From 5121d7cc7b9650a09d8f1a381b0a7b175ce2f5d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "(quasar) nebula" Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 17:44:48 -0400 Subject: tidy commentary for lofam4 disc 3 --- album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3.yaml | 2 + album/greatest-hits-2.yaml | 4 +- album/lofam.yaml | 2 +- album/lofam4.yaml | 542 +++++++++++++++++---------------- album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml | 1 + 5 files changed, 289 insertions(+), 262 deletions(-) (limited to 'album') diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3.yaml index 54aaecc2..de044ec9 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3.yaml @@ -1093,6 +1093,8 @@ Referenced Tracks: URLs: - https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/track/revisit-rewind - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVdkqgf9D90 +Lyrics: |- + It's between my buttocks Commentary: |- ostrichlittledungeon: (Composer) I was going to make it better but my computer's shit and logic broke, so I lost half the project file. [[artist:makin|Makin]] wanted me to remake it but I'm lazy. Sorry about the lack of panning and the bad drums. diff --git a/album/greatest-hits-2.yaml b/album/greatest-hits-2.yaml index 364ddff4..77989c93 100644 --- a/album/greatest-hits-2.yaml +++ b/album/greatest-hits-2.yaml @@ -113,11 +113,13 @@ Art Tags: - Dirk - HB - DD +- Ace Dick +- Pickle Inspector - Carapacians - Earth - Derse -- 'cw: decapitation (abstract)' - 'cw: blood' +- 'cw: decapitation' URLs: - https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/track/thyme-on-my-fries-2 --- diff --git a/album/lofam.yaml b/album/lofam.yaml index e871e7bc..39ebfdfe 100644 --- a/album/lofam.yaml +++ b/album/lofam.yaml @@ -858,7 +858,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- Toby Fox: (booklet commentary) - I saw the updates for Rose blowing stuff up and finding that giant Captchalogue card with the Green Sun on it, and then someone said "is that a strife specibus card? What would that be? Starkind?" or something to that effect. And that inpsired me to make a pretty awesome boss song that was too much like other things I've made to put on an album. + I saw the updates for Rose blowing stuff up and finding that giant Captchalogue card with the Green Sun on it, and then someone said "is that a strife specibus card? What would that be? Starkind?" or something to that effect. And that inpsired me to make a pretty awesome boss song that was too much like other things I've made to put on an album. Brad Griffin: (booklet commentary) diff --git a/album/lofam4.yaml b/album/lofam4.yaml index d444db01..476fdf22 100644 --- a/album/lofam4.yaml +++ b/album/lofam4.yaml @@ -92,141 +92,141 @@ Commentary: |- Contributing Musicians - [[artist:ostrichlittledungeon|Aris "ostrichlittledungeon" Martinian]]
- [[artist:riki-tsuji|Riki Tsuji]]
- [[artist:cement-city|Cement City]]
- [[artist:cerulean|Cerulean]]
- [[artist:circlejourney|Circlejourney]]
- [[artist:cookiefonster|cookiefonster]]
- [[artist:discfortune|Cryptanark]]
+ [[artist:catboss]]
+ [[artist:cement-city]]
+ [[artist:cerulean]]
+ [[artist:circlejourney]]
+ [[artist:cookiefonster]]
[[artist:david-dycus|David "Dirtiest" Dycus]]
[[artist:david-ellis|David Ellis (A Lunatic's Daydream)]]
- [[artist:difarem|Difarem]]
- [[artist:ehlsea|ehlsea]]
+ [[artist:difarem]]
+ [[artist:discfortune]]
+ [[artist:ehlsea]]
[[artist:elaine-wang|Elaine "OJ" Wang]]
- [[artist:electric-lantern|electric lantern]]
- [[artist:emelia-k|Emelia K.]]
+ [[artist:electric-lantern]]
+ [[artist:emelia-k]]
[[artist:alex-votl|Facetious]] [[artist:facetious-alex-votl-and-friends|& Friends]]
- [[artist:mathias-ramalho|FriendlyCoy]]
- [[artist:hadron|Hadron Kalido]]
- [[artist:helena-ruth|Helena Ruth]]
- [[artist:jamie-paige|Jamie Paige]]
+ [[artist:grace-medley]]
+ [[artist:hadron]]
+ [[artist:helena-ruth]]
+ [[artist:interrobang]]
+ [[artist:jamie-paige]]
[[artist:joe-ouellet|Joe “DoubleJoeSeven” Ouellet]]
- [[artist:kal-la-kal-la|Kal-la-kal-la]]
+ [[artist:kal-la-kal-la]]
+ [[artist:kanishka]]
[[artist:kevin-grant|Kevin “UWBW” Grant]]
- [[artist:kouta|Kouta]]
+ [[artist:keyboard-cait]]
+ [[artist:kouta]]
[[artist:kris-flacke|Kris “Astartus” Flacke]]
- [[artist:kurtis-burton|Kurtis Burton]]
- [[artist:lambda-elise-merryberry|Lambda Elise Merryberry]]
- [[artist:lark-mordancy|Lark Mordancy]]
- [[artist:lydianchord|LydianChord]]
- [[artist:kanishka|M3l0m4ni4c]]
- [[artist:marcy-nabors|Marcy Nabors]]
- [[artist:interrobang|Michael “Interrobang” Martinez]]
- [[artist:mmetafour|Mmetafour]]
- [[artist:natrox|Natrox]]
- [[artist:keyboard-cait|ndividedbyzero]]
- [[artist:ngame|Ngame]]
+ [[artist:kurtis-burton]]
+ [[artist:kusoro]]
+ [[artist:lambda-elise-merryberry]]
+ [[artist:lark-mordancy]]
+ [[artist:lydianchord]]
+ [[artist:marcy-nabors]]
+ [[artist:mathias-ramalho]]
+ [[artist:mmetafour]]
+ [[artist:musical-panini]]
+ [[artist:natrox]]
+ [[artist:ngame]]
[[artist:nicholas-nakano|Nicholas “Viridian” Nakano]]
- [[artist:nights|nights]]
- [[artist:noisemaker|Noisemaker]]
+ [[artist:nights]]
+ [[artist:noisemaker]]
[[artist:olegoleg123|olegoleg123 / Prince of Light]]
- [[artist:polysaw|polysaw]]
- [[artist:grace-medley|power464646]]
- [[artist:psithurist|psithurist]]
- [[artist:rhyselinn|Rhyselinn]]
- [[artist:rilez|rilez]]
+ [[artist:ostrichlittledungeon]]
+ [[artist:polysaw]]
+ [[artist:psithurist]]
+ [[artist:rhyselinn]]
+ [[artist:riki-tsuji]]
+ [[artist:rilez]]
[[artist:sean-gorter|Sean “Flare” Gorter]]
- [[artist:seijen|Seijen]]
- [[artist:serialsymphony|SerialSymphony]]
+ [[artist:seijen]]
+ [[artist:serialsymphony]]
[[artist:seth-massey|Seth Massey (Slogbait)]]
- [[artist:shandy|Shandy]]
- [[artist:splitsuns|SplitSuns]]
+ [[artist:shandy]]
+ [[artist:splitsuns]]
[[artist:tamara-fritz|Tamara Fritz (totalspiffage)]]
- [[artist:the-great-anansi|The Great Anansi]]
- [[artist:theh0nestman|theh0nestman]]
- [[artist:thomas-ferkol|Thomas Ferkol]]
- [[artist:tirantbacon|TirantBacon]]
- [[artist:musical-panini|Tri-gender Panini]]
- [[artist:veritas-unae|Veritas Unae]]
- [[artist:viko-rifeo|ViKomprenas]]
- [[artist:whatislostinthemines|WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES]]
- [[artist:whimsy|Whimsy]]
- [[artist:willow-ascenzo|Willow Ascenzo]]
- [[artist:kusoro|Xoro Laventer]]
- [[artist:catboss|Yishan “Catboss.” Mai]] + [[artist:the-great-anansi]]
+ [[artist:theh0nestman]]
+ [[artist:thomas-ferkol]]
+ [[artist:tirantbacon]]
+ [[artist:veritas-unae]]
+ [[artist:viko-rifeo]]
+ [[artist:whatislostinthemines]]
+ [[artist:whimsy]]
+ [[artist:willow-ascenzo]] Contributing Artists - [[artist:0ystezy|0ysTezy]]
- [[artist:adamantist|Adamantist]]
- [[artist:aeritus|Aeritus]]
- [[artist:amethyst-barron|Amethyst (Crowbawt)]]
- [[artist:andiavang|Andiavang]]
- [[artist:as|AS]]
- [[artist:benedict-ide|Benedict Ide]]
- [[artist:beta|Beta (Mandy A.)]]
- [[artist:brawlitup99|Brawlitup99]]
- [[artist:calicorn|Calicorn]]
- [[artist:chalaite|Chalaite]]
- [[artist:chumi|Chumi]]
- [[artist:circlejourney|Circlejourney]]
- [[artist:cobaltmoth|cobaltmoth]]
- [[artist:yoitscro|Culljoy]]
- [[artist:cyber|CybeR]]
- [[artist:daniel-mcdonald|Daniel McDonald]]
- [[artist:squid|dazed-squid]]
- [[artist:elanor-pam|Elanor Pam]]
- [[artist:dodostad|Ella (dodostad)]]
- [[artist:ellenzarael|EllenZarael]]
- [[artist:emily-jane|Emily Jane]]
- [[artist:fitzwibble|Fitzwibble]]
- [[artist:fuchsi|fuchsi]]
- [[artist:griever|Griever]]
- [[artist:hadron|Hadron Kalido]]
- [[artist:insecureillustrator|insecureIllustrator]]
- [[artist:jas|Jas]]
- [[artist:kobacat|Jaspy]]
- [[artist:jenny|Jenny]]
- [[artist:josefin-b|Josefin B.]]
- [[artist:kate-griffith|Kate Griffith]]
- [[artist:lukanya|Lukanya]]
- [[artist:mags|Mags]]
- [[artist:matrosha|Matrosha]]
- [[artist:meigender|meigender]]
- [[artist:melissa-peebles|Melissa Peebles]]
- [[artist:neiratina|Neiratina]]
- [[artist:ngame|Ngame]]
- [[artist:nick-tucker|Nick Tucker]]
- [[artist:nights|nights]]
- [[artist:tempest2k|“Nuclear” Roxanne]]
- [[artist:phil-gibson|P. Gibson]]
- [[artist:patmandx|PatManDX]]
- [[artist:piskomil|piskomil]]
- [[artist:plaidcushion|plaidcushion]]
- [[artist:quietserval|Quietserval]]
- [[artist:rachotamer|RaChoTamer]]
- [[artist:rawlithmora|rawlithmora]]
- [[artist:rebecca-peason|Rebecca Peason]]
- [[artist:buck|Remi]]
- [[artist:arosoup|Robin (Arosoup)]]
- [[artist:sailorleo|sailorleo]]
- [[artist:sam-garcia|Sam Garcia]]
- [[artist:scarodactyl|Scarodactyl (Stephen Challener)]]
- [[artist:selan-pike|Selan Pike]]
- [[artist:shadok|Shadok123]]
- [[artist:shandy|Shandy]]
- [[artist:shu|Shu]]
- [[artist:smashcooper|SmashCooper]]
- [[artist:sonotcanon|sonotcanon]]
- [[artist:sozzay|Sozzay]]
- [[artist:splitsuns|SplitSuns]]
- [[artist:sweetjegus|sweetjegus]]
- [[artist:trufflemeep|Trufflemeep]]
- [[artist:tti|tti]]
- [[artist:ephemerald|TwinBuilder]]
- [[artist:william-leonard|William Leonard]]
- [[artist:yazshu|yazshu]] + [[artist:0ystezy]]
+ [[artist:adamantist]]
+ [[artist:aeritus]]
+ [[artist:amethyst-barron]]
+ [[artist:andiavang]]
+ [[artist:arosoup]]
+ [[artist:as]]
+ [[artist:benedict-ide]]
+ [[artist:beta]]
+ [[artist:brawlitup99]]
+ [[artist:buck]]
+ [[artist:calicorn]]
+ [[artist:chalaite]]
+ [[artist:chumi]]
+ [[artist:circlejourney]]
+ [[artist:cobaltmoth]]
+ [[artist:cyber]]
+ [[artist:daniel-mcdonald]]
+ [[artist:dodostad]]
+ [[artist:elanor-pam]]
+ [[artist:ellenzarael]]
+ [[artist:emily-jane]]
+ [[artist:ephemerald]]
+ [[artist:fitzwibble]]
+ [[artist:fuchsi]]
+ [[artist:griever]]
+ [[artist:hadron]]
+ [[artist:insecureillustrator]]
+ [[artist:jas]]
+ [[artist:jenny]]
+ [[artist:josefin-b]]
+ [[artist:kate-griffith]]
+ [[artist:kobacat]]
+ [[artist:lukanya]]
+ [[artist:mags]]
+ [[artist:matrosha]]
+ [[artist:meigender]]
+ [[artist:melissa-peebles]]
+ [[artist:neiratina]]
+ [[artist:ngame]]
+ [[artist:nick-tucker]]
+ [[artist:nights]]
+ [[artist:patmandx]]
+ [[artist:phil-gibson]]
+ [[artist:piskomil]]
+ [[artist:plaidcushion]]
+ [[artist:quietserval]]
+ [[artist:rachotamer]]
+ [[artist:rawlithmora]]
+ [[artist:rebecca-peason]]
+ [[artist:sailorleo]]
+ [[artist:sam-garcia]]
+ [[artist:scarodactyl]]
+ [[artist:selan-pike]]
+ [[artist:shadok]]
+ [[artist:shandy]]
+ [[artist:shu]]
+ [[artist:smashcooper]]
+ [[artist:sonotcanon]]
+ [[artist:sozzay]]
+ [[artist:splitsuns]]
+ [[artist:squid]]
+ [[artist:sweetjegus]]
+ [[artist:tempest2k]]
+ [[artist:trufflemeep]]
+ [[artist:tti]]
+ [[artist:william-leonard]]
+ [[artist:yazshu]]
+ [[artist:yoitscro]] Banner Artists: - Sozzay Banner Dimensions: 1100x203 @@ -1097,7 +1097,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- Seijen: (composer, booklet commentary) - "how do I make a future bass song withuot sounding generic or like a total douche?" you don't, youre a douche. Accept it and move on with life. The only saving grace this track has is the tempo. Most future bass is 130 or 144. Nah fam, we're going 150 on this since 150 and 175 are all I know. This track was exclusively made with harmor and maybe 1 serum. Fuck the system, and fuck my CPU since like [[track:exsanguinated|exsanguinated]], FL crashes 3/4 of the times I try to open the tracks. RIP the dream. + "how do I make a future bass song without sounding generic or like a total douche?" you don't, youre a douche. Accept it and move on with life. The only saving grace this track has is the tempo. Most future bass is 130 or 144. Nah fam, we're going 150 on this since 150 and 175 are all I know. This track was exclusively made with harmor and maybe 1 serum. Fuck the system, and fuck my CPU since like [[track:exsanguinated|exsanguinated]], FL crashes 3/4 of the times I try to open the tracks. RIP the dream. Trufflemeep: (track artist, booklet commentary) @@ -1270,7 +1270,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - English - Showtime (Piano Refrain) - Eternity Served Cold -- track:carne-vale +- Carne Vale - Warhammer of Zillyhoo - track:null-vol8 - Hello Zepp @@ -2025,7 +2025,7 @@ Commentary: |- Unofficial MSPA Fans: (booklet commentary) - References: + References - [[album:homestuck-vol-1|Homestuck Vol. 1]] - [[Showtime (Piano Refrain)]] - [[artist:kevin-regamey]] (00:00–00:37) - [[album:homestuck-vol-2|Homestuck Vol. 2]] - [[Verdancy (Bassline)]] - [[artist:kalibration]] (00:53–01:01) @@ -2511,7 +2511,7 @@ Commentary: |- Unofficial MSPA Fans: (booklet commentary) - References: + References - [[The Beginning of Something Really Excellent]] - [[artist:robert-j-lake]] (0:00–0:42, 4:00–4:20, 4:32–4:42) - [[Sburban Jungle]] - [[artist:michael-guy-bowman]] (0:43–1:34, 4:21–4:54) @@ -2607,11 +2607,15 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- Lambda Elise Merryberry: (composer, booklet commentary) - Finding a suitable song for a disc jingle from LoFaM3 was... sort of a struggle, really. I didn't want to do something based too heavily on another song (e.g. [[Emissary of Dance]], [[track:garden-of-eden-part-1|Garden of Eden]], [[I'm Not a Hero]], or [[Thermporia]]) and I really didn't want to do something memey/jokey (i.e. [[Theme of the Slam Jam]], [[JOHN DO THE WINDY THING]], or [[track:sord]]). + Finding a suitable song for a disc jingle from [[album:lofam3|LoFaM3]] was... sort of a struggle, really. I didn't want to do something based too heavily on another song (e.g. [[Emissary of Dance]], [[track:garden-of-eden-part-1|Garden of Eden]], [[I'm Not a Hero]], or [[Thermporia]]) and I really didn't want to do something memey/jokey (i.e. [[Theme of the Slam Jam]], [[JOHN DO THE WINDY THING]], or [[track:sord|Sord]]). This... narrowed the pool of available songs from LoFaM3 significantly. - We ended up going with Starblaze because it does have original portions and I'm fairly sure was one of those "universal yes" songs among the judges. My second choice would've been [[Fortune Healer]], probably. + We ended up going with [[Starblaze]] because it *does* have original portions and I'm fairly sure was one of those "universal yes" songs among the judges. My second choice would've been [[Fortune Healer]], probably. + + keyboard cait: (album team, booklet commentary) + + For the final disc of what could be the final LOFAM... we see that the sky's the limit for this community, its massive catalog of music getting only larger for the comic that's stuck with all of us. We still have a ways more to go, folks. --- Track: Pseudumbra Phauxtasm Artists: @@ -2637,21 +2641,21 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- Marcy Nabors: (composer, booklet commentary) - Back in 2016 I got together with RJ Lake and James Roach to compile Homestuck Vol. 10. Everyone was pretty hyped, and there were threads in various places full of people feverishly speculating about what the tracklist would be. Much of this speculation focused on whether Toby Fox's elusive song Penumbra Phantasm would finally see release, founded on the rumor that he had agreed to finish it for the album. + Back in 2016 I got together with [[artist:robert-j-lake|RJ Lake]] and [[artist:james-roach|James Roach]] to compile [[album:homestuck-vol-10|Homestuck Vol. 10]]. Everyone was pretty hyped, and there were threads in various places full of people feverishly speculating about what the tracklist would be. Much of this speculation focused on whether [[artist:toby-fox|Toby Fox's]] elusive song [[track:penumbra-phantasm|Penumbra Phantasm]] would finally see release, founded on the rumor that he had agreed to finish it for the album. - Around this time, a couple of us on the Vol. 10 project decided to have some fun with the speculation and put together a fake version of the album to "leak" to the fans, so we gathered a few WIPs that'd been cut from Vol. 10 and arranged them at the beginning of the album for an illusion of Authenticity™. Jamie Paige put together a bunch of awful low-effect vaporwave remixes of Homestuck songs, which we gave names to match what the fans were hoping for. Finally, as the keystone piece to tie it all together, we referenced an old Toby Fox piano recording and created a short (but hopefully convincing) song that we titled "Penumbra Phantasm". Christened by Toby's seal of approval and an unholy melding with a vaporwave Sunslammer monstrosity, this one-minute-and-fifty-second piece quickly became a fan favorite once the [sock?] ruse was revealed, and we promised that this "Pseudumbra Phauxtasm" would see an extended release on LoFaM 4. + Around this time, a couple of us on the Vol. 10 project decided to have some fun with the speculation and put together a fake version of the album to "leak" to the fans, so we gathered a few WIPs that'd been cut from Vol. 10 and arranged them at the beginning of the album for an illusion of Authenticity™. Jamie Paige put together a bunch of awful low-effect vaporwave remixes of Homestuck songs, which we gave names to match what the fans were hoping for. Finally, as the keystone piece to tie it all together, we referenced an old Toby Fox piano recording and created a short (but hopefully convincing) song that we titled "Penumbra Phantasm". Christened by Toby's seal of approval and an unholy melding with a vaporwave [[Sunslammer]] monstrosity, this one-minute-and-fifty-second piece quickly became a fan favorite once the [sock?] ruse was revealed, and we [promised](https://shadolith.tumblr.com/post/146397577605/is-it-true-that-you-made-the-fake-penumbra) that this "Pseudumbra Phauxtasm" would see an extended release on LoFaM 4. - A year later we've completed this track, and now the latter third of the song is just a power metal cover of the Breath of the Wild theme, but that's a story for another day. Ask me sometime + A year later we've completed this track, and now the latter third of the song is just a power metal cover of [[track:main-theme-the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild|the Breath of the Wild theme]], but that's a story for another day. Ask me sometime - Jamie Paige: (composer, booklet commentary) + Jamie Paige|[[artist:jamie-paige|Jamie Paige]]: (composer, booklet commentary) 🅱️ Circlejourney: (track artist, booklet commentary) - This is a highly stylised representation of Act 7, with Alt!Calliope creating the black hole that consumes the entire universe, and Joh nreaching for the knob of the door into the new universe. They circle around Skaia, neither pulled into ti nor escaping it, but trapped in the loop of its inscrutable machinations. This scene is set against an image of Paradox Space cracking at the edges, which also resembles a cracked disc: the final disc of Homestuck, shattering at the edges, foretelling of the destruction of the story itself. + This is a highly stylised representation of [[flash:8127|Act 7]], with Alt!Calliope creating the black hole that consumes the entire universe, and John reaching for the knob of the door into the new universe. They circle around Skaia, neither pulled into it nor escaping it, but trapped in the loop of its inscrutable machinations. This scene is set against an image of Paradox Space cracking at the edges, which also resembles a cracked disc: the final disc of Homestuck, shattering at the edges, foretelling of the destruction of the story itself. - While this image wasn't originally made for Pseudumbria Phauxtasm, I think it is a fitting illustration to accompany it: this track is an expansive and beautifully-made arrangement of the elusive Penumbra Phantasm, a track that has been kept under wraps for almost as long as the end of Homestuck itself. + While this image wasn't originally made for Pseudumbra Phauxtasm, I think it is a fitting illustration to accompany it: this track is an expansive and beautifully-made arrangement of the elusive [[Penumbra Phantasm]], a track that has been kept under wraps for almost as long as the end of Homestuck itself. --- Track: Crystalmethequins (Broken Bad) Artists: @@ -2691,7 +2695,10 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Dirk - Jake +- HB - DD +- Ace Dick +- Pickle Inspector - Carapacians - Earth - Derse @@ -2700,7 +2707,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- SplitSuns: (composer, booklet commentary) - This track was originally made for the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team's]] "Cool and New Homestuck" project, remixing and parodying the various Homestuck Flashes. In case you can't tell, this song is a parody of Time on My Side. I mostly played it straight to the original song, changing the instrumentation and adding some twists of my own. Of course, there's some jokes thrown into the mix as well, such as the Crazy Frog theme song, Waters of Nazareth, and other subtle additions. All in all, I hope you like this song! It's good enough for Tensei to say "this is pretty good," so make of that what you will. + This track was originally made for the Cool and New Music Team's ["Cool and New Homestuck"](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMXVVm-BDvr9G2C_sk0OSKpZuxGzsIAh-) project, remixing and parodying the various Homestuck Flashes. In case you can't tell, this song is a parody of [[track:time-on-my-side|Time on my Side]]. I mostly played it straight to the original song, changing the instrumentation and adding some twists of my own. Of course, there's some jokes thrown into the mix as well, such as the [[track:axel-f-crazy-frog|Crazy Frog]] theme song, [[Waters of Nazareth]], and other subtle additions. All in all, I hope you like this song! It's good enough for [[artist:tensei|Tensei]] to say "this is pretty good," so make of that what you will. Ephemerald: (track artist, booklet commentary) @@ -2708,9 +2715,11 @@ Commentary: |- I wanted to make the dividing line horizontal, but I couldn't get it to work, so I went with the diagonal split, which I'm happier with. I wanted the Dirks to look like a playing card - maybe the Suicide King, as it looks like they're decapitating themselves. The hardest part of this was Derse. I knew I could take the easy way out and copy some buildings, but I pushed myself to draw everything on my own. I'm glad I did; I think it's the best part of the piece. (See if you can spot some familiar faces in the crowd of carapacians!) - Oh, and thanks to Nights for finding the image of the sun for the line in the middle. + Oh, and thanks to [[artist:nights|Nights]] for finding the image of the sun for the line in the middle. --- Track: Raise of the Conductor's Baton +Additional Names: +- Rise of the Conductor's baton (booklet commentary) Artists: - Hadron Duration: '3:02' @@ -2733,11 +2742,11 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- Hadron: (composer, booklet commentary) - Rise of the Conductor's baton is probably my most ambitious song I've made; I pulled all the stops for this song for [S] Finale of CANH. I knew from the start that I wanted to do an upbeat EDM-styled track, and I thought a remix of Beatfox's original Creata would be spectacular. + Rise of the Conductor's baton is probably my most ambitious song I've made; I pulled all the stops for this song for [\[S] Finale](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgw1yxGLStI) of CANH. I knew from the start that I wanted to do an upbeat EDM-styled track, and I thought a remix of [[artist:seth-peelle|Beatfox's]] original [[Creata]] would be spectacular. Makin: (album team, booklet commentary) - This track was made way back in November for the [S] Finale animation, a culmination of [[group:canmt|Cool and New Web Comic]] lore Hadron had been working on for a long time. The track features a bunch of obscure little refefernces like Skaian Voyages and Celestial Fantasia, both amazing Beatfox songs you should probably look up, and Formation, the Hadron song you've already listened to. Beatfox is a music god, and Hadron knew just how to combine all the good leitmotifs in order to make the song feel as grand and epic as humanly possible. I actually named this track, as I feel cool Homestuck quotes like "Raise of the Conductor's Baton" ought to be used when they fit the content (and indeed, Rose raises her wand... conductorly... in the animation mentioned above. Seriously, [go watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgw1yxGLStI) [S] Finale when you're done with this album). + This track was made way back in November for the [\[S] Finale](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgw1yxGLStI) animation, a culmination of [[group:canmt|Cool and New Web Comic]] lore Hadron had been working on for a long time. The track features a bunch of obscure little references like [[track:skaia-voyages|Skaian Voyages]] and [[Celestial Fantasia]], both amazing [[artist:seth-peelle|Beatfox]] songs you should probably look up, and [[track:formation|Formation]], the Hadron song you've already listened to. Beatfox is a music god, and Hadron knew just how to combine all the good leitmotifs in order to make the song feel as grand and epic as humanly possible. I actually named this track, as I feel cool Homestuck quotes like ["Raise of the Conductor's Baton"](https://www.homestuck.com/story/307) ought to be used when they fit the content (and indeed, Rose raises her wand... conductorly... in the animation mentioned above. Seriously, [go watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgw1yxGLStI) [S] Finale when you're done with this album). --- Track: Radness from Concentrate Artists: @@ -2755,13 +2764,13 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- Whimsy: (composer, booklet commentary) - I'd been trying to make a Strider theme for quite some time, when this idea struck me: What if instead of writing a Strider theme, I wrote THREE STRIDER THEMES? And then shoehorn in a variant of Beatdown because why not. + I'd been trying to make a Strider theme for quite some time, when this idea struck me: What if instead of writing a strider theme, I wrote THREE STRIDER THEMES? And then shoehorn in a variant of [[track:beatdown-strider-style|Beatdown]] because why not. But in all seriousness, the wildly different sections of the song was more accidental and natural than anything else. I like to think parts of the song imply the introspection and humanity behind Dave and Dirk's cooldude persona, like the comic often demonstrates to us. And if not, at least we get a couple minutes of cool blues scale noodling. piskomil: (track artist, booklet commentary) - Radness is a rad song so it needed a rad track art and what is mroe rad than alpha dave saoring through space on unreal air? but there's also a bit of playfulness to the song which is why I added those shitty statues of liberty. Imagine dave with pockets full of shitty statues of liberty just tossing them down on the planet as he flies by. + Radness is a rad song so it needed a rad track art and what is more rad than alpha dave soaring through space on unreal air? but there's also a bit of playfulness to the song which is why I added those shitty statues of liberty. Imagine dave with pockets full of shitty statues of liberty just tossing them down on the planet as he flies by. --- Track: Conflict! Directory: conflict-lofam4 @@ -2781,7 +2790,7 @@ Commentary: |- yazshu: (track artist, booklet commentary) - since july 20th, 2016 i have made trackart for many variations of this song. i helped cryptanark create the very first mashup of this song. i have drawn the characters from a comic i dont even like that much more than my own. when i was sent the spreadsheet, and i saw it sitting on there, unclaimed, i knew i was the only man capable of doing this. thank you emelia k for creating my entire career. + since july 20th, 2016 i have made trackart for many variations of this song. i helped [[artist:discfortune]] create [[track:conflict-question-mark|the very first mashup of this song]]. i have drawn the characters from a comic i dont even like that much more than my own. when i was sent the spreadsheet, and i saw it sitting on there, unclaimed, i knew i was the only man capable of doing this. thank you emelia k for creating my entire career. --- Track: Solar Momentum Artists: @@ -2801,7 +2810,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- Nicholas Nakano: (composer, booklet commentary) - This was one of my first truly good songs, having distinct sections. Also included my first guitar solo. At the time of creation, I was playing VVVVVV, and it is now one of my favorite games of all time (the music being especially good). I hope y'all enjoy. + This was one of my first truly good songs, having distinct sections. Also included my first guitar solo. At the time of creation, I was playing VVVVVV, and is now one of my favorite games of all time (the music being especially good). I hope y'all enjoy. Mags: (track artist, booklet commentary) @@ -2825,14 +2834,14 @@ Referenced Tracks: - English - Gunshow 2 Theme (Instrumental) - track:intro-canwave-2 -- track:of-gods-and-witches +- Of Gods and Witches - Science Blaster -- track:formation +- Formation - Sburban Jungle Commentary: |- ostrichlittledungeon: (composer, booklet commentary) - This is the song on LOFAM 4 that I'm most proud of, and was the most fun to make. Yes, it's Gold Pilot. Yes there are like seven other songs on LOFAM 4 that use Gold Pilot. But I do think I did a lot with it, and this piece showcases a bunch of different things. It starts with pretty standard Gold Pilot, and then slowly grows into the subversion that is the Gunshow 2 Theme, followed by a drop. Then there's a section inspired by Of Gods and Witches, then whatever the fuck happens at 1:42. Bring back the Gold Pilot with a new beat, and then end with Formation. Dumb weird fadeout that I definitely could've improved somehow but I was lazy. I wrote -Omega- Timeline with the Game Over timeline in mind—the dark feel and the choirs peppered throughout reflect the devastation to the A2 session, the Of Gods and Witches section is somewhat of a tribute to... dead kids? And the next section is a tribute to... uh, the happiness that's gone? I don't know, come up with some meaning there yourself. Most of this piece was me going for a specific feel rather than a specific meaning. Also, the dashes in the name are more for my own amusement than anything. -ω- + This is the song on LOFAM 4 that I'm most proud of, and was the most fun to make. Yes, it's [[Gold Pilot]]. Yes there are like [[track:blind-pilot|seven]] [[track:pilotwave|other]] [[track:expanses-of-interstellar-space|songs]] on LOFAM 4 that use Gold Pilot. But I do think I did a lot with it, and this piece showcases a bunch of different things. It starts with pretty standard Gold Pilot, and then slowly grows into the subversion that is the [[track:gunshow-2-theme-instrumental|Gunshow 2 Theme]], followed by a drop. Then there's a section inspired by [[Of Gods and Witches]], then whatever the fuck happens at 1:42. Bring back the Gold Pilot with a new beat, and then end with [[Formation]]. Dumb weird fadeout that I definitely could've improved somehow but I was lazy. I wrote -Omega- Timeline with the Game Over timeline in mind—the dark feel and the choirs peppered throughout reflect the devastation to the A2 session, the Of Gods and Witches section is somewhat of a tribute to... dead kids? And the next section is a tribute to... uh, the happiness that's gone? I don't know, come up with some meaning there yourself. Most of this piece was me going for a specific feel rather than a specific meaning. Also, the dashes in the name are more for my own amusement than anything. -ω- keyboard cait: (album team, booklet commentary) @@ -2852,16 +2861,16 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Rhapsody in Green - Afraid of the Darko -- track:carne-vale +- Carne Vale - English Commentary: |- Grace Medley: (composer, booklet commentary) - This song started out as a test to see if I could replicate that bassy blare from every major action film trailer from the past six or so years. Then, it evolved into a Rhapsody in Green cover, and the rest is history. While making this I had the image of the Midnight Crew's casino burning down as Spades struggles to escape, then I re-thought it over with Lord English's arrival into Jack's body, then Jake's battle against the leprechauns, until I eventually decided, "as long as it's Felt-themed, this song is about it". There are a few references to Felt-based songs in here, too. The aforementioned Rhapsody in Green, the eerie variation of English from early on in Carne Vale, the opening from Afraid of the Darko (although quite drastically rewritten for a cinematic vibe) and a hopeful piano reprise of Carne Vale as a reflection of the first defeat Jake had left the Felt with. Then it concludes with the tail-end of English, because the Felt never truly stay down. + This song started out as a test to see if I could replicate that bassy blare from every major action film trailer from the past six or so years. Then, it evolved into a [[Rhapsody in Green]] cover, and the rest is history. While making this I had the image of the Midnight Crew's casino burning down as Spades struggles to escape, then I re-thought it over with Lord English's arrival into Jack's body, then Jake's battle against the leprechauns, until I eventually decided, "as long as it's Felt-themed, this song is about it". There are a few references to Felt-based songs in here, too. The aforementioned Rhapsody in Green, the eerie variation of [[English]] from early on in [[Carne Vale]], the opening from [[Afraid of the Darko]] (although quite drastically rewritten for a cinematic vibe) and a hopeful piano reprise of Carne Vale as a reflection of the first defeat Jake had left the Felt with. Then it concludes with the tail-end of English, because the Felt never truly stay down. sonotcanon: (track artist, booklet commentary) - snowman a la mal from inception. credit to power for the concept! + snowman a la mal from inception. credit to [[artist:grace-medley|power]] for the concept! --- Track: Sugar Cubes Artists: @@ -2876,11 +2885,11 @@ Art Tags: - Cats - LoLCaT Commentary: |- - keyboard cait: (album team, booklet commentary) + keyboard cait, Lambda Elise Merryberry|[[artist:keyboard-cait]]: (album team, booklet commentary) There's no music or art commentary on this track (which by the way is incredibly catchy and cute), so instead I'll pose a relevant question. How many songs with Mario Paint cat meows do you think are on this album? 2? 3? 4? Just this one? All 105? I'll tell you: there are 6. Six Mario Paint meow songs on the album, including this one. Approximately 5.71% of all Land of Fans and Music 4 tracks have Mario Paint cat meows in them. Now, that might not seem impressive, but let's put this in perspective: that's triple the number of tracks about Vriska. Whether that's good or bad, I'll leave to you. - "the more mario paint meows i can cram on this album the better" -lambda 2017 + "the more mario paint meows i can cram on this album the better" -[[artist:lambda-elise-merryberry|lambda]] 2017 WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES: (album help, booklet commentary) @@ -2904,7 +2913,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- Lark Mordancy: (composer, booklet commentary) - This song was inspired by the cosmogonical aspects of the MSPA universe(s), and by those universes' cryptic creators. + This song was inspired by the cosmogonical aspects of the MSPA universe(s), and by those universes' cryptic curators. Selan Pike: (track artist, booklet commentary) @@ -2936,13 +2945,13 @@ Commentary: |- Prospitian Monody started life as a techno/ambient fusion with acoustic instruments in for fun too, which is a fancy way of saying I have no idea what genres actually mean. It also had a completely different melody. People told me the piano didn't fit so I made it synth, people told me the melody was aimless but couldn't explain why so I just rewrote it and blindly hoped, and they liked it but then production sucked again so I made it orchestral, and then the whole thing became synth instruments, which I kind afound bland but also it works well and I don't know what else to do. ANYWAY ENOUGH RAMBLING ABOUT USELESS FEEDBACK LETS GET TO THE SONG ITSELF - A monody is essentially a dirge, except that it's not a dirge? It's dirgeish anyway. (fucking hell ost) This is like a funeral hymn for the White King, but the Dersite army is slaughtering all the Prospitians that try to mourn, so in the end the funeral ends up being held by some Dersites who aren't sympathetic to Prospit, but do respect tradition and politeness and etiquette and so on, so to compensate for it being a funeral for the enemy they make it all imposing and evil. (The Black King is too busy ending the world to notice.) You could sort of view it as a counterpart to [[track:broken-dreams]] on the SBURB OST, but focusing more on Derse's triumph than on Prospit's downfall. + A monody is essentially a dirge, except that it's not a dirge? It's dirgeish anyway. (fucking hell ost) This is like a funeral hymn for the White King, but the Dersite army is slaughtering all the Prospitians that try to mourn, so in the end the funeral ends up being held by some Dersites who aren't sympathetic to Prospit, but do respect tradition and politeness and etiquette and so on, so to compensate for it being a funeral for their enemy they make it all imposing and evil. (The Black King is too busy ending the world to notice.) You could sort of view it as a counterpart to [[track:broken-dreams|Broken Dreams]] on the SBURB OST, but focusing more on Derse's triumph than on Prospit's downfall. Wheals: (album help, booklet commentary) - Jas posted a quite different original version of this art, showing a funeral procession of sorts for the king's impaled head, but replaced it with this even more impressive composition featuring a more dynamic posee and focused around a central Dersite. There was some disagreement on the discord server whether it looked better with or without the tree in the top left, which ended with the tree being put in at 8% transparency. + Jas posted a quite different original version of this art, showing a funeral procession of sorts for the king's impaled head, but replaced it with this even more impressive composition featuring a more dynamic posee and focused around a central Dersite. There was some disagreement on the discord server whether it looked better with or without the tree in the top left, which almost ended with the tree being put in at 8% transparency. - Also johndave is a bad ship suck it viko + [[track:airtime-assault|Also johndave is a bad ship suck it viko]] --- Track: Shatter Directory: shatter-lofam4 @@ -2969,9 +2978,9 @@ Commentary: |- The song itself is supposed to be some kind of a ham-fisted theme for the Reckoning, and its name refers both to Skaia being bombarded with meteors and Prospit moon crashing into the battlefield with no survivors. - Just a lazy attempt at trying to combine fabled The Baby Is You with ever-elusive and almost mythical Double Midnight at first, Shatter eventually evolved into somewhat fleshed out song. Yeah, it lacks originality, essentially being a simple medley, but I was more interested in making DnB-y stuff with a bunch of Homestuck motifs thrown together than composing something completely from scratch. + Just a lazy attempt at trying to combine fabled [[album:the-baby-is-you|The Baby Is You]] with ever-elusive and almost mythical [[Double Midnight]] at first, Shatter eventually evolved into somewhat fleshed out song. Yeah, it lacks originality, essentially being a simple medley, but I was more interested in making DnB-y stuff with a bunch of Homestuck motifs thrown together than composing something completely from scratch. - I think I'm more or less satisfied with the end result, even though it hardly resembles jungle (as a music genre, not, you know, Sburban Jungle or anything). Anyway, I hope you like it. + I think I'm more or less satisfied with the end result, even though it hardly resembles jungle (as a music genre, not, you know, [[Sburban Jungle]] or anything). Anyway, I hope you like it. Andiavang: (track artist, booklet commentary) @@ -2982,7 +2991,7 @@ Commentary: |- Boom boom boom boom
I wanna double boom
Let's spend the night together
- Together in my room" - Vengaboys + Together in my room" - [Vengaboys](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llyiQ4I-mcQ) --- Track: Denizen Directory: denizen-lofam4 @@ -3002,11 +3011,11 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- Kouta: (composer, booklet commentary) - This was my first foray into dubstep, and looking back on it, I could have done a lot better. I wrote this as a sort of mock-up "flash soundtrack", hitting a lot of different styles at different points in the song. At the time, though, I was experimenting with a lot of different things, and it's actually pretty good for what it was. This was also my entrance into sampling, which helped me get the experience needed to start writing newer, fresher material, by listening to other peoples' far better maerial. + This was my first foray into dubstep, and looking back on it, I could have done a lot better. I wrote this as a sort of mock-up "flash soundtrack", hitting a lot of different styles at different points in the song. At the time, though, I was experimenting with a lot of different things, and it's actually pretty good for what it was. This was also my entrance into sampling, which helped me get the experience needed to start writing newer, fresher material, by listening to other peoples' far better material. AS: (track artist, booklet commentary) - Typheus may not be pretty to look at, but he is not a bad guy at all! + [Typheus may not be pretty to look at, but he is not a bad guy at all!](https://www.homestuck.com/story/3953) --- Track: Ultimate Alchemy Artists: @@ -3032,15 +3041,15 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- Interrobang: (composer, booklet commentary) - The song that eventually came to be known as Ultimate Alchemy started at a time I found myself listening to Volume 7's Earthsea Borealis, which remains one of my favorite Homestuck songs ever. One day, a melody popped into my head, and I started writing. At some point in the composition process I decided I might as well try to submit the song to LOFAM4, and with quite a bit of much-appreciated feedback from the judges, got it into a completed state. The biggest surprise as I was finishing up work occurred when Viko Riféo pointed out that what I had thought was the original melody throughout the song was in fact Bilions, which is a great song from the Genesis Frog album that I had embarrassingly forgotten about. + The song that eventually came to be known as Ultimate Alchemy started at a time I found myself listening to Volume 7's [[Earthsea Borealis]], which remains one of my favorite Homestuck songs ever. One day, a melody popped into my head, and I started writing. At some point in the composition process I decided I might as well try to submit the song to LOFAM4, and with quite a bit of much-appreciated feedback from the judges, got it into a completed state. The biggest surprise as I was finishing up work occurred when [[artist:viko-rifeo]] pointed out that what I had thought was the original melody throughout the song was in fact [[Bilious]], which is a great song from the [[album:genesis-frog|Genesis Frog]] album that I had embarrassingly forgotten about. - A lot of people helped me to get this song into the state that it's in now, and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank them. Thanks to Viko Riféo and Kusoro, who both had some really great ideas on mastering and percussion that ultimately didn't make it into the final song; to Wheals for giving it a final name, and ESPECIALLY to Seijen, whose mastering made the final product much better than I could have ever thought. And of course many, many, many thanks to Circlejourney, whose art is indescribably fitting and amazing. Finally I'd like to thank the LOFAM4 team for all their help and support, y'all are a bunch of great people and it's been an honor to have this opportunity. + A lot of people helped me to get this song into the state that it's in now, and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank them. Thanks to [[artist:viko-rifeo]] and [[artist:kusoro]], who both had some really great ideas on mastering and percussion that ultimately didn't make it into the final song; to [[artist:wheals]] for giving it a final name, and ESPECIALLY to [[artist:seijen]], whose mastering made the final product much better than I could have ever thought. And of course many, many, many thanks to [[artist:circlejourney]], whose art is indescribably fitting and amazing. Finally I'd like to thank the LOFAM team for all their help and support, y'all are a bunch of great people and its been an honor to have this opportunity Circlejourney: (track artist, booklet commentary) The track is clearly about the Ultimate Alchemy, which I also find it very evocative of. I took that prompt on as faithfully as I could. - This is one part of a larger iamge formed of the covers of this, [[Crystalendofgames]], and [[Black Hole / White Door]]. + This is one part of a larger image formed of the covers of this, [[Crystalendofgames]], and [[Black Hole / White Door]]. --- Track: The Sock Ruse Artists: @@ -3096,15 +3105,15 @@ Lyrics: |- Woah woah, woah woah Woah woah, woah woah Commentary: |- - Alex Votl: (composer, booklet commentary) + Alex Votl: (muisc, booklet commentary) this project was pieced together over the course of 5 years with tons of help from my friends. it started out as an inside joke from the homestuck tinychat community around 2011, but i see it more as an homage to the series and the fandom. thanks for the memories everyone. it was a blast. - Nick Tucker: (track artist, booklet commentary) + Nick Tucker: (i HAVE the arts, booklet commentary) - The most common way of perceiving the passing of time into a concept that humans can understand often involves the idea of moving forward through time, as if we foresee what is in our path, and appraoch it in a straight line. A more accurate way of looking at it is that we are reversing into the events of tomorrow, with no real idea of what awaits us. When we look ahead, we see our past, and that informes our actions. The Maori turn of phrase, "ka mura, ka muri" means to walk backwards into the future. + The most common way of perceiving the passing of time into a concept that humans can understand often involves the idea of moving forward through time, as if we foresee what is in our path, and approach it in a straight line. A more accurate way of looking at it is that we are reversing into the events of tomorrow, with no real idea of what awaits us. When we look ahead, we see our past, and that informes our actions. The Maori turn of phrase, "ka mura, ka muri" means to walk backwards into the future. - In the modern classic piece of literature, "Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff: THe Sock Ruse", the titular Hella Jeff orchestrates an intricate plot to distract his compatriot Sweet Bro with the most unassuming of items: a pair of lost grey socks. The items in question, the socks, are lying in plain sight. However, there is an unintended turn. Sweet Bro spins off into a monologue, nay, a soliloquy as to the nature of socks and marijuana consumption. Hella Jeff did not forsee this consequence. But he does not hesitate to capitalise, fulfilling his desire nonetheless. + In the modern classic piece of literature, "Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff: The Sock Ruse", the titular Hella Jeff orchestrates an intricate plot to distract his compatriot Sweet Bro with the most unassuming of items: a pair of lost grey socks. The items in question, the socks, are lying in plain sight. However, there is an unintended turn. Sweet Bro spins off into a monologue, nay, a soliloquy as to the nature of socks and marijuana consumption. Hella Jeff did not forsee this consequence. But he does not hesitate to capitalise, fulfilling his desires nonetheless. The vehicle in possession, the theme of walking backwards into the future is rendered physically manifest, with the metaphor of reversing Sweet Bro's car into a large body of water outside the companions' lakeside property. This is the point from which I drew my inspiration for my illustration. This is the now. This is the moment. Where is Hella Jeff going? He knows not. There is dramatic irony here: we, the readers and long-time followers of Dave Strider's work know full well what will unfold: nothing, ad infinitum. But Hella Jeff is living in the moment: he HAS the car. He knows not what awaits him. @@ -3130,13 +3139,13 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- keyboard cait: (composer, booklet commentary) - I always figured "Juju Breaker" would be a cool name for a song, so I kept that name in mind and centered the feel of this song aorund it. It's a track about Crowbar, but more specifically Crowbar's crowbar. Its long chronology goes nearly entirely under the radar, as does the smooth green mobster named after it. Think of this track as a means towards rectifying that. + I always figured "Juju Breaker" would be a cool name for a song, so I kept that name in mind and centered the feel of this song around it. It's a track about Crowbar, but more specifically Crowbar's crowbar. Its long chronology goes nearly entirely under the radar, as does the smooth green mobster named after it. Think of this track as a means towards rectifying that. - The song was made with a particular narrative in mind, with each section of the song signifying another step in the juju's journey. Crowbar leads the Felt on Alternia, crowbar in hand. Slick steals the crowbar and opens the Felt vault, distorting spacetime. Kurloz finds the crowbar in a memory and hands it to Gamzee. The meteor reaches B2, and the crowbar is given to B2 Jack Noir. He destroys his prison, then fights some kinds and himself on top of a building. He and the crowbar are sucked into a black hole. The juju is thus brought to a dead Earth. Gamzee again hands the crowbar to his lord, Caliborn. With the crowbar in his possession, Caliborn trudges through his Sburb session, planet by planet. He builds an ensemble of loyal leprechaun people, including Crowbar himself. Finally, the crowbar is given back to Crowbar, who will later lead the Felt on Alternia. With so many diverging timelines in the intermission alone, we are left to guess whether the cycle will repeat again, or be cut off. + The song was made with a particular narrative in mind, with each section of the song signifying another step in the juju's journey. [Crowbar leads the Felt on Alternia, crowbar in hand.](https://www.homestuck.com/story/1273) [Slick steals the crowbar](https://www.homestuck.com/story/1275) and [opens the Felt vault,](https://www.homestuck.com/story/1322) [distorting spacetime.](https://www.homestuck.com/story/1337) [Kurloz finds the crowbar in a memory and hands it to Gamzee.](https://www.homestuck.com/story/5308) [The meteor reaches B2,](https://www.homestuck.com/story/6278) and [the crowbar is given to B2 Jack Noir.](https://www.homestuck.com/story/5804) [He destroys his prison,](https://www.homestuck.com/story/5816) [then fights some kids and himself on top of a building.](https://www.homestuck.com/story/8036) [He and the crowbar are sucked into a black hole.](https://youtu.be/Y5wYN6rB_Rg?t=948) [The juju is thus brought to a dead Earth.](https://www.homestuck.com/story/5441) [Gamzee again hands the crowbar to his lord, Caliborn.](https://www.homestuck.com/story/5492) [With the crowbar in his possession,](https://www.homestuck.com/story/5495) Caliborn trudges through his Sburb session, planet by planet. [He builds an ensemble of loyal leprechaun people,](https://www.homestuck.com/story/6192) [including Crowbar himself.](https://www.homestuck.com/story/6022) Finally, the crowbar is given back to Crowbar, [who will later lead the Felt on Alternia.](https://www.homestuck.com/story/1273) With so many diverging timelines in the intermission alone, we are left to guess whether the cycle will repeat again, or be cut off. Griever: (track artist, booklet commentary) - You know, the great thing about Homestuck is that a lot of panels are so iconic that Hussie more or less traces over them to make a new panel, and it still looks great, and people love him for it. And this self-referential quality extends to fanworks too. Makes my job easier. + You know, the great thing about Homestuck is that a lot of panels are so iconic that Hussie more or less traces over them to make a new panel, and it still looks great, and people love him for it. And this self-referential quality extends to fanworks, to. Makes my job easier. Oh right, on another note, Crowbar's pretty sweet, I guess. Enjoy. --- @@ -3159,7 +3168,7 @@ Commentary: |- WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES: (album help, booklet commentary) - This is one of Ferkol's 3 tracks that were created for the planets of the alpha session. (In particular, this was created for Dirk's planet: The Land of Tombs and Krypton.) Although this song never saw an official release, now you can enjoy it here, on Land of Fans and Music 4. Or on Ferkol's soundcloud. You can also listen to this song on Ferkol's soundtrack. + This is one of Ferkol's 3 tracks [[track:highland-thunder|that were]] [[track:cleopatras-cocktail-party|created for]] the planets of the alpha session. (In particular, this was created for Dirk's planet: The Land of Tombs and Krypton.) Although this song never saw an official release, now you can enjoy it here, on Land of Fans and Music 4. Or on Ferkol's soundcloud. You can also listen to this song [on Ferkol's soundcloud.](https://soundcloud.com/eidolonorpheus/highland-thunder) Starting off with simple choir alongside plucked strings, this piece builds up slightly, before letting a synthesizer take us deeper, as if we are descending onto the surface of Dirk's planet. As the piece continues, more and more electronic instruments come in, as the landscape becomes harsher and harsher. Yet, throughout it all, the strings remain steadfast. --- @@ -3187,7 +3196,7 @@ Commentary: |- Circlejourney: (track artist, booklet commentary) - I love dealing with dark foreground figures against bright backgrounds, so this was fun to add the final touches to. I got a sense of what Quietserval was going for this drawing from talking to them, and tried to realise that in its fullest. + I love dealing with dark foreground figures against bright backgrounds, so this was fun to add the final touches to. I got a sense of what Quietserval was going for with this drawing from talking to them, and tried to realise that in its fullest. --- Track: Everlasting Directory: everlasting-lofam4 @@ -3215,7 +3224,7 @@ Commentary: |- PatManDX: (track artist, booklet commentary) - When I hear the song, it's a no brainer that it was about Roxy in the dreambubbles, being a remix of 'Even in Death' and all. What was tricky was figuring out what exactly to show in the track art: what angle, what aspect of the dreambubbles, and so on. I didn't want to make the art too busy, so I went for a simpler piece that showcased one of the grander moments of the 'Roxy: Sleepwalk' flash—where the music swells as Roxy falls into that dream bubble. Pinks and purples were used cause they pop on the black, and they're nice mysterious colors. + When I hear the song, it's a no brainer that it was about Roxy in the dreambubbles, being a remix of [[track:even-in-death|'Even in Death']] and all. What was tricky was figuring out what exactly to show in the track art: what angle, what aspect of the dreambubbles, and so on. I didn't want to make the art too busy, so I went for a simpler piece that showcased one of the grander moments of the [[flash:4486|'Roxy: Sleepwalk']] flash—where the music swells as Roxy falls into that dream bubble. Pinks and purples were used cause they pop on the black, and they're nice mysterious colors. --- Track: Crystalline Repose Artists: @@ -3238,7 +3247,7 @@ Commentary: |- keyboard cait: (album team, booklet commentary) - Chrono Trigger is a great game. Corridors of Time is a great song. Crystalanthemums is also a great song. Any questions? + Chrono Trigger is a great game. [[Corridors of Time]] is a great song. [[Crystalanthemums]] is also a great song. Any questions? --- Track: Black Hole / White Door Artists: @@ -3272,11 +3281,19 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- Circlejourney: (track artist, booklet commentary) - This track was assigned to me after the original artist dropped out. I decided to further extend the image formed of [[Crystalendofgames]]' and [[Ultimate Alchemy]]'s track illustrations after several people expressed assent when I aired the idea on the LoFaM server. + This track was reassigned to me after the original artist dropped out. I decided to further extend the image formed of [[track:crystalendofgames|Crystalendofgames']] and [[track:ultimate-alchemy|Ultimate Alchemy's]] track illustrations after several people expressed assent when I aired the idea on the LoFaM server. + + *(continued below)* + + Circlejourney: (complete illustration) + + + + Circlejourney: (booklet commentary) - + *(continued from above)* - While brainstorming illustration concepts, I immediately ot attached to the idea of an image of the victory platform gang silhouetted in the light of the Sburb logo, and went with it. It's a shame that this scene is physically impossible due to the clouds being higher than the victory platform, but the picture looks far too plain without them. + While brainstorming illustration concepts, I immediately to attached to the idea of an image of the victory platform gang silhouetted in the light of the Sburb logo, and went with it. It's a shame that this scene is physically impossible due to the clouds being higher than the victory platform, but the picture looks far too plain without them. Kal-la-kal-la: (album help, booklet commentary) @@ -3285,6 +3302,8 @@ Commentary: |- Track: Strife Mayhem Originally Released As: track:strife-mayhem Directory: strife-mayhem-lofam4 +Additional Names: +- Metallic Mayhem (original name) Duration: '5:39' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/strife-mayhem @@ -3347,11 +3366,11 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- Musical Panini: (composer, booklet commentary) - This song didn't actually start out as a Homestuck song when I was first making it. It went from tune stuck in my head, then into a random song that I was calling Metallic Mayhem, then into Flare, then into a practice into motifs, then into what is now apparently my most popular by far! + This song didn't actually start out as a Homestuck song when I was first making it. It went from tune stuck in my head, then into a random song that I was calling Metallic Mayhem, then into Flare, then into a practice in motifs, then into what is now apparently my most popular by far! Scarodactyl: (track artist, booklet commentary) - I have wanted to do something like this for a long time. Final Fantasy 6 is a big inspiration for me, particularly the in-battle sprites and backgrounds. Homestuck, with its numerous great designs, seemed like it would be really fun to render in this style. When I saw Strife Mayhem on the song list I knew what I had to do--a large-scale battle with lots of characters to match an amazing battle song with lots of leitmotifs. I pulled a few elements from my previous track arts which were sort of stabs in the same direction, particularly the background from Medium and the handmaid from Maidswap. The GUI is also a bit of a reference to the previous track art for this song on Cool and New Volume 7. + I have wanted to do something like this for a long time. Final Fantasy 6 is a big inspiration for me, particularly the in-battle sprites and backgrounds. Homestuck, with its numerous great designs, seemed like it would be really fun to render in this style. When I saw Strife Mayhem on the song list I knew what I had to do--a large-scale battle with lots of characters to match an amazing battle song with lots of leitmotifs. I pulled a few elements from my previous track arts which were sort of stabs in the same direction, particularly the background from [[track:medium-lofam3|Medium]] and the handmaid from [[Maidswap]]. The GUI is also a bit of a reference to [[track:strife-mayhem|the previous track art]] for this song on Cool and New Volume 7. --- Track: Moonsetter (Strider Remix) Artists: @@ -3373,7 +3392,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- Grace Medley: (album help, booklet commentary) - Cement City doesn't normally do music like this, so hearing Toby Fox's Moonsetter remixed into a laid-back, yet high energy neopsychedelic piece is a blast of fresh air, especially for someone like myself, who practically grew up listening to experimental electronic music. Despite the track's simplicity, it somehow succeeds in pulling off an atmosphere all of its own, and makes one of Toby's catchiest tunes even catchier. + Cement City doesn't normally do much music like this, so hearing Toby Fox's [[Moonsetter]] remixed into a laid-back, yet high energy neopsychedelic piece is a blast of fresh air, especially for someone like myself, who practically grew up listening to experimental electronic music. Despite the track's simplicity, it somehow succeeds in pulling off an atmosphere all of its own, and makes one of Toby's catchiest tunes even catchier. WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES: (album help, booklet commentary) @@ -3394,7 +3413,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- Seijen: (composer, booklet commentary) - Time and time again I make a drum and bass song and im never satisfied with the drum mix. Like the time befoe and that time before. The snare is powerful but the kicks are never too prominent without being overtly compressed. Its always the same as the last time. But this track was a little different, instead I said "ooh that was horrible" because like the time before the kicks never seem to be enough. Its just the same as the last time. But those basses though. so ill. I feel sick now. Just like that time I ate at that Chinese place. I got sick there the time before but that was a year before. "Oh that was so gross" I uttered after taking my first bite of that gen. tso chicken. It was just the same as the last time. + time and time again I make a drum and bass song and im never satisfied with the drum mix. Like the time before and that time before. The snare is powerful but the kicks are never too prominent without being overtly compressed. Its always the same as the last time. But this track was a little different, instead I said "ooh that was horrible" because like the time before the kicks never seem to be enough. Its just the same as the last time. But those basses though. so ill. I feel sick now. Just like that time I ate at that Chinese place. I got sick there the time before but that was a year before. "Oh that was so gross" I uttered after taking my first bite of that gen. tso chicken. It was just the same as the last time. Kal-la-kal-la: (album help, booklet commentary) @@ -3416,11 +3435,11 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- Noisemaker: (composer, booklet commentary) - If some of you thought this was le canrival from Cool and New Webcomic's V8LUME, then you'd be right! I initially made le canrival as a [[group:canmt|Cool and New Webcomic]] track, but the folks over on the Land of Fans and Music team took some interest in it. So, we arranged to have it put on the next LOFAM, under a new, more classy name. + If some of you thought this was [[track:le-canrival|le canrival]] from Cool and New Webcomic's V8LUME, then you'd be right! I initially made le canrival as a Cool and New Webcomic track, but the folks over on the Land of Fans and Music team took some interest in it. So, we arranged to have it put on the next LOFAM, under a new, more classy name. - 0ysTezy: + 0ysTezy: (track artist, booklet commentary) - this track art you see right here took over two months of work as we needed to space out time for other projects as well. the setting takes place in the land of tents and mirth as shown. the experience of creating this project was sorta stressful but fun. it was mostly stressful for me since I had many other things I needed to work on. EllenZarael worked with me over the course of the drawing. + this track art you see right here took over two months of work as we needed to space out time for other projects as well. the setting takes place in the land of tents and mirth as shown. The experience of creating this project was sorta stressful but fun. it was mostly stressful for me since I had many other things I needed to work on. EllenZarael worked with me over the course of the drawing. --- Track: Fruitjam Artists: @@ -3461,44 +3480,45 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- keyboard cait: (composer, booklet commentary) - This song was formed out of a spontaneous idea by the LOFAM team to create a song about the happy fruits Jade carries along with her in Act 3, as well as Toby FOx's "fan character" Apple Girlington, who was based on the ever-popular Touhou Project series. These intersecting characters united for one song, and the result is a mega-medley featuring references to songs from Homestuck, Touhou, Toby Fox's Touhou improvisations and... Undertale? Yeah! As progress of the song went along, I envisioned it perhaps being made by the Beta Kids in-universe. All their corresponding instruments are here, after all. Remember when they'd collaborate on songs and post it to each other on FreshJamz? Good times. + This song was formed out of a spontaneous idea by the LOFAM team to create a song about the happy fruits Jade carries along with her in Act 3, as well as Toby Fox's "fan character" [[track:an-apple-disaster|Apple Girlington]], who was based on the ever-popular Touhou Project series. These intersecting characters united for one song, and the result is a mega-medley featuring references to songs from Homestuck, Touhou, Toby Fox's Touhou improvisations and... Undertale? Yeah! As progress of the song went along, I envisioned it perhaps being made by the Beta Kids in-universe. All their corresponding instruments are here, after all. [[flash:830|Remember when they'd collaborate on songs and post it to each other on FreshJamz?]] Good times. - Fun fact: each of the happy fruits correspond to a beta kid. Really! You've got the red apple for Dave, which is fitting because it's his text color and because he loves apple juice. Then the green lime for Jade, also because of text color. The orainge is Rose, because, uh, Roxy says she's similar to Dirk who types in orange I guess? Then the last fruit is the yellow lemon which has to be for John, because... uh actually you know what, forget it. + Fun fact: each of the happy fruits correspond to a beta kid. Really! You've got the red apple for Dave, which is fitting because it's his text color and because he loves apple juice. Then the green lime for Jade, also because of text color. The orange is Rose, because, uh, Roxy says she's similar to Dirk who types in orange I guess? Then the last fruit is the yellow lemon which has to be for John, because... uh actually you know what, forget it. - Ok, here's another fun fact then. The title of the song is a play on the FreshJamz player which has the fruits on its interface, the Homestuck song [[Hauntjam]], actual fruit jam, and the fact that it is a song (i.e. "jam") about fruits. Neat! + Ok, here's another fun fact then. The title of the song is a play on the FreshJamz player which has the fruits on its interface, the Homestuck song [[Hauntjam|"Hauntjam"]], actual fruit jam, and the fact that it is a song (i.e. "jam") about fruits. Neat! sweetjegus: (track artist, booklet commentary) - Open your heart to the fruity embrace of Apple Girlington! I have the fondest memories of Jade's fruit mishaps back in Act 3 and a soft spot for fun and twangy tracks, so Fruitjam was the perfect storm. Her outfit is drawn from cubewatermelon's absolutely adorable APple Girlington design, and I've kept to the Touhou art tradition of contorted angles within a dramatic flying object vortex - but updated, now, for a lurid fever dream ft. the chlorine-headed personification of an apple. - - Lambda Elise Merryberry: (album organizer) - - she says lofam team but this song is mark's and my fault - -
- - References: - - [[Your Best Friend]] - 0:00–0:33, 2:45–2:48 - - [[Softly]] - 0:20–0:26 - - [[Fall of Fall ~ Autumnal Waterfall]] - 0:26–0:31 - - [[Safe Return]] - 0:39–0:43, 0:53–0:56 - - [[The Beginning of Something Really Excellent]] - 0:49–1:03 - - [[An Apple Disaster!!]] - 1:03–1:29 - - [[Ryuunosuke Akutagawa's "Kappa" ~ Candid Friend]] - 1:09–1:14 - - [[Bad Apple!!]] - 1:29–1:42 - - [[Native Faith]] - 1:52–1:55 - - [[The Primal Scene of Japan the Girl Saw]] - 2:12–2:14 - - [[Menu (Full)]] - 2:16–2:35 - - [[Sleeping Terror]] - 2:22–2:35 - - [[Homestuck Anthem]] - 2:29–2:35 - - [[Upward Movement (Dave Owns)]] - 2:35–2:38 - - [[Calamari Inkantation]] - 2:39–2:48 - - [[Feel (Alive)]] - 2:49–2:51 - - [[Hopes and Dreams]] - 2:52–2:55, 2:59–3:02 - - [[Theme]] - 2:55–2:58 - - [[September Pumpkin]] - 3:02–3:05 - - [[Theme of Eastern Story]] - 3:05–3:27 - - [[Magical Hopalong Cassidy Station]] - 3:18–3:29 + Open your heart to the fruity embrace of Apple Girlington! I have the fondest memories of Jade's fruit mishaps back in Act 3 and a soft spot for fun and twangy tracks, so Fruitjam was the perfect storm. Her outfit is drawn from cubewatermelon's [absolutely adorable Apple Girlington design](https://fwugradiation.tumblr.com/post/33361755348/cubewatermelon-happy-birthday-to-toby-radiation), and I've kept to the Touhou art tradition of contorted angles within a dramatic flying object vortex - but updated, now, for a lurid fever dream ft. the chlorine-headed personification of an apple. + + Lambda Elise Merryberry: (album organizer, booklet commentary) + + she says lofam team but this song is [[artist:mark-ciocca|mark's]] and my fault + + Unofficial MSPA Fans: (booklet commentary) + + References + + - [[Your Best Friend]] - [[artist:toby-fox]] (0:00–0:33, 2:45–2:48) + - [[Softly]] - [[artist:robert-j-lake]] (0:20–0:26) + - [[Fall of Fall ~ Autumnal Waterfall]] - [[artist:zun]] (0:26–0:31) + - [[Safe Return]] - [[artist:the-track-team]] (0:39–0:43, 0:53–0:56) + - [[The Beginning of Something Really Excellent]] - [[artist:robert-j-lake]] (0:49–1:03) + - [[An Apple Disaster!!]] - [[artist:toby-fox]] (1:03–1:29) + - [[Ryuunosuke Akutagawa's "Kappa" ~ Candid Friend]] - [[artist:zun]] (1:09–1:14) + - [[Bad Apple!!]] - [[artist:zun]] (1:29–1:42) + - [[Native Faith]] - [[artist:zun]] (1:52–1:55) + - [[The Primal Scene of Japan the Girl Saw]] - [[artist:zun]] (2:12–2:14) + - [[Menu (Full)]] - [[artist:toby-fox]] (2:16–2:35) + - [[Sleeping Terror]] - [[artist:zun]] (2:22–2:35) + - [[Homestuck Anthem]] - [[artist:clark-powell]] (2:29–2:35) + - [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|Upward Movement]] - [[artist:kalibration]] (2:35–2:38) + - [[Calamari Inkantation]] - [[artist:shiho-fujii]] (2:39–2:48) + - [[Feel (Alive)]] - [[artist:luke-benjamins]] and [[artist:robert-j-lake]] (2:49–2:51) + - [[Hopes and Dreams]] - [[artist:toby-fox]] (2:52–2:55, 2:59–3:02) + - [[Theme]] - [[artist:toby-fox]] (2:55–2:58) + - [[September Pumpkin]] - [[artist:zun]] (3:02–3:05) + - [[Theme of Eastern Story]] - [[artist:zun]] (3:05–3:27) + - [[Magical Hopalong Cassidy Station]] - [[artist:toby-fox]] (3:18–3:29) --- Track: Lightfall Originally Released As: track:rozepiano @@ -3514,11 +3534,11 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- nights: (composer, booklet commentary) - This piece was originally for CaNMT, although it was still about the character Rose Lalonde. Perhaps you're wondering why someone would release a track on CaNMT, before putting it on LoFaM, but that was due to my joining LoFaM after this song was published. I worked on this song for nearly 2 months, so the production was a pretty complicated process - but at least I could finish it. It doesn't matter how long it took, what matters is that it's done. Originally, using pianos wasn't a part of my plan - the step before it was to use violins and Pavellion strings, because violin is Rose's instrument. But I couldn't pull it off so I switched to extremely romantic pianos midway through production. However, if I did take the pianos off I feel this track would've suffered a lot of pain, barring its size. In the end there really wasn't much that survived of my original image of this track, but I'm still happy with what I ended up with. Lightfall was my first song published anywhere, so you could say this is a big song for me. + This piece was originally [[track:rozepiano|for CaNMT]], although it was still about the character Rose Lalonde. Perhaps you're wondering why someone would release a track on CaNMT, before putting it on LoFaM, but that was due to my joining LoFaM after this song was published. I worked on this song for nearly 2 months, so the production was a pretty complicated process - but at least I could finish it. It doesn't matter how long it took, what matters is that it's done. Originally, using pianos wasn't a part of my plan - the step before it was to use violins and Pavellion strings, because violin is Rose's instrument. But I couldn't pull it off so I switched to extremely romantic pianos midway through production. However, if I did take the pianos off I feel this track would've suffered a lot of pain, barring its size. In the end there really wasn't much that survived of my original image of this track, but I'm still happy with what I ended up with. Lightfall was my first song published anywhere, so you could say this is a big song for me. nights: (track artist, booklet commentary) - I envisioned the scene of Rose playing on LOLAR for this art as well as the song. I can't count how many timse I redrew this piece before finally getting it to look good, since I'm only a beginner at drawing scenery. I'm glad it turned out nicely in the end though. Also I gotta say, doing art for your own songs is kind of weird. :p + I envisioned the scene of Rose playing on LOLAR for this art as well as the song. I can't count how many times I redrew this piece before finally getting it to look good, since I'm only a beginner at drawing scenery. I'm glad it turned out nicely in the end though. Also I gotta say, doing art for your own songs is kind of weird. :p --- Track: Blanc Artists: @@ -3539,7 +3559,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- Sean Gorter: (composer, booklet commentary) - The base idea for this song's groove came about in late 2011 when I noticed the repeated piano riff was just an E-flat blues scale Radiation messed with, and I started laying it over a Latin-style chord rhythm and liked what I heard. I thought to myself, "this must be what it sonds like when the Midnight Crew just jams", and before I knew it I had a remix idea in my head. Something I've always loved about the original mix I did, poorly executed as it was, was how it took an idea we know to be so dark within the Homestuck universe and turned it into a light, relaxing, foot-tapping piece, something the Crew might have done in happier times. + The base idea for this song's groove came about in late 2011 when I noticed the repeated piano riff was just an E-flat blues scale [[artist:toby-fox|Radiation]] messed with, and I started laying it over a Latin-style chord rhythm and liked what I heard. I thought to myself, "this must be what it sounds like when the Midnight Crew just jams", and before I knew it I had a remix idea in my head. Something I've always loved about the original mix I did, poorly executed as it was, was how it took an idea we know to be so dark within the Homestuck universe and turned it into a light, relaxing, foot-tapping piece, something the Crew might have done in happier times. Daniel McDonald: (track artist, booklet commentary) @@ -3561,13 +3581,11 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- SplitSuns: (composer, booklet commentary) - This song was originally made for the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team]], but I went with a much more Homestuck slant than a cool and new one for this track. I wanted to take Upward Movement and change it into something more EDM and techno, so I chopped and screwed traditional strings and mixed them into the powerful drum tracks and synths you hear in the song. I wanted to include motifs from both Dave and Nepeta as they're two halves of Davepeta's whole. I also incorporated caws and meows for the same effect. Finally, I put the Undertale track CORE in the song because of that one scene in EOA6 (you know the one.) There's an additional reference at that point if you're listening carefully! Although this song was challenging to make, I think it turned out very well in the end. + This song was originally made for the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team]], but I went with a much more Homestuck slant than a cool and new one for this track. I wanted to take [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|Upward Movement]] and change it into something more EDM and techno, so I chopped and screwed traditional strings and mixed them with the powerful drum tracks and synths you hear in the song. I wanted to include motifs from both Dave and Nepeta as they're two halves of Davepeta's whole. I also incorporated caws and meows for the same effect. Finally, I put the Undertale track [[track:core|CORE]] in the song because of that one scene in [[flash:8087|EOA6]] ([you know the one.](https://youtu.be/Y5wYN6rB_Rg?t=670)⁠) There's an additional reference at that point if you're listening carefully! Although this song was challenging to make, I think it turned out very well in the end. Shadok: (track artist, booklet commentary) - this used to be a normal edit of the Upward Movement cover but greatest hits 2 happened on the cool and new music team so i decided to redo it. i experimented a lot with the shading but in the end, i kept something simple - - + this used to be [[track:collision-course-davepetas-movement|a normal edit]] of [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|the Upward Movement cover]] but [[album:greatest-hits-2|greatest hits 2]] happened on the cool and new music team so i decided [[track:collision-course-davepetas-movement-greatest-hits-2|to redo it]]. i experimented a lot with the shading but in the end, i kept something simple --- Track: Revisit/Rewind Originally Released As: track:revisit-rewind @@ -3585,45 +3603,49 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- ostrichlittledungeon: (composer, booklet commentary) - God, this was so much work. Oh yeah, and I lost the first half of the project file towards the end so I couldn't go back and edit it. Ugh. But all in all, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. The original plan was to go through the CANMT discography and pick the most iconic songs over time. If you're unfamiliar with its discography, I highly recommend you at least [[group:canmt|go give it a glance]]. I roughly settled on using Cascante, Tick/Tock, Fruity Pebbles Redux, Gunshow, Rex Mille Geromius, Doctor and Penumbra Phantasm (cool and new vol V), Contra (from Cool and New Homestuck), Moshi Moshi, Final Confrontation, Unintentional Touhou, In the Beginning/Contact, Formation, Jungle #3, Muse of Nanchos, Flintstones, Gunshow 2, and of course, the RCT theme and Bowman's credit score. Shoutouts to difarem for making the "it's between my buttocks" vocaloid for me. Revisit/Rewind, which is based heavily on Ascend, was released as the Cool and New Homestuck song for [S] Credits. + God, this was so much work. Oh yeah, and I lost the first half of the project file towards the end so I couldn't go back and edit it. Ugh. But all in all, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. The original plan was to go through the [[group:canmt|CANMT]] discography and pick the most iconic songs over time. If you're unfamiliar with its discography, I highly recommend you at least [[group-gallery:canmt|go give it a glance]]. I roughly settled on using [[track:cascante|Cascante]], [[track:tick|Tick]]/[[track:tock|Tock]], [[Fruity Pebbles Redux]], [[album:gunshow-singalong|Gunshow]], [[Rex Mille Geromius]], [[Doctor]] and [[Penumbra Phantasm]] ([[album:cool-and-new-volume-v|cool and new vol V]]), [[track:contra-canmt|Contra]] (from [[album:cool-and-new-homestuck|Cool and New Homestuck]]), [[track:moshi-moshi|Moshi Moshi]], [[Final Confrontation]], [[Unintentional Touhou]], [[track:in-the-beginning-basement-tale|In the Beginning]]/[[track:contact|Contact]], [[Formation]], [[track:jungle-3|Jungle #3]], [[Muse of Nanchos]], [[track:meet-the-flintstones|Flintstones]], [[track:gunshow-2-theme-instrumental|Gunshow 2]], and of course, [[track:rollercoaster-tycoon-theme|the RCT theme]] and [[track:bowmans-credit-score|Bowman's credit score]]. Shoutouts to [[artist:difarem|Difarem]] for making the "it's between my buttocks" vocaloid for me. Revisit/Rewind, which is based heavily on [[Ascend]], was released as the Cool and New Homestuck song for [\[S] Credits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UTMPTX45F8). Wheals: (album help, booklet commentary) - This art was made in like five hours on Christmas 2016 when i yelled at nights to make some John/Aradia art for Revisit/Rewind (it being based off Ascend, with its iconic John/Aradia art). That's basically the plot of The Christmas Carol and by writing this seven months later I'm now the Ghost of Christmas Future. I'll let Past Nights (the Ghost of Christmas Past) fill you in on the rest: + This art was made in like five hours on Christmas 2016 when i yelled at nights to make some John/Aradia art for Revisit/Rewind (it being based off [[Ascend]], with its iconic John/Aradia art). That's basically the plot of The Christmas Carol and by writing this seven months later I'm now the Ghost of Christmas Future. I'll let Past Nights (the Ghost of Christmas Past) fill you in on the rest: nights: (track artist, booklet commentary) - - -
- - References: - - - [[Doctor]] - 0:07–0:29, 1:30–2:18, 2:26–2:48 - - [[Cascade (Beta)]] - 0:15–0:44 - - [[Sburban Jungle]] - 0:16–0:42, 3:06–3:17, 3:42–3:50 - - [[Tick]] - 0:45–0:59 - - [[Fruity Pebbles Jingle]] - 0:45–1:14 - - [[Potato Knishes]] - 1:00–1:14 - - [[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]] - 1:15–1:29 - - [[Rex Mille Geromius]] - 1:22–1:29 - - [[Penumbra Phantasm]] - 1:34–2:03 - - [[Even in Death]] - 2:03–2:18 - - [[Space Jam]] - 2:03–2:18 - - [[Chorale for Jaspers]] - 2:03–2:10 - - [[At The Price of Oblivion]] - 2:11–2:14 - - [[track:contra-canmt]] - 2:18–2:48 - - [[track:MeGaLoVania|MeGaLoVania]] - 2:50–3:05 - - [[Moshi Moshi?]] - 2:50–3:05 - - [[track:unintentional-touhou]] - 3:05–3:20 - - [[CONTACT]] - 3:20–3:50 - - [[Upward Movement (Dave Owns)]] - 3:35–3:50 - - [[track:formation]] - 3:50–4:20 - - [[track:jungle-3]] - 4:13–4:20, 4:28–4:35 - - [[Muse of Nanchos]] - 4:20–4:35 - - [[Meet the Flintstones]] - 4:35–4:49 - - [[track:gunshow-2-theme-instrumental|Intro (Gunshow 2 Theme)]] - 4:50–5:29 - - [[RollerCoaster Tycoon Theme]] - 5:33–6:12 + Four Discord messages from nights: im doing the background / the bg is just / a giant dick / ok
+ Two messages: john and aradia are too lewd / theyre touching hands
+ One message: blue jonh and red aradia look like fucking pepsi
+ One message: commentary: i love microsoft + + Unofficial MSPA Fans: (booklet commentary) + + References + + - [[Doctor]] - [[artist:buzinkai]] (0:07–0:29, 1:30–2:18, 2:26–2:48) + - [[Cascade (Beta)]] - [[artist:tensei]] (0:15–0:44) + - [[Sburban Jungle]] - [[artist:michael-guy-bowman]] (0:16–0:42, 3:06–3:17, 3:42–3:50) + - [[Tick]] - [[artist:discfortune]] (0:30–0:44) + - [[Lord Spanish]] - [[artist:discfortune]] (0:45–0:59) + - [[Fruity Pebbles Jingle]] - [[artist:scott-stutzman]] (0:45–1:14) + - [[Potato Knishes]] - [[artist:ryan-dorin]] (1:00–1:14) + - [[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]] - [[artist:neil-cicierega|Lemon Demon (Neil Cicierega)]] (1:15–1:29) + - [[Rex Mille Geromius]] - [[artist:cookiefonster]] (1:22–1:29) + - [[Penumbra Phantasm]] - [[artist:toby-fox]] (1:34–2:03) + - [[Even in Death]] - [[artist:clark-powell]] (2:03–2:18) + - [[Space Jam]] - [[artist:quad-city-djs]] (2:03–2:18) + - [[Chorale for Jaspers]] - [[artist:michael-guy-bowman]] (2:03–2:10) + - [[track:at-the-price-of-oblivion|At the Price of Oblivion]] - [[artist:malcolm-brown]] (2:11–2:14) + - [[track:contra-canmt]] - [[artist:noisemaker]] (2:18–2:48) + - [[track:MeGaLoVania]] - [[artist:toby-fox]] (2:50–3:05) + - [[Moshi Moshi?]] - [[artist:discfortune]] (2:50–3:05) + - [[track:unintentional-touhou]] - [[artist:discfortune]] (3:05–3:20) + - [[CONTACT]] - [[artist:difarem]] (3:20–3:50) + - [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|Upward Movement]] - [[artist:kalibration]] (3:35–3:50) + - [[track:formation]] - [[artist:hadron]] (3:50–4:20) + - [[track:jungle-3]] - [[artist:cookiefonster]] (4:13–4:20, 4:28–4:35) + - [[Muse of Nanchos]] - [[artist:cookiefonster]] (4:20–4:35) + - [[Meet the Flintstones]] - [[artist:hoyt-curtin]], [[artist:joseph-barbera]], and [[artist:william-hanna]] (4:35–4:49) + - [[track:gunshow-2-theme-instrumental|Intro (Gunshow 2 Theme)]] - [[artist:ostrichlittledungeon]] (4:50–5:29) + - [[RollerCoaster Tycoon Theme]] - [[artist:allister-brimble]] (5:33–6:12) --- Track: Homestuck Sonata Artists: @@ -3644,7 +3666,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- David Ellis: (composer, booklet commentary) - Homestuck Sonata was written around the time we were submitting pieces for Volume 10. The idea was to write a piece that loosely followed the sonata form from [[Homestuck Anthem]] being the first theme and Penumbra Phantasm (via [[FantasyP]]) being the second. It's also intended as a left hand practice piece so the left hand is much busier than in most of my other work! + Homestuck Sonata was written around the time we were submitting pieces for [[album:homestuck-vol-10|Volume 10]]. The idea was to write a piece that loosely followed the sonata form with [[Homestuck Anthem]] being the first main theme and [[Penumbra Phantasm]] (via [[FantasyP]]) being the second. It's also intended as a left hand practice piece so the left hand is much busier than in most of my other work! Sozzay: (track artist, booklet commentary) @@ -3670,11 +3692,11 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- PatManDX: (track artist, booklet commentary) - RND and I used to collaborate on projects years ago so we've become very familiar with the other's work. When I first heard this track, back about 3 years ago, I knew I had to do the art for it. The song felt very grand and frenetic, while giving a sense of regality and awe, so I did my best to capture those feelings into the track art. I knew that I had to put in the White King as the main focus on the picture, since the song is a remix to a certain other song. There is a great emphasis on texture and desaturated colors, to help make the piece feel almost ilke a worn tapestry. I added a bloom filter to add to this effect. + [[artist:kurtis-burton|RND]] and I used to collaborate on projects years ago so we've become very familiar with the other's work. When I first heard this track, back about 3 years ago, I knew I had to do the art for it. The song felt very grand and frenetic, while giving a sense of regality and awe, so I did my best to capture those feelings into the track art. I knew that I had to put in the White King as the main focus on the picture, since the song is a remix to [[track:white-king|a certain other song]]. There is a great emphasis on texture and desaturated colors, to help make the piece feel almost like a worn tapestry. I added a bloom filter to add to this effect. Kal-la-kal-la: (album help, booklet commentary) - Musing upon the king and my brother's wreck, and upon the king my father's death before him. White bodies naked on the low damp ground, and bones cast in a little low dry garret, rattled by the rat's foot only, year to year. + Musing upon the king my brother's wreck, and upon the king my father's death before him. White bodies naked on the low damp ground, and bones cast in a little low dry garret, rattled by the rat's foot only, year to year. A rhythmic, galloping reel brings to mind our lost monarchs. --- @@ -3718,10 +3740,10 @@ Lyrics: >- Commentary: |- Sam Garcia: (track artist, booklet commentary) - This song is about the beta kids so i drew them like if they were in a cd/disc. I did it like that because the transitions between different moments of the song reminded me of a movie or song playing. So basically i drew this how i thought a cd for hoemstuck would kind of look like. + This song is about the beta kids so i drew them like if they were in a cd/disc. I did it like that because the transitions between different moments of the song reminded me of a movie or song playing. So basically i drew this how i thought a cd for homestuck would kind of look like. keyboard cait: (album team, booklet commentary) - There were a few possible choices for the last track on this truly HUGE album, but none quite felt so conclusive or right as Astartus' contribution. After mood highs and mood lows, thrills and relaxations, we get to cap it all off with a spectacular victory sequence for our original kids and the game they played. And we are all so, so, so proud of them. Bless you, Beta Kids. We'll see you on the flipside. + There were a few possible choices for the last track on this truly HUGE album, but none quite felt so conclusive or right as [[artist:kris-flacke|Astartus']] contribution. After mood highs and mood lows, thrills and relaxations, we get to cap it all off with a spectacular victory sequence for our original kids and the game they played. And we are all so, so, so proud of them. Bless you, Beta Kids. We'll see you on the flipside. - P.S. If you don't know what spectograms are... now would be a useful time to learn. + P.S. If you don't know what spectrograms are... now would be a useful time to learn. diff --git a/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml b/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml index 5ad80b0d..4143972f 100644 --- a/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml +++ b/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml @@ -11786,6 +11786,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Track: Safe Return Artists: - 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' +- The Track Team - Jeremy Zuckerman - Benjamin Wynn Duration: 0:25 -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5