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T minus 15 seconds, guidance is internal. 12, 11, 10, 9
(War, hammer, of, Zillyhoo)
Ignition sequence starts, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2
(War, hammer, of, Zillyhoo)
1, 0, all engine running... LIFT-OFF! We have a lift-off! + (War, hammer, of, Zillyhoo)
(War, hammer, of, Zillyhoo)
(War, hammer, of, Zillyhoo)
(War, hammer, of, Zillyhoo) +Commentary: + Micheal Guy Bowman: + “Calamity” was inspired by the very same update that inspired the Pantskat craze - the image of Gamzee returning, Warhammer of Zillyhoo in hand is translated into two sonic elements, ie honks and chanting. What I’ve enjoyed really intensely about Andrew’s sense of humor in Homestuck and his other adventures is his gradual elevation of silly details onto the pedestals of utter drama, and with this track I tried to recreate that. You laughed at the honks and the chanting before - now your heart races (at least I hope). + There was a certain difficulty in making “Calamity” really work for me. I had a couple of different sounds I was attempting all at once, each working on their own but sort of fighting for control when mashed together. The introduction and conclusion of the song using a theme from “Walk-Stab-Walk” needed to be really punchy, while I really needed the middle of the song to glide, and the connecting bits with the chanting needed to build and build in tension. There are a lot of different sounds in the song’s palette, the most difficult of which to utilize was the enormous saw synth that dominates the middle. Getting that thing to be grand without utterly overpowering the rest of the song was incredibly difficult. + Overall I was really satisfied with how much excitement there is in this song. It’s got a big simple melody but it doesn’t outstay its welcome. As the album opener, it sets up the stakes and excitement of Homestuck without sort of beating the point into you by lasting too long. I think of it as a cousin to “Sburban Jungle” or at least another song approached in that dramatic, electronic way. + The countdown sample is from a NASA recording, I believe it’s the launch of Apollo 11. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Do You Remem8er Me +Artist: Malcolm Brown +Track Art: Richard Gung +Duration: 4:28 +References: +- Lifdoff +- track:showtime-original-mix +- Death of the Lusii +- track:ruins +Art Tags: +- John +- Vriska +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/do-you-remem8er-me-2 +- https://youtu.be/x8mLKTY5TWM +Commentary: + Malcolm Brown: + (original commentary) + Alas poor Vriska. This scene stood out quite a bit from the Scrapbook Near-end-of-act Scratch-a-thon as being yet more humility to Vriska as a character - first hinted at during John's talk with her around the whole 'lifdoff' time (which is also why most of the song is taken from lifdoff.) + The idea was to create something vaguely romantic and a bit tragic for the whole 'd8' thing. I used lifdoff as a starting point because that's become my sort of unofficial 'John' theme - It's quite light and goofy but reasonably heroic and fantastical. Showtime shows up at around 2:17, shortly followed by a slightly modified lift from Death of the Lusii (as mentioned previously in this topic). After that it slides into an additionally modified version of Ruins/Awakening for reasons that are hopefully obvious and also because I like that tune + The main reason I made this is because Vriska's had a but few moments when she wasn't terrorizing everybody and generally acting the huge bitch. Add to this the whole 'fat vriska' thing, and the very bombastic music she's had thus far... It was nice to give her last bit of humility a soundtrack. + And the reason Vriska's actual theme doesn't show up anywhere is because I find it difficult to work with as it's kinda crazy /excuse. + It took me about half a day to get the tambourines sounding decent and they still don't sound like what I imagined they would... + Also I was trying to channel some of the style from the music of the Little Big Adventure games. The soundtrack for thems' awesome and ya'll should go listen to it! + (tumblr version) + “DYRM” was essentially cre8ed as a sort of 8acking track to the John and Vriska ‘date’ sequence (around about here). The idea was to do a sort of schlocky romantic 8allad that combined elements of Johns goofiness but with the tragedy that hey - Vriska’s dead. Over the course of it, we travel through John and Vriska’s memories, and she’s trying to get him to remem8er something important, so there’s that element too. It’s kinda sad, 8ut in a way it’s also a 8it of a cele8ration of Vriska - She’s surprisingly polarizing with a lot of the fan8ase, as the 8est characters often are... :p + THE NAME + I can’t immedi8ly recall if the phrase “Do You Remem8er Me?” is said by Vriska........ I think it was, 8ut it’s a faff trying to navigate around that 8it of the comic (I often like na88ing song titles out of the dialogue itself - That’s where At The Price Of O8livion came from and of course Sea Hitler’s Water Apocalypse. If not, well it felt like as good a title as any. :p The ‘8’ helps immediately recognise the subject matter. + THE TRACK + It’s primarily “lifdoff”, which I started using a sort of personal theme of John. Other slight inspirations for this track are “Anthem Part 2” from The Truman Show and a little 8it of the music of Little 8ig Adventure (primarily the use of woodwinds/percussion). + It starts off with a simple lightened lifdoff, which carries it for a while. The percussion at 1:09 was fun to sequence - It’s mostly just a collection of taiko samples from the EWQL play library that are quite fun to work with, particularly some the articulation (The ‘roll’ you hear is one of ‘em). What I think works quite well is the power of the Taikos with the lightness of the woodwinds - Gives it quite an emotional punch. + 1:33 is almost directly L8A inspired (The layering of the woodwind melody on 8rass I’m sure I got from there). At this point we’re 8uilding up to play the ‘Death of the Lusii/Awakening’ 8it with a sort of alternate chord progression, but we sneak in a Showtime reference around 2:16. + 2:26 is meant to directly correlated to These Two panels and is a reference to this track. + Then it 8uilds up to the main section of Awakening at around 3:30. Given that the main theme is a sort of dreamlike afterlife, it felt appropri8 ::::p + And we end! Uncertain cadences all round! + Overall there’s quite a 8it I like about this one. The Percussion doesn’t vary much, which lets it down I think (It’s 8asically just the same loop for most of the song, something I’m hilariously guilty of in most everything I make :p) but it did the jo8 in giving Vriska a good sendoff. + Oh yeah - The reason it doesn’t use any of Vriska’s theme is because I find that theme a 8it........ All over the place ::::p Don’t get me wrong, it’s a cool 8it of music, 8ut I don’t find it as easy to play a8out with than other tracks. 8lame my laziness! + I also fully suspect I missed some ‘8’s somewhere........ This stuff’s harder than it looks. God help me if I try to commentary another gorram Terezi track ::::p +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Flare +Artist: Clark Powell +Track Art: Richard Gung +Duration: 3:03 +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/flare-2 +- https://youtu.be/ktuDYYtbs2s +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Galactic Cancer +Artist: Thomas Ferkol +Track Art: Lauren Ross +Duration: 3:36 +Art Tags: +- Karkat +- John +- Rose +- Dave +- Jade +- Genesis Frog +- cw: body horror (abstract) +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/galactic-cancer-2 +- https://youtu.be/ByBpRkrg9SA +Commentary: + Thomas Ferkol: + What started off as me meandering about with slightly odd chord progressions became a rather meandering piece in general. Originally labeled Nether, at least as the piece began to formulate, the first part quickly developed in what I hoped would be a style reminiscent of Russell Brower’s music for Outland in World of Warcraft, primarily the Outland Suite and Netherstorm (what the first name referenced). + I completed most of the piece without drums or effects at first, but felt something was missing. After messing around with some different bits of drum samples, I found beats that were suitable for what I was going for, and those helped give more definition to the meter of the piece as much of it was long chords that made it hard to distinguish at times, then added some occasional filter effects to increase the overall spacey feel. + After everything was in place, I listened through it multiple times and just began to imagine Karkat’s monologue about how everything was his fault and the phrase “Galactic Cancer” stuck. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Serenade +Artist: Clark Powell +Track Art: clorinspats +Duration: 5:05 +Directory: serenade-vol8 +Art Tags: +- Nepeta +- Karkat +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/serenade-2 +- https://youtu.be/iQyr0eYN7hI +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Frog Forager +Artist: Erik Scheele +Duration: 3:18 +Track Art: Kaymurph +Art Tags: +- Dave +- Jade +- Frogs +- Jack Noir +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/frog-forager-2 +- https://youtu.be/5KihK9orAi0 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Love You (Feferi's Theme) +Artist: Toby Fox +Duration: 1:58 +Track Art: Left +Art Tags: +- Feferi +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/love-you-feferis-theme-2 +- https://youtu.be/cmXzwEixV4s +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Ocean Stars Falling +Artist: Michael Guy Bowman +Contributors: Tavia Morra +Track Art: Richard Gung +Duration: 3:12 +References: +- Ocean Stars +Art Tags: +- Squiddles +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/ocean-stars-falling-2 +- https://youtu.be/QmEZzp7o8i8 +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + The [[album:squiddles|Squiddles!]] album gets no love. There, I said it. I’ve mentioned before how awesome it is and how dramatically it has undersold compared to the rest of our material, but apparently everyone is too terrified of its My Little Pony meets Cthulu approach to give it a shot. Trust me, you’ll like it more than you think you will. + Anyway, one of the most surprising tracks on that particular album is “Ocean Stars”, a peaceful, mysterious little ditty imagined by Mark with a nautical theme in mind. I thought it had a beautiful little structure, and I guess the song must have stuck with me because at some point I found myself playing its chords over and over on my keyboard faster and faster until I was sure it would make for a great little indie rock inspired track. So I did just that. + This song takes its cues most heavily from “Regatta de Blanc” by the Police and “Life in Technicolor” by Coldplay - the meditatively simple rock backup is accompanied by a huge chorus of wordless vocals provided by countless overdubs of Tavia and myself. These middle voices are bookended by the twinkling bell sounds in the high range and the rumbling drums and guitar in the low range to make for a very full mix that really surprised me with its depth. I threw in some slowed-down bubble sounds (the same samples from “Mister Bowman Tells You About the Squiddles”) to create the ocean ambiance, something I’d really gotten the chance to hear on a scuba dive I’d done over the summer. + This is another example of a song that has the “just right” feeling about its length. I could probably have easily repeated the vocals endlessly as though I was attempting to induce transcendental meditation - it would probably have had the same effect as “Hey Jude” or any number of other great songs. Owing though to my sense that this album was going to be a long one (my contributions alone come out to more than 20 minutes of music) I decided to capitalize on having achieved the harmony and just let it end when its thought was fully expressed, not unlike the original composition by Mark. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Escape Pod +Artist: Michael Guy Bowman +Track Art: Paige Turner +Duration: 2:58 +Art Tags: +- WV +- CD +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/escape-pod-2 +- https://youtu.be/GJo7ZH6p6wA +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Before going into a description of this track, I must make a long-overdue rebuttal to the factors that overshadowed its reception. Yes, I know this song and its track art pertain to the Wayward Vagabond. Yes, I know it’s sad that Andrew “killed off” the Wayward Vagabond on the same day that this album was released. No, I had no idea that would happen nor do I care how incongruous the song’s mood seems in relation to that particular plot point. + Anyway, now that I finally said my keep on that, “Escape Pod” was a really really fun track to do. It’s a rock track with a feelgood video game attitude - I’ve heard it described as Sonic music a lot, though to be fair my main reference were Nintendo games, particularly Earthbound from which I borrowed the deliberately fake brass. It also shares some similarities with the Mario sound, kind of really owing to the competitive games such as Mario Kart and Mario Party. + The track also pulls a lot from actual rock music - the Roxy Music track “Street Life” was a big cue here, and the start-stop structure on the second chorus was really inspired by Tally Hall’s track “Greener” of which the effect can only be described in exotic dance. I really wanted to pull out the stops on this one and make it catchy as hell, but apparently the two tracks book-ending it on Volume 8 steal its thunder. + What more can be said about it? This is about as totally poppy (or perhaps J-poppy) as I get. Compared to stuff like “Greenhouse” and “Squiddle Samba” this track is right up my alley. It in contrast with some of the other stuff that I’ve made appearing on the very same album (the minimalist piece “Gust of Heir” which I collaborated on with James Dever comes to mind) you’ll see that I can go just as far in the saccharine direction as I can into the abstract. For me range has always been an asset I’ve felt was important to nurture, so with Volume 8 I set the pace for my work ethic on Ithaca in terms of never settling to have “found my sound” no matter how well any one idea works. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Davesprite +Artist: Toby Fox +Track Art: P-RO +Duration: 1:41 +References: +- Hawkeye +- track:atomyk-ebonpyre +Art Tags: +- Davesprite +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/davesprite-2 +- https://youtu.be/Iy5fKp-aV4o +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Airtime +Artist: Robert J! Lake +Track Art: Tavia Morra +Duration: 4:50 +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/airtime-2 +- https://youtu.be/HXPviQw2n7Q +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Frog Hunt +Artist: Michael Guy Bowman +Track Art: Tavia Morra +Duration: 4:15 +Art Tags: +- Dave +- Jade +- Frogs +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/frog-hunt-2 +- https://youtu.be/VkYB3Fw4bLw +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Uh oh, Jit and I showed up to the album with the same song idea. That’s like two girls showing up the party in the same dress. Awkward! Good thing for Jit and I that, like the two girls in that famous scenario, we each have our own swagga and wear those dresses like the hot young messes we are. Wow, don’t quote me on that. (Too late - DPF) + Anyway, while “Frog Forager” is almost immediate in its “aw man, yeah, it’s THIS kind of tune” factor for avid listeners of Homestuck music, my ditty “Frog Hunt” seems to hit a lot of people out of left field. Maybe it’s because I was busy surprising myself with this one as well. + I’ve mentioned Weather Report a few times as an influence, and while I can’t bring even a fraction of that band’s musicianship to my work, I really attempted to bring their sense of atmosphere to the piece. There’s a lot of elements thrown in there - the wacky time signature (17/8 if I recall correctly), the meandering syncopated piano, the funk breaks, all that latin percussion, plus a pile of odd sound effects. I threw in some frog ambiance using some really odd synthesizers and a toy accordion as well. + The point of this song was to kind of put the action, the drama, and all that teenage chemistry on hold so I could focus on a moment in the story that might be just a little bit more peaceful. Going on a safari for frogs on a newly-awakened alien forest world seems to beckon a very different angle than the heated stakes typically associated with Homestuck. Plus, I’ve always felt that the environment of Homestuck deserves a little more attention given that nearly 99% of all art generated by the fans are homages to their favorite characters and not the fantastic places imagined by Andrew. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Terraform +Artist: Solatrus +Contributors: Thomas Ferkol (electric guitar) +Track Art: Richard Gung +Duration: 4:35 +References: +- Terra +- track:frost-vol6 +Art Tags: +- Jade +- Dave +- Jack Noir +- Frogs +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/terraform-2 +- https://youtu.be/bWp5uUxarAQ +Commentary: + Solatrus: + That’s a remix of Terra and (obviously) Frost. + Why? Well, I wanted Terra to be in Homestuck and sound more like a video game rock or metal song. + And because the fight of Dave and Jade vs. Jack was an interesting event, so that’s how the song came to be. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Unite Synchronization +Artist: Malcolm Brown +Track Art: melodiousDiscord +Duration: 2:54 +References: +- track:showtime-original-mix +Art Tags: +- Dave +- John +- Rose +- Jade +- cw: blood +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/unite-synchronization-2 +- https://youtu.be/uHmXe2eY6Kg +Commentary: + Malcolm Brown: + (original commentary) + This was an idea borne of two things. Firstly the Dave & Jade vs Noir battle in the banner (Original title was 'Redshift'), and secondly a post-scratch Dave trying to regroup with all the kids (hence - 'Unite' - keeping to the kind of single-world direction thing HS has going for it i.e. Descend, Ascend, Cascade, etc). + The main premise was to have quite a hefty beat (Dave), bass - including a slap bass solo (Jade), piano (John) and violin (Rose). The premise being as the song continues each part contributes until the end, where all 4 play in sync (hence... er... 'Synchronization'). + There's the tiniest influence from Showtime (again). It was also my first attempt at some vague chiptuniness in a while, which may or may not have worked... You decide! + The breakbeat drum thing was also fun to do. + (commentary redux) + The idea behind this guy was something similar to the traditional idea of some HS songs being about movement (“Descend”, “Ascend”, “Upward Movement”), so in this case it’s 4 things moving, together as one. It was becoming reasonably clear that post-scratch, we’d be separating The beta kids up a bit, and ideally, once the dust settled, they would all meet up again - This track’s effectively the kids overcoming whatever barriers in their way to unite. + That was the original idea, anyway. + It was primarily Dave centered, because in my personal interpretation of Dave I’ve always seen him as a bit of Roadie - always working behind the scenes to help people out in a lateral manner - as opposed to facing shit head on. He’s also (and again this is personal interpretation) occasionally presented as the least capable of the 4. Part of it presumably stems from the contrast between Bro, who is so frighteningly capable it hurts, and living in that shadow while trying to emulate him but not quite reaching it is quite a defining trait of Dave. + That’s not to say he’s useless, I mean he’s died less than John, and he’s also not afraid to think laterally about problems and cheat (“Shenanigans”), but there’s been a few bits where you get the feeling he wishes he was a bit more of the hero his kin are. + Unite Synchronization is essentially a chance for a Strider to shine, to get the band back together and to prepare an ass kicking. + Details time! + The Track: + We start with a moment of contemplation, or at least an establishing shot of somewhere. Then bam - We’re moving. The main hook of this piece is the C - G# - D# - G# pattern, which is probably primarily influenced from Sonata Arctica’s “The Cage” (Though The Cage is a different key and pattern, but the progression is similar and just has a really nice epic feel). + At 0:29 we get the main theme of US played on piano - We’re representing John here. Throughout the song I pull in the associated kids instruments but make sure to constantly have the drums going - As if Dave’s grabbing each one individually and playing alongside them. The bass is supposed to be in a constant “running” kind of theme throughout the track. An unbelievably cliched dance-y snare drum fill leads us out into the beginning of the middle section. + The guitar’s actually the same guitar sample I used in just about everything these days, but gated - I haven’t done any gating for yonks and figured for the sort of dance-y nature of the track it’s probably not a bad choice. + At 1:09, we get the alternate-Showtime (The first few notes are the main melody of Showtime), then at 1:24 we’re back into US main melody. This is all done of Violin, which is of course Rose’s signature instrument. I also like the harmony on this one... + 1:40’s where I try my hand at some breakbeats. These are actually quite difficult, and since the original slicing sounded a bit odd I also overlap a standard drum loop on top of it - The result is a ridiculous amount of percussion for a solo and a bit of funky panning for good measure. + The break is essential. Even Striders’ needs to pause for breath. + With the bass coming in we’re in Jade territory at 1:56. The bass solo here is kinda pulled out of anywhere, but has a kind of Sonic-the-Hedgehog feel to it. + 2:20 we bring the percussion back in (A bar late, I love the delay there) and the violin’s brought more harmony with it. Now here the sensible thing to do to keep up the original metaphor is to have the Piano, Slap Bass AND violin playing (Geddit? At this point all the Kids are together and rocking out) but for some reason I went with a bunch of other voices. I guess there’s still bass.... And the choir could maybe be John singing along? I’m not sure... Potentially missed a good opportunity there... But I’m still happy with it. + And that’s US in a nutshell! + The Flash: + So despite it not being the exact context original thought of, the 2-part Flash actually manages to fit the original theme albeit with different kids. Plus it’s Strider centric, so that’s another plus, and once again I get to dramatically cut to silence while someone dies :D + But then everyone’s alive by the end of it, so that’s got to be a record turnaround! + It is remarkably disturbing how seriously on the ball Dirk is. Not only does he paradox up his own reincarnation with a bucket and his own head, he manages to resurrect two ladies and get them and himself time-warped to Jake. + This after his little presentation on Derse with Hearts’ head. + I’d like to see Dave match that. :p +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Homefree +Artist: Hilary Troiano +Track Art: Vivian Ng +Duration: 4:28 +References: +- Shooting Star +- Homestuck Anthem +- track:sburban-jungle +- track:upward-movement-dave-owns +Art Tags: +- John +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/homefree-2 +- https://youtu.be/7aYso7j8wsw +Commentary: + Hilary Troiano: + Someone sent me a PM asking for some commentary about my two MSPA songs, so [[media:misc/hilary-troiano-commentary.mp3|here it is]]. (source) +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Galaxy Hearts +Artist: Mark Hadley +Track Art: Rachel Weiss +Duration: 2:54 +Art Tags: +- Terezi +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/galaxy-hearts-2 +- https://youtu.be/YQX0TWA_x6Q +Commentary: + Mark Hadley: + I made the theme for this a long time ago for an RPG a friend was making, but then cancelled. I still really liked the theme, so I modified it slightly and repurposed it for Homestuck. Out of everything I've done for Homestuck, it's still one of my favorites. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Scourge Sisters +Artist: Erik Scheele +Track Art: melodiousDiscord +Duration: 2:50 +Art Tags: +- Terezi +- Vriska +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/scourge-sisters-2 +- https://youtu.be/srAkO5O1QaM +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Arcade Thunder +Artist: Robert J! Lake +Track Art: Maf +Duration: 2:56 +Art Tags: +- John +- Rose +- Dave +- Jade +- Karkat +- Tavros +- Sollux +- Nepeta +- Terezi +- Vriska +- Jack Noir +- Consorts +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/arcade-thunder-2 +- https://youtu.be/2JJJTSs_JeA +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Pyrocumulus (Sicknasty) +Artist: Robert J! Lake +Track Art: Rutares +Duration: 2:50 +References: +- Skaian Skuffle +- track:skies-of-skaia +Art Tags: +- John +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/pyrocumulus-sicknasty-2 +- https://youtu.be/4BqRC-ZPovM +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Kingside Castle +Artist: Clark Powell +Track Art: Nic Carey +Duration: 2:44 +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/kingside-castle-2 +- https://youtu.be/qYKxzWbrZ0c +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Temporary +Artist: Robert J! Lake +Track Art: Chaz Canterbury +Duration: 3:37 +References: +- Temporal Piano +Art Tags: +- Dave +- The Felt +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/temporary-2 +- https://youtu.be/CYh1OlRWzp4 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Gust of Heir +Artist: James Dever, Michael Guy Bowman +Contributors: Clark Powell (additional sequencing) +Track Art: Fibug +Duration: 4:17 +Art Tags: +- John +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/gust-of-heir-2 +- https://youtu.be/pGlTekY3qZI +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + Two of the tracks I put on Volume 8 were collaborations with other Homestuck musicians, something I’ve been meaning to do more of because two heads are usually better than one. The first of the two was “Gust of Heir”, a track that James Dever wrote and for which I did the production. + James and I are both fans of minimalism, specifically the work of Philip Glass. An eerie-looking autographed program from the Philip on Film tour graces the wall of my room, and the primary piece of music that got me interested in composition is Einstein on the Beach, a five-hour opera consisting largely of slowly-evolving repeated figures using chanted numbers and solfege. Those otherwise unfamiliar might know his music better from the many movies he’s scored including Secret Window, The Truman Show, and The Hours. + Anyway, I knew right away where James was coming from when he sent me a midi demo of “Gust of Heir” though originally it was arranged as a piano solo. Without access to a pro recording situation as on the Sburb piano suite, we knew there would have to be an alternate solution, hence the electronic approach. I played pretty heavily with a set of new sounds, specifically the soundfonts of Ethan Winer, an audio professional whose work was recommended by Radiation a good while back. + As I have on many occasions I took cues from Oblique Strategies to get some ideas for the arrangement. Part of the intrigue in producing this piece was that it was fully written, meaning that in some ways I was boxed-in to a complete journey for the song to take musically yet in others free to really explore and discover a unique sound for the song. I really played toggling a slew of effects until this tune became rendering hell for my computer. I stepped a bit outside my own range of comfort and got some drum loops from Clark Powell to really polish off the piece, adding a touch that otherwise would probably have eluded me. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Afraid of the Darko +Artist: Robert J! Lake +Track Art: Robert J! Lake +Duration: 3:00 +Art Tags: +- Doc Scratch +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/afraid-of-the-darko-2 +- https://youtu.be/PSbPXcKGYto +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Even in Death (T'Morra's Belly Mix) +Artist: Clark Powell, Tavia Morra +Track Art: Tavia Morra +Duration: 4:08 +References: +- Even in Death +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/even-in-death-tmorras-belly-mix-2 +- https://youtu.be/9MdltybiL00 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Bargaining with the Beast +Artist: Thomas Ferkol +Track Art: Vivian Ng +Duration: 4:13 +Art Tags: +- Jade +- Denizens +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/bargaining-with-the-beast-2 +- https://youtu.be/2HT5FcjHt1s +Commentary: + Thomas Ferkol: + Bargaining With the Beast was a doozy. With little conscious attempts at maintaining structure (other than the section after the intro, which appears a few times to hold things together), it can come off as a wild ride through a bunch of interesting ideas just sort of strung together like a glass mobile made with craft glue and shiny twine. And that is a pretty accurate description. + The piece was sort of an experiment for me, filled with a lot of concepts that might even have needed a separate piece to flesh them out properly, but I made this piece with the Volume 8 submissions deadline looming over head (I think it was a little under a week until final decisions on tracks were supposed to be). + This is also an example of a piece where I set out with a clear mindset for what I wanted. Seeing there was no piece based on Echidna and Jade’s encounters (Radiation didn’t show us his tracks until around when the order was being decided hehe), I wanted something majestic and regal, something befitting of a monstrous queen in ancient stone halls of a frozen world. Eventually it developed into a sort of audio tour of Echidna’s palace and highlighted the conversation, never fully revealed, that took place between Jade and Echidna as they struck a deal. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Frostbite +Artist: Toby Fox +Contributors: Marcy Nabors (flute) +Track Art: Nic Carey +Duration: 3:51 +References: +- Gaia Queen +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/frostbite-2 +- https://youtu.be/Gdb_nZs6plw +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: The Lost Child +Artist: Toby Fox +Track Art: Sarah Fu +Duration: 2:54 +References: +- psych0ruins +Art Tags: +- The Handmaid +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/the-lost-child-2 +- https://youtu.be/-OFQHEy5TDw +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Questant's Lament +Artist: Thomas Ferkol +Track Art: Fibug +Duration: 3:13 +Art Tags: +- WQ +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/questants-lament-2 +- https://youtu.be/ILt6Qyxc1bw +Commentary: + Thomas Ferkol: + Questant’s Lament is one of my favorite tracks that I’ve made. Originally for The Wanderers, because there weren’t any WQ tracks and I liked her portrayal in the comic, I wanted something regal, almost stoic, but also forlorn. + With the beginning, I imagined her away from the others in their camp, sitting alone on some stone at night and listening to an old music box, one of few possessions that she could have salvaged from Prospit. From there she reminisces, from her perspective, on the progression of the session and her foresight of and departure from the impending devastation of Prospit. + In the end, she closes the trinket, accepts her new fate, and returns to her fellow exiles. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Hussie Hunt +Artist: Malcolm Brown +Track Art: Hanni Brosh +Duration: 2:46 +References: +- track:explore +Art Tags: +- AH +- Doc Scratch +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/hussie-hunt-2 +- https://youtu.be/oz4UOqdFQEA +Commentary: + Malcolm Brown: + Hah! If 'Sneaking music' was a genre, here's another one to the mix. + Basically, heavily influenced by the Pink Panther theme (You know the one). While making this all I could imagine was a bizarre Andrew Hussie Elmer Fudd hunting 'Scwatches'... + More or less my first attempt to do something in this style. Also, surprisingly, most of it was played live on keyboard into the sequencer (not something I normally do) and then heavily quantized to fix my wonky playing. It gives it a slightly more organic feel, most noticeable on the chords during the 'Explore' section at the end (Which may also owe a little bit to the Monkey Island soundtrack). + Basically a bit of music for Andrew's huntin' of Scratch shortly before the end of act. Included is the "AAAAAHHH FUCKING WOLF!!" moment for good measure (That was added after the first draft to Rad's suggestion). There was even talk of getting some grumbly vocals from the man 'imself, but alas... + Had quite a bit of fun doin' this one. Also quite proud of the name Even if I do have to occasionally explain it to people who don't read the comic... +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Havoc +Artist: Svix +Track Art: Emi +Duration: 2:35 +Art Tags: +- The Handmaid +- Doc Scratch +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/havoc-2 +- https://youtu.be/Wq0SjupReyA +Commentary: + Svix: + Havoc began as an intro section for another song I made a while back but I quite liked the melody and decided to make a separate track out of it. I submitted it to Homestuck as I felt the chiptune nature of the piece fit in with the comic's style and I'd been wanting to write a 'Strife' type tune for some time. + The track itself has a lot of C64 elements in the percussion and synths that blend into more powerful sounds for a more Drum and Bass style which is something I quite like to do with my music. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Drift into the Sun +Artist: Thomas Ferkol +Contributors: Clark Powell (some production), Toby Fox (climax drum programming) +Track Art: Zilon +Duration: 3:22 +References: +- track:atomyk-ebonpyre +Art Tags: +- Rose +- Dave +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/drift-into-the-sun-2 +- https://youtu.be/f5BP2W9a93U +Commentary: + Thomas Ferkol: + Drift Into the Sun started off as me trying to emulate the opening choir track of a black metal EP. Soon some big drums and some spacey guitars found their way into the mix (in my attempts to make something on the line of ambient black or doom metal). Finally, I added Dave’s “blast off” to help Rose with a metal-ified version of Atomyk Ebonpyre (which people keep requesting a full version of... maybe). + This was another track that I had a clear design for, following as best as I could the events surrounding Rose and Dave’s chat on Derse before creating the Green Sun, focusing more on the atmosphere surrounding the debacle than what they talked about. + After putting the original version up for the team to see, Plazmataz offered to spruce things up. And they did. And it was awesome. And then Radiation said he could make some crazy drums for the last section. And he did. And it was awesome too. + And that was how Virginia was founded! +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Infinity Mechanism +Artist: Thomas Ferkol +Track Art: VickyBit +Duration: 3:20 +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/infinity-mechanism-2 +- https://youtu.be/I3S8LNG4aNo +Commentary: + Thomas Ferkol: + Then we’ve got Infinity Mechanism. I am not sure what to say about it. I played live guitar and cello on it. It was one of the first full guitar based things I wrote for MSPA and the first that I used my computer to record rather than a Tascam mixing board + studio that I had used on my very old works. + Its mechanical sound and return to the beginning at its end reminded me of Beat Mesa, and it kind of became my own sort of theme music for The Scratch. Also it is now the first track written by me to be used in an animation and it is amazing. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Revered Return +Artist: Nick Smalley, Michael Guy Bowman +References: +- Dirgeish +- track:sburban-jungle +Duration: 2:33 +Track Art: Noot +Art Tags: +- Terezi +- Vriska +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/revered-return-2 +- https://youtu.be/x3ruWSdc1Vo +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + “Revered Return” began as a track called “Dirgeish”, a .pxtone composition that Nick had completed some time ago but never managed to squeeze into an album. Because as a chip tune it had been long overlooked, I decided to take a whack at producing it in a different style for inclusion on Volume 8. I had been looking for a piece that would work as a rock tune, and “Dirgeish” really struck me because of the heavy involvement of drums, its steady pace, and dynamic structure. + The unique challenge of arranging “Revered Return” was pinning down exactly what was what - “Dirgeish” had maximized use of its resources as an electronic composition, shifting instrumentation several times in ways that wouldn’t translate to a rock context. I found myself in a very subjective position, kind of picking and choosing what things would stay in and what things would be changed, while overall trying to maintain the original structure of the song. + The structure I think might be the most unique part of “Revered Return” - it doesn’t waste time by really repeating itself a lot. Nine out of ten times I work on a song I find myself writing or arranging something that moves in a very basic structure like ABAB or AABA or other variants, etc. “Dirgeish” gave me the challenge of establishing coherency in a piece that seemed to move almost completely linearly, and I made sure to preserve its sort of ABCDEFGBA-type structure in arranging “Revered Return” for Volume 8. + Nick Smalley: + Remember that thing about ORGMaker? Yeah, this song, too. Except add me asking Andrew Huo to help finish it and Bowman to ramp it up, and you’ve got Revered Return. :3 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Judgment Day +Artist: Toby Fox +Contributors: Kelly Sadwin (violin) +Track Art: Lazylaz +Duration: 2:00 +References: +- track:ruins +Art Tags: +- John +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/judgment-day-2 +- https://youtu.be/MD2TLTtyfDE +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Lotus (Bloom) +Artist: Seth Peelle +Track Art: myluckyseven +Duration: 4:05 +References: +- Lotus +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/lotus-bloom-2 +- https://youtu.be/RrIofwv86HM +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Cascade +Artist: Toby Fox, Tensei, Clark Powell, Malcolm Brown +Contributors: Toby Fox (editing) +Track Art: none +Duration: 13:14 +References: +- Cascade (Beta) +- Flare (Cascade) +- Savior of the Dreaming Dead (Cascade Cut) +- Black Hole / Green Sun +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/cascade-2 +- https://youtu.be/Ckr6KyZoS58 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew (Acapella) +Artist: David Ko +Track Art: Vivian Ng +Duration: 2:50 +References: +- I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew +Art Tags: +- Midnight Crew +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew-acapella-2 +- https://youtu.be/Br294PLbHBA +Lyrics: + I hate a moral coward, one who lacks a manly spark
I just detest a man afraid to go home in the dark
I always spend my evenings where there's women wine and song
But like a man, I always bring my little wife along! + I'm a member of the Midnight Crew
I'm a night owl, and a wise bird too
Home with the milk in the morning
Singing the same old song!
Rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun
Early to bed, and you'll miss all the fun
Bring your wife and trouble, it will never trouble you
Make her a member of the Midnight Crew! + The fun it doesn't stop 'til 12 on happy old Broadway
So what's the use of going home, until the break of day?
Now, something confidential, whisper not above a breath
I once went home at 2 AM, and scared my wife to death! + I'm a member of the Midnight Crew
I'm a night owl, and a wise bird too
Home with the milk in the morning
Singing the same old song!
Rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun
Early to bed, and you'll miss all the fun
Bring your wife and trouble, it will never trouble you
Make her a member of the Midnight Crew! + I never shall forget the night I made six robbers run
Although I didn't have a knife, a blackjack, or a gun
I proved myself a hero of a very high degree
I ran for home, and six of them, were running after me! + I'm a member of the Midnight Crew
I'm a night owl, and a wise bird too
Home with the milk in the morning
Singing the same old song!
Rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun
Early to bed, and you'll miss all the fun
Bring your wife and trouble, it will never trouble you
Make her a member of the Midnight Crew! + Make her a member of the Midnight Crew! +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Group: Bonus tracks +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: How Do I Live (D8 Night Version) +Artist: Michael Guy Bowman +Track Art: Victoria Grace Elliott +Duration: 3:23 +References: +- How Do I Live +Art Tags: +- John +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/how-do-i-live-d8-night-version-2 +- https://youtu.be/Svy9DBBZKpk +Contributors: +- Thomas Ferkol (electric guitar) +- David Ko (backup vocals) +Lyrics: + How do I
Get through one night without you?
If I had to live without you
What kind of life would that be?
Oh, and I
I need you in my arms, need you to hold
You're my world, my heart, my soul
If you ever leave
Baby that would take away everything good in my life + Without you
There'd be no sun in my sky
There'd be no love in my life
There'd be no world left for me
Oh, and I
Baby I don't know what I would do
I'd be lost if I lost you
If you ever leave
Baby that would take away everything that's real in my life + And tell me now
How do I live without you?
I want to know
How do I breathe without you?
If you ever go
How do I ever, ever survive? + And tell me now
How do I live without you?
I want to know
How do I breathe without you?
If you ever go
How will I ever, ever survive? +Commentary: + Michael Guy Bowman: + So, like it or not, my signature song seems to be the country ballad made famous by a movie about how Nicolas Cage and John Cusack screw up absolutely everything and destroy the Las Vegas strip. Hence, for Volume 8, I decided to do a more serious version of “How Do I Live” that doesn’t mortify me entirely. + I always had thought of “How Do I Live” as a breakup song, so as an anthem of dependency between generic 90’s lovers I was underwhelmed. However, in Con Air it’s meant to be the love theme of a woman whose husband serves in the military, giving the song a very different meaning. The stakes are not whether the singer’s lover will stay or leave but whether they will live or die, a thought that is instantly more resonant for anyone who has been in love I think. + The trick to this one for me was cutting out all the bullshit really - the ridiculous key change is removed and the drums are minimal to the extent of sounding like a funeral march. Rather than starting off with chipper little electric organs and keyboards, this version takes a cue from “Purple Rain” and uses only electric guitar and vocals for the first minute. The vocals start off sounding a million miles away and are subtly brought closer and closer until the other instruments join in on the second verse. + I added a new bridge section in so that Thomas Ferkol could have a chance to play some real guitar in this one, and of course he showed his colors as a metal guitarist, sending me a duet between harmonized voices. David Ko also appears on this track as the gently-spoken backup vocalist. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Cascade (Beta) +Artist: Tensei +Track Art: Mia Schwartz +Duration: 4:06 +Art Tags: +- John +- Dave +- Vriska +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/cascade-beta-2 +- https://youtu.be/Svy9DBBZKpk +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Black Hole / Green Sun +Artist: Malcolm Brown, Toby Fox +Contributors: Tensei (electric guitar), Kelly Sadwin (violin) +Track Art: none +Duration: 2:30 +References: +- Black Rose / Green Sun +- track:sburban-jungle +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/black-hole-green-sun-2 +- https://youtu.be/B6e2XacZSIs +Commentary: + Malcolm Brown: + Not much to say on this really except the title is kind of an ode to Soundgarden. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Carefree Action +Artist: Mark Hadley +Track Art: 8bitkitten +Duration: 2:08 +Art Tags: +- Dave +- Jade +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/carefree-action-2 +- https://youtu.be/saFRtTDSVKQ +Commentary: + Mark Hadley: + Back when we knew Jade as just GG, I wrote the first part of Carefree Action as a possible upbeat strife theme for her. It never ended up getting used, but other people liked it, and eventually a remix of it (Carefree Victory) made it into the comic. The original was pretty short, so I lengthened it so that I could eventually get it onto an album. Like Sburban Reversal, I recommended it as a bonus track. -- 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/homestuck-vol-8.yaml | 224 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 112 insertions(+), 112 deletions(-) (limited to 'album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml') diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index 4ed7092..d1aa363 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -5,23 +5,23 @@ Cover Art: Homestuck Wallpaper Art: Homestuck Banner Art: Homestuck Banner Dimensions: 1100x203 -Wallpaper Style: +Wallpaper Style: |- opacity: 0.6; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; -Color: #4ac925 +Color: '#4ac925' Groups: Official URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-7-8-with-cherubim - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cIpWboujY4 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnVpmehyaOFa9Ssz0RANELG8eSoUeOQiC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Group: Main album -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Calamity Artist: Michael Guy Bowman Track Art: Tavia Morra -Duration: 3:38 +Duration: '3:38' References: - Walk-Stab-Walk (R&E) - Warhammer of Zillyhoo @@ -33,20 +33,20 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/calamity-2 - https://youtu.be/oNeKbfEVi0g -Lyrics: +Lyrics: |- (War, hammer, of, Zillyhoo)
T minus 15 seconds, guidance is internal. 12, 11, 10, 9
(War, hammer, of, Zillyhoo)
Ignition sequence starts, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2
(War, hammer, of, Zillyhoo)
1, 0, all engine running... LIFT-OFF! We have a lift-off! (War, hammer, of, Zillyhoo)
(War, hammer, of, Zillyhoo)
(War, hammer, of, Zillyhoo)
(War, hammer, of, Zillyhoo) -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Micheal Guy Bowman: “Calamity” was inspired by the very same update that inspired the Pantskat craze - the image of Gamzee returning, Warhammer of Zillyhoo in hand is translated into two sonic elements, ie honks and chanting. What I’ve enjoyed really intensely about Andrew’s sense of humor in Homestuck and his other adventures is his gradual elevation of silly details onto the pedestals of utter drama, and with this track I tried to recreate that. You laughed at the honks and the chanting before - now your heart races (at least I hope). There was a certain difficulty in making “Calamity” really work for me. I had a couple of different sounds I was attempting all at once, each working on their own but sort of fighting for control when mashed together. The introduction and conclusion of the song using a theme from “Walk-Stab-Walk” needed to be really punchy, while I really needed the middle of the song to glide, and the connecting bits with the chanting needed to build and build in tension. There are a lot of different sounds in the song’s palette, the most difficult of which to utilize was the enormous saw synth that dominates the middle. Getting that thing to be grand without utterly overpowering the rest of the song was incredibly difficult. Overall I was really satisfied with how much excitement there is in this song. It’s got a big simple melody but it doesn’t outstay its welcome. As the album opener, it sets up the stakes and excitement of Homestuck without sort of beating the point into you by lasting too long. I think of it as a cousin to “Sburban Jungle” or at least another song approached in that dramatic, electronic way. The countdown sample is from a NASA recording, I believe it’s the launch of Apollo 11. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Do You Remem8er Me Artist: Malcolm Brown Track Art: Richard Gung -Duration: 4:28 +Duration: '4:28' References: - Lifdoff - track:showtime-original-mix @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/do-you-remem8er-me-2 - https://youtu.be/x8mLKTY5TWM -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Malcolm Brown: (original commentary) Alas poor Vriska. This scene stood out quite a bit from the Scrapbook Near-end-of-act Scratch-a-thon as being yet more humility to Vriska as a character - first hinted at during John's talk with her around the whole 'lifdoff' time (which is also why most of the song is taken from lifdoff.) @@ -81,19 +81,19 @@ Commentary: Overall there’s quite a 8it I like about this one. The Percussion doesn’t vary much, which lets it down I think (It’s 8asically just the same loop for most of the song, something I’m hilariously guilty of in most everything I make :p) but it did the jo8 in giving Vriska a good sendoff. Oh yeah - The reason it doesn’t use any of Vriska’s theme is because I find that theme a 8it........ All over the place ::::p Don’t get me wrong, it’s a cool 8it of music, 8ut I don’t find it as easy to play a8out with than other tracks. 8lame my laziness! I also fully suspect I missed some ‘8’s somewhere........ This stuff’s harder than it looks. God help me if I try to commentary another gorram Terezi track ::::p -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Flare Artist: Clark Powell Track Art: Richard Gung -Duration: 3:03 +Duration: '3:03' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/flare-2 - https://youtu.be/ktuDYYtbs2s -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Galactic Cancer Artist: Thomas Ferkol Track Art: Lauren Ross -Duration: 3:36 +Duration: '3:36' Art Tags: - Karkat - John @@ -101,20 +101,20 @@ Art Tags: - Dave - Jade - Genesis Frog -- cw: body horror (abstract) +- 'cw: body horror (abstract)' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/galactic-cancer-2 - https://youtu.be/ByBpRkrg9SA -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Thomas Ferkol: What started off as me meandering about with slightly odd chord progressions became a rather meandering piece in general. Originally labeled Nether, at least as the piece began to formulate, the first part quickly developed in what I hoped would be a style reminiscent of Russell Brower’s music for Outland in World of Warcraft, primarily the Outland Suite and Netherstorm (what the first name referenced). I completed most of the piece without drums or effects at first, but felt something was missing. After messing around with some different bits of drum samples, I found beats that were suitable for what I was going for, and those helped give more definition to the meter of the piece as much of it was long chords that made it hard to distinguish at times, then added some occasional filter effects to increase the overall spacey feel. After everything was in place, I listened through it multiple times and just began to imagine Karkat’s monologue about how everything was his fault and the phrase “Galactic Cancer” stuck. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Serenade Artist: Clark Powell Track Art: clorinspats -Duration: 5:05 +Duration: '5:05' Directory: serenade-vol8 Art Tags: - Nepeta @@ -122,10 +122,10 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/serenade-2 - https://youtu.be/iQyr0eYN7hI -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Frog Forager Artist: Erik Scheele -Duration: 3:18 +Duration: '3:18' Track Art: Kaymurph Art Tags: - Dave @@ -135,22 +135,22 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/frog-forager-2 - https://youtu.be/5KihK9orAi0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Love You (Feferi's Theme) Artist: Toby Fox -Duration: 1:58 +Duration: '1:58' Track Art: Left Art Tags: - Feferi URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/love-you-feferis-theme-2 - https://youtu.be/cmXzwEixV4s -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Ocean Stars Falling Artist: Michael Guy Bowman Contributors: Tavia Morra Track Art: Richard Gung -Duration: 3:12 +Duration: '3:12' References: - Ocean Stars Art Tags: @@ -158,34 +158,34 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/ocean-stars-falling-2 - https://youtu.be/QmEZzp7o8i8 -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Michael Guy Bowman: The [[album:squiddles|Squiddles!]] album gets no love. There, I said it. I’ve mentioned before how awesome it is and how dramatically it has undersold compared to the rest of our material, but apparently everyone is too terrified of its My Little Pony meets Cthulu approach to give it a shot. Trust me, you’ll like it more than you think you will. Anyway, one of the most surprising tracks on that particular album is “Ocean Stars”, a peaceful, mysterious little ditty imagined by Mark with a nautical theme in mind. I thought it had a beautiful little structure, and I guess the song must have stuck with me because at some point I found myself playing its chords over and over on my keyboard faster and faster until I was sure it would make for a great little indie rock inspired track. So I did just that. This song takes its cues most heavily from “Regatta de Blanc” by the Police and “Life in Technicolor” by Coldplay - the meditatively simple rock backup is accompanied by a huge chorus of wordless vocals provided by countless overdubs of Tavia and myself. These middle voices are bookended by the twinkling bell sounds in the high range and the rumbling drums and guitar in the low range to make for a very full mix that really surprised me with its depth. I threw in some slowed-down bubble sounds (the same samples from “Mister Bowman Tells You About the Squiddles”) to create the ocean ambiance, something I’d really gotten the chance to hear on a scuba dive I’d done over the summer. This is another example of a song that has the “just right” feeling about its length. I could probably have easily repeated the vocals endlessly as though I was attempting to induce transcendental meditation - it would probably have had the same effect as “Hey Jude” or any number of other great songs. Owing though to my sense that this album was going to be a long one (my contributions alone come out to more than 20 minutes of music) I decided to capitalize on having achieved the harmony and just let it end when its thought was fully expressed, not unlike the original composition by Mark. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Escape Pod Artist: Michael Guy Bowman Track Art: Paige Turner -Duration: 2:58 +Duration: '2:58' Art Tags: - WV - CD URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/escape-pod-2 - https://youtu.be/GJo7ZH6p6wA -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Michael Guy Bowman: Before going into a description of this track, I must make a long-overdue rebuttal to the factors that overshadowed its reception. Yes, I know this song and its track art pertain to the Wayward Vagabond. Yes, I know it’s sad that Andrew “killed off” the Wayward Vagabond on the same day that this album was released. No, I had no idea that would happen nor do I care how incongruous the song’s mood seems in relation to that particular plot point. Anyway, now that I finally said my keep on that, “Escape Pod” was a really really fun track to do. It’s a rock track with a feelgood video game attitude - I’ve heard it described as Sonic music a lot, though to be fair my main reference were Nintendo games, particularly Earthbound from which I borrowed the deliberately fake brass. It also shares some similarities with the Mario sound, kind of really owing to the competitive games such as Mario Kart and Mario Party. The track also pulls a lot from actual rock music - the Roxy Music track “Street Life” was a big cue here, and the start-stop structure on the second chorus was really inspired by Tally Hall’s track “Greener” of which the effect can only be described in exotic dance. I really wanted to pull out the stops on this one and make it catchy as hell, but apparently the two tracks book-ending it on Volume 8 steal its thunder. What more can be said about it? This is about as totally poppy (or perhaps J-poppy) as I get. Compared to stuff like “Greenhouse” and “Squiddle Samba” this track is right up my alley. It in contrast with some of the other stuff that I’ve made appearing on the very same album (the minimalist piece “Gust of Heir” which I collaborated on with James Dever comes to mind) you’ll see that I can go just as far in the saccharine direction as I can into the abstract. For me range has always been an asset I’ve felt was important to nurture, so with Volume 8 I set the pace for my work ethic on Ithaca in terms of never settling to have “found my sound” no matter how well any one idea works. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Davesprite Artist: Toby Fox Track Art: P-RO -Duration: 1:41 +Duration: '1:41' References: - Hawkeye - track:atomyk-ebonpyre @@ -194,19 +194,19 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/davesprite-2 - https://youtu.be/Iy5fKp-aV4o -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Airtime Artist: Robert J! Lake Track Art: Tavia Morra -Duration: 4:50 +Duration: '4:50' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/airtime-2 - https://youtu.be/HXPviQw2n7Q -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Frog Hunt Artist: Michael Guy Bowman Track Art: Tavia Morra -Duration: 4:15 +Duration: '4:15' Art Tags: - Dave - Jade @@ -214,18 +214,18 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/frog-hunt-2 - https://youtu.be/VkYB3Fw4bLw -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Michael Guy Bowman: Uh oh, Jit and I showed up to the album with the same song idea. That’s like two girls showing up the party in the same dress. Awkward! Good thing for Jit and I that, like the two girls in that famous scenario, we each have our own swagga and wear those dresses like the hot young messes we are. Wow, don’t quote me on that. (Too late - DPF) Anyway, while “Frog Forager” is almost immediate in its “aw man, yeah, it’s THIS kind of tune” factor for avid listeners of Homestuck music, my ditty “Frog Hunt” seems to hit a lot of people out of left field. Maybe it’s because I was busy surprising myself with this one as well. I’ve mentioned Weather Report a few times as an influence, and while I can’t bring even a fraction of that band’s musicianship to my work, I really attempted to bring their sense of atmosphere to the piece. There’s a lot of elements thrown in there - the wacky time signature (17/8 if I recall correctly), the meandering syncopated piano, the funk breaks, all that latin percussion, plus a pile of odd sound effects. I threw in some frog ambiance using some really odd synthesizers and a toy accordion as well. The point of this song was to kind of put the action, the drama, and all that teenage chemistry on hold so I could focus on a moment in the story that might be just a little bit more peaceful. Going on a safari for frogs on a newly-awakened alien forest world seems to beckon a very different angle than the heated stakes typically associated with Homestuck. Plus, I’ve always felt that the environment of Homestuck deserves a little more attention given that nearly 99% of all art generated by the fans are homages to their favorite characters and not the fantastic places imagined by Andrew. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Terraform Artist: Solatrus Contributors: Thomas Ferkol (electric guitar) Track Art: Richard Gung -Duration: 4:35 +Duration: '4:35' References: - Terra - track:frost-vol6 @@ -237,16 +237,16 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/terraform-2 - https://youtu.be/bWp5uUxarAQ -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Solatrus: That’s a remix of Terra and (obviously) Frost. Why? Well, I wanted Terra to be in Homestuck and sound more like a video game rock or metal song. And because the fight of Dave and Jade vs. Jack was an interesting event, so that’s how the song came to be. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Unite Synchronization Artist: Malcolm Brown Track Art: melodiousDiscord -Duration: 2:54 +Duration: '2:54' References: - track:showtime-original-mix Art Tags: @@ -254,11 +254,11 @@ Art Tags: - John - Rose - Jade -- cw: blood +- 'cw: blood' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/unite-synchronization-2 - https://youtu.be/uHmXe2eY6Kg -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Malcolm Brown: (original commentary) This was an idea borne of two things. Firstly the Dave & Jade vs Noir battle in the banner (Original title was 'Redshift'), and secondly a post-scratch Dave trying to regroup with all the kids (hence - 'Unite' - keeping to the kind of single-world direction thing HS has going for it i.e. Descend, Ascend, Cascade, etc). @@ -288,11 +288,11 @@ Commentary: It is remarkably disturbing how seriously on the ball Dirk is. Not only does he paradox up his own reincarnation with a bucket and his own head, he manages to resurrect two ladies and get them and himself time-warped to Jake. This after his little presentation on Derse with Hearts’ head. I’d like to see Dave match that. :p -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Homefree Artist: Hilary Troiano Track Art: Vivian Ng -Duration: 4:28 +Duration: '4:28' References: - Shooting Star - Homestuck Anthem @@ -303,38 +303,38 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/homefree-2 - https://youtu.be/7aYso7j8wsw -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Hilary Troiano: Someone sent me a PM asking for some commentary about my two MSPA songs, so [[media:misc/hilary-troiano-commentary.mp3|here it is]]. (source) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Galaxy Hearts Artist: Mark Hadley Track Art: Rachel Weiss -Duration: 2:54 +Duration: '2:54' Art Tags: - Terezi URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/galaxy-hearts-2 - https://youtu.be/YQX0TWA_x6Q -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Mark Hadley: I made the theme for this a long time ago for an RPG a friend was making, but then cancelled. I still really liked the theme, so I modified it slightly and repurposed it for Homestuck. Out of everything I've done for Homestuck, it's still one of my favorites. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Scourge Sisters Artist: Erik Scheele Track Art: melodiousDiscord -Duration: 2:50 +Duration: '2:50' Art Tags: - Terezi - Vriska URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/scourge-sisters-2 - https://youtu.be/srAkO5O1QaM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Arcade Thunder Artist: Robert J! Lake Track Art: Maf -Duration: 2:56 +Duration: '2:56' Art Tags: - John - Rose @@ -351,11 +351,11 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/arcade-thunder-2 - https://youtu.be/2JJJTSs_JeA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Pyrocumulus (Sicknasty) Artist: Robert J! Lake Track Art: Rutares -Duration: 2:50 +Duration: '2:50' References: - Skaian Skuffle - track:skies-of-skaia @@ -364,19 +364,19 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/pyrocumulus-sicknasty-2 - https://youtu.be/4BqRC-ZPovM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Kingside Castle Artist: Clark Powell Track Art: Nic Carey -Duration: 2:44 +Duration: '2:44' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/kingside-castle-2 - https://youtu.be/qYKxzWbrZ0c -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Temporary Artist: Robert J! Lake Track Art: Chaz Canterbury -Duration: 3:37 +Duration: '3:37' References: - Temporal Piano Art Tags: @@ -385,75 +385,75 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/temporary-2 - https://youtu.be/CYh1OlRWzp4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Gust of Heir Artist: James Dever, Michael Guy Bowman Contributors: Clark Powell (additional sequencing) Track Art: Fibug -Duration: 4:17 +Duration: '4:17' Art Tags: - John URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/gust-of-heir-2 - https://youtu.be/pGlTekY3qZI -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Michael Guy Bowman: Two of the tracks I put on Volume 8 were collaborations with other Homestuck musicians, something I’ve been meaning to do more of because two heads are usually better than one. The first of the two was “Gust of Heir”, a track that James Dever wrote and for which I did the production. James and I are both fans of minimalism, specifically the work of Philip Glass. An eerie-looking autographed program from the Philip on Film tour graces the wall of my room, and the primary piece of music that got me interested in composition is Einstein on the Beach, a five-hour opera consisting largely of slowly-evolving repeated figures using chanted numbers and solfege. Those otherwise unfamiliar might know his music better from the many movies he’s scored including Secret Window, The Truman Show, and The Hours. Anyway, I knew right away where James was coming from when he sent me a midi demo of “Gust of Heir” though originally it was arranged as a piano solo. Without access to a pro recording situation as on the Sburb piano suite, we knew there would have to be an alternate solution, hence the electronic approach. I played pretty heavily with a set of new sounds, specifically the soundfonts of Ethan Winer, an audio professional whose work was recommended by Radiation a good while back. As I have on many occasions I took cues from Oblique Strategies to get some ideas for the arrangement. Part of the intrigue in producing this piece was that it was fully written, meaning that in some ways I was boxed-in to a complete journey for the song to take musically yet in others free to really explore and discover a unique sound for the song. I really played toggling a slew of effects until this tune became rendering hell for my computer. I stepped a bit outside my own range of comfort and got some drum loops from Clark Powell to really polish off the piece, adding a touch that otherwise would probably have eluded me. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Afraid of the Darko Artist: Robert J! Lake Track Art: Robert J! Lake -Duration: 3:00 +Duration: '3:00' Art Tags: - Doc Scratch URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/afraid-of-the-darko-2 - https://youtu.be/PSbPXcKGYto -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Even in Death (T'Morra's Belly Mix) Artist: Clark Powell, Tavia Morra Track Art: Tavia Morra -Duration: 4:08 +Duration: '4:08' References: - Even in Death URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/even-in-death-tmorras-belly-mix-2 - https://youtu.be/9MdltybiL00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Bargaining with the Beast Artist: Thomas Ferkol Track Art: Vivian Ng -Duration: 4:13 +Duration: '4:13' Art Tags: - Jade - Denizens URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/bargaining-with-the-beast-2 - https://youtu.be/2HT5FcjHt1s -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Thomas Ferkol: Bargaining With the Beast was a doozy. With little conscious attempts at maintaining structure (other than the section after the intro, which appears a few times to hold things together), it can come off as a wild ride through a bunch of interesting ideas just sort of strung together like a glass mobile made with craft glue and shiny twine. And that is a pretty accurate description. The piece was sort of an experiment for me, filled with a lot of concepts that might even have needed a separate piece to flesh them out properly, but I made this piece with the Volume 8 submissions deadline looming over head (I think it was a little under a week until final decisions on tracks were supposed to be). This is also an example of a piece where I set out with a clear mindset for what I wanted. Seeing there was no piece based on Echidna and Jade’s encounters (Radiation didn’t show us his tracks until around when the order was being decided hehe), I wanted something majestic and regal, something befitting of a monstrous queen in ancient stone halls of a frozen world. Eventually it developed into a sort of audio tour of Echidna’s palace and highlighted the conversation, never fully revealed, that took place between Jade and Echidna as they struck a deal. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Frostbite Artist: Toby Fox Contributors: Marcy Nabors (flute) Track Art: Nic Carey -Duration: 3:51 +Duration: '3:51' References: - Gaia Queen URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/frostbite-2 - https://youtu.be/Gdb_nZs6plw -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: The Lost Child Artist: Toby Fox Track Art: Sarah Fu -Duration: 2:54 +Duration: '2:54' References: - psych0ruins Art Tags: @@ -461,26 +461,26 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/the-lost-child-2 - https://youtu.be/-OFQHEy5TDw -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Questant's Lament Artist: Thomas Ferkol Track Art: Fibug -Duration: 3:13 +Duration: '3:13' Art Tags: - WQ URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/questants-lament-2 - https://youtu.be/ILt6Qyxc1bw -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Thomas Ferkol: Questant’s Lament is one of my favorite tracks that I’ve made. Originally for The Wanderers, because there weren’t any WQ tracks and I liked her portrayal in the comic, I wanted something regal, almost stoic, but also forlorn. With the beginning, I imagined her away from the others in their camp, sitting alone on some stone at night and listening to an old music box, one of few possessions that she could have salvaged from Prospit. From there she reminisces, from her perspective, on the progression of the session and her foresight of and departure from the impending devastation of Prospit. In the end, she closes the trinket, accepts her new fate, and returns to her fellow exiles. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Hussie Hunt Artist: Malcolm Brown Track Art: Hanni Brosh -Duration: 2:46 +Duration: '2:46' References: - track:explore Art Tags: @@ -489,34 +489,34 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/hussie-hunt-2 - https://youtu.be/oz4UOqdFQEA -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Malcolm Brown: Hah! If 'Sneaking music' was a genre, here's another one to the mix. Basically, heavily influenced by the Pink Panther theme (You know the one). While making this all I could imagine was a bizarre Andrew Hussie Elmer Fudd hunting 'Scwatches'... More or less my first attempt to do something in this style. Also, surprisingly, most of it was played live on keyboard into the sequencer (not something I normally do) and then heavily quantized to fix my wonky playing. It gives it a slightly more organic feel, most noticeable on the chords during the 'Explore' section at the end (Which may also owe a little bit to the Monkey Island soundtrack). Basically a bit of music for Andrew's huntin' of Scratch shortly before the end of act. Included is the "AAAAAHHH FUCKING WOLF!!" moment for good measure (That was added after the first draft to Rad's suggestion). There was even talk of getting some grumbly vocals from the man 'imself, but alas... Had quite a bit of fun doin' this one. Also quite proud of the name Even if I do have to occasionally explain it to people who don't read the comic... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Havoc Artist: Svix Track Art: Emi -Duration: 2:35 +Duration: '2:35' Art Tags: - The Handmaid - Doc Scratch URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/havoc-2 - https://youtu.be/Wq0SjupReyA -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Svix: Havoc began as an intro section for another song I made a while back but I quite liked the melody and decided to make a separate track out of it. I submitted it to Homestuck as I felt the chiptune nature of the piece fit in with the comic's style and I'd been wanting to write a 'Strife' type tune for some time. The track itself has a lot of C64 elements in the percussion and synths that blend into more powerful sounds for a more Drum and Bass style which is something I quite like to do with my music. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Drift into the Sun Artist: Thomas Ferkol Contributors: Clark Powell (some production), Toby Fox (climax drum programming) Track Art: Zilon -Duration: 3:22 +Duration: '3:22' References: - track:atomyk-ebonpyre Art Tags: @@ -525,31 +525,31 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/drift-into-the-sun-2 - https://youtu.be/f5BP2W9a93U -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Thomas Ferkol: Drift Into the Sun started off as me trying to emulate the opening choir track of a black metal EP. Soon some big drums and some spacey guitars found their way into the mix (in my attempts to make something on the line of ambient black or doom metal). Finally, I added Dave’s “blast off” to help Rose with a metal-ified version of Atomyk Ebonpyre (which people keep requesting a full version of... maybe). This was another track that I had a clear design for, following as best as I could the events surrounding Rose and Dave’s chat on Derse before creating the Green Sun, focusing more on the atmosphere surrounding the debacle than what they talked about. After putting the original version up for the team to see, Plazmataz offered to spruce things up. And they did. And it was awesome. And then Radiation said he could make some crazy drums for the last section. And he did. And it was awesome too. And that was how Virginia was founded! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Infinity Mechanism Artist: Thomas Ferkol Track Art: VickyBit -Duration: 3:20 +Duration: '3:20' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/infinity-mechanism-2 - https://youtu.be/I3S8LNG4aNo -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Thomas Ferkol: Then we’ve got Infinity Mechanism. I am not sure what to say about it. I played live guitar and cello on it. It was one of the first full guitar based things I wrote for MSPA and the first that I used my computer to record rather than a Tascam mixing board + studio that I had used on my very old works. Its mechanical sound and return to the beginning at its end reminded me of Beat Mesa, and it kind of became my own sort of theme music for The Scratch. Also it is now the first track written by me to be used in an animation and it is amazing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Revered Return Artist: Nick Smalley, Michael Guy Bowman References: - Dirgeish - track:sburban-jungle -Duration: 2:33 +Duration: '2:33' Track Art: Noot Art Tags: - Terezi @@ -557,19 +557,19 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/revered-return-2 - https://youtu.be/x3ruWSdc1Vo -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Michael Guy Bowman: “Revered Return” began as a track called “Dirgeish”, a .pxtone composition that Nick had completed some time ago but never managed to squeeze into an album. Because as a chip tune it had been long overlooked, I decided to take a whack at producing it in a different style for inclusion on Volume 8. I had been looking for a piece that would work as a rock tune, and “Dirgeish” really struck me because of the heavy involvement of drums, its steady pace, and dynamic structure. The unique challenge of arranging “Revered Return” was pinning down exactly what was what - “Dirgeish” had maximized use of its resources as an electronic composition, shifting instrumentation several times in ways that wouldn’t translate to a rock context. I found myself in a very subjective position, kind of picking and choosing what things would stay in and what things would be changed, while overall trying to maintain the original structure of the song. The structure I think might be the most unique part of “Revered Return” - it doesn’t waste time by really repeating itself a lot. Nine out of ten times I work on a song I find myself writing or arranging something that moves in a very basic structure like ABAB or AABA or other variants, etc. “Dirgeish” gave me the challenge of establishing coherency in a piece that seemed to move almost completely linearly, and I made sure to preserve its sort of ABCDEFGBA-type structure in arranging “Revered Return” for Volume 8. Nick Smalley: Remember that thing about ORGMaker? Yeah, this song, too. Except add me asking Andrew Huo to help finish it and Bowman to ramp it up, and you’ve got Revered Return. :3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Judgment Day Artist: Toby Fox Contributors: Kelly Sadwin (violin) Track Art: Lazylaz -Duration: 2:00 +Duration: '2:00' References: - track:ruins Art Tags: @@ -577,22 +577,22 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/judgment-day-2 - https://youtu.be/MD2TLTtyfDE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Lotus (Bloom) Artist: Seth Peelle Track Art: myluckyseven -Duration: 4:05 +Duration: '4:05' References: - Lotus URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/lotus-bloom-2 - https://youtu.be/RrIofwv86HM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Cascade Artist: Toby Fox, Tensei, Clark Powell, Malcolm Brown Contributors: Toby Fox (editing) Track Art: none -Duration: 13:14 +Duration: '13:14' References: - Cascade (Beta) - Flare (Cascade) @@ -601,11 +601,11 @@ References: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/cascade-2 - https://youtu.be/Ckr6KyZoS58 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew (Acapella) Artist: David Ko Track Art: Vivian Ng -Duration: 2:50 +Duration: '2:50' References: - I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew Art Tags: @@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew-acapella-2 - https://youtu.be/Br294PLbHBA -Lyrics: +Lyrics: |- I hate a moral coward, one who lacks a manly spark
I just detest a man afraid to go home in the dark
I always spend my evenings where there's women wine and song
But like a man, I always bring my little wife along! I'm a member of the Midnight Crew
I'm a night owl, and a wise bird too
Home with the milk in the morning
Singing the same old song!
Rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun
Early to bed, and you'll miss all the fun
Bring your wife and trouble, it will never trouble you
Make her a member of the Midnight Crew! The fun it doesn't stop 'til 12 on happy old Broadway
So what's the use of going home, until the break of day?
Now, something confidential, whisper not above a breath
I once went home at 2 AM, and scared my wife to death! @@ -621,13 +621,13 @@ Lyrics: I never shall forget the night I made six robbers run
Although I didn't have a knife, a blackjack, or a gun
I proved myself a hero of a very high degree
I ran for home, and six of them, were running after me! I'm a member of the Midnight Crew
I'm a night owl, and a wise bird too
Home with the milk in the morning
Singing the same old song!
Rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun
Early to bed, and you'll miss all the fun
Bring your wife and trouble, it will never trouble you
Make her a member of the Midnight Crew! Make her a member of the Midnight Crew! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Group: Bonus tracks -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: How Do I Live (D8 Night Version) Artist: Michael Guy Bowman Track Art: Victoria Grace Elliott -Duration: 3:23 +Duration: '3:23' References: - How Do I Live Art Tags: @@ -638,22 +638,22 @@ URLs: Contributors: - Thomas Ferkol (electric guitar) - David Ko (backup vocals) -Lyrics: +Lyrics: |- How do I
Get through one night without you?
If I had to live without you
What kind of life would that be?
Oh, and I
I need you in my arms, need you to hold
You're my world, my heart, my soul
If you ever leave
Baby that would take away everything good in my life Without you
There'd be no sun in my sky
There'd be no love in my life
There'd be no world left for me
Oh, and I
Baby I don't know what I would do
I'd be lost if I lost you
If you ever leave
Baby that would take away everything that's real in my life And tell me now
How do I live without you?
I want to know
How do I breathe without you?
If you ever go
How do I ever, ever survive? And tell me now
How do I live without you?
I want to know
How do I breathe without you?
If you ever go
How will I ever, ever survive? -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Michael Guy Bowman: So, like it or not, my signature song seems to be the country ballad made famous by a movie about how Nicolas Cage and John Cusack screw up absolutely everything and destroy the Las Vegas strip. Hence, for Volume 8, I decided to do a more serious version of “How Do I Live” that doesn’t mortify me entirely. I always had thought of “How Do I Live” as a breakup song, so as an anthem of dependency between generic 90’s lovers I was underwhelmed. However, in Con Air it’s meant to be the love theme of a woman whose husband serves in the military, giving the song a very different meaning. The stakes are not whether the singer’s lover will stay or leave but whether they will live or die, a thought that is instantly more resonant for anyone who has been in love I think. The trick to this one for me was cutting out all the bullshit really - the ridiculous key change is removed and the drums are minimal to the extent of sounding like a funeral march. Rather than starting off with chipper little electric organs and keyboards, this version takes a cue from “Purple Rain” and uses only electric guitar and vocals for the first minute. The vocals start off sounding a million miles away and are subtly brought closer and closer until the other instruments join in on the second verse. I added a new bridge section in so that Thomas Ferkol could have a chance to play some real guitar in this one, and of course he showed his colors as a metal guitarist, sending me a duet between harmonized voices. David Ko also appears on this track as the gently-spoken backup vocalist. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Cascade (Beta) Artist: Tensei Track Art: Mia Schwartz -Duration: 4:06 +Duration: '4:06' Art Tags: - John - Dave @@ -661,32 +661,32 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/cascade-beta-2 - https://youtu.be/Svy9DBBZKpk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Black Hole / Green Sun Artist: Malcolm Brown, Toby Fox Contributors: Tensei (electric guitar), Kelly Sadwin (violin) Track Art: none -Duration: 2:30 +Duration: '2:30' References: - Black Rose / Green Sun - track:sburban-jungle URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/black-hole-green-sun-2 - https://youtu.be/B6e2XacZSIs -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Malcolm Brown: Not much to say on this really except the title is kind of an ode to Soundgarden. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Carefree Action Artist: Mark Hadley Track Art: 8bitkitten -Duration: 2:08 +Duration: '2:08' Art Tags: - Dave - Jade URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/carefree-action-2 - https://youtu.be/saFRtTDSVKQ -Commentary: +Commentary: |- Mark Hadley: Back when we knew Jade as just GG, I wrote the first part of Carefree Action as a possible upbeat strife theme for her. It never ended up getting used, but other people liked it, and eventually a remix of it (Carefree Victory) made it into the comic. The original was pretty short, so I lengthened it so that I could eventually get it onto an album. Like Sburban Reversal, I recommended it as a bonus track. -- 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/homestuck-vol-8.yaml | 159 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 106 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-) (limited to 'album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml') diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index d1aa363..5553621 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -1,26 +1,29 @@ Album: Homestuck Vol. 8 Date: October 25, 2011 Date Added: November 15, 2019 -Cover Art: Homestuck -Wallpaper Art: Homestuck -Banner Art: Homestuck +Banner Art: +- Homestuck Banner Dimensions: 1100x203 Wallpaper Style: |- opacity: 0.6; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; Color: '#4ac925' -Groups: Official +Groups: +- Official URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-7-8-with-cherubim - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cIpWboujY4 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnVpmehyaOFa9Ssz0RANELG8eSoUeOQiC +Cover Artists: +- Homestuck +Wallpaper Artists: +- Homestuck --- Group: Main album --- Track: Calamity Artist: Michael Guy Bowman -Track Art: Tavia Morra Duration: '3:38' References: - Walk-Stab-Walk (R&E) @@ -42,10 +45,11 @@ Commentary: |- There was a certain difficulty in making “Calamity” really work for me. I had a couple of different sounds I was attempting all at once, each working on their own but sort of fighting for control when mashed together. The introduction and conclusion of the song using a theme from “Walk-Stab-Walk” needed to be really punchy, while I really needed the middle of the song to glide, and the connecting bits with the chanting needed to build and build in tension. There are a lot of different sounds in the song’s palette, the most difficult of which to utilize was the enormous saw synth that dominates the middle. Getting that thing to be grand without utterly overpowering the rest of the song was incredibly difficult. Overall I was really satisfied with how much excitement there is in this song. It’s got a big simple melody but it doesn’t outstay its welcome. As the album opener, it sets up the stakes and excitement of Homestuck without sort of beating the point into you by lasting too long. I think of it as a cousin to “Sburban Jungle” or at least another song approached in that dramatic, electronic way. The countdown sample is from a NASA recording, I believe it’s the launch of Apollo 11. +Cover Artists: +- Tavia Morra --- Track: Do You Remem8er Me Artist: Malcolm Brown -Track Art: Richard Gung Duration: '4:28' References: - Lifdoff @@ -81,18 +85,20 @@ Commentary: |- Overall there’s quite a 8it I like about this one. The Percussion doesn’t vary much, which lets it down I think (It’s 8asically just the same loop for most of the song, something I’m hilariously guilty of in most everything I make :p) but it did the jo8 in giving Vriska a good sendoff. Oh yeah - The reason it doesn’t use any of Vriska’s theme is because I find that theme a 8it........ All over the place ::::p Don’t get me wrong, it’s a cool 8it of music, 8ut I don’t find it as easy to play a8out with than other tracks. 8lame my laziness! I also fully suspect I missed some ‘8’s somewhere........ This stuff’s harder than it looks. God help me if I try to commentary another gorram Terezi track ::::p +Cover Artists: +- Richard Gung --- Track: Flare Artist: Clark Powell -Track Art: Richard Gung Duration: '3:03' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/flare-2 - https://youtu.be/ktuDYYtbs2s +Cover Artists: +- Richard Gung --- Track: Galactic Cancer Artist: Thomas Ferkol -Track Art: Lauren Ross Duration: '3:36' Art Tags: - Karkat @@ -110,10 +116,11 @@ Commentary: |- What started off as me meandering about with slightly odd chord progressions became a rather meandering piece in general. Originally labeled Nether, at least as the piece began to formulate, the first part quickly developed in what I hoped would be a style reminiscent of Russell Brower’s music for Outland in World of Warcraft, primarily the Outland Suite and Netherstorm (what the first name referenced). I completed most of the piece without drums or effects at first, but felt something was missing. After messing around with some different bits of drum samples, I found beats that were suitable for what I was going for, and those helped give more definition to the meter of the piece as much of it was long chords that made it hard to distinguish at times, then added some occasional filter effects to increase the overall spacey feel. After everything was in place, I listened through it multiple times and just began to imagine Karkat’s monologue about how everything was his fault and the phrase “Galactic Cancer” stuck. +Cover Artists: +- Lauren Ross --- Track: Serenade Artist: Clark Powell -Track Art: clorinspats Duration: '5:05' Directory: serenade-vol8 Art Tags: @@ -122,11 +129,12 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/serenade-2 - https://youtu.be/iQyr0eYN7hI +Cover Artists: +- clorinspats --- Track: Frog Forager Artist: Erik Scheele Duration: '3:18' -Track Art: Kaymurph Art Tags: - Dave - Jade @@ -135,21 +143,24 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/frog-forager-2 - https://youtu.be/5KihK9orAi0 +Cover Artists: +- Kaymurph --- Track: Love You (Feferi's Theme) Artist: Toby Fox Duration: '1:58' -Track Art: Left Art Tags: - Feferi URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/love-you-feferis-theme-2 - https://youtu.be/cmXzwEixV4s +Cover Artists: +- Left --- Track: Ocean Stars Falling Artist: Michael Guy Bowman -Contributors: Tavia Morra -Track Art: Richard Gung +Contributors: +- Tavia Morra Duration: '3:12' References: - Ocean Stars @@ -164,10 +175,11 @@ Commentary: |- Anyway, one of the most surprising tracks on that particular album is “Ocean Stars”, a peaceful, mysterious little ditty imagined by Mark with a nautical theme in mind. I thought it had a beautiful little structure, and I guess the song must have stuck with me because at some point I found myself playing its chords over and over on my keyboard faster and faster until I was sure it would make for a great little indie rock inspired track. So I did just that. This song takes its cues most heavily from “Regatta de Blanc” by the Police and “Life in Technicolor” by Coldplay - the meditatively simple rock backup is accompanied by a huge chorus of wordless vocals provided by countless overdubs of Tavia and myself. These middle voices are bookended by the twinkling bell sounds in the high range and the rumbling drums and guitar in the low range to make for a very full mix that really surprised me with its depth. I threw in some slowed-down bubble sounds (the same samples from “Mister Bowman Tells You About the Squiddles”) to create the ocean ambiance, something I’d really gotten the chance to hear on a scuba dive I’d done over the summer. This is another example of a song that has the “just right” feeling about its length. I could probably have easily repeated the vocals endlessly as though I was attempting to induce transcendental meditation - it would probably have had the same effect as “Hey Jude” or any number of other great songs. Owing though to my sense that this album was going to be a long one (my contributions alone come out to more than 20 minutes of music) I decided to capitalize on having achieved the harmony and just let it end when its thought was fully expressed, not unlike the original composition by Mark. +Cover Artists: +- Richard Gung --- Track: Escape Pod Artist: Michael Guy Bowman -Track Art: Paige Turner Duration: '2:58' Art Tags: - WV @@ -181,10 +193,11 @@ Commentary: |- Anyway, now that I finally said my keep on that, “Escape Pod” was a really really fun track to do. It’s a rock track with a feelgood video game attitude - I’ve heard it described as Sonic music a lot, though to be fair my main reference were Nintendo games, particularly Earthbound from which I borrowed the deliberately fake brass. It also shares some similarities with the Mario sound, kind of really owing to the competitive games such as Mario Kart and Mario Party. The track also pulls a lot from actual rock music - the Roxy Music track “Street Life” was a big cue here, and the start-stop structure on the second chorus was really inspired by Tally Hall’s track “Greener” of which the effect can only be described in exotic dance. I really wanted to pull out the stops on this one and make it catchy as hell, but apparently the two tracks book-ending it on Volume 8 steal its thunder. What more can be said about it? This is about as totally poppy (or perhaps J-poppy) as I get. Compared to stuff like “Greenhouse” and “Squiddle Samba” this track is right up my alley. It in contrast with some of the other stuff that I’ve made appearing on the very same album (the minimalist piece “Gust of Heir” which I collaborated on with James Dever comes to mind) you’ll see that I can go just as far in the saccharine direction as I can into the abstract. For me range has always been an asset I’ve felt was important to nurture, so with Volume 8 I set the pace for my work ethic on Ithaca in terms of never settling to have “found my sound” no matter how well any one idea works. +Cover Artists: +- Paige Turner --- Track: Davesprite Artist: Toby Fox -Track Art: P-RO Duration: '1:41' References: - Hawkeye @@ -194,18 +207,20 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/davesprite-2 - https://youtu.be/Iy5fKp-aV4o +Cover Artists: +- P-RO --- Track: Airtime Artist: Robert J! Lake -Track Art: Tavia Morra Duration: '4:50' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/airtime-2 - https://youtu.be/HXPviQw2n7Q +Cover Artists: +- Tavia Morra --- Track: Frog Hunt Artist: Michael Guy Bowman -Track Art: Tavia Morra Duration: '4:15' Art Tags: - Dave @@ -220,11 +235,13 @@ Commentary: |- Anyway, while “Frog Forager” is almost immediate in its “aw man, yeah, it’s THIS kind of tune” factor for avid listeners of Homestuck music, my ditty “Frog Hunt” seems to hit a lot of people out of left field. Maybe it’s because I was busy surprising myself with this one as well. I’ve mentioned Weather Report a few times as an influence, and while I can’t bring even a fraction of that band’s musicianship to my work, I really attempted to bring their sense of atmosphere to the piece. There’s a lot of elements thrown in there - the wacky time signature (17/8 if I recall correctly), the meandering syncopated piano, the funk breaks, all that latin percussion, plus a pile of odd sound effects. I threw in some frog ambiance using some really odd synthesizers and a toy accordion as well. The point of this song was to kind of put the action, the drama, and all that teenage chemistry on hold so I could focus on a moment in the story that might be just a little bit more peaceful. Going on a safari for frogs on a newly-awakened alien forest world seems to beckon a very different angle than the heated stakes typically associated with Homestuck. Plus, I’ve always felt that the environment of Homestuck deserves a little more attention given that nearly 99% of all art generated by the fans are homages to their favorite characters and not the fantastic places imagined by Andrew. +Cover Artists: +- Tavia Morra --- Track: Terraform Artist: Solatrus -Contributors: Thomas Ferkol (electric guitar) -Track Art: Richard Gung +Contributors: +- Thomas Ferkol (electric guitar) Duration: '4:35' References: - Terra @@ -242,10 +259,11 @@ Commentary: |- That’s a remix of Terra and (obviously) Frost. Why? Well, I wanted Terra to be in Homestuck and sound more like a video game rock or metal song. And because the fight of Dave and Jade vs. Jack was an interesting event, so that’s how the song came to be. +Cover Artists: +- Richard Gung --- Track: Unite Synchronization Artist: Malcolm Brown -Track Art: melodiousDiscord Duration: '2:54' References: - track:showtime-original-mix @@ -288,10 +306,11 @@ Commentary: |- It is remarkably disturbing how seriously on the ball Dirk is. Not only does he paradox up his own reincarnation with a bucket and his own head, he manages to resurrect two ladies and get them and himself time-warped to Jake. This after his little presentation on Derse with Hearts’ head. I’d like to see Dave match that. :p +Cover Artists: +- melodiousDiscord --- Track: Homefree Artist: Hilary Troiano -Track Art: Vivian Ng Duration: '4:28' References: - Shooting Star @@ -306,10 +325,11 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- Hilary Troiano: Someone sent me a PM asking for some commentary about my two MSPA songs, so [[media:misc/hilary-troiano-commentary.mp3|here it is]]. (source) +Cover Artists: +- Vivian Ng --- Track: Galaxy Hearts Artist: Mark Hadley -Track Art: Rachel Weiss Duration: '2:54' Art Tags: - Terezi @@ -319,10 +339,11 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- Mark Hadley: I made the theme for this a long time ago for an RPG a friend was making, but then cancelled. I still really liked the theme, so I modified it slightly and repurposed it for Homestuck. Out of everything I've done for Homestuck, it's still one of my favorites. +Cover Artists: +- Rachel Weiss --- Track: Scourge Sisters Artist: Erik Scheele -Track Art: melodiousDiscord Duration: '2:50' Art Tags: - Terezi @@ -330,10 +351,11 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/scourge-sisters-2 - https://youtu.be/srAkO5O1QaM +Cover Artists: +- melodiousDiscord --- Track: Arcade Thunder Artist: Robert J! Lake -Track Art: Maf Duration: '2:56' Art Tags: - John @@ -351,10 +373,11 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/arcade-thunder-2 - https://youtu.be/2JJJTSs_JeA +Cover Artists: +- Maf --- Track: Pyrocumulus (Sicknasty) Artist: Robert J! Lake -Track Art: Rutares Duration: '2:50' References: - Skaian Skuffle @@ -364,18 +387,20 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/pyrocumulus-sicknasty-2 - https://youtu.be/4BqRC-ZPovM +Cover Artists: +- Rutares --- Track: Kingside Castle Artist: Clark Powell -Track Art: Nic Carey Duration: '2:44' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/kingside-castle-2 - https://youtu.be/qYKxzWbrZ0c +Cover Artists: +- Nic Carey --- Track: Temporary Artist: Robert J! Lake -Track Art: Chaz Canterbury Duration: '3:37' References: - Temporal Piano @@ -385,11 +410,13 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/temporary-2 - https://youtu.be/CYh1OlRWzp4 +Cover Artists: +- Chaz Canterbury --- Track: Gust of Heir Artist: James Dever, Michael Guy Bowman -Contributors: Clark Powell (additional sequencing) -Track Art: Fibug +Contributors: +- Clark Powell (additional sequencing) Duration: '4:17' Art Tags: - John @@ -402,30 +429,33 @@ Commentary: |- James and I are both fans of minimalism, specifically the work of Philip Glass. An eerie-looking autographed program from the Philip on Film tour graces the wall of my room, and the primary piece of music that got me interested in composition is Einstein on the Beach, a five-hour opera consisting largely of slowly-evolving repeated figures using chanted numbers and solfege. Those otherwise unfamiliar might know his music better from the many movies he’s scored including Secret Window, The Truman Show, and The Hours. Anyway, I knew right away where James was coming from when he sent me a midi demo of “Gust of Heir” though originally it was arranged as a piano solo. Without access to a pro recording situation as on the Sburb piano suite, we knew there would have to be an alternate solution, hence the electronic approach. I played pretty heavily with a set of new sounds, specifically the soundfonts of Ethan Winer, an audio professional whose work was recommended by Radiation a good while back. As I have on many occasions I took cues from Oblique Strategies to get some ideas for the arrangement. Part of the intrigue in producing this piece was that it was fully written, meaning that in some ways I was boxed-in to a complete journey for the song to take musically yet in others free to really explore and discover a unique sound for the song. I really played toggling a slew of effects until this tune became rendering hell for my computer. I stepped a bit outside my own range of comfort and got some drum loops from Clark Powell to really polish off the piece, adding a touch that otherwise would probably have eluded me. +Cover Artists: +- Fibug --- Track: Afraid of the Darko Artist: Robert J! Lake -Track Art: Robert J! Lake Duration: '3:00' Art Tags: - Doc Scratch URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/afraid-of-the-darko-2 - https://youtu.be/PSbPXcKGYto +Cover Artists: +- Robert J! Lake --- Track: Even in Death (T'Morra's Belly Mix) Artist: Clark Powell, Tavia Morra -Track Art: Tavia Morra Duration: '4:08' References: - Even in Death URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/even-in-death-tmorras-belly-mix-2 - https://youtu.be/9MdltybiL00 +Cover Artists: +- Tavia Morra --- Track: Bargaining with the Beast Artist: Thomas Ferkol -Track Art: Vivian Ng Duration: '4:13' Art Tags: - Jade @@ -438,21 +468,24 @@ Commentary: |- Bargaining With the Beast was a doozy. With little conscious attempts at maintaining structure (other than the section after the intro, which appears a few times to hold things together), it can come off as a wild ride through a bunch of interesting ideas just sort of strung together like a glass mobile made with craft glue and shiny twine. And that is a pretty accurate description. The piece was sort of an experiment for me, filled with a lot of concepts that might even have needed a separate piece to flesh them out properly, but I made this piece with the Volume 8 submissions deadline looming over head (I think it was a little under a week until final decisions on tracks were supposed to be). This is also an example of a piece where I set out with a clear mindset for what I wanted. Seeing there was no piece based on Echidna and Jade’s encounters (Radiation didn’t show us his tracks until around when the order was being decided hehe), I wanted something majestic and regal, something befitting of a monstrous queen in ancient stone halls of a frozen world. Eventually it developed into a sort of audio tour of Echidna’s palace and highlighted the conversation, never fully revealed, that took place between Jade and Echidna as they struck a deal. +Cover Artists: +- Vivian Ng --- Track: Frostbite Artist: Toby Fox -Contributors: Marcy Nabors (flute) -Track Art: Nic Carey +Contributors: +- Marcy Nabors (flute) Duration: '3:51' References: - Gaia Queen URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/frostbite-2 - https://youtu.be/Gdb_nZs6plw +Cover Artists: +- Nic Carey --- Track: The Lost Child Artist: Toby Fox -Track Art: Sarah Fu Duration: '2:54' References: - psych0ruins @@ -461,10 +494,11 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/the-lost-child-2 - https://youtu.be/-OFQHEy5TDw +Cover Artists: +- Sarah Fu --- Track: Questant's Lament Artist: Thomas Ferkol -Track Art: Fibug Duration: '3:13' Art Tags: - WQ @@ -476,10 +510,11 @@ Commentary: |- Questant’s Lament is one of my favorite tracks that I’ve made. Originally for The Wanderers, because there weren’t any WQ tracks and I liked her portrayal in the comic, I wanted something regal, almost stoic, but also forlorn. With the beginning, I imagined her away from the others in their camp, sitting alone on some stone at night and listening to an old music box, one of few possessions that she could have salvaged from Prospit. From there she reminisces, from her perspective, on the progression of the session and her foresight of and departure from the impending devastation of Prospit. In the end, she closes the trinket, accepts her new fate, and returns to her fellow exiles. +Cover Artists: +- Fibug --- Track: Hussie Hunt Artist: Malcolm Brown -Track Art: Hanni Brosh Duration: '2:46' References: - track:explore @@ -496,10 +531,11 @@ Commentary: |- More or less my first attempt to do something in this style. Also, surprisingly, most of it was played live on keyboard into the sequencer (not something I normally do) and then heavily quantized to fix my wonky playing. It gives it a slightly more organic feel, most noticeable on the chords during the 'Explore' section at the end (Which may also owe a little bit to the Monkey Island soundtrack). Basically a bit of music for Andrew's huntin' of Scratch shortly before the end of act. Included is the "AAAAAHHH FUCKING WOLF!!" moment for good measure (That was added after the first draft to Rad's suggestion). There was even talk of getting some grumbly vocals from the man 'imself, but alas... Had quite a bit of fun doin' this one. Also quite proud of the name Even if I do have to occasionally explain it to people who don't read the comic... +Cover Artists: +- Hanni Brosh --- Track: Havoc Artist: Svix -Track Art: Emi Duration: '2:35' Art Tags: - The Handmaid @@ -511,11 +547,14 @@ Commentary: |- Svix: Havoc began as an intro section for another song I made a while back but I quite liked the melody and decided to make a separate track out of it. I submitted it to Homestuck as I felt the chiptune nature of the piece fit in with the comic's style and I'd been wanting to write a 'Strife' type tune for some time. The track itself has a lot of C64 elements in the percussion and synths that blend into more powerful sounds for a more Drum and Bass style which is something I quite like to do with my music. +Cover Artists: +- Emi --- Track: Drift into the Sun Artist: Thomas Ferkol -Contributors: Clark Powell (some production), Toby Fox (climax drum programming) -Track Art: Zilon +Contributors: +- Clark Powell (some production) +- Toby Fox (climax drum programming) Duration: '3:22' References: - track:atomyk-ebonpyre @@ -531,10 +570,11 @@ Commentary: |- This was another track that I had a clear design for, following as best as I could the events surrounding Rose and Dave’s chat on Derse before creating the Green Sun, focusing more on the atmosphere surrounding the debacle than what they talked about. After putting the original version up for the team to see, Plazmataz offered to spruce things up. And they did. And it was awesome. And then Radiation said he could make some crazy drums for the last section. And he did. And it was awesome too. And that was how Virginia was founded! +Cover Artists: +- Zilon --- Track: Infinity Mechanism Artist: Thomas Ferkol -Track Art: VickyBit Duration: '3:20' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/infinity-mechanism-2 @@ -543,6 +583,8 @@ Commentary: |- Thomas Ferkol: Then we’ve got Infinity Mechanism. I am not sure what to say about it. I played live guitar and cello on it. It was one of the first full guitar based things I wrote for MSPA and the first that I used my computer to record rather than a Tascam mixing board + studio that I had used on my very old works. Its mechanical sound and return to the beginning at its end reminded me of Beat Mesa, and it kind of became my own sort of theme music for The Scratch. Also it is now the first track written by me to be used in an animation and it is amazing. +Cover Artists: +- VickyBit --- Track: Revered Return Artist: Nick Smalley, Michael Guy Bowman @@ -550,7 +592,6 @@ References: - Dirgeish - track:sburban-jungle Duration: '2:33' -Track Art: Noot Art Tags: - Terezi - Vriska @@ -564,11 +605,13 @@ Commentary: |- The structure I think might be the most unique part of “Revered Return” - it doesn’t waste time by really repeating itself a lot. Nine out of ten times I work on a song I find myself writing or arranging something that moves in a very basic structure like ABAB or AABA or other variants, etc. “Dirgeish” gave me the challenge of establishing coherency in a piece that seemed to move almost completely linearly, and I made sure to preserve its sort of ABCDEFGBA-type structure in arranging “Revered Return” for Volume 8. Nick Smalley: Remember that thing about ORGMaker? Yeah, this song, too. Except add me asking Andrew Huo to help finish it and Bowman to ramp it up, and you’ve got Revered Return. :3 +Cover Artists: +- Noot --- Track: Judgment Day Artist: Toby Fox -Contributors: Kelly Sadwin (violin) -Track Art: Lazylaz +Contributors: +- Kelly Sadwin (violin) Duration: '2:00' References: - track:ruins @@ -577,21 +620,24 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/judgment-day-2 - https://youtu.be/MD2TLTtyfDE +Cover Artists: +- Lazylaz --- Track: Lotus (Bloom) Artist: Seth Peelle -Track Art: myluckyseven Duration: '4:05' References: - Lotus URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/lotus-bloom-2 - https://youtu.be/RrIofwv86HM +Cover Artists: +- myluckyseven --- Track: Cascade Artist: Toby Fox, Tensei, Clark Powell, Malcolm Brown -Contributors: Toby Fox (editing) -Track Art: none +Contributors: +- Toby Fox (editing) Duration: '13:14' References: - Cascade (Beta) @@ -601,10 +647,10 @@ References: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/cascade-2 - https://youtu.be/Ckr6KyZoS58 +Cover Artists: [] --- Track: I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew (Acapella) Artist: David Ko -Track Art: Vivian Ng Duration: '2:50' References: - I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew @@ -621,12 +667,13 @@ Lyrics: |- I never shall forget the night I made six robbers run
Although I didn't have a knife, a blackjack, or a gun
I proved myself a hero of a very high degree
I ran for home, and six of them, were running after me! I'm a member of the Midnight Crew
I'm a night owl, and a wise bird too
Home with the milk in the morning
Singing the same old song!
Rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun
Early to bed, and you'll miss all the fun
Bring your wife and trouble, it will never trouble you
Make her a member of the Midnight Crew! Make her a member of the Midnight Crew! +Cover Artists: +- Vivian Ng --- Group: Bonus tracks --- Track: How Do I Live (D8 Night Version) Artist: Michael Guy Bowman -Track Art: Victoria Grace Elliott Duration: '3:23' References: - How Do I Live @@ -649,10 +696,11 @@ Commentary: |- I always had thought of “How Do I Live” as a breakup song, so as an anthem of dependency between generic 90’s lovers I was underwhelmed. However, in Con Air it’s meant to be the love theme of a woman whose husband serves in the military, giving the song a very different meaning. The stakes are not whether the singer’s lover will stay or leave but whether they will live or die, a thought that is instantly more resonant for anyone who has been in love I think. The trick to this one for me was cutting out all the bullshit really - the ridiculous key change is removed and the drums are minimal to the extent of sounding like a funeral march. Rather than starting off with chipper little electric organs and keyboards, this version takes a cue from “Purple Rain” and uses only electric guitar and vocals for the first minute. The vocals start off sounding a million miles away and are subtly brought closer and closer until the other instruments join in on the second verse. I added a new bridge section in so that Thomas Ferkol could have a chance to play some real guitar in this one, and of course he showed his colors as a metal guitarist, sending me a duet between harmonized voices. David Ko also appears on this track as the gently-spoken backup vocalist. +Cover Artists: +- Victoria Grace Elliott --- Track: Cascade (Beta) Artist: Tensei -Track Art: Mia Schwartz Duration: '4:06' Art Tags: - John @@ -661,11 +709,14 @@ Art Tags: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/cascade-beta-2 - https://youtu.be/Svy9DBBZKpk +Cover Artists: +- Mia Schwartz --- Track: Black Hole / Green Sun Artist: Malcolm Brown, Toby Fox -Contributors: Tensei (electric guitar), Kelly Sadwin (violin) -Track Art: none +Contributors: +- Tensei (electric guitar) +- Kelly Sadwin (violin) Duration: '2:30' References: - Black Rose / Green Sun @@ -676,10 +727,10 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- Malcolm Brown: Not much to say on this really except the title is kind of an ode to Soundgarden. +Cover Artists: [] --- Track: Carefree Action Artist: Mark Hadley -Track Art: 8bitkitten Duration: '2:08' Art Tags: - Dave @@ -690,3 +741,5 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- Mark Hadley: Back when we knew Jade as just GG, I wrote the first part of Carefree Action as a possible upbeat strife theme for her. It never ended up getting used, but other people liked it, and eventually a remix of it (Carefree Victory) made it into the comic. The original was pretty short, so I lengthened it so that I could eventually get it onto an album. Like Sburban Reversal, I recommended it as a bonus track. +Cover Artists: +- 8bitkitten -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5 From ab6babcab187dae510d0378715deabf8bf7237c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gio Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:26:10 -0600 Subject: Include "Has Cover Art: False" --- album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml') diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index 5553621..2da632d 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -648,6 +648,7 @@ URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/cascade-2 - https://youtu.be/Ckr6KyZoS58 Cover Artists: [] +Has Cover Art: false --- Track: I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew (Acapella) Artist: David Ko @@ -728,6 +729,7 @@ Commentary: |- Malcolm Brown: Not much to say on this really except the title is kind of an ode to Soundgarden. Cover Artists: [] +Has Cover Art: false --- Track: Carefree Action Artist: Mark Hadley -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5 From a615beaa2e7d98915bddeb8b11e4880fb38d67b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gio Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:31:58 -0600 Subject: Remove empty lists --- album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml') diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index 2da632d..727bf75 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -647,7 +647,6 @@ References: URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/cascade-2 - https://youtu.be/Ckr6KyZoS58 -Cover Artists: [] Has Cover Art: false --- Track: I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew (Acapella) @@ -728,7 +727,6 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- Malcolm Brown: Not much to say on this really except the title is kind of an ode to Soundgarden. -Cover Artists: [] Has Cover Art: false --- Track: Carefree Action -- 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/homestuck-vol-8.yaml | 122 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 61 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-) (limited to 'album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml') diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index 727bf75..a99006d 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -1,8 +1,6 @@ Album: Homestuck Vol. 8 Date: October 25, 2011 Date Added: November 15, 2019 -Banner Art: -- Homestuck Banner Dimensions: 1100x203 Wallpaper Style: |- opacity: 0.6; @@ -19,17 +17,14 @@ Cover Artists: - Homestuck Wallpaper Artists: - Homestuck +Banner Artists: +- Homestuck --- Group: Main album --- Track: Calamity Artist: Michael Guy Bowman Duration: '3:38' -References: -- Walk-Stab-Walk (R&E) -- Warhammer of Zillyhoo -Samples: -- Apollo 11 Launch Countdown Art Tags: - Karkat - Gamzee @@ -47,15 +42,15 @@ Commentary: |- The countdown sample is from a NASA recording, I believe it’s the launch of Apollo 11. Cover Artists: - Tavia Morra +Referenced Tracks: +- Walk-Stab-Walk (R&E) +- Warhammer of Zillyhoo +Sampled Tracks: +- Apollo 11 Launch Countdown --- Track: Do You Remem8er Me Artist: Malcolm Brown Duration: '4:28' -References: -- Lifdoff -- track:showtime-original-mix -- Death of the Lusii -- track:ruins Art Tags: - John - Vriska @@ -87,6 +82,11 @@ Commentary: |- I also fully suspect I missed some ‘8’s somewhere........ This stuff’s harder than it looks. God help me if I try to commentary another gorram Terezi track ::::p Cover Artists: - Richard Gung +Referenced Tracks: +- Lifdoff +- track:showtime-original-mix +- Death of the Lusii +- track:ruins --- Track: Flare Artist: Clark Powell @@ -162,8 +162,6 @@ Artist: Michael Guy Bowman Contributors: - Tavia Morra Duration: '3:12' -References: -- Ocean Stars Art Tags: - Squiddles URLs: @@ -177,6 +175,8 @@ Commentary: |- This is another example of a song that has the “just right” feeling about its length. I could probably have easily repeated the vocals endlessly as though I was attempting to induce transcendental meditation - it would probably have had the same effect as “Hey Jude” or any number of other great songs. Owing though to my sense that this album was going to be a long one (my contributions alone come out to more than 20 minutes of music) I decided to capitalize on having achieved the harmony and just let it end when its thought was fully expressed, not unlike the original composition by Mark. Cover Artists: - Richard Gung +Referenced Tracks: +- Ocean Stars --- Track: Escape Pod Artist: Michael Guy Bowman @@ -199,9 +199,6 @@ Cover Artists: Track: Davesprite Artist: Toby Fox Duration: '1:41' -References: -- Hawkeye -- track:atomyk-ebonpyre Art Tags: - Davesprite URLs: @@ -209,6 +206,9 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/Iy5fKp-aV4o Cover Artists: - P-RO +Referenced Tracks: +- Hawkeye +- track:atomyk-ebonpyre --- Track: Airtime Artist: Robert J! Lake @@ -243,9 +243,6 @@ Artist: Solatrus Contributors: - Thomas Ferkol (electric guitar) Duration: '4:35' -References: -- Terra -- track:frost-vol6 Art Tags: - Jade - Dave @@ -261,12 +258,13 @@ Commentary: |- And because the fight of Dave and Jade vs. Jack was an interesting event, so that’s how the song came to be. Cover Artists: - Richard Gung +Referenced Tracks: +- Terra +- track:frost-vol6 --- Track: Unite Synchronization Artist: Malcolm Brown Duration: '2:54' -References: -- track:showtime-original-mix Art Tags: - Dave - John @@ -308,15 +306,12 @@ Commentary: |- I’d like to see Dave match that. :p Cover Artists: - melodiousDiscord +Referenced Tracks: +- track:showtime-original-mix --- Track: Homefree Artist: Hilary Troiano Duration: '4:28' -References: -- Shooting Star -- Homestuck Anthem -- track:sburban-jungle -- track:upward-movement-dave-owns Art Tags: - John URLs: @@ -327,6 +322,11 @@ Commentary: |- Someone sent me a PM asking for some commentary about my two MSPA songs, so [[media:misc/hilary-troiano-commentary.mp3|here it is]]. (source) Cover Artists: - Vivian Ng +Referenced Tracks: +- Shooting Star +- Homestuck Anthem +- track:sburban-jungle +- track:upward-movement-dave-owns --- Track: Galaxy Hearts Artist: Mark Hadley @@ -379,9 +379,6 @@ Cover Artists: Track: Pyrocumulus (Sicknasty) Artist: Robert J! Lake Duration: '2:50' -References: -- Skaian Skuffle -- track:skies-of-skaia Art Tags: - John URLs: @@ -389,6 +386,9 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/4BqRC-ZPovM Cover Artists: - Rutares +Referenced Tracks: +- Skaian Skuffle +- track:skies-of-skaia --- Track: Kingside Castle Artist: Clark Powell @@ -402,8 +402,6 @@ Cover Artists: Track: Temporary Artist: Robert J! Lake Duration: '3:37' -References: -- Temporal Piano Art Tags: - Dave - The Felt @@ -412,6 +410,8 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/CYh1OlRWzp4 Cover Artists: - Chaz Canterbury +Referenced Tracks: +- Temporal Piano --- Track: Gust of Heir Artist: James Dever, Michael Guy Bowman @@ -446,13 +446,13 @@ Cover Artists: Track: Even in Death (T'Morra's Belly Mix) Artist: Clark Powell, Tavia Morra Duration: '4:08' -References: -- Even in Death URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/even-in-death-tmorras-belly-mix-2 - https://youtu.be/9MdltybiL00 Cover Artists: - Tavia Morra +Referenced Tracks: +- Even in Death --- Track: Bargaining with the Beast Artist: Thomas Ferkol @@ -476,19 +476,17 @@ Artist: Toby Fox Contributors: - Marcy Nabors (flute) Duration: '3:51' -References: -- Gaia Queen URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/frostbite-2 - https://youtu.be/Gdb_nZs6plw Cover Artists: - Nic Carey +Referenced Tracks: +- Gaia Queen --- Track: The Lost Child Artist: Toby Fox Duration: '2:54' -References: -- psych0ruins Art Tags: - The Handmaid URLs: @@ -496,6 +494,8 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/-OFQHEy5TDw Cover Artists: - Sarah Fu +Referenced Tracks: +- psych0ruins --- Track: Questant's Lament Artist: Thomas Ferkol @@ -516,8 +516,6 @@ Cover Artists: Track: Hussie Hunt Artist: Malcolm Brown Duration: '2:46' -References: -- track:explore Art Tags: - AH - Doc Scratch @@ -533,6 +531,8 @@ Commentary: |- Had quite a bit of fun doin' this one. Also quite proud of the name Even if I do have to occasionally explain it to people who don't read the comic... Cover Artists: - Hanni Brosh +Referenced Tracks: +- track:explore --- Track: Havoc Artist: Svix @@ -556,8 +556,6 @@ Contributors: - Clark Powell (some production) - Toby Fox (climax drum programming) Duration: '3:22' -References: -- track:atomyk-ebonpyre Art Tags: - Rose - Dave @@ -572,6 +570,8 @@ Commentary: |- And that was how Virginia was founded! Cover Artists: - Zilon +Referenced Tracks: +- track:atomyk-ebonpyre --- Track: Infinity Mechanism Artist: Thomas Ferkol @@ -588,9 +588,6 @@ Cover Artists: --- Track: Revered Return Artist: Nick Smalley, Michael Guy Bowman -References: -- Dirgeish -- track:sburban-jungle Duration: '2:33' Art Tags: - Terezi @@ -607,14 +604,15 @@ Commentary: |- Remember that thing about ORGMaker? Yeah, this song, too. Except add me asking Andrew Huo to help finish it and Bowman to ramp it up, and you’ve got Revered Return. :3 Cover Artists: - Noot +Referenced Tracks: +- Dirgeish +- track:sburban-jungle --- Track: Judgment Day Artist: Toby Fox Contributors: - Kelly Sadwin (violin) Duration: '2:00' -References: -- track:ruins Art Tags: - John URLs: @@ -622,38 +620,38 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/MD2TLTtyfDE Cover Artists: - Lazylaz +Referenced Tracks: +- track:ruins --- Track: Lotus (Bloom) Artist: Seth Peelle Duration: '4:05' -References: -- Lotus URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/lotus-bloom-2 - https://youtu.be/RrIofwv86HM Cover Artists: - myluckyseven +Referenced Tracks: +- Lotus --- Track: Cascade Artist: Toby Fox, Tensei, Clark Powell, Malcolm Brown Contributors: - Toby Fox (editing) Duration: '13:14' -References: -- Cascade (Beta) -- Flare (Cascade) -- Savior of the Dreaming Dead (Cascade Cut) -- Black Hole / Green Sun URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/cascade-2 - https://youtu.be/Ckr6KyZoS58 Has Cover Art: false +Referenced Tracks: +- Cascade (Beta) +- Flare (Cascade) +- Savior of the Dreaming Dead (Cascade Cut) +- Black Hole / Green Sun --- Track: I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew (Acapella) Artist: David Ko Duration: '2:50' -References: -- I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew Art Tags: - Midnight Crew URLs: @@ -669,14 +667,14 @@ Lyrics: |- Make her a member of the Midnight Crew! Cover Artists: - Vivian Ng +Referenced Tracks: +- I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew --- Group: Bonus tracks --- Track: How Do I Live (D8 Night Version) Artist: Michael Guy Bowman Duration: '3:23' -References: -- How Do I Live Art Tags: - John URLs: @@ -698,6 +696,8 @@ Commentary: |- I added a new bridge section in so that Thomas Ferkol could have a chance to play some real guitar in this one, and of course he showed his colors as a metal guitarist, sending me a duet between harmonized voices. David Ko also appears on this track as the gently-spoken backup vocalist. Cover Artists: - Victoria Grace Elliott +Referenced Tracks: +- How Do I Live --- Track: Cascade (Beta) Artist: Tensei @@ -718,9 +718,6 @@ Contributors: - Tensei (electric guitar) - Kelly Sadwin (violin) Duration: '2:30' -References: -- Black Rose / Green Sun -- track:sburban-jungle URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/black-hole-green-sun-2 - https://youtu.be/B6e2XacZSIs @@ -728,6 +725,9 @@ Commentary: |- Malcolm Brown: Not much to say on this really except the title is kind of an ode to Soundgarden. Has Cover Art: false +Referenced Tracks: +- Black Rose / Green Sun +- track:sburban-jungle --- Track: Carefree Action Artist: Mark Hadley -- 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/homestuck-vol-8.yaml | 352 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 176 insertions(+), 176 deletions(-) (limited to 'album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml') diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index a99006d..ce3a488 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -1,36 +1,43 @@ Album: Homestuck Vol. 8 Date: October 25, 2011 Date Added: November 15, 2019 -Banner Dimensions: 1100x203 -Wallpaper Style: |- - opacity: 0.6; - background-repeat: repeat; - background-size: auto; -Color: '#4ac925' -Groups: -- Official URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-7-8-with-cherubim - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cIpWboujY4 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnVpmehyaOFa9Ssz0RANELG8eSoUeOQiC Cover Artists: - Homestuck -Wallpaper Artists: -- Homestuck +Color: '#4ac925' +Groups: +- Official Banner Artists: - Homestuck +Banner Dimensions: 1100x203 +Wallpaper Artists: +- Homestuck +Wallpaper Style: |- + opacity: 0.6; + background-repeat: repeat; + background-size: auto; --- Group: Main album --- Track: Calamity Artist: Michael Guy Bowman Duration: '3:38' -Art Tags: -- Karkat -- Gamzee URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/calamity-2 - https://youtu.be/oNeKbfEVi0g +Cover Artists: +- Tavia Morra +Art Tags: +- Karkat +- Gamzee +Referenced Tracks: +- Walk-Stab-Walk (R&E) +- Warhammer of Zillyhoo +Sampled Tracks: +- Apollo 11 Launch Countdown Lyrics: |- (War, hammer, of, Zillyhoo)
T minus 15 seconds, guidance is internal. 12, 11, 10, 9
(War, hammer, of, Zillyhoo)
Ignition sequence starts, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2
(War, hammer, of, Zillyhoo)
1, 0, all engine running... LIFT-OFF! We have a lift-off! (War, hammer, of, Zillyhoo)
(War, hammer, of, Zillyhoo)
(War, hammer, of, Zillyhoo)
(War, hammer, of, Zillyhoo) @@ -40,23 +47,23 @@ Commentary: |- There was a certain difficulty in making “Calamity” really work for me. I had a couple of different sounds I was attempting all at once, each working on their own but sort of fighting for control when mashed together. The introduction and conclusion of the song using a theme from “Walk-Stab-Walk” needed to be really punchy, while I really needed the middle of the song to glide, and the connecting bits with the chanting needed to build and build in tension. There are a lot of different sounds in the song’s palette, the most difficult of which to utilize was the enormous saw synth that dominates the middle. Getting that thing to be grand without utterly overpowering the rest of the song was incredibly difficult. Overall I was really satisfied with how much excitement there is in this song. It’s got a big simple melody but it doesn’t outstay its welcome. As the album opener, it sets up the stakes and excitement of Homestuck without sort of beating the point into you by lasting too long. I think of it as a cousin to “Sburban Jungle” or at least another song approached in that dramatic, electronic way. The countdown sample is from a NASA recording, I believe it’s the launch of Apollo 11. -Cover Artists: -- Tavia Morra -Referenced Tracks: -- Walk-Stab-Walk (R&E) -- Warhammer of Zillyhoo -Sampled Tracks: -- Apollo 11 Launch Countdown --- Track: Do You Remem8er Me Artist: Malcolm Brown Duration: '4:28' -Art Tags: -- John -- Vriska URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/do-you-remem8er-me-2 - https://youtu.be/x8mLKTY5TWM +Cover Artists: +- Richard Gung +Art Tags: +- John +- Vriska +Referenced Tracks: +- Lifdoff +- track:showtime-original-mix +- Death of the Lusii +- track:ruins Commentary: |- Malcolm Brown: (original commentary) @@ -80,13 +87,6 @@ Commentary: |- Overall there’s quite a 8it I like about this one. The Percussion doesn’t vary much, which lets it down I think (It’s 8asically just the same loop for most of the song, something I’m hilariously guilty of in most everything I make :p) but it did the jo8 in giving Vriska a good sendoff. Oh yeah - The reason it doesn’t use any of Vriska’s theme is because I find that theme a 8it........ All over the place ::::p Don’t get me wrong, it’s a cool 8it of music, 8ut I don’t find it as easy to play a8out with than other tracks. 8lame my laziness! I also fully suspect I missed some ‘8’s somewhere........ This stuff’s harder than it looks. God help me if I try to commentary another gorram Terezi track ::::p -Cover Artists: -- Richard Gung -Referenced Tracks: -- Lifdoff -- track:showtime-original-mix -- Death of the Lusii -- track:ruins --- Track: Flare Artist: Clark Powell @@ -100,6 +100,11 @@ Cover Artists: Track: Galactic Cancer Artist: Thomas Ferkol Duration: '3:36' +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/galactic-cancer-2 +- https://youtu.be/ByBpRkrg9SA +Cover Artists: +- Lauren Ross Art Tags: - Karkat - John @@ -108,104 +113,99 @@ Art Tags: - Jade - Genesis Frog - 'cw: body horror (abstract)' -URLs: -- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/galactic-cancer-2 -- https://youtu.be/ByBpRkrg9SA Commentary: |- Thomas Ferkol: What started off as me meandering about with slightly odd chord progressions became a rather meandering piece in general. Originally labeled Nether, at least as the piece began to formulate, the first part quickly developed in what I hoped would be a style reminiscent of Russell Brower’s music for Outland in World of Warcraft, primarily the Outland Suite and Netherstorm (what the first name referenced). I completed most of the piece without drums or effects at first, but felt something was missing. After messing around with some different bits of drum samples, I found beats that were suitable for what I was going for, and those helped give more definition to the meter of the piece as much of it was long chords that made it hard to distinguish at times, then added some occasional filter effects to increase the overall spacey feel. After everything was in place, I listened through it multiple times and just began to imagine Karkat’s monologue about how everything was his fault and the phrase “Galactic Cancer” stuck. -Cover Artists: -- Lauren Ross --- Track: Serenade +Directory: serenade-vol8 Artist: Clark Powell Duration: '5:05' -Directory: serenade-vol8 -Art Tags: -- Nepeta -- Karkat URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/serenade-2 - https://youtu.be/iQyr0eYN7hI Cover Artists: - clorinspats +Art Tags: +- Nepeta +- Karkat --- Track: Frog Forager Artist: Erik Scheele Duration: '3:18' -Art Tags: -- Dave -- Jade -- Frogs -- Jack Noir URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/frog-forager-2 - https://youtu.be/5KihK9orAi0 Cover Artists: - Kaymurph +Art Tags: +- Dave +- Jade +- Frogs +- Jack Noir --- Track: Love You (Feferi's Theme) Artist: Toby Fox Duration: '1:58' -Art Tags: -- Feferi URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/love-you-feferis-theme-2 - https://youtu.be/cmXzwEixV4s Cover Artists: - Left +Art Tags: +- Feferi --- Track: Ocean Stars Falling Artist: Michael Guy Bowman Contributors: - Tavia Morra Duration: '3:12' -Art Tags: -- Squiddles URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/ocean-stars-falling-2 - https://youtu.be/QmEZzp7o8i8 +Cover Artists: +- Richard Gung +Art Tags: +- Squiddles +Referenced Tracks: +- Ocean Stars Commentary: |- Michael Guy Bowman: The [[album:squiddles|Squiddles!]] album gets no love. There, I said it. I’ve mentioned before how awesome it is and how dramatically it has undersold compared to the rest of our material, but apparently everyone is too terrified of its My Little Pony meets Cthulu approach to give it a shot. Trust me, you’ll like it more than you think you will. Anyway, one of the most surprising tracks on that particular album is “Ocean Stars”, a peaceful, mysterious little ditty imagined by Mark with a nautical theme in mind. I thought it had a beautiful little structure, and I guess the song must have stuck with me because at some point I found myself playing its chords over and over on my keyboard faster and faster until I was sure it would make for a great little indie rock inspired track. So I did just that. This song takes its cues most heavily from “Regatta de Blanc” by the Police and “Life in Technicolor” by Coldplay - the meditatively simple rock backup is accompanied by a huge chorus of wordless vocals provided by countless overdubs of Tavia and myself. These middle voices are bookended by the twinkling bell sounds in the high range and the rumbling drums and guitar in the low range to make for a very full mix that really surprised me with its depth. I threw in some slowed-down bubble sounds (the same samples from “Mister Bowman Tells You About the Squiddles”) to create the ocean ambiance, something I’d really gotten the chance to hear on a scuba dive I’d done over the summer. This is another example of a song that has the “just right” feeling about its length. I could probably have easily repeated the vocals endlessly as though I was attempting to induce transcendental meditation - it would probably have had the same effect as “Hey Jude” or any number of other great songs. Owing though to my sense that this album was going to be a long one (my contributions alone come out to more than 20 minutes of music) I decided to capitalize on having achieved the harmony and just let it end when its thought was fully expressed, not unlike the original composition by Mark. -Cover Artists: -- Richard Gung -Referenced Tracks: -- Ocean Stars --- Track: Escape Pod Artist: Michael Guy Bowman Duration: '2:58' -Art Tags: -- WV -- CD URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/escape-pod-2 - https://youtu.be/GJo7ZH6p6wA +Cover Artists: +- Paige Turner +Art Tags: +- WV +- CD Commentary: |- Michael Guy Bowman: Before going into a description of this track, I must make a long-overdue rebuttal to the factors that overshadowed its reception. Yes, I know this song and its track art pertain to the Wayward Vagabond. Yes, I know it’s sad that Andrew “killed off” the Wayward Vagabond on the same day that this album was released. No, I had no idea that would happen nor do I care how incongruous the song’s mood seems in relation to that particular plot point. Anyway, now that I finally said my keep on that, “Escape Pod” was a really really fun track to do. It’s a rock track with a feelgood video game attitude - I’ve heard it described as Sonic music a lot, though to be fair my main reference were Nintendo games, particularly Earthbound from which I borrowed the deliberately fake brass. It also shares some similarities with the Mario sound, kind of really owing to the competitive games such as Mario Kart and Mario Party. The track also pulls a lot from actual rock music - the Roxy Music track “Street Life” was a big cue here, and the start-stop structure on the second chorus was really inspired by Tally Hall’s track “Greener” of which the effect can only be described in exotic dance. I really wanted to pull out the stops on this one and make it catchy as hell, but apparently the two tracks book-ending it on Volume 8 steal its thunder. What more can be said about it? This is about as totally poppy (or perhaps J-poppy) as I get. Compared to stuff like “Greenhouse” and “Squiddle Samba” this track is right up my alley. It in contrast with some of the other stuff that I’ve made appearing on the very same album (the minimalist piece “Gust of Heir” which I collaborated on with James Dever comes to mind) you’ll see that I can go just as far in the saccharine direction as I can into the abstract. For me range has always been an asset I’ve felt was important to nurture, so with Volume 8 I set the pace for my work ethic on Ithaca in terms of never settling to have “found my sound” no matter how well any one idea works. -Cover Artists: -- Paige Turner --- Track: Davesprite Artist: Toby Fox Duration: '1:41' -Art Tags: -- Davesprite URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/davesprite-2 - https://youtu.be/Iy5fKp-aV4o Cover Artists: - P-RO +Art Tags: +- Davesprite Referenced Tracks: - Hawkeye - track:atomyk-ebonpyre @@ -222,58 +222,62 @@ Cover Artists: Track: Frog Hunt Artist: Michael Guy Bowman Duration: '4:15' +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/frog-hunt-2 +- https://youtu.be/VkYB3Fw4bLw +Cover Artists: +- Tavia Morra Art Tags: - Dave - Jade - Frogs -URLs: -- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/frog-hunt-2 -- https://youtu.be/VkYB3Fw4bLw Commentary: |- Michael Guy Bowman: Uh oh, Jit and I showed up to the album with the same song idea. That’s like two girls showing up the party in the same dress. Awkward! Good thing for Jit and I that, like the two girls in that famous scenario, we each have our own swagga and wear those dresses like the hot young messes we are. Wow, don’t quote me on that. (Too late - DPF) Anyway, while “Frog Forager” is almost immediate in its “aw man, yeah, it’s THIS kind of tune” factor for avid listeners of Homestuck music, my ditty “Frog Hunt” seems to hit a lot of people out of left field. Maybe it’s because I was busy surprising myself with this one as well. I’ve mentioned Weather Report a few times as an influence, and while I can’t bring even a fraction of that band’s musicianship to my work, I really attempted to bring their sense of atmosphere to the piece. There’s a lot of elements thrown in there - the wacky time signature (17/8 if I recall correctly), the meandering syncopated piano, the funk breaks, all that latin percussion, plus a pile of odd sound effects. I threw in some frog ambiance using some really odd synthesizers and a toy accordion as well. The point of this song was to kind of put the action, the drama, and all that teenage chemistry on hold so I could focus on a moment in the story that might be just a little bit more peaceful. Going on a safari for frogs on a newly-awakened alien forest world seems to beckon a very different angle than the heated stakes typically associated with Homestuck. Plus, I’ve always felt that the environment of Homestuck deserves a little more attention given that nearly 99% of all art generated by the fans are homages to their favorite characters and not the fantastic places imagined by Andrew. -Cover Artists: -- Tavia Morra --- Track: Terraform Artist: Solatrus Contributors: - Thomas Ferkol (electric guitar) Duration: '4:35' +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/terraform-2 +- https://youtu.be/bWp5uUxarAQ +Cover Artists: +- Richard Gung Art Tags: - Jade - Dave - Jack Noir - Frogs -URLs: -- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/terraform-2 -- https://youtu.be/bWp5uUxarAQ +Referenced Tracks: +- Terra +- track:frost-vol6 Commentary: |- Solatrus: That’s a remix of Terra and (obviously) Frost. Why? Well, I wanted Terra to be in Homestuck and sound more like a video game rock or metal song. And because the fight of Dave and Jade vs. Jack was an interesting event, so that’s how the song came to be. -Cover Artists: -- Richard Gung -Referenced Tracks: -- Terra -- track:frost-vol6 --- Track: Unite Synchronization Artist: Malcolm Brown Duration: '2:54' +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/unite-synchronization-2 +- https://youtu.be/uHmXe2eY6Kg +Cover Artists: +- melodiousDiscord Art Tags: - Dave - John - Rose - Jade - 'cw: blood' -URLs: -- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/unite-synchronization-2 -- https://youtu.be/uHmXe2eY6Kg +Referenced Tracks: +- track:showtime-original-mix Commentary: |- Malcolm Brown: (original commentary) @@ -304,59 +308,60 @@ Commentary: |- It is remarkably disturbing how seriously on the ball Dirk is. Not only does he paradox up his own reincarnation with a bucket and his own head, he manages to resurrect two ladies and get them and himself time-warped to Jake. This after his little presentation on Derse with Hearts’ head. I’d like to see Dave match that. :p -Cover Artists: -- melodiousDiscord -Referenced Tracks: -- track:showtime-original-mix --- Track: Homefree Artist: Hilary Troiano Duration: '4:28' -Art Tags: -- John URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/homefree-2 - https://youtu.be/7aYso7j8wsw -Commentary: |- - Hilary Troiano: - Someone sent me a PM asking for some commentary about my two MSPA songs, so [[media:misc/hilary-troiano-commentary.mp3|here it is]]. (source) Cover Artists: - Vivian Ng +Art Tags: +- John Referenced Tracks: - Shooting Star - Homestuck Anthem - track:sburban-jungle - track:upward-movement-dave-owns +Commentary: |- + Hilary Troiano: + Someone sent me a PM asking for some commentary about my two MSPA songs, so [[media:misc/hilary-troiano-commentary.mp3|here it is]]. (source) --- Track: Galaxy Hearts Artist: Mark Hadley Duration: '2:54' -Art Tags: -- Terezi URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/galaxy-hearts-2 - https://youtu.be/YQX0TWA_x6Q +Cover Artists: +- Rachel Weiss +Art Tags: +- Terezi Commentary: |- Mark Hadley: I made the theme for this a long time ago for an RPG a friend was making, but then cancelled. I still really liked the theme, so I modified it slightly and repurposed it for Homestuck. Out of everything I've done for Homestuck, it's still one of my favorites. -Cover Artists: -- Rachel Weiss --- Track: Scourge Sisters Artist: Erik Scheele Duration: '2:50' -Art Tags: -- Terezi -- Vriska URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/scourge-sisters-2 - https://youtu.be/srAkO5O1QaM Cover Artists: - melodiousDiscord +Art Tags: +- Terezi +- Vriska --- Track: Arcade Thunder Artist: Robert J! Lake Duration: '2:56' +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/arcade-thunder-2 +- https://youtu.be/2JJJTSs_JeA +Cover Artists: +- Maf Art Tags: - John - Rose @@ -370,22 +375,17 @@ Art Tags: - Vriska - Jack Noir - Consorts -URLs: -- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/arcade-thunder-2 -- https://youtu.be/2JJJTSs_JeA -Cover Artists: -- Maf --- Track: Pyrocumulus (Sicknasty) Artist: Robert J! Lake Duration: '2:50' -Art Tags: -- John URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/pyrocumulus-sicknasty-2 - https://youtu.be/4BqRC-ZPovM Cover Artists: - Rutares +Art Tags: +- John Referenced Tracks: - Skaian Skuffle - track:skies-of-skaia @@ -402,14 +402,14 @@ Cover Artists: Track: Temporary Artist: Robert J! Lake Duration: '3:37' -Art Tags: -- Dave -- The Felt URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/temporary-2 - https://youtu.be/CYh1OlRWzp4 Cover Artists: - Chaz Canterbury +Art Tags: +- Dave +- The Felt Referenced Tracks: - Temporal Piano --- @@ -418,30 +418,30 @@ Artist: James Dever, Michael Guy Bowman Contributors: - Clark Powell (additional sequencing) Duration: '4:17' -Art Tags: -- John URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/gust-of-heir-2 - https://youtu.be/pGlTekY3qZI +Cover Artists: +- Fibug +Art Tags: +- John Commentary: |- Michael Guy Bowman: Two of the tracks I put on Volume 8 were collaborations with other Homestuck musicians, something I’ve been meaning to do more of because two heads are usually better than one. The first of the two was “Gust of Heir”, a track that James Dever wrote and for which I did the production. James and I are both fans of minimalism, specifically the work of Philip Glass. An eerie-looking autographed program from the Philip on Film tour graces the wall of my room, and the primary piece of music that got me interested in composition is Einstein on the Beach, a five-hour opera consisting largely of slowly-evolving repeated figures using chanted numbers and solfege. Those otherwise unfamiliar might know his music better from the many movies he’s scored including Secret Window, The Truman Show, and The Hours. Anyway, I knew right away where James was coming from when he sent me a midi demo of “Gust of Heir” though originally it was arranged as a piano solo. Without access to a pro recording situation as on the Sburb piano suite, we knew there would have to be an alternate solution, hence the electronic approach. I played pretty heavily with a set of new sounds, specifically the soundfonts of Ethan Winer, an audio professional whose work was recommended by Radiation a good while back. As I have on many occasions I took cues from Oblique Strategies to get some ideas for the arrangement. Part of the intrigue in producing this piece was that it was fully written, meaning that in some ways I was boxed-in to a complete journey for the song to take musically yet in others free to really explore and discover a unique sound for the song. I really played toggling a slew of effects until this tune became rendering hell for my computer. I stepped a bit outside my own range of comfort and got some drum loops from Clark Powell to really polish off the piece, adding a touch that otherwise would probably have eluded me. -Cover Artists: -- Fibug --- Track: Afraid of the Darko Artist: Robert J! Lake Duration: '3:00' -Art Tags: -- Doc Scratch URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/afraid-of-the-darko-2 - https://youtu.be/PSbPXcKGYto Cover Artists: - Robert J! Lake +Art Tags: +- Doc Scratch --- Track: Even in Death (T'Morra's Belly Mix) Artist: Clark Powell, Tavia Morra @@ -457,19 +457,19 @@ Referenced Tracks: Track: Bargaining with the Beast Artist: Thomas Ferkol Duration: '4:13' -Art Tags: -- Jade -- Denizens URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/bargaining-with-the-beast-2 - https://youtu.be/2HT5FcjHt1s +Cover Artists: +- Vivian Ng +Art Tags: +- Jade +- Denizens Commentary: |- Thomas Ferkol: Bargaining With the Beast was a doozy. With little conscious attempts at maintaining structure (other than the section after the intro, which appears a few times to hold things together), it can come off as a wild ride through a bunch of interesting ideas just sort of strung together like a glass mobile made with craft glue and shiny twine. And that is a pretty accurate description. The piece was sort of an experiment for me, filled with a lot of concepts that might even have needed a separate piece to flesh them out properly, but I made this piece with the Volume 8 submissions deadline looming over head (I think it was a little under a week until final decisions on tracks were supposed to be). This is also an example of a piece where I set out with a clear mindset for what I wanted. Seeing there was no piece based on Echidna and Jade’s encounters (Radiation didn’t show us his tracks until around when the order was being decided hehe), I wanted something majestic and regal, something befitting of a monstrous queen in ancient stone halls of a frozen world. Eventually it developed into a sort of audio tour of Echidna’s palace and highlighted the conversation, never fully revealed, that took place between Jade and Echidna as they struck a deal. -Cover Artists: -- Vivian Ng --- Track: Frostbite Artist: Toby Fox @@ -487,41 +487,45 @@ Referenced Tracks: Track: The Lost Child Artist: Toby Fox Duration: '2:54' -Art Tags: -- The Handmaid URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/the-lost-child-2 - https://youtu.be/-OFQHEy5TDw Cover Artists: - Sarah Fu +Art Tags: +- The Handmaid Referenced Tracks: - psych0ruins --- Track: Questant's Lament Artist: Thomas Ferkol Duration: '3:13' -Art Tags: -- WQ URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/questants-lament-2 - https://youtu.be/ILt6Qyxc1bw +Cover Artists: +- Fibug +Art Tags: +- WQ Commentary: |- Thomas Ferkol: Questant’s Lament is one of my favorite tracks that I’ve made. Originally for The Wanderers, because there weren’t any WQ tracks and I liked her portrayal in the comic, I wanted something regal, almost stoic, but also forlorn. With the beginning, I imagined her away from the others in their camp, sitting alone on some stone at night and listening to an old music box, one of few possessions that she could have salvaged from Prospit. From there she reminisces, from her perspective, on the progression of the session and her foresight of and departure from the impending devastation of Prospit. In the end, she closes the trinket, accepts her new fate, and returns to her fellow exiles. -Cover Artists: -- Fibug --- Track: Hussie Hunt Artist: Malcolm Brown Duration: '2:46' -Art Tags: -- AH -- Doc Scratch URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/hussie-hunt-2 - https://youtu.be/oz4UOqdFQEA +Cover Artists: +- Hanni Brosh +Art Tags: +- AH +- Doc Scratch +Referenced Tracks: +- track:explore Commentary: |- Malcolm Brown: Hah! If 'Sneaking music' was a genre, here's another one to the mix. @@ -529,26 +533,22 @@ Commentary: |- More or less my first attempt to do something in this style. Also, surprisingly, most of it was played live on keyboard into the sequencer (not something I normally do) and then heavily quantized to fix my wonky playing. It gives it a slightly more organic feel, most noticeable on the chords during the 'Explore' section at the end (Which may also owe a little bit to the Monkey Island soundtrack). Basically a bit of music for Andrew's huntin' of Scratch shortly before the end of act. Included is the "AAAAAHHH FUCKING WOLF!!" moment for good measure (That was added after the first draft to Rad's suggestion). There was even talk of getting some grumbly vocals from the man 'imself, but alas... Had quite a bit of fun doin' this one. Also quite proud of the name Even if I do have to occasionally explain it to people who don't read the comic... -Cover Artists: -- Hanni Brosh -Referenced Tracks: -- track:explore --- Track: Havoc Artist: Svix Duration: '2:35' -Art Tags: -- The Handmaid -- Doc Scratch URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/havoc-2 - https://youtu.be/Wq0SjupReyA +Cover Artists: +- Emi +Art Tags: +- The Handmaid +- Doc Scratch Commentary: |- Svix: Havoc began as an intro section for another song I made a while back but I quite liked the melody and decided to make a separate track out of it. I submitted it to Homestuck as I felt the chiptune nature of the piece fit in with the comic's style and I'd been wanting to write a 'Strife' type tune for some time. The track itself has a lot of C64 elements in the percussion and synths that blend into more powerful sounds for a more Drum and Bass style which is something I quite like to do with my music. -Cover Artists: -- Emi --- Track: Drift into the Sun Artist: Thomas Ferkol @@ -556,22 +556,22 @@ Contributors: - Clark Powell (some production) - Toby Fox (climax drum programming) Duration: '3:22' -Art Tags: -- Rose -- Dave URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/drift-into-the-sun-2 - https://youtu.be/f5BP2W9a93U +Cover Artists: +- Zilon +Art Tags: +- Rose +- Dave +Referenced Tracks: +- track:atomyk-ebonpyre Commentary: |- Thomas Ferkol: Drift Into the Sun started off as me trying to emulate the opening choir track of a black metal EP. Soon some big drums and some spacey guitars found their way into the mix (in my attempts to make something on the line of ambient black or doom metal). Finally, I added Dave’s “blast off” to help Rose with a metal-ified version of Atomyk Ebonpyre (which people keep requesting a full version of... maybe). This was another track that I had a clear design for, following as best as I could the events surrounding Rose and Dave’s chat on Derse before creating the Green Sun, focusing more on the atmosphere surrounding the debacle than what they talked about. After putting the original version up for the team to see, Plazmataz offered to spruce things up. And they did. And it was awesome. And then Radiation said he could make some crazy drums for the last section. And he did. And it was awesome too. And that was how Virginia was founded! -Cover Artists: -- Zilon -Referenced Tracks: -- track:atomyk-ebonpyre --- Track: Infinity Mechanism Artist: Thomas Ferkol @@ -579,22 +579,27 @@ Duration: '3:20' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/infinity-mechanism-2 - https://youtu.be/I3S8LNG4aNo +Cover Artists: +- VickyBit Commentary: |- Thomas Ferkol: Then we’ve got Infinity Mechanism. I am not sure what to say about it. I played live guitar and cello on it. It was one of the first full guitar based things I wrote for MSPA and the first that I used my computer to record rather than a Tascam mixing board + studio that I had used on my very old works. Its mechanical sound and return to the beginning at its end reminded me of Beat Mesa, and it kind of became my own sort of theme music for The Scratch. Also it is now the first track written by me to be used in an animation and it is amazing. -Cover Artists: -- VickyBit --- Track: Revered Return Artist: Nick Smalley, Michael Guy Bowman Duration: '2:33' -Art Tags: -- Terezi -- Vriska URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/revered-return-2 - https://youtu.be/x3ruWSdc1Vo +Cover Artists: +- Noot +Art Tags: +- Terezi +- Vriska +Referenced Tracks: +- Dirgeish +- track:sburban-jungle Commentary: |- Michael Guy Bowman: “Revered Return” began as a track called “Dirgeish”, a .pxtone composition that Nick had completed some time ago but never managed to squeeze into an album. Because as a chip tune it had been long overlooked, I decided to take a whack at producing it in a different style for inclusion on Volume 8. I had been looking for a piece that would work as a rock tune, and “Dirgeish” really struck me because of the heavy involvement of drums, its steady pace, and dynamic structure. @@ -602,24 +607,19 @@ Commentary: |- The structure I think might be the most unique part of “Revered Return” - it doesn’t waste time by really repeating itself a lot. Nine out of ten times I work on a song I find myself writing or arranging something that moves in a very basic structure like ABAB or AABA or other variants, etc. “Dirgeish” gave me the challenge of establishing coherency in a piece that seemed to move almost completely linearly, and I made sure to preserve its sort of ABCDEFGBA-type structure in arranging “Revered Return” for Volume 8. Nick Smalley: Remember that thing about ORGMaker? Yeah, this song, too. Except add me asking Andrew Huo to help finish it and Bowman to ramp it up, and you’ve got Revered Return. :3 -Cover Artists: -- Noot -Referenced Tracks: -- Dirgeish -- track:sburban-jungle --- Track: Judgment Day Artist: Toby Fox Contributors: - Kelly Sadwin (violin) Duration: '2:00' -Art Tags: -- John URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/judgment-day-2 - https://youtu.be/MD2TLTtyfDE Cover Artists: - Lazylaz +Art Tags: +- John Referenced Tracks: - track:ruins --- @@ -652,11 +652,15 @@ Referenced Tracks: Track: I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew (Acapella) Artist: David Ko Duration: '2:50' -Art Tags: -- Midnight Crew URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew-acapella-2 - https://youtu.be/Br294PLbHBA +Cover Artists: +- Vivian Ng +Art Tags: +- Midnight Crew +Referenced Tracks: +- I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew Lyrics: |- I hate a moral coward, one who lacks a manly spark
I just detest a man afraid to go home in the dark
I always spend my evenings where there's women wine and song
But like a man, I always bring my little wife along! I'm a member of the Midnight Crew
I'm a night owl, and a wise bird too
Home with the milk in the morning
Singing the same old song!
Rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun
Early to bed, and you'll miss all the fun
Bring your wife and trouble, it will never trouble you
Make her a member of the Midnight Crew! @@ -665,24 +669,24 @@ Lyrics: |- I never shall forget the night I made six robbers run
Although I didn't have a knife, a blackjack, or a gun
I proved myself a hero of a very high degree
I ran for home, and six of them, were running after me! I'm a member of the Midnight Crew
I'm a night owl, and a wise bird too
Home with the milk in the morning
Singing the same old song!
Rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun
Early to bed, and you'll miss all the fun
Bring your wife and trouble, it will never trouble you
Make her a member of the Midnight Crew! Make her a member of the Midnight Crew! -Cover Artists: -- Vivian Ng -Referenced Tracks: -- I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew --- Group: Bonus tracks --- Track: How Do I Live (D8 Night Version) Artist: Michael Guy Bowman +Contributors: +- Thomas Ferkol (electric guitar) +- David Ko (backup vocals) Duration: '3:23' -Art Tags: -- John URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/how-do-i-live-d8-night-version-2 - https://youtu.be/Svy9DBBZKpk -Contributors: -- Thomas Ferkol (electric guitar) -- David Ko (backup vocals) +Cover Artists: +- Victoria Grace Elliott +Art Tags: +- John +Referenced Tracks: +- How Do I Live Lyrics: |- How do I
Get through one night without you?
If I had to live without you
What kind of life would that be?
Oh, and I
I need you in my arms, need you to hold
You're my world, my heart, my soul
If you ever leave
Baby that would take away everything good in my life Without you
There'd be no sun in my sky
There'd be no love in my life
There'd be no world left for me
Oh, and I
Baby I don't know what I would do
I'd be lost if I lost you
If you ever leave
Baby that would take away everything that's real in my life @@ -694,23 +698,19 @@ Commentary: |- I always had thought of “How Do I Live” as a breakup song, so as an anthem of dependency between generic 90’s lovers I was underwhelmed. However, in Con Air it’s meant to be the love theme of a woman whose husband serves in the military, giving the song a very different meaning. The stakes are not whether the singer’s lover will stay or leave but whether they will live or die, a thought that is instantly more resonant for anyone who has been in love I think. The trick to this one for me was cutting out all the bullshit really - the ridiculous key change is removed and the drums are minimal to the extent of sounding like a funeral march. Rather than starting off with chipper little electric organs and keyboards, this version takes a cue from “Purple Rain” and uses only electric guitar and vocals for the first minute. The vocals start off sounding a million miles away and are subtly brought closer and closer until the other instruments join in on the second verse. I added a new bridge section in so that Thomas Ferkol could have a chance to play some real guitar in this one, and of course he showed his colors as a metal guitarist, sending me a duet between harmonized voices. David Ko also appears on this track as the gently-spoken backup vocalist. -Cover Artists: -- Victoria Grace Elliott -Referenced Tracks: -- How Do I Live --- Track: Cascade (Beta) Artist: Tensei Duration: '4:06' -Art Tags: -- John -- Dave -- Vriska URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/cascade-beta-2 - https://youtu.be/Svy9DBBZKpk Cover Artists: - Mia Schwartz +Art Tags: +- John +- Dave +- Vriska --- Track: Black Hole / Green Sun Artist: Malcolm Brown, Toby Fox @@ -721,25 +721,25 @@ Duration: '2:30' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/black-hole-green-sun-2 - https://youtu.be/B6e2XacZSIs -Commentary: |- - Malcolm Brown: - Not much to say on this really except the title is kind of an ode to Soundgarden. Has Cover Art: false Referenced Tracks: - Black Rose / Green Sun - track:sburban-jungle +Commentary: |- + Malcolm Brown: + Not much to say on this really except the title is kind of an ode to Soundgarden. --- Track: Carefree Action Artist: Mark Hadley Duration: '2:08' -Art Tags: -- Dave -- Jade URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/carefree-action-2 - https://youtu.be/saFRtTDSVKQ +Cover Artists: +- 8bitkitten +Art Tags: +- Dave +- Jade Commentary: |- Mark Hadley: Back when we knew Jade as just GG, I wrote the first part of Carefree Action as a possible upbeat strife theme for her. It never ended up getting used, but other people liked it, and eventually a remix of it (Carefree Victory) made it into the comic. The original was pretty short, so I lengthened it so that I could eventually get it onto an album. Like Sburban Reversal, I recommended it as a bonus track. -Cover Artists: -- 8bitkitten -- 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/homestuck-vol-8.yaml | 130 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 89 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-) (limited to 'album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml') diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index ce3a488..b35ec13 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ Wallpaper Style: |- Group: Main album --- Track: Calamity -Artist: Michael Guy Bowman +Artists: +- Michael Guy Bowman Duration: '3:38' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/calamity-2 @@ -49,7 +50,8 @@ Commentary: |- The countdown sample is from a NASA recording, I believe it’s the launch of Apollo 11. --- Track: Do You Remem8er Me -Artist: Malcolm Brown +Artists: +- Malcolm Brown Duration: '4:28' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/do-you-remem8er-me-2 @@ -89,7 +91,8 @@ Commentary: |- I also fully suspect I missed some ‘8’s somewhere........ This stuff’s harder than it looks. God help me if I try to commentary another gorram Terezi track ::::p --- Track: Flare -Artist: Clark Powell +Artists: +- Clark Powell Duration: '3:03' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/flare-2 @@ -98,7 +101,8 @@ Cover Artists: - Richard Gung --- Track: Galactic Cancer -Artist: Thomas Ferkol +Artists: +- Thomas Ferkol Duration: '3:36' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/galactic-cancer-2 @@ -121,7 +125,8 @@ Commentary: |- --- Track: Serenade Directory: serenade-vol8 -Artist: Clark Powell +Artists: +- Clark Powell Duration: '5:05' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/serenade-2 @@ -133,7 +138,8 @@ Art Tags: - Karkat --- Track: Frog Forager -Artist: Erik Scheele +Artists: +- Erik Scheele Duration: '3:18' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/frog-forager-2 @@ -147,7 +153,8 @@ Art Tags: - Jack Noir --- Track: Love You (Feferi's Theme) -Artist: Toby Fox +Artists: +- Toby Fox Duration: '1:58' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/love-you-feferis-theme-2 @@ -158,7 +165,8 @@ Art Tags: - Feferi --- Track: Ocean Stars Falling -Artist: Michael Guy Bowman +Artists: +- Michael Guy Bowman Contributors: - Tavia Morra Duration: '3:12' @@ -179,7 +187,8 @@ Commentary: |- This is another example of a song that has the “just right” feeling about its length. I could probably have easily repeated the vocals endlessly as though I was attempting to induce transcendental meditation - it would probably have had the same effect as “Hey Jude” or any number of other great songs. Owing though to my sense that this album was going to be a long one (my contributions alone come out to more than 20 minutes of music) I decided to capitalize on having achieved the harmony and just let it end when its thought was fully expressed, not unlike the original composition by Mark. --- Track: Escape Pod -Artist: Michael Guy Bowman +Artists: +- Michael Guy Bowman Duration: '2:58' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/escape-pod-2 @@ -197,7 +206,8 @@ Commentary: |- What more can be said about it? This is about as totally poppy (or perhaps J-poppy) as I get. Compared to stuff like “Greenhouse” and “Squiddle Samba” this track is right up my alley. It in contrast with some of the other stuff that I’ve made appearing on the very same album (the minimalist piece “Gust of Heir” which I collaborated on with James Dever comes to mind) you’ll see that I can go just as far in the saccharine direction as I can into the abstract. For me range has always been an asset I’ve felt was important to nurture, so with Volume 8 I set the pace for my work ethic on Ithaca in terms of never settling to have “found my sound” no matter how well any one idea works. --- Track: Davesprite -Artist: Toby Fox +Artists: +- Toby Fox Duration: '1:41' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/davesprite-2 @@ -211,7 +221,8 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:atomyk-ebonpyre --- Track: Airtime -Artist: Robert J! Lake +Artists: +- Robert J! Lake Duration: '4:50' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/airtime-2 @@ -220,7 +231,8 @@ Cover Artists: - Tavia Morra --- Track: Frog Hunt -Artist: Michael Guy Bowman +Artists: +- Michael Guy Bowman Duration: '4:15' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/frog-hunt-2 @@ -239,7 +251,8 @@ Commentary: |- The point of this song was to kind of put the action, the drama, and all that teenage chemistry on hold so I could focus on a moment in the story that might be just a little bit more peaceful. Going on a safari for frogs on a newly-awakened alien forest world seems to beckon a very different angle than the heated stakes typically associated with Homestuck. Plus, I’ve always felt that the environment of Homestuck deserves a little more attention given that nearly 99% of all art generated by the fans are homages to their favorite characters and not the fantastic places imagined by Andrew. --- Track: Terraform -Artist: Solatrus +Artists: +- Solatrus Contributors: - Thomas Ferkol (electric guitar) Duration: '4:35' @@ -263,7 +276,8 @@ Commentary: |- And because the fight of Dave and Jade vs. Jack was an interesting event, so that’s how the song came to be. --- Track: Unite Synchronization -Artist: Malcolm Brown +Artists: +- Malcolm Brown Duration: '2:54' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/unite-synchronization-2 @@ -310,7 +324,8 @@ Commentary: |- I’d like to see Dave match that. :p --- Track: Homefree -Artist: Hilary Troiano +Artists: +- Hilary Troiano Duration: '4:28' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/homefree-2 @@ -329,7 +344,8 @@ Commentary: |- Someone sent me a PM asking for some commentary about my two MSPA songs, so [[media:misc/hilary-troiano-commentary.mp3|here it is]]. (source) --- Track: Galaxy Hearts -Artist: Mark Hadley +Artists: +- Mark Hadley Duration: '2:54' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/galaxy-hearts-2 @@ -343,7 +359,8 @@ Commentary: |- I made the theme for this a long time ago for an RPG a friend was making, but then cancelled. I still really liked the theme, so I modified it slightly and repurposed it for Homestuck. Out of everything I've done for Homestuck, it's still one of my favorites. --- Track: Scourge Sisters -Artist: Erik Scheele +Artists: +- Erik Scheele Duration: '2:50' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/scourge-sisters-2 @@ -355,7 +372,8 @@ Art Tags: - Vriska --- Track: Arcade Thunder -Artist: Robert J! Lake +Artists: +- Robert J! Lake Duration: '2:56' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/arcade-thunder-2 @@ -377,7 +395,8 @@ Art Tags: - Consorts --- Track: Pyrocumulus (Sicknasty) -Artist: Robert J! Lake +Artists: +- Robert J! Lake Duration: '2:50' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/pyrocumulus-sicknasty-2 @@ -391,7 +410,8 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:skies-of-skaia --- Track: Kingside Castle -Artist: Clark Powell +Artists: +- Clark Powell Duration: '2:44' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/kingside-castle-2 @@ -400,7 +420,8 @@ Cover Artists: - Nic Carey --- Track: Temporary -Artist: Robert J! Lake +Artists: +- Robert J! Lake Duration: '3:37' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/temporary-2 @@ -414,7 +435,9 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Temporal Piano --- Track: Gust of Heir -Artist: James Dever, Michael Guy Bowman +Artists: +- James Dever +- Michael Guy Bowman Contributors: - Clark Powell (additional sequencing) Duration: '4:17' @@ -433,7 +456,8 @@ Commentary: |- As I have on many occasions I took cues from Oblique Strategies to get some ideas for the arrangement. Part of the intrigue in producing this piece was that it was fully written, meaning that in some ways I was boxed-in to a complete journey for the song to take musically yet in others free to really explore and discover a unique sound for the song. I really played toggling a slew of effects until this tune became rendering hell for my computer. I stepped a bit outside my own range of comfort and got some drum loops from Clark Powell to really polish off the piece, adding a touch that otherwise would probably have eluded me. --- Track: Afraid of the Darko -Artist: Robert J! Lake +Artists: +- Robert J! Lake Duration: '3:00' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/afraid-of-the-darko-2 @@ -444,7 +468,9 @@ Art Tags: - Doc Scratch --- Track: Even in Death (T'Morra's Belly Mix) -Artist: Clark Powell, Tavia Morra +Artists: +- Clark Powell +- Tavia Morra Duration: '4:08' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/even-in-death-tmorras-belly-mix-2 @@ -455,7 +481,8 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Even in Death --- Track: Bargaining with the Beast -Artist: Thomas Ferkol +Artists: +- Thomas Ferkol Duration: '4:13' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/bargaining-with-the-beast-2 @@ -472,7 +499,8 @@ Commentary: |- This is also an example of a piece where I set out with a clear mindset for what I wanted. Seeing there was no piece based on Echidna and Jade’s encounters (Radiation didn’t show us his tracks until around when the order was being decided hehe), I wanted something majestic and regal, something befitting of a monstrous queen in ancient stone halls of a frozen world. Eventually it developed into a sort of audio tour of Echidna’s palace and highlighted the conversation, never fully revealed, that took place between Jade and Echidna as they struck a deal. --- Track: Frostbite -Artist: Toby Fox +Artists: +- Toby Fox Contributors: - Marcy Nabors (flute) Duration: '3:51' @@ -485,7 +513,8 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Gaia Queen --- Track: The Lost Child -Artist: Toby Fox +Artists: +- Toby Fox Duration: '2:54' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/the-lost-child-2 @@ -498,7 +527,8 @@ Referenced Tracks: - psych0ruins --- Track: Questant's Lament -Artist: Thomas Ferkol +Artists: +- Thomas Ferkol Duration: '3:13' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/questants-lament-2 @@ -514,7 +544,8 @@ Commentary: |- In the end, she closes the trinket, accepts her new fate, and returns to her fellow exiles. --- Track: Hussie Hunt -Artist: Malcolm Brown +Artists: +- Malcolm Brown Duration: '2:46' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/hussie-hunt-2 @@ -535,7 +566,8 @@ Commentary: |- Had quite a bit of fun doin' this one. Also quite proud of the name Even if I do have to occasionally explain it to people who don't read the comic... --- Track: Havoc -Artist: Svix +Artists: +- Svix Duration: '2:35' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/havoc-2 @@ -551,7 +583,8 @@ Commentary: |- The track itself has a lot of C64 elements in the percussion and synths that blend into more powerful sounds for a more Drum and Bass style which is something I quite like to do with my music. --- Track: Drift into the Sun -Artist: Thomas Ferkol +Artists: +- Thomas Ferkol Contributors: - Clark Powell (some production) - Toby Fox (climax drum programming) @@ -574,7 +607,8 @@ Commentary: |- And that was how Virginia was founded! --- Track: Infinity Mechanism -Artist: Thomas Ferkol +Artists: +- Thomas Ferkol Duration: '3:20' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/infinity-mechanism-2 @@ -587,7 +621,9 @@ Commentary: |- Its mechanical sound and return to the beginning at its end reminded me of Beat Mesa, and it kind of became my own sort of theme music for The Scratch. Also it is now the first track written by me to be used in an animation and it is amazing. --- Track: Revered Return -Artist: Nick Smalley, Michael Guy Bowman +Artists: +- Nick Smalley +- Michael Guy Bowman Duration: '2:33' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/revered-return-2 @@ -609,7 +645,8 @@ Commentary: |- Remember that thing about ORGMaker? Yeah, this song, too. Except add me asking Andrew Huo to help finish it and Bowman to ramp it up, and you’ve got Revered Return. :3 --- Track: Judgment Day -Artist: Toby Fox +Artists: +- Toby Fox Contributors: - Kelly Sadwin (violin) Duration: '2:00' @@ -624,7 +661,8 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:ruins --- Track: Lotus (Bloom) -Artist: Seth Peelle +Artists: +- Seth Peelle Duration: '4:05' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/lotus-bloom-2 @@ -635,7 +673,11 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Lotus --- Track: Cascade -Artist: Toby Fox, Tensei, Clark Powell, Malcolm Brown +Artists: +- Toby Fox +- Tensei +- Clark Powell +- Malcolm Brown Contributors: - Toby Fox (editing) Duration: '13:14' @@ -650,7 +692,8 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Black Hole / Green Sun --- Track: I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew (Acapella) -Artist: David Ko +Artists: +- David Ko Duration: '2:50' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew-acapella-2 @@ -673,7 +716,8 @@ Lyrics: |- Group: Bonus tracks --- Track: How Do I Live (D8 Night Version) -Artist: Michael Guy Bowman +Artists: +- Michael Guy Bowman Contributors: - Thomas Ferkol (electric guitar) - David Ko (backup vocals) @@ -700,7 +744,8 @@ Commentary: |- I added a new bridge section in so that Thomas Ferkol could have a chance to play some real guitar in this one, and of course he showed his colors as a metal guitarist, sending me a duet between harmonized voices. David Ko also appears on this track as the gently-spoken backup vocalist. --- Track: Cascade (Beta) -Artist: Tensei +Artists: +- Tensei Duration: '4:06' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/cascade-beta-2 @@ -713,7 +758,9 @@ Art Tags: - Vriska --- Track: Black Hole / Green Sun -Artist: Malcolm Brown, Toby Fox +Artists: +- Malcolm Brown +- Toby Fox Contributors: - Tensei (electric guitar) - Kelly Sadwin (violin) @@ -730,7 +777,8 @@ Commentary: |- Not much to say on this really except the title is kind of an ode to Soundgarden. --- Track: Carefree Action -Artist: Mark Hadley +Artists: +- Mark Hadley Duration: '2:08' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/carefree-action-2 -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5 From b33dab7b313b809a620d1bc560d69c311015d71e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "(quasar) nebula" Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 08:28:15 -0400 Subject: bring over Niklink's data fixes! --- album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml') diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index b35ec13..a03b87a 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ Track: Judgment Day Artists: - Toby Fox Contributors: -- Kelly Sadwin (violin) +- Noel Sadwin (violin) Duration: '2:00' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/judgment-day-2 @@ -763,7 +763,7 @@ Artists: - Toby Fox Contributors: - Tensei (electric guitar) -- Kelly Sadwin (violin) +- Noel Sadwin (violin) Duration: '2:30' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/black-hole-green-sun-2 -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5 From 3365f9f89c09c2f5ea7fa647d7054a60d933cdc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "(quasar) nebula" Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2022 17:24:30 -0300 Subject: WIP - setting tags --- album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) (limited to 'album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml') diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index a03b87a..8c0ac32 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ Cover Artists: Color: '#4ac925' Groups: - Official +Art Tags: +- LoWaS +- LoLaR +- LoHaC +- LoFaF +- Battlefield Banner Artists: - Homestuck Banner Dimensions: 1100x203 @@ -61,6 +67,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - John - Vriska +- Dream Bubbles Referenced Tracks: - Lifdoff - track:showtime-original-mix @@ -99,6 +106,8 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/ktuDYYtbs2s Cover Artists: - Richard Gung +Art Tags: +- Green Sun --- Track: Galactic Cancer Artists: @@ -116,6 +125,7 @@ Art Tags: - Dave - Jade - Genesis Frog +- 'cw: blood (abstract)' - 'cw: body horror (abstract)' Commentary: |- Thomas Ferkol: @@ -136,6 +146,8 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Nepeta - Karkat +- Meteor +- 'cw: blood' --- Track: Frog Forager Artists: @@ -151,6 +163,7 @@ Art Tags: - Jade - Frogs - Jack Noir +- LoFaF --- Track: Love You (Feferi's Theme) Artists: @@ -198,6 +211,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - WV - CD +- Rabbit Commentary: |- Michael Guy Bowman: Before going into a description of this track, I must make a long-overdue rebuttal to the factors that overshadowed its reception. Yes, I know this song and its track art pertain to the Wayward Vagabond. Yes, I know it’s sad that Andrew “killed off” the Wayward Vagabond on the same day that this album was released. No, I had no idea that would happen nor do I care how incongruous the song’s mood seems in relation to that particular plot point. @@ -243,6 +257,7 @@ Art Tags: - Dave - Jade - Frogs +- LoFaF Commentary: |- Michael Guy Bowman: Uh oh, Jit and I showed up to the album with the same song idea. That’s like two girls showing up the party in the same dress. Awkward! Good thing for Jit and I that, like the two girls in that famous scenario, we each have our own swagga and wear those dresses like the hot young messes we are. Wow, don’t quote me on that. (Too late - DPF) @@ -266,6 +281,7 @@ Art Tags: - Dave - Jack Noir - Frogs +- LoFaF Referenced Tracks: - Terra - track:frost-vol6 @@ -334,6 +350,7 @@ Cover Artists: - Vivian Ng Art Tags: - John +- Skaia Referenced Tracks: - Shooting Star - Homestuck Anthem @@ -405,6 +422,7 @@ Cover Artists: - Rutares Art Tags: - John +- Battlefield Referenced Tracks: - Skaian Skuffle - track:skies-of-skaia @@ -418,6 +436,8 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/qYKxzWbrZ0c Cover Artists: - Nic Carey +Art Tags: +- Battlefield --- Track: Temporary Artists: @@ -431,6 +451,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Dave - The Felt +- Earth Referenced Tracks: - Temporal Piano --- @@ -492,6 +513,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Jade - Denizens +- LoFaF Commentary: |- Thomas Ferkol: Bargaining With the Beast was a doozy. With little conscious attempts at maintaining structure (other than the section after the intro, which appears a few times to hold things together), it can come off as a wild ride through a bunch of interesting ideas just sort of strung together like a glass mobile made with craft glue and shiny twine. And that is a pretty accurate description. @@ -509,6 +531,8 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/Gdb_nZs6plw Cover Artists: - Nic Carey +Art Tags: +- LoFaF Referenced Tracks: - Gaia Queen --- @@ -537,6 +561,7 @@ Cover Artists: - Fibug Art Tags: - WQ +- Ruined Earth Commentary: |- Thomas Ferkol: Questant’s Lament is one of my favorite tracks that I’ve made. Originally for The Wanderers, because there weren’t any WQ tracks and I liked her portrayal in the comic, I wanted something regal, almost stoic, but also forlorn. @@ -597,6 +622,8 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Rose - Dave +- Derse +- Horrorterrors Referenced Tracks: - track:atomyk-ebonpyre Commentary: |- @@ -615,6 +642,8 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/I3S8LNG4aNo Cover Artists: - VickyBit +Art Tags: +- LoHaC Commentary: |- Thomas Ferkol: Then we’ve got Infinity Mechanism. I am not sure what to say about it. I played live guitar and cello on it. It was one of the first full guitar based things I wrote for MSPA and the first that I used my computer to record rather than a Tascam mixing board + studio that I had used on my very old works. -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5 From 326545886642a5f7524951689bebeb1dadc99865 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "(quasar) nebula" Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2022 22:50:47 -0300 Subject: all official tags, fandom through lofam 2 --- album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml') diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index 8c0ac32..80c7459 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -698,6 +698,8 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/RrIofwv86HM Cover Artists: - myluckyseven +Art Tags: +- Lotus Referenced Tracks: - Lotus --- @@ -758,6 +760,7 @@ Cover Artists: - Victoria Grace Elliott Art Tags: - John +- LoWaS Referenced Tracks: - How Do I Live Lyrics: |- @@ -785,6 +788,7 @@ Art Tags: - John - Dave - Vriska +- Battlefield --- Track: Black Hole / Green Sun Artists: @@ -817,6 +821,8 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Dave - Jade +- Frogs +- LoFaF Commentary: |- Mark Hadley: Back when we knew Jade as just GG, I wrote the first part of Carefree Action as a possible upbeat strife theme for her. It never ended up getting used, but other people liked it, and eventually a remix of it (Carefree Victory) made it into the comic. The original was pretty short, so I lengthened it so that I could eventually get it onto an album. Like Sburban Reversal, I recommended it as a bonus track. -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5 From 0f01ac26f90dce5e5467dbb9972341cf8b2dd995 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Niklink Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 13:32:38 -0400 Subject: closing various data issues fixes #48, #49, #52, #56, #57, #58, #59, #60 + robert jailbreak lyrics --- album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml') diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index 80c7459..f6c0074 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -243,6 +243,10 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/HXPviQw2n7Q Cover Artists: - Tavia Morra +Referenced Tracks: +- Amen, Brother +Sampled Tracks: +- Amen, Brother --- Track: Frog Hunt Artists: -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5 From 559f2daee0970039c57588b5bd395667f14a6b90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Niklink Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 14:36:56 -0400 Subject: Add art tags to comic screencaps, remove MC tag misc fixes 7th gate, canwc vol1, strife, team paradox, hs vol2, hvs vol1 --- album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml') diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index f6c0074..80aa32a 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -736,7 +736,10 @@ URLs: Cover Artists: - Vivian Ng Art Tags: -- Midnight Crew +- Jack Noir +- DD +- CD +- HB Referenced Tracks: - I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew Lyrics: |- -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5 From 51ca1f7087715941affe27c46835a74b57efce30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "(quasar) nebula" Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 18:48:25 -0300 Subject: basic official Additional Files (no descriptions) --- album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml') diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index 80aa32a..644a13e 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ Wallpaper Style: |- opacity: 0.6; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; +Additional Files: +- Title: Album Credits + Files: + - Credits.txt --- Group: Main album --- -- 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/homestuck-vol-8.yaml | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml') diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index 644a13e..fc2a218 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Art Tags: Banner Artists: - Homestuck Banner Dimensions: 1100x203 +Banner File Extension: png Wallpaper Artists: - Homestuck Wallpaper Style: |- -- 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/homestuck-vol-8.yaml | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml') diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index fc2a218..fe7e154 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ Additional Files: - Title: Album Credits Files: - Credits.txt +- Title: Bandcamp Banner and Background + Files: + - banner.jpg + - bg.gif --- Group: Main album --- -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5 From 70c12123934f43a0d5424d4ab54be4f3c5329d9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Niklink <25875275+Niklink@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 23:53:53 -0400 Subject: add skaia's the limit --- album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml') diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index fe7e154..130df44 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -750,7 +750,7 @@ Art Tags: - CD - HB Referenced Tracks: -- I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew +- track:im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew Lyrics: |- I hate a moral coward, one who lacks a manly spark
I just detest a man afraid to go home in the dark
I always spend my evenings where there's women wine and song
But like a man, I always bring my little wife along! I'm a member of the Midnight Crew
I'm a night owl, and a wise bird too
Home with the milk in the morning
Singing the same old song!
Rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun
Early to bed, and you'll miss all the fun
Bring your wife and trouble, it will never trouble you
Make her a member of the Midnight Crew! -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5 From 936a631f64320b0ff0c3c5c0d6f880669c8ac604 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Niklink <25875275+Niklink@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 01:57:36 -0400 Subject: youtube url fixes also added some locally hosted tracks --- album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml') diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index 130df44..c32527d 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/homefree-2 - https://youtu.be/7aYso7j8wsw Cover Artists: -- Vivian Ng +- Killian Ng Art Tags: - John - Skaia @@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/bargaining-with-the-beast-2 - https://youtu.be/2HT5FcjHt1s Cover Artists: -- Vivian Ng +- Killian Ng Art Tags: - Jade - Denizens @@ -743,7 +743,7 @@ URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew-acapella-2 - https://youtu.be/Br294PLbHBA Cover Artists: -- Vivian Ng +- Killian Ng Art Tags: - Jack Noir - DD -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5 From b91f3572732aba6279292f3f435f0cdeb5a43888 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Niklink <25875275+Niklink@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2022 01:03:24 -0400 Subject: restore soluslunes to vol 5 and move null to vol 8 fixes #4 --- album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) (limited to 'album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml') diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index c32527d..b1602f3 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -842,3 +842,20 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- Mark Hadley: Back when we knew Jade as just GG, I wrote the first part of Carefree Action as a possible upbeat strife theme for her. It never ended up getting used, but other people liked it, and eventually a remix of it (Carefree Victory) made it into the comic. The original was pretty short, so I lengthened it so that I could eventually get it onto an album. Like Sburban Reversal, I recommended it as a bonus track. +--- +Track: 'null' +Directory: null-vol8 +Artists: +- Toby Fox +Duration: 0:09 +URLs: +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szyzOrxvv10 +Cover Artists: +- Unknown Artist +Cover Art File Extension: png +Referenced Tracks: +- Penumbra Phantasm +Commentary: |- + Niklink: + ([[media:misc/null-reversed-amplified.mp3|Reversed and amplified.]]) + This track was only included with the album for a brief period of time before being removed without any acknowledgement. In all likelihood, this was just Toby Fox trying to tease people. -- 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/homestuck-vol-8.yaml | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml') diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index b1602f3..3a67be3 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -771,7 +771,7 @@ Contributors: Duration: '3:23' URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/how-do-i-live-d8-night-version-2 -- https://youtu.be/Svy9DBBZKpk +- https://youtu.be/tJWO4WaQh_Y Cover Artists: - Victoria Grace Elliott Art Tags: -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5 From 6ffede4a469d81081cf0ddc79552deef5f8793e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "(quasar) nebula" Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 21:43:25 -0400 Subject: accessibility pass across tag colors --- album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml') diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index b1602f3..cc16e3b 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Cover Artists: - Homestuck Color: '#4ac925' Groups: -- Official +- group:official Art Tags: - LoWaS - LoLaR -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5