme? Muffet has one! I mean, even So Sorry has one! Why does Glyde for some random reason not get a boss theme when all the others do?? Like, his spawn location gets a completely unique atmospheric track ([[track:mysterious-place|Mysterious Place]]) but his actual fight doesn't? What?? Why?? Glyde is COOL and RADICAL and he does NOT deserve this injustice!!! + So, tell me for a second. WHY is Glyde THE only one of the Kickstarter bosses to not have a boss theme? Muffet has one! I mean, even So Sorry has one! Why does Glyde for some random reason not get a boss theme when all the others do?? Like, his spawn location gets a completely unique atmospheric track ([[Mysterious Place]]) but his actual fight doesn't? What?? Why?? Glyde is COOL and RADICAL and he does NOT deserve this injustice!!! I decided to fix that. - Anyways. The inspiration for this track was in big part [[track:gamebro-original-1990-mix|GameBro (Original 1990 Mix)]] and [[track:catswing|Catswing]]. You can hear the GameBro inspiration most in the duty cycle and the Catswing inspiration in, well, the completely unaltered Catswing motif.<br> + Anyways. The inspiration for this track was in big part [[GameBro (Original 1990 Mix)]] and [[Catswing]]. You can hear the GameBro inspiration most in the duty cycle and the Catswing inspiration in, well, the completely unaltered Catswing motif.<br> Actually, i remembered that i was advised to at least tweak the motif a bit to not make it blatantly Catswing but i completely forgot to do that. Whoops, oh well. Let's just pretend that Catswing actually originated in Undertale as part of Glyde's totally real boss theme. Yeah. - Also, said Catswing motif is played by SGM's Comp Clav, which is the same instrument that plays the "[[track:sans|sans.]]" lead. You figure out the lore implications. + Also, said Catswing motif is played by SGM's Comp Clav, which is the same instrument that plays the "[[sans.]]" lead. You figure out the lore implications. I tried to make the track more "sleazy gamer cool" than "jazzy villain" coo (thus the GameBro inspiration) but the muzes lead me more into the 2nd direction. Must say, i don't regret it! I feel like it channels enough of both energies to work just fine. @@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) Commentary: |- <i>DalekWho1963:</i> - Heavily inspired by [[track:separate-ways-worlds-apart|Separate Ways (World's Apart) by Journey]]. I wanted to have a sort of epic hard vibe to it, and that track just stuck in my head. I think the new tone the track brings to the general vibe of "[[track:battle-against-a-true-hero|Battle Against a True Hero]]" is not just the normal one of fighting against all odds, but moreso "I'm going to best your ass and look cool while doing it" + Heavily inspired by [[Separate Ways (World's Apart)]] by Journey. I wanted to have a sort of epic hard vibe to it, and that track just stuck in my head. I think the new tone the track brings to the general vibe of "[[Battle Against a True Hero]]" is not just the normal one of fighting against all odds, but moreso "I'm going to best your ass and look cool while doing it" --- Track: Weeping Glass Shard Freedom Into Your Bloodied Hands Artists: @@ -813,7 +813,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Upward Movement (Dave Owns) Commentary: |- <i>Gryotharian:</i> - I... dunno man. I just wanted to do something with [[track:long-elevator|long elevator]] as a joke, and this is what came out of it. [[artist:ddp|DDP]] did some fantastic art that my track feels underserving of. + I... dunno man. I just wanted to do something with [[long elevator]] as a joke, and this is what came out of it. [[artist:ddp|DDP]] did some fantastic art that my track feels underserving of. <i>DDP:</i> ah yes the elevator. the most liminal of spaces. sometimes your reflection is only yours by osmosis btw did you know that. @@ -990,7 +990,7 @@ Lyrics: |- All your friends are here with you in your memories - All our [[track:hopes-and-dreams|Hopes and Dreams]] live on + All our [[Hopes and Dreams]] live on Seal the fear that you ran from Standing tall Breaking through the clouds @@ -1001,7 +1001,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Scream it loud and proud You're the legend they foretold - [[track:save-the-world|SAVE the World]] and staying gold + [[SAVE the World]] and staying gold Fighting fate The tale of DELTARUNE @@ -1025,7 +1025,7 @@ Commentary: |- at some point, I decided to increase the tempo, add guitars, basically make it way more J-Rock-like. I really liked how it sounded so I kept working on it.<br> I decided I wanted to make it a full-lenght song, and even write lyrics for it. Great ideas, but let's first try to finish a demo. - I had the full structure in my head, I knew I wanted to use the lyrics of [[track:dont-forget|Don't Forget]]. then, I knew I wanted to have cool imagery in the lyrics, some lyric concepts I wrote down in the moment made it to the final song even! + I had the full structure in my head, I knew I wanted to use the lyrics of [[Don't Forget]]. then, I knew I wanted to have cool imagery in the lyrics, some lyric concepts I wrote down in the moment made it to the final song even! I really had a concrete vision, at the time I literally said:<br> "I can't stop thinking about it, all I know is i have to make this song a reality. now I know how [[artist:toby-fox|Toby]] felt after his fever dream, but I was awake when I conjured this concept. I need to make it.........." @@ -1164,9 +1164,9 @@ Commentary: |- This was the latest addition to the album by me, but also one of the ones that i am the most proud of. I really felt like "Seam boss theme" is a track idea that hasn't been explored nearly enough by the fandom. - The arrangement directly borrows a lot of instruments used in [[track:rude-buster|Rude Buster]], which i referenced heavily in this track considering Seam's theme, [[track:lantern-deltarune|Lantern]], is a variation on that track. (Actually, did you ever think about the fact that we have heard Lantern in more chapters by now than we have heard Rude Buster?) + The arrangement directly borrows a lot of instruments used in [[Rude Buster]], which i referenced heavily in this track considering Seam's theme, [[track:lantern-deltarune|Lantern]], is a variation on that track. (Actually, did you ever think about the fact that we have heard Lantern in more chapters by now than we have heard Rude Buster?) - The strings take a much more of a backseat in the track after their initial appearence in the first part for no particular reason. This track has a full part dedicated to referencing Jevil, since we know how much of a connection Seam has to him. I think this is one of the very few tracks on this album which is referencing the other part of [[track:the-world-revolving|The World Revolving]] and not the freedom motif. + The strings take a much more of a backseat in the track after their initial appearence in the first part for no particular reason. This track has a full part dedicated to referencing Jevil, since we know how much of a connection Seam has to him. I think this is one of the very few tracks on this album which is referencing the other part of [[The World Revolving]] and not the freedom motif. I really like that little ending part. I made it while messing around and decided to keep it in for the final version of the track. @@ -1252,7 +1252,7 @@ Sampled Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Tee-vee:</i> Welcome to the latest installment of "tee-vee gets too many ideas and just glues everything together".<br> - [[track:glaceir|GLACEIR]] is my favorite deeper cut from [[album:deltarune-ch3-4-ost|the latest chapters soundtrack]], it's simple yet haunting and it really gripped me when it started playing where it appears in game. I tried to capture some of that feeling with instrumentation from different styles that could convey similar feelings to me, with grimey chamber orchestration, dungeon synth... synths, sludgy doomy guitars and beeg reverb. I then got the idea to take advantage of the kinda baroque pedal point composition to do something else entirely as a second section + [[GLACEIR]] is my favorite deeper cut from [[album:deltarune-ch3-4-ost|the latest chapters soundtrack]], it's simple yet haunting and it really gripped me when it started playing where it appears in game. I tried to capture some of that feeling with instrumentation from different styles that could convey similar feelings to me, with grimey chamber orchestration, dungeon synth... synths, sludgy doomy guitars and beeg reverb. I then got the idea to take advantage of the kinda baroque pedal point composition to do something else entirely as a second section <i>bluwingz:</i> I had a vision of Kris and Noelle lost in a mirror maze. Kris is trying to break free from the player and get to the real Noelle, but they keep getting turned around in the ice corridors. @@ -1285,7 +1285,7 @@ Commentary: |- This track (my last track on this album) was very much inspired by the undead "true form" Dess design made by euclicide and all the various other interpretations of the concept that have followed. After the long search, the Roaring Knight is finally revealed to be the lost girl. However, she isn't quite herself. - I liked the concept a lot, and it ended up spawning this track. I wanted to translate the unsettling fear of seeing something such as that concept while also keeping the high octane metal nature of [[track:black-knife|Black Knife]] (she IS still The Knight after all (probably)). Additionally, i wanted to add a lot of tragic over/undertones to the track, though the [[track:raise-up-your-bat|Raise Up Your Bat]] part also carries a slight bit of hope/heroism - perhaps the last remnants of Dess which still remain in there, somewhere. + I liked the concept a lot, and it ended up spawning this track. I wanted to translate the unsettling fear of seeing something such as that concept while also keeping the high octane metal nature of [[Black Knife]] (she IS still The Knight after all (probably)). Additionally, i wanted to add a lot of tragic over/undertones to the track, though the [[Raise Up Your Bat]] part also carries a slight bit of hope/heroism - perhaps the last remnants of Dess which still remain in there, somewhere. The track samples [[track:c|Carol's theme(?)]], which isn't a Dess motif, no, but i felt like it sounded really good as ambience and worked narratively, so why not. @@ -1337,7 +1337,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Shapes Commentary: |- <i>Gryotharian:</i> - Accidentally was playing some muddled version of [[track:the-chase|the chase]] and [[track:silent-night|silent night]] on the piano, decided to turn it into a track, then got really carried away. Dess/Knight song. We'll see about that theory. + Accidentally was playing some muddled version of [[the chase]] and [[silent night]] on the piano, decided to turn it into a track, then got really carried away. Dess/Knight song. We'll see about that theory. <i>lemonzestdoodle:</i> If the unused text from each chapter is Dess and the Knight is her, perhaps she's not even aware of her condition. That girl sure does haunt the narrative. Go check out the Cutting Room Floor for the text by the way. It's interesting stuff. @@ -1388,7 +1388,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:cliffs-deltarune Commentary: |- <i>Erik Scheele:</i> - One of the initial ideas I had for this album was "hey, what if I did [[track:descend|Descend]], but I crammed in as much of Deltarune's incidental motifs as possible, instead of any main motifs?". Wouldn't that be a fun throwback, I thought. Wouldn't that be so silly. + One of the initial ideas I had for this album was "hey, what if I did [[Descend]], but I crammed in as much of Deltarune's incidental motifs as possible, instead of any main motifs?". Wouldn't that be a fun throwback, I thought. Wouldn't that be so silly. And then the anime news dropped and it was like well okay fine, this HAS to happen now. @@ -1423,7 +1423,7 @@ Sampled Tracks: - Imminent Death Commentary: |- <i>ruby:</i> - I think everyone can agree [[track:vs-susie|Vs. Susie]] is too short of a song. This is an improved version of an older remix, I overhauled the mix, and [[artist:riveira-bailey|the original guitarist]] came back to record additional riffs. He's a great friend of mine, we help each other out with each other's music from time to time, and we're slowly chipping away at an original music project together! His solo at the end of the song still sounds so awesome, please send him some love and check out his music! + I think everyone can agree [[Vs. Susie]] is too short of a song. This is an improved version of an older remix, I overhauled the mix, and [[artist:riveira-bailey|the original guitarist]] came back to record additional riffs. He's a great friend of mine, we help each other out with each other's music from time to time, and we're slowly chipping away at an original music project together! His solo at the end of the song still sounds so awesome, please send him some love and check out his music! Also thanks to [[artist:mack|MacK]] for the song title! @@ -1449,7 +1449,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - NOW'S YOUR CHANCE TO BE A Commentary: |- <i>DalekWho1963:</i> - Basically what I wanted to go for was "what if '[[track:power-of-spamton|Power of Spamton]]' was refined and used as the final version of his theme?" I decided to include more things relating to [[track:big-shot|Big Shot]], and other Spamton related themes. I also included some aspects of the [[track:power-of-neo-unfinished|unfinished Power of NEO]], but I didn't want to lean to heavily on that and end up having it detatched from Spamton. + Basically what I wanted to go for was "what if '[[Power of Spamton]]' was refined and used as the final version of his theme?" I decided to include more things relating to [[Big Shot]], and other Spamton related themes. I also included some aspects of the [[track:power-of-neo-unfinished|unfinished Power of NEO]], but I didn't want to lean to heavily on that and end up having it detatched from Spamton. <i>Torrent 64:</i> You want a [BIG SHOT]? I got your [BIG SHOT] right here! Goes down [Smooth]! @@ -1575,7 +1575,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Don't Forget Commentary: |- <i>Hart:</i> - I wanted to make a remix of [[track:flashback-excerpt|Flashback (Excerpt)]]. the 30 second version hits hard and has a really good and unique sound. I had a vision for a fuller version of the theme, though this obviously isn't remotely what the official full version would sound like. + I wanted to make a remix of [[Flashback (Excerpt)]]. the 30 second version hits hard and has a really good and unique sound. I had a vision for a fuller version of the theme, though this obviously isn't remotely what the official full version would sound like. <i>DalekWho1963:</i> Since the concept was a bit ambiguous when I first began the artwork, I decided that I would make it so there was a relationship between the vessel and Kris. So the "Flashback" in this sense refers to a sort of remembrance of Kris's potential past and origin. @@ -1624,7 +1624,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - THE WORLD REVOLVING Commentary: |- <i>hatzka:</i> - I wrote this (and [[track:kingdom-of-one|my other track]]) right after Chapter 1 came out, because [[track:the-holy|THE HOLY]] was really underappreciated at the time (or at least I thought it was). Later I deleted my SoundCloud because I was worried (perhaps excessively) about AI training. Unfortunately, while I saved the tracks, I forgot to note whether this or Kingdom of One was released first, so I have no idea which one the bassline originated in. + I wrote this (and [[track:kingdom-of-one|my other track]]) right after Chapter 1 came out, because [[THE HOLY]] was really underappreciated at the time (or at least I thought it was). Later I deleted my SoundCloud because I was worried (perhaps excessively) about AI training. Unfortunately, while I saved the tracks, I forgot to note whether this or Kingdom of One was released first, so I have no idea which one the bassline originated in. <i>Torrent 64:</i> Yo who put they heart in the water this is NOT okay bruh! @@ -1954,7 +1954,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:finale-undertale Commentary: |- <i>ruby:</i> - This one obviously just had to come after the last track. In fact, they were the same project! They were the same project all along!!! Even back when I first started working on [[track:an-ordeal-of-the-dreaming|An Ordeal of the Dreaming]], Retribution was made alongside it!! It too sat nearly-finished for a while, I just had to find a way to conclude the song. I hope I did it in a satisfying way, [[track:finale-undertale|Finale]] is originally meant to loop into eternity after all... + This one obviously just had to come after the last track. In fact, they were the same project! They were the same project all along!!! Even back when I first started working on [[An Ordeal of the Dreaming]], Retribution was made alongside it!! It too sat nearly-finished for a while, I just had to find a way to conclude the song. I hope I did it in a satisfying way, [[track:finale-undertale|Finale]] is originally meant to loop into eternity after all... I am SO PROUD of the part right before the drop. the way the breaks, the synths, the bass, everything just comes in muaaaaahh perfect. @@ -1981,7 +1981,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - The Shepherd's Boy Commentary: |- <i>DalekWho1963:</i> - Styled after the beautiful track "[[track:the-shepherds-boy|The Shepherd's Boy]]" by Murray Gold for series 9 of Doctor Who. After listening to the full track '[[track:undertale|Undertale]]' I figured they would mesh very nicely. + Styled after the beautiful track "[[The Shepherd's Boy]]" by Murray Gold for series 9 of Doctor Who. After listening to the full track '[[Undertale]]' I figured they would mesh very nicely. <i>Gryotharian:</i> something something Chara/Clara, was gonna have Asriel mourning Chara in place of the doctor but Heaven Sent's time loop stuff fits flowey's reset loops much better. Still mourning Chara. After all, he's so excited to have you back in genocide, isn't he? track is a doctor who reference so art is too. @@ -2024,7 +2024,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Flashback (Excerpt) Commentary: |- <i>DalekWho1963:</i> - An extended and remixed version for the slowed down version of "[[track:anticipation|Anticipation]]" heard in the Genocide route. Tried to make it feel similar to "[[track:deal-gone-wrong|Deal Gone Wrong]]" in terms of vibes. I also wanted to have it almost act as a bridge between the Genocide route in Undertale and the Snowgrave route in Deltarune by also including "[[track:d-deltarune|d.ogg]]" in the latter half of the track. Having other Snowgrave related motifs and sounds also aided in creating this bridge. + An extended and remixed version for the slowed down version of "[[Anticipation]]" heard in the Genocide route. Tried to make it feel similar to "[[Deal Gone Wrong]]" in terms of vibes. I also wanted to have it almost act as a bridge between the Genocide route in Undertale and the Snowgrave route in Deltarune by also including "[[track:d-deltarune|d.ogg]]" in the latter half of the track. Having other Snowgrave related motifs and sounds also aided in creating this bridge. --- Track: It's the end. Artists: diff --git a/album/lofam.yaml b/album/lofam.yaml index c609f12c..1b6f35d2 100644 --- a/album/lofam.yaml +++ b/album/lofam.yaml @@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ Commentary: |- This is not one of those songs. - Near the start of this fanmusic album project [[artist:elaine-wang|orngjce223]] asked for someone to remix [[artist:mk-97|MK_97's]] [[track:homestuck-title-screen|"Homestuck Title Theme"]], while incorporating more motifs from Homestuck's music. I decided sure why not? And then this song was born. So Beginnings is a remix of a remix, really. The original was a remix of [[track:skies-of-skaia|"Skies of Skaia"]] - I added the motifs from [[track:homestuck|"Homestuck"]] and [[track:theme|"Alternia"]] because I felt they were representative of the kids' and the trolls' journeys respectively. I mean come on, the title is RIGHT THERE. So yeah. + Near the start of this fanmusic album project [[artist:elaine-wang|orngjce223]] asked for someone to remix [[artist:mk-97|MK_97's]] [[track:homestuck-title-screen|"Homestuck Title Theme"]], while incorporating more motifs from Homestuck's music. I decided sure why not? And then this song was born. So Beginnings is a remix of a remix, really. The original was a remix of [["Skies of Skaia"]] - I added the motifs from [["Homestuck"]] and [[track:theme|"Alternia"]] because I felt they were representative of the kids' and the trolls' journeys respectively. I mean come on, the title is RIGHT THERE. So yeah. Since it was a title screen tune, I pretty much drew on what I remembered from game title screens to make it. Really, the only specific influence I can recall is that the piano part at the end was inspired by Kingdom Hearts' title screen tune (["Dearly Beloved"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g25QXnhVijQ)). I love that song. @@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ Commentary: |- One of my two submissions to the Land of Fans and Music album, an unofficial compilation of fanmusic created within the Homestuck fandom. The other submission was [[MeGaDanceVaNia]]. - This was not only the first track on the album, but really the only track that was specifically composed for the album. Or remixed, rather. The initiator of the project, [[artist:elaine-wang|OJ]], requested for a remix to be done of MK_97's [[track:homestuck-title-screen|"Homestuck Title Screen,"]] while incorporating more motifs from the comic. I took up that request, and churned this out. + This was not only the first track on the album, but really the only track that was specifically composed for the album. Or remixed, rather. The initiator of the project, [[artist:elaine-wang|OJ]], requested for a remix to be done of MK_97's [["Homestuck Title Screen,"]] while incorporating more motifs from the comic. I took up that request, and churned this out. This song was basically a nostalgia bomb for me; I just had to think back to the days of playing SNES-era RPGs, and what I thought a title screen tune should sound like. Chrono Trigger's [title screen tune](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU1rM8UYpus), in particular, was a big influence, as was the simple ["Dearly Beloved"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g25QXnhVijQ) from Kingdom Hearts. The chiptune aesthetic certainly helped! --- @@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Mal McGannon:</i> (booklet commentary) - I've always liked the Midnight Crew album, [[album:midnight-crew-drawing-dead|Drawing Dead]]; it's got this delicious synergy between jazz and techno with a dark overtone that is super sexy. (I'm a big fan.) Another thing I'm a big fan of is [[artist:erik-scheele|Jit]] and his music, because Jit's mad talented. So when I was in the shower one morning (where I do my best thinking) and I had the idea for a Midnight Crew cover of Jit's song from [[album:the-felt]], [[track:the-broken-clock|"The Broken Clock"]], I filed it away under "future stuff to do", because it's rare I have what I consider a good idea with regards to composition. + I've always liked the Midnight Crew album, [[album:midnight-crew-drawing-dead|Drawing Dead]]; it's got this delicious synergy between jazz and techno with a dark overtone that is super sexy. (I'm a big fan.) Another thing I'm a big fan of is [[artist:erik-scheele|Jit]] and his music, because Jit's mad talented. So when I was in the shower one morning (where I do my best thinking) and I had the idea for a Midnight Crew cover of Jit's song from [[album:the-felt]], [["The Broken Clock"]], I filed it away under "future stuff to do", because it's rare I have what I consider a good idea with regards to composition. So I worked for quite a while on this: improvising on piano, listening to Drawing Dead over and over and analyzing the different styles of each instrument, writing things down, plugging them into my computer, hating it, writing new parts, adding material, cutting material, hating it more, et cetera, ad infinitum. The final result is still something I'm not completely happy with, but I think I can declare it as done as it'll ever be. So, I hope you enjoy it, and the rest of the first ever Homestuck Fan Album! @@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ Commentary: |- Fun fact: the music box meldoy was originally one octave lower, and an entirely different instrument. The music box ended up sounding terrible in that octave, so I raised it. - Another fun fact: I completely forgot that [[track:jades-lullaby|"Jade's Lullaby"]] was a track from [[album:homestuck-vol-5|Volume 5]]. This song is unrelated. + Another fun fact: I completely forgot that [["Jade's Lullaby"]] was a track from [[album:homestuck-vol-5|Volume 5]]. This song is unrelated. <i>kayak:</i> (booklet commentary) @@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ Commentary: |- This is a commentary! Just saying this in case you accidentally clicked on this pdf and got lost. - But anyway, I guess I should talk about my track 'Jackie Treats'. The initial creation, or rather, remixing, of this track started - as far as I can remember - when I began messing around with one of the melodies of from [[track:liquid-negrocity|'Liquid Negrocity']], which is probably one of my favourite pieces off [[album:midnight-crew-drawing-dead|the Midnight Crew album]]. + But anyway, I guess I should talk about my track 'Jackie Treats'. The initial creation, or rather, remixing, of this track started - as far as I can remember - when I began messing around with one of the melodies of from [['Liquid Negrocity']], which is probably one of my favourite pieces off [[album:midnight-crew-drawing-dead|the Midnight Crew album]]. I created quite a neat little piano piece, which is heard at around 0:59 to 1:10. This is pretty much what helped me get into a rhythm for the song, and before I kenw it I began composing around it. It was probably towards the very end of the song, when I added the jazz organ into the piece that made me think of 'Bec Noir' having horrible thoughts concerning dog treats. So I decided to name the WIP track 'Jackie Treats' (The name kinda stuck). diff --git a/album/lofam2.yaml b/album/lofam2.yaml index 44faf7a3..f37cb6ff 100644 --- a/album/lofam2.yaml +++ b/album/lofam2.yaml @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Joe Ouellet:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - Before making this song, I had wanted to do a remix of [[Doctor]] for a while. There are so many remixes and different versions of this song that I knew there were infinite possibilities when it came to remixing the song. When it finally came time to start, I wanted to go for the *spacey,* electronic, •hardcore* sounding style that I attempted a little bit with [[Electrocumulus]]. This song actually turned out much better than I expected. When confronted for a name for this piece, I wanted to name it something like [[track:planet-healer|"Planet Healer."]] I decided to just swap out a few synonyms and voila, Satellite Physician was done! + Before making this song, I had wanted to do a remix of [[Doctor]] for a while. There are so many remixes and different versions of this song that I knew there were infinite possibilities when it came to remixing the song. When it finally came time to start, I wanted to go for the *spacey,* electronic, •hardcore* sounding style that I attempted a little bit with [[Electrocumulus]]. This song actually turned out much better than I expected. When confronted for a name for this piece, I wanted to name it something like [["Planet Healer."]] I decided to just swap out a few synonyms and voila, Satellite Physician was done! <i>grayscaleOddysey:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) @@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>David Ellis:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://ducksual.tumblr.com/post/19764454588/a-study-in-skaia-this-is-essentially-an)) - This is essentially an arrangement of [[artist:mark-j-hadley|Mark Hadley’s]] [[track:skies-of-skaia|‘Skies of Skaia’]] from the [[album:homestuck-vol-1|first Homestuck album]] with lots of acoustic guitars. + This is essentially an arrangement of Mark Hadley’s [[‘Skies of Skaia’]] from the first Homestuck album with lots of acoustic guitars. I found that with slight retuning and a capo it was possible to play the whole of the main theme with harmonics on guitar and so was messing around with an arrangement based on that and ended up doing this. Without retuning it’s not really possible to play the top note of the last repeat cleanly. It was originally just going to be acoustics but then distortion happened for the second part. @@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ Commentary: |- <hr> - This song was nominated to be on the [[album:lofam|Land of Fans and Music]] album, an unofficial compilation of Homestuck fanmusic. However, I chose to submit [[track:beginnings-press-start-to-play|Beginnings]] and [[track:megadancevania|MeGaDanceVaNia]] over it. I'm actually really proud of this remix; I'm usually terrible at slow songs, but this one just works. It's suitably bittersweet, and a sombre take on an event otherwise presented in a light-hearted manner. + This song was nominated to be on the [[album:lofam|Land of Fans and Music]] album, an unofficial compilation of Homestuck fanmusic. However, I chose to submit [[track:beginnings-press-start-to-play|Beginnings]] and [[MeGaDanceVaNia]] over it. I'm actually really proud of this remix; I'm usually terrible at slow songs, but this one just works. It's suitably bittersweet, and a sombre take on an event otherwise presented in a light-hearted manner. --- Track: Unforgiving Terrain Additional Names: @@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Riki Tsuji:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://dog-noise.tumblr.com/post/18814442802)) - New remix! This is “JackBot”, a remix of [[track:jackpot|“Jackpot”]] by [[artist:marcy-nabors|Shadolith]] (or Steamlord313, whatever) and [[artist:charles-neudorf|Crazy-8]], which they collaborated on for the [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|Homestuck music contest]]. Unfortunately the original submission didn’t get chosen, but it’s hella kickass so go check it out! Makes me wonder how damn good the other submissions must have been. + New remix! This is “JackBot”, a remix of [[“Jackpot”]] by [[artist:marcy-nabors|Shadolith]] (or Steamlord313, whatever) and [[artist:charles-neudorf|Crazy-8]], which they collaborated on for the [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|Homestuck music contest]]. Unfortunately the original submission didn’t get chosen, but it’s hella kickass so go check it out! Makes me wonder how damn good the other submissions must have been. <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) @@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Erik Scheele:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - one day I found a guitar thing and messed around with [[track:crystalanthemums|crystalanthemums]] + one day I found a guitar thing and messed around with [[crystalanthemums]] that's it @@ -1046,7 +1046,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Charles Neudorf:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - Soulb0t was conceived after I tried writing the familiar [[track:psych0ruins|Psych0ruins]] arpeggio to test out a new synth I downloaded. It sounded really cool to me, so I figured "why not just write an electronic remix of Psych0ruins all together." So I did just that. It took a while to get the melody just right, and if it wasn't for the various friends who helped me to decide what sounded good or bad, the song wouldn't have sounded nearly as good. + Soulb0t was conceived after I tried writing the familiar [[Psych0ruins]] arpeggio to test out a new synth I downloaded. It sounded really cool to me, so I figured "why not just write an electronic remix of Psych0ruins all together." So I did just that. It took a while to get the melody just right, and if it wasn't for the various friends who helped me to decide what sounded good or bad, the song wouldn't have sounded nearly as good. --- Track: Fighting Spirit Artists: @@ -1083,7 +1083,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Kevin Grant:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - My goal was to mash up as many Gomestuck songs as I could. I ended up mixing 12 together. I really think the part at the end with [[Black]], [[track:showtime-original-mix|Showtime]] and [[track:beatdown-strider-style|Beatdown]] works well, and I discovered that Showtime is the Homestuck equivalent of [[track:guiles-theme|Guile's Theme]]: It goes with everything. + My goal was to mash up as many Gomestuck songs as I could. I ended up mixing 12 together. I really think the part at the end with [[Black]], [[track:showtime-original-mix|Showtime]] and [[track:beatdown-strider-style|Beatdown]] works well, and I discovered that Showtime is the Homestuck equivalent of [[Guile's Theme]]: It goes with everything. <i>AS:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) @@ -1605,7 +1605,7 @@ Commentary: |- The full list of songs is <s>on the next page</s> below, so I'm just going to run over what I consider to be the highlights of this song: - - [[Another Jungle]] + [[track:lets-all-rock-the-heist|Let's All Rock The Heist]] + - [[Another Jungle]] + [[Let's All Rock The Heist]] - [[track:electrollcopswing|ELECTROSWING TROLLCOPS]] - [[track:frost-vol6]]/[[Rex Duodecim Angelus]]/[[A Taste for Adventure]] - [[Infinity Mechanism]] @@ -1627,12 +1627,12 @@ Commentary: |- - 1:11 - [[track:olive-rogue]] - [[artist:eston-schweickart|Eston "silence" Schweickart]] - 1:26 - [[track:ruins]] - [[artist:erik-scheele|Erik "Jit" Scheele]] - 1:38 - [[track:lotus]] - [[artist:seth-peelle|Seth "Beatfox" Peelle]] - - 1:49 - [[track:bl1nd-just1c3-1nv3st1g4t1on|BL1ND JUST1C3 : 1NV3ST1G4T1ON!!]] - [[artist:malcolm-brown]] + - 1:49 - [[BL1ND JUST1C3 : 1NV3ST1G4T1ON!!]] - [[artist:malcolm-brown]] - 2:07 - [[track:chorale-for-jaspers]] - [[artist:michael-guy-bowman]] - 2:24 - [[track:another-jungle]] - [[artist:michael-guy-bowman]] - 2:30 - [[track:lets-all-rock-the-heist]] - [[artist:rj-lake|Robert J! Lake]] - 2:47 - [[track:derse-dreamers]] - [[artist:solatrus|Jeremy "Solatrus" Iamurri]] - - 2:57 - [[track:carbon-nadsat-cuestick-genius|Carbon Nadsat/Cuestick Genius]] - [[artist:rj-lake|Robert J! Lake]] + - 2:57 - [[Carbon Nadsat/Cuestick Genius]] - [[artist:rj-lake|Robert J! Lake]] - 3:10 - [[track:three-in-the-morning]] - [[artist:clark-powell|Clark "Plazmataz" Powell]] - 3:22 - [[track:black]] - [[artist:toby-fox|Toby "Radiation" Fox]] - 3:33 - [[track:trollcops]] - [[artist:erik-scheele|Erik "Jit" Scheele]] @@ -1653,8 +1653,8 @@ Commentary: |- - 8:57 - [[track:cascade-beta]] - [[artist:tensei|Joren "Tensei" de Bruin]] - 9:20 - [[track:flare]] - [[artist:clark-powell|Clark "Plazmataz" Powell]] - 9:44 - [[track:savior-of-the-dreaming-dead]] - [[artist:malcolm-brown]] - - 10:07 - [[track:black-hole-green-sun|Black Hole/Green Sun]] - [[artist:malcolm-brown]] - - 10:53 - [[track:at-the-price-of-oblivion|At the Price of Oblivion]] - [[artist:malcolm-brown]] + - 10:07 - [[Black Hole/Green Sun]] - [[artist:malcolm-brown]] + - 10:53 - [[At the Price of Oblivion]] - [[artist:malcolm-brown]] --- Track: Trapped Suffix Directory: true @@ -2117,7 +2117,7 @@ Commentary: |- <b>Homestuck Music Contest Entry #2 - Embittered Shore</b> <i>(MT&HK)</i> - This second entry is one for Mobius Trip and/or Hadron Kaleido - it's a bit more serious than my first. The idea behind this is, I suppose, what I believed the story behind MT&HK is from the [[album:mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido|album]], in particular [[No Release]] and [[track:lies-with-the-sea|Lies with the Sea]]. I see the entire concept as highly Romantic, with metaphorical emphasis on the feminine Nature (Hadron) vs. masculine Science (Mobius) development that was a popular topic of creative exploration in the 19th century. + This second entry is one for Mobius Trip and/or Hadron Kaleido - it's a bit more serious than my first. The idea behind this is, I suppose, what I believed the story behind MT&HK is from the [[album:mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido|album]], in particular [[No Release]] and [[Lies with the Sea]]. I see the entire concept as highly Romantic, with metaphorical emphasis on the feminine Nature (Hadron) vs. masculine Science (Mobius) development that was a popular topic of creative exploration in the 19th century. Artwork has been used with permission by the awesome [[artist:tavia-morra|Tavia]]. I would also like to point out that this song is in no way officially endorsed by either [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|Bowman]], Tavia or What Pumpkin. @@ -2185,7 +2185,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - I began "Finale Strife" as a long, slow-burning build-up song for the final battle with Lord English, in a similar vein to ["Finale Toccata"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKiQ8m4C_CY) from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. That, however, didn't pan out, and it ended up turning into a fast-paced, high-energy strife theme more in the vein of ["The Curse of Sorrow"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uJhva1jvWw) from Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (the only Castlevania game I've actually come close to beating), especially the organ, electric guitar, and snappy drum kit. The main melody has some resemblance to the Black King's theme from [[track:rex-duodecim-angelus|"Rex Duodecim Angelus"]] by [[artist:malcolm-brown]], but not enough to qualify as a remix or arrangement. + I began "Finale Strife" as a long, slow-burning build-up song for the final battle with Lord English, in a similar vein to ["Finale Toccata"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKiQ8m4C_CY) from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. That, however, didn't pan out, and it ended up turning into a fast-paced, high-energy strife theme more in the vein of ["The Curse of Sorrow"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uJhva1jvWw) from Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (the only Castlevania game I've actually come close to beating), especially the organ, electric guitar, and snappy drum kit. The main melody has some resemblance to the Black King's theme from [["Rex Duodecim Angelus"]] by [[artist:malcolm-brown]], but not enough to qualify as a remix or arrangement. <i>Ducky Senpai:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) @@ -2461,7 +2461,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - When I started "Ave Dei Novi" (a song made just for Land of Fans and Music 2), I fully intended that it would be the biggest, strongest, most well-composed, best Homestuck fan composition I've worked on to date, a sort of capstone of Homestuck fan music. The first [[album:lofam|Land of Fans and Music]] had two of my early songs on it, and I felt it was appropriate that I do my best and show how far I'd come in a year for the second album. "Ave Dei Novi" takes its cue, partially, from the bombastic and incredible Gundam Unicorn soundtrack by Sawano Hiroyuki, especially in the orchestra and percussion grooves, which I worked very hard on. I think I'm most proud of the bongo groove breakdown in the middle and the [[track:atomyk-ebonpyre|"Atomyk Ebonpyre"]] section near the end. Those two parts ended up especially fantastic. + When I started "Ave Dei Novi" (a song made just for Land of Fans and Music 2), I fully intended that it would be the biggest, strongest, most well-composed, best Homestuck fan composition I've worked on to date, a sort of capstone of Homestuck fan music. The first [[album:lofam|Land of Fans and Music]] had two of my early songs on it, and I felt it was appropriate that I do my best and show how far I'd come in a year for the second album. "Ave Dei Novi" takes its cue, partially, from the bombastic and incredible Gundam Unicorn soundtrack by Sawano Hiroyuki, especially in the orchestra and percussion grooves, which I worked very hard on. I think I'm most proud of the bongo groove breakdown in the middle and the [["Atomyk Ebonpyre"]] section near the end. Those two parts ended up especially fantastic. <i>xkoraxayomex:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) diff --git a/album/lofam3.yaml b/album/lofam3.yaml index 07b6162e..40613d72 100644 --- a/album/lofam3.yaml +++ b/album/lofam3.yaml @@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Commentary: |- <i>Dakota Medina:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - Warweary Villein is a song about my personal favorite character. Inspired by Toby Fox's [[track:mayor-maynot|'Mayor Maynot']] it is about how such a little dude can be such an inspiration for a massive call to arms. My favorite part about the piece is the harmonies. The song was also revamped for the LoFaM3 album and completely remade from the ground up. Hope you enjoy! + Warweary Villein is a song about my personal favorite character. Inspired by Toby Fox's [['Mayor Maynot']] it is about how such a little dude can be such an inspiration for a massive call to arms. My favorite part about the piece is the harmonies. The song was also revamped for the LoFaM3 album and completely remade from the ground up. Hope you enjoy! <i>piskomil:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) @@ -1232,7 +1232,7 @@ Commentary: |- *Full Song Credits* [[Eden]] - [[artist:james-dever]]<br> - [[track:psych0ruins|Psych0ruins]] - [[artist:toby-fox|Toby "Radiation" Fox]]<br> + [[Psych0ruins]] - [[artist:toby-fox|Toby "Radiation" Fox]]<br> [[Doctor]] - [[artist:buzinkai]]<br> [[Savior of the Dreaming Dead]] - [[artist:malcolm-brown]]<br> [[Sburban Jungle]] - [[artist:michael-guy-bowman]]<br> @@ -1291,7 +1291,7 @@ Commentary: |- [[October]] - [[artist:erik-scheele|Erik "Jit" Scheele]]<br> [[track:walk-stab-walk-r-and-e|Walk-Stab-Walk]] - [[artist:erik-scheele|Erik "Jit" Scheele]]<br> [[Earthsea Borealis]] - [[artist:toby-fox|Toby "Radiation" Fox]]<br> - [[track:carbon-nadsat-cuestick-genius|Carbon Nadsat / Cuestick Genius]] - [[artist:rj-lake|Robert "J" Lake]]<br> + [[Carbon Nadsat / Cuestick Genius]] - [[artist:rj-lake|Robert "J" Lake]]<br> [[Hate You]] - [[artist:toby-fox|Toby "Radiation" Fox]]<br> [[Three in the Morning]] - [[artist:clark-powell|Clark "Plazmataz" Powell]]<br> [[Rex Duodecim Angelus]] - [[artist:malcolm-brown]]<br> @@ -1299,7 +1299,7 @@ Commentary: |- [[English]] - [[artist:toby-fox|Toby "Radiation" Fox]]<br> [[Gold Pilot]] - [[artist:first-turn-fold]]<br> [[Nightmare]] - [[artist:malcolm-brown]]<br> - [[track:killed-by-br8k-spider|Killed By BR8K Spider!!!!!!!!]] - [[artist:toby-fox|Toby "Radiation" Fox]]<br> + [[Killed By BR8K Spider!!!!!!!!]] - [[artist:toby-fox|Toby "Radiation" Fox]]<br> [[Unite Synchronization]] - [[artist:malcolm-brown]] (+ [[Eden]], revised) --- SECRET ENDING --- @@ -1724,7 +1724,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Commentary: |- <i>Kevin Grant:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - Originally supposed to be a practice project so I could learn how to sample, I added in a few piano riffs from [[Black]] and it took on a life of its own. The most obvious sample is from [[track:it-dont-mean-a-thing-if-it-aint-got-that-swing|"It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing"]], but other samples in there inclue the trumpet from an old 1940s big band song, and the drums from [[track:paint-it-black|"Paint It Black"]] by the Rolling Stones. For a song that wasn't even originally a song, I think it came out pretty well. Enjoy! + Originally supposed to be a practice project so I could learn how to sample, I added in a few piano riffs from [[Black]] and it took on a life of its own. The most obvious sample is from [["It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing"]], but other samples in there inclue the trumpet from an old 1940s big band song, and the drums from [["Paint It Black"]] by the Rolling Stones. For a song that wasn't even originally a song, I think it came out pretty well. Enjoy! <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor, booklet commentary) diff --git a/album/lofam4.yaml b/album/lofam4.yaml index 8c933684..6359bc05 100644 --- a/album/lofam4.yaml +++ b/album/lofam4.yaml @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ Commentary: |- Veritas Unae - \*Except for [[track:violet-and-gold|Violet and Gold]]. If I don't finish that, I think several people would have it out for me. + \*Except for [[Violet and Gold]]. If I don't finish that, I think several people would have it out for me. <i>Unofficial MSPA Fans:</i> (booklet commentary, front) @@ -278,9 +278,9 @@ Commentary: |- I'm, uh, actually not really much of a musician. I'm mostly just good at recognizing melodies. We didn't have anyone lined up to do the disc jingles (though I assumed maybe [[artist:veritas-unae|Veri]] would do then, as on LoFaM2+3) so I mentioned to [[artist:keyboard-cait|Cait]] that I had the idea of making each disc a song representative of each prior LoFaM. I sent her files of myself vocalizing the melodies and she transcribed them. - You might be tyinking, "wait, but there's not a song on [[album:lofam|LoFaM1]] called [[track:homestuck-title-screen|Homestuck Title Screen]]". This is correct. Its composer was unable to be contacted during its production for whatever reason, so it was arranged into both [[track:beginnings-press-start-to-play|the first]] and [[track:cutscene-at-the-end-of-the-hallway|last songs]] on the album. So, this is sort of like a reprise of the first song on the first LoFaM. + You might be tyinking, "wait, but there's not a song on [[album:lofam|LoFaM1]] called [[Homestuck Title Screen]]". This is correct. Its composer was unable to be contacted during its production for whatever reason, so it was arranged into both [[track:beginnings-press-start-to-play|the first]] and [[track:cutscene-at-the-end-of-the-hallway|last songs]] on the album. So, this is sort of like a reprise of the first song on the first LoFaM. - Initially I wanted to do [[track:emissary-of-wind|Emissary of Wind]] but Cait's idea was better. + Initially I wanted to do [[Emissary of Wind]] but Cait's idea was better. <i>Sozzay:</i> (album cover artist) @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>cookiefonster:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - Similarly to several other songs on this album, this started as a rescore of [[flash:4665|[S] Jane: Enter]] for this collaborative project where people would come up with new music for all the flashes in Homestuck. The goal here was to make a song similar in style to [[track:another-jungle|Another Jungle]] (a very underappreciated song) without actually quoting it other than the way that song quotes [[track:sburban-jungle|Sburban Jungle]]. It was quite a challenge not borrowing anything else from other songs except for when I used a part of [[track:oppa-toby-style|Oppa Toby Style]] towards the end, but this song was fun to make and I'm happy enough with the end result even if it's not as punchy as the original. + Similarly to several other songs on this album, this started as a rescore of [[flash:4665|[S] Jane: Enter]] for this collaborative project where people would come up with new music for all the flashes in Homestuck. The goal here was to make a song similar in style to [[Another Jungle]] (a very underappreciated song) without actually quoting it other than the way that song quotes [[Sburban Jungle]]. It was quite a challenge not borrowing anything else from other songs except for when I used a part of [[Oppa Toby Style]] towards the end, but this song was fun to make and I'm happy enough with the end result even if it's not as punchy as the original. <i>Lambda Elise Merryberry:</i> (album organizer, booklet commentary) @@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>TirantBacon:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - As an acknowledgement, this song in many ways was mostly inspired by the tune [[track:black|"Black"]] by Radiation (or [[artist:toby-fox|Toby Fox]] I guess). I made this song as a "remix" of sorts of the song called [[track:midnight-suffer|"Midnight Suffers"]], something I made for the mostly popular fanventure, [[group:canmt|cool and new web comic]]. If anything, I'd say it was directly copied from Black, and that I did a mostly poor effort to recreate the style... Nonetheless, I did focus on trying to incorporate some transition points in the song where it would actually deviate from the original arrangement, and I suppose it works quite well even when it's not on paper. + As an acknowledgement, this song in many ways was mostly inspired by the tune [["Black"]] by Radiation (or [[artist:toby-fox|Toby Fox]] I guess). I made this song as a "remix" of sorts of the song called [[track:midnight-suffer|"Midnight Suffers"]], something I made for the mostly popular fanventure, [[group:canmt|cool and new web comic]]. If anything, I'd say it was directly copied from Black, and that I did a mostly poor effort to recreate the style... Nonetheless, I did focus on trying to incorporate some transition points in the song where it would actually deviate from the original arrangement, and I suppose it works quite well even when it's not on paper. The main motif was taken from midnight suffers... A bluesy jazz type theme that was made with no real direction intended. This song is not necessarily "catchy", but at least it has direction and sounds good, which is always nice! Some of the most prominent instrumentation involved DVS saxophones, loud crazy drums, a heavy bassline, sharp synths and a really loud piano chord progression in the background. It's all crazy stuff. @@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>ostrichlittledungeon:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - I'm actually not a huge fan of this song. See, I more or less made the whole album [[album:cyclica|Cyclica]] in a couple of days, and this short "here are a bunch of melodies over the [[track:flare|Flare]] arpeggios" only took me an huor or two. I really think there are parts of Cyclica that are better (if you haven't listened to Cyclica yet, you should do that; you can find the full album [on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME3r64_NsnM)). A bunch of people seemed to like Dersite, and it made it onto [[album:cool-and-new-greatest-hits|Cool and New Greatest Hits]], so here it is I guess. The violin note holds are unrealistic, the synth is weird as fuck, the piano is bad. But everyone liked it. Except for [[artist:veritas-unae|Veri]]. Veri didn't like it. Bless you Veri. + I'm actually not a huge fan of this song. See, I more or less made the whole album [[album:cyclica|Cyclica]] in a couple of days, and this short "here are a bunch of melodies over the [[Flare]] arpeggios" only took me an huor or two. I really think there are parts of Cyclica that are better (if you haven't listened to Cyclica yet, you should do that; you can find the full album [on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME3r64_NsnM)). A bunch of people seemed to like Dersite, and it made it onto [[album:cool-and-new-greatest-hits|Cool and New Greatest Hits]], so here it is I guess. The violin note holds are unrealistic, the synth is weird as fuck, the piano is bad. But everyone liked it. Except for [[artist:veritas-unae|Veri]]. Veri didn't like it. Bless you Veri. <i>plaidcushion:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) @@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ Commentary: |- Wait why did this get on the album it sucks - It's about the Condesce, obviously. It's vaguely about her conquering a planet? The natives fight a long fight and then they just barely win! and everyone is reflecting on their loss and then she just glasses them or whatever she does. There's [[track:crystalanthemums|Crystalanthemums]] mostly because it seems to be the default badass-trolls theme. Also that is some badass art. + It's about the Condesce, obviously. It's vaguely about her conquering a planet? The natives fight a long fight and then they just barely win! and everyone is reflecting on their loss and then she just glasses them or whatever she does. There's [[Crystalanthemums]] mostly because it seems to be the default badass-trolls theme. Also that is some badass art. <i>Circlejourney:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) @@ -551,9 +551,9 @@ Commentary: |- <i>keyboard cait:</i> (album team, booklet commentary) - Right after [[track:pax-condesca|Pax Condesca]], the theme of a fuchsia empress' intergalactic conquest, Blind Pilot shifts the focus to the hidden lowblood driving her flagship. Where Condesca was a light tune with unsettling undertones, Blind Pilot goes in full force with its cinematic and emotive atmosphere, a mix of dramatic orchestra, electronic sounds and ambience. It's all in all a breathtaking and impressive final result, especially considering just how silly and tongue in cheek the original [[track:the-blind-prophet|The Blind Prophet]] was. Kudos to Kurt for recontextualizing it so well! + Right after [[Pax Condesca]], the theme of a fuchsia empress' intergalactic conquest, Blind Pilot shifts the focus to the hidden lowblood driving her flagship. Where Condesca was a light tune with unsettling undertones, Blind Pilot goes in full force with its cinematic and emotive atmosphere, a mix of dramatic orchestra, electronic sounds and ambience. It's all in all a breathtaking and impressive final result, especially considering just how silly and tongue in cheek the original [[The Blind Prophet]] was. Kudos to Kurt for recontextualizing it so well! - Additional note: this is the first of four [[track:gold-pilot|Gold Pilot]] arranges to appear on the album, and boy does it start off the trend well. I hope you enjoy all their unique spins on the original! + Additional note: this is the first of four [[Gold Pilot]] arranges to appear on the album, and boy does it start off the trend well. I hope you enjoy all their unique spins on the original! --- Track: Daywalker ~Rise~ Artists: @@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (album help, booklet commentary) - It's a remix of [[track:savior-of-the-waking-world|Savior of the Waking World]]. That's something you couldn't possibly have found out unless you read this very commentary. Aren't you doing yourself a favor by looking through this? + It's a remix of [[Savior of the Waking World]]. That's something you couldn't possibly have found out unless you read this very commentary. Aren't you doing yourself a favor by looking through this? <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (album help, booklet commentary) @@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Wheals:</i> (album help, booklet commentary) - Of all main characters in Homestuck, Kanaya is perhaps the most suited to a soft orchestral/piano piece like this. The song pulls off some great production orchestra-wise while putting a lovely 3/4 twist on [[track:darling-kanaya|Darling Kanaya]]. + Of all main characters in Homestuck, Kanaya is perhaps the most suited to a soft orchestral/piano piece like this. The song pulls off some great production orchestra-wise while putting a lovely 3/4 twist on [[Darling Kanaya]]. <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (album help, booklet commentary) @@ -724,7 +724,7 @@ Commentary: |- As one of the oddball Retcon Lovers out there, the scene where John becomes unstuck in canon is one of my favorite moments in the entire comic. Thinking about it inspired me to make a song about the retcon; specifically, the introduction of John's powers, followed by the way they're used to save the entire timeline from its catastrophic doom. This time around, the game gets completed... but maybe the ending isn't so happy, as we're reminded there's still four kids trapped in the retcon juju, waiting endlessly for freedom in paradox space. - Some trivia: this song was named after an update discussion thread on the old MSPA forums. Apparently, that thread was in turn named after [a TVTropes page](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Retconjuration). Also, alongside a [[track:homestuck-anthem|Homestuck Anthem]] quote at the end, the music box refrain featured throughout the song quotes [[track:windchime-foley|the foley]] on [[flash:82|Homestuck's title page]]. That's both because it's where the retcon arms first appear, and because I always wanted to reference those windchimes. Now you know! + Some trivia: this song was named after an update discussion thread on the old MSPA forums. Apparently, that thread was in turn named after [a TVTropes page](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Retconjuration). Also, alongside a [[Homestuck Anthem]] quote at the end, the music box refrain featured throughout the song quotes [[track:windchime-foley|the foley]] on [[flash:82|Homestuck's title page]]. That's both because it's where the retcon arms first appear, and because I always wanted to reference those windchimes. Now you know! <i>William Leonard:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) @@ -833,7 +833,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>Veritas Unae:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - Originally, this piece was written for a good friend of mine, [[artist:patmandx|Patrick]]. He was running the fan adventure [[flash-act:loftlocked|Loftlocked]] at the time, and I'd supplied the comic with a lot of music in conjunction with [[artist:rnd|Kurtis]] (who is also on this album! Check him out!) Pat had approached me to write a haunting refrain for a harp playing character, Eliza. This theme would eventually form part of several songs written by Kurtis and myself, and the most prominent of which, Lamental, was made into another song, [[track:infinitys-lament|Infinity's Lament]]. It is a fun, jovial melody that turns darker as Eliza becomes less sure of herself and her playing. However, in a Homestuck specific context, consider Rose playing the rain, plucking strings but quickly finding herself at odds with her own land quest. Who knows? The beauty of music is that you can make your own interpretations. + Originally, this piece was written for a good friend of mine, [[artist:patmandx|Patrick]]. He was running the fan adventure [[flash-act:loftlocked|Loftlocked]] at the time, and I'd supplied the comic with a lot of music in conjunction with [[artist:rnd|Kurtis]] (who is also on this album! Check him out!) Pat had approached me to write a haunting refrain for a harp playing character, Eliza. This theme would eventually form part of several songs written by Kurtis and myself, and the most prominent of which, Lamental, was made into another song, [[Infinity's Lament]]. It is a fun, jovial melody that turns darker as Eliza becomes less sure of herself and her playing. However, in a Homestuck specific context, consider Rose playing the rain, plucking strings but quickly finding herself at odds with her own land quest. Who knows? The beauty of music is that you can make your own interpretations. <i>Circlejourney:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) @@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>SplitSuns:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - This track was made for the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team's]] [[album:cool-and-new-volume-7|Volume 7]]. It was based on the hypothetical question "What if Rose went grimdark?" which was based off of a series of shitposts on the /r/homestuck subreddit. With this song, I tried to make it mirror the chain of events that occur to Rose before and after she goes grimdark in the comic. It starts off relatively simple, but quickly goes ominous and unsettling as she stares into the cueball in "Seer: Ask." Then suddenly the song explodes into a blistering drum-and-bass track with booming organs to tell you that, in fact, shit just got real. The song was meant to be reminiscent of [[track:your-best-nightmare|"Your Best Nightmare"]] from Undertale, and I hope I was able to pull that effect off. The song concludes in much the same way it began as Rose, in her newly darkened state, flies into space. All things considered, I had a lot of fun making this song. + This track was made for the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team's]] [[album:cool-and-new-volume-7|Volume 7]]. It was based on the hypothetical question "What if Rose went grimdark?" which was based off of a series of shitposts on the /r/homestuck subreddit. With this song, I tried to make it mirror the chain of events that occur to Rose before and after she goes grimdark in the comic. It starts off relatively simple, but quickly goes ominous and unsettling as she stares into the cueball in "Seer: Ask." Then suddenly the song explodes into a blistering drum-and-bass track with booming organs to tell you that, in fact, shit just got real. The song was meant to be reminiscent of [["Your Best Nightmare"]] from Undertale, and I hope I was able to pull that effect off. The song concludes in much the same way it began as Rose, in her newly darkened state, flies into space. All things considered, I had a lot of fun making this song. <i>SplitSuns:</i> (album help, booklet commentary) @@ -931,7 +931,7 @@ Commentary: |- Some ships may come and go, but Rosemary is forever. - A mashup of the traditional [[track:greensleeves|"Greensleeves"]], which I've always loved, with [[track:endless-climb|"Endless Climb"]] and hints of [[track:black-rose-green-sun|"Black Rose / Green Sun"]]. + A mashup of the traditional [["Greensleeves"]], which I've always loved, with [["Endless Climb"]] and hints of [["Black Rose / Green Sun"]]. <i>SplitSuns:</i> (album help, booklet commentary) @@ -1029,7 +1029,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Interrobang:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - This song began when I was messing around and thought I wanted to make some v a p o r w a v e. I really like the glitchy sections of [[track:gold-pilot|Gold Pilot]], and my initial plan was to slow those parts down, loop them, add drums, etc - the usual vaporwave stuff - thats also how it got its name, thanks to its project file. However once this started to happen I realized what I had written was very different, and that it had turned into some strange Gold Pilot remix. While I worked on other things for UMSPAF and [[group:canmt|CANMT]], this song was on the back burner and I wasn't sure I'd actually finish it, but I stuck with it and just added things as they came to me (I'll admit that [[artist:lambda-elise-merryberry|Lambda]] showing some interest in the song was a bit of motivation). At some point one of the later versions ended up getting accepted to LOFAM4, which was a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one, and so I wrapped up production. + This song began when I was messing around and thought I wanted to make some v a p o r w a v e. I really like the glitchy sections of [[Gold Pilot]], and my initial plan was to slow those parts down, loop them, add drums, etc - the usual vaporwave stuff - thats also how it got its name, thanks to its project file. However once this started to happen I realized what I had written was very different, and that it had turned into some strange Gold Pilot remix. While I worked on other things for UMSPAF and [[group:canmt|CANMT]], this song was on the back burner and I wasn't sure I'd actually finish it, but I stuck with it and just added things as they came to me (I'll admit that [[artist:lambda-elise-merryberry|Lambda]] showing some interest in the song was a bit of motivation). At some point one of the later versions ended up getting accepted to LOFAM4, which was a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one, and so I wrapped up production. Some other facts about this song: Quite a bit of the instruments (I'd say about 80% or so) are modifications of default Garageband synths/presets. This is the first song I've ever made that regularly causes audio overloads on my computer from just playback. The name, "Pilotwave" comes from when it was going to be vaporwave, I named the project file that and it sort of stuck. Special thanks goes to everyone that listened to it and helped me with balance/mastering issues, and extra special thanks to AroSoup for their amazing art! @@ -1115,7 +1115,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>The Great Anansi:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - En Masse is actually a remastering of sorts of the very first Homestuck remix (and just generally one of the first songs ever) that I made about five or six years ago, because this was conceptualized around when Homestuck was ending last year to be a commemoration of the webcomic that sparked so much creative energy in me and catalyzed about 99% of my current friendships. I was keen on having it be grand and sweeping—essentially, doing everything my initial remix did, except bigger and badder than ever before. To that end, I started tossing in some extra motifs and making the composition even mroe frantic than before, but I was keen on keeping the overall rhythm and classical-esque style of [[track:scratch|Scratch]]; it's been a very long time since the cueball-head was directly relevant, but it's important to remember that that's where so much started! The project encountered some severe snags due to various real life troubles and motivation issues, but thanks to the support of the LOFAM team, it's finally been brought to life and I'm back on my feet with bountiful motivation. I might be a bit rocky, but it's only going up from here! + En Masse is actually a remastering of sorts of the very first Homestuck remix (and just generally one of the first songs ever) that I made about five or six years ago, because this was conceptualized around when Homestuck was ending last year to be a commemoration of the webcomic that sparked so much creative energy in me and catalyzed about 99% of my current friendships. I was keen on having it be grand and sweeping—essentially, doing everything my initial remix did, except bigger and badder than ever before. To that end, I started tossing in some extra motifs and making the composition even mroe frantic than before, but I was keen on keeping the overall rhythm and classical-esque style of [[Scratch]]; it's been a very long time since the cueball-head was directly relevant, but it's important to remember that that's where so much started! The project encountered some severe snags due to various real life troubles and motivation issues, but thanks to the support of the LOFAM team, it's finally been brought to life and I'm back on my feet with bountiful motivation. I might be a bit rocky, but it's only going up from here! <i>SplitSuns:</i> (album help, booklet commentary) @@ -1160,7 +1160,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>Seijen:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - "how do I make a future bass song without sounding generic or like a total douche?" you don't, youre a douche. Accept it and move on with life. The only saving grace this track has is the tempo. Most future bass is 130 or 144. Nah fam, we're going 150 on this since 150 and 175 are all I know. This track was exclusively made with harmor and maybe 1 serum. Fuck the system, and fuck my CPU since like [[track:exsanguinated|exsanguinated]], FL crashes 3/4 of the times I try to open the tracks. RIP the dream. + "how do I make a future bass song without sounding generic or like a total douche?" you don't, youre a douche. Accept it and move on with life. The only saving grace this track has is the tempo. Most future bass is 130 or 144. Nah fam, we're going 150 on this since 150 and 175 are all I know. This track was exclusively made with harmor and maybe 1 serum. Fuck the system, and fuck my CPU since like [[exsanguinated]], FL crashes 3/4 of the times I try to open the tracks. RIP the dream. <i>Trufflemeep:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) @@ -1186,11 +1186,11 @@ Sampled Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Noisemaker:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - An extension of a very, very short segment of a group collaboration ([[track:7-grand-end|7 GRAND END]] from the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team]]), it seemed unfitting to leave something like this in its short, unfinished state. + An extension of a very, very short segment of a group collaboration ([[7 GRAND END]] from the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team]]), it seemed unfitting to leave something like this in its short, unfinished state. <i>SplitSuns:</i> (album help, booklet commentary) - Buffskull was originally a part of the [[group:canmt|CANMT]] song [[track:7-grand-end|"7 GRAND END,"]] with the music syncing up to the final [[flash:8127|Act 7]] flash in Homestuck. This part of the song played when Vriska and her army prepared to face off against Lord English, and the art reflects this tense moment. Vriska stands in the middle of the chaos, with the house juju towering behind her. All of this is reflected in the eye of Lord English himself, his normally radiating visage forced into the position of eight-balls. The detail on English's eye is both very sharp and a little unsettling. So although this art mirrors previous scenes in the comic, it adds its own interesting twists to the presentation to make it an exciting and engaging image. + Buffskull was originally a part of the [[group:canmt|CANMT]] song [["7 GRAND END,"]] with the music syncing up to the final [[flash:8127|Act 7]] flash in Homestuck. This part of the song played when Vriska and her army prepared to face off against Lord English, and the art reflects this tense moment. Vriska stands in the middle of the chaos, with the house juju towering behind her. All of this is reflected in the eye of Lord English himself, his normally radiating visage forced into the position of eight-balls. The detail on English's eye is both very sharp and a little unsettling. So although this art mirrors previous scenes in the comic, it adds its own interesting twists to the presentation to make it an exciting and engaging image. --- Track: I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew (theh0nestman Version) Artists: @@ -1263,7 +1263,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>ostrichlittledungeon:</i> (album team, booklet commentary) - After the [[track:im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew-acapella|acapella]] and [[track:im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew-post-punk-version|post-punk versions]] of [[track:im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew|I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew]], you may be wondering how there could possibly be a unique version of this song without stooping to [[artist:what-pumpkin-games|What Pumpkin's]] level and making "I'm a Member of the Midnight Ska." theh0nestman manages to take this early 20th century classic somewhere entirely new. This version of the song has a country rock feel to it, with soft verses leading into harder, crunchier choruses, and the bridges between verses taking us into previously uncharted melodic territory. + After the [[track:im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew-acapella|acapella]] and [[track:im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew-post-punk-version|post-punk versions]] of [[I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew]], you may be wondering how there could possibly be a unique version of this song without stooping to [[artist:what-pumpkin-games|What Pumpkin's]] level and making "I'm a Member of the Midnight Ska." theh0nestman manages to take this early 20th century classic somewhere entirely new. This version of the song has a country rock feel to it, with soft verses leading into harder, crunchier choruses, and the bridges between verses taking us into previously uncharted melodic territory. --- Track: Crystalendofgames Artists: @@ -1321,7 +1321,7 @@ Commentary: |- For a lot of people LoFaM2 is the best (released) LoFaM, which is... sort of weird, as someone that did it. Personally, I sort of think of [[album:lofam2|2]] and [[album:lofam3|3]] as parts of one whole because they were so close in proudction and a number of songs were moved from the former to the latter. - Also for a lot of people, the most represenative songs of LoFaM2 would be things like [[Alphamatic Replacement]], [[track:cr1m1n4l-cr1m1n4l|CR1M1N4L CR1M1N4L]], [[Fighting Spirit]], [[Dance-Stab-Dance]], stuff like that. As the, uh, co-head of Loaf 2 though, I sorta always felt that [[Jackpot]] was the "most LoFaM2" song? Not sure exactly what it was. Perhaps that it had like three remixes (two of which never made it to a LoFaM), perhaps that it was my personal #1 "why wasn't this on [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|coloUrs and mayhem]]" song. But, anyway, yeah, we did Jackpot. It's a neat song. + Also for a lot of people, the most represenative songs of LoFaM2 would be things like [[Alphamatic Replacement]], [[CR1M1N4L CR1M1N4L]], [[Fighting Spirit]], [[Dance-Stab-Dance]], stuff like that. As the, uh, co-head of Loaf 2 though, I sorta always felt that [[Jackpot]] was the "most LoFaM2" song? Not sure exactly what it was. Perhaps that it had like three remixes (two of which never made it to a LoFaM), perhaps that it was my personal #1 "why wasn't this on [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|coloUrs and mayhem]]" song. But, anyway, yeah, we did Jackpot. It's a neat song. <i>keyboard cait:</i> (album team, booklet commentary) @@ -1702,7 +1702,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Wheals:</i> (album help, booklet commentary) - [[artist:kusoro|Xoro]] was working on a little 8-song Vriska album concept for the [[group:canmt|CANMT]], to be released on 8/8/2016. Though the idea never came to be, he made a couple songs for it, which then languished on the main tab of our organization sheet. Reading through the list of semi-abandoned songs there, I convinced him to put it on our [[album:v8lume|Volume 8]], so it ended up with some 8-related action. At some point, either the LOFAM judges listened to the album and felt it was a standout track, or Xoro submitted it on his own. The latter is possible since right around then was when [[artist:lambda-elise-merryberry|Lambda]] put out an open call on /r/homestuck for song submissions. Either way, Xoro felt the song could be improved, so the song as presented here is an even more polished version of [[track:the-8est-flarper-ever|the v8lume one]]. Relistening, many of the changes jump out. Right away you can tell some of the instruments have changed. ([[Enemy Approaching]], the Undertale song, is still an obvious compositional inspiration, even though the instrumentation being less electronic makes this version less similar in that sense.) Some of the mixing is better and more punchy, a skill that Xoro excels at. [[track:terezis-theme|Terezi's theme]] opens the bridge, after which the song contains new composition. Returning to the original motifs of the song after the bridge, it continues to put a new spin on them. I never cease to be impressed by the musical improvements of my friends in the Homestuck fanmusic community. And I'm glad that in a managerial role, I can facilitate others' improvement. Let's all give Xoro a thumbsp for the great work here. + [[artist:kusoro|Xoro]] was working on a little 8-song Vriska album concept for the [[group:canmt|CANMT]], to be released on 8/8/2016. Though the idea never came to be, he made a couple songs for it, which then languished on the main tab of our organization sheet. Reading through the list of semi-abandoned songs there, I convinced him to put it on our [[album:v8lume|Volume 8]], so it ended up with some 8-related action. At some point, either the LOFAM judges listened to the album and felt it was a standout track, or Xoro submitted it on his own. The latter is possible since right around then was when [[artist:lambda-elise-merryberry|Lambda]] put out an open call on /r/homestuck for song submissions. Either way, Xoro felt the song could be improved, so the song as presented here is an even more polished version of [[track:the-8est-flarper-ever|the v8lume one]]. Relistening, many of the changes jump out. Right away you can tell some of the instruments have changed. ([[Enemy Approaching]], the Undertale song, is still an obvious compositional inspiration, even though the instrumentation being less electronic makes this version less similar in that sense.) Some of the mixing is better and more punchy, a skill that Xoro excels at. [[Terezi's theme]] opens the bridge, after which the song contains new composition. Returning to the original motifs of the song after the bridge, it continues to put a new spin on them. I never cease to be impressed by the musical improvements of my friends in the Homestuck fanmusic community. And I'm glad that in a managerial role, I can facilitate others' improvement. Let's all give Xoro a thumbsp for the great work here. --- Track: Wisest Wizord Artists: @@ -2151,7 +2151,7 @@ Commentary: |- From there, konec0's involvement in the fan music scene dropped somewhat, and I was still particularly excited about this idea around the time the ball actually started rolling on LoFaM 4. So I decided to try and revive the dead dance. Humorously, Requiem no longer shows up in the piece, so Dance of the Dead is a bit of a misnomer, but I think the frantic pace and thematic idea of the beta kids and the Midnight Crew jamming together in the Farthest Ring is one we can all appreciate. The choice to go with jazz for the piece is mostly due to how comfortable I feel writing for small jazz ensembles. Another funny thing to note is that I gave anything tricky or unplayable to Jade (consider some of the basslines or the double notes on flute) - she must have pulled out her dreambot again! (Not withstandding, I think a couple of carapacians picked up some alto saxes.) - Many thanks to all the amazing fan musicians who populated the sheet music thread back in the day. So many of those scores were invaluable to me. Also thanks to TheOtherN on musescore for their incredible transcription of [[track:watercolour-pendulum|Watercolour]], [[artist:alex-rosetti|Alex Rosetti]] for the [[Pondsquatter]] MIDI, [[artist:max-wright|Max Wright]] for Gods of the New World sheet music, [[artist:nate-tronerud|Nate Tronerud]] for the [[track:for-beforus|For Beforus]] sheet music, [[artist:tensei|Tensei]] for the [[track:rouge-on-the-rox|Rouge on the Rox]] MIDI, [[artist:circlejourney|Circlejourney]] for the [[track:just1c3-r41ns-from-4bov3|JUST1C3]] MIDI, and [[artist:marcy-nabors|Marcy]] for her incredible melody notating skills. + Many thanks to all the amazing fan musicians who populated the sheet music thread back in the day. So many of those scores were invaluable to me. Also thanks to TheOtherN on musescore for their incredible transcription of [[track:watercolour-pendulum|Watercolour]], [[artist:alex-rosetti|Alex Rosetti]] for the [[Pondsquatter]] MIDI, [[artist:max-wright|Max Wright]] for Gods of the New World sheet music, [[artist:nate-tronerud|Nate Tronerud]] for the [[For Beforus]] sheet music, [[artist:tensei|Tensei]] for the [[Rouge on the Rox]] MIDI, [[artist:circlejourney|Circlejourney]] for the [[track:just1c3-r41ns-from-4bov3|JUST1C3]] MIDI, and [[artist:marcy-nabors|Marcy]] for her incredible melody notating skills. <i>Selan Pike:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) @@ -2176,7 +2176,7 @@ Commentary: |- - [[album:medium|Medium]] - [[Heat]] - [[artist:clark-powell]] (04:03–04:21) - [[album:mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido|Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido]] - [[Beta Version]] - [[artist:michael-guy-bowman]] (04:22–04:39) - [[album:homestuck-vol-7|Homestuck Vol. 7]] - [[Let's All Rock the Heist]] - [[artist:rj-lake|Robert J! Lake]] (04:22–04:39) - - [[album:sburb|Sburb]] - [[track:revelations-ii|Revelations II]] - [[artist:james-dever]] (04:39–04:56) + - [[album:sburb|Sburb]] - [[Revelations II]] - [[artist:james-dever]] (04:39–04:56) - [[album:the-wanderers|The Wanderers]] - [[Aimless Morning Gold]] - [[artist:michael-guy-bowman]] (04:46–04:56) - [[album:prospit-and-derse|Prospit & Derse]] - [[Core of Darkness]] - [[artist:solatrus]] (04:56–05:27) - [[album:homestuck-vol-8|Homestuck Vol. 8]] - [[Escape Pod]] - [[artist:michael-guy-bowman]] (05:03–05:10) @@ -2332,7 +2332,7 @@ Commentary: |- This song was made when I was first really digging my teeth into making music, and I feel like it shows. Generally I feel like the production and instrumentation in this song has... a lot to be desired. Even so, making this taught me lots of things that I wouldn't have learned otherwise, and I'm glad I made it, even if I can't stand to listen to it. - I tried to make another medley with this kind of format for the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team]] recently, and it's essentially what I was trying to do with this song. (Although, with a different subject matter entirely) You can find it on the [[album:greatest-hits-2|Greatest Hits 2]] album, under the name [[track:two-master-classes-a-knife-enthusiast-and-a-green-dude-walk-into-a-bar|Two Master Classes, A Knife Enthusiast, and A Green Dude Walk Into a Bar]]. Yes, I know it's a shitty name. + I tried to make another medley with this kind of format for the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team]] recently, and it's essentially what I was trying to do with this song. (Although, with a different subject matter entirely) You can find it on the [[album:greatest-hits-2|Greatest Hits 2]] album, under the name [[Two Master Classes, A Knife Enthusiast, and A Green Dude Walk Into a Bar]]. Yes, I know it's a shitty name. <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (album help, booklet commentary) @@ -2767,7 +2767,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Lambda Elise Merryberry:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - Finding a suitable song for a disc jingle from [[album:lofam3|LoFaM3]] was... sort of a struggle, really. I didn't want to do something based too heavily on another song (e.g. [[Emissary of Dance]], [[track:garden-of-eden-part-1|Garden of Eden]], [[I'm Not a Hero]], or [[Thermporia]]) and I really didn't want to do something memey/jokey (i.e. [[Theme of the Slam Jam]], [[JOHN DO THE WINDY THING]], or [[track:sord|Sord]]). + Finding a suitable song for a disc jingle from [[album:lofam3|LoFaM3]] was... sort of a struggle, really. I didn't want to do something based too heavily on another song (e.g. [[Emissary of Dance]], [[track:garden-of-eden-part-1|Garden of Eden]], [[I'm Not a Hero]], or [[Thermporia]]) and I really didn't want to do something memey/jokey (i.e. [[Theme of the Slam Jam]], [[JOHN DO THE WINDY THING]], or [[Sord]]). This... narrowed the pool of available songs from LoFaM3 significantly. @@ -2801,7 +2801,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Marcy Nabors:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - Back in 2016 I got together with [[artist:rj-lake|RJ Lake]] and [[artist:james-roach|James Roach]] to compile [[album:homestuck-vol-10|Homestuck Vol. 10]]. Everyone was pretty hyped, and there were threads in various places full of people feverishly speculating about what the tracklist would be. Much of this speculation focused on whether [[artist:toby-fox|Toby Fox's]] elusive song [[track:penumbra-phantasm|Penumbra Phantasm]] would finally see release, founded on the rumor that he had agreed to finish it for the album. + Back in 2016 I got together with [[artist:rj-lake|RJ Lake]] and [[artist:james-roach|James Roach]] to compile [[album:homestuck-vol-10|Homestuck Vol. 10]]. Everyone was pretty hyped, and there were threads in various places full of people feverishly speculating about what the tracklist would be. Much of this speculation focused on whether [[artist:toby-fox|Toby Fox's]] elusive song [[Penumbra Phantasm]] would finally see release, founded on the rumor that he had agreed to finish it for the album. Around this time, a couple of us on the Vol. 10 project decided to have some fun with the speculation and put together a fake version of the album to "leak" to the fans, so we gathered [[Candles & Potency|a]] [[Heel Girl|few]] [[Homestuck Sonata|WIPs]] that'd been cut from Vol. 10 and arranged them at the beginning of the album for an illusion of Authenticity™. Jamie Paige put together a bunch of awful low-effect vaporwave remixes of Homestuck songs, which we gave names to match what the fans were hoping for. Finally, as the keystone piece to tie it all together, we referenced an old Toby Fox piano recording and created a short (but hopefully convincing) song that we titled "Penumbra Phantasm". Christened by Toby's seal of approval and an unholy melding with a vaporwave [[Sunslammer]] monstrosity, this one-minute-and-fifty-second piece quickly became a fan favorite once the [sock?] ruse was revealed, and we [promised](https://shadolith.tumblr.com/post/146397577605/is-it-true-that-you-made-the-fake-penumbra) that this "Pseudumbra Phauxtasm" would see an extended release on LoFaM 4. @@ -2865,7 +2865,7 @@ Commentary: |- YO U HOMESTUX AINT READY 4 DEEZ DROPS DOE<br> THIS SOME REAL SHIT RITE HERE<br> - [[track:crystalmethequins|CRYSTALMETHEQUINS]] ON THAT OVERDOSE<br> + [[CRYSTALMETHEQUINS]] ON THAT OVERDOSE<br> BRINGIN THAT MOTHAFUCKIN HEISENBERG GAME<br> UPDATED TRACKART BY [[artist:richard-gung|RICHARD GUNG]] AGAIN<br> CRYSTALMETHEQUINS: THE REBIRTH<br> @@ -2910,7 +2910,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>SplitSuns:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - This track was originally made for the Cool and New Music Team's ["Cool and New Homestuck"](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMXVVm-BDvr9G2C_sk0OSKpZuxGzsIAh-) project, remixing and parodying the various Homestuck Flashes. In case you can't tell, this song is a parody of [[track:time-on-my-side|Time on my Side]]. I mostly played it straight to the original song, changing the instrumentation and adding some twists of my own. Of course, there's some jokes thrown into the mix as well, such as the [[track:axel-f-crazy-frog|Crazy Frog]] theme song, [[Waters of Nazareth]], and other subtle additions. All in all, I hope you like this song! It's good enough for [[artist:tensei|Tensei]] to say "this is pretty good," so make of that what you will. + This track was originally made for the Cool and New Music Team's ["Cool and New Homestuck"](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMXVVm-BDvr9G2C_sk0OSKpZuxGzsIAh-) project, remixing and parodying the various Homestuck Flashes. In case you can't tell, this song is a parody of [[Time on my Side]]. I mostly played it straight to the original song, changing the instrumentation and adding some twists of my own. Of course, there's some jokes thrown into the mix as well, such as the [[track:axel-f-crazy-frog|Crazy Frog]] theme song, [[Waters of Nazareth]], and other subtle additions. All in all, I hope you like this song! It's good enough for [[artist:tensei|Tensei]] to say "this is pretty good," so make of that what you will. <i>Ephemerald:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) @@ -2950,7 +2950,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Makin:</i> (album team, booklet commentary) - This track was made way back in November for the [\[S] Finale](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgw1yxGLStI) animation, a culmination of [[group:canmt|Cool and New Web Comic]] lore Hadron had been working on for a long time. The track features a bunch of obscure little references like [[track:skaia-voyages|Skaian Voyages]] and [[Celestial Fantasia]], both amazing [[artist:seth-peelle|Beatfox]] songs you should probably look up, and [[track:formation|Formation]], the Hadron song you've already listened to. Beatfox is a music god, and Hadron knew just how to combine all the good leitmotifs in order to make the song feel as grand and epic as humanly possible. I actually named this track, as I feel cool Homestuck quotes like ["Raise of the Conductor's Baton"](https://www.homestuck.com/story/307) ought to be used when they fit the content (and indeed, Rose raises her wand... conductorly... in the animation mentioned above. Seriously, [go watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgw1yxGLStI) [S] Finale when you're done with this album). + This track was made way back in November for the [\[S] Finale](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgw1yxGLStI) animation, a culmination of [[group:canmt|Cool and New Web Comic]] lore Hadron had been working on for a long time. The track features a bunch of obscure little references like [[track:skaia-voyages|Skaian Voyages]] and [[Celestial Fantasia]], both amazing [[artist:seth-peelle|Beatfox]] songs you should probably look up, and [[Formation]], the Hadron song you've already listened to. Beatfox is a music god, and Hadron knew just how to combine all the good leitmotifs in order to make the song feel as grand and epic as humanly possible. I actually named this track, as I feel cool Homestuck quotes like ["Raise of the Conductor's Baton"](https://www.homestuck.com/story/307) ought to be used when they fit the content (and indeed, Rose raises her wand... conductorly... in the animation mentioned above. Seriously, [go watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgw1yxGLStI) [S] Finale when you're done with this album). --- Track: Radness from Concentrate Artists: @@ -3419,7 +3419,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>PatManDX:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) - When I hear the song, it's a no brainer that it was about Roxy in the dreambubbles, being a remix of [[track:even-in-death|'Even in Death']] and all. What was tricky was figuring out what exactly to show in the track art: what angle, what aspect of the dreambubbles, and so on. I didn't want to make the art too busy, so I went for a simpler piece that showcased one of the grander moments of the [[flash:4486|'Roxy: Sleepwalk']] flash—where the music swells as Roxy falls into that dream bubble. Pinks and purples were used cause they pop on the black, and they're nice mysterious colors. + When I hear the song, it's a no brainer that it was about Roxy in the dreambubbles, being a remix of [['Even in Death']] and all. What was tricky was figuring out what exactly to show in the track art: what angle, what aspect of the dreambubbles, and so on. I didn't want to make the art too busy, so I went for a simpler piece that showcased one of the grander moments of the [[flash:4486|'Roxy: Sleepwalk']] flash—where the music swells as Roxy falls into that dream bubble. Pinks and purples were used cause they pop on the black, and they're nice mysterious colors. --- Track: Crystalline Repose Artists: @@ -3476,7 +3476,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) - This track was reassigned to me after the original artist dropped out. I decided to further extend the image formed of [[track:crystalendofgames|Crystalendofgames']] and [[track:ultimate-alchemy|Ultimate Alchemy's]] track illustrations after several people expressed assent when I aired the idea on the LoFaM server. + This track was reassigned to me after the original artist dropped out. I decided to further extend the image formed of [[Crystalendofgames']] and [[track:ultimate-alchemy|Ultimate Alchemy's]] track illustrations after several people expressed assent when I aired the idea on the LoFaM server. *(continued below)* @@ -3643,7 +3643,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>Noisemaker:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - If some of you thought this was [[track:le-canrival|le canrival]] from Cool and New Webcomic's V8LUME, then you'd be right! I initially made le canrival as a Cool and New Webcomic track, but the folks over on the Land of Fans and Music team took some interest in it. So, we arranged to have it put on the next LOFAM, under a new, more classy name. + If some of you thought this was [[le canrival]] from Cool and New Webcomic's V8LUME, then you'd be right! I initially made le canrival as a Cool and New Webcomic track, but the folks over on the Land of Fans and Music team took some interest in it. So, we arranged to have it put on the next LOFAM, under a new, more classy name. <i>0ysTezy:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) @@ -3789,7 +3789,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>SplitSuns:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - This song was originally made for the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team]], but I went with a much more Homestuck slant than a cool and new one for this track. I wanted to take [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|Upward Movement]] and change it into something more EDM and techno, so I chopped and screwed traditional strings and mixed them with the powerful drum tracks and synths you hear in the song. I wanted to include motifs from both Dave and Nepeta as they're two halves of Davepeta's whole. I also incorporated caws and meows for the same effect. Finally, I put the Undertale track [[track:core|CORE]] in the song because of that one scene in [[flash:8087|EOA6]] ([you know the one.](https://youtu.be/Y5wYN6rB_Rg?t=670)⁠) There's an additional reference at that point if you're listening carefully! Although this song was challenging to make, I think it turned out very well in the end. + This song was originally made for the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team]], but I went with a much more Homestuck slant than a cool and new one for this track. I wanted to take [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|Upward Movement]] and change it into something more EDM and techno, so I chopped and screwed traditional strings and mixed them with the powerful drum tracks and synths you hear in the song. I wanted to include motifs from both Dave and Nepeta as they're two halves of Davepeta's whole. I also incorporated caws and meows for the same effect. Finally, I put the Undertale track [[CORE]] in the song because of that one scene in [[flash:8087|EOA6]] ([you know the one.](https://youtu.be/Y5wYN6rB_Rg?t=670)⁠) There's an additional reference at that point if you're listening carefully! Although this song was challenging to make, I think it turned out very well in the end. <i>Shadok:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) @@ -3811,7 +3811,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>ostrichlittledungeon:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - God, this was so much work. Oh yeah, and I lost the first half of the project file towards the end so I couldn't go back and edit it. Ugh. But all in all, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. The original plan was to go through the [[group:canmt|CANMT]] discography and pick the most iconic songs over time. If you're unfamiliar with its discography, I highly recommend you at least [[group-gallery:canmt|go give it a glance]]. I roughly settled on using [[track:cascante|Cascante]], [[track:tick|Tick]]/[[track:tock|Tock]], [[Fruity Pebbles Redux]], [[album:gunshow-singalong|Gunshow]], [[Rex Mille Geromius]], [[Doctor]] and [[Penumbra Phantasm]] ([[album:cool-and-new-volume-v|cool and new vol V]]), [[track:contra-canmt|Contra]] (from [[album:cool-and-new-homestuck|Cool and New Homestuck]]), [[track:moshi-moshi|Moshi Moshi]], [[Final Confrontation]], [[Unintentional Touhou]], [[track:in-the-beginning-basement-tale|In the Beginning]]/[[track:contact|Contact]], [[Formation]], [[track:jungle-3|Jungle #3]], [[Muse of Nanchos]], [[track:meet-the-flintstones|Flintstones]], [[track:gunshow-2-theme-instrumental|Gunshow 2]], and of course, [[track:rollercoaster-tycoon-theme|the RCT theme]] and [[track:bowmans-credit-score|Bowman's credit score]]. Shoutouts to [[artist:difarem|Difarem]] for making the "it's between my buttocks" vocaloid for me. Revisit/Rewind, which is based heavily on [[Ascend]], was released as the Cool and New Homestuck song for [\[S] Credits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UTMPTX45F8). + God, this was so much work. Oh yeah, and I lost the first half of the project file towards the end so I couldn't go back and edit it. Ugh. But all in all, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. The original plan was to go through the [[group:canmt|CANMT]] discography and pick the most iconic songs over time. If you're unfamiliar with its discography, I highly recommend you at least [[group-gallery:canmt|go give it a glance]]. I roughly settled on using [[Cascante]], [[Tick]]/[[Tock]], [[Fruity Pebbles Redux]], [[album:gunshow-singalong|Gunshow]], [[Rex Mille Geromius]], [[Doctor]] and [[Penumbra Phantasm]] ([[album:cool-and-new-volume-v|cool and new vol V]]), [[Contra]] (from [[album:cool-and-new-homestuck|Cool and New Homestuck]]), [[Moshi Moshi]], [[Final Confrontation]], [[Unintentional Touhou]], [[track:in-the-beginning-basement-tale|In the Beginning]]/[[Contact]], [[Formation]], [[Jungle #3]], [[Muse of Nanchos]], [[track:meet-the-flintstones|Flintstones]], [[track:gunshow-2-theme-instrumental|Gunshow 2]], and of course, [[track:rollercoaster-tycoon-theme|the RCT theme]] and [[Bowman's credit score]]. Shoutouts to [[artist:difarem|Difarem]] for making the "it's between my buttocks" vocaloid for me. Revisit/Rewind, which is based heavily on [[Ascend]], was released as the Cool and New Homestuck song for [\[S] Credits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UTMPTX45F8). <i>Wheals:</i> (album help, booklet commentary) @@ -3841,7 +3841,7 @@ Commentary: |- - [[Even in Death]] - [[artist:clark-powell]] (2:03–2:18) - [[Space Jam]] - [[artist:quad-city-djs]] (2:03–2:18) - [[Chorale for Jaspers]] - [[artist:michael-guy-bowman]] (2:03–2:10) - - [[track:at-the-price-of-oblivion|At the Price of Oblivion]] - [[artist:malcolm-brown]] (2:11–2:14) + - [[At the Price of Oblivion]] - [[artist:malcolm-brown]] (2:11–2:14) - [[track:contra-canmt]] - [[artist:noisemaker]] (2:18–2:48) - [[track:MeGaLoVania]] - [[artist:toby-fox]] (2:50–3:05) - [[Moshi Moshi?]] - [[artist:cryptanark]] (2:50–3:05) diff --git a/album/lofam5a2.yaml b/album/lofam5a2.yaml index 4f88410a..dbe96749 100644 --- a/album/lofam5a2.yaml +++ b/album/lofam5a2.yaml @@ -140,11 +140,11 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Evening Star Commentary: |- <i>John Tay:</i> - guys i'm not a homestuck fan i can't even name 2 characters in the series i can only do one because i've heard of [[track:eridans-theme|eridan's theme]]<br> + guys i'm not a homestuck fan i can't even name 2 characters in the series i can only do one because i've heard of [[eridan's theme]]<br> and if i wanted to where tf do i even start cause the story goes balls deep and the ost playlist has like 530 songs i do like [[group:toby-fox|toby fox]] and i like his music and his work here isn't any exception<br> - still only heard of eridan's theme, moonsetter & [[track:sunsetter|sunsetter]] lol<br> + still only heard of eridan's theme, moonsetter & [[sunsetter]] lol<br> i do remember a discord friend spamming some character render captioning it with "nak" and we found that funny for a while I promised Uhrwerk to add the funny Chaotix reference and it's an ok bridge back to the top<br> @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ Art Tags: - Dirk Commentary : |- <i>Grace Medley:</i> (album management) - How’s about that Dirk guy, huh? Between this, [[album:homestuck-vol-9|Vol. 9’s]] [[track:sweet-dreams-timaeus|Sweet Dreams, Timaeus]], [[album:lofam4|LOFAM4’s]] [[track:tragic-heights|Tragic Heights]], and the never-released Hello, My Name Is Hal, Ferkol’s sculpted out a one-of-a-kind musical identity for this brooding dude. + How’s about that Dirk guy, huh? Between this, [[album:homestuck-vol-9|Vol. 9’s]] [[Sweet Dreams, Timaeus]], [[album:lofam4|LOFAM4’s]] [[Tragic Heights]], and the never-released Hello, My Name Is Hal, Ferkol’s sculpted out a one-of-a-kind musical identity for this brooding dude. <i>Monckat:</i> Ultimate Dirk broods moodily over some epic matter of doubtlessly transcendent existential importance. The text in the background was transcribed directly from my well-thumbed physical copy of the epilogues. I kinda forgot what the interior of the Theseus looked like so I defaulted to a bunch of Galfany-esque tech. @@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ Commentary: |- Around that time, I went to see a live Hans Zimmer concert that was touring. I already like movie soundtracks, however, seeing them performed live was an entirely different feeling. It was so grand, so important, so majestic. In short, I adored it. And moreso, it was the final push that I needed. During an intermission, I came up with something and quickly recorded myself humming it, and that recording was the thing that finally gave me the inspiration to make this track. - Flight of the Meteor is supposed to be a series of tracks about the 3-year journey of the Meteor crew and the events that happened during it. The image that came up in my mind every time I brainstormed about "The Epic LOFAM Track™" was always the trolls' meteor, and frankly, I am not even too sure why. Possibly because at the time I thought that it was one of the only major events in Homestuck that didn't really have music associated with it (But then I remembered [[track:gold-pilot|Gold Pilot]] and the [[flash:4109|Cascade]] flash so yeah lol). Still, I really liked the idea, and the concept stuck. + Flight of the Meteor is supposed to be a series of tracks about the 3-year journey of the Meteor crew and the events that happened during it. The image that came up in my mind every time I brainstormed about "The Epic LOFAM Track™" was always the trolls' meteor, and frankly, I am not even too sure why. Possibly because at the time I thought that it was one of the only major events in Homestuck that didn't really have music associated with it (But then I remembered [[Gold Pilot]] and the [[flash:4109|Cascade]] flash so yeah lol). Still, I really liked the idea, and the concept stuck. Now, hold on, a *series* of tracks? What do you mean, Jebb? Well, if you are reading this commentary in the future, then you probably know. If you aren't, well, you probably already figured it out. But still, a bit of an explanation. @@ -511,12 +511,12 @@ Commentary: |- <i>sunsprite:</i> The game finally ended. Come over, let's eat some cake and play that song your dad liked. - The base motif is Harlequin, but it's jazzy. One of the main inspirations is [[track:moonsweater|Moonsweater]] by [[artist:david-ellis|David Ellis]], it's great. + The base motif is Harlequin, but it's jazzy. One of the main inspirations is [[Moonsweater]] by [[artist:david-ellis|David Ellis]], it's great. Playing everything on real instruments just feels a bit different to me, and I like that. It was very fun to iterate on the parts and do all different solos. <i>ricemilk:</i> - My inspiration for this was a track art for "[[track:unlabeled|unlabeled]]" off of "[[album:one-year-older|One Year Older]]". It's basically what came to mind when I saw that title and heard the song, although the vibes of the songs themselves are different. I didn't even look back at it through the course of working on my piece, but now when I do, it ended up being very similar. I was \*also* informed that it looked like the painting "Freedom from Want" by Norman Rockwell, which was completely unintended but a very funny coincidence. The POV is our main character. If I was to redo it, I'd make it more playful to fit the song better, but I guess the feeling that I was stuck with was "safe" and "belonging". The feelings that perhaps many of us yearn for. + My inspiration for this was a track art for "[[unlabeled]]" off of "[[album:one-year-older|One Year Older]]". It's basically what came to mind when I saw that title and heard the song, although the vibes of the songs themselves are different. I didn't even look back at it through the course of working on my piece, but now when I do, it ended up being very similar. I was \*also* informed that it looked like the painting "Freedom from Want" by Norman Rockwell, which was completely unintended but a very funny coincidence. The POV is our main character. If I was to redo it, I'd make it more playful to fit the song better, but I guess the feeling that I was stuck with was "safe" and "belonging". The feelings that perhaps many of us yearn for. --- Track: The Final Spice is Cardamom for Apple Pie, Cloves for Pumpkins Artists: @@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Monckat:</i> An elaboration of SolusLunes' track Endless Space, sprinkled with sections quoting his [[album:homestuck-vol-5|Vol. 5]] track Switchback and seasoned to taste with a few of the motifs from my fanventure, The Tapestry. You’ll never guess what the title is based on. - Endless Space isn’t technically a homestuck track, but my absurd, speculative and totally unconfirmable theory is that when Mr. Lunes was tossing wavs into his Vol. 5 submission folder he intended to submit Endless Space but mixed up the file names and put [[track:endless-heart|Endless Heart]] in instead. I have zero evidence for this. + Endless Space isn’t technically a homestuck track, but my absurd, speculative and totally unconfirmable theory is that when Mr. Lunes was tossing wavs into his Vol. 5 submission folder he intended to submit Endless Space but mixed up the file names and put [[Endless Heart]] in instead. I have zero evidence for this. <i>Makin:</i> (album management) <img src="media/misc/lofam5a2bullshit.jpg" width="150"><br> @@ -991,7 +991,7 @@ Commentary: |- Fast forward to 2022, when, behind the scenes, we’re sort of deliberating over the prospect of a new LOFAM (we had no idea at the time that we’d get more than thirty-odd tracks even optimistically, we couldn’t begin to dream of netting three times that). I say to Split, well, since we’ve both improved so much as producers, what’s the harm in taking a crack at Stuck for real this time? To my surprise, both WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES and Ucklin jumped on the opportunity in a heartbeat. Looking back, I’m more or less shocked everything fell together so perfectly like that. - We cut ahead a few weeks more and I’m sitting at work, with Another Jungle stuck in my head. It gets me thinking: Home is largely inspired by [[track:forever|Forever]]/Dawn of Man, which in turn borrow largely from Sburban Jungle. Another Jungle doesn’t have a Forever/Dawn of Man equivalent, but what if Stuck behaved like it came from another universe where it did – using the same melody, but over poppier, more bittersweet chords? To my surprise, I had the chords in my head in minutes. You can hear them in the chorus, which actually largely remains unaltered from what I wrote down that afternoon and the following week. Actually, the melody to the vocals in the chorus mostly follows I had an idea to put over the top of that, too, although with some important adjustments from Ucklin who also wrote lyrics that blow the kind of stuff I was thinking up out of the water. + We cut ahead a few weeks more and I’m sitting at work, with Another Jungle stuck in my head. It gets me thinking: Home is largely inspired by [[Forever]]/Dawn of Man, which in turn borrow largely from Sburban Jungle. Another Jungle doesn’t have a Forever/Dawn of Man equivalent, but what if Stuck behaved like it came from another universe where it did – using the same melody, but over poppier, more bittersweet chords? To my surprise, I had the chords in my head in minutes. You can hear them in the chorus, which actually largely remains unaltered from what I wrote down that afternoon and the following week. Actually, the melody to the vocals in the chorus mostly follows I had an idea to put over the top of that, too, although with some important adjustments from Ucklin who also wrote lyrics that blow the kind of stuff I was thinking up out of the water. I think a big part of what I had going for me production-wise on this track is that I’ve not only become better at mixing (actually, you hear practically none of my mix work on Home – that’s almost entirely held together by Split’s fantastic work there), but I’ve also diversified my music tastes – I know whose styles I’m drawing inspiration from, and I know what benchmark to aim for in producing Stuck. Some I leave it as a challenge for any keen-eared listener to go looking for are George Duke, Fatboy Slim, Magdalena Bay, Bicep, Slowdive (who I sample in here – keep an ear out!), Röyksopp, Oneohtrix Point Never, Barker, and early Apparat. The ending is almost entirely pastiche of the musician Lawrence English – and I thank Split for the idea, who suggested Stuck’s ending should be something ambient to contrast with Home’s big, climactic rock-out, and I still wanted something larger-than-life, so English’s heavy drone style seemed like a perfect end to aim for. @@ -1048,7 +1048,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Frost Carter:</i> I thought I'd go with some basic chords in the lydian scale to start with, with each chord panned in the opposite direction to make it feel floaty. Or voidy, if you will. Then, the percussion and bass come in. The percussion is a slowed and pitched-down LoFi drum, because I just think it sounds cool, and fits the overall tone. - There's a short transition bar that introduces some strings and leads into the second half (give or take) of the track. It's the [[track:end-of-friendvangelion|main Friendsim motif]], but something is just slightly... off. Specifically, on the second repetition, the last couple bars are in a minor key rather than the usual major, with the exception of one background synth that plays the original chords, giving it a discordant, almost strained sound. As I'm sure you can guess, this is alluding to the whole "things aren't how you left them" thing. Another repetition, but this time the last two bars are a [[Penumbra Phantasm|certain recognizable motif]], leading into the outro, which quotes [[track:embittered-shore|Embittered Shore]] from [[album:lofam2|LOFAM2]], which is the track that plays during the PesterQuest finale. Presumably, the track would then loop. + There's a short transition bar that introduces some strings and leads into the second half (give or take) of the track. It's the [[track:end-of-friendvangelion|main Friendsim motif]], but something is just slightly... off. Specifically, on the second repetition, the last couple bars are in a minor key rather than the usual major, with the exception of one background synth that plays the original chords, giving it a discordant, almost strained sound. As I'm sure you can guess, this is alluding to the whole "things aren't how you left them" thing. Another repetition, but this time the last two bars are a [[Penumbra Phantasm|certain recognizable motif]], leading into the outro, which quotes [[Embittered Shore]] from [[album:lofam2|LOFAM2]], which is the track that plays during the PesterQuest finale. Presumably, the track would then loop. <i>DDP:</i> Do you think first guardians dream of green barkbeasts? @@ -1080,7 +1080,7 @@ Commentary: |- i liked the idea of it being used for the disc trax so i kinda traced it in my own style used a similar palette n added more lofamy stuff - it was fun n simpler 2 make than [[track:moonlight-riders|moonlight riders]] n since ppl liked it it ended up in front of ur eyes in its current form + it was fun n simpler 2 make than [[moonlight riders]] n since ppl liked it it ended up in front of ur eyes in its current form --- Track: Symphony of Skaia Artists: @@ -1103,7 +1103,7 @@ Art Tags: - LoMaX Commentary: |- <i>JulianMOCs:</i> - This track was created as my love letter to [[group:toby-fox|Toby Fox's]] music style. The song "[[track:savior-of-the-waking-world|Savior of the Waking World]]" stuck with me as I read through Homestuck for the first time after initially being drawn to the webcomic because of Toby Fox's involvement with the soundtrack, so I decided to make a song that gives off a similar energy to the moment portrayed in the story. Recently, I pitched the song to be made into an S flash for [Paradox Swapped](https://mspfa.com/?s=32996), and will be featured in the fanventure very soon! + This track was created as my love letter to [[group:toby-fox|Toby Fox's]] music style. The song "[[Savior of the Waking World]]" stuck with me as I read through Homestuck for the first time after initially being drawn to the webcomic because of Toby Fox's involvement with the soundtrack, so I decided to make a song that gives off a similar energy to the moment portrayed in the story. Recently, I pitched the song to be made into an S flash for [Paradox Swapped](https://mspfa.com/?s=32996), and will be featured in the fanventure very soon! --- Track: When the Curtains Part Suffix Directory: true @@ -1248,7 +1248,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Makin:</i> (album management) You didn’t like Ferkol’s [[track:dictator-lofam5a2|previous Dirk track in this album]]? Well, deal with it, here’s another one. That guy just won’t stop showing up in unexpected sequels. - By the way, yes, this is a visual reference to the cover of “[[track:sweet-dreams-timaeus|Sweet Dreams, Timaeus]]” from [[album:homestuck-vol-9|Homestuck Vol. 9]]. + By the way, yes, this is a visual reference to the cover of “[[Sweet Dreams, Timaeus]]” from [[album:homestuck-vol-9|Homestuck Vol. 9]]. --- Track: Grubheap Artists: @@ -1423,7 +1423,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>lemonzestdoodle:</i> Diamonds Droog would have hyped Aradia up before [[flash:2578|[S] Make Her Pay]], no doubt about it. Also this song definitely gives off the vibe of a fight you're definitely going to lose. - Inspired by "[[track:spider8reath|Spider8reath]]" by [[group:tensei|Tensei]] and "The Slaughter Continues" by BenLab + Inspired by "[[Spider8reath]]" by [[group:tensei|Tensei]] and "The Slaughter Continues" by BenLab --- Track: Crystalanachronysms Artists: @@ -1880,7 +1880,7 @@ Art Tags: - Rose Commentary: |- <i>Horizonseek Studios:</i> - i really love this track and for a while i wasn't sure if i would choose it to illustrate, certain someone else would pick it and create a breathtaking piece to match the tone and scope, something like [[artist:circlejourney|circlejourney's]] art for [[track:crystalendofgames|crystalendofgames]] + i really love this track and for a while i wasn't sure if i would choose it to illustrate, certain someone else would pick it and create a breathtaking piece to match the tone and scope, something like [[artist:circlejourney|circlejourney's]] art for [[crystalendofgames]] however, the days passed and it remained unpicked, for long enough that my occasional mental art concepting solidified @@ -1952,7 +1952,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Savior of the Dreaming Dead Commentary: |- <i>pixelseph:</i> - This one and the recent [[track:clockstopper-new-game-plus-all-clocks-percent|Clockstopper (New Game+ All Clocks%)]] were incepted during 2020, because there was finally enough time. Conceptually, it's like Tool meets Homestuck composer [[group:tensei|Joren "Tensei" de Bruin]] (particularly from his [[album:strife|Strife]] record). + This one and the recent [[Clockstopper (New Game+ All Clocks%)]] were incepted during 2020, because there was finally enough time. Conceptually, it's like Tool meets Homestuck composer [[group:tensei|Joren "Tensei" de Bruin]] (particularly from his [[album:strife|Strife]] record). <i>Monckat:</i> While her buddy revivifies in the backline, Rose prepares to give a very bad dog an exclusive sneak preview eldritch sommelier taste test of the Furthest Ring. Or she would be, if her ghost-white eyes weren’t betraying her ultimate fate. @@ -1961,7 +1961,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>pixelseph:</i> ([Newgrounds short description](https://www.newgrounds.com/playlist/275797/pixels-paradiddles-homestuck-ep)) - A heavier take on [[track:even-in-death|Even in Death]], from Homestuck Vol. 7 + A heavier take on [[Even in Death]], from Homestuck Vol. 7 <i>pixelseph, paradiddlesjosh:</i> ([Newgrounds description](https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1207752), excerpt, 4/14/2023) @@ -1972,7 +1972,7 @@ Commentary: |- <b>Time/Tempo:</b> 2'42" / 120bpm (4/4)<br> <b>KEY:</b> D Minor - <b>ORIGINAL THEMES:</b> [[track:even-in-death|"Even in Death"]] by [[artist:clark-powell]], [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|"Upward Movement"]] by [[artist:kalibration]], motifs from [[track:savior-of-the-dreaming-dead|"Savior of the Dreaming Dead"]] by [[artist:malcolm-brown]] (which quotes [[track:savior-of-the-waking-world|"Savior of the Waking World"]] by [[artist:toby-fox]]). + <b>ORIGINAL THEMES:</b> [["Even in Death"]] by [[artist:clark-powell]], [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|"Upward Movement"]] by [[artist:kalibration]], motifs from [["Savior of the Dreaming Dead"]] by [[artist:malcolm-brown]] (which quotes [["Savior of the Waking World"]] by [[artist:toby-fox]]). <b>SAMPLES USED:</b> "Boom - Cavernous B" from Flame Sound's Inferno SFX pack. @@ -2632,7 +2632,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>Raid:</i> (booklet commentary, originally [[album:moonslayer|for YouTube]]) - Why'd I call it Moonslayer? Well, I was looking for a cool edgy yet catchy little name to title this track while riffing off the Homestuck Music Team’s theme of titling tracks Moon/Sun + word that starts with S. Moonsetter is the name of the original track. [[track:moonshatter|Moonshatter]] and [[track:sunsetter|Sunsetter]] are the names of a couple of Toby Fox’s other Homestuck music contributions. [[track:moonsweater|Moonsweater]] is the name of a track on [[album:homestuck-vol-10|Homestuck Volume 10]] by [[artist:david-ellis|A Lunatic's Daydream]]. So you see what I mean. I considered Moonslammer, like [[track:sunslammer|Sunslammer]] by [[artist:seth-peelle|Beatfox]], but that wasn't edgy enough for me. So I settled on Moonslayer. Yeah. "Moonslayer" brings up catastrophic, apocalyptic images of destroying the moon, but not just destroying the moon—slaying it, as though the moon were a living entity capable of being conquered. A spirit. A god or goddess, maybe. A constant observer of mankind. Something personified, and then killed. Very edgy. Absolutely perfect. + Why'd I call it Moonslayer? Well, I was looking for a cool edgy yet catchy little name to title this track while riffing off the Homestuck Music Team’s theme of titling tracks Moon/Sun + word that starts with S. Moonsetter is the name of the original track. [[Moonshatter]] and [[Sunsetter]] are the names of a couple of Toby Fox’s other Homestuck music contributions. [[Moonsweater]] is the name of a track on [[album:homestuck-vol-10|Homestuck Volume 10]] by [[artist:david-ellis|A Lunatic's Daydream]]. So you see what I mean. I considered Moonslammer, like [[Sunslammer]] by [[artist:seth-peelle|Beatfox]], but that wasn't edgy enough for me. So I settled on Moonslayer. Yeah. "Moonslayer" brings up catastrophic, apocalyptic images of destroying the moon, but not just destroying the moon—slaying it, as though the moon were a living entity capable of being conquered. A spirit. A god or goddess, maybe. A constant observer of mankind. Something personified, and then killed. Very edgy. Absolutely perfect. --- Track: Frost and Frogs Suffix Directory: true @@ -2694,7 +2694,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Courser Commentary: |- <i>Makin:</i> (album management) - I designed this album’s track order. Mostly I based it on secret subliminal messages I received from the lyrics of “[[track:im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew|I’m a Member of the Midnight Crew]]” (long story). For this span of four tracks, though, there’s actually some ludoaudionarratively harmonic environmental storytelling going on. “Frost and Frogs” -> <span style="font-family: comic sans ms, courier, courier new">“dog”</span> -> “Arf!” -> ... + I designed this album’s track order. Mostly I based it on secret subliminal messages I received from the lyrics of “[[I’m a Member of the Midnight Crew]]” (long story). For this span of four tracks, though, there’s actually some ludoaudionarratively harmonic environmental storytelling going on. “Frost and Frogs” -> <span style="font-family: comic sans ms, courier, courier new">“dog”</span> -> “Arf!” -> ... --- Track: Frog Eater Suffix Directory: true @@ -2880,7 +2880,7 @@ Art Tags: - Davesprite Commentary: |- <i>Cecily Renns:</i> - There's an unfortunate story to this song. Originally I was working on an entirely different song, it was called "Sungazer". It had lyrics and vocals, and was a cover of [[track:sunsetter-ska|Sunsetter (Ska)]] which is an unreleased Toby Fox song from the sound test where he put lyrics to [[track:sunsetter|Sunsetter]]. That is one of my favourite songs ever and I got this incredible vocalist to sing an emo-pop cover of it. Unfortunately, I am not on speaking terms with this artist anymore, and so I had to give up working on that song, as I could not find a replacement singer on such a short notice. Instead, I decided to whip up this instrumental track at the last minute, because I really did want to contribute to this album. I've been in this fandom for 7 years and I wanna be on a LOFAM album damnit!!! I really wanted to make a cool vocal track and wow everyone with my emo songwriting skills but oh well. I hope people still like this cool song I made in 2 hours!!! + There's an unfortunate story to this song. Originally I was working on an entirely different song, it was called "Sungazer". It had lyrics and vocals, and was a cover of [[Sunsetter (Ska)]] which is an unreleased Toby Fox song from the sound test where he put lyrics to [[Sunsetter]]. That is one of my favourite songs ever and I got this incredible vocalist to sing an emo-pop cover of it. Unfortunately, I am not on speaking terms with this artist anymore, and so I had to give up working on that song, as I could not find a replacement singer on such a short notice. Instead, I decided to whip up this instrumental track at the last minute, because I really did want to contribute to this album. I've been in this fandom for 7 years and I wanna be on a LOFAM album damnit!!! I really wanted to make a cool vocal track and wow everyone with my emo songwriting skills but oh well. I hope people still like this cool song I made in 2 hours!!! <i>Cecily Renns:</i> Someone please contact Cecily and offer to sing that cover pls @@ -2944,7 +2944,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>yuuDii:</i> This piece brought to you by getting hit by a car on 4/12. (Not a joke, that really happened and is the reason an earlier version of this song and its sister piece were not released in April.) - Track very loosely follows Dave's plot through [[flash:4109|Cascade]]. It starts with raw soundfonts and drum samples as if Dave was making this in his room, then expands into a main chorus with "Atomyk Ebonpyre". I use it as his primary motif in the same way I feel Doctor, Endless Climb, and [[track:sunsetter|Sunsetter]] represent the other kids. It then moves into a slower section revolving around "Candles and Clockwork" and "Beatdown", representing LOHAC and the constant reminders of strife in it. The section comes to a quiet close in half time following the doomed timeline Dave, then jumps back into Atomyk Ebonpyre as he merges into the alpha timeline and prototypes himself. + Track very loosely follows Dave's plot through [[flash:4109|Cascade]]. It starts with raw soundfonts and drum samples as if Dave was making this in his room, then expands into a main chorus with "Atomyk Ebonpyre". I use it as his primary motif in the same way I feel Doctor, Endless Climb, and [[Sunsetter]] represent the other kids. It then moves into a slower section revolving around "Candles and Clockwork" and "Beatdown", representing LOHAC and the constant reminders of strife in it. The section comes to a quiet close in half time following the doomed timeline Dave, then jumps back into Atomyk Ebonpyre as he merges into the alpha timeline and prototypes himself. It then skips forward into Jade's entrance during the fight between Bro, Davesprite, and Jack Noir. I used "Unite Synchronization", originally a song for Dave and then used for Dirk, as a stand in for Bro, and "Black" for Jack Noir. It then stops abruptly as Jack is prototyped with Bec and slaughters Bro. There is a pause before it skips again to the confrontation between Rose and Dave before she pilots the tumor into the sun, "Endless Climb" briefly emerging to represent Rose. If I had access to a voice actor, or a microphone, I would have had someone quote Dave saying "But I don't want you to die". Then it ramps up again, leading into "Savior of the Dreaming Dead", "Cascade", a duet between "Endless Climb" and "Atomyk Ebonpyre", and "Upward Movement". It then returns back to "Versus", and ends. @@ -3089,7 +3089,7 @@ Commentary: |- <b>TIME/TEMPO:</b> 5'48” / 138bpm, 69bpm (nice), 128bpm, 118bpm, 160bpm, 106bpm (4/4, 6/4, and 11/8 time)<br> <b>KEY:</b> C Minor - <b>ORIGINAL THEMES:</b> [[track:beatdown-strider-style|"Beatdown (Strider Style)"]] and [[track:beatdown-round-2|"Beatdown Round 2"]] by [[artist:curt-blakeslee]], [[track:atomyk-ebonpyre|"Atomyk Ebonpyre"]] by [[artist:toby-fox]] and [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|"Upward Movement (Dave Owns)"]] by [[artist:kalibration]]. Some melodic work in the breakdown of "Beatdown" by Joseph Brown (chocosoda/pixelseph). + <b>ORIGINAL THEMES:</b> [["Beatdown (Strider Style)"]] and [["Beatdown Round 2"]] by [[artist:curt-blakeslee]], [["Atomyk Ebonpyre"]] by [[artist:toby-fox]] and [["Upward Movement (Dave Owns)"]] by [[artist:kalibration]]. Some melodic work in the breakdown of "Beatdown" by Joseph Brown (chocosoda/pixelseph). <b>MIDI TRANSCRIPTIONS:</b> "Beatdown (Strider Style)" and "Atomyk Ebonpyre" by [[artist:mrcheeze|MrCheese]] on the MSPA forum. "Upward Movement" was transcribed for piano by BRPXQZME on the MSPA forum. @@ -3316,7 +3316,7 @@ Commentary: |- <span style="color: #2ed73a">THAT’S RIGHT! CALIBORN’S LAMENT IS AN IDEA WHICH I TOOK. FROM SOMEONE ELSE. WHO ALSO HAPPENED TO BE ONE HANDSOME YOURS THE MOTHERFUCK TRULY. YOU ALREADY KNOW THIS IF YOU HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING MY JOURNEY. FOR THE PAST SEVEN OR MORE YEARS. LIKE ANY REASONABLE DISCIPLEFANBOY. FROM THIS TIME YOU MIGHT RECALL A “LEAK”. OF SOMETHING CALLED “[[album:homestuck-vol-10|VOLUME TEN]]”. WHATEVER IT WAS THE TENTH VOLUME TO HAS BEEN LOST TO THE AGES. AND BASICALLY PROBABLY NEVER MATTERED.</span> - <span style="color: #2ed73a">THE POINT IS! “CALIBORN’S LAMENT” WAS THE TITLE OF ONE SUCH TRACK. [[album:vaporwave-2016|IN WHAT WOULD IMMEDIATELY PROVE TO BE SOME SORT OF “PRANK”. INVOLVING MAKING MUSIC SLOWER INSIDE A COMPUTER.]] AND IT WAS A TITLE NESTLED DEEP WITHIN A LIST. OF OTHER, OBVIOUSLY FAKE TRACK TITLES. SUCH AS “GIRL SKYLARK”. AND “PYRE AND BRIMSTONE”. AND WHOEVER HEARD OF CALLING A TRACK “[[track:creata|CREATA]]”. IT MAKES ME LAUGH TO CONSIDER FOR A SECOND THAT THERE MIGHT EVER BE A PIECE OF MUSIC BY THIS NAME.</span> + <span style="color: #2ed73a">THE POINT IS! “CALIBORN’S LAMENT” WAS THE TITLE OF ONE SUCH TRACK. [[album:vaporwave-2016|IN WHAT WOULD IMMEDIATELY PROVE TO BE SOME SORT OF “PRANK”. INVOLVING MAKING MUSIC SLOWER INSIDE A COMPUTER.]] AND IT WAS A TITLE NESTLED DEEP WITHIN A LIST. OF OTHER, OBVIOUSLY FAKE TRACK TITLES. SUCH AS “GIRL SKYLARK”. AND “PYRE AND BRIMSTONE”. AND WHOEVER HEARD OF CALLING A TRACK “[[CREATA]]”. IT MAKES ME LAUGH TO CONSIDER FOR A SECOND THAT THERE MIGHT EVER BE A PIECE OF MUSIC BY THIS NAME.</span> <span style="color: #2ed73a">THOUGH I ADMIT THE MESSAGING WAS A LITTLE COUNTERINTUITIVE. THIS WAS HOW I KNEW. CALIBORN’S LAMENT WAS REAL. AND IT WAS A MESSAGE FROM MY FUTURE SELF. FROM WHOM I HAVE NOW STOLEN THE IDEA. BUT I KNOW HE WOULD BE FINE WITH IT. HE WOULD APPLAUD ME, EVEN. I KNOW THIS BECAUSE I HAVE GOTTEN UP TO BEING HIM NOW. AND I HAVE TO CONFESS. THIS BASICALLY FUCKING ROCKS IN EVERY CONCEIVABLE WAY.</span> @@ -3330,24 +3330,24 @@ Commentary: |- - 0:00 - 0:41 / [[Homosuck Anthem]] (main melody + applause) - 0:16 - 0:27 / [[Eternity Served Cold]] (staccato strings) - - 0:45 - 1:19 / [[track:oh-hi-there-lil-cal|Oh Hi There, Li'l Cal]] (strings), [[Constant Conquest]] (harpsi) + - 0:45 - 1:19 / [[Oh Hi There, Li'l Cal]] (strings), [[Constant Conquest]] (harpsi) - 1:02 - 1:19 / [[The Broken Clock]] (organ) - - 1:19 - 1:36 / [[track:homosuck-directors-cut-of-the-year-edition|HOMOSUCK. DIRECTOR'S CUT, OF THE YEAR EDITION]] (harpsi) + - 1:19 - 1:36 / [[HOMOSUCK. DIRECTOR'S CUT, OF THE YEAR EDITION]] (harpsi) - 1:23 - 1:27 / [[Green Lolly]] (organ) - 1:36 - 1:53 / [[track:spirals-including-illusions-of-freedom|Spirals]], from [[album:ophiuchus-full-suite|Ophiuchus]] - 1:36 - 2:09 / [[Maibasojen]] (woodwind) - 1:53 - 2:09 / [[Constant Conquest]] (harpsi), [[Sburban Echo]] (organ) - - 2:02 - 2:09 / [[track:the-rarest-and-most-interpretive-dance-meatcabre|THE RAREST. AND MOST INTERPRETIVE. DANCE MEATCABRE]] (charango) - - 2:09 - 2:27 / [[track:homosuck-directors-cut-of-the-year-edition|HOMOSUCK. DIRECTOR'S CUT, OF THE YEAR EDITION]] (harpsi) + - 2:02 - 2:09 / [[THE RAREST. AND MOST INTERPRETIVE. DANCE MEATCABRE]] (charango) + - 2:09 - 2:27 / [[HOMOSUCK. DIRECTOR'S CUT, OF THE YEAR EDITION]] (harpsi) - 2:14 - 2:18 / [[Green Lolly]] (organ) - 2:27 - 2:33 / sampled from [[artist:black-midi|Black Midi's]] [[Welcome to Hell]] - 2:36 - 3:11 / [[Shattered Twilight]] (synth ostinato) - 2:38 - 3:11 / [[Chronology]] (synth lead) - - 2:54 - 2:59 / [[track:black-heart-green-dress|Black Heart Green Dress]] (lyrics) + - 2:54 - 2:59 / [[Black Heart Green Dress]] (lyrics) - 3:11 - 3:45 / [[Eternity Served Cold]] (staccato strings) - 3:28 - 4:02 / [[Carne Vale]] (synth solo + strings) - - 4:03 - 4:06 / [[track:my-song-2|My Song 2]] - - 4:07 - 4:24 / [[track:homosuck-directors-cut-of-the-year-edition|HOMOSUCK. DIRECTOR'S CUT, OF THE YEAR EDITION]] (shitty casio keyboard) + - 4:03 - 4:06 / [[My Song 2]] + - 4:07 - 4:24 / [[HOMOSUCK. DIRECTOR'S CUT, OF THE YEAR EDITION]] (shitty casio keyboard) --- Track: Stargazing with Gods Artists: diff --git a/album/magnum-opus.yaml b/album/magnum-opus.yaml index 4f9404fe..5951606b 100644 --- a/album/magnum-opus.yaml +++ b/album/magnum-opus.yaml @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok3_j2kUahY), excerpt) - As you are probably astutely aware of at this point, By My Blade is collaboration between me and dbnet. I’ve actually been a pretty big fan of his VE work for long time prior to joining the music team and I thought it would be a cool idea to collab with him on a song. He agreed and I got to immediately starting cooking up a melodic idea for us to work on. Within an hour of tooling around on piano, I had the main melody and we got to work. From there, the collab mostly consisted tossing an FLP + stems back and forth while adding to each other’s ideas. When dbnet arranged the initial idea he gave it a “very homestuck era Toby Fox” feel, so I decided to lean into that a bit and take influence from [[track:the-blind-prophet|“The Blind Prophet”]] by incorporating Shreddage guitar and MMX2 instruments. Neither of us really had a concept going into making BMB but I eventually settled on making it a Vigilant Protector track given how heroic it sounds. It works shockingly well as a battlefield theme too. Anyway, you should give dbnet’s work a listen if you haven’t already, he’s pretty good at music imo. + As you are probably astutely aware of at this point, By My Blade is collaboration between me and dbnet. I’ve actually been a pretty big fan of his VE work for long time prior to joining the music team and I thought it would be a cool idea to collab with him on a song. He agreed and I got to immediately starting cooking up a melodic idea for us to work on. Within an hour of tooling around on piano, I had the main melody and we got to work. From there, the collab mostly consisted tossing an FLP + stems back and forth while adding to each other’s ideas. When dbnet arranged the initial idea he gave it a “very homestuck era Toby Fox” feel, so I decided to lean into that a bit and take influence from [[“The Blind Prophet”]] by incorporating Shreddage guitar and MMX2 instruments. Neither of us really had a concept going into making BMB but I eventually settled on making it a Vigilant Protector track given how heroic it sounds. It works shockingly well as a battlefield theme too. Anyway, you should give dbnet’s work a listen if you haven’t already, he’s pretty good at music imo. --- Track: Anode Tube Artists: diff --git a/album/medium.yaml b/album/medium.yaml index cdd4e747..ed8abf5d 100644 --- a/album/medium.yaml +++ b/album/medium.yaml @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Commentary: |- Two years of Homestuck! - But before we talk about that, let's carefully examine this fine new album by Clark Powell, who is responsible for such HS scores as [[track:three-in-the-morning|Three in the Morning]], and the Gate 1 [[track:doctor|Doctor]] remix, as well as a plethora of other album songs. + But before we talk about that, let's carefully examine this fine new album by Clark Powell, who is responsible for such HS scores as [[Three in the Morning]], and the Gate 1 [[Doctor]] remix, as well as a plethora of other album songs. This one's very cool. Clark has a great ambient sound, and her idea for the album was to musically express the Medium's planets, through both their elements and themes. I think she nailed it. Cover art was tag-teamed by me and Cindy (the lady who touches all your WP shirts). diff --git a/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.yaml b/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.yaml index a051192d..63d138ca 100644 --- a/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.yaml +++ b/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.yaml @@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ Commentary: |- <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 tend to hold on to ideas and use them when they're ready. [[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) @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <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. + 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 [["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)) @@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ 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. + 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 [[Homefree]] on 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. In college I started getting into MS Paint Adventures, I was there for the ending of Problem Sleuth, and when Homestuck rolled around I really liked the inclusion of music, and... went onto the forums and found that they had a thread where people were just posting up songs that they wrote as sort of a fan contribution. I... didn't really have any Homestuck-related ideas yet but I followed the thread anyways and I was really interested in the program they were using, a program called Famitracker which allows you to kind of replicate the sort of chiptunes that you would hear on the NES. @@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>(Commentary continues talking about her other track, [[track:homefree]], before returning to this song. You can read the relevant transcription of that segment on that page.)</i> - And, I don't know, I-I-I think I'd like to do more in the future, like, for example I-I really wanted to actually do a remix at least of [[track:ace-of-trump|Ace of Trump]] like I believe for one thing that any song can be turned into a swing song, and on the other hand any swing jazz song can be turned into a, non-swing jazz song and, if you took-take the swing out of it, Ace of Trump could actually-can actually sound r-pretty sinister and intense so, I-I kinda wanna do like a battle remix of it you know, call it 'Ace of Swords' or something [laughter] that's a Terra reference for those who don't get it um [laughter] but I don't know, we'll-we'll see. If-if I don't contribute any music to the MS Paint Adventures music team, don't think that that's the last you're ever gonna hear of me 'cuz, I... I don't know, I've got some ideas of my own, I think you'll see me around somewhere. + And, I don't know, I-I-I think I'd like to do more in the future, like, for example I-I really wanted to actually do a remix at least of [[Ace of Trump]] like I believe for one thing that any song can be turned into a swing song, and on the other hand any swing jazz song can be turned into a, non-swing jazz song and, if you took-take the swing out of it, Ace of Trump could actually-can actually sound r-pretty sinister and intense so, I-I kinda wanna do like a battle remix of it you know, call it 'Ace of Swords' or something [laughter] that's a Terra reference for those who don't get it um [laughter] but I don't know, we'll-we'll see. If-if I don't contribute any music to the MS Paint Adventures music team, don't think that that's the last you're ever gonna hear of me 'cuz, I... I don't know, I've got some ideas of my own, I think you'll see me around somewhere. --- Track: Moonshine Artists: diff --git a/album/mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido.yaml b/album/mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido.yaml index be99aec9..1f19d0c1 100644 --- a/album/mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido.yaml +++ b/album/mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido.yaml @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <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. Forever was an idea I'd been holding on to for about five years. [[track:lunar-eclipse|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 tend to hold on to ideas and use them when they're ready. 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. --- Track: Dawn of Man Duration: 5:44 diff --git a/album/moonslayer.yaml b/album/moonslayer.yaml index 8939ee7e..b636007a 100644 --- a/album/moonslayer.yaml +++ b/album/moonslayer.yaml @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Raid:</i> ([YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9KKJQEMQ7o), excerpt) - Happy 4/13. Homestuck is getting old. I'm getting old, too. I will graduate from college and turn 22 this year. But my love of music, especially of music from Homestuck, will never get old. So here's a fun little remix of Toby Fox's [[track:moonsetter|"Moonsetter."]] Copious amounts of virtual distorted electric guitar, jazz piano, and intense rock drumming included. Enjoy. + Happy 4/13. Homestuck is getting old. I'm getting old, too. I will graduate from college and turn 22 this year. But my love of music, especially of music from Homestuck, will never get old. So here's a fun little remix of Toby Fox's [["Moonsetter."]] Copious amounts of virtual distorted electric guitar, jazz piano, and intense rock drumming included. Enjoy. For some blabbery on how I arrived at the name "Moonslayer," check out the extended description. diff --git a/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml b/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml index 824478c3..89846a60 100644 --- a/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml +++ b/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Lyrics: |- You were horrible in life Jumped off the galleon 'Thout so much as a Strife - [[track:archagent-everlasting|Archagent everlasting]] + [[Archagent everlasting]] I'll tear the sky ajar! Goodnight everybody @@ -718,7 +718,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/dragonxvi/ham-and-steak-unused-homestuck-music)) - A whole bunch of unused Homestuck music in no particular order. A good chunk of this is some final boss concepts merged with what would later become [[track:oppa-toby-style|"Oppa Toby Style"]] by Toby Fox, along with some other misc tracks. Figure it's nice for a bit of posterity although don't expect anything cleaned up... (That's for later :D) + A whole bunch of unused Homestuck music in no particular order. A good chunk of this is some final boss concepts merged with what would later become [["Oppa Toby Style"]] by Toby Fox, along with some other misc tracks. Figure it's nice for a bit of posterity although don't expect anything cleaned up... (That's for later :D) Contains references to tracks from [[artist:toby-fox|Toby Fox]], [[artist:mark-j-hadley|Mark Hadley]], [[artist:buzinkai|George Buzinkai]] and probably someone else I'm forgetting. @@ -930,7 +930,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>rj lake:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/spellmynamewithabang/24511601535/volume-9-is-upon-us-soon-we-will-be-swimming-in)) [[album:homestuck-vol-9|volume 9]] is upon us. soon we will be swimming in milkshakes. - [[track:jane-dargason|jane dargason]] has just been finished; i slapped some touches on it and they will touch all of you inappropriately and you will like it. + [[jane dargason]] has just been finished; i slapped some touches on it and they will touch all of you inappropriately and you will like it. trust. @@ -1201,7 +1201,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Lilithtreasure:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/749067042250031214/1282186638545649676), excerpt, 9/8/2024) - so [[track:descend|descend]] references [[track:endless-climb|endless climb]], but I've noticed that the way it sounds there, here in this one (Nautical Climb) (around 1:13), it's like, less buried and rawer + so [[descend]] references [[endless climb]], but I've noticed that the way it sounds there, here in this one (Nautical Climb) (around 1:13), it's like, less buried and rawer <audio src="media/misc/nautical-climb-endless-climb.mp3" inline></audio><br> <audio src="media/misc/descend-endless-climb.mp3" inline></audio> @@ -1706,7 +1706,7 @@ Commentary: |- "Valor" - A combination of the [[track:showtime-original-mix|original Showtime]] and [[track:dissension-original|Dissension]] I made to serve as a strife theme for Jake English a year ago. I was actually going to make strife tunes for all of the alpha kids, but I was worried that Valor might be feel repetitive with [[track:assault|Assault]] on the same album. Then Bowman made [[Elephant Gun]] and I just stopped working on it. + A combination of the [[track:showtime-original-mix|original Showtime]] and [[track:dissension-original|Dissension]] I made to serve as a strife theme for Jake English a year ago. I was actually going to make strife tunes for all of the alpha kids, but I was worried that Valor might be feel repetitive with [[Assault]] on the same album. Then Bowman made [[Elephant Gun]] and I just stopped working on it. Interestingly this file was last modified on 11/5/11. --- @@ -2023,7 +2023,7 @@ Commentary: [HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/779895315750715422/1060160882858008657), wrote [[The Light's Rebellion]] Body: |- - so I just had a memory hit me out of nowhere - me and [[artist:serialsymphony|serialsymphony]] discussed quoting each other's tracks reciprocally back when Dave Strider's Cool Mixtape was meant to be on [[album:cosmic-caretakers]]. i.e. this track does reference [[track:the-lights-rebellion|The Light's Rebellion]] at 2:56 + so I just had a memory hit me out of nowhere - me and [[artist:serialsymphony|serialsymphony]] discussed quoting each other's tracks reciprocally back when Dave Strider's Cool Mixtape was meant to be on [[album:cosmic-caretakers]]. i.e. this track does reference [[The Light's Rebellion]] at 2:56 we both made the front half of our tracks, and then traded motifs in the back half, so it really is a reciprocal reference @@ -2356,7 +2356,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>subversiveasset:</i> ([Music video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOgdcxskZpc)) - Rustbloods, unite! Do not be content to keep your head down with this sax cover of [[artist:james-roach|James Roach]] & [[artist:toby-fox|Toby Fox]]'s "[[track:keep-your-head-down|Keep your head down]]" and "[[track:rustblood|Rustblood]]". + Rustbloods, unite! Do not be content to keep your head down with this sax cover of James Roach & Toby Fox's [["Keep your head down"]] and [["Rustblood"]]. This cover story was surprisingly difficult to do. Hiveswap (the long awaited sidequest for the Homestuck series) is very new, so there's a real possibility of spoiling things -- and this is especially the case since there are folks who are already familiar with Homestuck and folks who are not. @@ -2981,9 +2981,9 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>cookiefonster:</i> ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/cookie-fonster/call-and-new-2-chronic-jungle-redone), 5/29/2017) - [[artist:cryptanark|crypt]] said [[track:chronic-jungle|chronic jungle]] from call and new 2 sounded exactly like all my other music from that time (i made that thing in fucking november) so i redid it by remixing the same songs but with actual thought into it so its really a completely different song. i still made it in about an hour total but i like to think im good at music now. + [[artist:cryptanark|crypt]] said [[chronic jungle]] from call and new 2 sounded exactly like all my other music from that time (i made that thing in fucking november) so i redid it by remixing the same songs but with actual thought into it so its really a completely different song. i still made it in about an hour total but i like to think im good at music now. - im not redoing my other song ([[track:bolins-cereal-journey|bolin's cereal journey]]) because even though i dont like that song either i dont see much "couldve been better/more interesting" in it either. i mean its already hard enough to make [[artist:splitsuns|splitsuns]] better and i failed in that but at least made a maybe more interesting rack. its still a minute long track i made in an hour but my mind tells me this time the track isnt complete shit. + im not redoing my other song ([[bolin's cereal journey]]) because even though i dont like that song either i dont see much "couldve been better/more interesting" in it either. i mean its already hard enough to make [[artist:splitsuns|splitsuns]] better and i failed in that but at least made a maybe more interesting rack. its still a minute long track i made in an hour but my mind tells me this time the track isnt complete shit. in any case this is the first actual song i made and finished in just over two months so yay for that. it was a good musical exercise --- @@ -3284,7 +3284,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/749067042250031214/1235280292118270012), excerpt) its also a soundtest song<br> - was later turned into [[track:collapse-reprise|collapse reprise]] from umspaf 5 i think + was later turned into [[collapse reprise]] from umspaf 5 i think --- Track: Kuprum's Theme Artists: diff --git a/album/nibiru.yaml b/album/nibiru.yaml index fb63f31a..d0703bd2 100644 --- a/album/nibiru.yaml +++ b/album/nibiru.yaml @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-5xKX8SkC4), excerpt) - iirc Redeye was the first new Desynced song I’ve written in nearly 3ish years. I remember feeling invigorated by the release of [[album:anthology-i|Anthology I]] and I had a fresh demo for this song the evening after it came out. I’ve had concepts for this song sitting around since around 2021 and it was exciting to finally get a chance to execute it. I knew even back then that I wanted to combine elements of EDM and Rock/Metal but I didn’t really know how to pull it off. It was only after I started listening to Nine Inch Nails in 2023 that I found myself able to complete the song. The song leans in heavily on that distinct Reznor brand of industrial Rock while combing aspects of VGM and EDM. It might not be entirely evident, but the song was influenced by Toby Fox’s approach to [[track:vriskas-theme|“Vriska’s Theme.”]] In his commentary for Alterniabound, he talked about how he wrote that song to depict Vriska’s depression and angst. Layssah, much like Vriska, experiences a lot of self-loathing and I wanted to convey that in Redeye. To do that, I decided to do something I’ve never done before: putting vocals in a track. I am by no means a lyricist, but I figured it would help convey my intentions for the song as well as give me a reason to bust out SynthV. It’s not the best tuning or vSynth programing in the world but I think it does an okay enough job. It’s the best produced song I’ve ever made, I’ll give it that. + iirc Redeye was the first new Desynced song I’ve written in nearly 3ish years. I remember feeling invigorated by the release of [[album:anthology-i|Anthology I]] and I had a fresh demo for this song the evening after it came out. I’ve had concepts for this song sitting around since around 2021 and it was exciting to finally get a chance to execute it. I knew even back then that I wanted to combine elements of EDM and Rock/Metal but I didn’t really know how to pull it off. It was only after I started listening to Nine Inch Nails in 2023 that I found myself able to complete the song. The song leans in heavily on that distinct Reznor brand of industrial Rock while combing aspects of VGM and EDM. It might not be entirely evident, but the song was influenced by Toby Fox’s approach to [[“Vriska’s Theme.”]] In his commentary for Alterniabound, he talked about how he wrote that song to depict Vriska’s depression and angst. Layssah, much like Vriska, experiences a lot of self-loathing and I wanted to convey that in Redeye. To do that, I decided to do something I’ve never done before: putting vocals in a track. I am by no means a lyricist, but I figured it would help convey my intentions for the song as well as give me a reason to bust out SynthV. It’s not the best tuning or vSynth programing in the world but I think it does an okay enough job. It’s the best produced song I’ve ever made, I’ll give it that. --- Track: Unforgettable Face Duration: 3:05 @@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEOxHLrWOQg), excerpt) - Here’s the big one. [[artist:dizzims|Dizzims]] asked for two versions of Niberu’s main theme to bookend the album and given that I was already doing [[track:nibiru|the opener]], I decided to do the closer as well. The process from there saw the song evolve in ways that I didn't expect. I managed to get a decent melody that I wound up using for the opener and an ostinato figure, but I couldn’t figure out how to put them together into a full song. Given that [[artist:levc|Levc]] wrote the main theme of Desynced, I decided to reach out for his help on this track. Much like our other collabs we tossed a project file back and forth adding and tweaking stuff until we got a finished product. I think the big difference from those other times we’ve worked together is how much better we play off against each other here. This track is the [[track:flying-witch|second]] collab between me and Levc ([[track:strobelite-striker|third]] if you count VE) and it shows. The track’s a sprawling epic, spanning multiple phases over its 4-minute run time. The song was influenced by [[track:another-medium|“Another Medium”]] by Toby Fox but I think it goes above and beyond that initial influence imo. The track has 2 recurring melodic motifs meant to represent the opposing forces that make up Niberu: mechanism and naturalism. The idea came from [[album:undertale-soundtrack|Undertale]] and how that game’s main theme has the “hopes” and “dreams” motifs I really like the way we managed to arrange the two melodies in such a way as to embody the meaning of those themes. The ostinato figure unifies it all together in a way that is so satisfying. It’s probably the most ambitious song either of us have done for Desynced. There’s [[track:noiz-rainy|a familiar motif]] at the end but that’s a story for another day. + Here’s the big one. [[artist:dizzims|Dizzims]] asked for two versions of Niberu’s main theme to bookend the album and given that I was already doing [[track:nibiru|the opener]], I decided to do the closer as well. The process from there saw the song evolve in ways that I didn't expect. I managed to get a decent melody that I wound up using for the opener and an ostinato figure, but I couldn’t figure out how to put them together into a full song. Given that [[artist:levc|Levc]] wrote the main theme of Desynced, I decided to reach out for his help on this track. Much like our other collabs we tossed a project file back and forth adding and tweaking stuff until we got a finished product. I think the big difference from those other times we’ve worked together is how much better we play off against each other here. This track is the [[track:flying-witch|second]] collab between me and Levc ([[track:strobelite-striker|third]] if you count VE) and it shows. The track’s a sprawling epic, spanning multiple phases over its 4-minute run time. The song was influenced by [[“Another Medium”]] by Toby Fox but I think it goes above and beyond that initial influence imo. The track has 2 recurring melodic motifs meant to represent the opposing forces that make up Niberu: mechanism and naturalism. The idea came from [[album:undertale-soundtrack|Undertale]] and how that game’s main theme has the “hopes” and “dreams” motifs I really like the way we managed to arrange the two melodies in such a way as to embody the meaning of those themes. The ostinato figure unifies it all together in a way that is so satisfying. It’s probably the most ambitious song either of us have done for Desynced. There’s [[track:noiz-rainy|a familiar motif]] at the end but that’s a story for another day. --- Section: Bonus tracks --- diff --git a/album/noirscape.yaml b/album/noirscape.yaml index 364e9542..83cc4ac0 100644 --- a/album/noirscape.yaml +++ b/album/noirscape.yaml @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Commentary: |- I had been wanting to do a solo album for <i>Desynced</i> for a little while now, and when I finally got the idea I was a little bit pensive. I mean, it seemed like a bit of a stretch. Would anyone want to listen to something so... saturated? - *Noirscape* is an album all about jack (of the Noir variety if you weren’t sure). And I sure as hell ran with this idea. There’s plenty of [[track:black|“Black”]] and [[track:the-ballad-of-jack-noir|“Ballad of Jack Noir”]] to go around. So much in fact you could probably solve world hunger if it was measured out in bread loaves. Okay, probably not really, but it’s a nice fantasy. Like I mentioned earlier, I was worried that this album would be a bit. . . too much jack, haha. But yet, when I mentioned it to [[artist:dizzims|Dizzims]] she seemed to like the idea. Also her and [[artist:rainy|Rainy]] gave me a couple track ideas, so I kind of just had to do it. + *Noirscape* is an album all about jack (of the Noir variety if you weren’t sure). And I sure as hell ran with this idea. There’s plenty of [[“Black”]] and [[track:the-ballad-of-jack-noir|“Ballad of Jack Noir”]] to go around. So much in fact you could probably solve world hunger if it was measured out in bread loaves. Okay, probably not really, but it’s a nice fantasy. Like I mentioned earlier, I was worried that this album would be a bit. . . too much jack, haha. But yet, when I mentioned it to [[artist:dizzims|Dizzims]] she seemed to like the idea. Also her and [[artist:rainy|Rainy]] gave me a couple track ideas, so I kind of just had to do it. I really tried to go all out with this album, the amount of tracks that didn’t make it is honestly a surprising number. (Though you can still find most of them in the goodies folder!) They were cut in order for the actual album to be up to par with higher standards that I gained out of utter nowhere, lol. I’m really happy with how this album turned out, and I hope you enjoy it! Now, on with the commentary!! --- @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> (booklet commentary) - You’ve seen a snake in your boot, now get ready for: a coup by your snake?? I really wanted the first major song on the album to be an utter banger, (at least as much as I could manage) and when I started on this one I knew it had to take that spot. This song’s sole existence really is only because of one thing, I was browsing the homestuck music wiki (hi guys :DDD) and came across the song [[track:dogfight|“Dogfight”]], which if you haven’t heard it, (and a horrid amount have not) it is an utterly brazen song of epic proportions. This song in of itself caused me to entirely rework this album from the ground up, and that is not a joke. For my song I took a lot of concepts from “Dogfight”, like the orchestral start, breaking out into a rocking groove, and the trumpets (Oh god the trumpets!!!). I started the song off with the [[track:void-of-the-moon|“Void of the Moon”]] motif by Levc. This motif has mostly been correlated with Derse in the <i>Desynced</i> music canon, so I thought it made sense as a scene setter. I then had the little square like synth that comes in play some of Spad3s track [[track:snake-eyes|“Snake-Eyes!”]]. All of the songs for Act 1 are for a specific Jack in <i>Desynced</i>; this one is for Snake Eye, the dragon session’s Jack. We don’t know a lot about him yet, other than he was a big troublemaker (if you couldn’t tell, that’s why I referenced “Snake-Eyes!” here, lol). The trumpet that comes in is played by me on my midi keyboard. And all of the guitar bits are played by me live aswell. Also of course there’s a devilish use of the [[track:black|“Black”]] motif for the transition to hype rock. I think I did an okay job at the guitar parts, I mean, it’s no “Dogfight” level of guitar solo but it still sounds cool, lol. I’m really happy with how everything comes together for the finale of the song, ending on the [[track:desynced-anthem|“Desynced Anthem”]] hits just right y’know? Overall this has become like my second favorite song I’ve made ever. + You’ve seen a snake in your boot, now get ready for: a coup by your snake?? I really wanted the first major song on the album to be an utter banger, (at least as much as I could manage) and when I started on this one I knew it had to take that spot. This song’s sole existence really is only because of one thing, I was browsing the homestuck music wiki (hi guys :DDD) and came across the song [[“Dogfight”]], which if you haven’t heard it, (and a horrid amount have not) it is an utterly brazen song of epic proportions. This song in of itself caused me to entirely rework this album from the ground up, and that is not a joke. For my song I took a lot of concepts from “Dogfight”, like the orchestral start, breaking out into a rocking groove, and the trumpets (Oh god the trumpets!!!). I started the song off with the [[“Void of the Moon”]] motif by Levc. This motif has mostly been correlated with Derse in the <i>Desynced</i> music canon, so I thought it made sense as a scene setter. I then had the little square like synth that comes in play some of Spad3s track [[“Snake-Eyes!”]]. All of the songs for Act 1 are for a specific Jack in <i>Desynced</i>; this one is for Snake Eye, the dragon session’s Jack. We don’t know a lot about him yet, other than he was a big troublemaker (if you couldn’t tell, that’s why I referenced “Snake-Eyes!” here, lol). The trumpet that comes in is played by me on my midi keyboard. And all of the guitar bits are played by me live aswell. Also of course there’s a devilish use of the [[“Black”]] motif for the transition to hype rock. I think I did an okay job at the guitar parts, I mean, it’s no “Dogfight” level of guitar solo but it still sounds cool, lol. I’m really happy with how everything comes together for the finale of the song, ending on the [[“Desynced Anthem”]] hits just right y’know? Overall this has become like my second favorite song I’ve made ever. --- Track: Nomad of Nothing Duration: 2:37 @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> (booklet commentary) - Derse, what do you think when you hear the name? For me, I think a jazzy smog induced cityscape. Thus, this song was born. I imagine this song playing as jack does his business on his homeland. The synths that are used to introduce the song are heavily inspired by Levc’s use of synths in songs like in <i>Crossmound Vol 1</i>’s [[track:crossmound|“Crossmound”]] or the *Tales From The Other Side DEMO OST’s* [“Time Above the Clouds”](https://levcegm.bandcamp.com/track/time-above-the-clouds). I really like his used of the acid like floating synths so I asked him how he did it and then snatched it for myself, lol. The piano plays a lot of 7th chords here, which really gives it that relaxed feel (Using a minor key but with 7th chords tends to take the edge off of it some). Of course I added some background city sfx, just for that nice texture. Makes it feel more alive methinks. I think the part that really sells this track for me is the brass, which wouldn’t be as good as it is here if it weren’t for Levc giving me some mixing pointers (My tracks were a bit dry before, he suggested I used a tad bit more reverb, thanks to him the whole album sounds even better than before!) The bass here is from a synth called the VK-1 Viking Synthesizer, which I found from asking [[artist:mr-sauceman|Mr. Sauceman]] what he used to make music in the DustRiser Discord (that now seems to be defunct?). The drums are from a really cool sampled CD with a bunch of great drum loops. (I highly recommend checking out whatever sample CDs you can find on the [Internet Archive](https://archive.org) to anyone trying to make music themselves!) + Derse, what do you think when you hear the name? For me, I think a jazzy smog induced cityscape. Thus, this song was born. I imagine this song playing as jack does his business on his homeland. The synths that are used to introduce the song are heavily inspired by Levc’s use of synths in songs like in <i>Crossmound Vol 1</i>’s [[“Crossmound”]] or the *Tales From The Other Side DEMO OST’s* [“Time Above the Clouds”](https://levcegm.bandcamp.com/track/time-above-the-clouds). I really like his used of the acid like floating synths so I asked him how he did it and then snatched it for myself, lol. The piano plays a lot of 7th chords here, which really gives it that relaxed feel (Using a minor key but with 7th chords tends to take the edge off of it some). Of course I added some background city sfx, just for that nice texture. Makes it feel more alive methinks. I think the part that really sells this track for me is the brass, which wouldn’t be as good as it is here if it weren’t for Levc giving me some mixing pointers (My tracks were a bit dry before, he suggested I used a tad bit more reverb, thanks to him the whole album sounds even better than before!) The bass here is from a synth called the VK-1 Viking Synthesizer, which I found from asking [[artist:mr-sauceman|Mr. Sauceman]] what he used to make music in the DustRiser Discord (that now seems to be defunct?). The drums are from a really cool sampled CD with a bunch of great drum loops. (I highly recommend checking out whatever sample CDs you can find on the [Internet Archive](https://archive.org) to anyone trying to make music themselves!) <center><b>END OF ACT 1</b></center> @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ Commentary: |- <b>ACT 2</b> - “I’m sorry” was a track that I originally just made up as a short piano improv. I wanted something kind of bittersweet, and well, that’s exactly what I got (it even has the minor four, the most gut wrenching chord change of them all). The recording used in the album is not the original improv (that one wasn’t recorded, and was kind of shit haha). I recorded this using my midi keyboard which is why the sound quality is decent in any capacity. This one is the 2<sup>nd</sup> earliest song that still made the album. I also referenced it in [[track:nomad-of-nothing|“Nomad of Nothing”]], or I guess this technically references nomad of nothing? Either way, it’s about the intermission jack having *done fucked up.* And now we’re sad I guess. (lol.) I really like the dynamics in this one, and I think my pauses where I’m trying to remember wtf I’m trying to play actually added to it somehow. Probably my best piano recording. ACT 2 is going to be all about just vague jack shit, so now we go straight into: [[track:ballad-of-a-jack|[Continued in next track!\]]] + “I’m sorry” was a track that I originally just made up as a short piano improv. I wanted something kind of bittersweet, and well, that’s exactly what I got (it even has the minor four, the most gut wrenching chord change of them all). The recording used in the album is not the original improv (that one wasn’t recorded, and was kind of shit haha). I recorded this using my midi keyboard which is why the sound quality is decent in any capacity. This one is the 2<sup>nd</sup> earliest song that still made the album. I also referenced it in [[“Nomad of Nothing”]], or I guess this technically references nomad of nothing? Either way, it’s about the intermission jack having *done fucked up.* And now we’re sad I guess. (lol.) I really like the dynamics in this one, and I think my pauses where I’m trying to remember wtf I’m trying to play actually added to it somehow. Probably my best piano recording. ACT 2 is going to be all about just vague jack shit, so now we go straight into: [[track:ballad-of-a-jack|[Continued in next track!\]]] --- Track: Ballad of a Jack Duration: 3:36 @@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> (booklet commentary) - This song is special, [[track:the-ballad-of-jack-noir|“Ballad of Jack Noir”]] is one of my favorite homestuck songs ever (especially [[track:the-ballad-of-jack-noir-original|the piano version]] where Toby Fox sings the lyrics he wrote for it). Which is why for this arrangement of the song I started with me recording myself playing my midi keyboard again, the lead vocal is also played by me on the midi keyboard. This song is actually one of the reasons I started the album in the first place, but I didn’t get around to doing it until later on. I really wanted it to be super expressive, I added the little string bits at 0:16 just for that perfect emotive quality. And then once again, right into some rock shit. This is a song about a Jack fucking shit up (Which kind of applies to all of the songs in ACT 2 but whatever). I had lots of fun playing the guitar parts for this, especially for the really hectic section at 1:07. (I love guitar mutes :drooling face:) The second half of this song is some entirely new stuff. First it goes into [[track:light-of-the-sun|“Light of the Sun”]] by Levc. Perhaps this Jack is combating some skaian force; in a dubious manner I am sure. And then we bring in [[track:desynced-anthem|“Desynced Anthem”]] also by Levc. Gotta have that main theme nonsense. The finale section is just me playing way too many solos on way too many instruments at once, haha. I sprinkled in bits of [[track:black|“Black”]], the bit of “Ballad of Jack Noir” that goes “I really hate these stupid hats!! And that stupid KING” (best part of the song imo) and finally once again little bits of “Desynced Anthem”. Finally the song ends on a reprise of the start of the song, this time melancholic in nature, what have you done jack? We may never know. . . + This song is special, [[track:the-ballad-of-jack-noir|“Ballad of Jack Noir”]] is one of my favorite homestuck songs ever (especially [[track:the-ballad-of-jack-noir-original|the piano version]] where Toby Fox sings the lyrics he wrote for it). Which is why for this arrangement of the song I started with me recording myself playing my midi keyboard again, the lead vocal is also played by me on the midi keyboard. This song is actually one of the reasons I started the album in the first place, but I didn’t get around to doing it until later on. I really wanted it to be super expressive, I added the little string bits at 0:16 just for that perfect emotive quality. And then once again, right into some rock shit. This is a song about a Jack fucking shit up (Which kind of applies to all of the songs in ACT 2 but whatever). I had lots of fun playing the guitar parts for this, especially for the really hectic section at 1:07. (I love guitar mutes :drooling face:) The second half of this song is some entirely new stuff. First it goes into [[“Light of the Sun”]] by Levc. Perhaps this Jack is combating some skaian force; in a dubious manner I am sure. And then we bring in [[“Desynced Anthem”]] also by Levc. Gotta have that main theme nonsense. The finale section is just me playing way too many solos on way too many instruments at once, haha. I sprinkled in bits of [[“Black”]], the bit of “Ballad of Jack Noir” that goes “I really hate these stupid hats!! And that stupid KING” (best part of the song imo) and finally once again little bits of “Desynced Anthem”. Finally the song ends on a reprise of the start of the song, this time melancholic in nature, what have you done jack? We may never know. . . --- Track: Midnight² Directory: midnight-squared @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Commentary: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> (booklet commentary) - [[track:double-midnight|“Double midnight”]] was a song Toby Fox made that we have not heard the full version of. A tragedy really. When I first suggested the album idea Rainy suggested that I do a version of that song for it. Which of course, just makes perfect sense. There already exists a couple of fanmade finished versions of this song, (see [[track:one-and-a-half-midnight|“One and a Half Midnight”]]) but still, I wanted to do my own version. I decided to start the song off with just the [[track:im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew|“I’m a Member of the Midnight Crew”]] song, and to make it slowly glitch out until it gets to the line “Home with the milk in the morning”, which has a big placement spot in the short snippet of the original song that we do have. Then I had the main riff of the song play on a synth as a little intro to the actual first section. Once again, little bit of real guitar :3 . I originally wanted there to be guitar all throughout the track but changed my mind as I realized it was just muddying everything. So it’s only in this first section, then right after that it goes into the section with [[track:black|“Black”]], which we only hear the ladder of in the original, before it goes into the section where everything goes ham. As they always say, “Make her a member of the midnight crew!”. It was actually pretty fun trying to recreate something similar to the original part, the sample splicing should have been hell but was actually quite enjoyable, lol. Of course the final section is a reprise of the earlier one, (just now realizing I do that a lot, huh). And the song ends off with a final “Home with the milk in the morning”. As all good Dads do. + [[“Double midnight”]] was a song Toby Fox made that we have not heard the full version of. A tragedy really. When I first suggested the album idea Rainy suggested that I do a version of that song for it. Which of course, just makes perfect sense. There already exists a couple of fanmade finished versions of this song, (see [[“One and a Half Midnight”]]) but still, I wanted to do my own version. I decided to start the song off with just the [[“I’m a Member of the Midnight Crew”]] song, and to make it slowly glitch out until it gets to the line “Home with the milk in the morning”, which has a big placement spot in the short snippet of the original song that we do have. Then I had the main riff of the song play on a synth as a little intro to the actual first section. Once again, little bit of real guitar :3 . I originally wanted there to be guitar all throughout the track but changed my mind as I realized it was just muddying everything. So it’s only in this first section, then right after that it goes into the section with [[“Black”]], which we only hear the ladder of in the original, before it goes into the section where everything goes ham. As they always say, “Make her a member of the midnight crew!”. It was actually pretty fun trying to recreate something similar to the original part, the sample splicing should have been hell but was actually quite enjoyable, lol. Of course the final section is a reprise of the earlier one, (just now realizing I do that a lot, huh). And the song ends off with a final “Home with the milk in the morning”. As all good Dads do. --- Track: Breakout Suffix Directory: true @@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> (booklet commentary) - Breakout is the absolute oldest song I made that went on the album (It’s funny because I’ve had to correct earlier parts of this commentary like 3 times now because I kept getting it wrong). This song was made before I even had the idea for the album in the first place. I just wanted to make some crazy Jack shenanigans song. Originally the guitars in it were shreddage, but I decided to swap them out with some actual recordings of me playing to keep it up to par with the rest of the album (you can find the original version in the goodie bag folder). There is so much <i>Desynced</i> Jack in this song. It starts with [[track:escapade-desynced|“Escapade”]] played on the iconic DSK Saxophone VST. Then it goes into [[track:noir-desynced|“Noir”]]. There’s also bits of [[track:snake-eyes|“Snake-Eyes!”]] scattered throughout the track. Once again I had a calm before the storm section where [[track:desynced-anthem|“Desynced Anthem”]] plays (it just works so well for that). And the finale here, oh boy. I really don’t like to toot my own horn, but I’m really proud of it. It starts off with how you’ve heard this section before, but then right after you think you’ve heard everything, it goes straight to the four chord, where I used that to develop the melodies a bit more (The four is great for developing things further, really gives off a sense of progression). Originally this song was going to be called “Jackknife” but then I found out that there is already [[track:jackknive|a <i>Homestuck</i> song]] by that name, so I changed it. I chose “Breakout” for a couple reasons. + Breakout is the absolute oldest song I made that went on the album (It’s funny because I’ve had to correct earlier parts of this commentary like 3 times now because I kept getting it wrong). This song was made before I even had the idea for the album in the first place. I just wanted to make some crazy Jack shenanigans song. Originally the guitars in it were shreddage, but I decided to swap them out with some actual recordings of me playing to keep it up to par with the rest of the album (you can find the original version in the goodie bag folder). There is so much <i>Desynced</i> Jack in this song. It starts with [[track:escapade-desynced|“Escapade”]] played on the iconic DSK Saxophone VST. Then it goes into [[track:noir-desynced|“Noir”]]. There’s also bits of [[“Snake-Eyes!”]] scattered throughout the track. Once again I had a calm before the storm section where [[“Desynced Anthem”]] plays (it just works so well for that). And the finale here, oh boy. I really don’t like to toot my own horn, but I’m really proud of it. It starts off with how you’ve heard this section before, but then right after you think you’ve heard everything, it goes straight to the four chord, where I used that to develop the melodies a bit more (The four is great for developing things further, really gives off a sense of progression). Originally this song was going to be called “Jackknife” but then I found out that there is already [[track:jackknive|a <i>Homestuck</i> song]] by that name, so I changed it. I chose “Breakout” for a couple reasons. 1. It sounds cool (duh) 2. Gives the vibe of shattering something, Jacks are just good at that @@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ Commentary: |- <b>ACT 3</b> - This is it, the big kahuna, massive whopper, the epic ensemble that is, “The Epic of Jack Noir”. The last time I did [[album:oceanfables-ethological|a solo album]] for something, I made [[track:judgement-by-genocide|a giant song]], one that was a whopping seven minutes and thirty seconds, but now, I’ve shown myself up. This song is the definitive longest song I’ve ever written, totaling nine minutes at least. Why did I do this? Because I can, mothafuckers. Because I can. This song is about basically, the ULTIMATE JACK OFF. For some reason thousands, maybe even millions of jacks have collided into one plane of existence, and now they have to all fight to the death to prove who is the GREATEST JACK. It’s basically a mega jack medley. The first minute or so was separate from the song at first, and was a track that played right before, but I decided to smush them together because it made the album a nice perfect ten tracks, (also it made the song longer, and I’m just vain like that. The inspirations for this song were very clear in my mind, at first I wanted to make “what if the end part of [[track:oppa-toby-style|“Oppa Toby Style”]] was a full song”. You know, the part where [[track:black|“Black”]] plays? But I also wanted to have a section near the end where it goes ascension mode, like [[track:hopes-and-dreams|“Hopes and Dreams”]] from Undertale. I did the first minute and a half with this in mind, and originally was using shreddage and a soundfont for the drums. This demo can be found in the goodie bag folder. But then I had an idea, what if I made it like the final boss song [“Unexpectancy”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bB0FNGlrEs) from Pizza Tower? As in, have 3 main parts to it, kind of like phases. In that game the song is split up like that, having a normal boss theme [phase 1](https://ronandecastel.bandcamp.com/track/unexpectancy-part-1-of-3), a pedantically goofy [2nd phase](https://ronandecastel.bandcamp.com/track/unexpectancy-part-2-of-3), and then a hyped up emotionally driven [final phase](https://ronandecastel.bandcamp.com/track/unexpectancy-part-3-of-3). This was the layout I gained for my song, and so that is how I began my journey. + This is it, the big kahuna, massive whopper, the epic ensemble that is, “The Epic of Jack Noir”. The last time I did [[album:oceanfables-ethological|a solo album]] for something, I made [[track:judgement-by-genocide|a giant song]], one that was a whopping seven minutes and thirty seconds, but now, I’ve shown myself up. This song is the definitive longest song I’ve ever written, totaling nine minutes at least. Why did I do this? Because I can, mothafuckers. Because I can. This song is about basically, the ULTIMATE JACK OFF. For some reason thousands, maybe even millions of jacks have collided into one plane of existence, and now they have to all fight to the death to prove who is the GREATEST JACK. It’s basically a mega jack medley. The first minute or so was separate from the song at first, and was a track that played right before, but I decided to smush them together because it made the album a nice perfect ten tracks, (also it made the song longer, and I’m just vain like that. The inspirations for this song were very clear in my mind, at first I wanted to make “what if the end part of [[“Oppa Toby Style”]] was a full song”. You know, the part where [[“Black”]] plays? But I also wanted to have a section near the end where it goes ascension mode, like [[“Hopes and Dreams”]] from Undertale. I did the first minute and a half with this in mind, and originally was using shreddage and a soundfont for the drums. This demo can be found in the goodie bag folder. But then I had an idea, what if I made it like the final boss song [“Unexpectancy”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bB0FNGlrEs) from Pizza Tower? As in, have 3 main parts to it, kind of like phases. In that game the song is split up like that, having a normal boss theme [phase 1](https://ronandecastel.bandcamp.com/track/unexpectancy-part-1-of-3), a pedantically goofy [2nd phase](https://ronandecastel.bandcamp.com/track/unexpectancy-part-2-of-3), and then a hyped up emotionally driven [final phase](https://ronandecastel.bandcamp.com/track/unexpectancy-part-3-of-3). This was the layout I gained for my song, and so that is how I began my journey. “The Epic of Jack Noir” starts with a poem, or that’s what I’m calling it at least. It doesn’t really follow any actual rhyme or reason, it kind of just is. When this section was it’s own track, it was called “Poem of Calamity”. Of course I have “Black” play behind it on a kind of music box/bell esque synth. The poem goes like this: @@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ Commentary: |- <center><b><i>THE FATE OF THOSE YOU LOVE DEPENDS ON IT</i></b></center> - I then sampled song “Black”, and reversed it and put a lot of bitcrush over it. The sample slowly fades in, and you can just barely make out in the background the sound of “Make her a member of the midnight crew” Then for the first part of actual music, I used a melody for another crazy boss song I’ve made for Desynced. Though at the time of me writing this that song is not out yet, just something for you to look forward to! Also there’s a melody being played on the devious DSK Saxophone; strike again you glorious horrible instrument!! After that you get some harsh genesis synths playing an edited version of the “Black”/”Liquid Negrocity” melody. Right after that, it’s into the song that this one is named after, [[track:the-ballad-of-jack-noir|“Ballad of Jack Noir”]]. I told you, foreshadowing it a literary device!!! [[track:be-jack|I warned you dog!!]] Also yeah, I do realize it was also in like 3 other songs in this album, haha. The drums for both of these parts is very much based off of the drums in “Oppa Toby Style”. There’s also a synth doing some crazy arpeggios that’s inspired by that song as well. Then there’s a bit of [[track:midnight-squared|“Midnight^2”]]/[[track:double-midnight|”Double Midnight”]] played on a square synth, I’m putting all the jacks in this song. Eventually we get to where there’s a lot of sample splicing of [[track:im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew|“I’m a Member of the Midnight Crew”]], which is inspired by ”Double Midnight” and “Unexpectancy”. 2:50 is where I consider the “Phase 2” part to have begun. Here I brought in some acoustic guitar playing, it’s not the most stunning acoustic guitar playing you’ll ever hear, but I still did my best. I originally was going to have the lead guitar be me playing here, but I couldn’t come up with anything good enough on the real instrument so I whipped out the trusty Ultimate Guitar Kit 2 soundfont and wrote something that I proclaim to be “UTTERLY EPIC”, or so I hope at least. Once we reach the end of this phase, at 5:07 we hear a familiar part from earlier in the song. This was to bring it back around and re-anchor the listener, before going into the final phase. This is the phase where one jack finds within his soul the power to conquer the devil, and as he was told, “Claim what is yours”. It’s time to go ham. But of course! Before that we have a badass heavy riff played on the guitar, and then it time to unload some SHIT. Here I brought in the motif from [[track:im-sorry|“I’m Sorry”]] an emotional reprise for a climactic moment. This was possibly my favorite part to write, and honestly, I can’t believe I was actually able to play the rhythm guitar part here, haha. Guess I must actually be getting better!! I then did the thing once again where it goes to the four chord to develop the song more (Wow!! So epic!!!). Then we go right back into “Black”. Then “I’m Sorry” again, and then one final “Black”. The final section is a reprise of the first saxophone section, but slower, then we build up with the “I’m a Member of the Midnight Crew”, setting up expectation, before breaking it with the scream of a victorious jack. + I then sampled song “Black”, and reversed it and put a lot of bitcrush over it. The sample slowly fades in, and you can just barely make out in the background the sound of “Make her a member of the midnight crew” Then for the first part of actual music, I used a melody for another crazy boss song I’ve made for Desynced. Though at the time of me writing this that song is not out yet, just something for you to look forward to! Also there’s a melody being played on the devious DSK Saxophone; strike again you glorious horrible instrument!! After that you get some harsh genesis synths playing an edited version of the “Black”/”Liquid Negrocity” melody. Right after that, it’s into the song that this one is named after, [[track:the-ballad-of-jack-noir|“Ballad of Jack Noir”]]. I told you, foreshadowing it a literary device!!! [[track:be-jack|I warned you dog!!]] Also yeah, I do realize it was also in like 3 other songs in this album, haha. The drums for both of these parts is very much based off of the drums in “Oppa Toby Style”. There’s also a synth doing some crazy arpeggios that’s inspired by that song as well. Then there’s a bit of [[track:midnight-squared|“Midnight^2”]]/[[”Double Midnight”]] played on a square synth, I’m putting all the jacks in this song. Eventually we get to where there’s a lot of sample splicing of [[“I’m a Member of the Midnight Crew”]], which is inspired by ”Double Midnight” and “Unexpectancy”. 2:50 is where I consider the “Phase 2” part to have begun. Here I brought in some acoustic guitar playing, it’s not the most stunning acoustic guitar playing you’ll ever hear, but I still did my best. I originally was going to have the lead guitar be me playing here, but I couldn’t come up with anything good enough on the real instrument so I whipped out the trusty Ultimate Guitar Kit 2 soundfont and wrote something that I proclaim to be “UTTERLY EPIC”, or so I hope at least. Once we reach the end of this phase, at 5:07 we hear a familiar part from earlier in the song. This was to bring it back around and re-anchor the listener, before going into the final phase. This is the phase where one jack finds within his soul the power to conquer the devil, and as he was told, “Claim what is yours”. It’s time to go ham. But of course! Before that we have a badass heavy riff played on the guitar, and then it time to unload some SHIT. Here I brought in the motif from [[“I’m Sorry”]] an emotional reprise for a climactic moment. This was possibly my favorite part to write, and honestly, I can’t believe I was actually able to play the rhythm guitar part here, haha. Guess I must actually be getting better!! I then did the thing once again where it goes to the four chord to develop the song more (Wow!! So epic!!!). Then we go right back into “Black”. Then “I’m Sorry” again, and then one final “Black”. The final section is a reprise of the first saxophone section, but slower, then we build up with the “I’m a Member of the Midnight Crew”, setting up expectation, before breaking it with the scream of a victorious jack. Well done, you’ve won the battle of a lifetime. --- @@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> (booklet commentary) - The last song of the album is a simple music box track. I put it together in about 30-45 minutes, and yet I am still very happy with it. The music box vst is DSK Music Box. Which was recommended to me by someone in the undertale fan music community. (Check them out, they go by MagicalFishing basically everywhere!) It’s a very good music box vst, probably the best free one you will find. The oboe playing one last [[track:black|“Black”]], just to say goodbye. + The last song of the album is a simple music box track. I put it together in about 30-45 minutes, and yet I am still very happy with it. The music box vst is DSK Music Box. Which was recommended to me by someone in the undertale fan music community. (Check them out, they go by MagicalFishing basically everywhere!) It’s a very good music box vst, probably the best free one you will find. The oboe playing one last [[“Black”]], just to say goodbye. So, uh, that’s the end of the album! I hope you enjoyed it. I put SO much love and care into this that I think it way outshines almost everything else I’ve ever made. I’ve grown so much, once again, and I can’t wait to show you what we have in store next! diff --git a/album/oceanfables-ethological.yaml b/album/oceanfables-ethological.yaml index 682a97db..f0cb0f50 100644 --- a/album/oceanfables-ethological.yaml +++ b/album/oceanfables-ethological.yaml @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Commentary: |- When I first asked [[artist:nights|Nights]] if I could do a solo album, she told me that it sounded like a good idea, but that I should probably think of a theme for the whole album. (:0 I didn’t think about that...) So, then I had to come up with a theme! (Obviously...) - This song started sometime after that, I had been pacing around a lot trying to think of a theme for what my album would be, until at some point something struck me and I had the urge to make a song for Zachery Lumen, considering he seemed like a very intriguing character, but he has little to no music for him! (None at all at the time of making this track I’m pretty sure) When I started off, I had [[track:here-we-are|“Here We Are”]] from [[album:undertale-soundtrack|Undertale]] and [[artist:ray-mike|Ray Mikey’s]] [[track:hollowed-halls|“Hallowed Halls”]] from [[album:oceanfalls-vol-five|Volume Five]] stuck in my head, so I wanted to make a very groovy and kind of mysteriously villainous theme (This is why it has those 8-bit noise percussion, haha). + This song started sometime after that, I had been pacing around a lot trying to think of a theme for what my album would be, until at some point something struck me and I had the urge to make a song for Zachery Lumen, considering he seemed like a very intriguing character, but he has little to no music for him! (None at all at the time of making this track I’m pretty sure) When I started off, I had [[“Here We Are”]] from Undertale and Ray Mikey’s [[“Hallowed Halls”]] from [[album:oceanfalls-vol-five|Volume Five]] stuck in my head, so I wanted to make a very groovy and kind of mysteriously villainous theme (This is why it has those 8-bit noise percussion, haha). I think I also had another song on my mind, but I can’t remember for the life of me what it was... Oh well. Over time while working on this, I realized that it might be more interesting to make it more of a song for the general theme of “actions done backed by questionable morals”, and then BAM, it hit me, my album’s theme should just be that! I decided to use the main motif from this as a main theme throughout as many of the tracks as I could (though I kind of ended up forgetting about it a lot, and it only ended up in four other tracks. Whoopsies...) --- @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Commentary: |- Referencing Sources: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/779895315750715422/1331024851338661919), excerpt, 1/20/2025) - HIs torment also references [[track:sovereign-domain|sovereign domain]], though it probably makes more sense to say it references [[track:royal-blood|Royal Blood]],<br> + HIs torment also references [[sovereign domain]], though it probably makes more sense to say it references [[Royal Blood]],<br> Since I made it after royal blood and it's based off of my re-interpretation of soverign domain that is in royal blood --- Track: Royal Blood @@ -110,9 +110,9 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> (booklet commentary) - This song was created before the album’s concept, but I think it fits in quite well. I wanted it to be a menacing and cool theme for Suvi, so I used a little bit of [[artist:wights-end|Wight’s]] song [[track:sovereign-domain|“Sovereign Domain”]]. This is actually the second song I made referencing that one, but the other one is currently on the backburner, though I’m sure it will show up some day. + This song was created before the album’s concept, but I think it fits in quite well. I wanted it to be a menacing and cool theme for Suvi, so I used a little bit of [[artist:wights-end|Wight’s]] song [[“Sovereign Domain”]]. This is actually the second song I made referencing that one, but the other one is currently on the backburner, though I’m sure it will show up some day. - I really like how [[track:his-torment|“His Torment”]] leads into this one, even though that was not the plan from the start of making either of these tracks, haha. It just kinda worked out that way halfway through making “His Torment”. I don’t have much to say on this track other than I’m happy with how it turned out. I do like to imagine that while “His Torment” is about the younger, more withdrawn version of Suvi, this one is about the confident, powerful, and menacing as all hell mature Suvi. + I really like how [[“His Torment”]] leads into this one, even though that was not the plan from the start of making either of these tracks, haha. It just kinda worked out that way halfway through making “His Torment”. I don’t have much to say on this track other than I’m happy with how it turned out. I do like to imagine that while “His Torment” is about the younger, more withdrawn version of Suvi, this one is about the confident, powerful, and menacing as all hell mature Suvi. --- Track: Raze in Vitriol Additional Names: @@ -130,18 +130,18 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> (booklet commentary) - When I was writing ideas for songs, one that almost instantly popped into my head was a [[track:contritum|Contritum]] cover. That song is just too good that I just HAD to do my take on it. I wanted it to be as packed to the brim with energy as the original Contritum (or more, if I could manage it), so of course, it had to start with choirs. I mean, what sets the tone for an epic battle more than choirs?? + When I was writing ideas for songs, one that almost instantly popped into my head was a [[Contritum]] cover. That song is just too good that I just HAD to do my take on it. I wanted it to be as packed to the brim with energy as the original Contritum (or more, if I could manage it), so of course, it had to start with choirs. I mean, what sets the tone for an epic battle more than choirs?? - I decided to go right into the main Contritum riff, (with just a little bit of industrial percussion) and go all out with some crazy synths and good old shreddage. If anything, I tried my hardest to make it as bombastic but menacing as possible. Then it slows down a bit, to build up for the first big motif, [[track:swaying-chains|“Swaying Chains”]] by [[artist:wights-end|Wight]], and then I just made it go ham again, haha. I think the industrial “ting” adds to the feeling of confidence that I think Corona has. + I decided to go right into the main Contritum riff, (with just a little bit of industrial percussion) and go all out with some crazy synths and good old shreddage. If anything, I tried my hardest to make it as bombastic but menacing as possible. Then it slows down a bit, to build up for the first big motif, [[“Swaying Chains”]] by [[artist:wights-end|Wight]], and then I just made it go ham again, haha. I think the industrial “ting” adds to the feeling of confidence that I think Corona has. - During the middle section I had a little break for the Nino motif from that demo song (still gonna get to that) and Aria's motif from [[album:oceanfalls-vol-1|Volume 1]]. Then I decided to bring in the next major motif, this time from [[track:kiss-of-death|“Kiss of Death”]] by [[artist:keyboard-cait|keyboard cait]]. It was kind of funny, because I asked her what the idea behind that song was, and she said “the concept's pretty vague, i composed it just to be ‘a song that fits corona killing people with total ease’”, to which I responded “that’s perfect lmfao”. I actually brought back the exact same choir chords to this part because it just sounded so good here. After that it’s pretty much just crazy solo on the nes pulse wave and then it ends with one sound falling in parallel to how Nino falls in the first fight with corona, and one sound staying on top. I just thought that was a cool idea, I guess. Now the funny thing is, I then realized after making this song that it was kind of similar in structure to [[track:the-sunderers-reprisal|“Sunderer’s Reprisal”]] by Wights end in that it goes “Corona goin’ crazy section” “break section with aria and Nino motifs” “Corona goin’ crazy section but more”, and even worse, I had named the song “Round 2”. Like, whoopsies. Big oops, wtf have I done lol. So, I just decided to change the name. I asked wight for name ideas and he suggested “Riven and Razed” and then I thought of the word vitriol (which is such an awesome word, we should use that word more) so now it’s called “Raze in Vitriol” which is honestly a better name than “Round 2” I think. + During the middle section I had a little break for the Nino motif from that demo song (still gonna get to that) and Aria's motif from [[album:oceanfalls-vol-1|Volume 1]]. Then I decided to bring in the next major motif, this time from [[“Kiss of Death”]] by [[artist:keyboard-cait|keyboard cait]]. It was kind of funny, because I asked her what the idea behind that song was, and she said “the concept's pretty vague, i composed it just to be ‘a song that fits corona killing people with total ease’”, to which I responded “that’s perfect lmfao”. I actually brought back the exact same choir chords to this part because it just sounded so good here. After that it’s pretty much just crazy solo on the nes pulse wave and then it ends with one sound falling in parallel to how Nino falls in the first fight with corona, and one sound staying on top. I just thought that was a cool idea, I guess. Now the funny thing is, I then realized after making this song that it was kind of similar in structure to [[track:the-sunderers-reprisal|“Sunderer’s Reprisal”]] by Wights end in that it goes “Corona goin’ crazy section” “break section with aria and Nino motifs” “Corona goin’ crazy section but more”, and even worse, I had named the song “Round 2”. Like, whoopsies. Big oops, wtf have I done lol. So, I just decided to change the name. I asked wight for name ideas and he suggested “Riven and Razed” and then I thought of the word vitriol (which is such an awesome word, we should use that word more) so now it’s called “Raze in Vitriol” which is honestly a better name than “Round 2” I think. Referencing Sources: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/779895315750715422/1331024268678660130), excerpt, 1/20/2025) Okay so the one on ethological that is wrong<br> Is Raze in Vitriol<br> That might be because I said the wrong song in the commentary<br> - It says [[track:swaying-chains|swaying chains]] when the real song it references is [[track:sage-chains|sage chains]]<br> + It says [[swaying chains]] when the real song it references is [[sage chains]]<br> Which is easily confused because of the name and them being right next to each other on vol 2 lmao --- Track: Just Me and My Boyfriend @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> (booklet commentary) - After I made [[track:for-the-greater-good|“For the Greater Good”]] I realized that I still wanted to do a Zachery Lumen song for the album, so I decided to buckle down and make this. When I started it, I added the very menacing strings at the beginning because I wanted to show how he really gives off that scary doctor vibe, but then it goes right into groove town with the first actual section, because uh, he does seem like a kind of freaky badass, I think. + After I made [[“For the Greater Good”]] I realized that I still wanted to do a Zachery Lumen song for the album, so I decided to buckle down and make this. When I started it, I added the very menacing strings at the beginning because I wanted to show how he really gives off that scary doctor vibe, but then it goes right into groove town with the first actual section, because uh, he does seem like a kind of freaky badass, I think. I really don’t know why I chose a genesis soundfont for the drums, but I did. Also, they have a lot of triplets if I remember correctly, so they are kind of weird just in general. The chord progression is also kind of weird. Honestly the whole thing is just weird. Kind of like Zachery. I think my favorite part is 1:08, where the piano really feels like a part in a Danganronpa song. I don’t know, Danganronpa just has really good music. Also, this is one of the songs I actually put the “For the Greater Good” motif in, so, there’s that. --- @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> (booklet commentary) - Remember how on the [[track:bastard-contract|“Bastard Contract”]] commentary, I mentioned how you would have to wait for episode one to get the full story? Well, this is episode one, and here’s the story. This song was made with the idea of being the Cape Nino song on the album, and so I made the whole song, and it was so badass and awesome. I then sent it to one of my good friends in the music team (Banigion) because I was curious what he thought about it. Our conversation went like this: + Remember how on the [[“Bastard Contract”]] commentary, I mentioned how you would have to wait for episode one to get the full story? Well, this is episode one, and here’s the story. This song was made with the idea of being the Cape Nino song on the album, and so I made the whole song, and it was so badass and awesome. I then sent it to one of my good friends in the music team (Banigion) because I was curious what he thought about it. Our conversation went like this: <b>Me:</b> \*sends song\*<br> <b>Banigion:</b> woah<br> @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ Commentary: |- <b>Banigion:</b> yeah, you somehow made kaji’s theme even cooler<br> <b>Me:</b> WHAT - As it turns out I had accidentally used Kaji’s theme instead of Cape Nino’s. How does this happen, you asked? Well, if you listen to [[track:know-thyself|“Know Thyself”]] and then listen to [[track:kajis-theme|“Kaji’s Theme”]], then you will notice that they are actually kind of similar! Also, I had just... been listening to Kaji’s theme a lot... Whoops... This track was also one where [[artist:wights-end|Wight]] pointed out that I was panning stuff too hard, to which I had to tell him that I was actually using a stereo expander on my master. And I quote from Wight “On Your master?? WHY???” + As it turns out I had accidentally used Kaji’s theme instead of Cape Nino’s. How does this happen, you asked? Well, if you listen to [[“Know Thyself”]] and then listen to [[“Kaji’s Theme”]], then you will notice that they are actually kind of similar! Also, I had just... been listening to Kaji’s theme a lot... Whoops... This track was also one where [[artist:wights-end|Wight]] pointed out that I was panning stuff too hard, to which I had to tell him that I was actually using a stereo expander on my master. And I quote from Wight “On Your master?? WHY???” So uhhhh. . . Whoops again lol. @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ Commentary: |- Referencing Sources: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/779895315750715422/1331026395496710155), excerpt, 1/20/2025) - Done with your nonsense is missing the reference to [[track:ambiguous-amnesiac|ambiguous amnesiac]]<br> + Done with your nonsense is missing the reference to [[ambiguous amnesiac]]<br> Which should be first on the list --- Track: Judgement By Genocide @@ -321,17 +321,17 @@ Commentary: |- Here it is, the great finale of the album. The 7:30 beast of a song (at least for me, haha). The idea behind this song is that it’s about The Merciless, one of the celestials whose last act was to kill every living being on the face of the world. - At the start I used [[artist:ray-mike|Ray Mikey’s]] song [[track:oceanfalls|“Oceanfalls”]] since it’s kind of for the past and history of Oceanfalls I think, or it could be like a main theme, either way I used it. I imagine this beginning section shows the Merciless with his love, the human princess. Then at 0:31 it takes a turn for the worse, his love has died, and he must revel in this knowledge. + At the start I used [[artist:ray-mike|Ray Mikey’s]] song [[“Oceanfalls”]] since it’s kind of for the past and history of Oceanfalls I think, or it could be like a main theme, either way I used it. I imagine this beginning section shows the Merciless with his love, the human princess. Then at 0:31 it takes a turn for the worse, his love has died, and he must revel in this knowledge. - I then made a motif of my own, this one represents the merciless himself, and it is surrounded by two different motifs, one is a short segment of [[track:emotional-moment|“Emotional Moment”]] by Ray Mikey being played over and over again, to sort of represent his emotions growing stronger and stronger, and one is a surprise motif that we’ll learn about in later Volumes... Then the laugh, boy do I love insane laughs, also the rising diminished chord, it’s just a good buildup, I think. I hope. I think. + I then made a motif of my own, this one represents the merciless himself, and it is surrounded by two different motifs, one is a short segment of [[“Emotional Moment”]] by Ray Mikey being played over and over again, to sort of represent his emotions growing stronger and stronger, and one is a surprise motif that we’ll learn about in later Volumes... Then the laugh, boy do I love insane laughs, also the rising diminished chord, it’s just a good buildup, I think. I hope. I think. - At 2:01 I brought in a reference to [[track:long-ago|“Long Ago”]] by [[artist:frost-carter|Frosty Mac]] from [[album:oceanfalls-vol-2|Volume 2]], for the cool history buffs out there, I guess. Then to represent the winged (as he descends from the moon to go on his rampage) I used the suspended notes from 0:37 in [[track:winged-world|“Winged World”]] from Ray Mikey’s [[album:oceanfables-ray-of-light|solo album]] on the lead guitar, and sort of tried to represent the little piano arpeggio like figure in the other guitar sound. This part is all of the winged fighting against him trying to well, not die. And then I brought back the Oceanfalls them, a confidence boost perhaps? Until, once again, we get The Merciless’s theme come back in full swing, with sirens to boot. Quite an imposing figure methinks... + At 2:01 I brought in a reference to [[“Long Ago”]] by [[artist:frost-carter|Frosty Mac]] from [[album:oceanfalls-vol-2|Volume 2]], for the cool history buffs out there, I guess. Then to represent the winged (as he descends from the moon to go on his rampage) I used the suspended notes from 0:37 in [[“Winged World”]] from Ray Mikey’s [[album:oceanfables-ray-of-light|solo album]] on the lead guitar, and sort of tried to represent the little piano arpeggio like figure in the other guitar sound. This part is all of the winged fighting against him trying to well, not die. And then I brought back the Oceanfalls them, a confidence boost perhaps? Until, once again, we get The Merciless’s theme come back in full swing, with sirens to boot. Quite an imposing figure methinks... The little Atari voice that says “purification in progress” is in reference to the rpg maker game OFF made by mortis ghost, where in the battles some of the backgrounds say those very words. Then right back to the Oceanfalls theme. Now he’s on the monster’s land, and he’s shredding through all of them as they do their best to fight back. But then the music picks up! It’s a bit more confident and pompous, I think. I can’t know for certain, but I imagine the monster monarch to be very confident in themselves. I used a bit of [[track:monstertown|monster town]] at 4:35 because of [[artist:wights-end|Wight’s]] suggestion for that as a monster motif, and I think it works quite well! Until the monster monarch is slain by the merciless, well, mercilessly. Then right back to The Merciless wailing on everyone. - At 5:32 I used some of [[track:peaceful-pirates|“Peaceful Pirates”]] for a human motif (also at Wight’s Suggestion) (Thank you Wight, very cool!) So, we get some of the humans fighting back, and I imagine they have someone try and rally them to fight, though it couldn’t be the princess (she’s kind of dead as was already established). But then the music fades, I imagine at this part The Merciless is hiding and flying around in the shadows as the army of humans looks around, until it breaks out into bombastic insanity. Eventually it ends that section with a horrifying, “PURIFICATION, COMPLETE” and it ends with a final repeat of the Oceanfalls theme, as The Merciless considers what he has done. What does he think of it? Idk only Nights knows, and we probably never will haha, but I still think that it’s a cool song, and I’m glad I made it. + At 5:32 I used some of [[“Peaceful Pirates”]] for a human motif (also at Wight’s Suggestion) (Thank you Wight, very cool!) So, we get some of the humans fighting back, and I imagine they have someone try and rally them to fight, though it couldn’t be the princess (she’s kind of dead as was already established). But then the music fades, I imagine at this part The Merciless is hiding and flying around in the shadows as the army of humans looks around, until it breaks out into bombastic insanity. Eventually it ends that section with a horrifying, “PURIFICATION, COMPLETE” and it ends with a final repeat of the Oceanfalls theme, as The Merciless considers what he has done. What does he think of it? Idk only Nights knows, and we probably never will haha, but I still think that it’s a cool song, and I’m glad I made it. <i>Nights:</i> (booklet commentary) @@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ Commentary: |- Referencing Sources: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/779895315750715422/1331026535137808549), excerpt, 1/20/2025) - LUNE FUMO REAL references [[track:right-hand|"Right Hand"]] from vol 1 + LUNE FUMO REAL references [["Right Hand"]] from vol 1 --- Track: Ambiguous Amnesiac Additional Names: diff --git a/album/oceanfables-sovereign-lunacy.yaml b/album/oceanfables-sovereign-lunacy.yaml index a69dcc2f..a91a0c21 100644 --- a/album/oceanfables-sovereign-lunacy.yaml +++ b/album/oceanfables-sovereign-lunacy.yaml @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Referencing Sources: |- sovlun references - lunacy - prelude: [[track:wieczna-wiedza|wieczna wiedza]] + lunacy - prelude: [[wieczna wiedza]] --- Track: Fi Albidaya Additional Names: @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ Referencing Sources: |- sovlun references - shaffaf: [[track:blood-pact|blood pact]] + shaffaf: [[blood pact]] --- Track: Zetsubō no Shōjo Directory: zetsubo-no-shojo @@ -166,19 +166,19 @@ Commentary: |- <i>“<span style="color: #ffcccc">Could nothing erase that smug, mocking smile off of his wretched face</span>?”</i> - I made this song snappy and energetic, because I thought it’d fit The Merciless’ sly, smug self. It uses the leitmotif from [[track:judgement-by-genocide|“Judgement by Genocide”]], the song about his rampage of killing everyone. Funny that his general theme came after that! :P + I made this song snappy and energetic, because I thought it’d fit The Merciless’ sly, smug self. It uses the leitmotif from [[“Judgement by Genocide”]], the song about his rampage of killing everyone. Funny that his general theme came after that! :P I genuinely had SO much fun making this song. It was originally meant to be more badass than fun, but I couldn’t really live up to what I imagined for it, so I changed the tone to be more fun and silly. Referencing Sources: |- <i>leiirue:</i> (booklet commentary, excerpt) - It uses the leitmotif from [[track:judgement-by-genocide|“Judgement by Genocide”]], the song about his rampage of killing everyone. + It uses the leitmotif from [[“Judgement by Genocide”]], the song about his rampage of killing everyone. <i>leiirue:</i> ([[media:misc/sovlun-refs.txt|sovlun refs]], excerpt) sovlun references - saffah: [[track:judgement-by-genocide|judgement by genocide]] + saffah: [[judgement by genocide]] --- Track: Apokatástasi Additional Names: @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ Referencing Sources: |- sovlun references - apokatastasi: [[track:know-thyself|know thyself]] + apokatastasi: [[know thyself]] --- Track: Bezimienna Piosenka Additional Names: @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ Referencing Sources: |- sovlun references - bibliotheque ideale: [[track:wieczna-wiedza|wieczna wiedza]] + bibliotheque ideale: [[wieczna wiedza]] --- Track: Aljashe Al'abadi Additional Names: @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ Referencing Sources: |- sovlun references - aljashe al'abadi: [[track:cosmic-horror-in-gold|cosmic horror in gold]], [[track:refulgence-of-regality|refulgence of regality]] + aljashe al'abadi: [[cosmic horror in gold]], [[refulgence of regality]] --- Track: Lunacy - Closure Duration: 0:46 @@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ Referencing Sources: |- sovlun references - lunacy - closure: [[track:wieczna-wiedza|wieczna wiedza]] + lunacy - closure: [[wieczna wiedza]] --- Section: Bonus track --- @@ -367,4 +367,4 @@ Referencing Sources: |- sovlun references - cruor: [[track:fi-albidaya|fi albidaya]], [[track:seicho|seichou]], [[track:shaffaf|shaffaf]], [[track:zetsubo-no-shojo|zetsubou no shoujo]], [[track:saffah|saffah]], [[track:apokatastasi|apokatastasi]], [[track:bezimienna-piosenka|bezimienna piosenka]], [[track:zorn-gottes|zorn gottes]], [[track:bibliotheque-ideale|bibliotheque ideale]], [[track:wieczna-wiedza|wieczna wiedza]], [[track:aljashe-alabadi|aljashe al'abadi]], [[track:cosmic-horror-in-gold|cosmic horror in gold]] DEAR GOD HELP ME + cruor: [[fi albidaya]], [[Seichō|seichou]], [[shaffaf]], [[Zetsubō no Shōjo|zetsubou no shoujo]], [[saffah]], [[apokatastasi]], [[bezimienna piosenka]], [[zorn gottes]], [[bibliotheque ideale]], [[wieczna wiedza]], [[aljashe al'abadi]], [[cosmic horror in gold]] DEAR GOD HELP ME diff --git a/album/oceanfalls-vol-3.yaml b/album/oceanfalls-vol-3.yaml index b8a4564c..6ccae8e4 100644 --- a/album/oceanfalls-vol-3.yaml +++ b/album/oceanfalls-vol-3.yaml @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Referencing Sources: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/779895315750715422/1331029217898663968), excerpt, 1/20/2025) - Sea patrol references [[track:snowfalls|snowfalls]] (both versions) + Sea patrol references [[snowfalls]] (both versions) --- Track: Best Boyfriend Artists: @@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Referencing Sources: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/779895315750715422/1331027899137917040), excerpt, 1/20/2025) - Fun fact, I've come to realize that almost like every hadron track they referenced [[track:snowfalls|snowfalls]]<br> + Fun fact, I've come to realize that almost like every hadron track they referenced [[snowfalls]]<br> Not literally everyone, but it's like a large amount of them I still have no idea why cinders references it @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ Referencing Sources: |- Hadron I think has some sort of inside knowledge of upcoming story bits as they've helped with some of the flashes<br> most notably {S} shatter - [...] Cinders references [[track:snowfalls|snowfalls]] + [...] Cinders references [[snowfalls]] --- Track: Raven Hood (Mei Appears) Artists: @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Referencing Sources: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/779895315750715422/1331029217898663968), excerpt, 1/20/2025) - Peaceful Pirates references [[track:snowfalls|snowfalls]] + Peaceful Pirates references [[snowfalls]] --- Track: Onyx's Theme Artists: @@ -415,4 +415,4 @@ Referenced Tracks: Referencing Sources: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/779895315750715422/1331029217898663968), excerpt, 1/20/2025) - Sea patrol references [[track:snowfalls|snowfalls]] (both versions) + Sea patrol references [[snowfalls]] (both versions) diff --git a/album/oceanfalls-vol-6.yaml b/album/oceanfalls-vol-6.yaml index 22cd6f39..d76c949d 100644 --- a/album/oceanfalls-vol-6.yaml +++ b/album/oceanfalls-vol-6.yaml @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ Referencing Sources: |- Yeah I forgot about that<br> I put it in unholy grudge first lmaooo - Again, it's original debut was [[track:big-bird-ate-grandma|"Big Bird Ate Grandma"]]<br> + Again, it's original debut was [["Big Bird Ate Grandma"]]<br> But that's already on the wiki --- Track: Smite @@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ Commentary: |- *Nights:* I am so happy this exists because I love that Suvi motif from Witch's album<br> *Nights:* Please keep using the motif<br> *Witch's Cadence:* (it's from wight originally)<br> - *Finchlet:* everyone forgetting about [[track:sovereign-domain|sovereign domain]] 😭<br> + *Finchlet:* everyone forgetting about [[sovereign domain]] 😭<br> *Finchlet:* lmao<br> *Witch's Cadence:* Yeah lmao<br> *Nights:* Oh! Is it from the Vol 2 song<br> @@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ Commentary: |- *Nevermind:* because this album is all SO OLD<br> *Nevermind:* aaa<br> *Witch's Cadence:* So it goes<br> - *Witch's Cadence:* [[track:sovereign-domain|sovereign domain]] -> Rigid Reflex -> [[track:royal-blood|that one song from my solo]]<br> + *Witch's Cadence:* [[sovereign domain]] -> Rigid Reflex -> [[track:royal-blood|that one song from my solo]]<br> *Pikarai:* this album really got like<br> *Pikarai:* development hell'd @@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ Referencing Sources: |- - [[Sovereign Domain]] (0:00) - [[track:yellow-and-purple|Oceanfalls]] (0:08) - - [[track:know-thyself|Know Thyself]] (0:35) + - [[Know Thyself]] (0:35) - [[Myosotis in the Wind]] (1:05) --- Track: Myosotis in the Wind @@ -718,7 +718,7 @@ Commentary: |- *Nights:* 😔 *Wights End:* what songs would be prime candidates for symphonic covers?<br> - *Witch's Cadence:* Probably [[track:emotional-moment|emotional moment]]<br> + *Witch's Cadence:* Probably [[emotional moment]]<br> *Witch's Cadence:* maybe [[track:living-will|five's theme]]<br> *Nevermind:* i think the ones that have actually been used in comic would be big candidates just for iconicity<br> *Nights:* Um, make a really evil orchestra of one of the Suvillan songs<br> @@ -802,7 +802,7 @@ Commentary: |- Referencing Sources: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/749067042250031214/1330968681085141114), excerpt, 1/20/2025) - [...] Neivei makes Cryocide and references [[track:unholy-grudge|unholy grudge]] [...] + [...] Neivei makes Cryocide and references [[unholy grudge]] [...] --- Track: Conflicted Self Duration: 3:07 @@ -840,7 +840,7 @@ Commentary: |- *Pikarai:* (he is going to stab himself)<br> *leiirue:* TRUE - *Nevermind:* i love broken ass [[track:know-thyself|know thyself]] motif<br> + *Nevermind:* i love broken ass [[know thyself]] motif<br> *Nights:* This is also my first time properly hearing this finch track. I really like the delayed(or broken?) effect<br> *Wights End:* Finch's sense of harmony is very similar to mine I think. he just does so many of the things I think sound super cool<br> *Nights:* I think I can see it wight @@ -860,7 +860,7 @@ Commentary: |- Referencing Sources: |- <i>Nevermind3476:</i> ([YouTube premiere live chat](https://youtu.be/szfsnqqTy28?t=2114), excerpt) - i love broken ass [[track:know-thyself|know thyself]] motif + i love broken ass [[know thyself]] motif --- Track: Suvillan's Giant Spiralling Tower Duration: 0:59 @@ -1069,7 +1069,7 @@ Commentary: |- Referencing Sources: |- <i>Nevermind3476:</i> ([Oceanfalls Discord](https://discord.com/channels/267390861220773889/604990351995830289/1334646425681793044), 1/30/2025) - scarlet wings references [[track:kotori|kotori]] from ray of light + scarlet wings references [[kotori]] from ray of light --- Section: Bonus track --- diff --git a/album/oceanfalls-vol-five.yaml b/album/oceanfalls-vol-five.yaml index e332c6d2..91eb68dd 100644 --- a/album/oceanfalls-vol-five.yaml +++ b/album/oceanfalls-vol-five.yaml @@ -188,12 +188,12 @@ Commentary: |- > Which track is five's theme, that you're [[track:crystalline-aurora|referring to here?]] There's two versions of it technically<br> - Volume 2's [[track:the-fifth-flower|"The Fifth Flower"]] and the remake of it that ray did on volume 5 called "Living Will"<br> + Volume 2's [["The Fifth Flower"]] and the remake of it that ray did on volume 5 called "Living Will"<br> Both are basically different versions of the same song by Ray Mikey<br> They are both really really good too I believe ray remade it for volume 5 because that album was specifically made as a birthday album for five<br> - That's also the one I did [[track:birthday-girl|"Birthday Girl"]] on + That's also the one I did [["Birthday Girl"]] on --- Track: Unfamiliar Territory (Director's Cut) Additional Names: diff --git a/album/of-troles-and-chiptumes.yaml b/album/of-troles-and-chiptumes.yaml index f5109202..fff2b4ab 100644 --- a/album/of-troles-and-chiptumes.yaml +++ b/album/of-troles-and-chiptumes.yaml @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ 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 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. + 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. @@ -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. @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ Commentary: |- It's got some sweet tunes, but I guess they're not really that much by the Music Team. Oh yeah, according to Bandcamp, Toby made all but one of the songs I remixed there. - One of them is actually some unused song called [[track:catscratch|Catscratch]], which I have no idea how people got ahold of that song, but you can find it in the [Homestuck Sound Test](https://www.tumblr.com/sanctferum/638058644066435072/homestuck-sound-test-12202020-edition?source=share). + One of them is actually some unused song called [[Catscratch]], which I have no idea how people got ahold of that song, but you can find it in the [Homestuck Sound Test](https://www.tumblr.com/sanctferum/638058644066435072/homestuck-sound-test-12202020-edition?source=share). Yes. I think I already skipped over the parts that had that song Catscratch in them. No wait, there it is again, I guess. Just listen to the Sound Test and maybe you'll understand where Homestuck's Catscratch is in this thing. @@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ 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. @@ -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? diff --git a/album/on-the-rox.yaml b/album/on-the-rox.yaml index 0c21b762..a9628a11 100644 --- a/album/on-the-rox.yaml +++ b/album/on-the-rox.yaml @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Commentary: |- alright time to make so shoutouts to the people who made this album possible. - Firstly, I would like to think [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos|PotatoBoss]] for having enough faith in me to do this album in the first place. Next, I would like all the artists who did the beautiful art for this album. The album wouldn't be anywhere near as good without their pieces and they all deserve a big pat on the back. I would also like to think [[artist:spad3s|Spades]] and the other music feedback lords for giving me really good feedback on every song on this album and tolerating my many pings. I want to thank fellow PMT musician, [[artist:chromaphasia|Chromaphasia]], for performing piano on [[track:a-life-worth-living|the last track]] on the album. Next, I want to give a very special thanks to [[artist:thomas-ferkol|Thomas "Eidolon" Ferkol]] for providing a MIDI for [[track:voidlight|"Voidlight"]] which is [[track:from-the-void|remixed]] on this album. I would also like to thank [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew Hussie]] for creating Homestuck and writing one of the most compelling characters in media. But most importantly, Thank YOU!!! for taking time to listen to my album. + Firstly, I would like to think [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos|PotatoBoss]] for having enough faith in me to do this album in the first place. Next, I would like all the artists who did the beautiful art for this album. The album wouldn't be anywhere near as good without their pieces and they all deserve a big pat on the back. I would also like to think [[artist:spad3s|Spades]] and the other music feedback lords for giving me really good feedback on every song on this album and tolerating my many pings. I want to thank fellow PMT musician, [[artist:chromaphasia|Chromaphasia]], for performing piano on [[track:a-life-worth-living|the last track]] on the album. Next, I want to give a very special thanks to [[artist:thomas-ferkol|Thomas "Eidolon" Ferkol]] for providing a MIDI for [["Voidlight"]] which is [[track:from-the-void|remixed]] on this album. I would also like to thank [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew Hussie]] for creating Homestuck and writing one of the most compelling characters in media. But most importantly, Thank YOU!!! for taking time to listen to my album. Without Further Ado, I present to you On The Rox. --- @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> (booklet commentary) - So this song was my first attempt at writing synthwave and one of the earlier song i wrote for the album. Fans of [[album:beforusbound|Beforusbound]] may recognize this track as PB remixed it for his song [[track:trident-thief|"Trident Thief,"]] which was pretty cool because it was the first time one of my tracks was remixed. Anyway, I wanted to write a track that would fit for all the skaianet stuff the Roxy was involved with. I initially wanted to write a cool lo-fi track that would utilize windows start noises, but I scrapped that in favor learning how to write synthwave. I already talked about why I chose synthwave in the commentary for [[track:technostalgia|"Technostalgia"]] but I felt like synthwave was especially fitting for skaianet since it's essentially every evil corporation from 80's action films. The title "Through the Looking Glass" refers to the way roxy would use the fenestrated planes to travel from their lab and other places in their home. For a first attempt at a genre I wasn't familiar with I think I did pretty well. + So this song was my first attempt at writing synthwave and one of the earlier song i wrote for the album. Fans of [[album:beforusbound|Beforusbound]] may recognize this track as PB remixed it for his song [["Trident Thief,"]] which was pretty cool because it was the first time one of my tracks was remixed. Anyway, I wanted to write a track that would fit for all the skaianet stuff the Roxy was involved with. I initially wanted to write a cool lo-fi track that would utilize windows start noises, but I scrapped that in favor learning how to write synthwave. I already talked about why I chose synthwave in the commentary for [["Technostalgia"]] but I felt like synthwave was especially fitting for skaianet since it's essentially every evil corporation from 80's action films. The title "Through the Looking Glass" refers to the way roxy would use the fenestrated planes to travel from their lab and other places in their home. For a first attempt at a genre I wasn't familiar with I think I did pretty well. --- Track: Broken Bottles, Broken Dreams Duration: 04:15 @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> (booklet commentary) - So everybody remembers [[flash:4486|[S]Sleepwalk]] right? Well I loved that flash cause it gave us an interesting introduction to main characters of act 6. When this album was being planned, this was one of the songs I just knew that i needed to do. In order to try and create a dreamy atmosphere, I utilized a shit-ton of effects and even went as far to create some of my own synths. I took a lot of influence from the track ["Resurrections"](https://radicaldreamland.bandcamp.com/track/resurrections) from the Celeste soundtrack. I really liked that song and tried to emulate a similar feel in this track. The song initially started as that little piano melody that you hear in the beginning of the album and slowly grew from there. Also fans of [[album:beforusbound|Beforusbound]] may notice that I used this melody in my song [[track:nostalgic-landscapes|"Nostalgic Landscapes."]] My favorite part of this track is the way i utilized [[Derse Dreamers]] as a bassline towards the end of the track. It's definitely one of my more ambient and weird tracks on the album. + So everybody remembers [[flash:4486|[S]Sleepwalk]] right? Well I loved that flash cause it gave us an interesting introduction to main characters of act 6. When this album was being planned, this was one of the songs I just knew that i needed to do. In order to try and create a dreamy atmosphere, I utilized a shit-ton of effects and even went as far to create some of my own synths. I took a lot of influence from the track ["Resurrections"](https://radicaldreamland.bandcamp.com/track/resurrections) from the Celeste soundtrack. I really liked that song and tried to emulate a similar feel in this track. The song initially started as that little piano melody that you hear in the beginning of the album and slowly grew from there. Also fans of [[album:beforusbound|Beforusbound]] may notice that I used this melody in my song [["Nostalgic Landscapes."]] My favorite part of this track is the way i utilized [[Derse Dreamers]] as a bassline towards the end of the track. It's definitely one of my more ambient and weird tracks on the album. --- Track: Communing With Fireflies Duration: 02:56 @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> (booklet commentary) - This song is technically the oldest song on the entire album. I originally started this song as a roxy strife theme back during the development of [[album:stlap2|STLaP 2]]. It was initially going to be a remix of Thomas Ferkol's track [[track:wily-espionage|"Wily Espionage."]] Unfortunately, I was having a really hard time making this song come together and I eventually got so frustrated that I took it off the album. Despite my frustration, I still wanted to finish it at some point. When I got the news that I gonna be able to do my solo album, I saw a perfect opportunity to actually finish it. The version of the song you are hearing is dramatically different from the original demo. Aside from some drums and a synth or two, very few elements from the stlap 2 demo exist in this version. I even decided to make the song completely mostly original with a reference to [[track:on-apocalyptic-shores|OAS]] towards the end. The few thing remains from the old version of this song is the name "Saboteur," which makes slightly less sense since it's no longer a remix of "Wily Espionage." I do still like as a title because it signifies what it used to be back in the day. + This song is technically the oldest song on the entire album. I originally started this song as a roxy strife theme back during the development of [[album:stlap2|STLaP 2]]. It was initially going to be a remix of Thomas Ferkol's track [["Wily Espionage."]] Unfortunately, I was having a really hard time making this song come together and I eventually got so frustrated that I took it off the album. Despite my frustration, I still wanted to finish it at some point. When I got the news that I gonna be able to do my solo album, I saw a perfect opportunity to actually finish it. The version of the song you are hearing is dramatically different from the original demo. Aside from some drums and a synth or two, very few elements from the stlap 2 demo exist in this version. I even decided to make the song completely mostly original with a reference to [[track:on-apocalyptic-shores|OAS]] towards the end. The few thing remains from the old version of this song is the name "Saboteur," which makes slightly less sense since it's no longer a remix of "Wily Espionage." I do still like as a title because it signifies what it used to be back in the day. As for what the song is about, it was initially going to be Roxy fighting Her Imperial Condescension in [[flash:8087|Collide]] but i decided to make it about the time they fight the invading alternian drones. Overall I think this is one of the better tracks on the album and one of the few early tracks that I didn't have to touch up all that much. @@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ Commentary: |- So when I was developing On the Rox, my biggest influence on my work was the album [[album:one-year-older|"One Year Older"]] by Erik Scheele. It's pretty obvious why I did. It's a really good album and does what I wanted to do for this album. While our albums are not one-to-one, it's still pretty clear that I took ques from it. - I say all this to try and explain what I was going for with this song. On "One Year Older" there is a track about LoWaS called [[track:firefly-cloud|"Firefly Cloud."]] It's a great song and I really wanted to do something similar, so going into I tried emulating firefly cloud as much as possible. The result was this, probably one of my most powerful and largest sounding song to date. I really wanted to capture that sense of wonder and majesty that we all felt when we say the alpha kids' lands for the first time. I even quoted [[Even in Death]] to call back to the flash [[flash:5438|[S] Void]]. While i don't think I achieved a similar sound to firefly cloud, I do think that I did get something pretty good. If you are a fan of my long songs (which have become a meme at this point but whatever) you'll probably like this lol. + I say all this to try and explain what I was going for with this song. On "One Year Older" there is a track about LoWaS called [["Firefly Cloud."]] It's a great song and I really wanted to do something similar, so going into I tried emulating firefly cloud as much as possible. The result was this, probably one of my most powerful and largest sounding song to date. I really wanted to capture that sense of wonder and majesty that we all felt when we say the alpha kids' lands for the first time. I even quoted [[Even in Death]] to call back to the flash [[flash:5438|[S] Void]]. While i don't think I achieved a similar sound to firefly cloud, I do think that I did get something pretty good. If you are a fan of my long songs (which have become a meme at this point but whatever) you'll probably like this lol. --- Track: Meditations On Derse Additional Names: @@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ Commentary: |- So this is definitely one of the more climatic tracs on the album. I technically wrote this song pretty early into development, but that early version of the song kinda sucked ass and so I redid completely. This song is also my first extensive foray into orchestral style writing. I think as a I first attempt at a more faithfully orchestral style it turned out pretty well. - When I first had the idea for this song I wanted to create a [[track:do-you-remem8er-me|"Do You Remem8er me"]] style song for Roxy and Calliope. [[flash:7959|[S] Terezi: Remember,]] was a pretty big flash for me and the parallels between that flash and Roxy's bringing back Calliope from the void were pretty apparent. Trying to match Malcolm Brown's grandiose style is pretty much impossible, but I thought i would still try. While I definitely did get to his level with this song, This is still one of the songs I'm the most proud of on this album. + When I first had the idea for this song I wanted to create a [["Do You Remem8er me"]] style song for Roxy and Calliope. [[flash:7959|[S] Terezi: Remember,]] was a pretty big flash for me and the parallels between that flash and Roxy's bringing back Calliope from the void were pretty apparent. Trying to match Malcolm Brown's grandiose style is pretty much impossible, but I thought i would still try. While I definitely did get to his level with this song, This is still one of the songs I'm the most proud of on this album. --- Track: Fight For the Future Duration: 06:48 @@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ Commentary: |- Another climactic track and by far my most ambitious track no this album. During, development I just knew that i had to have a track about [[flash:8087|[S]Collide]] on this album. It would be an understatement to say that the fight with Her Imperial Condescension in [S] Collide was the most important moment in Roxy's arc. Roxy facing down the person largely responsible for everything bad that has happened in their life is a pretty major moment, and i wanted to capture it in song form. - As for the song itself there is a lot to talk about. The opening [[Rex Duodecim Angelus]] makes it pretty apparent that I took a lot of influence from that song. I also took osme influence from the track [[track:negastrife|"Negastrife"]] from One Year Older. I tried to include motifs from just about every person involved in the fight against HIC. The only person who I failed to have a motif for was Jane, but its fine since she's a xenophobe now lol (thanks homestuck epilogues). Another thing of note is the original motif of this song that is played in the bass for most of this track. I originally came up with the motif messing around with the kirby's dreamland 3 soundfont. I got this really cool sounding bass line that i liked so much I made it the main back bone of this track. The moral of this story is that I am very lazy and you shouldn't listen to me. Anyway, I'm pretty happy with how this song turned out. I've never written a Final Boss track before, and I think it came out pretty well. + As for the song itself there is a lot to talk about. The opening [[Rex Duodecim Angelus]] makes it pretty apparent that I took a lot of influence from that song. I also took osme influence from the track [["Negastrife"]] from One Year Older. I tried to include motifs from just about every person involved in the fight against HIC. The only person who I failed to have a motif for was Jane, but its fine since she's a xenophobe now lol (thanks homestuck epilogues). Another thing of note is the original motif of this song that is played in the bass for most of this track. I originally came up with the motif messing around with the kirby's dreamland 3 soundfont. I got this really cool sounding bass line that i liked so much I made it the main back bone of this track. The moral of this story is that I am very lazy and you shouldn't listen to me. Anyway, I'm pretty happy with how this song turned out. I've never written a Final Boss track before, and I think it came out pretty well. --- Track: A Life Worth Living Duration: 04:20 @@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ Commentary: |- So the epilogue made the development of this album a little bit complicated. Before their release I had pretty clear vision of vision of what Roxy's ending was going to be. Then they came out and to say that they shattered my expectations would be an understatement. So I was left with a ultimatum: either continue as planned or change the album according to the epilogues. I decided that I should go for the former. As much I like the epilogues mechanically, I do not like what it does with the character with a handful of exceptions. As such this album ends with the events of [[flash:8127|act 7]] and [[flash:8130|credits]]. it's probably for the best since thee epilogues are a bit controversial. - As for the song itself, I wanted to go for a simple concluding track. I felt like I couldn't really top [[From the Void]] and [[track:fight-for-the-future|Fight for the Future]], so rather than trying to one up those two songs. I figured i would go for a far simpler sounding track. So stuck with a simple piano and some string accompaniment. Big props to fellow PMT member [[artist:chromaphasia|Chromaphasia]] for playing this on piano as to make it sound as realistic as possible. This track was okay before his performance but with his performance, this track was elevated to one of the best on the album. + As for the song itself, I wanted to go for a simple concluding track. I felt like I couldn't really top [[From the Void]] and [[Fight for the Future]], so rather than trying to one up those two songs. I figured i would go for a far simpler sounding track. So stuck with a simple piano and some string accompaniment. Big props to fellow PMT member [[artist:chromaphasia|Chromaphasia]] for playing this on piano as to make it sound as realistic as possible. This track was okay before his performance but with his performance, this track was elevated to one of the best on the album. --- Section: Bonus tracks --- diff --git a/album/p-s.yaml b/album/p-s.yaml index b73c544a..4ef8b483 100644 --- a/album/p-s.yaml +++ b/album/p-s.yaml @@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20181217213614/http://iambowman.tumblr.com/post/174990163680/this-arrangement-of-explore-was-inspired-by-the), 6/17/2018) - This arrangement of [[track:explore|“Explore”]] was inspired by the soundtrack of Amelie (or really just World Of Goo). The title is borrowed from T.S. Eliot. 2009 never sounded so fresh on P[S]. + This arrangement of [[“Explore”]] was inspired by the soundtrack of Amelie (or really just World Of Goo). The title is borrowed from T.S. Eliot. 2009 never sounded so fresh on P[S]. Also I literally just got the pun. P[S]. Like “postscript.” God, that’s clever. Thanks again to [[artist:veritas-unae]] for arranging this compilation! --- diff --git a/album/pale-rain.yaml b/album/pale-rain.yaml index 352f70b9..ac708cb7 100644 --- a/album/pale-rain.yaml +++ b/album/pale-rain.yaml @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Toby Fox:</i> ([Twitter](https://twitter.com/tobyfox/status/1509910381938249729), 04/01/2022) - You might be wondering how the heck this happened. Well, originally they wanted to sample [[track:hopes-and-dreams|Hopes and Dreams]]. (!?) But, that song is personal to me, so I asked "Can I just make a similar song instead?" And they let me... + You might be wondering how the heck this happened. Well, originally they wanted to sample [[Hopes and Dreams]]. (!?) But, that song is personal to me, so I asked "Can I just make a similar song instead?" And they let me... Thanks! It was really fun to get to do something like this. diff --git a/album/pantheon.yaml b/album/pantheon.yaml index 0be78bac..f4297e5a 100644 --- a/album/pantheon.yaml +++ b/album/pantheon.yaml @@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/user-552040225/unofficial-desynced-music-automata), excerpt) - I had a bad song writing block and decided to do a quick remix of [[track:do-you-dream-of-electric-sheep|"Do You Dream of Electric Sheep?"]] from Desynced Vol.2. I hope you enjoy. + I had a bad song writing block and decided to do a quick remix of [["Do You Dream of Electric Sheep?"]] from Desynced Vol.2. I hope you enjoy. --- Track: Josh's Theme Additional Names: diff --git a/album/pesterquest-soundtrack.yaml b/album/pesterquest-soundtrack.yaml index 19bf5fe1..9a885258 100644 --- a/album/pesterquest-soundtrack.yaml +++ b/album/pesterquest-soundtrack.yaml @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>James Roach:</i> ([SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/jamesroachmusic/pesterquest-please-support-the-trevor-project)) - I wasn't certain how to approach this one. I knew if I was going to use the theme from [[track:endless-climb|endless climb]] it wouldn't feel right accepting any money for it. These things don't exactly pay well to begin with tbh, so i thought I would use the platform i've been given to try and do something... even a little positive. + I wasn't certain how to approach this one. I knew if I was going to use the theme from [[endless climb]] it wouldn't feel right accepting any money for it. These things don't exactly pay well to begin with tbh, so i thought I would use the platform i've been given to try and do something... even a little positive. at first the song was just going to be called "play the rain" because naming it something stupid, while keeping up with tradition, seemed like it would be in bad taste. at some point while i was working on it i started looking into various charities i could donate the proceeds to, and it hit me that i could just ask to make the title in the credits a link to the charity. @@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ Commentary: |- jades theme! wow we've really come a long way huh fellas? - i always really liked [[track:carefree-victory|carefree victory]] and its really one of the only songs that felt like uniquely hers. towards the end i try and do something that like... every homestuck musician i think tries at least once: getting all 4 of the kid's instruments to play something nice together. i think i did alright, i subbed in beatboxing for daves turntables cause its not like you can just carry those anywhere. i guess as opposed to johns piano?? LMAO + i always really liked [[carefree victory]] and its really one of the only songs that felt like uniquely hers. towards the end i try and do something that like... every homestuck musician i think tries at least once: getting all 4 of the kid's instruments to play something nice together. i think i did alright, i subbed in beatboxing for daves turntables cause its not like you can just carry those anywhere. i guess as opposed to johns piano?? LMAO musically i have jade start on bass, and as more of her friends come in she gets a little more confident in her basslines. anyway thats my fanfic. @@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>James Roach:</i> ([SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/jamesroachmusic/pesterquest-crustacean)) - there are a handful of people out there who really thought we were just gonna put [[track:karkalicious|karkalicious]] in there. + there are a handful of people out there who really thought we were just gonna put [[karkalicious]] in there. --- Track: mIrAcLeS Suffix Directory: true diff --git a/album/pokemon-scarlet-violet-super-music-collection.yaml b/album/pokemon-scarlet-violet-super-music-collection.yaml index bc2c1a93..3c2310ea 100644 --- a/album/pokemon-scarlet-violet-super-music-collection.yaml +++ b/album/pokemon-scarlet-violet-super-music-collection.yaml @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Wallpaper Style: 'opacity: 0.45;' Commentary: |- <i>Toby Fox:</i> ([UNDERTALE / DELTARUNE NEWSLETTER - ISSUE 1 (Winter Season)](https://toby.fangamer.com/newsletters/winter22/), excerpt) - Pokémon Scarlet and Violet have released! I had the honor of making a few songs for the game: [[track:tera-raid-battle|"Tera Raid Battles"]], the [[track:the-academy-ace-tournament|"Academy Ace Tournament"]], and of course, [[track:battle-zero-lab|"Battle! Zero Lab"]]. I also composed [[track:area-zero|"Area Zero"]], which was re-arranged by my friend [[artist:go-ichinose|Go Ichinose]]. + Pokémon Scarlet and Violet have released! I had the honor of making a few songs for the game: [[track:tera-raid-battle|"Tera Raid Battles"]], the [[track:the-academy-ace-tournament|"Academy Ace Tournament"]], and of course, [["Battle! Zero Lab"]]. I also composed [["Area Zero"]], which was re-arranged by my friend [[artist:go-ichinose|Go Ichinose]]. I also composed a majestic theme melody for the song [[track:the-academy|"Academy"]]. Surprisingly, this ended up used as a field theme for the whole game! Though, all songs using the melody were made by other amazing composers. (I love [[track:a-stroll-through-the-south-province|the soft piano version]] that plays at night.) Anyhow, that's all I did! diff --git a/album/prospit-and-derse.yaml b/album/prospit-and-derse.yaml index 34bc308b..56fa56af 100644 --- a/album/prospit-and-derse.yaml +++ b/album/prospit-and-derse.yaml @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ Commentary: |- I'm quite pleased with what Pride did for the art, though. It worked out really well for the song. - As an additional note, it's been pointed out to me by [this fan](http://kicking-christ-in-a-dirty-diaper.tumblr.com/) that this song sounds like it has Mark Hadley's [[track:problem-sleuth-theme|Problem Sleuth theme]] in it, at least in part. It's a coincidence in the exact same reason that [[track:frost-vol6|Frost]] gets the same comment: slow melodies, probably the same key. Really nothing else to it. I've listened to Hadley's PS theme probably twice ever. Oops. Said fan also wondered if I jokingly thought that gentlemen of Team Sleuth are Prospit's agents much like our chums in the Midnight Crew are Derse's. I didn't, but that's an awesome comparison and now I'm all for it. + As an additional note, it's been pointed out to me by [this fan](http://kicking-christ-in-a-dirty-diaper.tumblr.com/) that this song sounds like it has Mark Hadley's [[Problem Sleuth theme]] in it, at least in part. It's a coincidence in the exact same reason that [[track:frost-vol6|Frost]] gets the same comment: slow melodies, probably the same key. Really nothing else to it. I've listened to Hadley's PS theme probably twice ever. Oops. Said fan also wondered if I jokingly thought that gentlemen of Team Sleuth are Prospit's agents much like our chums in the Midnight Crew are Derse's. I didn't, but that's an awesome comparison and now I'm all for it. --- Track: Prospit Dreamers Duration: 3:19 diff --git a/album/redditstuck-vol-1.yaml b/album/redditstuck-vol-1.yaml index 7e0b256c..328ec7d6 100644 --- a/album/redditstuck-vol-1.yaml +++ b/album/redditstuck-vol-1.yaml @@ -453,4 +453,4 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Kal-la-kal-la:</i> ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/kal-la-kal-la/hyperion), 7/26/2016) - An arrangement of [[track:a-love-letter-from-hyperion|'A Love Letter From Hyperion']], which you can find here: [(dead link)](https://soundcloud.com/kal-la-kal-la/a-love-letter-from-hyperion) + An arrangement of [['A Love Letter From Hyperion']], which you can find here: [(dead link)](https://soundcloud.com/kal-la-kal-la/a-love-letter-from-hyperion) diff --git a/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml b/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml index 55f6a96b..147b4c1a 100644 --- a/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml +++ b/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml @@ -1328,7 +1328,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - waltz of seccom masada Commentary: |- <i>Niklink:</i> (wiki editor, 8/6/2023) - Originally shared in a 2012 Tumblr post as part of several [[album:made-up-yume-nikkis|"made up yume nikkis"]] snippets where it was known as [[track:waltz-of-seccom-masada|"waltz of seccom masada"]]. + Originally shared in a 2012 Tumblr post as part of several [[album:made-up-yume-nikkis|"made up yume nikkis"]] snippets where it was known as [["waltz of seccom masada"]]. --- Track: Michael Bowman Remix Artists: @@ -21582,7 +21582,7 @@ Commentary: |- actually I should double check I'm pretty sure this song is in one of my oceanfalls songs in some form now<br> It might be a super vague reference tho - I wanna say it's like in the riff in [[track:judgement-by-genocide|Judgement by genocide]] but I have to check lol + I wanna say it's like in the riff in [[Judgement by genocide]] but I have to check lol <i>ruby:</i> (HSMusic Discord) diff --git a/album/rust-apocalypse-anniversary-remaster.yaml b/album/rust-apocalypse-anniversary-remaster.yaml index f2f6422c..05f491b4 100644 --- a/album/rust-apocalypse-anniversary-remaster.yaml +++ b/album/rust-apocalypse-anniversary-remaster.yaml @@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> ([Bandcamp credits blurb](https://wellmanicuredmusic.bandcamp.com/album/rust-apocalypse-anniversary-remaster), excerpt) - Based on [[track:rust-servant|"Rust Servant"]], composed in 2012 by [[artist:willow-ascenzo|Willow Ascenzo]], originally released April 2012 on [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|"coloUrs and mayhem: Universe A"]] via Homestuck and What Pumpkin Studios + Based on [["Rust Servant"]], composed in 2012 by [[artist:willow-ascenzo|Willow Ascenzo]], originally released April 2012 on [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|"coloUrs and mayhem: Universe A"]] via Homestuck and What Pumpkin Studios - Original [[track:rust-apocalypse|"Rust Apocalypse"]] released in January 2013 by Willow Ascenzo + Original [["Rust Apocalypse"]] released in January 2013 by Willow Ascenzo --- Track: Rust Apocalypse [Anniversary Remaster] Duration: 07:36 diff --git a/album/rust-apocalypse.yaml b/album/rust-apocalypse.yaml index 474920cc..fe503293 100644 --- a/album/rust-apocalypse.yaml +++ b/album/rust-apocalypse.yaml @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Art Tags: - Aradia Commentary: |- <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> - Five exciting new arrangements of my three compositions featured on the album [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|coloUrs and mayhem: Universe A]] by Homestuck, including the monstrous and colossal song "[[track:rust-apocalypse|Rust Apocalypse]]"! The original compositions are included as bonus tracks. + Five exciting new arrangements of my three compositions featured on the album [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|coloUrs and mayhem: Universe A]] by Homestuck, including the monstrous and colossal song "[[Rust Apocalypse]]"! The original compositions are included as bonus tracks. This EP is not officially related to Andrew Hussie's MSPaint Adventures and the music contained herein is sold as the property of its composer, and not as official Homestuck music. --- Section: Main album @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://wellmanicuredmusic.tumblr.com/post/51312119864), excerpt, 5/25/2013) - “Broken Rainbow” was meant to be a short introduction track that would briefly play over the musical motifs of the rest of the tracks. It’s a short atmospheric piece that quotes a few notes from each composition, “[[track:rust-witch-ascenzo|Rust Witch]]/[[track:rust-apocalypse|Rust Apocalypse]]”, “[[track:teal-hunter|Teal Hunter]]”, and “[[track:violet-mariner|Violet Mariner]]”. The title “Broken Rainbow” is meant to play on the “[[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|coloUrs and mayhem]]” idea and the many-hued character design of Homestuck while also referencing the idea of a “rust apocalypse”. + “Broken Rainbow” was meant to be a short introduction track that would briefly play over the musical motifs of the rest of the tracks. It’s a short atmospheric piece that quotes a few notes from each composition, “[[track:rust-witch-ascenzo|Rust Witch]]/[[Rust Apocalypse]]”, “[[Teal Hunter]]”, and “[[Violet Mariner]]”. The title “Broken Rainbow” is meant to play on the “[[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|coloUrs and mayhem]]” idea and the many-hued character design of Homestuck while also referencing the idea of a “rust apocalypse”. --- Track: Rust Witch Directory: rust-witch-ascenzo @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://wellmanicuredmusic.tumblr.com/post/59139866566), excerpt, 8/23/2013) - “[[track:teal-hunter|Teal Hunter]]” was originally submitted to the [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|coloUrs and mayhem]] music contest as a composition about quad-prototyped Peregrine Mendicant fighting Bec Noir; this arrangement brings the song back to its roots. + “[[Teal Hunter]]” was originally submitted to the [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|coloUrs and mayhem]] music contest as a composition about quad-prototyped Peregrine Mendicant fighting Bec Noir; this arrangement brings the song back to its roots. <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://wellmanicuredmusic.tumblr.com/post/51312119864), excerpt, 5/25/2013) diff --git a/album/sbargv2-volume-1.yaml b/album/sbargv2-volume-1.yaml index 1d2cad9e..e2505d42 100644 --- a/album/sbargv2-volume-1.yaml +++ b/album/sbargv2-volume-1.yaml @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Commentary: |- I suppose my last question is: Do you have a favorite track on <i>SBARG Volume 1</i>? *lavenderSiren:*<br> - uhhh.. prolly [[track:ballad-of-the-guardian|ballad of the guardian]]? + uhhh.. prolly [[ballad of the guardian]]? *wertercatt:*<br> Thanks for all of your help with this, by the way! diff --git a/album/so-i-herd-you-liek-homestuck.yaml b/album/so-i-herd-you-liek-homestuck.yaml index 2fde3f1f..5abe4403 100644 --- a/album/so-i-herd-you-liek-homestuck.yaml +++ b/album/so-i-herd-you-liek-homestuck.yaml @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>sidewalkbanana:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://sidewalkbanana.bandcamp.com/track/aggrieve-short-remix)) - [[track:eridans-theme|Eridans theme]] by [[artist:toby-fox|Toby "Radiation" Fox]] + [[Eridans theme]] by [[artist:toby-fox|Toby "Radiation" Fox]] --- Track: Aggrieve short remix. Suffix Directory: true @@ -65,12 +65,12 @@ Commentary: |- <i>sidewalkbanana:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://sidewalkbanana.bandcamp.com/track/hanging-black)) [[track:black]] by [[artist:toby-fox|Toby "Radiation" Fox]]<br> - With a little bit of [[track:hanging-reminder|hanging reminder]] thrown in. + With a little bit of [[hanging reminder]] thrown in. <i>sidewalkbanana:</i> ([Bandcamp credits blurb](https://sidewalkbanana.bandcamp.com/track/hanging-black)) [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew hussie]] for homestuck<br> - [[artist:toby-fox|Toby "Radiation" Fox]] for [[track:black|BLACK]] + [[artist:toby-fox|Toby "Radiation" Fox]] for [[BLACK]] <i>sidewalkbanana:</i> ([Newgrounds description](https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/442187)) diff --git a/album/song-of-skaia.yaml b/album/song-of-skaia.yaml index ee557a57..e5c80e9b 100644 --- a/album/song-of-skaia.yaml +++ b/album/song-of-skaia.yaml @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Commentary: |- Another [New Year's Eve](https://www.homestuck.com/story/3220) gone by, another [ball dropped](https://www.homestuck.com/story/4413). - Here is [[artist:mark-j-hadley|Mark Hadley's]] single, Song of Skaia. It's good! Hadley is responsible for such HS songs as [[Harlequin]] and [[track:blackest-heart|Blackest heart]]. + Here is [[artist:mark-j-hadley|Mark Hadley's]] single, Song of Skaia. It's good! Hadley is responsible for such HS songs as [[Harlequin]] and [[Blackest heart]]. You might have noticed I've scaled back the frequency of music releases somewhat. It was becoming sort of intense getting one or more albums ready for release every month. It also did start to feel like *maybe* just a little bit too much music coming at you all the time. I'd like to make sure the novelty of these doesn't deteriorate too quickly. Hence a single release seemed like a nice way to mix it up for now. I would expect albums to come out closer to every two months from now on. diff --git a/album/songs-from-the-planet-earth.yaml b/album/songs-from-the-planet-earth.yaml index a6ccc937..d7094946 100644 --- a/album/songs-from-the-planet-earth.yaml +++ b/album/songs-from-the-planet-earth.yaml @@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ Commentary: |- Q: What's your favourite song from the TV series? - I think one of the easy songs to pick is "[[track:stronger-than-you|stronger than you]]". i dont know, its the song that comes to me when i hear steven universe, mostly because it was the way i get to know the show. + I think one of the easy songs to pick is [["stronger than you"]]. i dont know, its the song that comes to me when i hear steven universe, mostly because it was the way i get to know the show. --- Track: WE ON THE MOON Artists: @@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ Lyrics: |- I could even learn how to love like you Commentary: |- <i>Vance Duche:</i> - Q: Why did you decide to make a cover of "[[track:whats-the-use-of-feeling-blue|What's the Use of Feeling (Blue)?]]" + Q: Why did you decide to make a cover of [["What's the Use of Feeling (Blue)?"]] this song instantly became my favorite the second i heard it. just listening to patti lupone sing this makes my heart ache! yellow diamond is an interesting, complex character, so i figured i'd play with her sorrow for pink's death through this song. @@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ Commentary: |- Q: What's your favourite (official) Steven Universe song? - [[track:whats-the-use-of-feeling-blue|What's the Use of Feeling Blue]], I'm a sucker for villain songs. And I will forever mourn the fact that White changed her mind before she could get one. + [[What's the Use of Feeling Blue]], I'm a sucker for villain songs. And I will forever mourn the fact that White changed her mind before she could get one. Q: What's your favourite thing about the illustration you made? diff --git a/album/songs-unsung.yaml b/album/songs-unsung.yaml index 0fea55f7..581c881a 100644 --- a/album/songs-unsung.yaml +++ b/album/songs-unsung.yaml @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Groups: Commentary: |- <i>Tensei:</i> - I'm releasing an EP containing some of the stuff that I've posted before, including among others the 5 minute 'epic' metal rearrangement of [[track:heir-conditioning|Heir Conditioning]]. + I'm releasing an EP containing some of the stuff that I've posted before, including among others the 5 minute 'epic' metal rearrangement of [[Heir Conditioning]]. --- Track: Before the Rains Come Duration: 1:44 diff --git a/album/soul-of-sovereignty-prelude-ost.yaml b/album/soul-of-sovereignty-prelude-ost.yaml index 463a35d0..229f292b 100644 --- a/album/soul-of-sovereignty-prelude-ost.yaml +++ b/album/soul-of-sovereignty-prelude-ost.yaml @@ -56,21 +56,21 @@ Commentary: |- - title - [[track:prelude-soul-of-sovereignty|“Prelude”]] (GGDG) - whisper - [[track:whisper-soul-of-sovereignty|“Whisper”]] (GGDG) - - loic - [[track:words-in-lavender|“Words in Lavender”]] (Toby Fox, GGDG) - - sadgirl - [[track:small-theme-for-a-sad-girl|“Small Theme for a Sad Girl”]] (GGDG, Toby Fox) + - loic - [[“Words in Lavender”]] (Toby Fox, GGDG) + - sadgirl - [[“Small Theme for a Sad Girl”]] (GGDG, Toby Fox) - snowfall - [[track:snowfall-soul-of-sovereignty|“Snowfall”]] (GGDG, Toby Fox) - - loic_magic - [[track:fayims-gift|“Fayim’s Gift”]] (Toby Fox) - - hollow - [[track:hollow-temple|“Hollow Temple”]] (Toby Fox) - - ysme_slow - [[track:master-of-illusion|“Master of Illusion”]] (Toby Fox) + - loic_magic - [[“Fayim’s Gift”]] (Toby Fox) + - hollow - [[“Hollow Temple”]] (Toby Fox) + - ysme_slow - [[“Master of Illusion”]] (Toby Fox) - creepy - [[track:unease-soul-of-sovereignty|“Unease”]] (Toby Fox) - - sage_tension, sage_tension2 - [[track:frenzied-rite|“Frenzied Rite”]] (Toby Fox) + - sage_tension, sage_tension2 - [[“Frenzied Rite”]] (Toby Fox) - loiclia - [[track:sunflowers-soul-of-sovereignty|“Sunflowers”]] (Toby Fox) - - ysme_normal - [[track:normal-theme-for-a-normal-woman|“Normal Theme for a Normal Woman”]] (Toby Fox) - - lamp_7 - [[track:lamplight|“Lamplight”]] (GGDG) - - sage_2, sage_pre - [[track:sage-invocation|“Sage Invocation”]] (GGDG, Toby Fox) - - ysme_god - [[track:light-and-hunger|“Light and Hunger”]] (Toby Fox) - - end_2 - [[track:soul-tether|“Soul Tether”]] (GGDG, Toby Fox) - - whis2 - [[track:prayer-to-the-builder|“Prayer to the Builder”]] (GGDG) + - ysme_normal - [[“Normal Theme for a Normal Woman”]] (Toby Fox) + - lamp_7 - [[“Lamplight”]] (GGDG) + - sage_2, sage_pre - [[“Sage Invocation”]] (GGDG, Toby Fox) + - ysme_god - [[“Light and Hunger”]] (Toby Fox) + - end_2 - [[“Soul Tether”]] (GGDG, Toby Fox) + - whis2 - [[“Prayer to the Builder”]] (GGDG) if my name is listed first, that means i composed an early version, then toby took it from there. diff --git a/album/spiritwake.yaml b/album/spiritwake.yaml index 53604398..f3bd2b91 100644 --- a/album/spiritwake.yaml +++ b/album/spiritwake.yaml @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Jebb:</i> (wiki editor, 12/17/2023) - All of the track art and track commentary for this album has been taken from the SoundCloud uploads of the tracks. The commentary is talking about earlier versions of the tracks so some (Specifically [[track:distant-memories|Distant Memories]]) may be a bit outdated. + All of the track art and track commentary for this album has been taken from the SoundCloud uploads of the tracks. The commentary is talking about earlier versions of the tracks so some (Specifically [[Distant Memories]]) may be a bit outdated. <i>Niklink:</i> (wiki editor, 1/14/2024) @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>Solatrus:</i> ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/solatrus/heart-of-the-forest)) - Yet another song from the same game as [[track:the-last-seeker|The Last Seeker]] and [[track:frozen-souls|Frozen Souls]]. This one's got a strong string arrangement going throughout most of it. Hope you enjoy! + Yet another song from the same game as [[The Last Seeker]] and [[Frozen Souls]]. This one's got a strong string arrangement going throughout most of it. Hope you enjoy! --- Track: Frozen Souls Duration: 3:13 @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>Solatrus:</i> ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/solatrus/frozen-souls)) - Another song from the same video game that [[track:the-last-seeker|The Last Seeker]] is also a part of. Hope you enjoy it! + Another song from the same video game that [[The Last Seeker]] is also a part of. Hope you enjoy it! --- Track: Distant Memories Duration: 3:30 diff --git a/album/stlap.yaml b/album/stlap.yaml index 293aca76..f60b5ad1 100644 --- a/album/stlap.yaml +++ b/album/stlap.yaml @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Commentary: |- <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - For this track i went for the style of music i think Dad listens to, a jazzier version of [[track:under-the-hat|Under the Hat]] fit this idea. Also the chiptune breakdown in the middle is supposed to reference [[track:showtime-original-mix|the original Strife! theme for dad]]. So later with a bit of saxophone it worked! I think it came out pretty well, and i think this is what you'd hear whenever you walk into the kitchen when Dad is baking. + For this track i went for the style of music i think Dad listens to, a jazzier version of [[Under the Hat]] fit this idea. Also the chiptune breakdown in the middle is supposed to reference [[track:showtime-original-mix|the original Strife! theme for dad]]. So later with a bit of saxophone it worked! I think it came out pretty well, and i think this is what you'd hear whenever you walk into the kitchen when Dad is baking. --- Track: Penumbra Phantasm (Frosty Style) Additional Names: @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>apatheticPianist:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - As you've probably gathered from listening to it, this song is themed around the first five acts of Homestuck! It has a similar structure to [[track:cue-the-curtains|Cue the Curtains]], but with five parts instead of four (which is oddly appropriate, in retrospect - five parts, five acts): John, Rose, Dave and Jade, Bec Noir and Vriska's machinations that led to him, and finally the kids' ascensions and the Scratch. The title uses Vriska's quirk for two reasons: because she had a pretty big hand in the creation of Bec Noir... and also becasue she's "stealing the spotlight" from the Beta Kids. Anyways, a huge thanks to [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos|PotatoBoss]] for mastering this song, and I hope y'all enjoy it! + As you've probably gathered from listening to it, this song is themed around the first five acts of Homestuck! It has a similar structure to [[Cue the Curtains]], but with five parts instead of four (which is oddly appropriate, in retrospect - five parts, five acts): John, Rose, Dave and Jade, Bec Noir and Vriska's machinations that led to him, and finally the kids' ascensions and the Scratch. The title uses Vriska's quirk for two reasons: because she had a pretty big hand in the creation of Bec Noir... and also becasue she's "stealing the spotlight" from the Beta Kids. Anyways, a huge thanks to [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos|PotatoBoss]] for mastering this song, and I hope y'all enjoy it! --- Track: Me/Ga/Lo/Vania Artists: @@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Commentary: |- <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - I was trying to create kind of a battle theme for a john dave team battle, the name hospitalized is another joke on [[track:doctor|doctor]] because doctor is partially in it. but this is something i'd imagine plays when john and dave are battling together. Fun fact (again): the sick lead is the Romantic Trumpet from Touhou with way too much chorus. + I was trying to create kind of a battle theme for a john dave team battle, the name hospitalized is another joke on [[doctor]] because doctor is partially in it. but this is something i'd imagine plays when john and dave are battling together. Fun fact (again): the sick lead is the Romantic Trumpet from Touhou with way too much chorus. --- Track: Temporal Virtuoso Artists: @@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Commentary: |- <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - I really like to make dave songs, this song was inspired by a bass player on youtube named [Davie504](https://www.youtube.com/user/Davie504). I wrote the first bass parts with some squares (the square in the middle even sounds like [[track:walk-stab-walk-r-and-e|Walk Stab Walk]] even though i didn't intend it to) to give it some variation. Then some phat beats for dave coolness and [[track:time-on-my-side|Time on My Side]] combined with [[track:cascade-beta|Cascade]] to give it max awesomeness, i guess you could see it as a strife theme for alpha Dave fighting those clowns on top of the "purple house". + I really like to make dave songs, this song was inspired by a bass player on youtube named [Davie504](https://www.youtube.com/user/Davie504). I wrote the first bass parts with some squares (the square in the middle even sounds like [[track:walk-stab-walk-r-and-e|Walk Stab Walk]] even though i didn't intend it to) to give it some variation. Then some phat beats for dave coolness and [[Time on My Side]] combined with [[track:cascade-beta|Cascade]] to give it max awesomeness, i guess you could see it as a strife theme for alpha Dave fighting those clowns on top of the "purple house". --- Section: Disc 2 --- @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - With this track i kinda wanted to remake a Strife! theme for Mom. The bass in the beginning is building the tension of Rose trying to sneak out of the house, and when [[track:aggrieve|Aggrieve]] starts playing you know she got busted. I also added parts of [[track:sburban-jungle|Sburban Jungle]] to foreshadow her entering the medium soon, and the guitar just makes everything 10x cooler. + With this track i kinda wanted to remake a Strife! theme for Mom. The bass in the beginning is building the tension of Rose trying to sneak out of the house, and when [[Aggrieve]] starts playing you know she got busted. I also added parts of [[Sburban Jungle]] to foreshadow her entering the medium soon, and the guitar just makes everything 10x cooler. --- Track: More Real than Kraft Mayo Artists: @@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Commentary: |- <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - I was messing around with a midi i made of Rob Scallon's [[track:rain-rob-scallon|"Rain"]], and i found out that if everything is a square, it sounds like a Cavestory song. So when i added [[track:doctor|"Doctor"]] into it, it got even better. The sweet drums and the high square from [[track:windswept-shale|"Windswept Shale"]] by Baleish finished it up and made the song sound as good as it does. Also the title is kind of a nudge at "Rain" if you haven't noticed yet (ahahah I'm so clever HEEHEEHOOHOO). + I was messing around with a midi i made of Rob Scallon's [[track:rain-rob-scallon|"Rain"]], and i found out that if everything is a square, it sounds like a Cavestory song. So when i added [["Doctor"]] into it, it got even better. The sweet drums and the high square from [["Windswept Shale"]] by Baleish finished it up and made the song sound as good as it does. Also the title is kind of a nudge at "Rain" if you haven't noticed yet (ahahah I'm so clever HEEHEEHOOHOO). --- Section: Disc 3 --- @@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - Chill beats + weird pads with spooky progressions = something that sounds like LoHAC or Dave or something else I don't know don't judge me! (also I pretty much just copied [[track:heat|Heat]] from the [[album:medium|medium album]] for this because that sounds Dave-y) + Chill beats + weird pads with spooky progressions = something that sounds like LoHAC or Dave or something else I don't know don't judge me! (also I pretty much just copied [[Heat]] from the [[album:medium|medium album]] for this because that sounds Dave-y) --- Track: Outrageously Awesome Hashrap Battle Artists: @@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - This song was kinda having an identity crisis since this was gonna be a song for LoWAS as you can see by the title & intro bit, but then I did the breakdown and the [[track:heat|Heat]] motif and it didn't seem like it would fit very well so i was just like "heck it." and thought this should be song about the Forge. Nothing else to say besides damn that bass makes me wet. + This song was kinda having an identity crisis since this was gonna be a song for LoWAS as you can see by the title & intro bit, but then I did the breakdown and the [[Heat]] motif and it didn't seem like it would fit very well so i was just like "heck it." and thought this should be song about the Forge. Nothing else to say besides damn that bass makes me wet. --- Track: Slammed 8y the Sun!!!!!!!! Additional Names: @@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - Wander was the result of there not being enough [[track:explore|Explore]] remixes. Back around the time I joined the music team, I was listening to Explore and thought the orchestration of the synths would translate well to strings. I'd also probably been listening to old Apocalyptica at the time, resulting in a cello ensemble with plodding gritty drum loops. While Explore soars above the remains of the world, Wander is grounded and more subdued. The interlude of ambient jungle noises was partially to reflect the world reverting back to nature, and the distant atmosphere and distorted portions are sort of the echoes and ruins left behind. + Wander was the result of there not being enough [[Explore]] remixes. Back around the time I joined the music team, I was listening to Explore and thought the orchestration of the synths would translate well to strings. I'd also probably been listening to old Apocalyptica at the time, resulting in a cello ensemble with plodding gritty drum loops. While Explore soars above the remains of the world, Wander is grounded and more subdued. The interlude of ambient jungle noises was partially to reflect the world reverting back to nature, and the distant atmosphere and distorted portions are sort of the echoes and ruins left behind. --- Track: Take a Stand! Artists: @@ -651,7 +651,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - I wanted to use the awesome [[track:verdancy-bassline|Verdancy bassline]] as a funny jingle, so i learned how to play it and improvised some parts and added a sick drumloop for that [[track:potential-verdancy|potential verdancy]] feel... Not much else to say on that... Here, have a Crab Apple. + I wanted to use the awesome [[Verdancy bassline]] as a funny jingle, so i learned how to play it and improvised some parts and added a sick drumloop for that [[potential verdancy]] feel... Not much else to say on that... Here, have a Crab Apple. --- Track: Fetch The Bullet! Artists: @@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - This is an interesting one, Fetch the Bullet! Is based entirely on the flash [[flash:980|[S] Jade: Retrieve Package]] (specifically the old version). The song is paying its respects to the removed track [[track:mutiny|Mutiny]] which needed some love, it was removed for a reason but it's still a great (and one of my favourites) track. I also used alot of spacey synths to signify Bec traveling to space and teleporting all over the place and shit. And then [[track:MeGaLoVania|MeGaLoVania]] and [[track:beatdown-strider-style|Beatdown]] are in there for some reason. I also put in the Ultimate Guitar kit again for the reference to Jade knowing how to play guitar (man do i love that soundfont). + This is an interesting one, Fetch the Bullet! Is based entirely on the flash [[flash:980|[S] Jade: Retrieve Package]] (specifically the old version). The song is paying its respects to the removed track [[Mutiny]] which needed some love, it was removed for a reason but it's still a great (and one of my favourites) track. I also used alot of spacey synths to signify Bec traveling to space and teleporting all over the place and shit. And then [[track:MeGaLoVania|MeGaLoVania]] and [[track:beatdown-strider-style|Beatdown]] are in there for some reason. I also put in the Ultimate Guitar kit again for the reference to Jade knowing how to play guitar (man do i love that soundfont). --- Track: Urban Forest Artists: @@ -718,7 +718,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - I was originally just going to play [[track:gardener|Gardener]] as a cover, but then I realised that's completely unoriginal and i remembered i can play some other random songs. So i just mixed those in and improvised some parts of Gardener and you get this! Fun fact: i had to play this like 30 times over because i kept fucking up (wow that wasn't fun at all). + I was originally just going to play [[Gardener]] as a cover, but then I realised that's completely unoriginal and i remembered i can play some other random songs. So i just mixed those in and improvised some parts of Gardener and you get this! Fun fact: i had to play this like 30 times over because i kept fucking up (wow that wasn't fun at all). --- Track: Starsetter Suffix Directory: true @@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>CALIKID:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - Ahh yes. The rain. Your friends. Your friends and the rain. But under an umbrella of course. Kick back and relax as you listen to this chill jam inspired by Toby Fox's [[track:moonsetter|Moonsetter]]. It's truly a masterpiece. The melody is so sweet that people can't help but make remixes of it, which is exactly what this is. A remix of just that. With ambience and a sick beat, this song fills every need fitted to *survive* on a barren planet that you made with your chums in a video game that may or may not destroy the world. + Ahh yes. The rain. Your friends. Your friends and the rain. But under an umbrella of course. Kick back and relax as you listen to this chill jam inspired by Toby Fox's [[Moonsetter]]. It's truly a masterpiece. The melody is so sweet that people can't help but make remixes of it, which is exactly what this is. A remix of just that. With ambience and a sick beat, this song fills every need fitted to *survive* on a barren planet that you made with your chums in a video game that may or may not destroy the world. --- Track: Endless Dreamers Artists: @@ -757,7 +757,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>CALIKID:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - I was originally planning on doing [[track:endless-climb|Endless Climb]] but somehow in the middle it changed to [[track:derse-dreamers|Derse Dreamers]] too so I decided to go with it. It's full of action and heavy saws. I thought it would be cool to add a bit of a mellow sound to the beginning though so I went with that. I hope you like it! + I was originally planning on doing [[Endless Climb]] but somehow in the middle it changed to [[Derse Dreamers]] too so I decided to go with it. It's full of action and heavy saws. I thought it would be cool to add a bit of a mellow sound to the beginning though so I went with that. I hope you like it! --- Track: Cue the Curtains Artists: @@ -807,4 +807,4 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>apatheticPianist:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - Somewhat ironically, this song actually came before [[track:8r8k-the-8ottle|8r8k the 8ottle]] - when I joined the album, a song themed around EOA6 / Collide was the first thing that came to mind, and this is the result! As you've probably noticed, it's separated pretty evenly into four parts: first Vriska vs. Lord English, then Terezi and the Striders vs. Lord Jack and Spades Slick, then the HIC fight, and finally an ending meant to call back (forward?) to Act 7. Also, giant thanks to [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos|PotatoBoss]] for mastering it and 8r8k the 8ottle - they definitely wouldn't have had that extra Homestuck kick without his help, hehe. Aside from that, nothing much else to say about it - it's a giant pile of motifs that I really enjoyed composing! + Somewhat ironically, this song actually came before [[8r8k the 8ottle]] - when I joined the album, a song themed around EOA6 / Collide was the first thing that came to mind, and this is the result! As you've probably noticed, it's separated pretty evenly into four parts: first Vriska vs. Lord English, then Terezi and the Striders vs. Lord Jack and Spades Slick, then the HIC fight, and finally an ending meant to call back (forward?) to Act 7. Also, giant thanks to [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos|PotatoBoss]] for mastering it and 8r8k the 8ottle - they definitely wouldn't have had that extra Homestuck kick without his help, hehe. Aside from that, nothing much else to say about it - it's a giant pile of motifs that I really enjoyed composing! diff --git a/album/stlap2.yaml b/album/stlap2.yaml index d251a036..9ed2f81f 100644 --- a/album/stlap2.yaml +++ b/album/stlap2.yaml @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Commentary: |- <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - I made this song as a birthday gift to [[artist:rowyn-berlan]], i wanted to kind of parody [[album:the-baby-is-you|"The Baby is You"]] since we had just finished ["The Baby is STLaP2"](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqi0iMdsva_wMBDC1dZgYmg--sJgtXtmG) and it seemed funny to me to make that for them. The only song I referenced was [[track:miasmic-decay|"Miasmic Decay"]] because Rowyn made it and that would make the song still fit in the album because it's still a remix of a song in the album. Also DVS-Saxophone is the best instrument, change my mind. + I made this song as a birthday gift to [[artist:rowyn-berlan]], i wanted to kind of parody [[album:the-baby-is-you|"The Baby is You"]] since we had just finished ["The Baby is STLaP2"](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqi0iMdsva_wMBDC1dZgYmg--sJgtXtmG) and it seemed funny to me to make that for them. The only song I referenced was [["Miasmic Decay"]] because Rowyn made it and that would make the song still fit in the album because it's still a remix of a song in the album. Also DVS-Saxophone is the best instrument, change my mind. --- Track: Prismatic Season Artists: @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (album team, booklet commentary) - Rough and Jungle puts an interesting spin on [[track:sburban-jungle|sburban jungle]] and [[track:doctor|doctor]] which compliment each other quite well in this arrangement. Also [[track:unite-synchronization|unite synchronization]] is in here somewhere so that’s cool. <!-- no signature in booklet --> + Rough and Jungle puts an interesting spin on [[sburban jungle]] and [[doctor]] which compliment each other quite well in this arrangement. Also [[unite synchronization]] is in here somewhere so that’s cool. <!-- no signature in booklet --> --- Track: Gale Force Winds Artists: @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - This song is a redone version of an old Lo-Fi Hip-Hop remix i made of the song [[track:moonsetter|“Moonsetter”]] by Toby Fox. I didn’t like the old one i made but since i was getting so much positive feedback on it i decided to remake it for this album. It turned out way better than the old version in my opinion and i hope everyone who listened to the old version agrees with me. + This song is a redone version of an old Lo-Fi Hip-Hop remix i made of the song [[“Moonsetter”]] by Toby Fox. I didn’t like the old one i made but since i was getting so much positive feedback on it i decided to remake it for this album. It turned out way better than the old version in my opinion and i hope everyone who listened to the old version agrees with me. --- Track: Fireflies and Clockwork Cover Art File Extension: jpg @@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - I remember like thinking that [my Mutiny remix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3znbbnDOChY) could be totally better, so like I only made this a while after that was uploaded (that's why it sounds so much like my old stuff). I didn't even plan for the song to be said remix, I was just bored in FL Studio and placed down the [[track:mutiny|Mutiny]] melody in there and somehow just kept going until it turned into a full song. I was gonna put it in [[album:stlap|STLaP 1]], but then didn't because [[track:fetch-the-bullet|there was already a Mutiny remix]], so first chance I got I dunked it into STLaP 2. + I remember like thinking that [my Mutiny remix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3znbbnDOChY) could be totally better, so like I only made this a while after that was uploaded (that's why it sounds so much like my old stuff). I didn't even plan for the song to be said remix, I was just bored in FL Studio and placed down the [[Mutiny]] melody in there and somehow just kept going until it turned into a full song. I was gonna put it in [[album:stlap|STLaP 1]], but then didn't because [[track:fetch-the-bullet|there was already a Mutiny remix]], so first chance I got I dunked it into STLaP 2. --- Track: Lust Suffix Directory: true @@ -482,7 +482,7 @@ Sampled Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - Now [[track:candles-and-clockwork|Candles and Clockwork]] over the years has become my favorite song from Homestuck so of course I wanted to try and do something with it. Candlelit originally started out as [[track:candlelit-contemplation-beta|a shitty PXTone cover]] that’s on my YouTube Channel (you’ve been warned) and well after a while I grew unhappy with it. One day I got the stupid idea to reverse the song and boy am I glad I did that. I decided to try and make a remix of Candles and Clockwork that would sound just as good reversed and well what’s there sure is something. (By the way all the reversed bits are actually from the original PXTone version which I thought was a cool little reference) + Now [[Candles and Clockwork]] over the years has become my favorite song from Homestuck so of course I wanted to try and do something with it. Candlelit originally started out as [[track:candlelit-contemplation-beta|a shitty PXTone cover]] that’s on my YouTube Channel (you’ve been warned) and well after a while I grew unhappy with it. One day I got the stupid idea to reverse the song and boy am I glad I did that. I decided to try and make a remix of Candles and Clockwork that would sound just as good reversed and well what’s there sure is something. (By the way all the reversed bits are actually from the original PXTone version which I thought was a cool little reference) --- Track: CITH - Beatdown (Strider in the House) Artists: @@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Commentary: |- <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - So this one is pretty odd (obviously wtf). One day i was hanging out on the Bowman Discord server and we were just kinda talking, so then Michael mentions that him and some friends are making a Strider version of the vocals to [[track:cory-in-the-house-theme-song|the Cory in the House opening]], and i was like, ohshit i can make a remix of the theme that uses Strider motifs if you want :eyes:. So i made it and i named the instrumental version CITH Beatdown as a reference to [[track:wsw-beatdown|WSW Beatdown]]. Later the vocals were added and it became Strider in the House. Thanks for making this Michael your Dave voice is epic lmao. + So this one is pretty odd (obviously wtf). One day i was hanging out on the Bowman Discord server and we were just kinda talking, so then Michael mentions that him and some friends are making a Strider version of the vocals to [[track:cory-in-the-house-theme-song|the Cory in the House opening]], and i was like, ohshit i can make a remix of the theme that uses Strider motifs if you want :eyes:. So i made it and i named the instrumental version CITH Beatdown as a reference to [[WSW Beatdown]]. Later the vocals were added and it became Strider in the House. Thanks for making this Michael your Dave voice is epic lmao. <i>Michael Parker:</i> (Dave, booklet commentary) @@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - This song has a special place in my heart because it my first homestuck remix. I started this song months before I joined the PMT and I remember doing it out of boredom. I wanted to make remix a song the no one had done before, so I decided to remix the first half of the unreleased song [[track:jadesprite|"Jadesprite."]] The [[track:spritely-gardener-beta|original demo]] of the song was like 30 seconds long and wasn't very good imo. Joining the team gave me the impetus I needed to expand upon my original demo and finish the song. Of my remixes, this one is probably my favorite. + This song has a special place in my heart because it my first homestuck remix. I started this song months before I joined the PMT and I remember doing it out of boredom. I wanted to make remix a song the no one had done before, so I decided to remix the first half of the unreleased song [["Jadesprite."]] The [[track:spritely-gardener-beta|original demo]] of the song was like 30 seconds long and wasn't very good imo. Joining the team gave me the impetus I needed to expand upon my original demo and finish the song. Of my remixes, this one is probably my favorite. --- Track: Davesprite 3 Artists: @@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - One day i was just listening to [[track:davesprite|“Davesprite”]] by Toby Fox and i was trying to recreate the opening drums. Since i always wanted to remix Davesprite i decided to just lay down the main melody too and remix the song. This song probably took longest to make, not because it was harder than the rest, but because it kept being edited. The first time was because i messed up some notes and pitching, the i removed some parts for no reason which i ended up adding back later. Then i got some disc scratch samples from [[artist:erik-scheele|Erik Scheele]] that sounded really cool so i added those in, that took a while to get decent too. And still with this version i’m not 100% satisfied but it’ll do. And the name is “Davesprite 3” because there’s an unused song by Erik Scheele called [[track:davesprite2|“Davesprite 2”]] so i just followed up after that. + One day i was just listening to [[“Davesprite”]] by Toby Fox and i was trying to recreate the opening drums. Since i always wanted to remix Davesprite i decided to just lay down the main melody too and remix the song. This song probably took longest to make, not because it was harder than the rest, but because it kept being edited. The first time was because i messed up some notes and pitching, the i removed some parts for no reason which i ended up adding back later. Then i got some disc scratch samples from [[artist:erik-scheele|Erik Scheele]] that sounded really cool so i added those in, that took a while to get decent too. And still with this version i’m not 100% satisfied but it’ll do. And the name is “Davesprite 3” because there’s an unused song by Erik Scheele called [[track:davesprite2|“Davesprite 2”]] so i just followed up after that. --- Track: Between Mediums Artists: @@ -644,7 +644,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - I Wanted to see what would happen if a mashed up [[track:cascade-beta|cascade]] and [[track:freefall|freefall]]. Also there is a little bit of [[track:interstellar-p-s|interstellar]] in there for good measure. I hope y’all enjoy songs about the 3 year journey Between Mediums lol. + I Wanted to see what would happen if a mashed up [[track:cascade-beta|cascade]] and [[freefall]]. Also there is a little bit of [[track:interstellar-p-s|interstellar]] in there for good measure. I hope y’all enjoy songs about the 3 year journey Between Mediums lol. --- Track: Lovely and Saccharine Artists: @@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - This track was actually a commission for a fantroll theme. I basically just based the entire song off one motif that i used from Lust, the rest of the song was based off the track [[track:virgin-orb|“Virgin Orb”]] by Toby Fox. I promised 2 commissioners that i would use their fantroll themes in STLaP 2 and [[track:i-warned-you-about-the-elevator-bro|i did]]. I’m kinda glad i did too because i really like the songs. + This track was actually a commission for a fantroll theme. I basically just based the entire song off one motif that i used from Lust, the rest of the song was based off the track [[“Virgin Orb”]] by Toby Fox. I promised 2 commissioners that i would use their fantroll themes in STLaP 2 and [[track:i-warned-you-about-the-elevator-bro|i did]]. I’m kinda glad i did too because i really like the songs. <i>The Paradox Music Team:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20220317221220/https://pascalpotatovandenbos.bandcamp.com/track/lovely-and-saccharine)) @@ -685,7 +685,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (album team, booklet commentary) - Spad3s sadly didn’t wanna write commentary on this song which is a shame so I’ll try my best in his place lmao. So in short this remix really breathes new life into [[track:black|Black]] and as a whole adds enough to the base composition to make something unique. Also Spad3s, buddy, you gotta get over your Black addiction. <!-- no signature in booklet --> + Spad3s sadly didn’t wanna write commentary on this song which is a shame so I’ll try my best in his place lmao. So in short this remix really breathes new life into [[Black]] and as a whole adds enough to the base composition to make something unique. Also Spad3s, buddy, you gotta get over your Black addiction. <!-- no signature in booklet --> --- Track: An Orange-Blue Rose Additional Names: @@ -709,11 +709,11 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - Based off yet another meaningless >ibraphone session, but I guess those stick in your head vvhen you ha<e nothing to do but play randomly for a hour e<ery Monday through Friday. It vvas another one I found pretty fun to make, especially vvith the subtle [[track:heir-of-grief|Heir of Grief]] and [[track:candles-and-clockwork|Candles and Clockvvork]]-based bits a little near the end. + Based off yet another meaningless >ibraphone session, but I guess those stick in your head vvhen you ha<e nothing to do but play randomly for a hour e<ery Monday through Friday. It vvas another one I found pretty fun to make, especially vvith the subtle [[Heir of Grief]] and [[track:candles-and-clockwork|Candles and Clockvvork]]-based bits a little near the end. <i>Beau Brian:</i> (composer, booklet commentary, quirk-free) - Based off yet another meaningless vibraphone session, but I guess those stick in your head when you have nothing to do but play randomly for a hour every Monday through Friday. It was another one I found pretty fun to make, especially with the subtle [[track:heir-of-grief|Heir of Grief]] and [[track:candles-and-clockwork|Candles and Clockwork]]-based bits a little near the end. + Based off yet another meaningless vibraphone session, but I guess those stick in your head when you have nothing to do but play randomly for a hour every Monday through Friday. It was another one I found pretty fun to make, especially with the subtle [[Heir of Grief]] and [[Candles and Clockwork]]-based bits a little near the end. --- Track: Artificial Extortion Artists: @@ -757,7 +757,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - I had the idea for for a jazzy version of [[track:cascade-beta|“Cascade”]] for a while. As I started making however, it slowly but surly turned into a remix of [[track:flare-cascade-cut|“Flare (Cascade Cut).”]] I also added a little bit of [[track:liquid-negrocity|“Liquid Negrocity”]] for added jazziness. I’m pretty sure that this song sucks at being jazz but is pretty alright in being a song. + I had the idea for for a jazzy version of [[track:cascade-beta|“Cascade”]] for a while. As I started making however, it slowly but surly turned into a remix of [[“Flare (Cascade Cut).”]] I also added a little bit of [[“Liquid Negrocity”]] for added jazziness. I’m pretty sure that this song sucks at being jazz but is pretty alright in being a song. --- Track: Land of the Sharpest Shale Artists: @@ -867,7 +867,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - So ever since I first heard [[track:moonsong|Moonsong]] I’ve wanted to mix it in with [[track:doctor|Doctor]], what you hear on the album is roughly my 4th attempt at making this dream a reality. I’m quite happy with how the song turned out and how well I was able to blend in and sorta balance the melodies of both songs. In conclusion CaveStory’s great and Homestuck’s great nuff said. + So ever since I first heard [[Moonsong]] I’ve wanted to mix it in with [[Doctor]], what you hear on the album is roughly my 4th attempt at making this dream a reality. I’m quite happy with how the song turned out and how well I was able to blend in and sorta balance the melodies of both songs. In conclusion CaveStory’s great and Homestuck’s great nuff said. --- Track: At the Strike of Three Artists: @@ -1183,7 +1183,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - Wish Upon a Firefly was made right after [[artist:buzinkai|Usagi Buzinkai]] unfortunately passed away, i wanted to make a tribute song and there was no better track than [[track:doctor|Doctor]]. I tried making it a more upbeat hero version of Doctor. In my opinion i could never get doctor right whenever i tried remixing it but this definitely worked out well. + Wish Upon a Firefly was made right after [[artist:buzinkai|Usagi Buzinkai]] unfortunately passed away, i wanted to make a tribute song and there was no better track than [[Doctor]]. I tried making it a more upbeat hero version of Doctor. In my opinion i could never get doctor right whenever i tried remixing it but this definitely worked out well. <i>The Paradox Music Team:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20220317221229/https://pascalpotatovandenbos.bandcamp.com/track/wish-upon-a-firefly)) @@ -1207,7 +1207,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - So I had this idea for doing solo album in the style of [[album:strife|strife]] and [[album:strife-2|strife 2]]. One of the song ideas I had for the album was remix of the song [[track:temporal-virtuoso|“Temporal Virtuoso”]] by PB. I eventually decided against doing that in favor of different solo album idea, but I still wanted to do a remix of the song. I tried my best to create an [[artist:rj-lake|RJ Lake]] style remix, chopping up various sections of the song and stitching them together. I even added a reference to [[track:perfect-cascade-of-the-heart|“Perfect Cascade of the heart”]] by Tensei. I’m pretty satisfied with how this turned out and I hope you enjoy. ([[album:p-s|P.[S].]] You guys gotta start remixing more strife 2 songs. The album will be out 2 years by the time you read this and the lack of remixes is disappointing.) + So I had this idea for doing solo album in the style of [[album:strife|strife]] and [[album:strife-2|strife 2]]. One of the song ideas I had for the album was remix of the song [[“Temporal Virtuoso”]] by PB. I eventually decided against doing that in favor of different solo album idea, but I still wanted to do a remix of the song. I tried my best to create an [[artist:rj-lake|RJ Lake]] style remix, chopping up various sections of the song and stitching them together. I even added a reference to [[“Perfect Cascade of the heart”]] by Tensei. I’m pretty satisfied with how this turned out and I hope you enjoy. ([[album:p-s|P.[S].]] You guys gotta start remixing more strife 2 songs. The album will be out 2 years by the time you read this and the lack of remixes is disappointing.) --- Section: Disc 4 --- @@ -1328,7 +1328,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (co-composer, booklet commentary) - Rowyn and i wanted to do a collab song for a while and here we finally got to it. This took a while to make (mainly because i wasnt hurrying up with my part oops) but we got it done so hell ye. I produced Rowyn’s part so it would fit better with mine, after that i started working on my part, i just tried to make another song that had a lot of leitmotifs in it. I was also really into Hotline Miami at the time so it has [[track:its-safe-now|some of that]] in it too. I’m also proud of the [[track:oppa-toby-style|Oppa Toby Style]] reference since i haven’t seen many songs that use that anywhere. As for the name uhh, it’s a horrible mess but it’s also kinda funny, one of the artists suggested it and we just kinda went with it?? yeah. + Rowyn and i wanted to do a collab song for a while and here we finally got to it. This took a while to make (mainly because i wasnt hurrying up with my part oops) but we got it done so hell ye. I produced Rowyn’s part so it would fit better with mine, after that i started working on my part, i just tried to make another song that had a lot of leitmotifs in it. I was also really into Hotline Miami at the time so it has [[track:its-safe-now|some of that]] in it too. I’m also proud of the [[Oppa Toby Style]] reference since i haven’t seen many songs that use that anywhere. As for the name uhh, it’s a horrible mess but it’s also kinda funny, one of the artists suggested it and we just kinda went with it?? yeah. <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (co-composer, booklet commentary) @@ -1385,7 +1385,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - I’ve wanted to remix [[track:an-orange-blue-rose|“An Orange Blue Rose”]] since i first heard it, and here i finally got around to doing so. I tried to make some sort of [[track:savior-of-the-waking-world|SOTWW]] style Orchestral remix of AOBR. I think it worked pretty well, i’m most proud of the intro which is a mix of epic bitcrush effects and a recording i made of the wind outside my house when they were burning stuff at an energy plant. + I’ve wanted to remix [[“An Orange Blue Rose”]] since i first heard it, and here i finally got around to doing so. I tried to make some sort of [[track:savior-of-the-waking-world|SOTWW]] style Orchestral remix of AOBR. I think it worked pretty well, i’m most proud of the intro which is a mix of epic bitcrush effects and a recording i made of the wind outside my house when they were burning stuff at an energy plant. --- Track: Lifesaver Suffix Directory: true @@ -1409,7 +1409,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - Check the commentary for [[track:minuteman|“Minuteman”]] the full context, but this song is from an old solo album idea. Originally this song was going to have a bunch more references to Jane songs (I.E [[track:cyan-beast|Cyan Beast]], [[track:jane-dargason|Jane Dargason]], Etc), but I decided against this. The reason for this is that I felt like most of the songs I did for this album did not have enough of my own original composition and relied too heavily on references. So I decided to merge the references I had already planned with some original writing. I kept the references to [[track:first-steps|“First Steps”]] by David Ellis and added a reference to an unreleased song called [[track:crock-n-roll|Crock N’ Roll]] by RJ Lake. As my last song for the album, I’m pretty proud of this one and I hope you enjoy. + Check the commentary for [[“Minuteman”]] the full context, but this song is from an old solo album idea. Originally this song was going to have a bunch more references to Jane songs (I.E [[Cyan Beast]], [[Jane Dargason]], Etc), but I decided against this. The reason for this is that I felt like most of the songs I did for this album did not have enough of my own original composition and relied too heavily on references. So I decided to merge the references I had already planned with some original writing. I kept the references to [[“First Steps”]] by David Ellis and added a reference to an unreleased song called [[Crock N’ Roll]] by RJ Lake. As my last song for the album, I’m pretty proud of this one and I hope you enjoy. --- Track: Contentment Suffix Directory: true @@ -1486,7 +1486,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - A while before i made this i asked [[artist:erik-scheele|Jit]] if he still has the disc scratches from a bunch of his songs. Later i noticed that these were also used in [[track:time-on-my-side|Time on My Side]] by Tensei, so since u had them i wanted to make a 16-bit cover of Time on My Side using the disc scratches. Just seemed like a fun idea. + A while before i made this i asked [[artist:erik-scheele|Jit]] if he still has the disc scratches from a bunch of his songs. Later i noticed that these were also used in [[Time on My Side]] by Tensei, so since u had them i wanted to make a 16-bit cover of Time on My Side using the disc scratches. Just seemed like a fun idea. --- Track: Saxslammer Additional Names: @@ -1515,7 +1515,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Commentary: |- <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - This song started as a joke, i was gonna do a remix of [[track:sunslammer|Sunslammer]] using only DVS-Sax but i got distracted and remixed it properly while still using DVS-Sax as the main lead. The name was chosen in a poll on the PMT Discord server, some names were listed and voted on, Saxslammer was suggested by [[artist:rowyn-berlan|Rowyn Berlan]]. + This song started as a joke, i was gonna do a remix of [[Sunslammer]] using only DVS-Sax but i got distracted and remixed it properly while still using DVS-Sax as the main lead. The name was chosen in a poll on the PMT Discord server, some names were listed and voted on, Saxslammer was suggested by [[artist:rowyn-berlan|Rowyn Berlan]]. --- Track: Autonomous Autumn Artists: @@ -1640,7 +1640,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - This song's commentary is going to get a little serious. After doing [[track:spritely-gardener|Spritely Gardener]], I wanted to do another song for the album. I had a bunch of stuff started but I just never had the energy to finish them. One of the ideas was a massive multi movement homestuck medley referencing all the beta kids' land theme. But like the other WIPs, I couldn't bring myself to work on it more. This went on until some time in early November. In November, I learned that [[artist:buzinkai|George Buzinkai]], Creator of homestuck songs like [[track:doctor|"Doctor"]] and [[track:endless-climb|"Endless Climb"]], had passed away. I was felt a profound sense of grief at her death. Some time passed, and I wanted to do something to commemorate her memory. So I decided to give my old project file another shot and that how "A Happy Ending" was created. I wanted to create something that embodied how much Homestuck and it's musicians meant to me. Is it perfect? No, it has a lot of issues and is overly long (Sorry [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos|Pb]]). But I think it is something conveys the monumental impact that homestuck had on my life. + This song's commentary is going to get a little serious. After doing [[track:spritely-gardener|Spritely Gardener]], I wanted to do another song for the album. I had a bunch of stuff started but I just never had the energy to finish them. One of the ideas was a massive multi movement homestuck medley referencing all the beta kids' land theme. But like the other WIPs, I couldn't bring myself to work on it more. This went on until some time in early November. In November, I learned that [[artist:buzinkai|George Buzinkai]], Creator of homestuck songs like [["Doctor"]] and [["Endless Climb"]], had passed away. I was felt a profound sense of grief at her death. Some time passed, and I wanted to do something to commemorate her memory. So I decided to give my old project file another shot and that how "A Happy Ending" was created. I wanted to create something that embodied how much Homestuck and it's musicians meant to me. Is it perfect? No, it has a lot of issues and is overly long (Sorry [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos|Pb]]). But I think it is something conveys the monumental impact that homestuck had on my life. --- Section: Bonus track --- diff --git a/album/stlap3.yaml b/album/stlap3.yaml index 7cb07126..ba94c78a 100644 --- a/album/stlap3.yaml +++ b/album/stlap3.yaml @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - I never really liked [[Mituna's Theme]] from BeforusBound ever since i just finished it, in my opinion i left in way too many mixing issues and i didn't really like the composition too crazy much. I wanted it to be way more upbeat and to have cooler instruments etc, i wasnt able to do this in the original cause i was using FL Studio 20 and sforzando which is just the worst soundfont player ever which is kinda also why the pitch bending in Mituna's theme is so horrid. There's also this extremely nasty cut near the end of it because it crashed and i basically just glued 2 parts together. Anyway enough rambling about that song, gee i sure do hate my own songs huh. For Dual Voltage i used a lot of the same instruments from [[track:the-la2t-frontiier|the La2t Frontiier]], i also referenced it in there. Overall the composition became way fuller and the mixing is a little bit better too, im also really happy with that shamisen solo i thought that was really cool. And for references other than Mituna's theme and the La2t Frontiier, i threw in one of the pmt's most referenced songs [[Fate of the Heir]] and [[Perxenic Highlands]] because Fate of the Heir fits really well for obvious reasons and we had just finished Perxenic when i started working on this song so i wanted to reference it somewhere, and it came out really cool and epic sounding luckily! + I never really liked [[Mituna's Theme]] from BeforusBound ever since i just finished it, in my opinion i left in way too many mixing issues and i didn't really like the composition too crazy much. I wanted it to be way more upbeat and to have cooler instruments etc, i wasnt able to do this in the original cause i was using FL Studio 20 and sforzando which is just the worst soundfont player ever which is kinda also why the pitch bending in Mituna's theme is so horrid. There's also this extremely nasty cut near the end of it because it crashed and i basically just glued 2 parts together. Anyway enough rambling about that song, gee i sure do hate my own songs huh. For Dual Voltage i used a lot of the same instruments from [[the La2t Frontiier]], i also referenced it in there. Overall the composition became way fuller and the mixing is a little bit better too, im also really happy with that shamisen solo i thought that was really cool. And for references other than Mituna's theme and the La2t Frontiier, i threw in one of the pmt's most referenced songs [[Fate of the Heir]] and [[Perxenic Highlands]] because Fate of the Heir fits really well for obvious reasons and we had just finished Perxenic when i started working on this song so i wanted to reference it somewhere, and it came out really cool and epic sounding luckily! --- Track: Cardioscillate Artists: @@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - So this was the hardest song to bring together for stlap 3. I had started and stopped working on this 4 times during the development of STLaP 3. As for the song itself, there really isn't much to say aside I wanted to make a proper [[track:doctor|doctor]] remix. You can't really calll yourself a homestuck fan musician if you haven't remixed doctor at least once lol. + So this was the hardest song to bring together for stlap 3. I had started and stopped working on this 4 times during the development of STLaP 3. As for the song itself, there really isn't much to say aside I wanted to make a proper [[doctor]] remix. You can't really calll yourself a homestuck fan musician if you haven't remixed doctor at least once lol. --- Section: Disc 2 --- @@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - Alright so I have quite a bit to say about this track. A last year the PMT put out [our earthbound album](https://pascalpotatovandenbos.bandcamp.com/album/whats-your-favorite-song-earthbound-2019), which was a fun little break from our usual homestuck music thing. I wrote a song on that album called [[track:diamond-dust|"Diamond Dust"]] that quickly became one of my favorite songs I had written at the time. Shortly after the album came out I had the desire make a proper follow up to that track. Sometime later, I was improving on the piano and got this really nice sounding chord progression that made me think of snow. I was looking for an idea at the time for STLaP 3 at the time, so I made this my last song for the album. During the process of writing this song, I had the idea of remixing "Diamond Dust" into this, effectively making Snowfall the a sequel to that song. Overall I'm pretty proud how this turned out and I'm glad I got to make the follow up I wanted. + Alright so I have quite a bit to say about this track. A last year the PMT put out [our earthbound album](https://pascalpotatovandenbos.bandcamp.com/album/whats-your-favorite-song-earthbound-2019), which was a fun little break from our usual homestuck music thing. I wrote a song on that album called [["Diamond Dust"]] that quickly became one of my favorite songs I had written at the time. Shortly after the album came out I had the desire make a proper follow up to that track. Sometime later, I was improving on the piano and got this really nice sounding chord progression that made me think of snow. I was looking for an idea at the time for STLaP 3 at the time, so I made this my last song for the album. During the process of writing this song, I had the idea of remixing "Diamond Dust" into this, effectively making Snowfall the a sequel to that song. Overall I'm pretty proud how this turned out and I'm glad I got to make the follow up I wanted. --- Track: Unite Synchronization - Spad3s Glitch Hop Remix Artists: @@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Spad3s:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - This one is probably my favorite one of the 5, and I have to mention that when asking for commentary advice I was told "Spades you could talk about how you don't know [[artist:malcolm-brown|malcolm brown]] and yet remix [[track:unite-synchronization|unite synchronization]] which is by him lmao" so,, I guess thats a thing + This one is probably my favorite one of the 5, and I have to mention that when asking for commentary advice I was told "Spades you could talk about how you don't know [[artist:malcolm-brown|malcolm brown]] and yet remix [[unite synchronization]] which is by him lmao" so,, I guess thats a thing starting is really chill, I like building atmosphere and i think it can really make or break a song, choosing the right reverb sounds and settings, making the compressions the right amount of crushing, etc. designing desigining the electronic yet kind of organic pads was also fun, but then the real fun starts. @@ -721,7 +721,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Spad3s:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - whoooooooooooo whe this one had a lot of thought put into it. I went in knowing a lot of people who picked up [[track:moonsetter|moonsetter]] had done lofi, so i knew i had to do something different, and my first go to was quick chord and key changes, giving it the very intense jazzy feel, wrapped up in the standard lofi palette + whoooooooooooo whe this one had a lot of thought put into it. I went in knowing a lot of people who picked up [[moonsetter]] had done lofi, so i knew i had to do something different, and my first go to was quick chord and key changes, giving it the very intense jazzy feel, wrapped up in the standard lofi palette This commentary is gonna be mostly analysis of my own song so, if you're not into music theory you can uhh... look away?? Mind you, most if not all of these chords have other extensions in their voicings like add2 and add4 and add6 etc, so i mostly won't be pointing those out, as i don't want every chord to look like a clusterfuck @@ -880,9 +880,9 @@ Commentary: |- This track its about caliborn/lord english and his life in the comci as a paradox that loops (but this song doesn't loop because it would be boring) - How i did it? well, i tried to represent most of the tracks i could related to the character, in a narrative way. starting with a melancholic piano representing [[track:eternity-served-cold|eternity served cold]], mostly to the entirety of the comic where lil cal where allways there to complete the loop with everything about doc scratch etc etc. + How i did it? well, i tried to represent most of the tracks i could related to the character, in a narrative way. starting with a melancholic piano representing [[eternity served cold]], mostly to the entirety of the comic where lil cal where allways there to complete the loop with everything about doc scratch etc etc. - after that we go to the section that represents the final battle in homestuck (the part that goes crazy its a reference to [[track:oppa-toby-style|oppa toby style]].. in style lol), and when the rock/metal Part ends we got to the part that i decided to go full orchestra that represents how caliborn gets his sould (and others too) into lil cal, and the loops BEGINS (thats why i decided to do again the start of the rock part with a sound clip in reverse of the preivous part before that) + after that we go to the section that represents the final battle in homestuck (the part that goes crazy its a reference to [[oppa toby style]].. in style lol), and when the rock/metal Part ends we got to the part that i decided to go full orchestra that represents how caliborn gets his sould (and others too) into lil cal, and the loops BEGINS (thats why i decided to do again the start of the rock part with a sound clip in reverse of the preivous part before that) As my first track here in the \*paradox music team\* i'm really proud with this. and i hope everyone likes it :D Review Points: @@ -1013,7 +1013,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Caelan Kier:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - I couldn't get [[track:cascade-beta|Cascade]] out of my head so I kinda had to make this, then I sorta kept going and going then ended up with the full song. The cringe guitar you hear in the background was my own actual recording. Just before I made this song I tried to learn the starting chords for Cascade just 'cause, then I recorded it, that was actually the first thing I did to start this remix. Oh yeah I can't tell why of all things I decided to reference [[track:spider8ite|Spider8ite!]] in this but I did. + I couldn't get [[track:cascade-beta|Cascade]] out of my head so I kinda had to make this, then I sorta kept going and going then ended up with the full song. The cringe guitar you hear in the background was my own actual recording. Just before I made this song I tried to learn the starting chords for Cascade just 'cause, then I recorded it, that was actually the first thing I did to start this remix. Oh yeah I can't tell why of all things I decided to reference [[Spider8ite!]] in this but I did. --- Track: Soft as the Clouds Artists: diff --git a/album/strife-2.yaml b/album/strife-2.yaml index d8551bbc..836c829a 100644 --- a/album/strife-2.yaml +++ b/album/strife-2.yaml @@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Tensei:</i> ([Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20180930224140/http://tenseimusic.tumblr.com/post/17709451675)) - If you bought [[album:homestuck-vol-7|Homestuck volume 7]], you might be familiar with the bonus track I did on there, [[track:white-host-green-room|“White Host/Green Room”]], which had this garbled cameo of several Homestuck songs in the intro. If that’s the case, this song might sound familiar because it actually appeared in there for a bit. + If you bought [[album:homestuck-vol-7|Homestuck volume 7]], you might be familiar with the bonus track I did on there, [[“White Host/Green Room”]], which had this garbled cameo of several Homestuck songs in the intro. If that’s the case, this song might sound familiar because it actually appeared in there for a bit. Its full name is “The King in Red”, and its supposed to be this weird pseudo-classical apocalyptic black metal remix of [[Karkat's Theme]]. The reason I never finished this up is because I was pretty dissatisfied with the choir samples, which simply weren’t up to the task. diff --git a/album/stuck-funkin-demo-ost.yaml b/album/stuck-funkin-demo-ost.yaml index fbac3af2..4abbeb52 100644 --- a/album/stuck-funkin-demo-ost.yaml +++ b/album/stuck-funkin-demo-ost.yaml @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ URLs: - https://soundcloud.com/fnf-stuck-funking-account/garrystuck Commentary: |- <i>Jukdo:</i> ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/fnf-stuck-funking-account/garrystuck)) - [[track:karkalicious|karkalicious]] vowels were used for karkat vowels and [BabyFawnLegs gmod models](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=104498895) were used + [[karkalicious]] vowels were used for karkat vowels and [BabyFawnLegs gmod models](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=104498895) were used --- Track: Garrystuck instrumental Duration: 1:12 diff --git a/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1.yaml b/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1.yaml index 7bb65f8e..4b276f4f 100644 --- a/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1.yaml +++ b/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1.yaml @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ URLs: - https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/track/sburban-echo Commentary: |- <i>rj lake:</i> ([Tumblr pre-release preview](https://www.tumblr.com/spellmynamewithabang/142447358778/heres-something-you-havent-heard-yet-this-is), excerpt) - Here’s something you haven’t heard yet! This is Sburban Echo, a Lord English track formerly from [[album:the-felt|The Felt]], then reworked for [[album:homestuck-vol-9|Volume 9]] to be more akin to, like, <i>yo, what if [[track:sburban-jungle|Sburban Jungle]] was written for the Dead Session?</i> but unfinished, then here now it’s not unfinished anymore, it’s done and fancy for an[ album I’m releasing on 4/13 for $13.43](https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1-years-in-the-past) that you can pre-order now for <i>$9.87</i>. + Here’s something you haven’t heard yet! This is Sburban Echo, a Lord English track formerly from [[album:the-felt|The Felt]], then reworked for [[album:homestuck-vol-9|Volume 9]] to be more akin to, like, <i>yo, what if [[Sburban Jungle]] was written for the Dead Session?</i> but unfinished, then here now it’s not unfinished anymore, it’s done and fancy for an[ album I’m releasing on 4/13 for $13.43](https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1-years-in-the-past) that you can pre-order now for <i>$9.87</i>. --- Track: Entangled With the Void Duration: 02:43 @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ URLs: - https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/track/listen-to-the-lovely-weather Commentary: |- <i>rj lake:</i> ([Tumblr pre-release preview](https://www.tumblr.com/spellmynamewithabang/141959324318/its-a-new-day-and-that-new-day-contains-a-new), excerpt) - It’s a new day, and that new day contains a new song preview for [Stuckhome Syndrome P1V1](https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1-years-in-the-past); this is the first minute and a half of <i>Listen to the Lovely Weather</i>, one of the tracks I wrote and produced for <i>[[album:the-felt|The Felt]]</i>. There were a few more than the ones that made it on to that album and later ones (like [[track:afraid-of-the-darko|Afraid of the Darko]] and [[track:everything-is-something-to-somebody|Everything is Something to Somebody]]) and those are all on here (including a better version of Afraid of the Darko done for [[album:homestuck-vol-8|Volume 8]] that…didn’t get on, because it was finished too last-minute). + It’s a new day, and that new day contains a new song preview for [Stuckhome Syndrome P1V1](https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1-years-in-the-past); this is the first minute and a half of <i>Listen to the Lovely Weather</i>, one of the tracks I wrote and produced for <i>[[album:the-felt|The Felt]]</i>. There were a few more than the ones that made it on to that album and later ones (like [[Afraid of the Darko]] and [[Everything is Something to Somebody]]) and those are all on here (including a better version of Afraid of the Darko done for [[album:homestuck-vol-8|Volume 8]] that…didn’t get on, because it was finished too last-minute). This one was one I was always a little sad didn’t make it onto the album proper because it’s so jovial; <i>The Felt</i> doesn’t have a lot of major key work on it, and to capture that feel of a weird time concert I wanted to have some stuff that was a bit hopeful and tuneful, too, with acoustic guitar noodling and bright piano and stuff. This is probably the most upbeat track I wrote for <i>The Felt;</i> it’s also one of my favorites. Hope it’ll be one of yours, too! --- Track: It's Been a Long Time @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>rj lake:</i> ([Tumblr pre-release preview](https://www.tumblr.com/spellmynamewithabang/141865610108/homestuck-updated-today-for-the-first-time-in), excerpt) Homestuck updated today for the first time in MONTHS. Crazy, right? Celebrate with another preview track for [Stuckhome Syndrome Part 1 V1: Years in the Past!](https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1-years-in-the-past) (Still out 4/13, the day the comic ends forever. It’s been seven years, can you believe that?) - Thisn’s a redo I started a while back of <i>Heir Transparent</i>, without any of the material from [[track:doctor|Doctor]] (just the stuff I added for my mix). So it’s a rearrangement of a remix that’s 2x removed from the source, now? god this title is dumb but whatever i still love it + Thisn’s a redo I started a while back of <i>Heir Transparent</i>, without any of the material from [[Doctor]] (just the stuff I added for my mix). So it’s a rearrangement of a remix that’s 2x removed from the source, now? god this title is dumb but whatever i still love it I might add strings, <i>says me about every song now I guess</i>. This would sound <i>great</i> with strings, though, so I will most likely! do that --- Track: Battle Theme for the Lost at Heart @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ URLs: - https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/track/battle-theme-for-the-lost-at-heart Commentary: |- <i>rj lake:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/spellmynamewithabang/140421474563/pre-order-post-mortem), excerpt) - See the above [[track:instructions-on-how-to-fix-the-future|(Instructions on How to Fix the Future)]] for the context; a lot of themes of going against hopeless odds show up in Homestuck, anyway, and that’s one of my favorite themes to write for, in any guise (see also [[track:curb-stomp-the-finale-remotivate-yourself|Curb Stomp the Finale]], which is…not on this pre order). This kept more of the PSG/OPM Sega chip stuff in the current version, but I felt like the chorus needed more thump and less rump, so I gave it a dubstep bounce. This is not my area of expertise but it was <i>really fun</i> to put together even if I ended up having to export the chain through Maximus and import it back in as a sample to get the crushed dynamics without ruining the rest of the track. + See the above [[(Instructions on How to Fix the Future)]] for the context; a lot of themes of going against hopeless odds show up in Homestuck, anyway, and that’s one of my favorite themes to write for, in any guise (see also [[track:curb-stomp-the-finale-remotivate-yourself|Curb Stomp the Finale]], which is…not on this pre order). This kept more of the PSG/OPM Sega chip stuff in the current version, but I felt like the chorus needed more thump and less rump, so I gave it a dubstep bounce. This is not my area of expertise but it was <i>really fun</i> to put together even if I ended up having to export the chain through Maximus and import it back in as a sample to get the crushed dynamics without ruining the rest of the track. --- Track: Instructions on How to Fix the Future Duration: 02:59 @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ URLs: - https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/track/instructions-on-how-to-fix-the-future Commentary: |- <i>rj lake:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/spellmynamewithabang/140421474563/pre-order-post-mortem), excerpt) - Like [[track:crock-n-roll|Crock n’ Roll]], this is an Alpha kid thing; I think I wrote it right after the Scratch? The original, also like Crock n’ Roll, was all PSG and OPM before I touched it up. Quite successfully, I think, too; this is my second favorite of the ones here. The bassline was really fun to write; I haven’t really done much stuff this funky before! + Like [[Crock n’ Roll]], this is an Alpha kid thing; I think I wrote it right after the Scratch? The original, also like Crock n’ Roll, was all PSG and OPM before I touched it up. Quite successfully, I think, too; this is my second favorite of the ones here. The bassline was really fun to write; I haven’t really done much stuff this funky before! --- Track: Null/Void Duration: 03:32 @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>rj lake:</i> ([Tumblr pre-release preview](https://www.tumblr.com/spellmynamewithabang/142512923308/if-you-havent-recently-checked-or-somehow-dont), excerpt) If you haven’t recently checked or somehow don’t know about [my upcoming 4/13 album](https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1-years-in-the-past) of songs I wrote for Homestuck while I (and the rest of the music team, honestly) were way more active, you should do that! The album is $13.43 on release but only $9.87 now, so [pre order while you still can!](https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/album/stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1-years-in-the-past) oh also that purchase will entitle you to <i><b>four hundred and thirteen</b></i> songs, no biggie - I updated it with a bunch of things people haven’t heard, including this, <i>Unsoftly</i>, which is a track that is not <i>[[track:softly|Softly]]</i>, and you’re pretty sure never quite sounded like <i>Softly</i>, but is probably related in some way, you think. And you’d be right, because that’s the point + I updated it with a bunch of things people haven’t heard, including this, <i>Unsoftly</i>, which is a track that is not <i>[[Softly]]</i>, and you’re pretty sure never quite sounded like <i>Softly</i>, but is probably related in some way, you think. And you’d be right, because that’s the point Jade was always probably my favorite character (Dave and John very close seconds) and though I tended to make songs that were super major key happy tunes, this was an attempt to explore her darker, weirder side. She’s all smiles most of the time but she’s also kind of fucked up if you think about it? --- Track: TEAM_HeIR_sburb_beta_v.01_fully_cracked.rar @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ URLs: - https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/track/team-heir-sburb-beta-v-01-fully-cracked-rar Commentary: |- <i>rj lake:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/spellmynamewithabang/140421474563/pre-order-post-mortem), excerpt) - The above [[track:team-heir-sburb-alpha-v06-fully-cracked-rar|(TEAM_HeIR_sburb_alpha_v.06_fully_cracked.rar)]] was actually a section of this track I could never quite figure out how to incorporate, so I just split them. The idea here was pretty dumb, but it’s just “what if sburb was pirated? what would the keygen music sound like?” That’s what this is, it’s Homestuck keygen music. Pitched it for [[album:homestuck-vol-5|volume 5]] to no avail. + The above [[(TEAM_HeIR_sburb_alpha_v.06_fully_cracked.rar)]] was actually a section of this track I could never quite figure out how to incorporate, so I just split them. The idea here was pretty dumb, but it’s just “what if sburb was pirated? what would the keygen music sound like?” That’s what this is, it’s Homestuck keygen music. Pitched it for [[album:homestuck-vol-5|volume 5]] to no avail. --- Track: Jadestep Duration: 03:24 @@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ Directory: team-heir-sburb-alpha-v06-fully-cracked-rar Duration: 01:21 Commentary: |- <i>rj lake:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/spellmynamewithabang/140421474563/pre-order-post-mortem), excerpt) - This actually makes more sense if I talk about it with… [[track:team-heir-sburb-beta-v01-fully-cracked-rar|(TEAM_HeIR_sburb_beta_v.01_fully_cracked.rar)]] + This actually makes more sense if I talk about it with… [[(TEAM_HeIR_sburb_beta_v.01_fully_cracked.rar)]] --- Track: Stardust Speedcore Duration: 02:01 @@ -453,25 +453,25 @@ Track: P.S. Duration: 02:46 Commentary: |- <i>rj lake:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/spellmynamewithabang/140421474563/pre-order-post-mortem), excerpt) - Another [[album:the-wanderers|Wanderers]] castoff, this time about that one cute mail lady (hence the title). The production on it was fairly minimal; the spacious drums are new. I might fiddle with it a bit more but this one might get shoved past track 43 on the final, as with… [[track:lovetred|(Lovetred)]] + Another [[album:the-wanderers|Wanderers]] castoff, this time about that one cute mail lady (hence the title). The production on it was fairly minimal; the spacious drums are new. I might fiddle with it a bit more but this one might get shoved past track 43 on the final, as with… [[(Lovetred)]] --- Track: Lovetred Duration: 02:29 Commentary: |- <i>rj lake:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/spellmynamewithabang/140421474563/pre-order-post-mortem), excerpt) - Embarassingly, I don’t actually totally remember the context for this one (I think it’s a troll romance thing; there are a lot of incidents though where my themes got pretty loose, even in tracks that made it onto albums. I’ll be the first to admit, for instance, that [[track:whistling-jackhammer|Whistling Jackhammer]] is almost more inspired by Hussie’s earlier comic Whistles (hence the title) than Homestuck), but I do know that I reused the title for a game concept I had a few years later I never really went public with. Either way, it’s probably getting moved past track 43 as well; it’s good, and I’m proud of it, (the melodies are very inspired by George & Jonathan, which is a favorite group of mine) but it doesn’t quite feel right where it is. It’s finished, though, as is. A weirdo, for sure. + Embarassingly, I don’t actually totally remember the context for this one (I think it’s a troll romance thing; there are a lot of incidents though where my themes got pretty loose, even in tracks that made it onto albums. I’ll be the first to admit, for instance, that [[Whistling Jackhammer]] is almost more inspired by Hussie’s earlier comic Whistles (hence the title) than Homestuck), but I do know that I reused the title for a game concept I had a few years later I never really went public with. Either way, it’s probably getting moved past track 43 as well; it’s good, and I’m proud of it, (the melodies are very inspired by George & Jonathan, which is a favorite group of mine) but it doesn’t quite feel right where it is. It’s finished, though, as is. A weirdo, for sure. --- Track: Pleasant/Pressure Duration: 03:02 Commentary: |- <i>rj lake:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/spellmynamewithabang/140421474563/pre-order-post-mortem), excerpt) - This grew out of a [[album:cherubim|Cherubim]] draft; it’s much expanded upon here since that file, which is mostly just the main melody and bassline. I abandoned it in favor of [[track:stellarum-salve|Stellarum Salve]] early on, but I like how it turned out at this point. + This grew out of a [[album:cherubim|Cherubim]] draft; it’s much expanded upon here since that file, which is mostly just the main melody and bassline. I abandoned it in favor of [[Stellarum Salve]] early on, but I like how it turned out at this point. --- Track: Of Magic Towers, Swords, and Sorcery Duration: 03:09 Commentary: |- <i>rj lake:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/spellmynamewithabang/140421474563/pre-order-post-mortem), excerpt) - Aaaaah! I consider this kind of a pair with [[track:biophosphoradelecrystalluminescence|Biophosphoradelecrystalluminescence]] in terms of aural space, but this was a Jade album castoff, as are three others here. That was me trying to make a Jade album with [[group:clark-powell|Clark Powell]]; it fell through when the solo albums stopped happening, but we dreamed big. [[track:jane-dargason|Jane Dargason]] is probably the only real collaborative survivor of that in the end; the two of us should work together more. Anyway, this track is light and bouncy and features a lot of vocal samples. It’s exactly the same as it was when I pitched it to [[album:homestuck-vol-9|Volume 9]] (after touching it up more); reusing tracks I did for other Homestuck albums ended up being a trend (so many [[album:the-felt|Felt]] tracks got reused for later albums, like [[track:afraid-of-the-darko|Afraid of the Darko]]). + Aaaaah! I consider this kind of a pair with [[Biophosphoradelecrystalluminescence]] in terms of aural space, but this was a Jade album castoff, as are three others here. That was me trying to make a Jade album with [[group:clark-powell|Clark Powell]]; it fell through when the solo albums stopped happening, but we dreamed big. [[Jane Dargason]] is probably the only real collaborative survivor of that in the end; the two of us should work together more. Anyway, this track is light and bouncy and features a lot of vocal samples. It’s exactly the same as it was when I pitched it to [[album:homestuck-vol-9|Volume 9]] (after touching it up more); reusing tracks I did for other Homestuck albums ended up being a trend (so many [[album:the-felt|Felt]] tracks got reused for later albums, like [[Afraid of the Darko]]). --- Track: Allidile Duration: 00:15 @@ -1760,4 +1760,4 @@ Sampled Tracks: - Years in the Past... Commentary: |- <i>rj lake:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/spellmynamewithabang/140421474563/pre-order-post-mortem), excerpt) - I was honestly blown away when I found this on my hard drive; a Wayward Vagabond track (from [[album:the-wanderers|the Wanderer]]’s folder, which has a few other tracks in it, including the next one [[track:ps|(P.S.)]]) that uses a clip of my voice as the lead. Cute as heck, with a phenomenal lead melody and chorus. It was very spare when I found it, but aside from doing new production (drums, bass, etc) and writing a new bridge, it’s basically the same as it was in early 2011. + I was honestly blown away when I found this on my hard drive; a Wayward Vagabond track (from [[album:the-wanderers|the Wanderer]]’s folder, which has a few other tracks in it, including the next one [[(P.S.)]]) that uses a clip of my voice as the lead. Cute as heck, with a phenomenal lead melody and chorus. It was very spare when I found it, but aside from doing new production (drums, bass, etc) and writing a new bridge, it’s basically the same as it was in early 2011. diff --git a/album/super-smash-bros-ultimate.yaml b/album/super-smash-bros-ultimate.yaml index e897aae0..bad66ed5 100644 --- a/album/super-smash-bros-ultimate.yaml +++ b/album/super-smash-bros-ultimate.yaml @@ -1427,6 +1427,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:opening-bombing-mission --- Track: Aerith's Theme +Always Reference By Directory: true Date First Released: December 22, 2020 Artists: - Final Fantasy diff --git a/album/symphony-impossible-to-play.yaml b/album/symphony-impossible-to-play.yaml index 29c57a28..e7b24339 100644 --- a/album/symphony-impossible-to-play.yaml +++ b/album/symphony-impossible-to-play.yaml @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Commentary: |- <b>Solo Month + Problem Sleuth Volume 4</b> - First album of the month: Symphony Impossible to Play by [[artist:clark-powell|Clark Powell]], who was also responsible for the album [[album:medium|"Medium"]], [[track:homestuck-anthem|"Homestuck Anthem"]] and quite a few other HS tracks. [[album:one-year-older|Next solo album coming in a couple weeks.]] + First album of the month: Symphony Impossible to Play by [[artist:clark-powell|Clark Powell]], who was also responsible for the album [[album:medium|"Medium"]], [["Homestuck Anthem"]] and quite a few other HS tracks. [[album:one-year-older|Next solo album coming in a couple weeks.]] <i>Homestuck:</i> ([Bandcamp credits blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20120802173203/https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/symphony-impossible-to-play)) diff --git a/album/tale-of-arpege-clavier-chapter-1-of-92000000.yaml b/album/tale-of-arpege-clavier-chapter-1-of-92000000.yaml index 4ac4df0b..d97d4b06 100644 --- a/album/tale-of-arpege-clavier-chapter-1-of-92000000.yaml +++ b/album/tale-of-arpege-clavier-chapter-1-of-92000000.yaml @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ Crediting Sources: |- <i>repeatedScales:</i> (album sample origins document, excerpt) *TRACK 4:* **Torn in Four Quarters (Instrumental)**<br> - Drums + synth strings from **[[track:had-gripped|Had Gripped]]** by *[[artist:sanodg]]* + Drums + synth strings from **[[Had Gripped]]** by *[[artist:sanodg]]* --- Track: Ill Beats, Strider Style Duration: 3:14 diff --git a/album/the-felt.yaml b/album/the-felt.yaml index a62f5c49..d5efd7e5 100644 --- a/album/the-felt.yaml +++ b/album/the-felt.yaml @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Swing of the Clock</i>, henceforth shortened to <i>SotC</i> (not to be confused with Shadow of the Colossus! It's just a hilarious coincidence) was the first song I started writing after joining the team. Multiple fake band albums were in progress (The Felt and [[album:squiddles|Squiddles]]), but at the time I had no idea how to even approach Squiddles (see [[track:squiddles-in-paradise|last week's post]] for details). - So, I decided I'd try to do something orchestral. I went with a few ideas, but for some reason I kept wanting to write a song with a swing feel in it, though that's more Midnight Crew than Felt, yet at the same time I wanted to do something that was clearly Philip Glass influenced. The small scraps I started before finally settling on a starting point (none of them were saved, sorry!) all shared two major common pieces: a ticking clock, and an arpeggio piano inspired off of [[artist:clark-powell|Clark Powell's]] [[track:three-in-the-morning|Three in the Morning]]. + So, I decided I'd try to do something orchestral. I went with a few ideas, but for some reason I kept wanting to write a song with a swing feel in it, though that's more Midnight Crew than Felt, yet at the same time I wanted to do something that was clearly Philip Glass influenced. The small scraps I started before finally settling on a starting point (none of them were saved, sorry!) all shared two major common pieces: a ticking clock, and an arpeggio piano inspired off of Clark Powell's [[Three in the Morning]]. Both are still in the song, though amusingly many people didn't notice the piano. It's there. In reverse. :D @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ Commentary: |- <b>Now For Some Trivia!</b> - <i>Swing of the Clock</i> was the second to last of a very long stretch of original songs I did in the key of F minor. It's my favorite key to write music in, but I've barely touched it since [[track:chartreuse-rewind|Chartreuse Rewind]]. (Which is next week..! Er.. I guess this week, since I was late on this. Oops.) Why? Well, too much of a good thing is a bad thing. + <i>Swing of the Clock</i> was the second to last of a very long stretch of original songs I did in the key of F minor. It's my favorite key to write music in, but I've barely touched it since [[Chartreuse Rewind]]. (Which is next week..! Er.. I guess this week, since I was late on this. Oops.) Why? Well, too much of a good thing is a bad thing. Secondly, [[artist:lexxy|Lexxy]] [really dug this song](https://lexxercise.tumblr.com/post/2084075267/john-do-the-windy-thing-inspired-by-track-2) and it made me flip the fuck out when I found out she liked it, because she's an amazing person! diff --git a/album/the-heist.yaml b/album/the-heist.yaml index c056fa82..ab3197a7 100644 --- a/album/the-heist.yaml +++ b/album/the-heist.yaml @@ -53,9 +53,9 @@ Commentary: |- <details><summary>SoundCloud track order</summary> 1. [[track:showdown-the-heist|Showdown]] (née The Showdown) - 2. [[track:officially-canon|Officially Canon]] (née Swing(OFFICIALLY CANON)) - 3. [[track:beatdown-strifing-saxophones-mix|Beatdown(Strifing Saxophones Mix)]] - 4. [[track:the-old-ultraviolence|The Old Ultraviolence]] (née The Getaway) + 2. [[Officially Canon]] (née Swing(OFFICIALLY CANON)) + 3. [[Beatdown(Strifing Saxophones Mix)]] + 4. [[The Old Ultraviolence]] (née The Getaway) </details> --- diff --git a/album/the-nobles.yaml b/album/the-nobles.yaml index 96f5b7cd..9a4415be 100644 --- a/album/the-nobles.yaml +++ b/album/the-nobles.yaml @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Pascal van den Bos:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - Uh yeah so [[artist:rowyn-berlan|Rowyn]] texted me at 3am asking if I wanted to help them on a song that they got stuck on for their solo album, clearly i dont sleep so i replied with a cheerful "HELL YEA". They sent me a pretty cool piano sketch that already had some of that signature "Timeless Sauce" on it, so I started having ideas for it pretty quickly. Prior to making this i had been listening to a lot of 16-bit fast paced stuff, specifically a lot of the Gadobadorrer soundtrack so i used a lot of SC-55 (labeled as the Gadobadorrer soundfont) in this. I also incorporated an old piano sketch called "Driven Factor" which was a [[track:penumbra-phantasm]] ish remix of [[track:fate-of-the-heir|"Fate of the Heir"]] at the start of the song but in a more [[track:savior-of-the-waking-world|SotWW]] kinda style with the layered flutes, wind sound effect, strings, piano tuned to C6 etc (there will never be enough Fate of the Heir remixes, they will never stop). Then things start heating up with SC-55 drums, bass and an organ and Rowyn's signature usage of the ChronoTrigger soundfont. I also really wanted to add a bitcrush transition into chiptune breakdown since i had only recently gotten the magical8bitplug and dBlue Crusher (i really love dBlue Crusher holy shit) and i really love how they were used in [[Umbral Ultimatum]]. The tempo changes were inspired by me trying to recreate [[track:eridans-theme|Eridan's theme]] lol, i just thought they were really cool so i wanted to incorporate that myself, and a kid from my class complimented me on it so CHECKMATE CRITICS B). Then some brass in the final section because Rowyn wanted some epic "Jake brass" in there followed up by a final chiptune solo thing with 3 magical8bitplugs playing at once and then to a slow section with the detuned EP and strings again, also a samplepack called "Angstrom Glockenspiel" cause i had also just gotten that and it just sounds perfect for the song imo (really good glockenspiel pack, would use again). In the end this is probably one of my favorite songs that i ever made and it was a lot of fun to work on with Rowyn, overall experience:\ 69 unannounced secret of mana drum soundfont swaps out of 10. Epic job on the album Rowyn B) + Uh yeah so [[artist:rowyn-berlan|Rowyn]] texted me at 3am asking if I wanted to help them on a song that they got stuck on for their solo album, clearly i dont sleep so i replied with a cheerful "HELL YEA". They sent me a pretty cool piano sketch that already had some of that signature "Timeless Sauce" on it, so I started having ideas for it pretty quickly. Prior to making this i had been listening to a lot of 16-bit fast paced stuff, specifically a lot of the Gadobadorrer soundtrack so i used a lot of SC-55 (labeled as the Gadobadorrer soundfont) in this. I also incorporated an old piano sketch called "Driven Factor" which was a [[track:penumbra-phantasm]] ish remix of [["Fate of the Heir"]] at the start of the song but in a more [[track:savior-of-the-waking-world|SotWW]] kinda style with the layered flutes, wind sound effect, strings, piano tuned to C6 etc (there will never be enough Fate of the Heir remixes, they will never stop). Then things start heating up with SC-55 drums, bass and an organ and Rowyn's signature usage of the ChronoTrigger soundfont. I also really wanted to add a bitcrush transition into chiptune breakdown since i had only recently gotten the magical8bitplug and dBlue Crusher (i really love dBlue Crusher holy shit) and i really love how they were used in [[Umbral Ultimatum]]. The tempo changes were inspired by me trying to recreate [[Eridan's theme]] lol, i just thought they were really cool so i wanted to incorporate that myself, and a kid from my class complimented me on it so CHECKMATE CRITICS B). Then some brass in the final section because Rowyn wanted some epic "Jake brass" in there followed up by a final chiptune solo thing with 3 magical8bitplugs playing at once and then to a slow section with the detuned EP and strings again, also a samplepack called "Angstrom Glockenspiel" cause i had also just gotten that and it just sounds perfect for the song imo (really good glockenspiel pack, would use again). In the end this is probably one of my favorite songs that i ever made and it was a lot of fun to work on with Rowyn, overall experience:\ 69 unannounced secret of mana drum soundfont swaps out of 10. Epic job on the album Rowyn B) P.S. - To anyone reading this, don't open multiple instances of Edirol Orchestral at once in your DAW, i did do that and I also forced Rowyn to do it not knowing it would stab FL 3 times in the neck resulting in this project file crashing at least 12 times in total. Appreciate midi routing kids. @@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - Stardust Glitches was made right after I made [[Fate of the Heir]] which is probably why it's a remix of it. Yeah I also don't remember much about the creation of this song... sorry. What I do know is that I also added a [[track:gold-pilot|gold pilot]] reference cause of the [[flash:6278|stardust glitch edit in the comic]] which is cool. OH! and there's a lot of grossbeat and I have many regrets lol. In retrospect this song is probably the weakest on [[album:the-nobles|the album]] mainly because it's one of the older songs and it was mostly experimental. Anyway I hope you enjoy glitch hell!!! + Stardust Glitches was made right after I made [[Fate of the Heir]] which is probably why it's a remix of it. Yeah I also don't remember much about the creation of this song... sorry. What I do know is that I also added a [[gold pilot]] reference cause of the [[flash:6278|stardust glitch edit in the comic]] which is cool. OH! and there's a lot of grossbeat and I have many regrets lol. In retrospect this song is probably the weakest on [[album:the-nobles|the album]] mainly because it's one of the older songs and it was mostly experimental. Anyway I hope you enjoy glitch hell!!! --- Track: All's Well Duration: 2:39 @@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Rowyn Berlan:</i> (composer, booklet commentary) - So we finally did it... we're at the end. To close out this passion project we have the reprise of the albums main theme. I decided that a somber take on [[track:the-nobles|the nobles]] would be a fitting end to our journey throughout the alpha session so I wrote just that. So lets keep this short... thanks so much for listening and giving my music a chance and for the last time I hope you enjoy!<br> + So we finally did it... we're at the end. To close out this passion project we have the reprise of the albums main theme. I decided that a somber take on [[the nobles]] would be a fitting end to our journey throughout the alpha session so I wrote just that. So lets keep this short... thanks so much for listening and giving my music a chance and for the last time I hope you enjoy!<br> (Alternate Title: Goodnight) --- Section: Bonus track diff --git a/album/time-and-tide.yaml b/album/time-and-tide.yaml index d2cd5c08..42f506b2 100644 --- a/album/time-and-tide.yaml +++ b/album/time-and-tide.yaml @@ -64,9 +64,9 @@ URLs: - https://music.apple.com/album/timekeeper/1477359846?i=1477359847 Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) - I have always believed that [[track:frost-and-clockwork|Frost and Clockwork]], an earlier track of mine, was a good concept wasted on sub-par production. For that reason, I’ve made numerous variations on that concept ever since. Timekeeper, with its tongue-in-cheek former title Ice Horologue, is perhaps the most fully-realised variation + I have always believed that [[Frost and Clockwork]], an earlier track of mine, was a good concept wasted on sub-par production. For that reason, I’ve made numerous variations on that concept ever since. Timekeeper, with its tongue-in-cheek former title Ice Horologue, is perhaps the most fully-realised variation - It features the “[[track:never-gonna-give-you-up|Never Gonna Give You Up]] progression” that I’ve become mildly infamous for overusing. That progression represents a very particular mood to me, shaped by Vanessa Carlton’s [A Thousand Miles](https://youtu.be/Cwkej79U3ek) rather than Rick Astley’s classic. (Prepare to find out over the course of this booklet just how big of a fan I am of mainstream pop.) + It features the “[[Never Gonna Give You Up]] progression” that I’ve become mildly infamous for overusing. That progression represents a very particular mood to me, shaped by Vanessa Carlton’s [A Thousand Miles](https://youtu.be/Cwkej79U3ek) rather than Rick Astley’s classic. (Prepare to find out over the course of this booklet just how big of a fan I am of mainstream pop.) The character in the illustration to the left is the first of a few track gijinka that I’ve designed for this album. They’re some sort of deity whom I refer to as the Timekeeper, a being in charge of keeping the inner mechanisms of time well-oiled and running. @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ URLs: - https://music.apple.com/album/frosted-glass/1477359846?i=1477359857 Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) - Another track from the same abandoned project that [[track:the-world-as-we-know-it|The World as We Know It]] was meant to be released on, Frosted Glass quotes two of my old tracks: Frost and Clockwork (again) and Hyalomancy. The title is a combination of the titles of both. I always thought the two were oddly compatible, and this piece bears that out. + Another track from the same abandoned project that [[The World as We Know It]] was meant to be released on, Frosted Glass quotes two of my old tracks: Frost and Clockwork (again) and Hyalomancy. The title is a combination of the titles of both. I always thought the two were oddly compatible, and this piece bears that out. Just like the previous track, Frosted Glass is nostalgic in both style and content, sort of an account of gazing through broken windows into a blurry past with a distinct sense of loss for what one left behind there. @@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ Has Cover Art: false Duration: 2:35 Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) - Originally the album’s opener, I ultimately set it aside as I made new tracks that were similar in style but exceeded it in quality. Several people have mentioned that it sounds like something from Undertale; personally I just see it as yet another variation on the [[track:frost-and-clockwork|Frost and Clockwork]] theme (F&C was also referred to by many as being reminiscent of the [[album:undertale-soundtrack|Undertale soundtrack]], so that’s no surprise). + Originally the album’s opener, I ultimately set it aside as I made new tracks that were similar in style but exceeded it in quality. Several people have mentioned that it sounds like something from Undertale; personally I just see it as yet another variation on the [[Frost and Clockwork]] theme (F&C was also referred to by many as being reminiscent of the [[album:undertale-soundtrack|Undertale soundtrack]], so that’s no surprise). --- Track: Waterside Sunset Has Cover Art: false diff --git a/album/tumblrstuck-bent-ost-volume-0.yaml b/album/tumblrstuck-bent-ost-volume-0.yaml index c94045d4..dd591e46 100644 --- a/album/tumblrstuck-bent-ost-volume-0.yaml +++ b/album/tumblrstuck-bent-ost-volume-0.yaml @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ URLs: - https://sammneiland.bandcamp.com/track/conflict-of-grace Commentary: |- <i>Samm Neiland:</i> - yaaaaay now i get to post this. another song for tumblr stuck. its pretty much a pair to the other song i did ([[track:mind-your-step-young-squire|mind your step, young squire]]), this one being the battle or "strife" song. + yaaaaay now i get to post this. another song for tumblr stuck. its pretty much a pair to the other song i did ([[mind your step, young squire]]), this one being the battle or "strife" song. enjoy~ --- diff --git a/album/undertale-soundtrack.yaml b/album/undertale-soundtrack.yaml index a681816a..66530776 100644 --- a/album/undertale-soundtrack.yaml +++ b/album/undertale-soundtrack.yaml @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Toby Fox:</i> ([collector's edition sheet music booklet](https://www.fangamer.com/products/undertale-game-switch-ps4-vita)) - This song wasn't made for Undertale either. It (and [[track:bonetrousle|Bonetrousle]]) were the main battle themes of [[album:deltarune-ch1-ost|an RPG game I was working on before Undertale, based off of a dream I had.]] However, I didn't plan it very well, so the project fell apart before I accomplished a single room. [[track:sans|"Sans"]] was also a song in the game called "Muscles," and [[track:heartache|"Heartache"]] was a song called "Joker Battle." Anyway, I always mess up playing this song on the piano, so if you can't play it, it's not a big deal. Since it's Papyrus, it's OK as long as you try your best. + This song wasn't made for Undertale either. It (and [[Bonetrousle]]) were the main battle themes of [[album:deltarune-ch1-ost|an RPG game I was working on before Undertale, based off of a dream I had.]] However, I didn't plan it very well, so the project fell apart before I accomplished a single room. [["Sans"]] was also a song in the game called "Muscles," and [["Heartache"]] was a song called "Joker Battle." Anyway, I always mess up playing this song on the piano, so if you can't play it, it's not a big deal. Since it's Papyrus, it's OK as long as you try your best. --- Track: Snowy Duration: 1:44 @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Toby Fox:</i> ([collector's edition sheet music booklet](https://www.fangamer.com/products/undertale-game-switch-ps4-vita)) - This song is a major-sounding arrangement of [[track:snowy|"Snowy"]] from earlier in the soundtrack. + This song is a major-sounding arrangement of [["Snowy"]] from earlier in the soundtrack. I really liked playing this one on the piano. Whenever I played it my mom would get it stuck in her head and whistle it. So I'm quite proud of it. --- @@ -346,13 +346,13 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Toby Fox:</i> ([collector's edition sheet music booklet](https://www.fangamer.com/products/undertale-game-switch-ps4-vita)) - This melody was based off of the song [[track:undertale|"UNDERTALE"]] and originally intended to be a theme for Asgore. + This melody was based off of the song [["UNDERTALE"]] and originally intended to be a theme for Asgore. However, the theme ended up used in different contexts, and by the end of the game, it ended up as another character's theme. I already said it, but simplicity is purity. It takes only a few notes to create a dream... to create a memory. - [[track:dont-forget|Don't forget]] that... + [[Don't forget]] that... --- Track: Bird That Carries You Over A Disproportionately Small Gap Duration: 0:25 @@ -1139,7 +1139,7 @@ Referencing Sources: excerpt Body: |- <i>Red Rax:</i><br> - My opinion is that all of these references that are kind of unclear like penumbra phantasm in hopes and dreams or [[track:core|core]] in [[track:oppa-toby-style|oppa Toby style]] or [[track:gasters-theme|gasters theme]] in whatever are just genuine coincidences + My opinion is that all of these references that are kind of unclear like penumbra phantasm in hopes and dreams or [[core]] in [[oppa Toby style]] or [[gasters theme]] in whatever are just genuine coincidences I feel like Toby Fox, who’s written so many melodies over his career, might just accidentally repeat himself at some point, subconsciously using something he already wrote @@ -1148,7 +1148,7 @@ Referencing Sources: <i>Rainy:</i><br> Yeah I agree<br> Dudes only human and he's bound to reuse melodies unintentionally<br> - Like look at that hopes and dreams-esque melody in [[track:snow-pollen|snow pollen]] + Like look at that hopes and dreams-esque melody in [[snow pollen]] <i>Jebb:</i><br> Yeah<br> @@ -1192,7 +1192,7 @@ Referencing Sources: <i>Jebb:</i><br> [A] lot of it is baseless speculation<br> - Ya gotta admit though the Hopes and Dreams and [[track:the-holy|The Holy]] examples do sound preeetty similar<br> + Ya gotta admit though the Hopes and Dreams and [[The Holy]] examples do sound preeetty similar<br> Though that could always be an accident <i>ruby:</i><br> @@ -1275,8 +1275,8 @@ Referencing Sources: oh right [the video](https://youtu.be/jTaibdPA8jU) said it was doctor in pp<br> as I've gone over before, it is definitely pp and not doctor yeah<br> but the part of pp itself is undeniably based on doctor<br> - saying hopes and dreams references doctor is like saying [[track:another-medium|another medium]] references [[track:doctor|doctor]]<br> - completely skipping over the middle step that is [[track:patient|patient]] + saying hopes and dreams references doctor is like saying [[another medium]] references [[doctor]]<br> + completely skipping over the middle step that is [[patient]] <i>Jackie:</i> there's a chain there yeah but it's a chain. the attachment isn't link A to link C diff --git a/album/universal-umbrosity.yaml b/album/universal-umbrosity.yaml index 347257fb..694b5c3c 100644 --- a/album/universal-umbrosity.yaml +++ b/album/universal-umbrosity.yaml @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Raid:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://rudecustard.bandcamp.com/track/universal-umbrosity)) - This is a sick ass remix/cover I made of two Homestuck tunes I like. [[artist:toby-fox|Toby Fox's]] [[track:umbral-ultimatum|"Umbral Ultimatum"]] and [[artist:tensei|Tensei's]] [[track:dance-of-thorns|"Dance of Thorns"]]. Virtual distorted guitar solo, intense jazz/post-hardcore drumming, and synth-filled chiptune bridge included. + This is a sick ass remix/cover I made of two Homestuck tunes I like. [[artist:toby-fox|Toby Fox's]] [["Umbral Ultimatum"]] and [[artist:tensei|Tensei's]] [["Dance of Thorns"]]. Virtual distorted guitar solo, intense jazz/post-hardcore drumming, and synth-filled chiptune bridge included. [Check it out on YouTube too.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zufQxNQSyM) diff --git a/album/unreleased-tracks.yaml b/album/unreleased-tracks.yaml index fc1ab88f..7a6194da 100644 --- a/album/unreleased-tracks.yaml +++ b/album/unreleased-tracks.yaml @@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Toby Fox:</i> ([Tumblr](https://fwugradiation.tumblr.com/post/32195893135/crab-waltz-my-new-track-from-the-latest-update), excerpt) - [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew]] asked if it was possible to make a more downbeat version of [[track:karkats-theme|Karkat’s Theme]]. I started from scratch, creating a version without the goofy sound effects but keeping the eclectic orchestral-chiptune palette. + [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew]] asked if it was possible to make a more downbeat version of [[Karkat’s Theme]]. I started from scratch, creating a version without the goofy sound effects but keeping the eclectic orchestral-chiptune palette. It starts a little slow, but I think it fits the mood. Unlike the original track, this isn’t a song about an irate leader on the warpath - it’s about a messed up kid working his way through his own disillusionment. --- diff --git a/album/uufo.yaml b/album/uufo.yaml index 9da7a34b..cd74c0ff 100644 --- a/album/uufo.yaml +++ b/album/uufo.yaml @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Commentary: |- In addition, there are many guest musicians, even featuring streamer [[artist:btmc|BTMC]] (ex-BeasttrollMC). New fire tracks featured [[artist:richaadeb|RichaadEB]] as a guitarist, [[artist:the8bitdrummer|The8BitDrummer]] as a drummer, and a featuring track with [[artist:toby-fox|Toby Fox]], creator of [[group:undertale-and-deltarune|"Undertale" and "Deltarune"]]. - Bonus tracks include [[track:the-muzzle-facing-long-muzzled-version|"THE MUZZLE FACING (Long muzzled version)"]] from WACCA and five tracks from Arcaea, including [[track:1f1e33-00102g-version|"#1f1e33 (#00102g version)"]]. + Bonus tracks include [["THE MUZZLE FACING (Long muzzled version)"]] from WACCA and five tracks from Arcaea, including [[track:1f1e33-00102g-version|"#1f1e33 (#00102g version)"]]. The U.U.F.O. invades the earth with ultra monstrous sound waves! @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ Commentary: |- Also note that the English-translated blurb on Bandcamp misrepresents the bonus tracks. - > Bonus tracks include [[track:the-muzzle-facing-long-muzzled-version|"THE MUZZLE FACING (Long muzzled version)"]] from WACCA and five tracks from Arcaea, including [[track:1f1e33-00102g-version|"#1f1e33 (#00102g version)"]]. + > Bonus tracks include [["THE MUZZLE FACING (Long muzzled version)"]] from WACCA and five tracks from Arcaea, including [[track:1f1e33-00102g-version|"#1f1e33 (#00102g version)"]]. There are five bonus tracks total; only one, [[track:1f1e33-00102g-version]] as it mentions, is from Arcaea. (Compare with the CD track list on [cametek.jp/uufo](https://cametek.jp/uufo/), which includes annotations for some tracks.) --- diff --git a/album/v8lume.yaml b/album/v8lume.yaml index aa614865..38db28b3 100644 --- a/album/v8lume.yaml +++ b/album/v8lume.yaml @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Commentary: |- ([Community listening stream w/ chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIxsF01kAaw&t=2593)) <i>bobthetacocat:</i> (Artist) - Let me tell you a little story that starts from [[album:cool-and-new-volume-v|Volume V]]. The art team were having an "let's go through our art and see how much it sucks" binge, when I came across my track art for "[[track:i-need-an-abumbalnce-mp3|i need an abumbalnce!!.mp3]]" and saw the LOWAS in the top left corner. The first thing I thought to myself was "hey, I could make that better." And so the editing of the original begins, and I end up with this. After getting a lot of positive reception and people asking me to make other planets, I decided to do this: start (and finish) LOHAC, then move on to LOLAR, then finally LOFAF. Over the course of working on LOHAC (which took too long to make the base circle of) I realized that I wasn't going to do anything with them, effectively making these for no reason. About this time is where I had the idea of arranging them in a Volume 8 cover fashion because, hey, I had the planets, I could do the thing, what's to lose? + Let me tell you a little story that starts from [[album:cool-and-new-volume-v|Volume V]]. The art team were having an "let's go through our art and see how much it sucks" binge, when I came across my track art for "[[i need an abumbalnce!!.mp3]]" and saw the LOWAS in the top left corner. The first thing I thought to myself was "hey, I could make that better." And so the editing of the original begins, and I end up with this. After getting a lot of positive reception and people asking me to make other planets, I decided to do this: start (and finish) LOHAC, then move on to LOLAR, then finally LOFAF. Over the course of working on LOHAC (which took too long to make the base circle of) I realized that I wasn't going to do anything with them, effectively making these for no reason. About this time is where I had the idea of arranging them in a Volume 8 cover fashion because, hey, I had the planets, I could do the thing, what's to lose? After finishing LOHAC, [[artist:xenozane|XenoZane]] (sup booklet guy) asked me to do LOLAR, and as a joke, I decided to do LOLAF, Rose's CANWC planet instead. That joke was the only reason I had LOLAF handy and decided to do LODAR soon after finshing LOLAR. (and by soon after i mean the same day) The same day is when i decided to make a base concept for what I was going to do with these planets that would have no use otherwise. After placing the planets that I had in their positions, more people starting noticing that the art for the planets had no use at the time. I made a second concept art the next day. @@ -805,7 +805,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/RGm6kbbV8ZU Commentary: |- <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Composer) - People liked [[track:fighting-spirit-redux|Fighting Spirit Redux]] so I decided to do another song like that, this time remaking Fighting Spirit Second Form with cool and new motifs. This time I was a lot less self indulgent with picking melodies to use but I got to use some less common ones which was pretty cool and new. My favorite parts of this are Moshi Moshi? and Battle Against an Average Foe. I probably could've used [[track:unintentional-touhou|Unintentional Touhou]] as well but for some reason that didn't occur to me. + People liked [[Fighting Spirit Redux]] so I decided to do another song like that, this time remaking Fighting Spirit Second Form with cool and new motifs. This time I was a lot less self indulgent with picking melodies to use but I got to use some less common ones which was pretty cool and new. My favorite parts of this are Moshi Moshi? and Battle Against an Average Foe. I probably could've used [[Unintentional Touhou]] as well but for some reason that didn't occur to me. <i>trip:</i> (Artist) i tried to mimic the original fighting spirit second form art but with the lodar gang. thats about it. hot artists thoughts on this piece: hecka jef looks like gary oak with a fat ass and a blue onesie but honestly im at peace with that idea. also fresh germyquensprit looks like a fucking demon which is rad. @@ -1398,9 +1398,9 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/tVtIsHClv9g Commentary: |- <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Composer) - One day I thought, hey I wonder how well Death by Glamour sounds combined with Conflict. This idea started as a simple high quality rip concept but it turned into this monstrosity of a song instead. Instead of transcribing the original song precisely except for melodies to replace with Conflict, I added a lot of my own doodling and interpretations of parts. Thanks to [[artist:pipko-fanfare|dragonChaser]] for helping with harmonizing that high piano part. In the later parts of the song I decided to use Tick to replace [[track:metal-crusher|Metal Crusher]] which it was supposedly based on, and Snow Halation in the sax part because I don't need to explain why. I'm firmly convinced that last part is better than the original, and not even just because of DVS Sax. - I think this is one of the best songs I've ever made, but let's be real here, it's only because the original Death by Glamour is so good. Still, people liked [[track:fighting-spirit-redux|Fighting Spirit Redux]] well enough so whose tastes am I to judge. - Also this song will never live up to [[track:sbowban-glamour|Sbowban Glamour]], sorry folks. + One day I thought, hey I wonder how well Death by Glamour sounds combined with Conflict. This idea started as a simple high quality rip concept but it turned into this monstrosity of a song instead. Instead of transcribing the original song precisely except for melodies to replace with Conflict, I added a lot of my own doodling and interpretations of parts. Thanks to [[artist:pipko-fanfare|dragonChaser]] for helping with harmonizing that high piano part. In the later parts of the song I decided to use Tick to replace [[Metal Crusher]] which it was supposedly based on, and Snow Halation in the sax part because I don't need to explain why. I'm firmly convinced that last part is better than the original, and not even just because of DVS Sax. + I think this is one of the best songs I've ever made, but let's be real here, it's only because the original Death by Glamour is so good. Still, people liked [[Fighting Spirit Redux]] well enough so whose tastes am I to judge. + Also this song will never live up to [[Sbowban Glamour]], sorry folks. <i>yazshu:</i> (Artist) i like drawing mettaton i just put knives in his eyes also this was originally going to be a collab with me and tti but i liked the shitty wade i drew as what i wanted so much that i kept it @@ -1754,7 +1754,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>Cecily Renns:</i> (Composer) this was originally for the [Credits video(s)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UTMPTX45F8) of CANH, but we went with the [[track:revisit-rewind|other]] [[track:resend|two]] instead - it actually syncs up with the original Credits video, because i thought [[track:ascend|Ascend]] didnt do enough of that, but what resulted was a more of a typical [[artist:cecily-renns|JJR]] mess, which im very happy with + it actually syncs up with the original Credits video, because i thought [[Ascend]] didnt do enough of that, but what resulted was a more of a typical [[artist:cecily-renns|JJR]] mess, which im very happy with <i>Nights:</i> (Artist) i liked this track too much so i had to do something nice for it. of course by something nice i mean something anime as fuck diff --git a/album/vast-error-vol-5-side-1.yaml b/album/vast-error-vol-5-side-1.yaml index 79d2b86c..ba2251da 100644 --- a/album/vast-error-vol-5-side-1.yaml +++ b/album/vast-error-vol-5-side-1.yaml @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKqRYTXaLiQ), excerpt) - Okay so. this song had a bit of a troubled development. For various reasons, this song went through like 3-4 different iterations before it became the song you’re hearing now. More so, this final version of the song was almost completely written 48 hours before the album came out. Despite all of that however, Torchlight probably one of my favorite songs I’ve ever written at up to this point. In terms of inspiration for this track, I took influence from the songs [[track:softly|“Softly”]] and [[track:stellarum-salve|“Stellarum Salve”]] by RJ Lake. In addition, I also drew inspiration from the song [“Shanghai”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-01sgnVgkRc) by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. I wanted this song to be bright, saccharine and little cute like those songs I mentioned previously because I felt that vibe fit Jentha perfectly. I’m pretty proud of this one not just because of how I was able to write this in such a short period of time but also because the song gave me an avenue to experiment with synthpop production for the first time. For that I will probably always love this song despite the issues. + Okay so. this song had a bit of a troubled development. For various reasons, this song went through like 3-4 different iterations before it became the song you’re hearing now. More so, this final version of the song was almost completely written 48 hours before the album came out. Despite all of that however, Torchlight probably one of my favorite songs I’ve ever written at up to this point. In terms of inspiration for this track, I took influence from the songs [[“Softly”]] and [[“Stellarum Salve”]] by RJ Lake. In addition, I also drew inspiration from the song [“Shanghai”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-01sgnVgkRc) by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. I wanted this song to be bright, saccharine and little cute like those songs I mentioned previously because I felt that vibe fit Jentha perfectly. I’m pretty proud of this one not just because of how I was able to write this in such a short period of time but also because the song gave me an avenue to experiment with synthpop production for the first time. For that I will probably always love this song despite the issues. --- Track: Rashomon Effect Duration: 2:54 diff --git a/album/versus-hardmode-remix.yaml b/album/versus-hardmode-remix.yaml index 4f9c1b74..87c30281 100644 --- a/album/versus-hardmode-remix.yaml +++ b/album/versus-hardmode-remix.yaml @@ -21,11 +21,11 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>LudicrousFalcon:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://ludicrousfalcon.bandcamp.com/track/versus-hardmode-remix), excerpt) - This track is a remix of [[track:versus|"Versus"]] from [[album:homestuck-vol-5]], and was originally by [[artist:toby-fox]]. This remix track was originally released in September 2019, as part of [Volume 2 of Homestuck Fancomic Earthernia's OST](https://soundcloud.com/the-engineer-760315130/sets/the-engineers-labyrinth) and has been re-released as a standalone song. + This track is a remix of [["Versus"]] from [[album:homestuck-vol-5]], and was originally by [[artist:toby-fox]]. This remix track was originally released in September 2019, as part of [Volume 2 of Homestuck Fancomic Earthernia's OST](https://soundcloud.com/the-engineer-760315130/sets/the-engineers-labyrinth) and has been re-released as a standalone song. Crediting Sources: |- <i>LudicrousFalcon:</i> ([Bandcamp credits blurb](https://ludicrousfalcon.bandcamp.com/track/versus-hardmode-remix)) - This track is a remix of [[track:versus|"Versus"]]. Versus was originally made by [[artist:toby-fox]] for [[album:homestuck-vol-5|Homestuck Volume 5 Original Soundtrack]]. + This track is a remix of [["Versus"]]. Versus was originally made by [[artist:toby-fox]] for [[album:homestuck-vol-5|Homestuck Volume 5 Original Soundtrack]]. Cover track composed and mixed by LudicrousFalcon<br> Album Art - LudicrousFalcon<br> diff --git a/album/vertigo.yaml b/album/vertigo.yaml index 75829f76..b3f30347 100644 --- a/album/vertigo.yaml +++ b/album/vertigo.yaml @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Commentary: |- This is an old song that I had completely forgotten about, started back in 2008. I did a couple tweaks to it to make it stand better with my more recent work, but it still definitely feels like my older Somnium style. - In fact, the solo in the latter half will certainly remind some of [[track:endless-ocean|Endless Ocean]] or, for those of you who read Homestuck (www.mspaintadventures.com), you may recognize some similarities to [[track:frost-vol6|Frost]]. They both have elements that originated from Vertigo. + In fact, the solo in the latter half will certainly remind some of [[Endless Ocean]] or, for those of you who read Homestuck (www.mspaintadventures.com), you may recognize some similarities to [[track:frost-vol6|Frost]]. They both have elements that originated from Vertigo. This song was also a part of my scrapped self-titled album, but oh well. That didn't happen. diff --git a/album/your-majesty.yaml b/album/your-majesty.yaml index 0c6fcf83..a8232385 100644 --- a/album/your-majesty.yaml +++ b/album/your-majesty.yaml @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ Commentary: |- So I was conscious of that both as an intent for writing and a guideline for what I picked to refine - And in the end it felt like [[track:your-majesty|"Your Majesty"]] the song was the centerpiece because it's about heroism which unifies the images on the album + And in the end it felt like [["Your Majesty"]] the song was the centerpiece because it's about heroism which unifies the images on the album Like the colorful characters you might find on an epic adventure |