From b5cef60118f93063f22dbe15ce82a8181cada700 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lilithtreasure <62890895+Lilithtreasure@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2026 15:17:27 -0500 Subject: keyboard cait soundcloud links + soundcloud commentary (+ excerpts) for most keyboard cait umspaf tracks --- album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ album/diverging-delicacies.yaml | 4 ++++ album/lofam4.yaml | 14 ++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 36 insertions(+) (limited to 'album') diff --git a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml index f963561c..da2d495b 100644 --- a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml +++ b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml @@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ Duration: 3:48 URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/nannas-new-groove - https://youtu.be/3xka38s_wYY +- https://soundcloud.com/ndividedbyzero/nannas-new-groove Cover Artists: - TheChaoMaster Art Tags: @@ -128,6 +129,11 @@ Commentary: |- At first I considered making this track electroswing, but that's a bit out of my range. I think this works well as a compromise! Think of this as the soundscape to an elderly clown grandma (clownma?) throwing pies at you forever, but in a good natured way, a way where you both laugh at the absurdity of it all, except when the fifth pie is thrown you laugh a little less hard because the joke is starting to get stale, and by the time the tenth pie is thrown you start to want to go home and wonder if the clownma still finds it funny, and she does, still not in a mean spirited way, not because of the pie and not because of the frown on your face, but because she knows the joke is stale and you know the joke is stale and yet it keeps happening in spite of its staleness and that mutual understanding really only underlines the absurdity of it all. The clownma is pretty good at pranks, all things considered. + + keyboard cait: ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/ndividedbyzero/nannas-new-groove), excerpt, 2/18/2019) + + a good song to drink a nice cup of tea to while also telling jokes from the roaring twenties to your grandchildren. but not the bad ones. + TheChaoMaster: in this household we stan Jane Crocker/Nanna Egbert. --- @@ -310,6 +316,7 @@ Duration: 3:54 URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-dave-strider-experience - https://youtu.be/cXXGaaHE7W8 +- https://soundcloud.com/ndividedbyzero/the-dave-strider-experience Cover Artists: - dazed-squid Art Tags: @@ -347,6 +354,11 @@ Commentary: |- he is THE BIG MAN, and we are all in his court. heads are about to roll. MISC NOTES: this piece started with me thinking "hm, i really want to use running hell in this dave song" and then the rest kind of flowed from there. in that segment, you may note that violent j seems to alternate between lamenting the presence of "THE WITCH" and singing her praises. i feel as though if an alien queen actually appeared to install the insane clown posse as figureheads of a government responsible for the deaths of billions, it would have to involve some sort of mental manipulation on her part, because honestly, icp seem like sort of decent upstanding folks in reality? like violent j wholeheartedly supports his daughter being a furry so he seems to be a nice dad at least. shit, in this political climate they might not be half bad as dual presidents, comparatively, and they're literal clowns. thanks to grace for recommending i use icp's seminal and apparent manifesto, "What Is A Juggalo", whose lyrics you should look up because they are just truly incredible. the section it transitions to, where the nightcore becomes ambient noise, is meant to symbolize the tense standoff between dave and icp before he cuts their heads off, but also it was mostly tongue in cheek. waters of nazareth also plays during that section very faintly, which partly symbolizes that in parallel to this event rose is executing the antichrist over a waterfall, but that was something i just made up now. more intentionally, sampling waters of nazareth badly in a strider song contrasts with the fantastic use of the sample in splitsuns' [[track:thyme-on-my-fries]]. (love ya split). oh god this was a wall of text. i'm done now bye + + keyboard cait: ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/ndividedbyzero/the-dave-strider-experience), excerpt, 2/18/2019) + + composing this was really just a series of me going "wow, she really went there?" to myself. yeah, me, she really did. + dazed-squid: I kinda wanted to show Alpha Dave as a simple sturdy figure in a messy messy background because that's how Dirk saw him? Super cool and collected in all the chaos surrounding him. Also suits. --- @@ -838,6 +850,7 @@ Duration: 4:55 URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/singularity - https://youtu.be/Gfb17_RW2M0 +- https://soundcloud.com/ndividedbyzero/singularity Cover Artists: - Aeritus Art Tags: @@ -852,6 +865,11 @@ Commentary: |- keyboard cait: This track originates from an idea I had in 2014 to make a track about Calliope and Caliborn's parents. Five years later, it's finally done, stitched together from the composition and/or actual audio clips of like 4 FLPs (I went through about 6, all in all). Funnily enough, the scribbles I had for this song in 2014 then are completely different composition-wise from what ended up being made, but the narrative loosely remains in this track: the cherubs' mother drifts through space, searching for her mate. She spots him, taking off at full speed, following him as he leaves a trail of destruction across the universe. Their eventual meeting is tense, cold. Saying nothing, they transform into unfathomable astral serpents, and battle to create the most innocent muse and most shitheaded gremlin to ever exist. I attribute the latter half of this track to listening to a lot of Hawaii: Part II, which is also sampled at the end. Listen to Hawaii: Part II. + + keyboard cait: ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/ndividedbyzero/singularity), excerpt, 2/18/2019) + + fl studio crashed so many times while trying to make this. many times in the 5 year process of making this and its predecessors + Ephemerald: (commentary help) The game of choice for cherubs seems to be chess, or at least, some neon-green candy-red shitty-twist variant of the game, but I'm getting real playing card motifs here. Two identical, serpentine warriors, millions and millions of miles long, locked in a symmetrical whirlwind of a strife. Reminds me of the art to [[track:noirscape]] back on Volume 9, though that's a more literal example. The spiraling, iconic egg in the middle, shining like a light in the darkness, is a very clear reminder of what these two are fighting for: the right to force their opponent to give birth to literally the worst entity in all of existence. But I suppose it didn't matter who won or who lost. After all, he was already there. --- diff --git a/album/diverging-delicacies.yaml b/album/diverging-delicacies.yaml index 925b1ec2..1f1acc2d 100644 --- a/album/diverging-delicacies.yaml +++ b/album/diverging-delicacies.yaml @@ -187,6 +187,10 @@ Referenced Tracks: - The Lyrist - The Paradox Paradigm - Swing of the Clock +Commentary: |- + keyboard cait: ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/ndividedbyzero/the-rarest-and-most-interpretive-dance-meatcabre), excerpt, 3/1/2020) + + The curtain calls. --- Track: Irrelevance Event Horizon Artists: diff --git a/album/lofam4.yaml b/album/lofam4.yaml index b015e348..48aa23cd 100644 --- a/album/lofam4.yaml +++ b/album/lofam4.yaml @@ -718,6 +718,7 @@ Duration: 2:33 URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/retconjuration - https://youtu.be/OaT69NSo3Ds +- https://soundcloud.com/ndividedbyzero/retconjuration Cover Artists: - William Leonard Art Tags: @@ -735,6 +736,14 @@ Commentary: |- Some trivia: this song was named after an update discussion thread on the old MSPA forums. Apparently, that thread was in turn named after [a TVTropes page](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Retconjuration). Also, alongside a [[Homestuck Anthem]] quote at the end, the music box refrain featured throughout the song quotes [[track:windchime-foley|the foley]] on [[flash:82|Homestuck's title page]]. That's both because it's where the retcon arms first appear, and because I always wanted to reference those windchimes. Now you know! + keyboard cait: ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/ndividedbyzero/retconjuration), excerpt, 10/26/2016) + + "[The Treasure] is an obvious symbol of our desire to see more transparency from the Obama administration." -Andrew Hussie + + [...] + + "post-retcon" ver. might need a little mixing work still + William Leonard: (booklet commentary) I've always loved the 'John's retocn adventures' section of Homestuck, and I think it has to do with how it leads both the characters and myself along a brisk rollercoaster of twists and turns, through unknown paths - this sense of adventure is what I tried to convey in this art. @@ -3323,6 +3332,7 @@ Duration: 4:10 URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/juju-breaker - https://youtu.be/W46m0Qyes5g +- https://soundcloud.com/ndividedbyzero/juju-breaker Track Artwork: - Artists: - Griever @@ -3349,6 +3359,10 @@ Commentary: |- 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. + keyboard cait: ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/ndividedbyzero/juju-breaker), excerpt, 2/8/2016) + + a tune dedicated to crowbar and the multi-universal journey of his crowbar. + Griever: (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, to. Makes my job easier. -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5