Album: Magnum Opus
Date: March 22, 2023
Date Added: April 13, 2024
URLs:
- https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/album/magnum-opus
Cover Artists:
- ghastaboo
Cover Art File Extension: png
Track Art File Extension: png
Color: '#DD3B87'
Groups:
- Deconreconstruction
- Fandom
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Section: Main album
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Track: Otzar
Artists:
- Rabooski
Cover Artists:
- DDP
Duration: 1:58
URLs:
- https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/track/otzar
- https://soundcloud.com/rab-cant-think-of-a-url/otzar
---
Track: Null Node
Artists:
- Cristata
Cover Artists:
- Awkward
Duration: 3:52
URLs:
- https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/track/null-node
---
Track: Mass Hysteria
Artists:
- dbnet18
Cover Artists:
- ghastaboo
Duration: 3:21
URLs:
- https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/track/mass-hysteria
---
Track: Crafting The Craftables
Artists:
- Levc
Cover Artists:
- Noxen
Duration: 2:56
URLs:
- https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/track/crafting-the-craftables
---
Track: Eye Of Providence
Artists:
- Rainy
Cover Artists:
- rurichoo
Duration: 2:02
URLs:
- https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/track/eye-of-providence
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=364-nDrFw2I
- https://soundcloud.com/user-552040225/vast-error-magnum-opus-eye-of-providence
Referenced Tracks:
- Eye of Providence [Demo]
- Waltz In The Static Void
Commentary: |-
    <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=364-nDrFw2I) / [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/user-552040225/vast-error-magnum-opus-eye-of-providence) descriptions)

    Out of all 3 songs, Eye of providence is the only one that wasn’t retooled for another character or purpose.  Like all my songs on this album, this was intended for vol.6 as a character theme for Metatron. The main influence from this track was Toby Fox’s early homestuck “” chiptune”” work using NES Pulse, Tri and Noise. To be blunt, these plugins are pretty shit for creating believable chiptune instruments but they have a distinct crust to their sound, so I’ll let it slide. As a challenge to myself, I decided to write within NES channel limitations and only use 5 channels for my various instruments. The result is a song that tries to do a lot with very little. There’s really not a whole lot going on in this track but I think the track conveys the whimsical, yet all seeing nature of Metatron well enough.
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Track: Wandering Waltz
Artists:
- Rabooski
Cover Artists:
- diz
Duration: 2:38
URLs:
- https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/track/wandering-waltz
- https://soundcloud.com/rab-cant-think-of-a-url/wandering-waltz
Referenced Tracks:
- Slithering Samba
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Track: Catacombs
Suffix Directory: true
Always Reference By Directory: true
Artists:
- artist:kobacat
Cover Artists:
- Y33H0Ws
Duration: 4:04
URLs:
- https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/track/catacombs
---
Track: Battle Against An Unyielding Foe
Additional Names:
- Name: >-
    Battle Against an Unyielding Foe (feat. Votl)
  Annotation: >-
    [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4AM88SfXHo)
- Name: >-
    Battle Against an Unyielding Foe (Feat. Votl)
  Annotation: >-
    [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/user-552040225/vast-error-magnum-opus-battle-against-an-unyielding-foe-feat-votl), minus album name
- Name: Atomsplitter
  Annotation: original name
Artists:
- Rainy (composition, arrangement, production)
Contributors:
- Rainy (mastering)
- Alex Votl (guitar pick scrapes)
Cover Artists:
- Prab
Duration: 2:53
URLs:
- https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/track/battle-against-an-unyielding-foe
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4AM88SfXHo
- https://soundcloud.com/user-552040225/vast-error-magnum-opus-battle-against-an-unyielding-foe-feat-votl
Commentary: |-
    <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4AM88SfXHo) / [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/user-552040225/vast-error-magnum-opus-battle-against-an-unyielding-foe-feat-votl) descriptions)

    Like most of the songs I wrote for Magnum Opus, BAaUF,  was initially intended for volume 6 but wound up on here when some of the songs were retooled for this album. It was initially titled "Atomsplitter" and was originally intended to be a Dismas Track since dude hasn’t had any music specifically about him since Vol.4 (which I will rectify mark my words). This track in particular was directly inspired by the [“Altered Beast Suite”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4odRl9np7rA) off of King Gizzard’s “Murder of the Universe” album, specifically [“Altered Beast III.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXZ55v0RIcM) The whole song started with me writing a riff in 6/4 and the whole track or less was built out from there. Funnily enough, Votl actually gave me the idea for the to incorporate 7/4 into this song when he misheard the riff as being alternating measures of 6/4 and 7/4. While I didn’t do that in the song, I did make it so that the main riff, I did make it so that riff ends with a single bar of 7/4 before starting again. This might be one of my most complex songs just given the fact that it goes through like 5 different time signatures through the whole thing. At one point, it literally had a math equation to capture all the rhythmic changes going on. I digress, but I’m very proud of how it came together and happy how the pick scrapes by Votl added to the piece.
---
Track: Crown Jewels
Artists:
- Cristata
Cover Artists:
- pointblankerror
Duration: 5:22
URLs:
- https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/track/crown-jewels
---
Track: Insecurity
Suffix Directory: true
Always Reference By Directory: true
Artists:
- artist:kobacat
Cover Artists:
- Ly
Duration: 6:21
URLs:
- https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/track/insecurity
Referenced Tracks:
- track:secure-vast-error
---
Track: By My Blade (Justice Is Served)
Additional Names:
- Name: >-
    By My Blade (Justice is Served) (feat [@dbnet18](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa46F53RUfEYG6UMP56dxOw) )
  Annotation: >-
    [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok3_j2kUahY)
- Name: >-
    By My Blade (Justice Is Served) (feat dbnet)
  Annotation: >-
    [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/user-552040225/vast-error-magnum-opus-by-my-blade-justice-is-served-feat-dbnet), minus album name
Artists:
- Rainy (composition, arrangement, production)
- dbnet18 (composition, arrangement, production)
Contributors:
- dbnet18 (mastering)
Cover Artists:
- artist:dizzims
Duration: 2:16
URLs:
- https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/track/by-my-blade-justice-is-served
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok3_j2kUahY
- https://soundcloud.com/user-552040225/vast-error-magnum-opus-by-my-blade-justice-is-served-feat-dbnet
Referenced Tracks:
- By My Blade (Justice Is Served) [Demo 3]
- By My Blade (Justice Is Served) [Demo 4]
Commentary: |-
    <i>Rainy:</i> ([YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok3_j2kUahY))

    As you are probably astutely aware of at this point, By My Blade is collaboration between me and dbnet. I’ve actually been a pretty big fan of his VE work for long time prior to joining the music team and I thought it would be a cool idea to collab with him on a song. He agreed and I got to immediately starting cooking up a melodic idea for us to work on. Within an hour of tooling around on piano, I had the main melody and we got to work. From there, the collab mostly consisted tossing an FLP + stems back and forth while adding to each other’s ideas. When dbnet arranged the initial idea he gave it a “very homestuck era Toby Fox” feel, so I decided to lean into that a bit and take influence from [[“The Blind Prophet”]] by incorporating Shreddage guitar and MMX2 instruments. Neither of us really had a concept going into making BMB but I eventually settled on making it a Vigilant Protector track given how heroic it sounds. It works shockingly well as a battlefield theme too. Anyway, you should give dbnet’s work a listen if you haven’t already, he’s pretty good at music imo.
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Track: Anode Tube
Artists:
- dbnet18
Track Artwork:
- Artists:
  - Dust Medium
- Label: Alternate artwork
  Directory: alternate
  Attach Above: true
  File Extension: jpg
  Source: >-
    [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/user-201967720/anode-tube)
Duration: 5:34
URLs:
- https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/track/anode-tube
- https://soundcloud.com/user-201967720/anode-tube
Referenced Tracks:
- Girl You Need A Shot (Of B12 [Boyz 12])
- girl you need a shot of b12
- Cathode Ray
# Sampled Tracks:
# - Mark's Pizzeria Advertisement
Commentary: |-
    <i>dbnet18:</i> ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/user-201967720/anode-tube), 3/22/2023)

    Bet you weren't expecting [[Cathode Ray]] V2!
---
Track: The Instant White-Hot Wild
Artists:
- Cerulean
Cover Artists:
- diz
Duration: 2:24
URLs:
- https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/track/the-instant-white-hot-wild
---
Track: Weird Alchemy
Artists:
- Gryotharian
Cover Artists:
- RAMGODD
Cover Art File Extension: jpg
Duration: 5:54
URLs:
- https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/track/weird-alchemy
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwVa3Pshj0Q
Referenced Tracks:
- Hardware Store
- NOW That's What I Call Polka!
- Amish Paradise
- track:perfection-vast-error
---
Track: Soulbound
Suffix Directory: true
Always Reference By Directory: true
Artists:
- Rabooski
Cover Artists:
- artist:dizzims
Duration: 4:20
URLs:
- https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/track/soulbound
- https://soundcloud.com/rab-cant-think-of-a-url/soulbound
Referenced Tracks:
- One Step Closer
- Together Forever
- Let You Break My Heart Again
---
Track: To Heaven, We Burn
Artists:
- bright0n
Cover Artists:
- ghastaboo
Duration: 4:05
URLs:
- https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/track/to-heaven-we-burn
---
Track: Kheparia
Artists:
- Rom M
Cover Artists:
- captkirkland
Duration: 7:24
URLs:
- https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/track/kheparia
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPeomJsCvRY
- https://soundcloud.com/romm_music/kheparia
Referenced Tracks:
- track:perfection-vast-error
---
Track: Analemma
Artists:
- Ephemerald
Contributors:
- SplitSuns (mixing)
Track Artwork:
- Artists:
  - captkirkland
- Label: Alternate artwork
  Directory: alternate
  File Extension: gif
  Attach Above: true
  Tags:
  - 'cw: eye strain'
  Source: album download
  File Notes: >-
    Downscaled - see additional files for original GIF file
Duration: 9:20
URLs:
- https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/track/analemma
- https://soundcloud.com/ephemeralemerald/analemma
Referenced Tracks:
- track:9-25
- Rush Job
- Go With The Flow
- track:wish-you-were-here-pink-floyd
- track:replica-oneohtrix-point-never
- dream tape
- The Choir Invisible
- track:intro-c418
- Reach for the Dead
- Soul Scour
- I am now alone
- 'USA II: The Great American Desert'
- data.vortex
- CD Factory
- track:heat-brock-hampton
- Last Time I Saw You
- Does It Look Like I'm Here?
- Famous Prophets (Stars)
- Mouse Trap
- Festival of the Dark
- No Surrender
- Feedbacker, Pt. 4
- loather
- Opening The Mouth
- Providence
- track:one-level
- Welcome to the Machine
- information
- The Downward Spiral
- The Universe is Before You
- Somebody Home
- Commercial Break
- someone else
- Transmission 3
- I Have a Special Plan for This World
# Sampled Tracks:
# - chris††† — broadcast
# - Audio from "WHAT HAPPENED TO CROW 64?"
# - Audio from Regular Show
Additional Files:
- Title: Alternate artwork (original file)
  Description: Included in the album download.
  Files: [Analemma (Alt).gif]
Commentary:
    <i>Vast Error:</i>

    There are many who have designs upon this world
    And dream of wild and vast reformations
    I have heard them talking in their sleep
    Of elegant mutations
    And cunning annihilations
    I have heard them whispering in the corners of crooked houses
    And in the alleys and narrow back streets of this crooked creaking universe
    Which they, with their new designs, would make straight and sound
    But each of these new and ill-conceived designs
    Is deranged in its heart
    For they see this world as if it were alone and original
    And not as only one of countless others
    Whose nightmares all proceed
    Like a hideous garden grown from a single seed
    I have heard these dreamers talking in their sleep
    And I stand waiting for them
    As at the top of a darkened flight of stairs
    They know nothing of me
    And none of the secrets of my special plan
    While I know every crooked creaking step of theirs

    <i>Ephemerald:</i> ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/ephemeralemerald/analemma), 3/22/2023)

    For my next trick, a "one-note" symphony inspired by the nature of Vast Error's solitary universe. It's gone through many cycles with many inhabitants, all playing the same Game in pursuit of a new beginning — while striving to avoid "perfection." It's a cycle that you can chart in the sky. Let's say you were to take a picture of the sun at the same place on Earth, at the same time, every day of the year for a year. The sun would make a lopsided figure-eight pattern — an analemma.

    And yes, I made this one in Audacity too.
Referencing Sources: |-
    @@ [Bandcamp about blurb](https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/track/analemma)

    Includes samples from:

    Audio from Regular Show<br>
    Global Communication — [[track:9-25|9:25]]<br>
    Sheena Ringo — [[track:rush-job|やっつけ仕事]]<br>
    Queens of the Stone Age — [[Go With the Flow]]<br>
    Pink Floyd — [[track:wish-you-were-here-pink-floyd|Wish You Were Here]]<br>
    FM Skyline — [[dream tape]]<br>
    Chris Christodoulou — [[The Choir Invisible]]<br>
    chris††† — broadcast<br>
    Oneohtrix Point Never — [[track:replica-oneohtrix-point-never|Replica]]<br>
    C418 — [[track:intro-c418|Intro]]<br>
    Boards of Canada — [[Reach for the Dead]]<br>
    Dai — [[Soul Scour]]<br>
    death’s dynamic shroud — [[track:i-am-now-alone|혼자 남은 지금 꼴이]]<br>
    Dan Deacon — [[track:usa-ii-the-great-american-desert|USA II: The Great American Desert]]<br>
    Ryoji Ikeda — [[data.vortex]]<br>
    death’s dynamic shroud — [[track:cd-factory|CD Factory / 드라마]]<br>
    BROCKHAMPTON — [[track:heat-brock-hampton|HEAT]]<br>
    Skyramps — [[Last Time I Saw You]]<br>
    Emeralds — [[Does it Look Like I’m Here?]]<br>
    Car Seat Headrest — [[Famous Prophets (Stars)]]<br>
    Ride — [[Mouse Trap]]<br>
    Kikuo — [[Festival of the Dark]]<br>
    Andy Stott — [[No Surrender]]<br>
    Boris — [[Feedbacker, Pt. 4]]<br>
    goreshit — [[loather]]<br>
    Boards of Canada — [[Opening the Mouth]]<br>
    Godspeed You! Black Emperor — [[Providence]]<br>
    Disasterpeace — [[track:one-level|One]]<br>
    Pink Floyd — [[Welcome to the Machine]]<br>
    Chuck Person — [[information]]<br>
    Nine Inch Nails — [[The Downward Spiral]]<br>
    Disasterpeace — [[The Universe is Before You]]<br>
    death’s dynamic shroud — [[Somebody Home]]<br>
    Audio from “WHAT HAPPENED TO CROW 64?”<br>
    father2006 — [[someone else]]<br>
    DJ Shadow — [[Transmission 3]]<br>
    Current 93 — [[I Have a Special Plan For This World]]<br>
    Me

    <i>Ephemerald:</i> ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/ephemeralemerald/analemma), 3/22/2023)

    SAMPLE LIST:

    Audio from Regular Show<br>
    Global Communication — [[9-25|9:25]]<br>
    Sheena Ringo — [[track:rush-job|やっつけ仕事]]<br>
    Queens of the Stone Age — [[Go With the Flow]]<br>
    Pink Floyd — [[track:wish-you-were-here-pink-floyd|Wish You Were Here]]<br>
    Oneohtrix Point Never — [[track:replica-oneohtrix-point-never|Replica]]<br>
    FM Skyline — [[dream tape]]<br>
    Chris Christodoulou — [[The Choir Invisible]]<br>
    chris††† — broadcast<br>
    Audio from “WHAT HAPPENED TO CROW 64?”<br>
    —<br>
    Oneohtrix Point Never — [[track:replica-oneohtrix-point-never|Replica]]<br>
    C418 — [[track:intro-c418|Intro]]<br>
    Boards of Canada — [[Reach for the Dead]]<br>
    Dai — [[Soul Scour]]<br>
    death’s dynamic shroud — [[track:i-am-now-alone|혼자 남은 지금 꼴이]]<br>
    Dan Deacon — [[track:usa-ii-the-great-american-desert|USA II: The Great American Desert]]<br>
    Ryoji Ikeda — [[data.vortex]]<br>
    death’s dynamic shroud — [[track:cd-factory|CD Factory / 드라마]]<br>
    BROCKHAMPTON — [[track:heat-brock-hampton|HEAT]]<br>
    Skyramps — [[Last Time I Saw You]]<br>
    Emeralds — [[Does it Look Like I’m Here?]]<br>
    Car Seat Headrest — [[Famous Prophets (Stars)]]<br>
    Ride — [[Mouse Trap]]<br>
    Kikuo — [[Festival of the Dark]]<br>
    Andy Stott — [[No Surrender]]<br>
    Boris — [[Feedbacker, Pt. 4]]<br>
    goreshit — [[loather]]<br>
    Boards of Canada — [[Opening the Mouth]]<br>
    Godspeed You! Black Emperor — [[Providence]]<br>
    Disasterpeace — [[track:one-level|One]]<br>
    Pink Floyd — [[Welcome to the Machine]]<br>
    Chuck Person — [[information]]<br>
    Nine Inch Nails — [[The Downward Spiral]]<br>
    Disasterpeace — [[The Universe is Before You]]<br>
    death’s dynamic shroud — [[Somebody Home]]<br>
    Audio from “WHAT HAPPENED TO CROW 64?”<br>
    SplitSuns — [[Commercial Break]]<br>
    father2006 — [[someone else]]<br>
    DJ Shadow — [[Transmission 3]]<br>
    Current 93 — [[I Have a Special Plan For This World]]<br>
    Global Communication — [[track:9-25|9:25]]<br>
    Me
---
Section: Bonus tracks
---
Track: Euphoria
Suffix Directory: true
Always Reference By Directory: true
Additional Names:
- Name: >-
    BONUS: Euphoria
  Annotation: >-
    [Bandcamp](https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/track/bonus-euphoria),
    album download
Artists:
- Cerulean
Cover Artists:
- mothistopheIes
Duration: 3:05
URLs:
- https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/track/bonus-euphoria
Referenced Tracks:
- track:absolute-vast-error
---
Track: Coronal Mass Ejection [Beta]
Additional Names:
- Name: >-
    BONUS: Coronal Mass Ejection [Beta]
  Annotation: >-
    [Bandcamp](https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/track/bonus-coronal-mass-ejection-beta), album download
- Name: >-
    Coronal Mass Ejection
  Annotation: >-
    [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/rab-cant-think-of-a-url/coronal-mass-ejection)
Artists:
- Rabooski
Cover Artists:
- Noxen
Duration: 4:54
URLs:
- https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/track/bonus-coronal-mass-ejection-beta
- https://soundcloud.com/rab-cant-think-of-a-url/coronal-mass-ejection
Referenced Tracks:
- Eeyore
- (sic)
- Killing in the Name
- Black
# Sampled Tracks:
# - Audio from Megamind
