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COSMIC CARETAKERS
+ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS + Album organized by the Unofficial MSPA Fans managers + Booklet assembly by Ucklin + With cover art by Elanor Pam + and cover art commentary by Ephemerald: +
We see dimly in the present what has guard and what has none,
Slow of faith how weak the curtains turn the moon and turn the sun,
But the soul is still a caretaker; amid the Furthest Ring,
List the fabled cosmic whispers that the horrorterrors sing:
'They are in the consellations of the pondsquatter's offspring.'
-James Russel Lowell, Second Son of Skaia
+ With final thanks to the Homestuck Music Team, Andrew Hussie, What Pumpkin, and the loyal, enduring fan base that makes this all possible. + AFTERWORDS + Blackhole: + The concept for this album had its origins more than two years ago, and its basic blueprint was drawn up by me as a follow-up to [[album:beforus]]. Back then it was known as "Rubric of the Guardians", and while that was later changed, and due to management upheavals I wasn't personally involved with its development as "Cosmic Caretakers", I am excited for what the project has become and what these fantastic musicians have in store for us. A comprehensive Guardian album was an idea straight out of my original list of fan-album concepts circa 2015 that spawned Beforus, and now finally the dream of having themes for all of them is realized. Vava la Guardians! (V-l-G, perhaps? Or perhaps not. :P) + ndividedbyzero: + This album dedicated to the classic fanmusic album reality of progress stalling for months, followed by the completion of half the administrative work in the final three days before release. Seriously, I wrote this afterword 1 hour before the album stream. But if you're reading this, I hope you've enjoyed every last minute of it, because I know I sure did. All our work and unwork was not in vain. + Ucklin: + Putting together the booklet for this album made me realize just how ambitious the project was. We have said goodbye to a few old faces over the long production time of the album, and some have questioned the team's motivation. However, I think it is a testament to the enduring strength of the team that we have been able to stick with this project, despite delays, until its release. I want to thank everyone who stuck by it, even when it would have been easy to write it off. It's been a long haul, but we've learned a lot about how to avoid similar delays in the future, and the team is facing the next project with renewed enthusiasm. +
+
MSPA READER.
+
IF YOU ARE READING THIS, YOU ARE STRONG ENOUGH TO LAST ONE YEAR WITHOUT UMSPAF CONTENT.
+
YOU ARE NOW GROWN UP. IN SOME WAYS, YOU HAVE MOVED ON. BUT YOU HAVE ALSO LEARNED THAT GROWING UP DOES NOT ALWAYS MEAN SAYING GOODBYE TO THE THINGS YOU ENJOY.
+
I AM SO, SO PROUD OF YOU.
+
+ Quasar Nebula: + (per [[track:jungle-3|LoFaM 4 standard]], ive highlighted commentary from people besides the original musicians or cover artists in bold!) +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Group: Disc 1 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Disc 1 +Directory: disc1-cosmic-caretakers +Artist: psithurist +Track Art: ackro +Duration: 1:06 +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/disc-1-3 +- https://youtu.be/tUczmB-88wM +Commentary: + psithurist: + The jingles I wrote for this album are a little more involved from the ones you usually find on Homestuck albums, which I did because I thought it would be fun (and it was). A grandiose intro to prepare you for what'll probably be the best god damn album you'll ever hear? + ackro: + this was done pretty quick, its a simple concept that didnt take much doing. the thing i like most is probably the scratch lightning, ive been drawing a lot of lightning recently. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Egbert's Kitchen +Artist: Pascal van den Bos +Track Art: trip +Duration: 3:01 +References: track:under-the-hat +Art Tags: John's dad, Underlings +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/egberts-kitchen +- https://youtu.be/FQGsW9lDx8E +Commentary: + Pascal van den Bos: + For this track i went for the style of music i think Dad listens to, [[track:under-the-hat]] but even jazzier haha. The chiptune breakdown in the middle is also kind of a reference to [[track:showtime-original-mix]] which is the Strife! theme you hear when John encountered Dad. It worked pretty well, i think this is what you'd hear when you walk in to the kitchen when Dad is baking something. + trip: + I want this dad to be my dad. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Nanna's New Groove +Artist: ndividedbyzero +Track Art: TheChaoMaster +Duration: 3:48 +References: +- Homestuck Anthem +- track:nannaquin +Art Tags: John's nanna +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/nannas-new-groove +- https://youtu.be/3xka38s_wYY +Commentary: + ndividedbyzero: + At first I considered making this track electroswing, but that's a bit out of my range. I think this works well as a compromise! + Think of this as the soundscape to an elderly clown grandma (clownma?) throwing pies at you forever, but in a good natured way, a way where you both laugh at the absurdity of it all, except when the fifth pie is thrown you laugh a little less hard because the joke is starting to get stale, and by the time the tenth pie is thrown you start to want to go home and wonder if the clownma still finds it funny, and she does, still not in a mean spirited way, not because of the pie and not because of the frown on your face, but because she knows the joke is stale and you know the joke is stale and yet it keeps happening in spite of its staleness and that mutual understanding really only underlines the absurdity of it all. + The clownma is pretty good at pranks, all things considered. + TheChaoMaster: + in this household we stan Jane Crocker/Nanna Egbert. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Martini Cardamom +Artist: Sean Gorter, PoisonedElite +Track Art: nights +Duration: 3:58 +Art Tags: Roxy, Roxy's mom, cw: alcohol +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/martini-cardamom +- https://youtu.be/lJv9VPWL7dY +Commentary: + Sean Gorter: + Hey, it's your local pianist extraordinaire Flare. The basic seeds of this track belong to PoisonedElite, who left behind a minute-long demo of harpsichord and strings. Imagine my surprise when her MIDI was handed down to me and there were the beginnings of an electronic drum track I didn't get to hear in her exports! So the concept was set, orchestra with electronic rhythmic backing. + Mom always seemed like quite the intimidating figure to those who met her. Perpetually drunk, with an endless, seemingly vindictive collection of wizard paraphrenalia, Mom was more living myth than parental figure. While most might soften those figures over time to be more relatable, not Hussie, and not Mom! She handles a massive Sburban monster with ease, demonstrates martial arts and weapons expertise, and catches the romantic attention of Dad without so much as breaking a sweat. All I could think of putting this track together was "classical badass." So here's to you, Ms. Classical Badass. + nights: + I wanted to try something new for this piece, so I went with a lineless minimal style. For the art, I wanted to draw both of Roxy's post and pre scratch selves, not just Mom Lalonde, since I adore both equally!! While working on it, I wanted to somehow connect the two versions of Roxy together with something common. Eventually, I settled on the scarves, and used them for composition and filling in blank spots in the art piece. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Meteor, Schmeteor (I'll Cut That Thing Right In Half) +Directory: meteor-schmeteor +Artist: Chaosvariant +Track Art: ackro +Duration: 2:38 +Art Tags: Dave's bro +References: +- track:beatdown-strider-style +- Umbral Ultimatum +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/meteor-schmeteor-ill-cut-that-thing-right-in-half +- https://youtu.be/aYC3XRHFOkQ +Commentary: + Chaosvariant: + Hi I go by Chaosvariant. I worked on this track for Dave's Bro, my original intention was to remix [[track:beatdown-strider-style]] to have a little more flair and fit better into the cool yet dangerous aura Dave's Bro put off then to have that transition into the fight with Jack Noir. My computer halfway through this process bricked so sadly we're kinda stuck with a WIP but I hope you'll like it for the concept alone. + SplitSuns: + SplitSuns here. In addition to writing my own song for this project, which you'll find 24 tracks from now, I mastered the album in general. In theory, this means making sure each song is around the same volume so you don't have to keep adjusting your headphones. However, sometimes I did some extra work just to polish things up. Like with this song, for instance: I took what Chaosvariant had finished, added some EQ to make the mix clearer, and added a small sound effect at the end to smooth things out. + ackro: + i really like how i did this one. not too much going on but i feel its good for how simple it is. drawing the meteor took a bit of work, and looking at some reference shots from descend, but it really came together, and of course the sense of scale given with bro and the meteor is very well executed id say. pretty much flawless except for the fire which i couldve done better. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Hunting the Most Dangerous Game +Artist: Kanishka +Track Art: Tipsy +Duration: 3:30 +References: +- A Taste for Adventure +- track:dissension-remix +- track:old-secret +Art Tags: Jade's grandpa, Becquerel, cw: animal death +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/hunting-the-most-dangerous-game +- https://youtu.be/X0SymJI8Nck +Commentary: + SplitSuns: + With its blend of sharp synths and cinematic orchestration, as well as its dramatic swells in composition, this song does an amazing job capturing Grandpa's famed taste for adventure. Can you feel it? That sense of danger, the palpable tension in the air as the jungle trees sway in the breeze? Quick snatches of animal chatter meet your ears, the rest muffled by the dense canopy above. You grip your rifle a little tighter and adjust your hat towards what lies beyond. You have a feeling it's going to be a long hunt. + tipsy: + i accidentally listened to bec's song instead of grandpa's song (wow well done me), so i HAD to include dogs. but i wanted the image to live up to this song's title. you can see my thought process here. besides which you can see the true danger that grandpa must have put himself in expressed here with his lack of pants. anyway i wanted the animals to all look vaguely real, so i spent a lot of time looking up pictures of them while drawing. i was heavily inspired by hiveswap and the photo frames of grandpa in his past, and wanted to draw a silly looking hunting scenario that could fill the gaps of in your head. there's even a version with joey's comments scribbled on, though it was a bit too busy and standoutish. hope you enjoy [Kanishka]'s song. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Fetch That Steak +Artist: Kusoro +Track Art: SpaceWaifu +Duration: 1:34 +Art Tags: Becquerel, Jade +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/fetch-that-steak +- https://youtu.be/03hQ5iLuTTQ +Commentary: + SplitSuns: + Bec is, first and foremost, a good dog. Let's put aside his featureless visage, god-like powers and key role in creating a Sovereign Slayer capable of destroying entire universes. He is a dog that likes to run around, play fetch, and eat treats like any other! This song shows that under-appreciated side of Jade's best friend. How can you say no to those Mario Paint dog barks? (If you think those are great, wait until you listen to the song for Bec's post-Scratch counterpart. Cinematic parallels, I'm telling you.) + Ephemerald: + Bec quite clearly doesn't have a care in the world here. You know, it's funny how omnipotent dog brains work. "Yeah, I was brought to this planet with the express purpose of facilitating its ultimate purpose and also ensuring that I exist at all, but, I mean, do I have to do that right now? Can't I just take some time off and go fetch a steak so radioactive it would make the Elephant's Foot seem like a regular old chunk of steel by comparison? The answer is yes, I can. So I will." Good dog. Best friend. Not a superb prioritizer. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Monatomic Strife +Artist: Pascal van den Bos +Track Art: trip +Duration: 2:15 +References: Versus +Art Tags: John's dad, The Felt +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/monatomic-strife +- https://youtu.be/0f-iGQ_9BnU +Commentary: + Pascal van den Bos: + I wanted to write a Strife theme for Dad Crocker since i've never heard one before, but i think he's the cooler dad so he should have one. I made it kinda fast paced based on him fighting in [S] Collide, i think that's where he really showed how good of a guardian he is by beating up some felt members. + trip: + This one too. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Secondhand Memories +Artist: Grace Medley +Track Art: nights +Duration: 1:57 +Art Tags: Jane's grandpa, Jane +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/secondhand-memories +- https://youtu.be/pCKkP1NDG7s +Commentary: + Grace Medley: + Sorry, sorry to interrupt the booklet, folks, but I've got a cracking idea: see the next time you find yourself in a pub toilet, and you've got a pen on you, write on the door, "Johnny Crocker, R.I.P." Or let's say you're not old enough to get into pubs yet, let's say, you're still in school? Write it on a desk. Scratch it in with a compass. "Johnny Crocker, R.I.P." Or let's say you're online. Let's say you're on Bebo, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, a forum, whatever it is, just get the message out there. "Johnny Crocker, R.I.P." Miss you, big man. Gone, but not forgotten. + And who is Johnny Crocker...? Eh, who cares. + nights: + I had the sketch of this track art sitting by for a while, since I never found the time to finish it - not even during the holiday break. I finally was able to find the time to do exactly that on... A very long and boring plane trip, hahah. While drawing it, I thought about how Jane never really knew her poppop, nor did she know she was the cause of his death in the first place (classic Homestuck), so I wanted to convey that bittersweet feeling through the piece. I experimented on the colors with using a couple paper-constructioney textures on it and on the backdrop. Also, the stewardess on my plane trip caught a glance of the drawing and gave me a compliment in broken English, so you know this is some certified REAL good art. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: The Light's Rebellion +Artist: Circlejourney +Track Art: gelasticat +Duration: 3:48 +References: +- The Thirteenth Hour +- track:endless-climb +- track:aggrieve +- DAVE STRIDER'S COOL MIXTAPE +Art Tags: Roxy's mom +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-lights-rebellion +- https://youtu.be/nhtb6U-fYzM +Commentary: + Circlejourney: + Greatly inspired by the soundtracks of Touhou, PMMM, and various Japanese media, The Light's Rebellion is meant to sound like the overture of an epic and tumultous tale. To me, the life of Roxy's illustrious and erudite Mom - encompassing the publication of doorstepper novels, a Guy Fieri rodeo down a waterfall of blood, and death as a revolutionary at the hands of an alien empress - is the sort of capricious novel-worthy story that can only be told through battling melodies in the major pentatonic scale, 3/4 + 6/8 cross-rhythms, and soaring trumpets. + The primary melodic motif opens the piece on the solo violin - a rousing tune representing the character of Alpha Rose and her rebellious aspirations. The trumpet then introduces the secondary motif - that of The Thirteenth Hour, a melodic backbone representing (erroneously?*) the novels to which she devoted the greater part of her life. It rises and dips, shifting between lyrical solos, brassy full-orchestra segments, and percussive interludes. Two of Rose's motifs, Aggrieve and Endless Climb, are also briefly quoted. + In all, creating The Light's Rebellion was a joy and a challenge, and possibly the first and last track of its style that I'll ever do. + *The video from which I'd heard The Thirteenth Hour featured the cover of Complacency of the Learned, leading me to associate the track with Calmasis and CotL. In retrospect it was probably more about Calliope's Calmasis-like trollsona (i.e. the thirteenth "troll") than Calmasis, but here we are. (Calliope is named for the muse of epics, Mom wrote epics, it works...) + ndividedbyzero: + Her hair is like the sun, rebelling against the oppressive shadow of the night sky. + Not complacent, but sure as hell learned enough to punt you down a waterfall with stabby needles. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: The Dave Strider Experience +Artist: ndividedbyzero +Track Art: dazed-squid +Duration: 3:54 +References: +- track:beatdown-strider-style +- This Is America +- Giorgio by Moroder +- Bodies +- Take Me Away +- Running Hell +- track:suicide-hotline-icp +- The Witch +- What is a Juggalo? +- Waters of Nazareth +- SWEET BRO AND HELLA JEFF SHOW +- track:upward-movement-dave-owns +Art Tags: Dirk's bro +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-dave-strider-experience +- https://youtu.be/cXXGaaHE7W8 +Commentary: + ndividedbyzero: + wilson for wisdom. stiller for power. glover for courage. with the tripartite decree of america's three greatest heralds, backed by a rendition of beatdown so terrifying it can only be described as psychological warfare, the stage has been set for the star of the show. the experience behind the experience. but such titles do not ascribe what importance this fiend deserves. nay, they COULD not ascribe the requisite importance, for only one title suits the hero, the madman, the director and architect to a hall of fame of utter shit. + he is THE BIG MAN, and we are all in his court. + heads are about to roll. + MISC NOTES: this piece started with me thinking "hm, i really want to use running hell in this dave song" and then the rest kind of flowed from there. in that segment, you may note that violent j seems to alternate between lamenting the presence of "THE WITCH" and singing her praises. i feel as though if an alien queen actually appeared to install the insane clown posse as figureheads of a government responsible for the deaths of billions, it would have to involve some sort of mental manipulation on her part, because honestly, icp seem like sort of decent upstanding folks in reality? like violent j wholeheartedly supports his daughter being a furry so he seems to be a nice dad at least. shit, in this political climate they might not be half bad as dual presidents, comparatively, and they're literal clowns. thanks to grace for recommending i use icp's seminal and apparent manifesto, "What Is A Juggalo", whose lyrics you should look up because they are just truly incredible. the section it transitions to, where the nightcore becomes ambient noise, is meant to symbolize the tense standoff between dave and icp before he cuts their heads off, but also it was mostly tongue in cheek. waters of nazareth also plays during that section very faintly, which partly symbolizes that in parallel to this event rose is executing the antichrist over a waterfall, but that was something i just made up now. more intentionally, sampling waters of nazareth badly in a strider song contrasts with the fantastic use of the sample in splitsuns' [[track:thyme-on-my-fries]]. (love ya split). oh god this was a wall of text. i'm done now bye + dazed-squid: + I kinda wanted to show Alpha Dave as a simple sturdy figure in a messy messy background because that's how Dirk saw him? Super cool and collected in all the chaos surrounding him. Also suits. +Lyrics: + (backwards dialogue) + Waow + What is this? A center for ants? + This is America + Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor + WELCOME TO THE DARK CARNIVAL + Get this, the witch has made my chest its permanent nightly visiting nest
The witch told me about blood that rains, out of the neck and what particular veins and I- + Dream about cutting off heads with a shovel, the dreams are getting serious, I think I'm in trouble + About murder, witnessin' death setting in, and it ain't no heaven that's letting me in! + What is a juggalo? He drinks like a fish and then he starts hugging people like a drunken (WAOW) next thing he's pickin' fights with his best friends, then he starts with the hugging again (unintelligible) + IT'S THE SWEET BRO AND HELLA JEFF SHOW! WHOAAAAAAAAa +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Jade English - Study for Eclectic Bass, 1984.1 +Directory: study-for-eclectic-bass-1984-1 +Artist: Interrobang +Track Art: Jas +Duration: 5:09 +References: +- Rhapsody in Green +- track:verdancy-bassline +- Skaianet +- Gardener +- track:mutiny +- Roundabout +- Afraid of the Darko +- Piss +Art Tags: Jake's grandma +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/jade-english-study-for-eclectic-bass-19841 +- https://youtu.be/CN2oWjAy6EI +Commentary: + Interrobang: + This piece has been in the works for a LONG time. I started it in March of 2017, and though most of the compositional work was complete by July of that year, I didn't finish polishing everything up until late April 2018, after many months of procrastination and tweaking. The idea of the track is simple, it's Jake's Grandmother, Jade English, writing a song for her signature eclectic bass sometime in the 80's, which you probably already knew from the title. Anyway, I wanted to make a song that you could supposedly 'play' on the eclectic bass, which meant I had to figure out what exactly the components of such an instrument were (see [[media:misc/eclectic-bass-diagram.png|the accompanying diagram]]). I chose the iconic Yamaha DX7 (used in tons of 80's pop) to be the keyboards of the instrument as it could make the sounds I wanted, it was from around the right time, and I had an emulation (Digital Suburban's "Dexed") on hand. Other instruments used in the song were Karfoyer Audio's "Pastabass" and "Swagbass" for the bass guitars themselves, as well as Full Bucket Music's "Ragnarök" (used to flesh out some bass frequencies at the song's peak), and some built-in GarageBand instruments (drums) and effects. + Compositionally, I started out with the ostinato that closes [[track:rhapsody-in-green]] (Clark Powell) from the Felt album, but played in reverse, adding in an FM pad (the aforementioned DX7) and [[track:skaianet]] by Mark Hadley on the other bass guitar. The introduction section transitions into variations on [[track:verdancy-bassline]] by Kalibration, and closes the track's first half with a medley of various Jade-related songs. The second half is an original thing (though the beginning is a variation on [[track:afraid-of-the-darko]] by RJ! Lake) that I had build in complexity and intensity before dropping off to end the piece. Reference-wise, I tried to keep things centered roughly on Jade, as well as some other skaianet/felt sort of stuff that I thought fit the Alpha world and Jade's place in it, but I did end up throwing in a couple memetic references, see if you can find them both! + Jas: + Grandma Harley often wrote her grandson about the tyranny of Lord English, obviously not able to hide everything from the enemy. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Felidae Superior +Artist: WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES +Track Art: shu +Duration: 3:44 +Art Tags: God Cat +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/felidae-superior +- https://youtu.be/l0Izf8Sl7LI +Commentary: + WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES: + This song took remarkably long to put together. Less because it was difficult, and more because I kept getting distracted with other projects along the way. Anyway, meow. + SplitSuns: + Shu delivers some impressively smooth and refined art for everyone's second-favorite cat whose name begins with a G, GCAT. They say you can tell a lot about someone from their eyes, which makes it more impressive that you can glean this cat's mischievous expression without any eyes at all. GCAT is prepared for action from its carefully positioned placement on a tree branch, ready to pounce at a ball of yarn or teleport to the spot best suited for making your life hell. Some rough glitchy effects in the background add an interesting dimension to the piece, nicely contrasting against its smooth linework. This is one art you won't want to miss, and knowing GCAT's temper, you might miss it if you blink. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Sweet Talker +Artist: Ucklin +Track Art: nights +Duration: 3:24 +References: Hate You +Art Tags: The Condesce +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/sweet-talker +- https://youtu.be/TkDZC-vTXHE +Commentary: + Ucklin: + The idea for this song started with the transition around 2:35 to the section with [[track:hate-you]] played in a straight rhythm. I wanted to capture a feeling of dread by making that part of the song methodical and delaying the payoff of some of the notes by a beat. It would also be a stark contrast to have this straight section in solo piano right after a climactic section with plenty of instruments in a swing beat! I was inspired to incorporate a musical palette from the 30s-40s because that's when I estimate Condy took over as Betty Crocker and started doing her guardian things. In the original song, I planned for the bass to carry most of the weight with regards to rhythm, but eventually, I was persuaded to add percussion to the track after helpful feedback from a few of the organizers, and I think it helped a lot! Hate You is quoted 3 times, although the first two ended up a bit disguised by subsequent layers of instrumentation. + With regards to the rest of the composition, I tried to have fun! In a way, this song is supposed to tell the story of The Baroness. The beginning hook and the next section portray the mask she wears as Betty Crocker upon arriving to earth, and the persona that caused her husband Colonel Sassacre to fall in love with her. That part of the story is pretty funny to me. The following section introduces the mystery of her real identity with a jazzy Hate You quote before returning to the first section, and finally the climactic transition of the song represents the death of Colonel Sassacre and the beginning of Crocker's reign of terror proper. Finally, at the very end of the song, there is a piccolo harmony which just sounds like aliens to me, possibly because it sounds a little like a theremin. I learned a lot composing this song! Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoyed! (And thanks to nights for art more polished and gorgeous than I could hope to deserve!) + nights: + This very nice track gave me vibes of a casual setting with the condesce, so I thought to draw her doing a mundane but fun task - baking! I've always liked fanart of HIC as betty crocker, doing crockery things like baking cake and raising post-scratch john/jade. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Group: Disc 2 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Disc 2 +Directory: disc2-cosmic-caretakers +Artist: psithurist +Track Art: SpaceWaifu +Duration: 0:53 +Art Tags: John's dad, Karkat's lusus, John, Karkat +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/disc-2-3 +- https://youtu.be/rhncumrLYns +Commentary: + psithurist: + This was actually the first of the three disc jingles that I wrote, and uses synths to aim for a more alien-ish vibe for the trolls disc, contrasting the organic instruments present in the humans disc. + WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES: + Would you believe that both DAD and CRABDAD are looking at the VERY SAME STAR while cradling their children? + No? You don't? They both exist in completely different universes you say? That the stars are thematic element used to tie this track art together and to symbolically show the role of each of these GUARDIANS? + You're no fun. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Voice of the Dead +Artist: Mathias Ramalho, cookiefonster +Track Art: freckledOctopus +Duration: 2:20 +References: Aradia's Theme (Pre-Death) +Art Tags: Aradia's lusus, Aradia +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/voice-of-the-dead +- https://youtu.be/aw72N9h0P08 +Commentary: + Mathias Ramalho: + H*ck dude ye made this shit for a thingy that was DEAD in it's FIRST AND ONLY APPEARANCE IN THE ENTIRE FUCKING COMIC?? + So! I've realized nobody wanted to make a track for this completely relevant character for completely obvious reasons, so I took three days of my entire life to give this beautiful creature the piece it deserves. The whole process of making this was to base it around a small snippet of Famitracker that Cookie made a long time ago, and with that I completely broke it up to a point of being in love with it, so thank you Cookie you gave me an awesome idea as well as a good snippet! + cookiefonster: + I had the idea of remixing [[track:aradias-theme-pre-death]] from the Homestuck Sound Test for this song and tried to make a track for it but never ended up finishing it. To my surprise, Coy decided that he was going to finish this garbage song. After I posted the project file, he proceeded to work his magic on it, making it actually good in the process, and now it's pretty much his track and he deserves any and all praise for it. + Grace Medley: + he wasnt going to let the song just :Die~2: + freckledOctopus: + I love the track and wanted to try and capture the more haunting side to it. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Flittaurine +Artist: Shirokishi +Track Art: Chumi +Duration: 2:07 +References: Rust Servant +Art Tags: Tavros' lusus +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/flittaurine +- https://youtu.be/zWK3R-YnmTI +Commentary: + WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES: + Tinkerbull is a daintly and beautiful lusus, who took care of his young troll Tavros to impeccable standards, giving him the kind of love and attention that all trolls in their early sweeps truly need. + Until he got crushed painfully to death by Tavros's wheelchair anyway. Kind of a sad end to this tale. + Chumi: + Dear, sweet, precious Tinkerbull. Rest in peace my little guy. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Polypolyphemus +Artist: Ducky Senpai +Track Art: shu +Duration: 3:18 +References: Die For Me +Art Tags: Sollux's lusus +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/polypolyphemus +- https://youtu.be/Rd9a2KQ_ZVk +Commentary: + Ducky Senpai: + For those who may be curious, the title (suggested by Lambda) is play on the term "Polyphemus" which refers to the cyclops in The Odyssey. It's a really dumb pun, and I love it. + SplitSuns: + Polypolyphemus is an intense track, so it's fitting for its art to capture the same intensity. Sollux's Biclops is captured right before its imminent demise as the troll's Mind Honey-induced flip out rips through the ceiling of his hive and surrounds the lusus in a multi-colored beam of energy. The meteors illuminating the night sky further illustrate the carnage present in the scene in a fashion that pops up time and time again in Homestuck proper. If only one of those meteors could break the chain around the Biclops' leg and set it free! Wait, the resulting impact would probably just kill the Biclops anyway. Never mind, that was a stupid idea. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Rangoon +Artist: WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES +Track Art: ackro +Duration: 2:03 +References: Showdown +Art Tags: Karkat's lusus, Karkat +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/rangoon +- https://youtu.be/qayMFPJjtI0 +Commentary: + WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES: + Crabs taste pretty good, gotta say. I'm partial to snow crab, myself. Of course, the only place I ever had them was Red Lobster: the apex of all seafood cuisine. + ackro: + this one is pretty much just a carbon copy of a homestuck panel i found. i mean i didnt trace anything, but its all placed pretty much the same with minor differences. dont give me too much praise for this one. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Apex Conquistador +Artist: TempiTunes, WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES +Track Art: Sammie +Duration: 1:38 +References: Nepeta's Theme +Art Tags: Nepeta's lusus +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/apex-conquistador +- https://youtu.be/g0HGUiXDsQU +Commentary: + WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES: + I had the opportunity to touch up this piece, which I mostly did by polishing up the samples and adding an electric piano as backing. + Meow. + WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES: + If there's one thing that mouse can appreciate, it's that it got to see a two-mouthed cat monster before it died. + Coincidentally, it's about to die because of said two-mouthed cat monster eating it. You just can't have it all, unfortunately. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Recordare, Virgo Mater +Artist: queer maggot +Track Art: artisticallyCrafty +Duration: 3:34 +References: Virgin Orb +Art Tags: Kanaya's lusus +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/recordare-virgo-mater +- https://youtu.be/uI2g0qbTjEE +Commentary: + queer maggot: + Oh man, this is a really loaded song for me. Coming from a musical background that mostly consisted of writing punk songs and making bad beats, when I started on this I sort of had no idea what I was doing?? I wanted to portray this sense of grief and sadness that would shift into a big, fun declaration of hope and all that, but really what wound up happening was me rushing through the grief and sadness to get to the fun bits with the electric guitar. I even made the fun bits with some friends watching just to make sure that it truly was both big and fun! That was the good part, in my eyes. Unfortunately, I just didn't know how to properly convey the feeling I was going for, and I really didn't know how to write a song for a character. I wasn't experienced enough and I didn't have the tenacity to stick with it. That was the first version of the song I ever made. + That's when my dog Beethoven died. He was 15 years old, but I'd only had him for 6 of those years. He was honestly one of the sweetest dogs anyone could ask for. He was intensely loyal, loved to get loved on, and would always come back no matter how far off he ran or how deep into the woods he got. He was one of my best friends, and having this happen to me was a very large shock to my system. I'd been fortunate enough up to that point not to have any close family or friends pass on me, but Beethoven was very close family and a good boy in general. It was my first time having to grapple with the overwhelming feeling of grief that comes with the loss of a loved one, even if that loved one was a dog, and I was struggling with it. I was down and out for a while. If it had been me from a few years ago, I probably would've just laid in the dark and grieved for a long time instead of doing anything useful or trying to get over it. + Instead of just letting myself wallow in it though, I decided to push most of those feelings into this song. I don't really get too cerebral when I work on music; most of the time I just make sure it sounds good and then I move on. With this song, though, I specifically wrote the middle portion with this smothering feeling I had weighing on me in the forefront of my mind. It was a really therapeutic experience for me and I think it reflects in the music. The portion before the guitar comes in has wonder woven into it, but it's also heavy feeling. It being so sparse contributes to this darker feeling which makes the brighter section feel more fun, whimsical, and most importantly, hopeful. + All in all, this was an interesting thing that I learned a lot making. It was my first time receiving real criticism on something I made and I hope people enjoy it! + artisticallyCrafty: + The Mothergrub has always been a fascinating creature to me in Homestuck, both as a part of reproduction and as a lusus. Especially since becoming a lusus means that you give up a life in the brooding caverns for a shortened existence to care for onechild. And with the Virgin Mother Grub drawing so many parallels to the iconic Holy Virgin Mary, I decided to draw my own parallels. I wanted this peice to be symbolic in nature towards the ideas and standards of the Mothergrub. It also may be a little sacrilegious in regards to the Catholic images of the Virgin Mary, but we'll just ignore that little fact. The Virgin Mothergrub floats with the brooding caverns behind her, and her new charge sleeping peacefully nearby, alongside other eggs nearly ready to hatch into trolls that will play a game and sacrifice to create something new. (we're also going to ignore the fact that i may have had an out-of-body experience while working on this piece) +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Amniotic Daydream +Artist: Circlejourney +Track Art: ackro +Duration: 4:16 +References: JUST1C3 R41NS FROM 4BOV3 +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/amniotic-daydream +- https://youtu.be/Bne6tHjEIko +Commentary: + Circlejourney: + I conceptualised Amniotic Daydream together with Skip: the first thing we decided was that it should be a lullaby-like track built on top of a heartbeat. I ultimately ended up working on this track alone, looking to a demo Skip made as a stylistic reference before taking it in my own direction. + Incubating within her egg for almost her entire lifetime, Dragonmom's track describes this inchoate state: the warmth and serenity and loneliness of waiting to hatch, and the constancy of the heartbeat throughout. The gradual build and elaboration of the track mirrors the development of an embryo. Pad synths ebb and flow, swelling and lulling with the beating of the heart. The drums start out muffled, as if heard through shell and chorion, and the sound only begins to take shape towards the middle of the track as the riffs grow more complex. + Featured in Amniotic Daydream is a delicate rendition of the motif from the Redglare/Pyralspite-related track JUST1C3 R41NS FROM 4BOV3 (also by me and Skip). This version pares away the ferocity of the original and turns it into a sweet lullaby tune. Terezi's lusus, meant to become a fearsome dragon like Pyralspite, may only dream of that destiny for now - and forever. + I'd love to thank the mods for their feedback, which truly helped me turn this track into what it is now. + ackro: + this piece is probably the most complex one i did for the album, and i think it payed off in spades. i used a lot of elements from the scene in which terezi's dragon hatches and is immediately killed by a falling meteor, which might be one of the best looking parts in homestuck, although its hard to choose since the first half of homestuck is littered with striking imagery. oh my god just look at it. so good. so fucking good guys. its really good. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Arachnida Antecessor +Artist: arcaneGemini +Track Art: Caitlin Beamer +Duration: 2:11 +References: +- track:MeGaLoVania +Art Tags: Vriska's lusus, Vriska, cw: arachnid +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/arachnida-antecessor +- https://youtu.be/oP8Y3OVrxY8 +Commentary: + arcaneGemini: + Well hey, would you look at that: my first ever track with the Homestuck Fan Musicians Crew. That's pretty neat. + Let's talk about it shall we? + I've always loved Vriska's various themes and tunes through the HS soundtrack's generous selection of tracks; they're nice, they're catchy, and they're just h*ckin' amazing overall. Imagine my surprise, then, when Spidermum's slot laid unclaimed on this very album, ripe for the picking. I swore on that day that I would create the catchiest distortion guitar-filled, 8-legged bop of all time. + What I made instead was the track laid before you. + I'd like to think that it's pretty snazzy and very Serket, though I have a sneaking suspicion that I may come back to this track l8er and fix it up when I actually have a clue what I'm doing. Yes, it's pretty short and it's kinda flawed in its execution, but I just hope that you can appreciate this humble nerd's first attempt at a somewhat-professional-level tune. + You know what? Since you've gone through all the trouble to read this here commentary, have a free concept guitar riff for this tune. For you it's on the house. + Caitlyn Beamer: + I understand why hussie didn't draw spider-mom with hair on her. that took way too much time to have to do it more than once. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: STRONG Butler. Best Dad. +Directory: STRONG-butler-best-dad +Artist: arcaneGemini +Track Art: Tipsy +Duration: 3:16 +References: Horschestra STRONG Version +Art Tags: Equius's lusus, Equius +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/strong-butler-best-dad +- https://youtu.be/BzwL4cY8V50 +Commentary: + arcaneGemini: + You thought you could get rid of me that easily? Think again. That's right, it's round 2 with Dyl Nye the Science Guy: Horse edition. + Honestly I'm not entirely sure how this worked out, but I'm glad it did since horses are the bees knees. + I said before in Arachnida Antecessor that it was my first song for this group, and technically it is (I think), but this is the one that I feel most greatly reflects my progression in skill as a musician. + This tune went from a slow Horschestra with awful, grotesque choir & drum samples to this lovely little equine ditty as I went from a newbie musician creating mediocre covers of songs' melodies to the only-slightly-less newbie musician writing this very commentary piece. + As such, this song will always fill a special horse-shaped space in my heart. + What's this? You don't want all this personal heartfelt guff? You want me to actually talk about the track? Oh alright. + Aurthour is, unequivocally, the best character in all of Homestuck. There is no possible way you can disprove this. It was pretty much high blasphemy that so few songs were made to honour him, and so I produced this offer to appease the gods and bring balance to the universe. You're welcome. + Also yes, that is me saying 'neigh'. + tipsy: + For every album cover I've drawn so far, I try to make them look a little different and experiment with different styles. In this case I tried to draw a HORSE (crazy i know) and used this very painting-like flat style, and decided to put Equius's signature up, effectively making it his own painting! This went through lots of colour hue alterations and was originally a very light pink desert in a sunny sky before we settled on this darker background to make Aurthour stand out more. I like to think that Equius is simultaneously admiring his surroundings and panicking about their imminent death by sunburn. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Absent Reflection +Artist: PoisonedElite +Track Art: Jas +Duration: 2:10 +References: track:dilemma +Art Tags: Gamzee +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/absent-reflection +- https://youtu.be/uw2z3juY-64 +Commentary: + PoisonedElite: + Wow, this is the first song I ever signed up to make, over a year ago in April of 2017. From the beginning writing a song about Gamzee's Lusus provided a challenge due to the fact that it only appears in a panel or two, so I decided to write the song around the lack of it in Gamzee's life. Like Calming Quartz, this also had a different song as the rough Draft, so here ya go. + Play Hollow Knight, eat your dinner, and never forget the pokemon you lose when you're doing a Nuzlocke challenge. Rest in Peace Oswin ;-;7 + Jas: + Sometimes you wait a long time to see the people you love. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Hippocampaternal +Artist: FrostyMac +Track Art: Jas +Duration: 2:35 +References: +- Eridan's Theme +- track:chorale-for-jaspers +- Science Seahorse +Art Tags: Eridan's lusus +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/hippocampaternal +- https://youtu.be/hN4jbLF5lEc +Commentary: + FrostyMac: + Fun fact: This was the first song I ever made for any Homestuck related project ever, and I lost the original file at some point, so excuse the mixing being a little weird. I still stand by the song's compositional and structural quality though. + Jas: + Your baby crashed in on a blaze of fire, go get him seahorse daddy +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Whispering Leviathan +Artist: Kanishka +Track Art: Circlejourney +Duration: 4:24 +References: +- Fear of the Heavens +- Silencio +- The Vast Glub +- Penumbra Phantasm +- Keepers +Art Tags: Feferi's lusus, Horrorterrors +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/whispering-leviathan +- https://youtu.be/ixMCOL-1yVc +Commentary: + Kanishka: + *angry tentacle noises* + Circlejourney: + Listening to Whispering Leviathan always made me feel like I was hearing it in a submarine environment - perfectly appropriate to the subject of Gl'bgolyb. The scene in which Gl'bgolyb was revealed was, to me, one of the several "holy shit" moments of Homestuck, and instead of trying to depict the vastness of Feferi's lusus, I went for a sense of mystery and foreboding more closely matching the tone of the music, by revealing nothing but its tentacles in silhouette. + Finding the right balance between silhouette and rendering proved one of the primary challenges of completing this piece. Too much light meant the image lost its spooky, foreboding tone; too little made it look flat. In the end I came out with something that roughly strikes that balance, though I still feel that it loses some of the spookiness of the sketch. Thanks @ the good people at the Homestuck Artist discord for the tips! +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Al-Aalam +Artist: Kal-la-kal-la +Track Art: shedonkadonk +Duration: 5:09 +Art Tags: The Dolorosa, The Signless +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/al-aalam +- https://youtu.be/gD7C0GrtJ2U +Commentary: + Kal-la-kal-la: + This piece is heavily inspired by the bis radio edit of Turbulence by Arab Strap - 808s and gloomy guitar lines are the order of the day. Mayhaps not the most obvious approach to a track about the Dolorosa but I take a slight measure of pride in that. Quite pleased with the middle section; the cycle of dominant sevenths with the electric piano improvisation atop it. + Grief is a strange thing and I find it rarely conveyed well in music. Another for the bonfire pile. + Ephemerald: + *The sound of a camera flash can be audibly heard over the music.* Yep. That one's going in my Pietà compilation. But really, is there a more appropriate parallel to make? Probably not. The parable of the Sufferer is full of religious iconography by design, which I guess means that Earth based the Bible off of it, and not the other way around? I don't know. I'll leave that commentary for Hussie, when he (doesn't) get around to it. As a side note, I love the "halos" surrounding the Dolorosa and the Sufferer here. Good stuff. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: The Puppet Master +Artist: SplitSuns +Track Art: Ephemerald, yazshu +Duration: 4:10 +References: +- English +- Afraid of the Darko +- track:aggrieve +- track:beatdown-strider-style +- track:dissension-original +- track:showtime-original-mix +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-puppet-master +- https://youtu.be/hGnSgIGK6HM +Commentary: + SplitSuns: + When I was first given the opportunity to work on Cosmic Caretakers and saw that there was an open slot for a track centered around Doc Scratch, I jumped at the opportunity to produce it! Scratch has always been one of my favorite characters in Homestuck. When I read through the comic for the first time I loved how he orchestrated the destruction of two entire universes but managed to give an air of dignity and style to such a nefarious event. His demeanor was never overtly evil: it was unsettling at times, sure, but he always acted the part of an excellent host through and through. I tried to represent this atmosphere in my own song. Its jazzy feel ripped from "Drawing Dead" or "The Felt" definitely brings to mind a comfortable stay in Scratch's parlor, but if you listen closely you can notice sinister undertones lurking beneath the surface through the decaying bells and whistling winds. Of course, I had to throw in some reverse piano in the mix as well. It wouldn't be a Felt-centric song without one. Towards the end of the track the piano backmasks some iconic Beta Kid motifs, showing how Scratch is acutely aware of every piece to his puzzle (even when we're not). What kind of an excellent host would he be if he didn't keep tabs on his "guests", after all? + Ephemerald: + So! The Puppet Master. The laid-back yet sinister vibe this song gives off felt fitting for Scratch, who, for most of the comic, just creepily stands and watches things happen. That's why I decided to not have Scratch do some Cool Actiony Villain Pose - he's a puppetmaster. He just needs to lounge. Yazshu took care of the Alternian planet, moons, and the cueball/sun/thing, so thanks to her for the backdrop! +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Group: Disc 3 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Disc 3 +Directory: disc3-cosmic-caretakers +Artist: psithurist +Track Art: Jas +Duration: 0:27 +Art Tags: Gamzee, Cherubs +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/disc-3-3 +- https://youtu.be/Z3C-qzpXNcI +Commentary: + psithurist: + Since Disc 3 only has a few tracks, I went for a simpler approach here, and ended up with a quirky refrain of the theme present in the other jingles. s/o to the Tetris DX soundtrack for getting jazzy chiptunes stuck in my head forever. + Jas: + Styled after old album covers that always seemed to be scraped up and have that off yellow color. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: HONK FRIEND. +Artist: Mathias Ramalho +Track Art: Jas +Duration: 4:14 +References: Reverie, Power Fantasy +Art Tags: Gamzee, Caliborn, cw: blood +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/honk-friend +- https://youtu.be/IynwmfnQYzk +Commentary: + Mathias Ramalho: + This might be the wildest take on a song revolving around Gamzee. I decided to use [[track:reverie]] and [[track:power-fantasy]] as the foundation of this track as well as taking an advantage to make this somehow cheery-ish since we don't really know what happens in the story. A good advantage imo. + Jas: + It's hard being a single mom when you are a teenage boy. At least Caliborn is sitting still for once. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Singularity +Artist: ndividedbyzero +Track Art: Aeritus +Duration: 4:55 +References: +- track:ruins +- track:disc2-cosmic-caretakers +- Nova Solis +- Isle Unto Thyself +Art Tags: Cherubs +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/singularity +- https://youtu.be/Gfb17_RW2M0 +Commentary: + ndividedbyzero: + This track originates from an idea I had in 2014 to make a track about Calliope and Caliborn's parents. Five years later, it's finally done, stitched together from the composition and/or actual audio clips of like 4 FLPs (I went through about 6, all in all). Funnily enough, the scribbles I had for this song in 2014 then are completely different composition-wise from what ended up being made, but the narrative loosely remains in this track: the cherubs' mother drifts through space, searching for her mate. She spots him, taking off at full speed, following him as he leaves a trail of destruction across the universe. Their eventual meeting is tense, cold. Saying nothing, they transform into unfathomable astral serpents, and battle to create the most innocent muse and most shitheaded gremlin to ever exist. + I attribute the latter half of this track to listening to a lot of Hawaii: Part II, which is also sampled at the end. Listen to Hawaii: Part II. + Ephemerald: + The game of choice for cherubs seems to be chess, or at least, some neon-green candy-red shitty-twist variant of the game, but I'm getting real playing card motifs here. Two identical, serpentine warriors, millions and millions of miles long, locked in a symmetrical whirlwind of a strife. Reminds me of the art to [[track:noirscape]] back on Volume 9, though that's a more literal example. The spiraling, iconic egg in the middle, shining like a light in the darkness, is a very clear reminder of what these two are fighting for: the right to force their opponent to give birth to literally the worst entity in all of existence. But I suppose it didn't matter who won or who lost. After all, he was already there. +Lyrics: + Then all the planets fell to dust +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Group: Bonus tracks +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: It's Ogre +Artist: Circlejourney +Track Art: Jas +Duration: 3:03 +References: All Star, Eridan's Theme, I'm A Believer, Violet Prince +Art Tags: Eridan, Shrek +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/its-ogre-bonus +- https://youtu.be/yqm6Fw8LHUU +Commentary: + Circlejourney: + I was struck by divine inspiration 2 hours ago and now this exists, you're welcome + Jas: + I hate myself for making this and yet -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5 From 88044c9ead13a5478f8fcd72c8fec6a8a71ba0b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gio Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 18:02:33 -0600 Subject: Stage 2 --- album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml | 219 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 109 insertions(+), 110 deletions(-) (limited to 'album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml') diff --git a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml index 1f9d4db..2fb53ef 100644 --- a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml +++ b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Banner Art: melodiousDiscord Banner Dimensions: 1100x180 Date: February 17, 2019 Date Added: January 12, 2021 -Color: #ff78da +Color: '#ff78da' Groups: - Unofficial MSPA Fans - Fandom @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-caretakers - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2E1aOkERtLX9PC37_XWPOiSCopUc9ZHf -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Ucklin:
COSMIC CARETAKERS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS @@ -47,42 +47,42 @@ Commentary:
Quasar Nebula: (per [[track:jungle-3|LoFaM 4 standard]], ive highlighted commentary from people besides the original musicians or cover artists in bold!) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Group: Disc 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Disc 1 Directory: disc1-cosmic-caretakers Artist: psithurist Track Art: ackro -Duration: 1:06 +Duration: '1:06' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/disc-1-3 - https://youtu.be/tUczmB-88wM -Commentary: +Commentary: |- psithurist: The jingles I wrote for this album are a little more involved from the ones you usually find on Homestuck albums, which I did because I thought it would be fun (and it was). A grandiose intro to prepare you for what'll probably be the best god damn album you'll ever hear? ackro: this was done pretty quick, its a simple concept that didnt take much doing. the thing i like most is probably the scratch lightning, ive been drawing a lot of lightning recently. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Egbert's Kitchen Artist: Pascal van den Bos Track Art: trip -Duration: 3:01 +Duration: '3:01' References: track:under-the-hat Art Tags: John's dad, Underlings URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/egberts-kitchen - https://youtu.be/FQGsW9lDx8E -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Pascal van den Bos: For this track i went for the style of music i think Dad listens to, [[track:under-the-hat]] but even jazzier haha. The chiptune breakdown in the middle is also kind of a reference to [[track:showtime-original-mix]] which is the Strife! theme you hear when John encountered Dad. It worked pretty well, i think this is what you'd hear when you walk in to the kitchen when Dad is baking something. trip: I want this dad to be my dad. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Nanna's New Groove Artist: ndividedbyzero Track Art: TheChaoMaster -Duration: 3:48 +Duration: '3:48' References: - Homestuck Anthem - track:nannaquin @@ -90,34 +90,34 @@ Art Tags: John's nanna URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/nannas-new-groove - https://youtu.be/3xka38s_wYY -Commentary: +Commentary: |- ndividedbyzero: At first I considered making this track electroswing, but that's a bit out of my range. I think this works well as a compromise! Think of this as the soundscape to an elderly clown grandma (clownma?) throwing pies at you forever, but in a good natured way, a way where you both laugh at the absurdity of it all, except when the fifth pie is thrown you laugh a little less hard because the joke is starting to get stale, and by the time the tenth pie is thrown you start to want to go home and wonder if the clownma still finds it funny, and she does, still not in a mean spirited way, not because of the pie and not because of the frown on your face, but because she knows the joke is stale and you know the joke is stale and yet it keeps happening in spite of its staleness and that mutual understanding really only underlines the absurdity of it all. The clownma is pretty good at pranks, all things considered. TheChaoMaster: in this household we stan Jane Crocker/Nanna Egbert. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Martini Cardamom Artist: Sean Gorter, PoisonedElite Track Art: nights -Duration: 3:58 -Art Tags: Roxy, Roxy's mom, cw: alcohol +Duration: '3:58' +Art Tags: 'Roxy, Roxy''s mom, cw: alcohol' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/martini-cardamom - https://youtu.be/lJv9VPWL7dY -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Sean Gorter: Hey, it's your local pianist extraordinaire Flare. The basic seeds of this track belong to PoisonedElite, who left behind a minute-long demo of harpsichord and strings. Imagine my surprise when her MIDI was handed down to me and there were the beginnings of an electronic drum track I didn't get to hear in her exports! So the concept was set, orchestra with electronic rhythmic backing. Mom always seemed like quite the intimidating figure to those who met her. Perpetually drunk, with an endless, seemingly vindictive collection of wizard paraphrenalia, Mom was more living myth than parental figure. While most might soften those figures over time to be more relatable, not Hussie, and not Mom! She handles a massive Sburban monster with ease, demonstrates martial arts and weapons expertise, and catches the romantic attention of Dad without so much as breaking a sweat. All I could think of putting this track together was "classical badass." So here's to you, Ms. Classical Badass. nights: I wanted to try something new for this piece, so I went with a lineless minimal style. For the art, I wanted to draw both of Roxy's post and pre scratch selves, not just Mom Lalonde, since I adore both equally!! While working on it, I wanted to somehow connect the two versions of Roxy together with something common. Eventually, I settled on the scarves, and used them for composition and filling in blank spots in the art piece. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Meteor, Schmeteor (I'll Cut That Thing Right In Half) Directory: meteor-schmeteor Artist: Chaosvariant Track Art: ackro -Duration: 2:38 +Duration: '2:38' Art Tags: Dave's bro References: - track:beatdown-strider-style @@ -125,80 +125,80 @@ References: URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/meteor-schmeteor-ill-cut-that-thing-right-in-half - https://youtu.be/aYC3XRHFOkQ -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Chaosvariant: Hi I go by Chaosvariant. I worked on this track for Dave's Bro, my original intention was to remix [[track:beatdown-strider-style]] to have a little more flair and fit better into the cool yet dangerous aura Dave's Bro put off then to have that transition into the fight with Jack Noir. My computer halfway through this process bricked so sadly we're kinda stuck with a WIP but I hope you'll like it for the concept alone. SplitSuns: SplitSuns here. In addition to writing my own song for this project, which you'll find 24 tracks from now, I mastered the album in general. In theory, this means making sure each song is around the same volume so you don't have to keep adjusting your headphones. However, sometimes I did some extra work just to polish things up. Like with this song, for instance: I took what Chaosvariant had finished, added some EQ to make the mix clearer, and added a small sound effect at the end to smooth things out. ackro: i really like how i did this one. not too much going on but i feel its good for how simple it is. drawing the meteor took a bit of work, and looking at some reference shots from descend, but it really came together, and of course the sense of scale given with bro and the meteor is very well executed id say. pretty much flawless except for the fire which i couldve done better. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Hunting the Most Dangerous Game Artist: Kanishka Track Art: Tipsy -Duration: 3:30 +Duration: '3:30' References: - A Taste for Adventure - track:dissension-remix - track:old-secret -Art Tags: Jade's grandpa, Becquerel, cw: animal death +Art Tags: 'Jade''s grandpa, Becquerel, cw: animal death' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/hunting-the-most-dangerous-game - https://youtu.be/X0SymJI8Nck -Commentary: +Commentary: |- SplitSuns: With its blend of sharp synths and cinematic orchestration, as well as its dramatic swells in composition, this song does an amazing job capturing Grandpa's famed taste for adventure. Can you feel it? That sense of danger, the palpable tension in the air as the jungle trees sway in the breeze? Quick snatches of animal chatter meet your ears, the rest muffled by the dense canopy above. You grip your rifle a little tighter and adjust your hat towards what lies beyond. You have a feeling it's going to be a long hunt. tipsy: i accidentally listened to bec's song instead of grandpa's song (wow well done me), so i HAD to include dogs. but i wanted the image to live up to this song's title. you can see my thought process here. besides which you can see the true danger that grandpa must have put himself in expressed here with his lack of pants. anyway i wanted the animals to all look vaguely real, so i spent a lot of time looking up pictures of them while drawing. i was heavily inspired by hiveswap and the photo frames of grandpa in his past, and wanted to draw a silly looking hunting scenario that could fill the gaps of in your head. there's even a version with joey's comments scribbled on, though it was a bit too busy and standoutish. hope you enjoy [Kanishka]'s song. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Fetch That Steak Artist: Kusoro Track Art: SpaceWaifu -Duration: 1:34 +Duration: '1:34' Art Tags: Becquerel, Jade URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/fetch-that-steak - https://youtu.be/03hQ5iLuTTQ -Commentary: +Commentary: |- SplitSuns: Bec is, first and foremost, a good dog. Let's put aside his featureless visage, god-like powers and key role in creating a Sovereign Slayer capable of destroying entire universes. He is a dog that likes to run around, play fetch, and eat treats like any other! This song shows that under-appreciated side of Jade's best friend. How can you say no to those Mario Paint dog barks? (If you think those are great, wait until you listen to the song for Bec's post-Scratch counterpart. Cinematic parallels, I'm telling you.) Ephemerald: Bec quite clearly doesn't have a care in the world here. You know, it's funny how omnipotent dog brains work. "Yeah, I was brought to this planet with the express purpose of facilitating its ultimate purpose and also ensuring that I exist at all, but, I mean, do I have to do that right now? Can't I just take some time off and go fetch a steak so radioactive it would make the Elephant's Foot seem like a regular old chunk of steel by comparison? The answer is yes, I can. So I will." Good dog. Best friend. Not a superb prioritizer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Monatomic Strife Artist: Pascal van den Bos Track Art: trip -Duration: 2:15 +Duration: '2:15' References: Versus Art Tags: John's dad, The Felt URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/monatomic-strife - https://youtu.be/0f-iGQ_9BnU -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Pascal van den Bos: I wanted to write a Strife theme for Dad Crocker since i've never heard one before, but i think he's the cooler dad so he should have one. I made it kinda fast paced based on him fighting in [S] Collide, i think that's where he really showed how good of a guardian he is by beating up some felt members. trip: This one too. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Secondhand Memories Artist: Grace Medley Track Art: nights -Duration: 1:57 +Duration: '1:57' Art Tags: Jane's grandpa, Jane URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/secondhand-memories - https://youtu.be/pCKkP1NDG7s -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Grace Medley: Sorry, sorry to interrupt the booklet, folks, but I've got a cracking idea: see the next time you find yourself in a pub toilet, and you've got a pen on you, write on the door, "Johnny Crocker, R.I.P." Or let's say you're not old enough to get into pubs yet, let's say, you're still in school? Write it on a desk. Scratch it in with a compass. "Johnny Crocker, R.I.P." Or let's say you're online. Let's say you're on Bebo, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, a forum, whatever it is, just get the message out there. "Johnny Crocker, R.I.P." Miss you, big man. Gone, but not forgotten. And who is Johnny Crocker...? Eh, who cares. nights: I had the sketch of this track art sitting by for a while, since I never found the time to finish it - not even during the holiday break. I finally was able to find the time to do exactly that on... A very long and boring plane trip, hahah. While drawing it, I thought about how Jane never really knew her poppop, nor did she know she was the cause of his death in the first place (classic Homestuck), so I wanted to convey that bittersweet feeling through the piece. I experimented on the colors with using a couple paper-constructioney textures on it and on the backdrop. Also, the stewardess on my plane trip caught a glance of the drawing and gave me a compliment in broken English, so you know this is some certified REAL good art. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: The Light's Rebellion Artist: Circlejourney Track Art: gelasticat -Duration: 3:48 +Duration: '3:48' References: - The Thirteenth Hour - track:endless-climb @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ Art Tags: Roxy's mom URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-lights-rebellion - https://youtu.be/nhtb6U-fYzM -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Circlejourney: Greatly inspired by the soundtracks of Touhou, PMMM, and various Japanese media, The Light's Rebellion is meant to sound like the overture of an epic and tumultous tale. To me, the life of Roxy's illustrious and erudite Mom - encompassing the publication of doorstepper novels, a Guy Fieri rodeo down a waterfall of blood, and death as a revolutionary at the hands of an alien empress - is the sort of capricious novel-worthy story that can only be told through battling melodies in the major pentatonic scale, 3/4 + 6/8 cross-rhythms, and soaring trumpets. The primary melodic motif opens the piece on the solo violin - a rousing tune representing the character of Alpha Rose and her rebellious aspirations. The trumpet then introduces the secondary motif - that of The Thirteenth Hour, a melodic backbone representing (erroneously?*) the novels to which she devoted the greater part of her life. It rises and dips, shifting between lyrical solos, brassy full-orchestra segments, and percussive interludes. Two of Rose's motifs, Aggrieve and Endless Climb, are also briefly quoted. @@ -217,11 +217,11 @@ Commentary: ndividedbyzero: Her hair is like the sun, rebelling against the oppressive shadow of the night sky. Not complacent, but sure as hell learned enough to punt you down a waterfall with stabby needles. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: The Dave Strider Experience Artist: ndividedbyzero Track Art: dazed-squid -Duration: 3:54 +Duration: '3:54' References: - track:beatdown-strider-style - This Is America @@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ Art Tags: Dirk's bro URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-dave-strider-experience - https://youtu.be/cXXGaaHE7W8 -Commentary: +Commentary: |- ndividedbyzero: wilson for wisdom. stiller for power. glover for courage. with the tripartite decree of america's three greatest heralds, backed by a rendition of beatdown so terrifying it can only be described as psychological warfare, the stage has been set for the star of the show. the experience behind the experience. but such titles do not ascribe what importance this fiend deserves. nay, they COULD not ascribe the requisite importance, for only one title suits the hero, the madman, the director and architect to a hall of fame of utter shit. he is THE BIG MAN, and we are all in his court. @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ Commentary: MISC NOTES: this piece started with me thinking "hm, i really want to use running hell in this dave song" and then the rest kind of flowed from there. in that segment, you may note that violent j seems to alternate between lamenting the presence of "THE WITCH" and singing her praises. i feel as though if an alien queen actually appeared to install the insane clown posse as figureheads of a government responsible for the deaths of billions, it would have to involve some sort of mental manipulation on her part, because honestly, icp seem like sort of decent upstanding folks in reality? like violent j wholeheartedly supports his daughter being a furry so he seems to be a nice dad at least. shit, in this political climate they might not be half bad as dual presidents, comparatively, and they're literal clowns. thanks to grace for recommending i use icp's seminal and apparent manifesto, "What Is A Juggalo", whose lyrics you should look up because they are just truly incredible. the section it transitions to, where the nightcore becomes ambient noise, is meant to symbolize the tense standoff between dave and icp before he cuts their heads off, but also it was mostly tongue in cheek. waters of nazareth also plays during that section very faintly, which partly symbolizes that in parallel to this event rose is executing the antichrist over a waterfall, but that was something i just made up now. more intentionally, sampling waters of nazareth badly in a strider song contrasts with the fantastic use of the sample in splitsuns' [[track:thyme-on-my-fries]]. (love ya split). oh god this was a wall of text. i'm done now bye dazed-squid: I kinda wanted to show Alpha Dave as a simple sturdy figure in a messy messy background because that's how Dirk saw him? Super cool and collected in all the chaos surrounding him. Also suits. -Lyrics: +Lyrics: |- (backwards dialogue) Waow What is this? A center for ants? @@ -259,12 +259,12 @@ Lyrics: About murder, witnessin' death setting in, and it ain't no heaven that's letting me in! What is a juggalo? He drinks like a fish and then he starts hugging people like a drunken (WAOW) next thing he's pickin' fights with his best friends, then he starts with the hugging again (unintelligible) IT'S THE SWEET BRO AND HELLA JEFF SHOW! WHOAAAAAAAAa -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Jade English - Study for Eclectic Bass, 1984.1 Directory: study-for-eclectic-bass-1984-1 Artist: Interrobang Track Art: Jas -Duration: 5:09 +Duration: '5:09' References: - Rhapsody in Green - track:verdancy-bassline @@ -278,45 +278,45 @@ Art Tags: Jake's grandma URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/jade-english-study-for-eclectic-bass-19841 - https://youtu.be/CN2oWjAy6EI -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Interrobang: This piece has been in the works for a LONG time. I started it in March of 2017, and though most of the compositional work was complete by July of that year, I didn't finish polishing everything up until late April 2018, after many months of procrastination and tweaking. The idea of the track is simple, it's Jake's Grandmother, Jade English, writing a song for her signature eclectic bass sometime in the 80's, which you probably already knew from the title. Anyway, I wanted to make a song that you could supposedly 'play' on the eclectic bass, which meant I had to figure out what exactly the components of such an instrument were (see [[media:misc/eclectic-bass-diagram.png|the accompanying diagram]]). I chose the iconic Yamaha DX7 (used in tons of 80's pop) to be the keyboards of the instrument as it could make the sounds I wanted, it was from around the right time, and I had an emulation (Digital Suburban's "Dexed") on hand. Other instruments used in the song were Karfoyer Audio's "Pastabass" and "Swagbass" for the bass guitars themselves, as well as Full Bucket Music's "Ragnarök" (used to flesh out some bass frequencies at the song's peak), and some built-in GarageBand instruments (drums) and effects. Compositionally, I started out with the ostinato that closes [[track:rhapsody-in-green]] (Clark Powell) from the Felt album, but played in reverse, adding in an FM pad (the aforementioned DX7) and [[track:skaianet]] by Mark Hadley on the other bass guitar. The introduction section transitions into variations on [[track:verdancy-bassline]] by Kalibration, and closes the track's first half with a medley of various Jade-related songs. The second half is an original thing (though the beginning is a variation on [[track:afraid-of-the-darko]] by RJ! Lake) that I had build in complexity and intensity before dropping off to end the piece. Reference-wise, I tried to keep things centered roughly on Jade, as well as some other skaianet/felt sort of stuff that I thought fit the Alpha world and Jade's place in it, but I did end up throwing in a couple memetic references, see if you can find them both! Jas: Grandma Harley often wrote her grandson about the tyranny of Lord English, obviously not able to hide everything from the enemy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Felidae Superior Artist: WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES Track Art: shu -Duration: 3:44 +Duration: '3:44' Art Tags: God Cat URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/felidae-superior - https://youtu.be/l0Izf8Sl7LI -Commentary: +Commentary: |- WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES: This song took remarkably long to put together. Less because it was difficult, and more because I kept getting distracted with other projects along the way. Anyway, meow. SplitSuns: Shu delivers some impressively smooth and refined art for everyone's second-favorite cat whose name begins with a G, GCAT. They say you can tell a lot about someone from their eyes, which makes it more impressive that you can glean this cat's mischievous expression without any eyes at all. GCAT is prepared for action from its carefully positioned placement on a tree branch, ready to pounce at a ball of yarn or teleport to the spot best suited for making your life hell. Some rough glitchy effects in the background add an interesting dimension to the piece, nicely contrasting against its smooth linework. This is one art you won't want to miss, and knowing GCAT's temper, you might miss it if you blink. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Sweet Talker Artist: Ucklin Track Art: nights -Duration: 3:24 +Duration: '3:24' References: Hate You Art Tags: The Condesce URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/sweet-talker - https://youtu.be/TkDZC-vTXHE -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Ucklin: The idea for this song started with the transition around 2:35 to the section with [[track:hate-you]] played in a straight rhythm. I wanted to capture a feeling of dread by making that part of the song methodical and delaying the payoff of some of the notes by a beat. It would also be a stark contrast to have this straight section in solo piano right after a climactic section with plenty of instruments in a swing beat! I was inspired to incorporate a musical palette from the 30s-40s because that's when I estimate Condy took over as Betty Crocker and started doing her guardian things. In the original song, I planned for the bass to carry most of the weight with regards to rhythm, but eventually, I was persuaded to add percussion to the track after helpful feedback from a few of the organizers, and I think it helped a lot! Hate You is quoted 3 times, although the first two ended up a bit disguised by subsequent layers of instrumentation. With regards to the rest of the composition, I tried to have fun! In a way, this song is supposed to tell the story of The Baroness. The beginning hook and the next section portray the mask she wears as Betty Crocker upon arriving to earth, and the persona that caused her husband Colonel Sassacre to fall in love with her. That part of the story is pretty funny to me. The following section introduces the mystery of her real identity with a jazzy Hate You quote before returning to the first section, and finally the climactic transition of the song represents the death of Colonel Sassacre and the beginning of Crocker's reign of terror proper. Finally, at the very end of the song, there is a piccolo harmony which just sounds like aliens to me, possibly because it sounds a little like a theremin. I learned a lot composing this song! Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoyed! (And thanks to nights for art more polished and gorgeous than I could hope to deserve!) nights: This very nice track gave me vibes of a casual setting with the condesce, so I thought to draw her doing a mundane but fun task - baking! I've always liked fanart of HIC as betty crocker, doing crockery things like baking cake and raising post-scratch john/jade. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Group: Disc 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Disc 2 Directory: disc2-cosmic-caretakers Artist: psithurist @@ -326,24 +326,24 @@ Art Tags: John's dad, Karkat's lusus, John, Karkat URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/disc-2-3 - https://youtu.be/rhncumrLYns -Commentary: +Commentary: |- psithurist: This was actually the first of the three disc jingles that I wrote, and uses synths to aim for a more alien-ish vibe for the trolls disc, contrasting the organic instruments present in the humans disc. WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES: Would you believe that both DAD and CRABDAD are looking at the VERY SAME STAR while cradling their children? No? You don't? They both exist in completely different universes you say? That the stars are thematic element used to tie this track art together and to symbolically show the role of each of these GUARDIANS? You're no fun. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Voice of the Dead Artist: Mathias Ramalho, cookiefonster Track Art: freckledOctopus -Duration: 2:20 +Duration: '2:20' References: Aradia's Theme (Pre-Death) Art Tags: Aradia's lusus, Aradia URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/voice-of-the-dead - https://youtu.be/aw72N9h0P08 -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Mathias Ramalho: H*ck dude ye made this shit for a thingy that was DEAD in it's FIRST AND ONLY APPEARANCE IN THE ENTIRE FUCKING COMIC?? So! I've realized nobody wanted to make a track for this completely relevant character for completely obvious reasons, so I took three days of my entire life to give this beautiful creature the piece it deserves. The whole process of making this was to base it around a small snippet of Famitracker that Cookie made a long time ago, and with that I completely broke it up to a point of being in love with it, so thank you Cookie you gave me an awesome idea as well as a good snippet! @@ -353,80 +353,80 @@ Commentary: he wasnt going to let the song just :Die~2: freckledOctopus: I love the track and wanted to try and capture the more haunting side to it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Flittaurine Artist: Shirokishi Track Art: Chumi -Duration: 2:07 +Duration: '2:07' References: Rust Servant Art Tags: Tavros' lusus URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/flittaurine - https://youtu.be/zWK3R-YnmTI -Commentary: +Commentary: |- WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES: Tinkerbull is a daintly and beautiful lusus, who took care of his young troll Tavros to impeccable standards, giving him the kind of love and attention that all trolls in their early sweeps truly need. Until he got crushed painfully to death by Tavros's wheelchair anyway. Kind of a sad end to this tale. Chumi: Dear, sweet, precious Tinkerbull. Rest in peace my little guy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Polypolyphemus Artist: Ducky Senpai Track Art: shu -Duration: 3:18 +Duration: '3:18' References: Die For Me Art Tags: Sollux's lusus URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/polypolyphemus - https://youtu.be/Rd9a2KQ_ZVk -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Ducky Senpai: For those who may be curious, the title (suggested by Lambda) is play on the term "Polyphemus" which refers to the cyclops in The Odyssey. It's a really dumb pun, and I love it. SplitSuns: Polypolyphemus is an intense track, so it's fitting for its art to capture the same intensity. Sollux's Biclops is captured right before its imminent demise as the troll's Mind Honey-induced flip out rips through the ceiling of his hive and surrounds the lusus in a multi-colored beam of energy. The meteors illuminating the night sky further illustrate the carnage present in the scene in a fashion that pops up time and time again in Homestuck proper. If only one of those meteors could break the chain around the Biclops' leg and set it free! Wait, the resulting impact would probably just kill the Biclops anyway. Never mind, that was a stupid idea. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Rangoon Artist: WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES Track Art: ackro -Duration: 2:03 +Duration: '2:03' References: Showdown Art Tags: Karkat's lusus, Karkat URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/rangoon - https://youtu.be/qayMFPJjtI0 -Commentary: +Commentary: |- WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES: Crabs taste pretty good, gotta say. I'm partial to snow crab, myself. Of course, the only place I ever had them was Red Lobster: the apex of all seafood cuisine. ackro: this one is pretty much just a carbon copy of a homestuck panel i found. i mean i didnt trace anything, but its all placed pretty much the same with minor differences. dont give me too much praise for this one. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Apex Conquistador Artist: TempiTunes, WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES Track Art: Sammie -Duration: 1:38 +Duration: '1:38' References: Nepeta's Theme Art Tags: Nepeta's lusus URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/apex-conquistador - https://youtu.be/g0HGUiXDsQU -Commentary: +Commentary: |- WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES: I had the opportunity to touch up this piece, which I mostly did by polishing up the samples and adding an electric piano as backing. Meow. WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES: If there's one thing that mouse can appreciate, it's that it got to see a two-mouthed cat monster before it died. Coincidentally, it's about to die because of said two-mouthed cat monster eating it. You just can't have it all, unfortunately. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Recordare, Virgo Mater Artist: queer maggot Track Art: artisticallyCrafty -Duration: 3:34 +Duration: '3:34' References: Virgin Orb Art Tags: Kanaya's lusus URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/recordare-virgo-mater - https://youtu.be/uI2g0qbTjEE -Commentary: +Commentary: |- queer maggot: Oh man, this is a really loaded song for me. Coming from a musical background that mostly consisted of writing punk songs and making bad beats, when I started on this I sort of had no idea what I was doing?? I wanted to portray this sense of grief and sadness that would shift into a big, fun declaration of hope and all that, but really what wound up happening was me rushing through the grief and sadness to get to the fun bits with the electric guitar. I even made the fun bits with some friends watching just to make sure that it truly was both big and fun! That was the good part, in my eyes. Unfortunately, I just didn't know how to properly convey the feeling I was going for, and I really didn't know how to write a song for a character. I wasn't experienced enough and I didn't have the tenacity to stick with it. That was the first version of the song I ever made. That's when my dog Beethoven died. He was 15 years old, but I'd only had him for 6 of those years. He was honestly one of the sweetest dogs anyone could ask for. He was intensely loyal, loved to get loved on, and would always come back no matter how far off he ran or how deep into the woods he got. He was one of my best friends, and having this happen to me was a very large shock to my system. I'd been fortunate enough up to that point not to have any close family or friends pass on me, but Beethoven was very close family and a good boy in general. It was my first time having to grapple with the overwhelming feeling of grief that comes with the loss of a loved one, even if that loved one was a dog, and I was struggling with it. I was down and out for a while. If it had been me from a few years ago, I probably would've just laid in the dark and grieved for a long time instead of doing anything useful or trying to get over it. @@ -434,16 +434,16 @@ Commentary: All in all, this was an interesting thing that I learned a lot making. It was my first time receiving real criticism on something I made and I hope people enjoy it! artisticallyCrafty: The Mothergrub has always been a fascinating creature to me in Homestuck, both as a part of reproduction and as a lusus. Especially since becoming a lusus means that you give up a life in the brooding caverns for a shortened existence to care for onechild. And with the Virgin Mother Grub drawing so many parallels to the iconic Holy Virgin Mary, I decided to draw my own parallels. I wanted this peice to be symbolic in nature towards the ideas and standards of the Mothergrub. It also may be a little sacrilegious in regards to the Catholic images of the Virgin Mary, but we'll just ignore that little fact. The Virgin Mothergrub floats with the brooding caverns behind her, and her new charge sleeping peacefully nearby, alongside other eggs nearly ready to hatch into trolls that will play a game and sacrifice to create something new. (we're also going to ignore the fact that i may have had an out-of-body experience while working on this piece) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Amniotic Daydream Artist: Circlejourney Track Art: ackro -Duration: 4:16 +Duration: '4:16' References: JUST1C3 R41NS FROM 4BOV3 URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/amniotic-daydream - https://youtu.be/Bne6tHjEIko -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Circlejourney: I conceptualised Amniotic Daydream together with Skip: the first thing we decided was that it should be a lullaby-like track built on top of a heartbeat. I ultimately ended up working on this track alone, looking to a demo Skip made as a stylistic reference before taking it in my own direction. Incubating within her egg for almost her entire lifetime, Dragonmom's track describes this inchoate state: the warmth and serenity and loneliness of waiting to hatch, and the constancy of the heartbeat throughout. The gradual build and elaboration of the track mirrors the development of an embryo. Pad synths ebb and flow, swelling and lulling with the beating of the heart. The drums start out muffled, as if heard through shell and chorion, and the sound only begins to take shape towards the middle of the track as the riffs grow more complex. @@ -451,18 +451,18 @@ Commentary: I'd love to thank the mods for their feedback, which truly helped me turn this track into what it is now. ackro: this piece is probably the most complex one i did for the album, and i think it payed off in spades. i used a lot of elements from the scene in which terezi's dragon hatches and is immediately killed by a falling meteor, which might be one of the best looking parts in homestuck, although its hard to choose since the first half of homestuck is littered with striking imagery. oh my god just look at it. so good. so fucking good guys. its really good. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Arachnida Antecessor Artist: arcaneGemini Track Art: Caitlin Beamer -Duration: 2:11 +Duration: '2:11' References: - track:MeGaLoVania -Art Tags: Vriska's lusus, Vriska, cw: arachnid +Art Tags: 'Vriska''s lusus, Vriska, cw: arachnid' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/arachnida-antecessor - https://youtu.be/oP8Y3OVrxY8 -Commentary: +Commentary: |- arcaneGemini: Well hey, would you look at that: my first ever track with the Homestuck Fan Musicians Crew. That's pretty neat. Let's talk about it shall we? @@ -472,18 +472,18 @@ Commentary: You know what? Since you've gone through all the trouble to read this here commentary, have a free concept guitar riff for this tune. For you it's on the house. Caitlyn Beamer: I understand why hussie didn't draw spider-mom with hair on her. that took way too much time to have to do it more than once. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: STRONG Butler. Best Dad. Directory: STRONG-butler-best-dad Artist: arcaneGemini Track Art: Tipsy -Duration: 3:16 +Duration: '3:16' References: Horschestra STRONG Version Art Tags: Equius's lusus, Equius URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/strong-butler-best-dad - https://youtu.be/BzwL4cY8V50 -Commentary: +Commentary: |- arcaneGemini: You thought you could get rid of me that easily? Think again. That's right, it's round 2 with Dyl Nye the Science Guy: Horse edition. Honestly I'm not entirely sure how this worked out, but I'm glad it did since horses are the bees knees. @@ -495,27 +495,27 @@ Commentary: Also yes, that is me saying 'neigh'. tipsy: For every album cover I've drawn so far, I try to make them look a little different and experiment with different styles. In this case I tried to draw a HORSE (crazy i know) and used this very painting-like flat style, and decided to put Equius's signature up, effectively making it his own painting! This went through lots of colour hue alterations and was originally a very light pink desert in a sunny sky before we settled on this darker background to make Aurthour stand out more. I like to think that Equius is simultaneously admiring his surroundings and panicking about their imminent death by sunburn. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Absent Reflection Artist: PoisonedElite Track Art: Jas -Duration: 2:10 +Duration: '2:10' References: track:dilemma Art Tags: Gamzee URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/absent-reflection - https://youtu.be/uw2z3juY-64 -Commentary: +Commentary: |- PoisonedElite: Wow, this is the first song I ever signed up to make, over a year ago in April of 2017. From the beginning writing a song about Gamzee's Lusus provided a challenge due to the fact that it only appears in a panel or two, so I decided to write the song around the lack of it in Gamzee's life. Like Calming Quartz, this also had a different song as the rough Draft, so here ya go. Play Hollow Knight, eat your dinner, and never forget the pokemon you lose when you're doing a Nuzlocke challenge. Rest in Peace Oswin ;-;7 Jas: Sometimes you wait a long time to see the people you love. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Hippocampaternal Artist: FrostyMac Track Art: Jas -Duration: 2:35 +Duration: '2:35' References: - Eridan's Theme - track:chorale-for-jaspers @@ -524,16 +524,16 @@ Art Tags: Eridan's lusus URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/hippocampaternal - https://youtu.be/hN4jbLF5lEc -Commentary: +Commentary: |- FrostyMac: Fun fact: This was the first song I ever made for any Homestuck related project ever, and I lost the original file at some point, so excuse the mixing being a little weird. I still stand by the song's compositional and structural quality though. Jas: Your baby crashed in on a blaze of fire, go get him seahorse daddy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Whispering Leviathan Artist: Kanishka Track Art: Circlejourney -Duration: 4:24 +Duration: '4:24' References: - Fear of the Heavens - Silencio @@ -544,32 +544,32 @@ Art Tags: Feferi's lusus, Horrorterrors URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/whispering-leviathan - https://youtu.be/ixMCOL-1yVc -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Kanishka: *angry tentacle noises* Circlejourney: Listening to Whispering Leviathan always made me feel like I was hearing it in a submarine environment - perfectly appropriate to the subject of Gl'bgolyb. The scene in which Gl'bgolyb was revealed was, to me, one of the several "holy shit" moments of Homestuck, and instead of trying to depict the vastness of Feferi's lusus, I went for a sense of mystery and foreboding more closely matching the tone of the music, by revealing nothing but its tentacles in silhouette. Finding the right balance between silhouette and rendering proved one of the primary challenges of completing this piece. Too much light meant the image lost its spooky, foreboding tone; too little made it look flat. In the end I came out with something that roughly strikes that balance, though I still feel that it loses some of the spookiness of the sketch. Thanks @ the good people at the Homestuck Artist discord for the tips! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Al-Aalam Artist: Kal-la-kal-la Track Art: shedonkadonk -Duration: 5:09 +Duration: '5:09' Art Tags: The Dolorosa, The Signless URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/al-aalam - https://youtu.be/gD7C0GrtJ2U -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Kal-la-kal-la: This piece is heavily inspired by the bis radio edit of Turbulence by Arab Strap - 808s and gloomy guitar lines are the order of the day. Mayhaps not the most obvious approach to a track about the Dolorosa but I take a slight measure of pride in that. Quite pleased with the middle section; the cycle of dominant sevenths with the electric piano improvisation atop it. Grief is a strange thing and I find it rarely conveyed well in music. Another for the bonfire pile. Ephemerald: *The sound of a camera flash can be audibly heard over the music.* Yep. That one's going in my Pietà compilation. But really, is there a more appropriate parallel to make? Probably not. The parable of the Sufferer is full of religious iconography by design, which I guess means that Earth based the Bible off of it, and not the other way around? I don't know. I'll leave that commentary for Hussie, when he (doesn't) get around to it. As a side note, I love the "halos" surrounding the Dolorosa and the Sufferer here. Good stuff. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: The Puppet Master Artist: SplitSuns Track Art: Ephemerald, yazshu -Duration: 4:10 +Duration: '4:10' References: - English - Afraid of the Darko @@ -580,14 +580,14 @@ References: URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-puppet-master - https://youtu.be/hGnSgIGK6HM -Commentary: +Commentary: |- SplitSuns: When I was first given the opportunity to work on Cosmic Caretakers and saw that there was an open slot for a track centered around Doc Scratch, I jumped at the opportunity to produce it! Scratch has always been one of my favorite characters in Homestuck. When I read through the comic for the first time I loved how he orchestrated the destruction of two entire universes but managed to give an air of dignity and style to such a nefarious event. His demeanor was never overtly evil: it was unsettling at times, sure, but he always acted the part of an excellent host through and through. I tried to represent this atmosphere in my own song. Its jazzy feel ripped from "Drawing Dead" or "The Felt" definitely brings to mind a comfortable stay in Scratch's parlor, but if you listen closely you can notice sinister undertones lurking beneath the surface through the decaying bells and whistling winds. Of course, I had to throw in some reverse piano in the mix as well. It wouldn't be a Felt-centric song without one. Towards the end of the track the piano backmasks some iconic Beta Kid motifs, showing how Scratch is acutely aware of every piece to his puzzle (even when we're not). What kind of an excellent host would he be if he didn't keep tabs on his "guests", after all? Ephemerald: So! The Puppet Master. The laid-back yet sinister vibe this song gives off felt fitting for Scratch, who, for most of the comic, just creepily stands and watches things happen. That's why I decided to not have Scratch do some Cool Actiony Villain Pose - he's a puppetmaster. He just needs to lounge. Yazshu took care of the Alternian planet, moons, and the cueball/sun/thing, so thanks to her for the backdrop! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Group: Disc 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Disc 3 Directory: disc3-cosmic-caretakers Artist: psithurist @@ -597,31 +597,31 @@ Art Tags: Gamzee, Cherubs URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/disc-3-3 - https://youtu.be/Z3C-qzpXNcI -Commentary: +Commentary: |- psithurist: Since Disc 3 only has a few tracks, I went for a simpler approach here, and ended up with a quirky refrain of the theme present in the other jingles. s/o to the Tetris DX soundtrack for getting jazzy chiptunes stuck in my head forever. Jas: Styled after old album covers that always seemed to be scraped up and have that off yellow color. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: HONK FRIEND. Artist: Mathias Ramalho Track Art: Jas -Duration: 4:14 +Duration: '4:14' References: Reverie, Power Fantasy -Art Tags: Gamzee, Caliborn, cw: blood +Art Tags: 'Gamzee, Caliborn, cw: blood' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/honk-friend - https://youtu.be/IynwmfnQYzk -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Mathias Ramalho: This might be the wildest take on a song revolving around Gamzee. I decided to use [[track:reverie]] and [[track:power-fantasy]] as the foundation of this track as well as taking an advantage to make this somehow cheery-ish since we don't really know what happens in the story. A good advantage imo. Jas: It's hard being a single mom when you are a teenage boy. At least Caliborn is sitting still for once. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Singularity Artist: ndividedbyzero Track Art: Aeritus -Duration: 4:55 +Duration: '4:55' References: - track:ruins - track:disc2-cosmic-caretakers @@ -631,27 +631,26 @@ Art Tags: Cherubs URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/singularity - https://youtu.be/Gfb17_RW2M0 -Commentary: +Commentary: |- ndividedbyzero: This track originates from an idea I had in 2014 to make a track about Calliope and Caliborn's parents. Five years later, it's finally done, stitched together from the composition and/or actual audio clips of like 4 FLPs (I went through about 6, all in all). Funnily enough, the scribbles I had for this song in 2014 then are completely different composition-wise from what ended up being made, but the narrative loosely remains in this track: the cherubs' mother drifts through space, searching for her mate. She spots him, taking off at full speed, following him as he leaves a trail of destruction across the universe. Their eventual meeting is tense, cold. Saying nothing, they transform into unfathomable astral serpents, and battle to create the most innocent muse and most shitheaded gremlin to ever exist. I attribute the latter half of this track to listening to a lot of Hawaii: Part II, which is also sampled at the end. Listen to Hawaii: Part II. Ephemerald: The game of choice for cherubs seems to be chess, or at least, some neon-green candy-red shitty-twist variant of the game, but I'm getting real playing card motifs here. Two identical, serpentine warriors, millions and millions of miles long, locked in a symmetrical whirlwind of a strife. Reminds me of the art to [[track:noirscape]] back on Volume 9, though that's a more literal example. The spiraling, iconic egg in the middle, shining like a light in the darkness, is a very clear reminder of what these two are fighting for: the right to force their opponent to give birth to literally the worst entity in all of existence. But I suppose it didn't matter who won or who lost. After all, he was already there. -Lyrics: - Then all the planets fell to dust -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Lyrics: Then all the planets fell to dust +--- Group: Bonus tracks -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: It's Ogre Artist: Circlejourney Track Art: Jas -Duration: 3:03 +Duration: '3:03' References: All Star, Eridan's Theme, I'm A Believer, Violet Prince Art Tags: Eridan, Shrek URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/its-ogre-bonus - https://youtu.be/yqm6Fw8LHUU -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Circlejourney: I was struck by divine inspiration 2 hours ago and now this exists, you're welcome Jas: -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5 From 6643cb617aeb06292e1bd93981808b7322f4a6af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gio Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 19:48:54 -0600 Subject: Listify list fields --- album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml | 267 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 187 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-) (limited to 'album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml') diff --git a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml index 2fb53ef..568ec5b 100644 --- a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml +++ b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ Album: Cosmic Caretakers -Cover Art: Elanor Pam -Wallpaper Art: Elanor Pam -Banner Art: melodiousDiscord +Banner Art: +- melodiousDiscord Banner Dimensions: 1100x180 Date: February 17, 2019 Date Added: January 12, 2021 @@ -47,13 +46,16 @@ Commentary: |-
Quasar Nebula: (per [[track:jungle-3|LoFaM 4 standard]], ive highlighted commentary from people besides the original musicians or cover artists in bold!) +Cover Artists: +- Elanor Pam +Wallpaper Artists: +- Elanor Pam --- Group: Disc 1 --- Track: Disc 1 Directory: disc1-cosmic-caretakers Artist: psithurist -Track Art: ackro Duration: '1:06' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/disc-1-3 @@ -63,13 +65,17 @@ Commentary: |- The jingles I wrote for this album are a little more involved from the ones you usually find on Homestuck albums, which I did because I thought it would be fun (and it was). A grandiose intro to prepare you for what'll probably be the best god damn album you'll ever hear? ackro: this was done pretty quick, its a simple concept that didnt take much doing. the thing i like most is probably the scratch lightning, ive been drawing a lot of lightning recently. +Cover Artists: +- ackro --- Track: Egbert's Kitchen Artist: Pascal van den Bos -Track Art: trip Duration: '3:01' -References: track:under-the-hat -Art Tags: John's dad, Underlings +References: +- track:under-the-hat +Art Tags: +- John's dad +- Underlings URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/egberts-kitchen - https://youtu.be/FQGsW9lDx8E @@ -78,15 +84,17 @@ Commentary: |- For this track i went for the style of music i think Dad listens to, [[track:under-the-hat]] but even jazzier haha. The chiptune breakdown in the middle is also kind of a reference to [[track:showtime-original-mix]] which is the Strife! theme you hear when John encountered Dad. It worked pretty well, i think this is what you'd hear when you walk in to the kitchen when Dad is baking something. trip: I want this dad to be my dad. +Cover Artists: +- trip --- Track: Nanna's New Groove Artist: ndividedbyzero -Track Art: TheChaoMaster Duration: '3:48' References: - Homestuck Anthem - track:nannaquin -Art Tags: John's nanna +Art Tags: +- John's nanna URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/nannas-new-groove - https://youtu.be/3xka38s_wYY @@ -97,12 +105,16 @@ Commentary: |- The clownma is pretty good at pranks, all things considered. TheChaoMaster: in this household we stan Jane Crocker/Nanna Egbert. +Cover Artists: +- TheChaoMaster --- Track: Martini Cardamom Artist: Sean Gorter, PoisonedElite -Track Art: nights Duration: '3:58' -Art Tags: 'Roxy, Roxy''s mom, cw: alcohol' +Art Tags: +- Roxy +- Roxy's mom +- 'cw: alcohol' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/martini-cardamom - https://youtu.be/lJv9VPWL7dY @@ -112,13 +124,15 @@ Commentary: |- Mom always seemed like quite the intimidating figure to those who met her. Perpetually drunk, with an endless, seemingly vindictive collection of wizard paraphrenalia, Mom was more living myth than parental figure. While most might soften those figures over time to be more relatable, not Hussie, and not Mom! She handles a massive Sburban monster with ease, demonstrates martial arts and weapons expertise, and catches the romantic attention of Dad without so much as breaking a sweat. All I could think of putting this track together was "classical badass." So here's to you, Ms. Classical Badass. nights: I wanted to try something new for this piece, so I went with a lineless minimal style. For the art, I wanted to draw both of Roxy's post and pre scratch selves, not just Mom Lalonde, since I adore both equally!! While working on it, I wanted to somehow connect the two versions of Roxy together with something common. Eventually, I settled on the scarves, and used them for composition and filling in blank spots in the art piece. +Cover Artists: +- nights --- Track: Meteor, Schmeteor (I'll Cut That Thing Right In Half) Directory: meteor-schmeteor Artist: Chaosvariant -Track Art: ackro Duration: '2:38' -Art Tags: Dave's bro +Art Tags: +- Dave's bro References: - track:beatdown-strider-style - Umbral Ultimatum @@ -132,16 +146,20 @@ Commentary: |- SplitSuns here. In addition to writing my own song for this project, which you'll find 24 tracks from now, I mastered the album in general. In theory, this means making sure each song is around the same volume so you don't have to keep adjusting your headphones. However, sometimes I did some extra work just to polish things up. Like with this song, for instance: I took what Chaosvariant had finished, added some EQ to make the mix clearer, and added a small sound effect at the end to smooth things out. ackro: i really like how i did this one. not too much going on but i feel its good for how simple it is. drawing the meteor took a bit of work, and looking at some reference shots from descend, but it really came together, and of course the sense of scale given with bro and the meteor is very well executed id say. pretty much flawless except for the fire which i couldve done better. +Cover Artists: +- ackro --- Track: Hunting the Most Dangerous Game Artist: Kanishka -Track Art: Tipsy Duration: '3:30' References: - A Taste for Adventure - track:dissension-remix - track:old-secret -Art Tags: 'Jade''s grandpa, Becquerel, cw: animal death' +Art Tags: +- Jade's grandpa +- Becquerel +- 'cw: animal death' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/hunting-the-most-dangerous-game - https://youtu.be/X0SymJI8Nck @@ -150,12 +168,15 @@ Commentary: |- With its blend of sharp synths and cinematic orchestration, as well as its dramatic swells in composition, this song does an amazing job capturing Grandpa's famed taste for adventure. Can you feel it? That sense of danger, the palpable tension in the air as the jungle trees sway in the breeze? Quick snatches of animal chatter meet your ears, the rest muffled by the dense canopy above. You grip your rifle a little tighter and adjust your hat towards what lies beyond. You have a feeling it's going to be a long hunt. tipsy: i accidentally listened to bec's song instead of grandpa's song (wow well done me), so i HAD to include dogs. but i wanted the image to live up to this song's title. you can see my thought process here. besides which you can see the true danger that grandpa must have put himself in expressed here with his lack of pants. anyway i wanted the animals to all look vaguely real, so i spent a lot of time looking up pictures of them while drawing. i was heavily inspired by hiveswap and the photo frames of grandpa in his past, and wanted to draw a silly looking hunting scenario that could fill the gaps of in your head. there's even a version with joey's comments scribbled on, though it was a bit too busy and standoutish. hope you enjoy [Kanishka]'s song. +Cover Artists: +- Tipsy --- Track: Fetch That Steak Artist: Kusoro -Track Art: SpaceWaifu Duration: '1:34' -Art Tags: Becquerel, Jade +Art Tags: +- Becquerel +- Jade URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/fetch-that-steak - https://youtu.be/03hQ5iLuTTQ @@ -164,13 +185,17 @@ Commentary: |- Bec is, first and foremost, a good dog. Let's put aside his featureless visage, god-like powers and key role in creating a Sovereign Slayer capable of destroying entire universes. He is a dog that likes to run around, play fetch, and eat treats like any other! This song shows that under-appreciated side of Jade's best friend. How can you say no to those Mario Paint dog barks? (If you think those are great, wait until you listen to the song for Bec's post-Scratch counterpart. Cinematic parallels, I'm telling you.) Ephemerald: Bec quite clearly doesn't have a care in the world here. You know, it's funny how omnipotent dog brains work. "Yeah, I was brought to this planet with the express purpose of facilitating its ultimate purpose and also ensuring that I exist at all, but, I mean, do I have to do that right now? Can't I just take some time off and go fetch a steak so radioactive it would make the Elephant's Foot seem like a regular old chunk of steel by comparison? The answer is yes, I can. So I will." Good dog. Best friend. Not a superb prioritizer. +Cover Artists: +- SpaceWaifu --- Track: Monatomic Strife Artist: Pascal van den Bos -Track Art: trip Duration: '2:15' -References: Versus -Art Tags: John's dad, The Felt +References: +- Versus +Art Tags: +- John's dad +- The Felt URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/monatomic-strife - https://youtu.be/0f-iGQ_9BnU @@ -179,12 +204,15 @@ Commentary: |- I wanted to write a Strife theme for Dad Crocker since i've never heard one before, but i think he's the cooler dad so he should have one. I made it kinda fast paced based on him fighting in [S] Collide, i think that's where he really showed how good of a guardian he is by beating up some felt members. trip: This one too. +Cover Artists: +- trip --- Track: Secondhand Memories Artist: Grace Medley -Track Art: nights Duration: '1:57' -Art Tags: Jane's grandpa, Jane +Art Tags: +- Jane's grandpa +- Jane URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/secondhand-memories - https://youtu.be/pCKkP1NDG7s @@ -194,17 +222,19 @@ Commentary: |- And who is Johnny Crocker...? Eh, who cares. nights: I had the sketch of this track art sitting by for a while, since I never found the time to finish it - not even during the holiday break. I finally was able to find the time to do exactly that on... A very long and boring plane trip, hahah. While drawing it, I thought about how Jane never really knew her poppop, nor did she know she was the cause of his death in the first place (classic Homestuck), so I wanted to convey that bittersweet feeling through the piece. I experimented on the colors with using a couple paper-constructioney textures on it and on the backdrop. Also, the stewardess on my plane trip caught a glance of the drawing and gave me a compliment in broken English, so you know this is some certified REAL good art. +Cover Artists: +- nights --- Track: The Light's Rebellion Artist: Circlejourney -Track Art: gelasticat Duration: '3:48' References: - The Thirteenth Hour - track:endless-climb - track:aggrieve - DAVE STRIDER'S COOL MIXTAPE -Art Tags: Roxy's mom +Art Tags: +- Roxy's mom URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-lights-rebellion - https://youtu.be/nhtb6U-fYzM @@ -217,10 +247,11 @@ Commentary: |- ndividedbyzero: Her hair is like the sun, rebelling against the oppressive shadow of the night sky. Not complacent, but sure as hell learned enough to punt you down a waterfall with stabby needles. +Cover Artists: +- gelasticat --- Track: The Dave Strider Experience Artist: ndividedbyzero -Track Art: dazed-squid Duration: '3:54' References: - track:beatdown-strider-style @@ -235,7 +266,8 @@ References: - Waters of Nazareth - SWEET BRO AND HELLA JEFF SHOW - track:upward-movement-dave-owns -Art Tags: Dirk's bro +Art Tags: +- Dirk's bro URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-dave-strider-experience - https://youtu.be/cXXGaaHE7W8 @@ -259,11 +291,12 @@ Lyrics: |- About murder, witnessin' death setting in, and it ain't no heaven that's letting me in! What is a juggalo? He drinks like a fish and then he starts hugging people like a drunken (WAOW) next thing he's pickin' fights with his best friends, then he starts with the hugging again (unintelligible) IT'S THE SWEET BRO AND HELLA JEFF SHOW! WHOAAAAAAAAa +Cover Artists: +- dazed-squid --- Track: Jade English - Study for Eclectic Bass, 1984.1 Directory: study-for-eclectic-bass-1984-1 Artist: Interrobang -Track Art: Jas Duration: '5:09' References: - Rhapsody in Green @@ -274,7 +307,8 @@ References: - Roundabout - Afraid of the Darko - Piss -Art Tags: Jake's grandma +Art Tags: +- Jake's grandma URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/jade-english-study-for-eclectic-bass-19841 - https://youtu.be/CN2oWjAy6EI @@ -284,12 +318,14 @@ Commentary: |- Compositionally, I started out with the ostinato that closes [[track:rhapsody-in-green]] (Clark Powell) from the Felt album, but played in reverse, adding in an FM pad (the aforementioned DX7) and [[track:skaianet]] by Mark Hadley on the other bass guitar. The introduction section transitions into variations on [[track:verdancy-bassline]] by Kalibration, and closes the track's first half with a medley of various Jade-related songs. The second half is an original thing (though the beginning is a variation on [[track:afraid-of-the-darko]] by RJ! Lake) that I had build in complexity and intensity before dropping off to end the piece. Reference-wise, I tried to keep things centered roughly on Jade, as well as some other skaianet/felt sort of stuff that I thought fit the Alpha world and Jade's place in it, but I did end up throwing in a couple memetic references, see if you can find them both! Jas: Grandma Harley often wrote her grandson about the tyranny of Lord English, obviously not able to hide everything from the enemy. +Cover Artists: +- Jas --- Track: Felidae Superior Artist: WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES -Track Art: shu Duration: '3:44' -Art Tags: God Cat +Art Tags: +- God Cat URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/felidae-superior - https://youtu.be/l0Izf8Sl7LI @@ -298,13 +334,16 @@ Commentary: |- This song took remarkably long to put together. Less because it was difficult, and more because I kept getting distracted with other projects along the way. Anyway, meow. SplitSuns: Shu delivers some impressively smooth and refined art for everyone's second-favorite cat whose name begins with a G, GCAT. They say you can tell a lot about someone from their eyes, which makes it more impressive that you can glean this cat's mischievous expression without any eyes at all. GCAT is prepared for action from its carefully positioned placement on a tree branch, ready to pounce at a ball of yarn or teleport to the spot best suited for making your life hell. Some rough glitchy effects in the background add an interesting dimension to the piece, nicely contrasting against its smooth linework. This is one art you won't want to miss, and knowing GCAT's temper, you might miss it if you blink. +Cover Artists: +- shu --- Track: Sweet Talker Artist: Ucklin -Track Art: nights Duration: '3:24' -References: Hate You -Art Tags: The Condesce +References: +- Hate You +Art Tags: +- The Condesce URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/sweet-talker - https://youtu.be/TkDZC-vTXHE @@ -314,15 +353,20 @@ Commentary: |- With regards to the rest of the composition, I tried to have fun! In a way, this song is supposed to tell the story of The Baroness. The beginning hook and the next section portray the mask she wears as Betty Crocker upon arriving to earth, and the persona that caused her husband Colonel Sassacre to fall in love with her. That part of the story is pretty funny to me. The following section introduces the mystery of her real identity with a jazzy Hate You quote before returning to the first section, and finally the climactic transition of the song represents the death of Colonel Sassacre and the beginning of Crocker's reign of terror proper. Finally, at the very end of the song, there is a piccolo harmony which just sounds like aliens to me, possibly because it sounds a little like a theremin. I learned a lot composing this song! Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoyed! (And thanks to nights for art more polished and gorgeous than I could hope to deserve!) nights: This very nice track gave me vibes of a casual setting with the condesce, so I thought to draw her doing a mundane but fun task - baking! I've always liked fanart of HIC as betty crocker, doing crockery things like baking cake and raising post-scratch john/jade. +Cover Artists: +- nights --- Group: Disc 2 --- Track: Disc 2 Directory: disc2-cosmic-caretakers Artist: psithurist -Track Art: SpaceWaifu Duration: 0:53 -Art Tags: John's dad, Karkat's lusus, John, Karkat +Art Tags: +- John's dad +- Karkat's lusus +- John +- Karkat URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/disc-2-3 - https://youtu.be/rhncumrLYns @@ -333,13 +377,17 @@ Commentary: |- Would you believe that both DAD and CRABDAD are looking at the VERY SAME STAR while cradling their children? No? You don't? They both exist in completely different universes you say? That the stars are thematic element used to tie this track art together and to symbolically show the role of each of these GUARDIANS? You're no fun. +Cover Artists: +- SpaceWaifu --- Track: Voice of the Dead Artist: Mathias Ramalho, cookiefonster -Track Art: freckledOctopus Duration: '2:20' -References: Aradia's Theme (Pre-Death) -Art Tags: Aradia's lusus, Aradia +References: +- Aradia's Theme (Pre-Death) +Art Tags: +- Aradia's lusus +- Aradia URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/voice-of-the-dead - https://youtu.be/aw72N9h0P08 @@ -353,13 +401,16 @@ Commentary: |- he wasnt going to let the song just :Die~2: freckledOctopus: I love the track and wanted to try and capture the more haunting side to it. +Cover Artists: +- freckledOctopus --- Track: Flittaurine Artist: Shirokishi -Track Art: Chumi Duration: '2:07' -References: Rust Servant -Art Tags: Tavros' lusus +References: +- Rust Servant +Art Tags: +- Tavros' lusus URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/flittaurine - https://youtu.be/zWK3R-YnmTI @@ -369,13 +420,16 @@ Commentary: |- Until he got crushed painfully to death by Tavros's wheelchair anyway. Kind of a sad end to this tale. Chumi: Dear, sweet, precious Tinkerbull. Rest in peace my little guy. +Cover Artists: +- Chumi --- Track: Polypolyphemus Artist: Ducky Senpai -Track Art: shu Duration: '3:18' -References: Die For Me -Art Tags: Sollux's lusus +References: +- Die For Me +Art Tags: +- Sollux's lusus URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/polypolyphemus - https://youtu.be/Rd9a2KQ_ZVk @@ -384,13 +438,17 @@ Commentary: |- For those who may be curious, the title (suggested by Lambda) is play on the term "Polyphemus" which refers to the cyclops in The Odyssey. It's a really dumb pun, and I love it. SplitSuns: Polypolyphemus is an intense track, so it's fitting for its art to capture the same intensity. Sollux's Biclops is captured right before its imminent demise as the troll's Mind Honey-induced flip out rips through the ceiling of his hive and surrounds the lusus in a multi-colored beam of energy. The meteors illuminating the night sky further illustrate the carnage present in the scene in a fashion that pops up time and time again in Homestuck proper. If only one of those meteors could break the chain around the Biclops' leg and set it free! Wait, the resulting impact would probably just kill the Biclops anyway. Never mind, that was a stupid idea. +Cover Artists: +- shu --- Track: Rangoon Artist: WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES -Track Art: ackro Duration: '2:03' -References: Showdown -Art Tags: Karkat's lusus, Karkat +References: +- Showdown +Art Tags: +- Karkat's lusus +- Karkat URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/rangoon - https://youtu.be/qayMFPJjtI0 @@ -399,13 +457,16 @@ Commentary: |- Crabs taste pretty good, gotta say. I'm partial to snow crab, myself. Of course, the only place I ever had them was Red Lobster: the apex of all seafood cuisine. ackro: this one is pretty much just a carbon copy of a homestuck panel i found. i mean i didnt trace anything, but its all placed pretty much the same with minor differences. dont give me too much praise for this one. +Cover Artists: +- ackro --- Track: Apex Conquistador Artist: TempiTunes, WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES -Track Art: Sammie Duration: '1:38' -References: Nepeta's Theme -Art Tags: Nepeta's lusus +References: +- Nepeta's Theme +Art Tags: +- Nepeta's lusus URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/apex-conquistador - https://youtu.be/g0HGUiXDsQU @@ -416,13 +477,16 @@ Commentary: |- WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES: If there's one thing that mouse can appreciate, it's that it got to see a two-mouthed cat monster before it died. Coincidentally, it's about to die because of said two-mouthed cat monster eating it. You just can't have it all, unfortunately. +Cover Artists: +- Sammie --- Track: Recordare, Virgo Mater Artist: queer maggot -Track Art: artisticallyCrafty Duration: '3:34' -References: Virgin Orb -Art Tags: Kanaya's lusus +References: +- Virgin Orb +Art Tags: +- Kanaya's lusus URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/recordare-virgo-mater - https://youtu.be/uI2g0qbTjEE @@ -434,12 +498,14 @@ Commentary: |- All in all, this was an interesting thing that I learned a lot making. It was my first time receiving real criticism on something I made and I hope people enjoy it! artisticallyCrafty: The Mothergrub has always been a fascinating creature to me in Homestuck, both as a part of reproduction and as a lusus. Especially since becoming a lusus means that you give up a life in the brooding caverns for a shortened existence to care for onechild. And with the Virgin Mother Grub drawing so many parallels to the iconic Holy Virgin Mary, I decided to draw my own parallels. I wanted this peice to be symbolic in nature towards the ideas and standards of the Mothergrub. It also may be a little sacrilegious in regards to the Catholic images of the Virgin Mary, but we'll just ignore that little fact. The Virgin Mothergrub floats with the brooding caverns behind her, and her new charge sleeping peacefully nearby, alongside other eggs nearly ready to hatch into trolls that will play a game and sacrifice to create something new. (we're also going to ignore the fact that i may have had an out-of-body experience while working on this piece) +Cover Artists: +- artisticallyCrafty --- Track: Amniotic Daydream Artist: Circlejourney -Track Art: ackro Duration: '4:16' -References: JUST1C3 R41NS FROM 4BOV3 +References: +- JUST1C3 R41NS FROM 4BOV3 URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/amniotic-daydream - https://youtu.be/Bne6tHjEIko @@ -451,14 +517,18 @@ Commentary: |- I'd love to thank the mods for their feedback, which truly helped me turn this track into what it is now. ackro: this piece is probably the most complex one i did for the album, and i think it payed off in spades. i used a lot of elements from the scene in which terezi's dragon hatches and is immediately killed by a falling meteor, which might be one of the best looking parts in homestuck, although its hard to choose since the first half of homestuck is littered with striking imagery. oh my god just look at it. so good. so fucking good guys. its really good. +Cover Artists: +- ackro --- Track: Arachnida Antecessor Artist: arcaneGemini -Track Art: Caitlin Beamer Duration: '2:11' References: - track:MeGaLoVania -Art Tags: 'Vriska''s lusus, Vriska, cw: arachnid' +Art Tags: +- Vriska's lusus +- Vriska +- 'cw: arachnid' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/arachnida-antecessor - https://youtu.be/oP8Y3OVrxY8 @@ -472,14 +542,18 @@ Commentary: |- You know what? Since you've gone through all the trouble to read this here commentary, have a free concept guitar riff for this tune. For you it's on the house. Caitlyn Beamer: I understand why hussie didn't draw spider-mom with hair on her. that took way too much time to have to do it more than once. +Cover Artists: +- Caitlin Beamer --- Track: STRONG Butler. Best Dad. Directory: STRONG-butler-best-dad Artist: arcaneGemini -Track Art: Tipsy Duration: '3:16' -References: Horschestra STRONG Version -Art Tags: Equius's lusus, Equius +References: +- Horschestra STRONG Version +Art Tags: +- Equius's lusus +- Equius URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/strong-butler-best-dad - https://youtu.be/BzwL4cY8V50 @@ -495,13 +569,16 @@ Commentary: |- Also yes, that is me saying 'neigh'. tipsy: For every album cover I've drawn so far, I try to make them look a little different and experiment with different styles. In this case I tried to draw a HORSE (crazy i know) and used this very painting-like flat style, and decided to put Equius's signature up, effectively making it his own painting! This went through lots of colour hue alterations and was originally a very light pink desert in a sunny sky before we settled on this darker background to make Aurthour stand out more. I like to think that Equius is simultaneously admiring his surroundings and panicking about their imminent death by sunburn. +Cover Artists: +- Tipsy --- Track: Absent Reflection Artist: PoisonedElite -Track Art: Jas Duration: '2:10' -References: track:dilemma -Art Tags: Gamzee +References: +- track:dilemma +Art Tags: +- Gamzee URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/absent-reflection - https://youtu.be/uw2z3juY-64 @@ -511,16 +588,18 @@ Commentary: |- Play Hollow Knight, eat your dinner, and never forget the pokemon you lose when you're doing a Nuzlocke challenge. Rest in Peace Oswin ;-;7 Jas: Sometimes you wait a long time to see the people you love. +Cover Artists: +- Jas --- Track: Hippocampaternal Artist: FrostyMac -Track Art: Jas Duration: '2:35' References: - Eridan's Theme - track:chorale-for-jaspers - Science Seahorse -Art Tags: Eridan's lusus +Art Tags: +- Eridan's lusus URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/hippocampaternal - https://youtu.be/hN4jbLF5lEc @@ -529,10 +608,11 @@ Commentary: |- Fun fact: This was the first song I ever made for any Homestuck related project ever, and I lost the original file at some point, so excuse the mixing being a little weird. I still stand by the song's compositional and structural quality though. Jas: Your baby crashed in on a blaze of fire, go get him seahorse daddy +Cover Artists: +- Jas --- Track: Whispering Leviathan Artist: Kanishka -Track Art: Circlejourney Duration: '4:24' References: - Fear of the Heavens @@ -540,7 +620,9 @@ References: - The Vast Glub - Penumbra Phantasm - Keepers -Art Tags: Feferi's lusus, Horrorterrors +Art Tags: +- Feferi's lusus +- Horrorterrors URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/whispering-leviathan - https://youtu.be/ixMCOL-1yVc @@ -550,12 +632,15 @@ Commentary: |- Circlejourney: Listening to Whispering Leviathan always made me feel like I was hearing it in a submarine environment - perfectly appropriate to the subject of Gl'bgolyb. The scene in which Gl'bgolyb was revealed was, to me, one of the several "holy shit" moments of Homestuck, and instead of trying to depict the vastness of Feferi's lusus, I went for a sense of mystery and foreboding more closely matching the tone of the music, by revealing nothing but its tentacles in silhouette. Finding the right balance between silhouette and rendering proved one of the primary challenges of completing this piece. Too much light meant the image lost its spooky, foreboding tone; too little made it look flat. In the end I came out with something that roughly strikes that balance, though I still feel that it loses some of the spookiness of the sketch. Thanks @ the good people at the Homestuck Artist discord for the tips! +Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney --- Track: Al-Aalam Artist: Kal-la-kal-la -Track Art: shedonkadonk Duration: '5:09' -Art Tags: The Dolorosa, The Signless +Art Tags: +- The Dolorosa +- The Signless URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/al-aalam - https://youtu.be/gD7C0GrtJ2U @@ -565,10 +650,11 @@ Commentary: |- Grief is a strange thing and I find it rarely conveyed well in music. Another for the bonfire pile. Ephemerald: *The sound of a camera flash can be audibly heard over the music.* Yep. That one's going in my Pietà compilation. But really, is there a more appropriate parallel to make? Probably not. The parable of the Sufferer is full of religious iconography by design, which I guess means that Earth based the Bible off of it, and not the other way around? I don't know. I'll leave that commentary for Hussie, when he (doesn't) get around to it. As a side note, I love the "halos" surrounding the Dolorosa and the Sufferer here. Good stuff. +Cover Artists: +- shedonkadonk --- Track: The Puppet Master Artist: SplitSuns -Track Art: Ephemerald, yazshu Duration: '4:10' References: - English @@ -585,15 +671,19 @@ Commentary: |- When I was first given the opportunity to work on Cosmic Caretakers and saw that there was an open slot for a track centered around Doc Scratch, I jumped at the opportunity to produce it! Scratch has always been one of my favorite characters in Homestuck. When I read through the comic for the first time I loved how he orchestrated the destruction of two entire universes but managed to give an air of dignity and style to such a nefarious event. His demeanor was never overtly evil: it was unsettling at times, sure, but he always acted the part of an excellent host through and through. I tried to represent this atmosphere in my own song. Its jazzy feel ripped from "Drawing Dead" or "The Felt" definitely brings to mind a comfortable stay in Scratch's parlor, but if you listen closely you can notice sinister undertones lurking beneath the surface through the decaying bells and whistling winds. Of course, I had to throw in some reverse piano in the mix as well. It wouldn't be a Felt-centric song without one. Towards the end of the track the piano backmasks some iconic Beta Kid motifs, showing how Scratch is acutely aware of every piece to his puzzle (even when we're not). What kind of an excellent host would he be if he didn't keep tabs on his "guests", after all? Ephemerald: So! The Puppet Master. The laid-back yet sinister vibe this song gives off felt fitting for Scratch, who, for most of the comic, just creepily stands and watches things happen. That's why I decided to not have Scratch do some Cool Actiony Villain Pose - he's a puppetmaster. He just needs to lounge. Yazshu took care of the Alternian planet, moons, and the cueball/sun/thing, so thanks to her for the backdrop! +Cover Artists: +- Ephemerald +- yazshu --- Group: Disc 3 --- Track: Disc 3 Directory: disc3-cosmic-caretakers Artist: psithurist -Track Art: Jas Duration: 0:27 -Art Tags: Gamzee, Cherubs +Art Tags: +- Gamzee +- Cherubs URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/disc-3-3 - https://youtu.be/Z3C-qzpXNcI @@ -602,13 +692,19 @@ Commentary: |- Since Disc 3 only has a few tracks, I went for a simpler approach here, and ended up with a quirky refrain of the theme present in the other jingles. s/o to the Tetris DX soundtrack for getting jazzy chiptunes stuck in my head forever. Jas: Styled after old album covers that always seemed to be scraped up and have that off yellow color. +Cover Artists: +- Jas --- Track: HONK FRIEND. Artist: Mathias Ramalho -Track Art: Jas Duration: '4:14' -References: Reverie, Power Fantasy -Art Tags: 'Gamzee, Caliborn, cw: blood' +References: +- Reverie +- Power Fantasy +Art Tags: +- Gamzee +- Caliborn +- 'cw: blood' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/honk-friend - https://youtu.be/IynwmfnQYzk @@ -617,17 +713,19 @@ Commentary: |- This might be the wildest take on a song revolving around Gamzee. I decided to use [[track:reverie]] and [[track:power-fantasy]] as the foundation of this track as well as taking an advantage to make this somehow cheery-ish since we don't really know what happens in the story. A good advantage imo. Jas: It's hard being a single mom when you are a teenage boy. At least Caliborn is sitting still for once. +Cover Artists: +- Jas --- Track: Singularity Artist: ndividedbyzero -Track Art: Aeritus Duration: '4:55' References: - track:ruins - track:disc2-cosmic-caretakers - Nova Solis - Isle Unto Thyself -Art Tags: Cherubs +Art Tags: +- Cherubs URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/singularity - https://youtu.be/Gfb17_RW2M0 @@ -638,15 +736,22 @@ Commentary: |- Ephemerald: The game of choice for cherubs seems to be chess, or at least, some neon-green candy-red shitty-twist variant of the game, but I'm getting real playing card motifs here. Two identical, serpentine warriors, millions and millions of miles long, locked in a symmetrical whirlwind of a strife. Reminds me of the art to [[track:noirscape]] back on Volume 9, though that's a more literal example. The spiraling, iconic egg in the middle, shining like a light in the darkness, is a very clear reminder of what these two are fighting for: the right to force their opponent to give birth to literally the worst entity in all of existence. But I suppose it didn't matter who won or who lost. After all, he was already there. Lyrics: Then all the planets fell to dust +Cover Artists: +- Aeritus --- Group: Bonus tracks --- Track: It's Ogre Artist: Circlejourney -Track Art: Jas Duration: '3:03' -References: All Star, Eridan's Theme, I'm A Believer, Violet Prince -Art Tags: Eridan, Shrek +References: +- All Star +- Eridan's Theme +- I'm A Believer +- Violet Prince +Art Tags: +- Eridan +- Shrek URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/its-ogre-bonus - https://youtu.be/yqm6Fw8LHUU @@ -655,3 +760,5 @@ Commentary: |- I was struck by divine inspiration 2 hours ago and now this exists, you're welcome Jas: I hate myself for making this and yet +Cover Artists: +- Jas -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5 From a14691171577b34e3609e1d5f2885ce4d4400930 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gio Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 21:46:01 -0600 Subject: Field renames --- album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml | 190 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 95 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-) (limited to 'album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml') diff --git a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml index 568ec5b..2bd3b13 100644 --- a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml +++ b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml @@ -1,6 +1,4 @@ Album: Cosmic Caretakers -Banner Art: -- melodiousDiscord Banner Dimensions: 1100x180 Date: February 17, 2019 Date Added: January 12, 2021 @@ -50,6 +48,8 @@ Cover Artists: - Elanor Pam Wallpaper Artists: - Elanor Pam +Banner Artists: +- melodiousDiscord --- Group: Disc 1 --- @@ -71,8 +71,6 @@ Cover Artists: Track: Egbert's Kitchen Artist: Pascal van den Bos Duration: '3:01' -References: -- track:under-the-hat Art Tags: - John's dad - Underlings @@ -86,13 +84,12 @@ Commentary: |- I want this dad to be my dad. Cover Artists: - trip +Referenced Tracks: +- track:under-the-hat --- Track: Nanna's New Groove Artist: ndividedbyzero Duration: '3:48' -References: -- Homestuck Anthem -- track:nannaquin Art Tags: - John's nanna URLs: @@ -107,6 +104,9 @@ Commentary: |- in this household we stan Jane Crocker/Nanna Egbert. Cover Artists: - TheChaoMaster +Referenced Tracks: +- Homestuck Anthem +- track:nannaquin --- Track: Martini Cardamom Artist: Sean Gorter, PoisonedElite @@ -133,9 +133,6 @@ Artist: Chaosvariant Duration: '2:38' Art Tags: - Dave's bro -References: -- track:beatdown-strider-style -- Umbral Ultimatum URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/meteor-schmeteor-ill-cut-that-thing-right-in-half - https://youtu.be/aYC3XRHFOkQ @@ -148,14 +145,13 @@ Commentary: |- i really like how i did this one. not too much going on but i feel its good for how simple it is. drawing the meteor took a bit of work, and looking at some reference shots from descend, but it really came together, and of course the sense of scale given with bro and the meteor is very well executed id say. pretty much flawless except for the fire which i couldve done better. Cover Artists: - ackro +Referenced Tracks: +- track:beatdown-strider-style +- Umbral Ultimatum --- Track: Hunting the Most Dangerous Game Artist: Kanishka Duration: '3:30' -References: -- A Taste for Adventure -- track:dissension-remix -- track:old-secret Art Tags: - Jade's grandpa - Becquerel @@ -170,6 +166,10 @@ Commentary: |- i accidentally listened to bec's song instead of grandpa's song (wow well done me), so i HAD to include dogs. but i wanted the image to live up to this song's title. you can see my thought process here. besides which you can see the true danger that grandpa must have put himself in expressed here with his lack of pants. anyway i wanted the animals to all look vaguely real, so i spent a lot of time looking up pictures of them while drawing. i was heavily inspired by hiveswap and the photo frames of grandpa in his past, and wanted to draw a silly looking hunting scenario that could fill the gaps of in your head. there's even a version with joey's comments scribbled on, though it was a bit too busy and standoutish. hope you enjoy [Kanishka]'s song. Cover Artists: - Tipsy +Referenced Tracks: +- A Taste for Adventure +- track:dissension-remix +- track:old-secret --- Track: Fetch That Steak Artist: Kusoro @@ -191,8 +191,6 @@ Cover Artists: Track: Monatomic Strife Artist: Pascal van den Bos Duration: '2:15' -References: -- Versus Art Tags: - John's dad - The Felt @@ -206,6 +204,8 @@ Commentary: |- This one too. Cover Artists: - trip +Referenced Tracks: +- Versus --- Track: Secondhand Memories Artist: Grace Medley @@ -228,11 +228,6 @@ Cover Artists: Track: The Light's Rebellion Artist: Circlejourney Duration: '3:48' -References: -- The Thirteenth Hour -- track:endless-climb -- track:aggrieve -- DAVE STRIDER'S COOL MIXTAPE Art Tags: - Roxy's mom URLs: @@ -249,23 +244,15 @@ Commentary: |- Not complacent, but sure as hell learned enough to punt you down a waterfall with stabby needles. Cover Artists: - gelasticat +Referenced Tracks: +- The Thirteenth Hour +- track:endless-climb +- track:aggrieve +- DAVE STRIDER'S COOL MIXTAPE --- Track: The Dave Strider Experience Artist: ndividedbyzero Duration: '3:54' -References: -- track:beatdown-strider-style -- This Is America -- Giorgio by Moroder -- Bodies -- Take Me Away -- Running Hell -- track:suicide-hotline-icp -- The Witch -- What is a Juggalo? -- Waters of Nazareth -- SWEET BRO AND HELLA JEFF SHOW -- track:upward-movement-dave-owns Art Tags: - Dirk's bro URLs: @@ -293,20 +280,24 @@ Lyrics: |- IT'S THE SWEET BRO AND HELLA JEFF SHOW! WHOAAAAAAAAa Cover Artists: - dazed-squid +Referenced Tracks: +- track:beatdown-strider-style +- This Is America +- Giorgio by Moroder +- Bodies +- Take Me Away +- Running Hell +- track:suicide-hotline-icp +- The Witch +- What is a Juggalo? +- Waters of Nazareth +- SWEET BRO AND HELLA JEFF SHOW +- track:upward-movement-dave-owns --- Track: Jade English - Study for Eclectic Bass, 1984.1 Directory: study-for-eclectic-bass-1984-1 Artist: Interrobang Duration: '5:09' -References: -- Rhapsody in Green -- track:verdancy-bassline -- Skaianet -- Gardener -- track:mutiny -- Roundabout -- Afraid of the Darko -- Piss Art Tags: - Jake's grandma URLs: @@ -320,6 +311,15 @@ Commentary: |- Grandma Harley often wrote her grandson about the tyranny of Lord English, obviously not able to hide everything from the enemy. Cover Artists: - Jas +Referenced Tracks: +- Rhapsody in Green +- track:verdancy-bassline +- Skaianet +- Gardener +- track:mutiny +- Roundabout +- Afraid of the Darko +- Piss --- Track: Felidae Superior Artist: WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES @@ -340,8 +340,6 @@ Cover Artists: Track: Sweet Talker Artist: Ucklin Duration: '3:24' -References: -- Hate You Art Tags: - The Condesce URLs: @@ -355,6 +353,8 @@ Commentary: |- This very nice track gave me vibes of a casual setting with the condesce, so I thought to draw her doing a mundane but fun task - baking! I've always liked fanart of HIC as betty crocker, doing crockery things like baking cake and raising post-scratch john/jade. Cover Artists: - nights +Referenced Tracks: +- Hate You --- Group: Disc 2 --- @@ -383,8 +383,6 @@ Cover Artists: Track: Voice of the Dead Artist: Mathias Ramalho, cookiefonster Duration: '2:20' -References: -- Aradia's Theme (Pre-Death) Art Tags: - Aradia's lusus - Aradia @@ -403,12 +401,12 @@ Commentary: |- I love the track and wanted to try and capture the more haunting side to it. Cover Artists: - freckledOctopus +Referenced Tracks: +- Aradia's Theme (Pre-Death) --- Track: Flittaurine Artist: Shirokishi Duration: '2:07' -References: -- Rust Servant Art Tags: - Tavros' lusus URLs: @@ -422,12 +420,12 @@ Commentary: |- Dear, sweet, precious Tinkerbull. Rest in peace my little guy. Cover Artists: - Chumi +Referenced Tracks: +- Rust Servant --- Track: Polypolyphemus Artist: Ducky Senpai Duration: '3:18' -References: -- Die For Me Art Tags: - Sollux's lusus URLs: @@ -440,12 +438,12 @@ Commentary: |- Polypolyphemus is an intense track, so it's fitting for its art to capture the same intensity. Sollux's Biclops is captured right before its imminent demise as the troll's Mind Honey-induced flip out rips through the ceiling of his hive and surrounds the lusus in a multi-colored beam of energy. The meteors illuminating the night sky further illustrate the carnage present in the scene in a fashion that pops up time and time again in Homestuck proper. If only one of those meteors could break the chain around the Biclops' leg and set it free! Wait, the resulting impact would probably just kill the Biclops anyway. Never mind, that was a stupid idea. Cover Artists: - shu +Referenced Tracks: +- Die For Me --- Track: Rangoon Artist: WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES Duration: '2:03' -References: -- Showdown Art Tags: - Karkat's lusus - Karkat @@ -459,12 +457,12 @@ Commentary: |- this one is pretty much just a carbon copy of a homestuck panel i found. i mean i didnt trace anything, but its all placed pretty much the same with minor differences. dont give me too much praise for this one. Cover Artists: - ackro +Referenced Tracks: +- Showdown --- Track: Apex Conquistador Artist: TempiTunes, WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES Duration: '1:38' -References: -- Nepeta's Theme Art Tags: - Nepeta's lusus URLs: @@ -479,12 +477,12 @@ Commentary: |- Coincidentally, it's about to die because of said two-mouthed cat monster eating it. You just can't have it all, unfortunately. Cover Artists: - Sammie +Referenced Tracks: +- Nepeta's Theme --- Track: Recordare, Virgo Mater Artist: queer maggot Duration: '3:34' -References: -- Virgin Orb Art Tags: - Kanaya's lusus URLs: @@ -500,12 +498,12 @@ Commentary: |- The Mothergrub has always been a fascinating creature to me in Homestuck, both as a part of reproduction and as a lusus. Especially since becoming a lusus means that you give up a life in the brooding caverns for a shortened existence to care for onechild. And with the Virgin Mother Grub drawing so many parallels to the iconic Holy Virgin Mary, I decided to draw my own parallels. I wanted this peice to be symbolic in nature towards the ideas and standards of the Mothergrub. It also may be a little sacrilegious in regards to the Catholic images of the Virgin Mary, but we'll just ignore that little fact. The Virgin Mothergrub floats with the brooding caverns behind her, and her new charge sleeping peacefully nearby, alongside other eggs nearly ready to hatch into trolls that will play a game and sacrifice to create something new. (we're also going to ignore the fact that i may have had an out-of-body experience while working on this piece) Cover Artists: - artisticallyCrafty +Referenced Tracks: +- Virgin Orb --- Track: Amniotic Daydream Artist: Circlejourney Duration: '4:16' -References: -- JUST1C3 R41NS FROM 4BOV3 URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/amniotic-daydream - https://youtu.be/Bne6tHjEIko @@ -519,12 +517,12 @@ Commentary: |- this piece is probably the most complex one i did for the album, and i think it payed off in spades. i used a lot of elements from the scene in which terezi's dragon hatches and is immediately killed by a falling meteor, which might be one of the best looking parts in homestuck, although its hard to choose since the first half of homestuck is littered with striking imagery. oh my god just look at it. so good. so fucking good guys. its really good. Cover Artists: - ackro +Referenced Tracks: +- JUST1C3 R41NS FROM 4BOV3 --- Track: Arachnida Antecessor Artist: arcaneGemini Duration: '2:11' -References: -- track:MeGaLoVania Art Tags: - Vriska's lusus - Vriska @@ -544,13 +542,13 @@ Commentary: |- I understand why hussie didn't draw spider-mom with hair on her. that took way too much time to have to do it more than once. Cover Artists: - Caitlin Beamer +Referenced Tracks: +- track:MeGaLoVania --- Track: STRONG Butler. Best Dad. Directory: STRONG-butler-best-dad Artist: arcaneGemini Duration: '3:16' -References: -- Horschestra STRONG Version Art Tags: - Equius's lusus - Equius @@ -571,12 +569,12 @@ Commentary: |- For every album cover I've drawn so far, I try to make them look a little different and experiment with different styles. In this case I tried to draw a HORSE (crazy i know) and used this very painting-like flat style, and decided to put Equius's signature up, effectively making it his own painting! This went through lots of colour hue alterations and was originally a very light pink desert in a sunny sky before we settled on this darker background to make Aurthour stand out more. I like to think that Equius is simultaneously admiring his surroundings and panicking about their imminent death by sunburn. Cover Artists: - Tipsy +Referenced Tracks: +- Horschestra STRONG Version --- Track: Absent Reflection Artist: PoisonedElite Duration: '2:10' -References: -- track:dilemma Art Tags: - Gamzee URLs: @@ -590,14 +588,12 @@ Commentary: |- Sometimes you wait a long time to see the people you love. Cover Artists: - Jas +Referenced Tracks: +- track:dilemma --- Track: Hippocampaternal Artist: FrostyMac Duration: '2:35' -References: -- Eridan's Theme -- track:chorale-for-jaspers -- Science Seahorse Art Tags: - Eridan's lusus URLs: @@ -610,16 +606,14 @@ Commentary: |- Your baby crashed in on a blaze of fire, go get him seahorse daddy Cover Artists: - Jas +Referenced Tracks: +- Eridan's Theme +- track:chorale-for-jaspers +- Science Seahorse --- Track: Whispering Leviathan Artist: Kanishka Duration: '4:24' -References: -- Fear of the Heavens -- Silencio -- The Vast Glub -- Penumbra Phantasm -- Keepers Art Tags: - Feferi's lusus - Horrorterrors @@ -634,6 +628,12 @@ Commentary: |- Finding the right balance between silhouette and rendering proved one of the primary challenges of completing this piece. Too much light meant the image lost its spooky, foreboding tone; too little made it look flat. In the end I came out with something that roughly strikes that balance, though I still feel that it loses some of the spookiness of the sketch. Thanks @ the good people at the Homestuck Artist discord for the tips! Cover Artists: - Circlejourney +Referenced Tracks: +- Fear of the Heavens +- Silencio +- The Vast Glub +- Penumbra Phantasm +- Keepers --- Track: Al-Aalam Artist: Kal-la-kal-la @@ -656,13 +656,6 @@ Cover Artists: Track: The Puppet Master Artist: SplitSuns Duration: '4:10' -References: -- English -- Afraid of the Darko -- track:aggrieve -- track:beatdown-strider-style -- track:dissension-original -- track:showtime-original-mix URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-puppet-master - https://youtu.be/hGnSgIGK6HM @@ -674,6 +667,13 @@ Commentary: |- Cover Artists: - Ephemerald - yazshu +Referenced Tracks: +- English +- Afraid of the Darko +- track:aggrieve +- track:beatdown-strider-style +- track:dissension-original +- track:showtime-original-mix --- Group: Disc 3 --- @@ -698,9 +698,6 @@ Cover Artists: Track: HONK FRIEND. Artist: Mathias Ramalho Duration: '4:14' -References: -- Reverie -- Power Fantasy Art Tags: - Gamzee - Caliborn @@ -715,15 +712,13 @@ Commentary: |- It's hard being a single mom when you are a teenage boy. At least Caliborn is sitting still for once. Cover Artists: - Jas +Referenced Tracks: +- Reverie +- Power Fantasy --- Track: Singularity Artist: ndividedbyzero Duration: '4:55' -References: -- track:ruins -- track:disc2-cosmic-caretakers -- Nova Solis -- Isle Unto Thyself Art Tags: - Cherubs URLs: @@ -738,17 +733,17 @@ Commentary: |- Lyrics: Then all the planets fell to dust Cover Artists: - Aeritus +Referenced Tracks: +- track:ruins +- track:disc2-cosmic-caretakers +- Nova Solis +- Isle Unto Thyself --- Group: Bonus tracks --- Track: It's Ogre Artist: Circlejourney Duration: '3:03' -References: -- All Star -- Eridan's Theme -- I'm A Believer -- Violet Prince Art Tags: - Eridan - Shrek @@ -762,3 +757,8 @@ Commentary: |- I hate myself for making this and yet Cover Artists: - Jas +Referenced Tracks: +- All Star +- Eridan's Theme +- I'm A Believer +- Violet Prince -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5 From df626fd8e8fa64c48ea1cf88177e157264042e9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gio Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 22:18:36 -0600 Subject: Sorting --- album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml | 468 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 234 insertions(+), 234 deletions(-) (limited to 'album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml') diff --git a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml index 2bd3b13..5b23e11 100644 --- a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml +++ b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml @@ -1,7 +1,11 @@ Album: Cosmic Caretakers -Banner Dimensions: 1100x180 Date: February 17, 2019 Date Added: January 12, 2021 +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-caretakers +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2E1aOkERtLX9PC37_XWPOiSCopUc9ZHf +Cover Artists: +- Elanor Pam Color: '#ff78da' Groups: - Unofficial MSPA Fans @@ -16,9 +20,6 @@ Art Tags: - Jake's grandma - Becquerel - God Cat -URLs: -- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-caretakers -- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2E1aOkERtLX9PC37_XWPOiSCopUc9ZHf Commentary: |- Ucklin:
COSMIC CARETAKERS
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Quasar Nebula: (per [[track:jungle-3|LoFaM 4 standard]], ive highlighted commentary from people besides the original musicians or cover artists in bold!) -Cover Artists: -- Elanor Pam -Wallpaper Artists: -- Elanor Pam Banner Artists: - melodiousDiscord +Banner Dimensions: 1100x180 +Wallpaper Artists: +- Elanor Pam --- Group: Disc 1 --- @@ -60,41 +60,46 @@ Duration: '1:06' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/disc-1-3 - https://youtu.be/tUczmB-88wM +Cover Artists: +- ackro Commentary: |- psithurist: The jingles I wrote for this album are a little more involved from the ones you usually find on Homestuck albums, which I did because I thought it would be fun (and it was). A grandiose intro to prepare you for what'll probably be the best god damn album you'll ever hear? ackro: this was done pretty quick, its a simple concept that didnt take much doing. the thing i like most is probably the scratch lightning, ive been drawing a lot of lightning recently. -Cover Artists: -- ackro --- Track: Egbert's Kitchen Artist: Pascal van den Bos Duration: '3:01' -Art Tags: -- John's dad -- Underlings URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/egberts-kitchen - https://youtu.be/FQGsW9lDx8E +Cover Artists: +- trip +Art Tags: +- John's dad +- Underlings +Referenced Tracks: +- track:under-the-hat Commentary: |- Pascal van den Bos: For this track i went for the style of music i think Dad listens to, [[track:under-the-hat]] but even jazzier haha. The chiptune breakdown in the middle is also kind of a reference to [[track:showtime-original-mix]] which is the Strife! theme you hear when John encountered Dad. It worked pretty well, i think this is what you'd hear when you walk in to the kitchen when Dad is baking something. trip: I want this dad to be my dad. -Cover Artists: -- trip -Referenced Tracks: -- track:under-the-hat --- Track: Nanna's New Groove Artist: ndividedbyzero Duration: '3:48' -Art Tags: -- John's nanna URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/nannas-new-groove - https://youtu.be/3xka38s_wYY +Cover Artists: +- TheChaoMaster +Art Tags: +- John's nanna +Referenced Tracks: +- Homestuck Anthem +- track:nannaquin Commentary: |- ndividedbyzero: At first I considered making this track electroswing, but that's a bit out of my range. I think this works well as a compromise! @@ -102,40 +107,40 @@ Commentary: |- The clownma is pretty good at pranks, all things considered. TheChaoMaster: in this household we stan Jane Crocker/Nanna Egbert. -Cover Artists: -- TheChaoMaster -Referenced Tracks: -- Homestuck Anthem -- track:nannaquin --- Track: Martini Cardamom Artist: Sean Gorter, PoisonedElite Duration: '3:58' +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/martini-cardamom +- https://youtu.be/lJv9VPWL7dY +Cover Artists: +- nights Art Tags: - Roxy - Roxy's mom - 'cw: alcohol' -URLs: -- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/martini-cardamom -- https://youtu.be/lJv9VPWL7dY Commentary: |- Sean Gorter: Hey, it's your local pianist extraordinaire Flare. The basic seeds of this track belong to PoisonedElite, who left behind a minute-long demo of harpsichord and strings. Imagine my surprise when her MIDI was handed down to me and there were the beginnings of an electronic drum track I didn't get to hear in her exports! So the concept was set, orchestra with electronic rhythmic backing. Mom always seemed like quite the intimidating figure to those who met her. Perpetually drunk, with an endless, seemingly vindictive collection of wizard paraphrenalia, Mom was more living myth than parental figure. While most might soften those figures over time to be more relatable, not Hussie, and not Mom! She handles a massive Sburban monster with ease, demonstrates martial arts and weapons expertise, and catches the romantic attention of Dad without so much as breaking a sweat. All I could think of putting this track together was "classical badass." So here's to you, Ms. Classical Badass. nights: I wanted to try something new for this piece, so I went with a lineless minimal style. For the art, I wanted to draw both of Roxy's post and pre scratch selves, not just Mom Lalonde, since I adore both equally!! While working on it, I wanted to somehow connect the two versions of Roxy together with something common. Eventually, I settled on the scarves, and used them for composition and filling in blank spots in the art piece. -Cover Artists: -- nights --- Track: Meteor, Schmeteor (I'll Cut That Thing Right In Half) Directory: meteor-schmeteor Artist: Chaosvariant Duration: '2:38' -Art Tags: -- Dave's bro URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/meteor-schmeteor-ill-cut-that-thing-right-in-half - https://youtu.be/aYC3XRHFOkQ +Cover Artists: +- ackro +Art Tags: +- Dave's bro +Referenced Tracks: +- track:beatdown-strider-style +- Umbral Ultimatum Commentary: |- Chaosvariant: Hi I go by Chaosvariant. I worked on this track for Dave's Bro, my original intention was to remix [[track:beatdown-strider-style]] to have a little more flair and fit better into the cool yet dangerous aura Dave's Bro put off then to have that transition into the fight with Jack Noir. My computer halfway through this process bricked so sadly we're kinda stuck with a WIP but I hope you'll like it for the concept alone. @@ -143,96 +148,98 @@ Commentary: |- SplitSuns here. In addition to writing my own song for this project, which you'll find 24 tracks from now, I mastered the album in general. In theory, this means making sure each song is around the same volume so you don't have to keep adjusting your headphones. However, sometimes I did some extra work just to polish things up. Like with this song, for instance: I took what Chaosvariant had finished, added some EQ to make the mix clearer, and added a small sound effect at the end to smooth things out. ackro: i really like how i did this one. not too much going on but i feel its good for how simple it is. drawing the meteor took a bit of work, and looking at some reference shots from descend, but it really came together, and of course the sense of scale given with bro and the meteor is very well executed id say. pretty much flawless except for the fire which i couldve done better. -Cover Artists: -- ackro -Referenced Tracks: -- track:beatdown-strider-style -- Umbral Ultimatum --- Track: Hunting the Most Dangerous Game Artist: Kanishka Duration: '3:30' -Art Tags: -- Jade's grandpa -- Becquerel -- 'cw: animal death' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/hunting-the-most-dangerous-game - https://youtu.be/X0SymJI8Nck -Commentary: |- - SplitSuns: - With its blend of sharp synths and cinematic orchestration, as well as its dramatic swells in composition, this song does an amazing job capturing Grandpa's famed taste for adventure. Can you feel it? That sense of danger, the palpable tension in the air as the jungle trees sway in the breeze? Quick snatches of animal chatter meet your ears, the rest muffled by the dense canopy above. You grip your rifle a little tighter and adjust your hat towards what lies beyond. You have a feeling it's going to be a long hunt. - tipsy: - i accidentally listened to bec's song instead of grandpa's song (wow well done me), so i HAD to include dogs. but i wanted the image to live up to this song's title. you can see my thought process here. besides which you can see the true danger that grandpa must have put himself in expressed here with his lack of pants. anyway i wanted the animals to all look vaguely real, so i spent a lot of time looking up pictures of them while drawing. i was heavily inspired by hiveswap and the photo frames of grandpa in his past, and wanted to draw a silly looking hunting scenario that could fill the gaps of in your head. there's even a version with joey's comments scribbled on, though it was a bit too busy and standoutish. hope you enjoy [Kanishka]'s song. Cover Artists: - Tipsy +Art Tags: +- Jade's grandpa +- Becquerel +- 'cw: animal death' Referenced Tracks: - A Taste for Adventure - track:dissension-remix - track:old-secret +Commentary: |- + SplitSuns: + With its blend of sharp synths and cinematic orchestration, as well as its dramatic swells in composition, this song does an amazing job capturing Grandpa's famed taste for adventure. Can you feel it? That sense of danger, the palpable tension in the air as the jungle trees sway in the breeze? Quick snatches of animal chatter meet your ears, the rest muffled by the dense canopy above. You grip your rifle a little tighter and adjust your hat towards what lies beyond. You have a feeling it's going to be a long hunt. + tipsy: + i accidentally listened to bec's song instead of grandpa's song (wow well done me), so i HAD to include dogs. but i wanted the image to live up to this song's title. you can see my thought process here. besides which you can see the true danger that grandpa must have put himself in expressed here with his lack of pants. anyway i wanted the animals to all look vaguely real, so i spent a lot of time looking up pictures of them while drawing. i was heavily inspired by hiveswap and the photo frames of grandpa in his past, and wanted to draw a silly looking hunting scenario that could fill the gaps of in your head. there's even a version with joey's comments scribbled on, though it was a bit too busy and standoutish. hope you enjoy [Kanishka]'s song. --- Track: Fetch That Steak Artist: Kusoro Duration: '1:34' -Art Tags: -- Becquerel -- Jade URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/fetch-that-steak - https://youtu.be/03hQ5iLuTTQ +Cover Artists: +- SpaceWaifu +Art Tags: +- Becquerel +- Jade Commentary: |- SplitSuns: Bec is, first and foremost, a good dog. Let's put aside his featureless visage, god-like powers and key role in creating a Sovereign Slayer capable of destroying entire universes. He is a dog that likes to run around, play fetch, and eat treats like any other! This song shows that under-appreciated side of Jade's best friend. How can you say no to those Mario Paint dog barks? (If you think those are great, wait until you listen to the song for Bec's post-Scratch counterpart. Cinematic parallels, I'm telling you.) Ephemerald: Bec quite clearly doesn't have a care in the world here. You know, it's funny how omnipotent dog brains work. "Yeah, I was brought to this planet with the express purpose of facilitating its ultimate purpose and also ensuring that I exist at all, but, I mean, do I have to do that right now? Can't I just take some time off and go fetch a steak so radioactive it would make the Elephant's Foot seem like a regular old chunk of steel by comparison? The answer is yes, I can. So I will." Good dog. Best friend. Not a superb prioritizer. -Cover Artists: -- SpaceWaifu --- Track: Monatomic Strife Artist: Pascal van den Bos Duration: '2:15' -Art Tags: -- John's dad -- The Felt URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/monatomic-strife - https://youtu.be/0f-iGQ_9BnU +Cover Artists: +- trip +Art Tags: +- John's dad +- The Felt +Referenced Tracks: +- Versus Commentary: |- Pascal van den Bos: I wanted to write a Strife theme for Dad Crocker since i've never heard one before, but i think he's the cooler dad so he should have one. I made it kinda fast paced based on him fighting in [S] Collide, i think that's where he really showed how good of a guardian he is by beating up some felt members. trip: This one too. -Cover Artists: -- trip -Referenced Tracks: -- Versus --- Track: Secondhand Memories Artist: Grace Medley Duration: '1:57' -Art Tags: -- Jane's grandpa -- Jane URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/secondhand-memories - https://youtu.be/pCKkP1NDG7s +Cover Artists: +- nights +Art Tags: +- Jane's grandpa +- Jane Commentary: |- Grace Medley: Sorry, sorry to interrupt the booklet, folks, but I've got a cracking idea: see the next time you find yourself in a pub toilet, and you've got a pen on you, write on the door, "Johnny Crocker, R.I.P." Or let's say you're not old enough to get into pubs yet, let's say, you're still in school? Write it on a desk. Scratch it in with a compass. "Johnny Crocker, R.I.P." Or let's say you're online. Let's say you're on Bebo, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, a forum, whatever it is, just get the message out there. "Johnny Crocker, R.I.P." Miss you, big man. Gone, but not forgotten. And who is Johnny Crocker...? Eh, who cares. nights: I had the sketch of this track art sitting by for a while, since I never found the time to finish it - not even during the holiday break. I finally was able to find the time to do exactly that on... A very long and boring plane trip, hahah. While drawing it, I thought about how Jane never really knew her poppop, nor did she know she was the cause of his death in the first place (classic Homestuck), so I wanted to convey that bittersweet feeling through the piece. I experimented on the colors with using a couple paper-constructioney textures on it and on the backdrop. Also, the stewardess on my plane trip caught a glance of the drawing and gave me a compliment in broken English, so you know this is some certified REAL good art. -Cover Artists: -- nights --- Track: The Light's Rebellion Artist: Circlejourney Duration: '3:48' -Art Tags: -- Roxy's mom URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-lights-rebellion - https://youtu.be/nhtb6U-fYzM +Cover Artists: +- gelasticat +Art Tags: +- Roxy's mom +Referenced Tracks: +- The Thirteenth Hour +- track:endless-climb +- track:aggrieve +- DAVE STRIDER'S COOL MIXTAPE Commentary: |- Circlejourney: Greatly inspired by the soundtracks of Touhou, PMMM, and various Japanese media, The Light's Rebellion is meant to sound like the overture of an epic and tumultous tale. To me, the life of Roxy's illustrious and erudite Mom - encompassing the publication of doorstepper novels, a Guy Fieri rodeo down a waterfall of blood, and death as a revolutionary at the hands of an alien empress - is the sort of capricious novel-worthy story that can only be told through battling melodies in the major pentatonic scale, 3/4 + 6/8 cross-rhythms, and soaring trumpets. @@ -242,44 +249,17 @@ Commentary: |- ndividedbyzero: Her hair is like the sun, rebelling against the oppressive shadow of the night sky. Not complacent, but sure as hell learned enough to punt you down a waterfall with stabby needles. -Cover Artists: -- gelasticat -Referenced Tracks: -- The Thirteenth Hour -- track:endless-climb -- track:aggrieve -- DAVE STRIDER'S COOL MIXTAPE --- Track: The Dave Strider Experience Artist: ndividedbyzero Duration: '3:54' -Art Tags: -- Dirk's bro URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-dave-strider-experience - https://youtu.be/cXXGaaHE7W8 -Commentary: |- - ndividedbyzero: - wilson for wisdom. stiller for power. glover for courage. with the tripartite decree of america's three greatest heralds, backed by a rendition of beatdown so terrifying it can only be described as psychological warfare, the stage has been set for the star of the show. the experience behind the experience. but such titles do not ascribe what importance this fiend deserves. nay, they COULD not ascribe the requisite importance, for only one title suits the hero, the madman, the director and architect to a hall of fame of utter shit. - he is THE BIG MAN, and we are all in his court. - heads are about to roll. - MISC NOTES: this piece started with me thinking "hm, i really want to use running hell in this dave song" and then the rest kind of flowed from there. in that segment, you may note that violent j seems to alternate between lamenting the presence of "THE WITCH" and singing her praises. i feel as though if an alien queen actually appeared to install the insane clown posse as figureheads of a government responsible for the deaths of billions, it would have to involve some sort of mental manipulation on her part, because honestly, icp seem like sort of decent upstanding folks in reality? like violent j wholeheartedly supports his daughter being a furry so he seems to be a nice dad at least. shit, in this political climate they might not be half bad as dual presidents, comparatively, and they're literal clowns. thanks to grace for recommending i use icp's seminal and apparent manifesto, "What Is A Juggalo", whose lyrics you should look up because they are just truly incredible. the section it transitions to, where the nightcore becomes ambient noise, is meant to symbolize the tense standoff between dave and icp before he cuts their heads off, but also it was mostly tongue in cheek. waters of nazareth also plays during that section very faintly, which partly symbolizes that in parallel to this event rose is executing the antichrist over a waterfall, but that was something i just made up now. more intentionally, sampling waters of nazareth badly in a strider song contrasts with the fantastic use of the sample in splitsuns' [[track:thyme-on-my-fries]]. (love ya split). oh god this was a wall of text. i'm done now bye - dazed-squid: - I kinda wanted to show Alpha Dave as a simple sturdy figure in a messy messy background because that's how Dirk saw him? Super cool and collected in all the chaos surrounding him. Also suits. -Lyrics: |- - (backwards dialogue) - Waow - What is this? A center for ants? - This is America - Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor - WELCOME TO THE DARK CARNIVAL - Get this, the witch has made my chest its permanent nightly visiting nest
The witch told me about blood that rains, out of the neck and what particular veins and I- - Dream about cutting off heads with a shovel, the dreams are getting serious, I think I'm in trouble - About murder, witnessin' death setting in, and it ain't no heaven that's letting me in! - What is a juggalo? He drinks like a fish and then he starts hugging people like a drunken (WAOW) next thing he's pickin' fights with his best friends, then he starts with the hugging again (unintelligible) - IT'S THE SWEET BRO AND HELLA JEFF SHOW! WHOAAAAAAAAa Cover Artists: - dazed-squid +Art Tags: +- Dirk's bro Referenced Tracks: - track:beatdown-strider-style - This Is America @@ -293,24 +273,38 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Waters of Nazareth - SWEET BRO AND HELLA JEFF SHOW - track:upward-movement-dave-owns +Lyrics: |- + (backwards dialogue) + Waow + What is this? A center for ants? + This is America + Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor + WELCOME TO THE DARK CARNIVAL + Get this, the witch has made my chest its permanent nightly visiting nest
The witch told me about blood that rains, out of the neck and what particular veins and I- + Dream about cutting off heads with a shovel, the dreams are getting serious, I think I'm in trouble + About murder, witnessin' death setting in, and it ain't no heaven that's letting me in! + What is a juggalo? He drinks like a fish and then he starts hugging people like a drunken (WAOW) next thing he's pickin' fights with his best friends, then he starts with the hugging again (unintelligible) + IT'S THE SWEET BRO AND HELLA JEFF SHOW! WHOAAAAAAAAa +Commentary: |- + ndividedbyzero: + wilson for wisdom. stiller for power. glover for courage. with the tripartite decree of america's three greatest heralds, backed by a rendition of beatdown so terrifying it can only be described as psychological warfare, the stage has been set for the star of the show. the experience behind the experience. but such titles do not ascribe what importance this fiend deserves. nay, they COULD not ascribe the requisite importance, for only one title suits the hero, the madman, the director and architect to a hall of fame of utter shit. + he is THE BIG MAN, and we are all in his court. + heads are about to roll. + MISC NOTES: this piece started with me thinking "hm, i really want to use running hell in this dave song" and then the rest kind of flowed from there. in that segment, you may note that violent j seems to alternate between lamenting the presence of "THE WITCH" and singing her praises. i feel as though if an alien queen actually appeared to install the insane clown posse as figureheads of a government responsible for the deaths of billions, it would have to involve some sort of mental manipulation on her part, because honestly, icp seem like sort of decent upstanding folks in reality? like violent j wholeheartedly supports his daughter being a furry so he seems to be a nice dad at least. shit, in this political climate they might not be half bad as dual presidents, comparatively, and they're literal clowns. thanks to grace for recommending i use icp's seminal and apparent manifesto, "What Is A Juggalo", whose lyrics you should look up because they are just truly incredible. the section it transitions to, where the nightcore becomes ambient noise, is meant to symbolize the tense standoff between dave and icp before he cuts their heads off, but also it was mostly tongue in cheek. waters of nazareth also plays during that section very faintly, which partly symbolizes that in parallel to this event rose is executing the antichrist over a waterfall, but that was something i just made up now. more intentionally, sampling waters of nazareth badly in a strider song contrasts with the fantastic use of the sample in splitsuns' [[track:thyme-on-my-fries]]. (love ya split). oh god this was a wall of text. i'm done now bye + dazed-squid: + I kinda wanted to show Alpha Dave as a simple sturdy figure in a messy messy background because that's how Dirk saw him? Super cool and collected in all the chaos surrounding him. Also suits. --- Track: Jade English - Study for Eclectic Bass, 1984.1 Directory: study-for-eclectic-bass-1984-1 Artist: Interrobang Duration: '5:09' -Art Tags: -- Jake's grandma URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/jade-english-study-for-eclectic-bass-19841 - https://youtu.be/CN2oWjAy6EI -Commentary: |- - Interrobang: - This piece has been in the works for a LONG time. I started it in March of 2017, and though most of the compositional work was complete by July of that year, I didn't finish polishing everything up until late April 2018, after many months of procrastination and tweaking. The idea of the track is simple, it's Jake's Grandmother, Jade English, writing a song for her signature eclectic bass sometime in the 80's, which you probably already knew from the title. Anyway, I wanted to make a song that you could supposedly 'play' on the eclectic bass, which meant I had to figure out what exactly the components of such an instrument were (see [[media:misc/eclectic-bass-diagram.png|the accompanying diagram]]). I chose the iconic Yamaha DX7 (used in tons of 80's pop) to be the keyboards of the instrument as it could make the sounds I wanted, it was from around the right time, and I had an emulation (Digital Suburban's "Dexed") on hand. Other instruments used in the song were Karfoyer Audio's "Pastabass" and "Swagbass" for the bass guitars themselves, as well as Full Bucket Music's "Ragnarök" (used to flesh out some bass frequencies at the song's peak), and some built-in GarageBand instruments (drums) and effects. - Compositionally, I started out with the ostinato that closes [[track:rhapsody-in-green]] (Clark Powell) from the Felt album, but played in reverse, adding in an FM pad (the aforementioned DX7) and [[track:skaianet]] by Mark Hadley on the other bass guitar. The introduction section transitions into variations on [[track:verdancy-bassline]] by Kalibration, and closes the track's first half with a medley of various Jade-related songs. The second half is an original thing (though the beginning is a variation on [[track:afraid-of-the-darko]] by RJ! Lake) that I had build in complexity and intensity before dropping off to end the piece. Reference-wise, I tried to keep things centered roughly on Jade, as well as some other skaianet/felt sort of stuff that I thought fit the Alpha world and Jade's place in it, but I did end up throwing in a couple memetic references, see if you can find them both! - Jas: - Grandma Harley often wrote her grandson about the tyranny of Lord English, obviously not able to hide everything from the enemy. Cover Artists: - Jas +Art Tags: +- Jake's grandma Referenced Tracks: - Rhapsody in Green - track:verdancy-bassline @@ -320,41 +314,47 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Roundabout - Afraid of the Darko - Piss +Commentary: |- + Interrobang: + This piece has been in the works for a LONG time. I started it in March of 2017, and though most of the compositional work was complete by July of that year, I didn't finish polishing everything up until late April 2018, after many months of procrastination and tweaking. The idea of the track is simple, it's Jake's Grandmother, Jade English, writing a song for her signature eclectic bass sometime in the 80's, which you probably already knew from the title. Anyway, I wanted to make a song that you could supposedly 'play' on the eclectic bass, which meant I had to figure out what exactly the components of such an instrument were (see [[media:misc/eclectic-bass-diagram.png|the accompanying diagram]]). I chose the iconic Yamaha DX7 (used in tons of 80's pop) to be the keyboards of the instrument as it could make the sounds I wanted, it was from around the right time, and I had an emulation (Digital Suburban's "Dexed") on hand. Other instruments used in the song were Karfoyer Audio's "Pastabass" and "Swagbass" for the bass guitars themselves, as well as Full Bucket Music's "Ragnarök" (used to flesh out some bass frequencies at the song's peak), and some built-in GarageBand instruments (drums) and effects. + Compositionally, I started out with the ostinato that closes [[track:rhapsody-in-green]] (Clark Powell) from the Felt album, but played in reverse, adding in an FM pad (the aforementioned DX7) and [[track:skaianet]] by Mark Hadley on the other bass guitar. The introduction section transitions into variations on [[track:verdancy-bassline]] by Kalibration, and closes the track's first half with a medley of various Jade-related songs. The second half is an original thing (though the beginning is a variation on [[track:afraid-of-the-darko]] by RJ! Lake) that I had build in complexity and intensity before dropping off to end the piece. Reference-wise, I tried to keep things centered roughly on Jade, as well as some other skaianet/felt sort of stuff that I thought fit the Alpha world and Jade's place in it, but I did end up throwing in a couple memetic references, see if you can find them both! + Jas: + Grandma Harley often wrote her grandson about the tyranny of Lord English, obviously not able to hide everything from the enemy. --- Track: Felidae Superior Artist: WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES Duration: '3:44' -Art Tags: -- God Cat URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/felidae-superior - https://youtu.be/l0Izf8Sl7LI +Cover Artists: +- shu +Art Tags: +- God Cat Commentary: |- WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES: This song took remarkably long to put together. Less because it was difficult, and more because I kept getting distracted with other projects along the way. Anyway, meow. SplitSuns: Shu delivers some impressively smooth and refined art for everyone's second-favorite cat whose name begins with a G, GCAT. They say you can tell a lot about someone from their eyes, which makes it more impressive that you can glean this cat's mischievous expression without any eyes at all. GCAT is prepared for action from its carefully positioned placement on a tree branch, ready to pounce at a ball of yarn or teleport to the spot best suited for making your life hell. Some rough glitchy effects in the background add an interesting dimension to the piece, nicely contrasting against its smooth linework. This is one art you won't want to miss, and knowing GCAT's temper, you might miss it if you blink. -Cover Artists: -- shu --- Track: Sweet Talker Artist: Ucklin Duration: '3:24' -Art Tags: -- The Condesce URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/sweet-talker - https://youtu.be/TkDZC-vTXHE +Cover Artists: +- nights +Art Tags: +- The Condesce +Referenced Tracks: +- Hate You Commentary: |- Ucklin: The idea for this song started with the transition around 2:35 to the section with [[track:hate-you]] played in a straight rhythm. I wanted to capture a feeling of dread by making that part of the song methodical and delaying the payoff of some of the notes by a beat. It would also be a stark contrast to have this straight section in solo piano right after a climactic section with plenty of instruments in a swing beat! I was inspired to incorporate a musical palette from the 30s-40s because that's when I estimate Condy took over as Betty Crocker and started doing her guardian things. In the original song, I planned for the bass to carry most of the weight with regards to rhythm, but eventually, I was persuaded to add percussion to the track after helpful feedback from a few of the organizers, and I think it helped a lot! Hate You is quoted 3 times, although the first two ended up a bit disguised by subsequent layers of instrumentation. With regards to the rest of the composition, I tried to have fun! In a way, this song is supposed to tell the story of The Baroness. The beginning hook and the next section portray the mask she wears as Betty Crocker upon arriving to earth, and the persona that caused her husband Colonel Sassacre to fall in love with her. That part of the story is pretty funny to me. The following section introduces the mystery of her real identity with a jazzy Hate You quote before returning to the first section, and finally the climactic transition of the song represents the death of Colonel Sassacre and the beginning of Crocker's reign of terror proper. Finally, at the very end of the song, there is a piccolo harmony which just sounds like aliens to me, possibly because it sounds a little like a theremin. I learned a lot composing this song! Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoyed! (And thanks to nights for art more polished and gorgeous than I could hope to deserve!) nights: This very nice track gave me vibes of a casual setting with the condesce, so I thought to draw her doing a mundane but fun task - baking! I've always liked fanart of HIC as betty crocker, doing crockery things like baking cake and raising post-scratch john/jade. -Cover Artists: -- nights -Referenced Tracks: -- Hate You --- Group: Disc 2 --- @@ -362,14 +362,16 @@ Track: Disc 2 Directory: disc2-cosmic-caretakers Artist: psithurist Duration: 0:53 +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/disc-2-3 +- https://youtu.be/rhncumrLYns +Cover Artists: +- SpaceWaifu Art Tags: - John's dad - Karkat's lusus - John - Karkat -URLs: -- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/disc-2-3 -- https://youtu.be/rhncumrLYns Commentary: |- psithurist: This was actually the first of the three disc jingles that I wrote, and uses synths to aim for a more alien-ish vibe for the trolls disc, contrasting the organic instruments present in the humans disc. @@ -377,18 +379,20 @@ Commentary: |- Would you believe that both DAD and CRABDAD are looking at the VERY SAME STAR while cradling their children? No? You don't? They both exist in completely different universes you say? That the stars are thematic element used to tie this track art together and to symbolically show the role of each of these GUARDIANS? You're no fun. -Cover Artists: -- SpaceWaifu --- Track: Voice of the Dead Artist: Mathias Ramalho, cookiefonster Duration: '2:20' -Art Tags: -- Aradia's lusus -- Aradia URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/voice-of-the-dead - https://youtu.be/aw72N9h0P08 +Cover Artists: +- freckledOctopus +Art Tags: +- Aradia's lusus +- Aradia +Referenced Tracks: +- Aradia's Theme (Pre-Death) Commentary: |- Mathias Ramalho: H*ck dude ye made this shit for a thingy that was DEAD in it's FIRST AND ONLY APPEARANCE IN THE ENTIRE FUCKING COMIC?? @@ -399,75 +403,75 @@ Commentary: |- he wasnt going to let the song just :Die~2: freckledOctopus: I love the track and wanted to try and capture the more haunting side to it. -Cover Artists: -- freckledOctopus -Referenced Tracks: -- Aradia's Theme (Pre-Death) --- Track: Flittaurine Artist: Shirokishi Duration: '2:07' -Art Tags: -- Tavros' lusus URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/flittaurine - https://youtu.be/zWK3R-YnmTI +Cover Artists: +- Chumi +Art Tags: +- Tavros' lusus +Referenced Tracks: +- Rust Servant Commentary: |- WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES: Tinkerbull is a daintly and beautiful lusus, who took care of his young troll Tavros to impeccable standards, giving him the kind of love and attention that all trolls in their early sweeps truly need. Until he got crushed painfully to death by Tavros's wheelchair anyway. Kind of a sad end to this tale. Chumi: Dear, sweet, precious Tinkerbull. Rest in peace my little guy. -Cover Artists: -- Chumi -Referenced Tracks: -- Rust Servant --- Track: Polypolyphemus Artist: Ducky Senpai Duration: '3:18' -Art Tags: -- Sollux's lusus URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/polypolyphemus - https://youtu.be/Rd9a2KQ_ZVk +Cover Artists: +- shu +Art Tags: +- Sollux's lusus +Referenced Tracks: +- Die For Me Commentary: |- Ducky Senpai: For those who may be curious, the title (suggested by Lambda) is play on the term "Polyphemus" which refers to the cyclops in The Odyssey. It's a really dumb pun, and I love it. SplitSuns: Polypolyphemus is an intense track, so it's fitting for its art to capture the same intensity. Sollux's Biclops is captured right before its imminent demise as the troll's Mind Honey-induced flip out rips through the ceiling of his hive and surrounds the lusus in a multi-colored beam of energy. The meteors illuminating the night sky further illustrate the carnage present in the scene in a fashion that pops up time and time again in Homestuck proper. If only one of those meteors could break the chain around the Biclops' leg and set it free! Wait, the resulting impact would probably just kill the Biclops anyway. Never mind, that was a stupid idea. -Cover Artists: -- shu -Referenced Tracks: -- Die For Me --- Track: Rangoon Artist: WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES Duration: '2:03' -Art Tags: -- Karkat's lusus -- Karkat URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/rangoon - https://youtu.be/qayMFPJjtI0 +Cover Artists: +- ackro +Art Tags: +- Karkat's lusus +- Karkat +Referenced Tracks: +- Showdown Commentary: |- WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES: Crabs taste pretty good, gotta say. I'm partial to snow crab, myself. Of course, the only place I ever had them was Red Lobster: the apex of all seafood cuisine. ackro: this one is pretty much just a carbon copy of a homestuck panel i found. i mean i didnt trace anything, but its all placed pretty much the same with minor differences. dont give me too much praise for this one. -Cover Artists: -- ackro -Referenced Tracks: -- Showdown --- Track: Apex Conquistador Artist: TempiTunes, WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES Duration: '1:38' -Art Tags: -- Nepeta's lusus URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/apex-conquistador - https://youtu.be/g0HGUiXDsQU +Cover Artists: +- Sammie +Art Tags: +- Nepeta's lusus +Referenced Tracks: +- Nepeta's Theme Commentary: |- WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES: I had the opportunity to touch up this piece, which I mostly did by polishing up the samples and adding an electric piano as backing. @@ -475,19 +479,19 @@ Commentary: |- WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES: If there's one thing that mouse can appreciate, it's that it got to see a two-mouthed cat monster before it died. Coincidentally, it's about to die because of said two-mouthed cat monster eating it. You just can't have it all, unfortunately. -Cover Artists: -- Sammie -Referenced Tracks: -- Nepeta's Theme --- Track: Recordare, Virgo Mater Artist: queer maggot Duration: '3:34' -Art Tags: -- Kanaya's lusus URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/recordare-virgo-mater - https://youtu.be/uI2g0qbTjEE +Cover Artists: +- artisticallyCrafty +Art Tags: +- Kanaya's lusus +Referenced Tracks: +- Virgin Orb Commentary: |- queer maggot: Oh man, this is a really loaded song for me. Coming from a musical background that mostly consisted of writing punk songs and making bad beats, when I started on this I sort of had no idea what I was doing?? I wanted to portray this sense of grief and sadness that would shift into a big, fun declaration of hope and all that, but really what wound up happening was me rushing through the grief and sadness to get to the fun bits with the electric guitar. I even made the fun bits with some friends watching just to make sure that it truly was both big and fun! That was the good part, in my eyes. Unfortunately, I just didn't know how to properly convey the feeling I was going for, and I really didn't know how to write a song for a character. I wasn't experienced enough and I didn't have the tenacity to stick with it. That was the first version of the song I ever made. @@ -496,10 +500,6 @@ Commentary: |- All in all, this was an interesting thing that I learned a lot making. It was my first time receiving real criticism on something I made and I hope people enjoy it! artisticallyCrafty: The Mothergrub has always been a fascinating creature to me in Homestuck, both as a part of reproduction and as a lusus. Especially since becoming a lusus means that you give up a life in the brooding caverns for a shortened existence to care for onechild. And with the Virgin Mother Grub drawing so many parallels to the iconic Holy Virgin Mary, I decided to draw my own parallels. I wanted this peice to be symbolic in nature towards the ideas and standards of the Mothergrub. It also may be a little sacrilegious in regards to the Catholic images of the Virgin Mary, but we'll just ignore that little fact. The Virgin Mothergrub floats with the brooding caverns behind her, and her new charge sleeping peacefully nearby, alongside other eggs nearly ready to hatch into trolls that will play a game and sacrifice to create something new. (we're also going to ignore the fact that i may have had an out-of-body experience while working on this piece) -Cover Artists: -- artisticallyCrafty -Referenced Tracks: -- Virgin Orb --- Track: Amniotic Daydream Artist: Circlejourney @@ -507,6 +507,10 @@ Duration: '4:16' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/amniotic-daydream - https://youtu.be/Bne6tHjEIko +Cover Artists: +- ackro +Referenced Tracks: +- JUST1C3 R41NS FROM 4BOV3 Commentary: |- Circlejourney: I conceptualised Amniotic Daydream together with Skip: the first thing we decided was that it should be a lullaby-like track built on top of a heartbeat. I ultimately ended up working on this track alone, looking to a demo Skip made as a stylistic reference before taking it in my own direction. @@ -515,21 +519,21 @@ Commentary: |- I'd love to thank the mods for their feedback, which truly helped me turn this track into what it is now. ackro: this piece is probably the most complex one i did for the album, and i think it payed off in spades. i used a lot of elements from the scene in which terezi's dragon hatches and is immediately killed by a falling meteor, which might be one of the best looking parts in homestuck, although its hard to choose since the first half of homestuck is littered with striking imagery. oh my god just look at it. so good. so fucking good guys. its really good. -Cover Artists: -- ackro -Referenced Tracks: -- JUST1C3 R41NS FROM 4BOV3 --- Track: Arachnida Antecessor Artist: arcaneGemini Duration: '2:11' +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/arachnida-antecessor +- https://youtu.be/oP8Y3OVrxY8 +Cover Artists: +- Caitlin Beamer Art Tags: - Vriska's lusus - Vriska - 'cw: arachnid' -URLs: -- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/arachnida-antecessor -- https://youtu.be/oP8Y3OVrxY8 +Referenced Tracks: +- track:MeGaLoVania Commentary: |- arcaneGemini: Well hey, would you look at that: my first ever track with the Homestuck Fan Musicians Crew. That's pretty neat. @@ -540,21 +544,21 @@ Commentary: |- You know what? Since you've gone through all the trouble to read this here commentary, have a free concept guitar riff for this tune. For you it's on the house. Caitlyn Beamer: I understand why hussie didn't draw spider-mom with hair on her. that took way too much time to have to do it more than once. -Cover Artists: -- Caitlin Beamer -Referenced Tracks: -- track:MeGaLoVania --- Track: STRONG Butler. Best Dad. Directory: STRONG-butler-best-dad Artist: arcaneGemini Duration: '3:16' -Art Tags: -- Equius's lusus -- Equius URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/strong-butler-best-dad - https://youtu.be/BzwL4cY8V50 +Cover Artists: +- Tipsy +Art Tags: +- Equius's lusus +- Equius +Referenced Tracks: +- Horschestra STRONG Version Commentary: |- arcaneGemini: You thought you could get rid of me that easily? Think again. That's right, it's round 2 with Dyl Nye the Science Guy: Horse edition. @@ -567,91 +571,87 @@ Commentary: |- Also yes, that is me saying 'neigh'. tipsy: For every album cover I've drawn so far, I try to make them look a little different and experiment with different styles. In this case I tried to draw a HORSE (crazy i know) and used this very painting-like flat style, and decided to put Equius's signature up, effectively making it his own painting! This went through lots of colour hue alterations and was originally a very light pink desert in a sunny sky before we settled on this darker background to make Aurthour stand out more. I like to think that Equius is simultaneously admiring his surroundings and panicking about their imminent death by sunburn. -Cover Artists: -- Tipsy -Referenced Tracks: -- Horschestra STRONG Version --- Track: Absent Reflection Artist: PoisonedElite Duration: '2:10' -Art Tags: -- Gamzee URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/absent-reflection - https://youtu.be/uw2z3juY-64 +Cover Artists: +- Jas +Art Tags: +- Gamzee +Referenced Tracks: +- track:dilemma Commentary: |- PoisonedElite: Wow, this is the first song I ever signed up to make, over a year ago in April of 2017. From the beginning writing a song about Gamzee's Lusus provided a challenge due to the fact that it only appears in a panel or two, so I decided to write the song around the lack of it in Gamzee's life. Like Calming Quartz, this also had a different song as the rough Draft, so here ya go. Play Hollow Knight, eat your dinner, and never forget the pokemon you lose when you're doing a Nuzlocke challenge. Rest in Peace Oswin ;-;7 Jas: Sometimes you wait a long time to see the people you love. -Cover Artists: -- Jas -Referenced Tracks: -- track:dilemma --- Track: Hippocampaternal Artist: FrostyMac Duration: '2:35' -Art Tags: -- Eridan's lusus URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/hippocampaternal - https://youtu.be/hN4jbLF5lEc -Commentary: |- - FrostyMac: - Fun fact: This was the first song I ever made for any Homestuck related project ever, and I lost the original file at some point, so excuse the mixing being a little weird. I still stand by the song's compositional and structural quality though. - Jas: - Your baby crashed in on a blaze of fire, go get him seahorse daddy Cover Artists: - Jas +Art Tags: +- Eridan's lusus Referenced Tracks: - Eridan's Theme - track:chorale-for-jaspers - Science Seahorse +Commentary: |- + FrostyMac: + Fun fact: This was the first song I ever made for any Homestuck related project ever, and I lost the original file at some point, so excuse the mixing being a little weird. I still stand by the song's compositional and structural quality though. + Jas: + Your baby crashed in on a blaze of fire, go get him seahorse daddy --- Track: Whispering Leviathan Artist: Kanishka Duration: '4:24' -Art Tags: -- Feferi's lusus -- Horrorterrors URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/whispering-leviathan - https://youtu.be/ixMCOL-1yVc -Commentary: |- - Kanishka: - *angry tentacle noises* - Circlejourney: - Listening to Whispering Leviathan always made me feel like I was hearing it in a submarine environment - perfectly appropriate to the subject of Gl'bgolyb. The scene in which Gl'bgolyb was revealed was, to me, one of the several "holy shit" moments of Homestuck, and instead of trying to depict the vastness of Feferi's lusus, I went for a sense of mystery and foreboding more closely matching the tone of the music, by revealing nothing but its tentacles in silhouette. - Finding the right balance between silhouette and rendering proved one of the primary challenges of completing this piece. Too much light meant the image lost its spooky, foreboding tone; too little made it look flat. In the end I came out with something that roughly strikes that balance, though I still feel that it loses some of the spookiness of the sketch. Thanks @ the good people at the Homestuck Artist discord for the tips! Cover Artists: - Circlejourney +Art Tags: +- Feferi's lusus +- Horrorterrors Referenced Tracks: - Fear of the Heavens - Silencio - The Vast Glub - Penumbra Phantasm - Keepers +Commentary: |- + Kanishka: + *angry tentacle noises* + Circlejourney: + Listening to Whispering Leviathan always made me feel like I was hearing it in a submarine environment - perfectly appropriate to the subject of Gl'bgolyb. The scene in which Gl'bgolyb was revealed was, to me, one of the several "holy shit" moments of Homestuck, and instead of trying to depict the vastness of Feferi's lusus, I went for a sense of mystery and foreboding more closely matching the tone of the music, by revealing nothing but its tentacles in silhouette. + Finding the right balance between silhouette and rendering proved one of the primary challenges of completing this piece. Too much light meant the image lost its spooky, foreboding tone; too little made it look flat. In the end I came out with something that roughly strikes that balance, though I still feel that it loses some of the spookiness of the sketch. Thanks @ the good people at the Homestuck Artist discord for the tips! --- Track: Al-Aalam Artist: Kal-la-kal-la Duration: '5:09' -Art Tags: -- The Dolorosa -- The Signless URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/al-aalam - https://youtu.be/gD7C0GrtJ2U +Cover Artists: +- shedonkadonk +Art Tags: +- The Dolorosa +- The Signless Commentary: |- Kal-la-kal-la: This piece is heavily inspired by the bis radio edit of Turbulence by Arab Strap - 808s and gloomy guitar lines are the order of the day. Mayhaps not the most obvious approach to a track about the Dolorosa but I take a slight measure of pride in that. Quite pleased with the middle section; the cycle of dominant sevenths with the electric piano improvisation atop it. Grief is a strange thing and I find it rarely conveyed well in music. Another for the bonfire pile. Ephemerald: *The sound of a camera flash can be audibly heard over the music.* Yep. That one's going in my Pietà compilation. But really, is there a more appropriate parallel to make? Probably not. The parable of the Sufferer is full of religious iconography by design, which I guess means that Earth based the Bible off of it, and not the other way around? I don't know. I'll leave that commentary for Hussie, when he (doesn't) get around to it. As a side note, I love the "halos" surrounding the Dolorosa and the Sufferer here. Good stuff. -Cover Artists: -- shedonkadonk --- Track: The Puppet Master Artist: SplitSuns @@ -659,11 +659,6 @@ Duration: '4:10' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-puppet-master - https://youtu.be/hGnSgIGK6HM -Commentary: |- - SplitSuns: - When I was first given the opportunity to work on Cosmic Caretakers and saw that there was an open slot for a track centered around Doc Scratch, I jumped at the opportunity to produce it! Scratch has always been one of my favorite characters in Homestuck. When I read through the comic for the first time I loved how he orchestrated the destruction of two entire universes but managed to give an air of dignity and style to such a nefarious event. His demeanor was never overtly evil: it was unsettling at times, sure, but he always acted the part of an excellent host through and through. I tried to represent this atmosphere in my own song. Its jazzy feel ripped from "Drawing Dead" or "The Felt" definitely brings to mind a comfortable stay in Scratch's parlor, but if you listen closely you can notice sinister undertones lurking beneath the surface through the decaying bells and whistling winds. Of course, I had to throw in some reverse piano in the mix as well. It wouldn't be a Felt-centric song without one. Towards the end of the track the piano backmasks some iconic Beta Kid motifs, showing how Scratch is acutely aware of every piece to his puzzle (even when we're not). What kind of an excellent host would he be if he didn't keep tabs on his "guests", after all? - Ephemerald: - So! The Puppet Master. The laid-back yet sinister vibe this song gives off felt fitting for Scratch, who, for most of the comic, just creepily stands and watches things happen. That's why I decided to not have Scratch do some Cool Actiony Villain Pose - he's a puppetmaster. He just needs to lounge. Yazshu took care of the Alternian planet, moons, and the cueball/sun/thing, so thanks to her for the backdrop! Cover Artists: - Ephemerald - yazshu @@ -674,6 +669,11 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:beatdown-strider-style - track:dissension-original - track:showtime-original-mix +Commentary: |- + SplitSuns: + When I was first given the opportunity to work on Cosmic Caretakers and saw that there was an open slot for a track centered around Doc Scratch, I jumped at the opportunity to produce it! Scratch has always been one of my favorite characters in Homestuck. When I read through the comic for the first time I loved how he orchestrated the destruction of two entire universes but managed to give an air of dignity and style to such a nefarious event. His demeanor was never overtly evil: it was unsettling at times, sure, but he always acted the part of an excellent host through and through. I tried to represent this atmosphere in my own song. Its jazzy feel ripped from "Drawing Dead" or "The Felt" definitely brings to mind a comfortable stay in Scratch's parlor, but if you listen closely you can notice sinister undertones lurking beneath the surface through the decaying bells and whistling winds. Of course, I had to throw in some reverse piano in the mix as well. It wouldn't be a Felt-centric song without one. Towards the end of the track the piano backmasks some iconic Beta Kid motifs, showing how Scratch is acutely aware of every piece to his puzzle (even when we're not). What kind of an excellent host would he be if he didn't keep tabs on his "guests", after all? + Ephemerald: + So! The Puppet Master. The laid-back yet sinister vibe this song gives off felt fitting for Scratch, who, for most of the comic, just creepily stands and watches things happen. That's why I decided to not have Scratch do some Cool Actiony Villain Pose - he's a puppetmaster. He just needs to lounge. Yazshu took care of the Alternian planet, moons, and the cueball/sun/thing, so thanks to her for the backdrop! --- Group: Disc 3 --- @@ -681,84 +681,84 @@ Track: Disc 3 Directory: disc3-cosmic-caretakers Artist: psithurist Duration: 0:27 -Art Tags: -- Gamzee -- Cherubs URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/disc-3-3 - https://youtu.be/Z3C-qzpXNcI +Cover Artists: +- Jas +Art Tags: +- Gamzee +- Cherubs Commentary: |- psithurist: Since Disc 3 only has a few tracks, I went for a simpler approach here, and ended up with a quirky refrain of the theme present in the other jingles. s/o to the Tetris DX soundtrack for getting jazzy chiptunes stuck in my head forever. Jas: Styled after old album covers that always seemed to be scraped up and have that off yellow color. -Cover Artists: -- Jas --- Track: HONK FRIEND. Artist: Mathias Ramalho Duration: '4:14' +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/honk-friend +- https://youtu.be/IynwmfnQYzk +Cover Artists: +- Jas Art Tags: - Gamzee - Caliborn - 'cw: blood' -URLs: -- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/honk-friend -- https://youtu.be/IynwmfnQYzk +Referenced Tracks: +- Reverie +- Power Fantasy Commentary: |- Mathias Ramalho: This might be the wildest take on a song revolving around Gamzee. I decided to use [[track:reverie]] and [[track:power-fantasy]] as the foundation of this track as well as taking an advantage to make this somehow cheery-ish since we don't really know what happens in the story. A good advantage imo. Jas: It's hard being a single mom when you are a teenage boy. At least Caliborn is sitting still for once. -Cover Artists: -- Jas -Referenced Tracks: -- Reverie -- Power Fantasy --- Track: Singularity Artist: ndividedbyzero Duration: '4:55' -Art Tags: -- Cherubs URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/singularity - https://youtu.be/Gfb17_RW2M0 -Commentary: |- - ndividedbyzero: - This track originates from an idea I had in 2014 to make a track about Calliope and Caliborn's parents. Five years later, it's finally done, stitched together from the composition and/or actual audio clips of like 4 FLPs (I went through about 6, all in all). Funnily enough, the scribbles I had for this song in 2014 then are completely different composition-wise from what ended up being made, but the narrative loosely remains in this track: the cherubs' mother drifts through space, searching for her mate. She spots him, taking off at full speed, following him as he leaves a trail of destruction across the universe. Their eventual meeting is tense, cold. Saying nothing, they transform into unfathomable astral serpents, and battle to create the most innocent muse and most shitheaded gremlin to ever exist. - I attribute the latter half of this track to listening to a lot of Hawaii: Part II, which is also sampled at the end. Listen to Hawaii: Part II. - Ephemerald: - The game of choice for cherubs seems to be chess, or at least, some neon-green candy-red shitty-twist variant of the game, but I'm getting real playing card motifs here. Two identical, serpentine warriors, millions and millions of miles long, locked in a symmetrical whirlwind of a strife. Reminds me of the art to [[track:noirscape]] back on Volume 9, though that's a more literal example. The spiraling, iconic egg in the middle, shining like a light in the darkness, is a very clear reminder of what these two are fighting for: the right to force their opponent to give birth to literally the worst entity in all of existence. But I suppose it didn't matter who won or who lost. After all, he was already there. -Lyrics: Then all the planets fell to dust Cover Artists: - Aeritus +Art Tags: +- Cherubs Referenced Tracks: - track:ruins - track:disc2-cosmic-caretakers - Nova Solis - Isle Unto Thyself +Lyrics: Then all the planets fell to dust +Commentary: |- + ndividedbyzero: + This track originates from an idea I had in 2014 to make a track about Calliope and Caliborn's parents. Five years later, it's finally done, stitched together from the composition and/or actual audio clips of like 4 FLPs (I went through about 6, all in all). Funnily enough, the scribbles I had for this song in 2014 then are completely different composition-wise from what ended up being made, but the narrative loosely remains in this track: the cherubs' mother drifts through space, searching for her mate. She spots him, taking off at full speed, following him as he leaves a trail of destruction across the universe. Their eventual meeting is tense, cold. Saying nothing, they transform into unfathomable astral serpents, and battle to create the most innocent muse and most shitheaded gremlin to ever exist. + I attribute the latter half of this track to listening to a lot of Hawaii: Part II, which is also sampled at the end. Listen to Hawaii: Part II. + Ephemerald: + The game of choice for cherubs seems to be chess, or at least, some neon-green candy-red shitty-twist variant of the game, but I'm getting real playing card motifs here. Two identical, serpentine warriors, millions and millions of miles long, locked in a symmetrical whirlwind of a strife. Reminds me of the art to [[track:noirscape]] back on Volume 9, though that's a more literal example. The spiraling, iconic egg in the middle, shining like a light in the darkness, is a very clear reminder of what these two are fighting for: the right to force their opponent to give birth to literally the worst entity in all of existence. But I suppose it didn't matter who won or who lost. After all, he was already there. --- Group: Bonus tracks --- Track: It's Ogre Artist: Circlejourney Duration: '3:03' -Art Tags: -- Eridan -- Shrek URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/its-ogre-bonus - https://youtu.be/yqm6Fw8LHUU -Commentary: |- - Circlejourney: - I was struck by divine inspiration 2 hours ago and now this exists, you're welcome - Jas: - I hate myself for making this and yet Cover Artists: - Jas +Art Tags: +- Eridan +- Shrek Referenced Tracks: - All Star - Eridan's Theme - I'm A Believer - Violet Prince +Commentary: |- + Circlejourney: + I was struck by divine inspiration 2 hours ago and now this exists, you're welcome + Jas: + I hate myself for making this and yet -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5 From 9e389a0dc36cafdd3b02624ffa711b498d99b1ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gio Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 15:35:57 -0600 Subject: Pluralize non-artist.txt artists. --- album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml | 102 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 69 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) (limited to 'album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml') diff --git a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml index 5b23e11..0ae1191 100644 --- a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml +++ b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml @@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ Group: Disc 1 --- Track: Disc 1 Directory: disc1-cosmic-caretakers -Artist: psithurist +Artists: +- psithurist Duration: '1:06' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/disc-1-3 @@ -69,7 +70,8 @@ Commentary: |- this was done pretty quick, its a simple concept that didnt take much doing. the thing i like most is probably the scratch lightning, ive been drawing a lot of lightning recently. --- Track: Egbert's Kitchen -Artist: Pascal van den Bos +Artists: +- Pascal van den Bos Duration: '3:01' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/egberts-kitchen @@ -88,7 +90,8 @@ Commentary: |- I want this dad to be my dad. --- Track: Nanna's New Groove -Artist: ndividedbyzero +Artists: +- ndividedbyzero Duration: '3:48' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/nannas-new-groove @@ -109,7 +112,9 @@ Commentary: |- in this household we stan Jane Crocker/Nanna Egbert. --- Track: Martini Cardamom -Artist: Sean Gorter, PoisonedElite +Artists: +- Sean Gorter +- PoisonedElite Duration: '3:58' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/martini-cardamom @@ -129,7 +134,8 @@ Commentary: |- --- Track: Meteor, Schmeteor (I'll Cut That Thing Right In Half) Directory: meteor-schmeteor -Artist: Chaosvariant +Artists: +- Chaosvariant Duration: '2:38' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/meteor-schmeteor-ill-cut-that-thing-right-in-half @@ -150,7 +156,8 @@ Commentary: |- i really like how i did this one. not too much going on but i feel its good for how simple it is. drawing the meteor took a bit of work, and looking at some reference shots from descend, but it really came together, and of course the sense of scale given with bro and the meteor is very well executed id say. pretty much flawless except for the fire which i couldve done better. --- Track: Hunting the Most Dangerous Game -Artist: Kanishka +Artists: +- Kanishka Duration: '3:30' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/hunting-the-most-dangerous-game @@ -172,7 +179,8 @@ Commentary: |- i accidentally listened to bec's song instead of grandpa's song (wow well done me), so i HAD to include dogs. but i wanted the image to live up to this song's title. you can see my thought process here. besides which you can see the true danger that grandpa must have put himself in expressed here with his lack of pants. anyway i wanted the animals to all look vaguely real, so i spent a lot of time looking up pictures of them while drawing. i was heavily inspired by hiveswap and the photo frames of grandpa in his past, and wanted to draw a silly looking hunting scenario that could fill the gaps of in your head. there's even a version with joey's comments scribbled on, though it was a bit too busy and standoutish. hope you enjoy [Kanishka]'s song. --- Track: Fetch That Steak -Artist: Kusoro +Artists: +- Kusoro Duration: '1:34' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/fetch-that-steak @@ -189,7 +197,8 @@ Commentary: |- Bec quite clearly doesn't have a care in the world here. You know, it's funny how omnipotent dog brains work. "Yeah, I was brought to this planet with the express purpose of facilitating its ultimate purpose and also ensuring that I exist at all, but, I mean, do I have to do that right now? Can't I just take some time off and go fetch a steak so radioactive it would make the Elephant's Foot seem like a regular old chunk of steel by comparison? The answer is yes, I can. So I will." Good dog. Best friend. Not a superb prioritizer. --- Track: Monatomic Strife -Artist: Pascal van den Bos +Artists: +- Pascal van den Bos Duration: '2:15' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/monatomic-strife @@ -208,7 +217,8 @@ Commentary: |- This one too. --- Track: Secondhand Memories -Artist: Grace Medley +Artists: +- Grace Medley Duration: '1:57' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/secondhand-memories @@ -226,7 +236,8 @@ Commentary: |- I had the sketch of this track art sitting by for a while, since I never found the time to finish it - not even during the holiday break. I finally was able to find the time to do exactly that on... A very long and boring plane trip, hahah. While drawing it, I thought about how Jane never really knew her poppop, nor did she know she was the cause of his death in the first place (classic Homestuck), so I wanted to convey that bittersweet feeling through the piece. I experimented on the colors with using a couple paper-constructioney textures on it and on the backdrop. Also, the stewardess on my plane trip caught a glance of the drawing and gave me a compliment in broken English, so you know this is some certified REAL good art. --- Track: The Light's Rebellion -Artist: Circlejourney +Artists: +- Circlejourney Duration: '3:48' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-lights-rebellion @@ -251,7 +262,8 @@ Commentary: |- Not complacent, but sure as hell learned enough to punt you down a waterfall with stabby needles. --- Track: The Dave Strider Experience -Artist: ndividedbyzero +Artists: +- ndividedbyzero Duration: '3:54' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-dave-strider-experience @@ -296,7 +308,8 @@ Commentary: |- --- Track: Jade English - Study for Eclectic Bass, 1984.1 Directory: study-for-eclectic-bass-1984-1 -Artist: Interrobang +Artists: +- Interrobang Duration: '5:09' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/jade-english-study-for-eclectic-bass-19841 @@ -322,7 +335,8 @@ Commentary: |- Grandma Harley often wrote her grandson about the tyranny of Lord English, obviously not able to hide everything from the enemy. --- Track: Felidae Superior -Artist: WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES +Artists: +- WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES Duration: '3:44' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/felidae-superior @@ -338,7 +352,8 @@ Commentary: |- Shu delivers some impressively smooth and refined art for everyone's second-favorite cat whose name begins with a G, GCAT. They say you can tell a lot about someone from their eyes, which makes it more impressive that you can glean this cat's mischievous expression without any eyes at all. GCAT is prepared for action from its carefully positioned placement on a tree branch, ready to pounce at a ball of yarn or teleport to the spot best suited for making your life hell. Some rough glitchy effects in the background add an interesting dimension to the piece, nicely contrasting against its smooth linework. This is one art you won't want to miss, and knowing GCAT's temper, you might miss it if you blink. --- Track: Sweet Talker -Artist: Ucklin +Artists: +- Ucklin Duration: '3:24' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/sweet-talker @@ -360,7 +375,8 @@ Group: Disc 2 --- Track: Disc 2 Directory: disc2-cosmic-caretakers -Artist: psithurist +Artists: +- psithurist Duration: 0:53 URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/disc-2-3 @@ -381,7 +397,9 @@ Commentary: |- You're no fun. --- Track: Voice of the Dead -Artist: Mathias Ramalho, cookiefonster +Artists: +- Mathias Ramalho +- cookiefonster Duration: '2:20' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/voice-of-the-dead @@ -405,7 +423,8 @@ Commentary: |- I love the track and wanted to try and capture the more haunting side to it. --- Track: Flittaurine -Artist: Shirokishi +Artists: +- Shirokishi Duration: '2:07' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/flittaurine @@ -424,7 +443,8 @@ Commentary: |- Dear, sweet, precious Tinkerbull. Rest in peace my little guy. --- Track: Polypolyphemus -Artist: Ducky Senpai +Artists: +- Ducky Senpai Duration: '3:18' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/polypolyphemus @@ -442,7 +462,8 @@ Commentary: |- Polypolyphemus is an intense track, so it's fitting for its art to capture the same intensity. Sollux's Biclops is captured right before its imminent demise as the troll's Mind Honey-induced flip out rips through the ceiling of his hive and surrounds the lusus in a multi-colored beam of energy. The meteors illuminating the night sky further illustrate the carnage present in the scene in a fashion that pops up time and time again in Homestuck proper. If only one of those meteors could break the chain around the Biclops' leg and set it free! Wait, the resulting impact would probably just kill the Biclops anyway. Never mind, that was a stupid idea. --- Track: Rangoon -Artist: WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES +Artists: +- WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES Duration: '2:03' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/rangoon @@ -461,7 +482,9 @@ Commentary: |- this one is pretty much just a carbon copy of a homestuck panel i found. i mean i didnt trace anything, but its all placed pretty much the same with minor differences. dont give me too much praise for this one. --- Track: Apex Conquistador -Artist: TempiTunes, WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES +Artists: +- TempiTunes +- WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES Duration: '1:38' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/apex-conquistador @@ -481,7 +504,8 @@ Commentary: |- Coincidentally, it's about to die because of said two-mouthed cat monster eating it. You just can't have it all, unfortunately. --- Track: Recordare, Virgo Mater -Artist: queer maggot +Artists: +- queer maggot Duration: '3:34' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/recordare-virgo-mater @@ -502,7 +526,8 @@ Commentary: |- The Mothergrub has always been a fascinating creature to me in Homestuck, both as a part of reproduction and as a lusus. Especially since becoming a lusus means that you give up a life in the brooding caverns for a shortened existence to care for onechild. And with the Virgin Mother Grub drawing so many parallels to the iconic Holy Virgin Mary, I decided to draw my own parallels. I wanted this peice to be symbolic in nature towards the ideas and standards of the Mothergrub. It also may be a little sacrilegious in regards to the Catholic images of the Virgin Mary, but we'll just ignore that little fact. The Virgin Mothergrub floats with the brooding caverns behind her, and her new charge sleeping peacefully nearby, alongside other eggs nearly ready to hatch into trolls that will play a game and sacrifice to create something new. (we're also going to ignore the fact that i may have had an out-of-body experience while working on this piece) --- Track: Amniotic Daydream -Artist: Circlejourney +Artists: +- Circlejourney Duration: '4:16' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/amniotic-daydream @@ -521,7 +546,8 @@ Commentary: |- this piece is probably the most complex one i did for the album, and i think it payed off in spades. i used a lot of elements from the scene in which terezi's dragon hatches and is immediately killed by a falling meteor, which might be one of the best looking parts in homestuck, although its hard to choose since the first half of homestuck is littered with striking imagery. oh my god just look at it. so good. so fucking good guys. its really good. --- Track: Arachnida Antecessor -Artist: arcaneGemini +Artists: +- arcaneGemini Duration: '2:11' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/arachnida-antecessor @@ -547,7 +573,8 @@ Commentary: |- --- Track: STRONG Butler. Best Dad. Directory: STRONG-butler-best-dad -Artist: arcaneGemini +Artists: +- arcaneGemini Duration: '3:16' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/strong-butler-best-dad @@ -573,7 +600,8 @@ Commentary: |- For every album cover I've drawn so far, I try to make them look a little different and experiment with different styles. In this case I tried to draw a HORSE (crazy i know) and used this very painting-like flat style, and decided to put Equius's signature up, effectively making it his own painting! This went through lots of colour hue alterations and was originally a very light pink desert in a sunny sky before we settled on this darker background to make Aurthour stand out more. I like to think that Equius is simultaneously admiring his surroundings and panicking about their imminent death by sunburn. --- Track: Absent Reflection -Artist: PoisonedElite +Artists: +- PoisonedElite Duration: '2:10' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/absent-reflection @@ -592,7 +620,8 @@ Commentary: |- Sometimes you wait a long time to see the people you love. --- Track: Hippocampaternal -Artist: FrostyMac +Artists: +- FrostyMac Duration: '2:35' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/hippocampaternal @@ -612,7 +641,8 @@ Commentary: |- Your baby crashed in on a blaze of fire, go get him seahorse daddy --- Track: Whispering Leviathan -Artist: Kanishka +Artists: +- Kanishka Duration: '4:24' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/whispering-leviathan @@ -636,7 +666,8 @@ Commentary: |- Finding the right balance between silhouette and rendering proved one of the primary challenges of completing this piece. Too much light meant the image lost its spooky, foreboding tone; too little made it look flat. In the end I came out with something that roughly strikes that balance, though I still feel that it loses some of the spookiness of the sketch. Thanks @ the good people at the Homestuck Artist discord for the tips! --- Track: Al-Aalam -Artist: Kal-la-kal-la +Artists: +- Kal-la-kal-la Duration: '5:09' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/al-aalam @@ -654,7 +685,8 @@ Commentary: |- *The sound of a camera flash can be audibly heard over the music.* Yep. That one's going in my Pietà compilation. But really, is there a more appropriate parallel to make? Probably not. The parable of the Sufferer is full of religious iconography by design, which I guess means that Earth based the Bible off of it, and not the other way around? I don't know. I'll leave that commentary for Hussie, when he (doesn't) get around to it. As a side note, I love the "halos" surrounding the Dolorosa and the Sufferer here. Good stuff. --- Track: The Puppet Master -Artist: SplitSuns +Artists: +- SplitSuns Duration: '4:10' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-puppet-master @@ -679,7 +711,8 @@ Group: Disc 3 --- Track: Disc 3 Directory: disc3-cosmic-caretakers -Artist: psithurist +Artists: +- psithurist Duration: 0:27 URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/disc-3-3 @@ -696,7 +729,8 @@ Commentary: |- Styled after old album covers that always seemed to be scraped up and have that off yellow color. --- Track: HONK FRIEND. -Artist: Mathias Ramalho +Artists: +- Mathias Ramalho Duration: '4:14' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/honk-friend @@ -717,7 +751,8 @@ Commentary: |- It's hard being a single mom when you are a teenage boy. At least Caliborn is sitting still for once. --- Track: Singularity -Artist: ndividedbyzero +Artists: +- ndividedbyzero Duration: '4:55' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/singularity @@ -742,7 +777,8 @@ Commentary: |- Group: Bonus tracks --- Track: It's Ogre -Artist: Circlejourney +Artists: +- Circlejourney Duration: '3:03' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/its-ogre-bonus -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5 From 904c6eadb43857db17fcf01ba9de050080f09ee0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "(quasar) nebula" Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2022 22:51:37 -0400 Subject: fix broken jungle-3 refs in commentary --- album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml') diff --git a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml index 0ae1191..7228ce0 100644 --- a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml +++ b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Commentary: |-
I AM SO, SO PROUD OF YOU.
Quasar Nebula: - (per [[track:jungle-3|LoFaM 4 standard]], ive highlighted commentary from people besides the original musicians or cover artists in bold!) + (per [[track:jungle|LoFaM 4 standard]], ive highlighted commentary from people besides the original musicians or cover artists in bold!) Banner Artists: - melodiousDiscord Banner Dimensions: 1100x180 -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5 From 450e3e1edae396cf5da183f4793b1019a9e6719e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "(quasar) nebula" Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 23:38:38 -0300 Subject: rest of the big tag review --- album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml') diff --git a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml index 7228ce0..4a94baa 100644 --- a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml +++ b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml @@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ Art Tags: - Jake's grandma - Becquerel - God Cat +- Earth +- Horses Commentary: |- Ucklin:
COSMIC CARETAKERS
@@ -81,6 +83,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - John's dad - Underlings +- LoWaS Referenced Tracks: - track:under-the-hat Commentary: |- @@ -100,6 +103,7 @@ Cover Artists: - TheChaoMaster Art Tags: - John's nanna +- Earth Referenced Tracks: - Homestuck Anthem - track:nannaquin @@ -123,7 +127,7 @@ Cover Artists: - nights Art Tags: - Roxy -- Roxy's mom +- Rose's mom - 'cw: alcohol' Commentary: |- Sean Gorter: @@ -144,6 +148,7 @@ Cover Artists: - ackro Art Tags: - Dave's bro +- Earth Referenced Tracks: - track:beatdown-strider-style - Umbral Ultimatum @@ -167,6 +172,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Jade's grandpa - Becquerel +- Earth - 'cw: animal death' Referenced Tracks: - A Taste for Adventure @@ -190,6 +196,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Becquerel - Jade +- Earth Commentary: |- SplitSuns: Bec is, first and foremost, a good dog. Let's put aside his featureless visage, god-like powers and key role in creating a Sovereign Slayer capable of destroying entire universes. He is a dog that likes to run around, play fetch, and eat treats like any other! This song shows that under-appreciated side of Jade's best friend. How can you say no to those Mario Paint dog barks? (If you think those are great, wait until you listen to the song for Bec's post-Scratch counterpart. Cinematic parallels, I'm telling you.) @@ -208,6 +215,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - John's dad - The Felt +- Derse Referenced Tracks: - Versus Commentary: |- @@ -228,6 +236,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Jane's grandpa - Jane +- Earth Commentary: |- Grace Medley: Sorry, sorry to interrupt the booklet, folks, but I've got a cracking idea: see the next time you find yourself in a pub toilet, and you've got a pen on you, write on the door, "Johnny Crocker, R.I.P." Or let's say you're not old enough to get into pubs yet, let's say, you're still in school? Write it on a desk. Scratch it in with a compass. "Johnny Crocker, R.I.P." Or let's say you're online. Let's say you're on Bebo, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, a forum, whatever it is, just get the message out there. "Johnny Crocker, R.I.P." Miss you, big man. Gone, but not forgotten. @@ -246,6 +255,7 @@ Cover Artists: - gelasticat Art Tags: - Roxy's mom +- Earth Referenced Tracks: - The Thirteenth Hour - track:endless-climb @@ -272,6 +282,8 @@ Cover Artists: - dazed-squid Art Tags: - Dirk's bro +- Earth +- SBaHJ Referenced Tracks: - track:beatdown-strider-style - This Is America @@ -318,6 +330,8 @@ Cover Artists: - Jas Art Tags: - Jake's grandma +- Doc Scratch +- Lord English Referenced Tracks: - Rhapsody in Green - track:verdancy-bassline @@ -345,6 +359,7 @@ Cover Artists: - shu Art Tags: - God Cat +- Earth Commentary: |- WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES: This song took remarkably long to put together. Less because it was difficult, and more because I kept getting distracted with other projects along the way. Anyway, meow. @@ -362,6 +377,7 @@ Cover Artists: - nights Art Tags: - The Condesce +- Earth Referenced Tracks: - Hate You Commentary: |- @@ -388,6 +404,8 @@ Art Tags: - Karkat's lusus - John - Karkat +- Earth +- Alternia Commentary: |- psithurist: This was actually the first of the three disc jingles that I wrote, and uses synths to aim for a more alien-ish vibe for the trolls disc, contrasting the organic instruments present in the humans disc. @@ -453,6 +471,7 @@ Cover Artists: - shu Art Tags: - Sollux's lusus +- Alternia Referenced Tracks: - Die For Me Commentary: |- @@ -493,6 +512,7 @@ Cover Artists: - Sammie Art Tags: - Nepeta's lusus +- Alternia Referenced Tracks: - Nepeta's Theme Commentary: |- @@ -514,6 +534,8 @@ Cover Artists: - artisticallyCrafty Art Tags: - Kanaya's lusus +- Kanaya +- Alternia Referenced Tracks: - Virgin Orb Commentary: |- @@ -534,6 +556,8 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/Bne6tHjEIko Cover Artists: - ackro +Art Tags: +- Alternia Referenced Tracks: - JUST1C3 R41NS FROM 4BOV3 Commentary: |- @@ -584,6 +608,8 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Equius's lusus - Equius +- Horses +- Alternia Referenced Tracks: - Horschestra STRONG Version Commentary: |- @@ -610,6 +636,7 @@ Cover Artists: - Jas Art Tags: - Gamzee +- Alternia Referenced Tracks: - track:dilemma Commentary: |- @@ -630,6 +657,7 @@ Cover Artists: - Jas Art Tags: - Eridan's lusus +- Alternia Referenced Tracks: - Eridan's Theme - track:chorale-for-jaspers @@ -652,6 +680,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Feferi's lusus - Horrorterrors +- Alternia Referenced Tracks: - Fear of the Heavens - Silencio @@ -694,6 +723,9 @@ URLs: Cover Artists: - Ephemerald - yazshu +Art Tags: +- Doc Scratch +- Alternia Referenced Tracks: - English - Afraid of the Darko -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5 From 70dcaad8d7870d615c7f82e8c07f61d52a0aa272 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Niklink Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 17:02:42 -0400 Subject: minor fixes fixes #69, #70, #71, #83, #84 --- album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml') diff --git a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml index 4a94baa..1b32b7a 100644 --- a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml +++ b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml @@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - All Star - Eridan's Theme -- I'm A Believer +- track:im-a-believer-smash-mouth - Violet Prince Commentary: |- Circlejourney: -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5 From 6466a4deed0c3285f4c82a99a427c8d52ecd659e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Niklink Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2022 20:43:40 -0400 Subject: png-ify banners and wallpapers where applicable also bg opacity pass and add archive banner --- album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml') diff --git a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml index 1b32b7a..a785fa5 100644 --- a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml +++ b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ Commentary: |- Banner Artists: - melodiousDiscord Banner Dimensions: 1100x180 +Banner File Extension: png Wallpaper Artists: - Elanor Pam --- -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5 From 5f5eba430fa70b287475e5f66210a4e2fc79241f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Niklink <25875275+Niklink@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2022 01:39:43 -0400 Subject: additional file-ify original banners/wallpapers also jailbreak commentary & banner edit attribution --- album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml') diff --git a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml index a785fa5..fdfb28f 100644 --- a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml +++ b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml @@ -49,10 +49,16 @@ Commentary: |- (per [[track:jungle|LoFaM 4 standard]], ive highlighted commentary from people besides the original musicians or cover artists in bold!) Banner Artists: - melodiousDiscord +- Niklink (edits for wiki) Banner Dimensions: 1100x180 Banner File Extension: png Wallpaper Artists: - Elanor Pam +Additional Files: +- Title: Bandcamp Banner and Background + Files: + - banner.png + - bg.jpg --- Group: Disc 1 --- -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5 From 959d744369ab8c5ce731fc92c43f232953069a47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Niklink <25875275+Niklink@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2022 20:09:24 -0400 Subject: bowman music videos & misc fixes paige turner unification, jungle #3, d8 night yt link, purgatory art --- album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml') diff --git a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml index fdfb28f..8723d10 100644 --- a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml +++ b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Commentary: |-
I AM SO, SO PROUD OF YOU.
Quasar Nebula: - (per [[track:jungle|LoFaM 4 standard]], ive highlighted commentary from people besides the original musicians or cover artists in bold!) + (per [[track:jungle-3|LoFaM 4 standard]], ive highlighted commentary from people besides the original musicians or cover artists in bold!) Banner Artists: - melodiousDiscord - Niklink (edits for wiki) -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5