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BEFORUS
+
A collaborative Homestuck fan soundtrack album
in three discs.
+ Commentary booklet assembled by Blackhole (Not-Terezi-Pyrope). + Track commentaries authored by the respective fan artists and fan musicians. Track art is the property of the individual listed visual artist. The Beforus fan album and related media are brought to you by the Beforus Album Team and Blackhole Media, and are unofficial fanworks based on Andrew Hussie's Homestuck. + Homestuck is a property of Andrew Hussie and What Pumpkin. +
+ Gilwing: + I'm so grateful for the privilege of illustrating the album cover! I don't think I've ever put so many characters in one illustration before, so it was an experience trying to fit them all in together. It's based off of where the trolls lived before starting their game, with Meenah having run away to the pink moon while everyone else is on Beforus, as well as my track art for [[Cosmic Malfunction]] by Ducky Senpai, which also has to do with people chilling on space orbs. It was really hard to find a balance with all these guys, while at the same time knowing it has to represent the entire album and all of the people working on it. It was a unique challenge but I had a blast, I hope I did it justice! +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: ♪ Disc 1 ♪ +Directory: disc1-beforus +Artist: Blackhole +Track Art: Elanor Pam +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/disc-1 +Commentary: + Blackhole: + The music here is one of three short bookend pieces I wrote for the start of each Disc, each a section of a longer piece, "Preludes to Beforus". They are not particularly exciting in and of themselves, so instead I'll speak a little about Disc 1 itself. Disc 1 is the part of the album initially designed to contain the twelve "principal tracks", invisaged as the main theme for each of the twelve Beforan trolls. At the start of the project, musicians could actually reserve these spots, but a lot of shuffling happened towards the end. Eventually, each troll ended up having multiple themes on the album, but Disc 1 still contains what can probably be considered their "main" theme, due to its location at the start of the album. With only twelve tracks and the short bookend piece, Disc 1 is far smaller than the longer Disc 2 section. + Elanor Pam: + This is the third artwork I completed for the project, and once again it ended up being a broup shot-- this time at the mod's request. Since it was the introductory artwork for Disc 1, it felt appropriate to me to depect them on the place where it all started, where Meenah claimed to have found the game after running away from her duties: the Pink Moon. And where the game is, so there must be a Frog Temple. Right? +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: ♈ - Fatalism +Artist: Neon Zenith +Track Art: Amelia G. +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/fatalism-2 +Lyrics: + Your life was so miserable oh such a waste! + It’s all cause your friends had just spat in your face.
You used to be fearful that you’d make mistakes, but
your meekness and sweetness have faded away.
And under it all now your blood starts to boil;
You’ll make them all pay for your trouble and toil!
Your boyfriend was cheating and left you distraught.
But Meenah was meaner oh who would’ve thought
that her actions intended to help you along;
and you must know somehow that she wasn’t wrong.
The future is coming; they’ll just have to wait,
but you are determined they’ll all meet their fate. + CHORUSx2 + Why do you feel that we’re always against
something that detriments good consequence?
Why do you try to advocate strife;
living an alternate life? + The Handmaiden comes as a beacon of doom;
she reshapes the past as you watch from your room,
and now looking back you can see what she’s done.
The battle is over but who really won?
You’re being controlled by a glimmering voice;
there’s nothing to do ‘cause theres really no choice;
You’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t.
You want to rebel but you know that you wont
be yourself if you do, how could you go on?
You’re trying to help but what’s right is also what’s wrong
but you have to believe
that you are a person the world really needs. + CHORUSx2 +Commentary: + Neon Zenith: + This work was originally intended as a simple cover for a competition on battleofthebits.org. To make it more unique, I took some inspiration from a song by maxvdubs and wrote some original lyrics; originally they were written about the plot of Dark Souls and the frustrating sense of hopelessness within. When considering what sort of song to make for this album, I realised how well the lyrics seemed to resonate with the story of Damara Megido, and adapted them accordingly. I also recently created an introductory segment (based on the pre-chorus and chorus of the song) intended to depict a sort of inner turmoil as one enters a dark period of their life and is confronted with various emotions including despair, horror, and hatred. + The name of the song refers to the concept of rpedetermination and fate. Damara's wiki page notes that she holds "much fatalism and frustration" within herself; considering that I had named the set of Souls-themed lyrics "Frustration," it felt somewhat fitting that "Fatalism" be its counterpart. Note that although the lyrics are mostly directed towards Damara, the second and third stanzas of the second verse refer to the Handmaiden and her service to Lord English. (Many thanks to my friend Chris for helping me better understand the plot details.) + Amelia G.: + Drawing this piece and listening to Neon Zenith's song really made me look at Damara differently. I wanted to highlight the inner turmoil that people tend to look over, adding the Handmaiden to show those feelings that she hides. Damara is an incredibly interesting character, and I was just telling someone that I don't draw enough Megidos. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: ♉ - Breathtak1ng +Artist: Rhyselinn +Track Art: doodlebonez +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/breathtak1ng +References: +- Do The Windy Thing +- dESPERADO ROCKET CHAIRS, +- Bronze Rebel +- The Lost Child +- iRRRRRRRRECONCILA8LE +- Penumbra Phantasm +- Doctor +Commentary: + Rhyselinn: + Hi! I'm Rhyselinn, the composer for Rufioh Nitram's track "Breathtak1ng." + I admit, I had difficulty trying to categorize the Nitrams' music while doing research for this track. By my best estimation, Breathtak1ng is an upbeat flamenco/salsa hybrid. It includes excerpts from (in approximate order): [[Do The Windy Thing]], [[dESPERADO ROCKET CHAIRS,]] [[Bronze Rebel]], [[iRRRRRRRRECONCILA8LE]], and [[Savior of the Waking World]]. (And the ending is reminiscent of [[Infinity Mechanism]], for whatever that's worth.) + The middle section also includes excerpts from [[The Lost Child]], a Damara Megido song, and some machinery noises in homage to Horuss Zahhak. Rufioh's character arc in Openbound focuses heavily on his romantic entanglements with these two characters, so I wanted Breathtak1ng to emphasize Rufioh's nature as a freedom-oriented Breath player, and portray him breaking free of these toxic attachments. As a result, the two interludes feel darker and less energetic to contrast the moment iRRRRRRRRECONCILA8LE kicks in. That's when Rufioh metaphorically spreads his wings, breaks free of those binding attachments, and is finally able to fly and succeed in the most amazing, breathtaking way. + doodlebonez: + The idea for this art was to have Rufioh flying away from the ones who have made his life hard. The papers flying about are meant to be seen as him finally pursuing what he loves. Ideally I would have loved to have him fly into the sun, but as I imagined him as being alive rather than dead, this was not ideal. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: ♊ - The Mituna Method +Artist: psithurist +Track Art: slitherbot +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-mituna-method +Commentary: + psithurist: + I was asked to make a track as a theme for Mituna, so my first thoughts were 1. chip sounds and 2. guitars. The first draft of the track was a lot more chaotic, with the melodies being played on live guitars, and it didn't really work out, so most of it ended up being cut - only a couple of backing guitar tracks amde it onto the final piece. The title and theme of this track is based on a (somewhat infamous) fan theory, which speculates that Mituna's injuries come from him burning out whilst using his psiionic powers to propel Prospit's moon from the alpha trolls' session into another, allowing the remaining living trolls to use its quest beds to go god tier. I don't know if that idea will pan out at all, but I thought it was interesting enough to write a song about! I hope that you think so too! + slitherbot: + for the track art i decided that i should depict mituna looking almost as if hes using his psiionics! in the design iwanted to use a pixelly pattern which i thought went along with the chiptune sound of the song, also i listened to the song on repeat while making it!! i apologize the whole picture itself is really eye strain-y but i thought it would fit! +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: ♋ - Civil Discussi9n +Artist: Blackhole +Track Art: Taylor Leong +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/civil-discussi9n +Commentary: + Blackhole: + Civil Discussi9n was my first purposeful musical contribution to the album! I wanted to produce a track that captured the feeling of Kankri's self-assured snobbery and pseudo-intellectualism as it was presented in his first appearance in Openbound, but from his own perspective. I imagine the feel of the track is rather what Kankri thinks of himself in his crusade for social justice. The structure of the melody was inspired by certain works of baroque classical music, although I can hardly have been said to have stuck to any one particular convention! The track was originally intended to be modified somewhat, but due to technical issues I lost the progress file for it! Hoewver I didn't want to see what I had to waste, and I believe that the track stands up solidly on its own in its current form. I hope you think so too! + Taylor Leong: + For this piece, I was thinking particularly about how the track is meant to be how Kankri views himself within the greater context of Beforan society. I thought that the classical Baroque influences in the music really reflected the rigid pseudo-benevolent social strucutre and pretensions within Beforan society that Kankri seeks to criticize and improve upon, albeit in his own flawed way. Visually, I drew influences from various religious artworks, including Medieval iconography as well as the Baroque paintings of Caravaggio, referencing both Kankri and the Sufferer's roles as a play on traditional literary Christ figures. Overall, Kankri takes himself extremely seriously, and the track art reflects that self-image in the form of a somber, messianic martyr heroically withstanding the persection of people triggering and encroaching upon his personal space. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: ♌ - MOG^3 +Artist: Dallas Ross Hicks +Track Art: felicitousArtisan +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/mog-3 +References: Nine Lives One Love +Commentary: + Dallas Ross Hicks: + MOG^3
1. Meulin, Obsessive Girl
2. Makara's Oddball Gaiety
3. Matesprits Osculate Gleefully
(EpiMOG: Milord's Onerous Gift) + This song begins by echoing Nine Lives, One Love sound but this version of Meulin Leijon is much happier and offbeat by nature. Like 9L1L, it's also in 9/8 time and the opening bells tap out the morse code for MOG. The second part starts suddenly as she "meets" a peculiar purpleblood... one Kurloz Makara. The organ is prominent but also lots of whimsical synth sounds to suggest he's an entertainer but with a more sinister side. The cymbals tap out 10 hits as Makaras are the tenth troll on the list from low to highbloods. A slow romantic transition follows, reintroducing the Leijon bells over Makara's organ sounds and then into the third section, where the heavy drums pound out a heartbeat for the Mage of Heart and you can hear voices for both Kurloz's seductive whispers and Meulin's joyous song. As she falls asleep in his arms, he too begins to dream... the chiming bells signal the arrival of the Vast Honk and the tinnitus that recedes into Meulin's deafened silence. + felicitousArtisan: + I've always found Meulin slightly unsettling, so I was pleased to be assigned art duty on a track that explores all facets of the character, rather than just "she's cute and likes cats!". Meulin happily ships and memes her way through a surprisingly tragic life; she's fine that Kurloz deafened her, she's oblivious that he's mind-controlling her. I wanted to reflect that with a smiling mouth and eyes full of stars and the beauty of it all, but a sense of emptiness and loss as the Vast Honk obliterates her hearing and she's left with a meaningless future. Sorry, that's pretty nihilistic, but so is Meulin! +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: ♍ - Let Me Dance, Let Me Glisten +Artist: Flutterwhat +Track Art: VT Stark +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/let-me-dance-let-me-glisten +Lyrics: + Beats blastin in the club,
Let me dance, let me listen.
everyone one is hella drunk
drink like it's a competition + you wanna learn these moves?
You just want the best views
Look at how i glow
let the light mystify you + Let me dance, Let me glisten!
Let me dance, Let me glisten! + have you gotten a good look
the Musics getting to the hook
pour to me another glass
I want this whole night to last + Let me dance, Let me glisten!
Let me dance, Let me glisten! + I can see it in your eyes
I've got you hypnotized
keep telling me your lies
I enjoy how you hard try
You can look, but never touch
cause he night doesn't hold your luck
watch my hips swing
make me into your fantasy + Let me dance, Let me glisten!
Let me dance, Let me glisten! +Commentary: + Flutterwhat: + The track is inspired by black-quadrants Porrim cosplay, and originally evolved from a song called "Born Aloen." The vocals are done using a combination of devices over multiple takes and post-processing effects. + VT Stark: + I wanted to capture the feel of the music, which felt to me as though it's Porrim completely aware of how fabulous she is, but not caring if others see her that way. Tumblr user black-quadrant's cosplay inspired the song, so I used it as a reference, especially with the tattoos. The theater is empty, representing how she is focused on her own approval, and no one else's. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: ♎ - R4d1c4l! +Artist: SerialSymphony +Track Art: Smear +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/r4d1c4l +Commentary: + SerialSymphony: + I was pumped that I got to create Latula's song for this album, Pyropes rule, bro. I knew I really wanted to do a low-scale chiptune kind of song for her, mainly because she's such a r4d G4m3r Grrl, and also because all my favourite homestuck tracks were in that vein. Originally I had a way faster, grittier song planned, but after sitting on it for a while I scrapped it and went for the more upbeat, chiller sound of this one, because, let's face it, Latula's way too r4d to have anything less. Fun Facts and Numbers: This song was made in FL Studio, has 16 channels, 9 synths, 1 violin, and took 2 weeks to complete from start to finish. + Smear: + This piece was inspired by the RADICAL and cheerful tone of its sister song, and aims to show how fun it is to be Latula Pyrope. With her killer body suit, sick moves, and contagious smile, you'll be jamming out with her. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: ♏ - Salv8tion +Artist: Charles Neudorf +Track Art: HermesNitram +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/salv8tion +Commentary: + Charles Neudorf: + Hey so it's been a while but here's a new track, and for a troll that I never knew I cared about. Admittedly I wrote this song less about Aranea's story and more about a folktale called the spider's thread, which ironically ties into Aranea's story well. I'm not gonna go into details about the folk tale but basically Aranea has a spider theme (obviously) and she came out of a pseudo hell by clinging to a small hope, only for her selfish desires to drop her back where she came from. Man none of this was really about the music aspect, uh, I wrote the song in 4-5 days. That's cool I guess. + HermesNitram: + I intended to stay faithful to Aranaea's arc and showed her nature through the clothes and facial expressions she wears in "Homestuck". The whole piece was inspired by the theme of spider - how it spins a web through the story, trapping and ensnaring others in the plot, but, if lost, might end up trapping itself in the cobweb. The string figure made from the necklace she wears is called "The Hangman's Trick." It was heavily inspired by the bouncy theme of the music. It shows how she has trapped others (portrayed by paper dolls, a callback to wooden dolls of regeneration and French Pantins, otherwise known as jumping jacks), and herself in it: one wrong move and she'll be left hanging! Of course, one cannot forget about the visualization of the Light aspect, the immortal sun - both holding and being trapped by the web, just like Aranea herself. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: ♐ - Creeping Blue +Artist: Smear +Track Art: Gene +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/creeping-blue +Commentary: + Smear: + This track was inspired by the fact that Horuss was a very mean kinda dude before the game, and very early on in his relationship with Rufioh. I wanted to make the song creepy and voidy - just like Horuss! Lots of glitch and analog sounds were used, to capture his steampunk inspired design. + Gene: + This track has a strongly energetic feel to it, combining powerful mechanical sounds with a beat like a hammer drop. I tried to reflect that with sharp, violent lines and an angular, sinister atmosphere. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: ♑ - Pious Noise +Artist: ndividedbyzero +Track Art: Robin +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/pious-noise +Commentary: + ndividedbyzero: + It's a shame that Kurloz can't talk much, because it's clear he has a lot of personality to show. With the appearance of a juggalo, mime and skeleton combined, how could he not? He's apparently calm but creepy or terrifying and boisterous depending on who he's talking to, which is something I wanted to emulate in this track with the contrast between the first section and everything afterwards. However, his true, clownish nature shines at the end, when he takes the last resolving note hostage then rubs it in your face. What a rascal. + This went through a few (very incomplete) iterations before I finished it, mainly because I wasn't sure where to start expressing Kurloz's character; in the end I combined melodies from different versions to make the final product. It's neat how music can work that way! + (P.S The Morse code sounds out "HONK". Because of course.) + Robin: + I really liked the idea of Kurloz and puppets, and obviously, you need strings to move puppets. From the thought of puppets, to strings, to the red string of faith. And yknow, a string for each finger equals to five strings. It reminded me of piano and such, so from that I just put on some notes onto the bloody strings. Pun intended. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: ♒ - Aquasex Renegade +Artist: theh0nestman +Track Art: Circlejourney +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/aquasex-renegade +Lyrics: + Now gather 'round me, cats and kittens,
Ease up on me close
I got my guitar and my mojo
(Of THAT I got the most)
Now who's big daddy over there
Rockin' in the shade
I say "Hello, pretty dolly.
I'm the Aquasex Renegade!" + Renegade x 2 + I'm the Aquasex Renegade
Wait! Lemme show ya! + Ooh! + Well I'm all up in your thinkpan,
You're diggin' what you see
Chickie slide a little closer
It's okay if you touch me
Now give big daddy some sugar
I know I got you made
Now let me show you why they call me
The Aquasex Renegade + Renegade x 2 + I'm the Aquasex Renegade
Lemme take ya home now, dolly! + Ooh! + Hey wait guys, where ya goin'? +Commentary: + theh0nestman: + This song was extremely fun to write and play with. I like Cronus' greaser persona, and my voice is kinda slimy blues-man anyway so naturally I went with a blues style for him. It started with just voice and guitar, and I wanted to keep it true to that, but this song seemed to cry out for some mythical band to come out of nowhere and make his song awesome. So, honestly, a delight! My favorite of my three. + Circlejourney: + You cannot convince me that the track's singer is not Cronus himself. When I heard it, I immediately envisioned a sleek monochrome graphic of a John Travolta-looking Cronus leaning on a car with a cigarette between his teeth. The Instagram-esque filter gives it a sort of retro look that goes with the spirit of the track. The violet tones are an obvious reference to his blood colour. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: ♓ - Killer Beach +Artist: Veritas Unae +Track Art: Hongxii +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/killer-beach +References: Rex Duodecim Angelus, English, MeGaLoVania +Commentary: + VeritasUnae: + I wanted to deal with mixed elements of Meenah's character. It has similarities to [[Hate You]], which I considered a primary inspiration, though I also drew inspiration from the Splatoon soundtrack for the opening section. + "Killer Beach" explores Meenah's love of gold and cash, as well as her malicious tendencies, to aspects we see throughout the latter half of Act 6, including her brief romance with Vriska. You might note the Megalovania reference in the ending guitar. Coupled with Rex Duodecim Angelus (their session's defeat of the Black King) and English (her alternate self's employment by Lord English), this piece covers Meenah in her entirety. + At the end, Meenah is reflecting. She sees herself as evil. Reminded of her final moments in her session, as she detonates the bomb sending all of them as ghosts into the Farthest Ring, she severs ties with Vriska, and returns to lead an army. + Hongxii: + I wanted to reflect on what the musician wanted to portray Meenah on the track, but also my ideas of Meenah's similarity in personality with her Alternian counter-part, the Condesce. I put a little more of my own idea that Meenah not realizing how much she is like the Condesce even when hearing and at awe about her accomplishments and her magnificent ruling style from Aranea. I also put lime green as the background color not only to match up the complimentary color but to also symbolize LE's employment of the Condesce. She is a lot more like her Alternian self than she realizes... 38) +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: ♫ Disc 2 ♫ +Directory: disc2-beforus +Artist: Blackhole +Track Art: Lovisa Lassen +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/disc-2 +Commentary: + Blackhole: + Disc 2 is the longest Disc in Beforus. Unlike Disc 1, which consists of individual themes for each of the trolls, Disc 2 is a narrative depiction of their story. Each song, be it a theme for a particular aspect of a character, a soundtrack for a particular event, or else a scene-setting piece, has been arranged so that Disc 2 roughly forms a narrative story in chronological order, which can hopefully be seen in the music and artwork. + Because this was not specifically the intention from the start, and because some tracks have been arranged in particular awys due to reasons other than theanarrative order (such as when track art depictions do not fit the original order), in some places the placement of tracks is not perfect, or at the very least might be debated. Overall however I think Disc 2 forms a relatively complet, in depth and coherent tale in musical form, and it was definitely my favourite part of the album to put together. + Lovisa Lassen: + The tracks on Disc 2 follow a narrative approach to the story of the Beforus trolls and I wanted to show that by using dream bubbles, which contain the memories of the dead. And I got to draw a horrorterror, so there's that too. I like horrorterrors. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Memories from Before +Artist: Elanor Pam +Track Art: Sallidido +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/memories-from-before +Commentary: + Elanor Pam: + This was my first ever track, composed for the coloUrs and mayhem contest back before we knew anything of Dancestors and Beforus. All we had been told so far was that the Sufferer had been inspired to rebel by his memories of a peaceful world-- so that was what I set out to convey: the idyllic memories of a paradise planet, as well as the sadness of its loss and the tense hostility of the present. It's actually a fairly simple track, made in Sibelius with nothing but built-in instruments and ambient sounds, but I've grown to like it a lot. (People who are into brazilian folk songs can probably feel the influence here.) + Sallidido: + I chose the three trolls that I did because they had the biggest impacts on the sufferer's life, so adding their less violent and warmer counterparts was the comparison, but I added the whole gang in another version because I wasn't quite sure you woulda ccept it with only 3 beforus characters. I listened to the song you sent quite a few times and the background was based on it. (I got the general barren but soft vibe from it?) It was a lot of fun, though a bit difficult and stressful as midnight approached, and figuring out placement and what I wanted to do with everything was a bit hard. The background is based on what we have seen fo beforus/alternia, and I wanted to make its ofter to fit a bit better with the music. (I love the composer's work by the way!) +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Pink Moon Escape +Artist: Daedalus Dog +Track Art: Danna Vital +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/pink-moon-escape +Commentary: + Daedalus Dog: + Pink Moon Escape is meant to describe Meenah's escape from her responsibilities, where she literally runs away from being queen and goes to the moon before the Beforus session starts. Overall, I tried to capture the feeling of flying through space and leaving everything stressful behind. As far as structure, the beginning part represents Meenah starting to feel better, but still holding back a bit on good feels. Then, after the drop represents when she finally lets go of everything that once troubled her. The song ends similar to how it started to sort of foreshadow her return to power in the end. Funny story: the song started out with a 4/4 time signature. When I made the drop, I was making it in 6/8 without really realizing it, and then after I figured it out, I rewrote the beginning part to fit the new signature, and it felt so much smoother and better. And that's how I found out about time signatures :P + Danna Vital: + I've actually never drawn Meenah before and at first I was a little nervous but as soon as I heard the song I got very inspired and came up with a bunch of concept sketches. I decided to go with this image because I think it stayed true to that feeling the song gives you of being free and letting go. Hope you enjoy! +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Radiant Imperatrix +Artist: Lyza K. +Track Art: Josefin B. +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/radiant-imperatrix +Commentary: + Lyza K.: + We don't know much about the Beforus empress other than the fact that she's an alternate Feferi, is an empress, and is styled "Her Imperial Radiance." I tried to evoke an underwater palace in this piece: regal and beneath the waves, but close enough to the surface that light - and Feferi's innate bubbly personality - filters through. The piece was played live on a piano and then edited in Audacity. + Josefin B.: + My inspiration for this piece was old paintings of mermaids and sirens. I wanted to make the serene, ethereal feeling created by the track, making Feferi look regal while also friendly and playful, as if you caught her outside of her queenly duties. The colours are meant to evoke an underwater feeling, but also a sense of her being supernatural. This image is made completely with watercolours on printer paper; a choice I made to get the convex texture. Ths was honestly such a fun piecea nd I'm so glad I got to make the track art for the lovely track Radiant Imperatrix. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Speak No Evil. Hear No Evil. +Artist: Laurent Désautels-Séguin +Track Art: Pitchin +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/speak-no-evil-hear-no-evil +Commentary: + Laurent Désautels-Séguin: + It's a direct follow-up of [[Dream Around]] and it's about the infamous dream that Kurloz had that deafened Meulin and made him sew his own mouth. This song is atonal atmospheric and I did my best to represent the mood of THE MOST HORRIFIC NIGHTMARE. + Pitchin: + Tfw you see a real bad nightmare but wake up causing one irl, oops. + I can't imagine what it was that Kurloz saw, and the song itself is indeed more about the nightmarish atmosphere than the action of it, so I went with the aftermath. Complimenting a song and a mood like that called for smoe heavier colours and static I think. + On a lighter side I spend too much time on the hair, floof is a dangerous addition to have, but also very relaxing to do so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: The Boy Who Lived (Unfortunately) +Artist: Nate Tronerud +Track Art: Shu +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-boy-who-lived-unfortunately +Commentary: + Nate Tronerud: + Cronus, the hero of his own story, triumphs over the evil magician. + (With apologies to Johnny Williams.) + Shu: + I love the build up in this track! It's a lot of fun to listen to and this was a lot of fun to draw ahaha I'm not sure what else to say but the vwizard aesthetic is obvious// +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: The Weeaboo's Battle Cry +Artist: Toris Crow +Track Art: rockytoad +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-weeaboos-battle-cry +References: +- The Brave and the Bronze +- dESPERADO ROCKET CHAIRS, +Commentary: + Toris Crow: + This piece was written for Rufioh Nitram and specifically, his clan, the Lost Weeaboos. The instrumentation was based off "The Brave and the Bronze" by Yan "Nucleose" Rodriguez, with the percussion beat coming from Tavros's song "dESPERADO ROCKET CHAIRS," by Toby "Radiation" Fox. Its musical connection to Rufioh is mostly open for interpretation. This song's alternate name in my own album is "La Tauromaquia," meaning "bullfighting" in Spanish. + rockytoad: + When I was figuring out what th draw for the song, I did pay attention to the song's name and also alternate name. Hearing "weeaboo" made me want to put kitty ears on Rufioh, but I scrapped that idea and instea dfocussed on the bullfighting aspect of the song first and foremost. Since Rufioh is kind of a silly character, I thught that it'd be great to gie him one of those little pony riding sticks with a bull for the head. After I finished drawing the main part of the drawing, I was still trying to figure out how to incorporate "weeaboo"-ness into it. Well, weeaboo makes me think of kitties and anime, so my mind went to Nyan Cat. Perfect, I thought, I'll add some Goold Ol' Nyan Cat rainbows, haha. And then, of course, glitter becaus anime. It came out really colorful and I'm happy with it. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Life With Peace +Artist: Matthias Ramalho +Track Art: enjistier +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/life-with-peace +Commentary: + Matthias Ramalho: + Based on my 1st piano composition I made a long time ago, called Memories. It goes very well with the Beforan trolls and with Homestuck! + enjistier: + This track is about the Beforus trolls before the game. I really wanted to focus on them and who they are, so I chose to draw their hands and what I thought they would look like based on their personalities. I had a lot of fun thinking about how to portray them. I think my favorite has to be Meenah's or Meulin's. Sometimes, it's easy to forget that they were just another bunch of kids trying to have a good time. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Lullaby for a Day +Artist: TempiTunes +Track Art: Winter +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/lullaby-for-a-day +Commentary: + TempiTunes: + This was originally going to be a song for Meulin but it ended up going in a completely different direction, so instead of scrapping it I turned it into something else. The title is meant to be a reference to how trolls sleep during the day. + Winter: + My assignment for this track was to draw the alpha trolls sleeping peacefully; however, due to size restraints, I went for Meulin, given that the track was originally for her. The peaceful atmosphere of this song led to me using a very warm, dawn-like colour palette, which I really enjoyed doing! In all this was a really fun track to illustrate! +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Before We Enter +Artist: Ducky Senpai +Track Art: Kayson Spinazzola +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/before-we-enter +Commentary: + Ducky Senpai: + When asked to make a song for the Beforun trolls' entrance into their session, I decided to utilize my tried-and-true method of composing my best music: basically, I winged it. Nevertheless, this song is meant to be like a ballad, but I'll leave the detailed interpretation of the story it tells up to you, the listenre, and your presumably adept imagination. + Kayson Spinazzola: + The inspiration for this piece is surpisingly straight-forward. When I listened to the music, this was the picture that popped into my head, no matter how many imtes I played the song, so the direction was clear. Besides that; I can't imagine Meenah looking anything but exactly like this while downloading the game. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: For Beforus +Artist: Nate Tronerud +Track Art: Lovisa Lassen +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/for-beforus +Commentary: + Nate Tronerud: + The Beforans' session on Skaia was doomed before it began. Beforus looms in front of us as we slowly zoom in on the planet itself, when, at the critical moment, we cut to Meenah and the gang. As they desperately avoid getting killed in the Cataclysm, their path to the Medium is laid bare. Once there, they go through their trials, from locating their denizens, to frog breeding, and to the required ectoplasmic shenanigans. + But when it becomes clear that their sesison is bound for a Scratch, Meenah is forced to make a terrible decision. + Lovisa Lassen: + For Beforus was about the doomed nature of the session and I wanted to show it with a picture of the instrument for scratching the session, the big music box in the Land of Quartz and Melody, and the Quills of Echidna, the means of creating the scratch. The track starts out very positively, and I wanted to includ ethat hopefulness by adding more characters in the picture that as of yet don't feel the threat of the failing session looming over them. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Battlepump +Artist: Elanor Pam +Track Art: Rebecca Peason +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/battlepump +Commentary: + Puala Vieira: + This track was my third composition for the coloUrs and mayhem contest; I'd recently discovered FL studio and basically went nuts over it. Perhaps because I finally had so many options and tolls at my disposal, this track was by far the hardest for me to realize, not helped by the fact that it was originally a theme for my favorite character, Karkat. I wanted it to be perfect! Or at least awesome! This perfectionism meant I could never settle on what I wanted. Over the years I kept coming back to it, tweaking here, poking there, always feeling like it was incomplete (or perhaps over done); in the end I shaved off several bars, redid the percussion line and tweaked velocity until I cried uncle. Is it better know? I don't know! It's been looping for so long I can't even tell anymore... + Rebecca Peason: + This song definitely brings me the image of the Land of Pulse and Haze, but in kind of a chill meandering kind of way. It feels more like some kind of exploration than a time sensitive game track to me. So I wanted to try to get that feeling, appreciate the landscape and have a Vantas presence but an ambiguity to who it is exploring this landscape. I also wanted to go with something that looked more like it came from the cmoic than some other pieces. I know I'm quite pleased with the result and had a lot of fun. I wouldn't mind revisiting some other lands in future pieces. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: March 9f the Insuffera6le +Artist: Toris Crow +Track Art: ARTistotel +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/march-9f-the-insuffera6le +Commentary: + Toris Crow: + This piece was written for Kankri Vantas. It was made as a march because marches signify authority and Kankri attempts to command the respect of his fellow teammates throughout his session. The faster parts represent that his calm demeanor can be easily shattered by his short temper. I used piano and violin to connect it to the song that I had made ealrier for Porrim called "Antevo+rta." This song's alternate name in my own album is "The Pariah." + ARTistotel: + The idea behind the picture was tightly tied to the piece itself, and author's descrption. Kankri is trying to be a leader, but all his protection falls back on the civilization long lost and destroyed - taht's why it's Beforan skulls marching right after him. His leadership, his protection is aimed more at dusty pieces and bits of no longer existing Beforan society, rather than his friends in afterlife. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Land of Cruisin and Bruisin +Artist: Nate Tronerud +Track Art: Amelia G. +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/land-of-cruisin-and-bruisin +Commentary: + Nate Tronerud: + Driving a fast car with the top down, Cronus flies down the speedway with a brilliant pixelated city on the horizon as his backdrop. With the moon and stars hanging in the sky, fireworks celebrate his every lap while crowds cheer and hold up signs bearing his name. + Amelia G.: + I tried to capture the feeling of this very fun song with bright colors and hard edges to give it a bit of a cartoon/video game feel. I haven't drawn many cars, so that was a challenge, as well as trying to limit lines by using solid colors. Ah Cronus... Gotta dig the vwiolet ride. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Rust Witch +Artist: Ollie +Track Art: JulietCee +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/rust-witch +Commentary: + Ollie: + I did this track way back in 2013 I think? Maybe early 2014 back when my computer with my music program still worked. Hah. It all sort of originated with a wager, that I couldn't produce a better Tavros song than the one on the official album. And of course, being the huge procrastinator that I am, I never did. But I did however get the idea to do my own album for the songs of the Beforan Trolls. Again, procrastination got the better of me, but this project came along and almost took the workload I had give nmyself off my shoulders and still gave me an opportunity to showcase what I had done for Damara. It does have the traditional Eastern Asian sound to it with the pentatonic scale, and that's what the song was based upon. Also ghosts. Because spoopy. + JulietCee: + I wanted to reflect the sort of spooky feel of the track in this piece, so I thught "what better way to do it than drawing The Scratch, with all those flashing blue lights?" It was a lot of fun to draw, and I like drawing Damara. + Blackhole: + (Blackhole here! Just dropping in to point out that, as the Witch of Time, it does make sense that Damara would have the only achronological track art of Disc 2! I suppose she's getting ahead on the timeline action by jumping back to earlier in the session. The Scratch is yet to come!) +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Caligomancy +Artist: Blackhole +Track Art: Cakelets +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/caligomancy +Commentary: + Blackhole: + I decided to try something different for this one. Horuss for me, despite his humorous characterisation, has always had this sort of aura about him, this cloud of smoke and steam - a sort of sense of an industrial force wrapped up in this one, lonely individual. His steam automata and his manner, naturally brooding beneath the forced cheerful exterior, almost feel like Equius but somehow more mature, with more gravitas. I tried to put all that into this track. It's a lot more slow moving and atmospheric than my usual work. I imagine a steam engine locomotive building up speed, slow but inexorable, and impossible to stop once unerway. Fun fact; free steam samples are hard to find. Aside from the one locomotive sound effect I did manage to source, most of the pneumatic hiss you hear is in fact me blowing on my microphone. + Cakelets: + When I heard this track the first thing that came to me was an industrial vibe so I tried to stick with that impression by adding the steam and darker colros coupled with the bright orange. This piece was also very atmospheric so I tried to emulate that by having the smoke almost engulfing Horuss as well as adding the fkecls of black to represent oil and further the industrial feel of the piece. I hope you all can look at this art along with the music and see the more mature and thoughtful side of Horuss. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Land of Rad Tricks and Gnarly Odorless Things +Artist: Laurent Désautels-Séguin +Track Art: Gillian Pascasio +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/land-of-rad-tricks-and-gnarly-odorless-things +Commentary: + Laurent Désautels-Séguin: + The first thing I have to say is that the name of the song is awesome. Also, this is my favorite track I made for the project. Again with the «cool dangerous» vibe. This time, I worked hard for nice percussions. I also tried to do a song with a lot of variety while using with recurring riffs. Something I tried is a pad solo in the middle of the song. + Gillian Pascasio: + So rad, even the ramps are skateboards. The special-effects explosions that come with this land, thankfully, have no scent. + Bright colors are especially dangerous and I thought they suited the track, and I ran with my tried-and-tested graphic style! +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Scratchlses Scraps +Artist: ndividedbyzero +Track Art: Neiratina +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/scratchless-scraps +Commentary: + ndividedbyzero: + I have a quiet love for carapaces, so this track was a lot of fun to work on! I took inspiration from the official "The Wanderers" album, one of my favorite albums in the Homestuck discography. I was particularly inspired by the album's electronic and Arabic kind of style, which definitely fits the theme of a desert-like landscape in the ruins of a technologically advanced civilization. + In this case, I envisioned Beforus' "years in the future" scenario as being not quite as refined as the Midnight Crew's city, since I kind of doubt the Beforan trolls would have enough teamwork to bother exiling them, but with much more room to build upon than pre-Scratch Earth since the Red Miles and Bec Noir ruined any potential our original exiles had. So the buildup of this song really represents the growth of the Beforan exiles (whoever they may be) and their community itself! + (Of course, there's still the issue of Spades Slick eventually shooting a bullet and destroying the entire universe... yikes. Guess they can worry about that later...?) + Neiratina: + I've always liked the juxtaposition between photography and illustrations drawn on top of them, especially creatures and critters interacting with everyday objects as if they were part of our routine, something unseen but still among us. For this piece, I wanted to create something similar, but with a little twist. I wanted both worlds to fuse and be a part of each other. And to answer the "what ifs" by presenting another question: what if, years in the future (but not many) our own universe becomes their reality? +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Skaia Ad Infinitum +Artist: Seijen +Track Art: Lovisa Lassen +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/skaia-ad-infinitum +Commentary: + Seijen: + 3 days before the finalization of my track marked one year since I took on to music production. I formed a soundcloud with a friend and we went from there. To this day I have no real definitive style (neither of us do really), but I wanted to work on Hardstyle to get my foot in the door. I wasn't all too successful, and I often don't ever finish projects. Once I saw news of the fan album, it gave me reason to create a track. This track was a twice failed and shelved project. It finally bloomed into what it is now. Really I just want to thank the Beforus team for having me here. THis endeavor really gave me hope and reason behind my production. This is my first major step into the realm of music production. Shout out to Xavier, you're like a brother to me. + Lovisa Lassen: + For Skaia Ad Infinitum I wanted to include the classic spirograph defense portal symbol (in purple as opposed to the Alternia trolls' blue ones, for its symbolism) and Skaia itself, while also showing some tidbits of the Beforus trolls' session of Sgrub that we know about through the portal, since the track is about Skaia watching over the session. As the track art took on a center focused composition I also included the planets and moons of the session, and it also tied it back to Skaia again with it in the center. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Formant (Sprite Chorus Mix) +Artist: Blackhole +Track Art: Sigourney Martin +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/formant-sprite-chorus-mix +References: Chorale for Jaspers +Commentary: + Blackhole: + This song is a result of me playing around with the theme from [[Chorale for Jaspers]] and stumbling upon a particular preset for one of my synthesizers, "Formant", for which I later named the song. The music sounded so great with that particular synth that I decided to build an entire song around it, and completed Formant in its entirety pretty much later that day. Whilst I originally billed it as a Jasprose theme when she made her debut, for Beforus I've repurposed it as a more general sprite theme that would work for the Beforan session sprites. This album version is extended with a longer intro, and features cleaner audio without the static! + Sigourney Martin: + Hey! I'm Siggy and I'm honored to make art for the Beforus album. Listening to this song made me think of the colour pink and Meenah being the best pink troll on the block, I decided to make the picture all pink. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: The Explored Ruins +Artist: RowBird, one-imperfect-rose +Track Art: Neiratina +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-explored-ruins +References: Explore, Ruins (With Strings) +Commentary: + RowBird: + This song was composed with the intent of having a "Homestuck" feel to it, while being my own creation at the same time. The floating left-hand chord pattern that is heard throughout the song is inspired by [[Flare]], and [[Three in the Morning]]. The piano portion was composed before I even knew of the fan album, so it was mostly in the additional elements (the strings, woodwinds, percussion, etc.) that the character was shaped. + As the track progressed, I began to see more and more elements of Rufioh in it. The track follows Rufioh's storyline in that, at the beginning, it is calm and simple, reflecting his life before sGrub and his relationship with Damara. As the tension mounts in the drumline, we discover his feelings for Horuss and the beginnings of his fights with Damara as the strings kick in. The gradual crescendo to the end shows the challenges he faces during the game and the desparation to save the world how he knows it. As his life ends, he reflects back on it, wondering if he could have made other choices to have kept this from happening. + Neiratina: + The real challenge about illustrating this song was the fact that it depicted so many different emotions I couldn't just choose one to stand out from all the rest. Together, they spoke of a lifetime summed up in one melody. In the end, I felt like it was a revelation: the experience of having your life flash before your eyes. "The Explored Ruins" doesn't necessarily need to be referring to a physical place, I realized. What about the ruins of your own existence? + Since both Damara and Horuss played such important roles in Rufioh's life, I really wanted to include them in what ended up being not so metaphorical objects: the roses, representing passion but also strangling, hurting love; and the arrows, symbolizing a new union and a new direction. Yet, in the end, everything fades away with one last Breath. How suitable. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Shipping Implicatpuns +Artist: rest✩taurus +Track Art: Shu +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/shipping-implicatpuns +Commentary: + rest✩taurus: + This song was composed in LSDJ on my gameboy, and recorded in Pro Tools! This chiptune piece shows how I imagine Meulin's thought process is as she considers romance... scary, bubbly, cte. The title for this track was almost "Soothshipper"; luckily, quotes from canon save me from hard decisions every time. + Shu: + In keeping with the gameboy/chiptune theme I decided to go for a retro game aesthetic with the color pallet and the cell shading. Other than that, I just wanted to draw a cute Meulin! +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Dear Heart +Artist: Dallas Ross Hicks +Track Art: Danna Vital +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/dear-heart +Commentary: + Dallas Ross Hicks: + A song for a romance between a confident lover and someone not used to being loved. Written in 6/8 time (Maryams are 6th on the hemospectrum, Serkets the 8th), this piece reflects the affairs between the jade and ceruleanbloods of the Homestuck story: short but passionate. The song suggests an invitation to dance; the initial hesitation of the cymbals show, in this case, Aranea's feelings of uncertainty in the presence of an experienced byt ukind red romancer in Porrim but, over time, she learns to trust the jadeblood and allows herself to be led into a brief but intense concupiscent relationship. + Danna Vital: + I contacted Dallas as aoon as I got this track assigned to me, he's been a part of the creative process since the beginning and I think in the end we got an art piece that shows how complex yet romantic and passionate the relationships between the Maryams and Serkets can be which is exactly what we were both going for, hope you enjoy! +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Look Into The Future +Artist: rest✩taurus +Track Art: Cakelets +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/look-into-the-future +Commentary: + rest✩taurus: + The track is named after how Aranea spoke about her fling with Porrim. That a Sylph of Light could have "looked into the future" and decided getting comfy with our dear Maid of Space was the right course of action for a time... it caught my interest, and fanned my love for this pairing. I was originally considering writing something more lively, like an instruental sea shanty, but I decided that solace fit the two best. I imagine it wasn't a loud or busy relationship, and so neither is the track. My concurrent goal was the ncourage listeners to look into the future themselves. Just a track to take a breath to, look at the sky to, contemplate. At the very least, to imagine this pair doing so, in their time together. I wonder what pulled them apart? + Cakelets: + This track is really a soft and soothing melody so I wanted to use a soft and soothing color pallet. I also really wanted to focus on Aranea and Porrim since the piece was written about their fling. I really love quiet music so as soon as I heard the song I knew I wanted to make an image that was more on the simple side with cool colors to evoke the feeling of serenity. I hope you can look at the art with the song and feel the tranquility I was trying to get across! +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Cosmic Malfunction +Artist: Ducky Senpai +Track Art: Gilwing +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/cosmic-malfunction +Commentary: + Ducky Senpai: + This song was inspired by the glitch in the Beforan trolls' session, the event that caused most, if not all, the conflict in Homestuck (some by great extension). I've made music before relating to a similar topic ([[Void Session]]), but that was more relevant to the alpha kids. The functions and mechanics of Sburb has always been one of the most facinating aspects of the Homestuck universe to me, so it's always fun to explore that inspiration. + Gilwing: + The challenge here was to depict the glitch in the session itself, which is a pretty vague concept; the alpha trolls' ectobiology took place after the scratch, they weren't born in their own session. This is also Lord English's calling card, which is represented by the orb kinda looking like Scratch's head depicting the ectobiology lab in universe A2. I originally wanted to include all the trolls in the piece, but it was way too cluttered so I just went with their colors instead. I didn't want the whole thing to be about Kankri since this is about a game concept in general, but the reason I used him was becuase to my (questionable) knowledge, he probably would've been the ectobiologist if their session wasn't glitched, like Karkat. This was definitely a challenge but I'm honored to illustrate for such an incredible track! +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Hypnagogia +Artist: Nate Tronerud +Track Art: Rebecca Peason +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/hypnagogia +Commentary: + Nate Tronerud: + Kurloz awakens, but cannot sleep. He dreams, but cannot wake. + Rebecca Peason: + Listening to this track, I had the distinct image of Kurloz falling through sopor slime into the void. Not long after, the dream self between being asleep in his cocoon on Beforus and the kingdom of Prospit was an overwhelming image. It certainly called for something that looked a bit dramatic and fuzzy, the way things feel when you aren't sure if you're awake or dreaming and in that state where you can be stratled awake by the feeling you've crashed back onto the mattress, literally falling awake after just barely falling asleep. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: 5OM3 GR347 4C7 0F H3R015M +Artist: Toris Crow +Track Art: Gene +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/50m3-gr347-4c7-0f-h3r015m +Commentary: + Toris Crow: + This was written specifically as a theme fro Mituna Captor. I wrote it as a chiptune based loosely off of the Mega Man soundtrack because of Mituna's canon nickname, "Mega Man Sollux." This song was my first test for some chiptune percussion I found in the depths of my hard drive, and thus is alternatively named "Test Track" in one of my own albums. The actual name came from Aranea's short biography on him from Openbound, in which she states that "some great act of heroism" is what burnt out his psychic powers and shattered his mind. + Gene: + Mituna's track revolves around the event that caused him to lose his power, which is what I've chosen to depict. I decided to translate the chiptune into something visuall resembling a computer error, mirroring the "error" in Mituna's brain. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Time's Apostate +Artist: Willow Ascenzo +Track Art: Sam Garcia +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/times-apostate +Commentary: + Willow Ascenzo: + Dan (also known as aradia-symmetry, author of aradiawheresheshouldbe and rosewheresheshouldbe.tumblr.com) commissioned me back in October 2013 for a song about Damara Megido. The song ended up quite spooky, because after all, he did commission it on October 31. I relied on the shakuhachi and cello and, per Dan's request, a pulsing synth bass to create the brooding, melancholy atmosphere I felt best reflected Damara's inner coldness and despesrate nihilism. + Sam Garcia: + when i listened to the song the first thing that came into my mind was Damara sabotaging the alpha session, so the main focus of the drawing is a smug god tier damara doing that! the clock behind her is symbolical to how she is corrupting time itself and the session, and the cracks are the points in the timeline in which Damara has sabotaged it. I had a lot of fun drawing this and I hope you like the drawing. cheers! c: +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Antevo+rta +Artist: Toris Crow +Track Art: Fayghost +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/antevo-rta +Commentary: + Toris Crow: + This piece was written for Porrim Maryam. The instrumentation is based off of her two themes, [[Jade Mother]] and [[Darling Dolorosa]], which both feature piano and violin. The actual meaning of the song is open for interpretation because I went mostly off of feelings when writing it. Its name comes from the goddess of childbirth and prophecy, Antevorta, whose alternate name is Porrima. This song's alternative name in my own album is "Glass Heart." + Fayghost: + This illustration stumped me. Porrim's character is more thematic than it is concrete, and such an open-ended premise left me chasing down a few false starts in the piece's design. The failure of Porrim's role as maid of space nonetheless contributed to events on a massive scale. Ignition does not mean success. Finally I found something I think captures it all without being too obvious. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: 7UN3 +Artist: Princezz +Track Art: ARTistotel +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/7un3 +Commentary: + Princezz: + I wanted to make a Homestuck fan song after listening to so many others, so I decided to give it a try. I started with using whatever free music programs I could find, and editing the sounds in Audacity. I thought it sounded quite good for something made from a few bad programs. I had to decide which of the Alpha Trolls this song would suit most, and decided on Mituna because of the electronic-ness of the song. It may have also suited Latula as well. I don't think it would go well with the other trolls. + ARTistotel: + Since there was no very set-in-stone backstory on this composition, I decided to use that freedom well and just go with flow, and it turned to be one of pieces I've had most fun doing - ever! I really loved the electronica feel of the track, and decided to use a limited palette and play with lines. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: CHEATER PAN +Artist: thedistortedsamurai +Track Art: Robin +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/cheater-pan +References: +- Rust Maid +- psych0ruins +- Indigo Heir +- Bronze Rebel +- dESPERADO ROCKET CHAIRS, +Commentary: + thedistortedsamurai: + I thought of how I would direct the track on my way to the shop actually. I ws listening to coloUrs and mayhem and I was just like "these would work well together." The beginning of the track is how the "accident" (read: damara's insatiable fury) happened, going on to Horuss and Rufioh building a relationship as he worked on the latter's body, which devolved into Rufioh's eternal, depressing grind through a mundane life, dating a guy he lost admiration for after the initial spark faded. + Robin: + The idea for this drawing was that I just really wanted to draw Damara and Rufioh meeting up after his head's been placed ona robot horse. Nothing much really! I've always had a soft spot for Megidos so adding her in was absolutely necessary. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: DAMiterNEIGHtions +Artist: rest✩taurus +Track Art: magnoliajades +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/damiterneightions +Commentary: + rest✩taurus: + Parsing this one out makes "Damn" "Iterations" + a horse pun. This track was the one that hung around in concept the longest of any of my tracks, but came together the last of them. The original idea was to explore Horuss' own introspections, but that alone wsn't compelling me nearly enough. In the end, connecting Damara's and Horuss' struggles in one musical trainwreck was what propelled me forward. Rufioh takes a back seat to the insecurities and raw emotion of his past and present lovers, existing in tandem. I get the feeling that the session itself weighed heaviest on these two, one doomed to undo it at every turn, and the other to be swallowed up whole in pieces of hismelf. I aimed to convey this through the uncanny, grating musical landscape of the track. It is probably my favorite of the bunch. + magnoliajades: + One of my first thoughts while I was sketching this piece was the silly nature homestuck tends to express even in its more conflicting parts of story. Capturing that light-heartedness was a goal, and doing so while staying true to the track's ominous tone became a challenge. Hopefully together, they give off a "Calm before the storm" vibe. Admittingly, re-listening to this track after I finished making art for it made it sound cooler than it already was. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: With the Fishes +Artist: Anna Marcus-Hecht +Contributors: +- Sean Leeming (vibraphone) +- Grace Asuncion (marimba) +- Jennifer Amend (violin) +- Daniel Angstadt (violin) +- Alexandria Kemp (cello) +Track Art: VT Stark +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/with-the-fishes +Commentary: + Anna Marcus-Hecht: + With the Fishes is a piece that shows the turmoil that Damara went through directly after her breakup with Rufioh and whilst Meenah was bullying her. The vibraphone represetns Damara and her actions, the bell-like sounds showing how fragile she is feeling, while the loud, brash chords of the marimba shows Meenah's incessant cruelty. The final chord, or more accurately, cluster of notes, is Damara's final snap. It is the thing breaking inside her leading her to attack Meenah and Rufioh. The title "With the Fishes" has a dual meaning in this case: the obvious meaning of Damara interacting with Meenah, and that "sleping with the fishes" is a phrase that signifies that someone's dead, which seemed appropriate since Damara's experiences have left her almost dead inside. I hope you all enjoy this piece! + VT Stark: + I wanted to really capture Damara's pre-snap personality here. She's got orange cloth over her eyes, representing how she feels she's been blind regarding what Rufioh has been up to. Meenah's hand is holding onto her throat, yet Damara remains oddly tranquil. SHe's fighting to work through all of this no matter how much it hurts. But in the end, she can only hold on so much for so long. And that's when the expression is less peaceful, more internally dead. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Timeout +Artist: psithurist +Track Art: Rebecca Peason +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/timeout +References: +- MeGaLoVania +- Fuchsia Ruler +- Penumbra Phantasm +- Flare +- Killed by BR8K Spider!!!!!!!! +Commentary: + psithurist: + For my piece, I wanted to write for an obscure part of the story that we only really hear about through exposition in Openbound: the duel between Damara and Meenah. Damara ends up killing Meenah (the section around 2:08), who is saved by Aranea (the final round), carrying her to her Quest Cocoon so she can Get the Tiger (the ending section). Damara and Aranea don't really have canonised themes, so I composed my own motif for Damara, and referenced Fuchsia Ruler for Meenah, and Killed by BR8K Spider!!!!!!!! for Aranea (technically a Vriska theme, but they're both spider girls, gimme a 8r8k ;;;;) ). I actually started writing this track without a theme in mind, only really knowing it was going to be a battle theme, so the working title was "beforan beatdown". The whole track uses original synth sounds made with Magical8BitPlug and NES VST, except the drums, which are sampled from Secret of Mana, and the piano. + Rebecca Peason: + I always found Damara's sudden madness very interesting. By all accounts, she used to be a sweet girl until finally snapping and fighting Meenah. Aranea's involvement, however, has always been interesting to me. She, of course, brought Meenah to a quest bed, but I always wanted to explore the ambiguity of her involvement. Whether it was just to drag Meenah away or a decision to nudge along a friend suffering in silence to take action, who can really say. A bloody battle, a bully beaten, and a girl freed from her silence. I wanted this piece to show Aranea's ambiguous involvement and the terror that Damara had become. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Game Lost +Artist: Sean William Calhoun +Contributors: +- Jeremy Couture (cello) +- KingCochino (cello recording) +Track Art: Elanor Pam +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/game-lost +Commentary: + Sean William Calhoun: + ARANEA: You look into the future and see a life lasting for may8e thousands of sweeps, with nothing to look forward to," + A lament of waiting - for the Beforan trolls, it was not a violent end like Game Over, but a longer, hopeless failure to reach conclusion, with a game that they could not win, but that also would not kill them (until Meenah blew them up). The piano runs throughout, frequently chiming the passage of time, sometimes becoming more elaborate as strings take up the melody. Near the end, a solo cello plays af inal dolorous utterance of the melody before evanescing into the void. + Elanor Pam: + Choosing what to depict in this image was a struggle. The song itself brings such a sense of grim finality! Ultimately, I ran with the moment that kickstarted the Beforan's even longer wait; the remains of the destroyed battlefield hangi n the sky as the defeated trolls await their impending doom. + Jeremy Couture: + This song is rogeous! The unexpected harmonies and chord changes grab your attention and keep you listening until the very end. It was a lot of fun to be able to record the cello solo for this song. The simple melody of the solo, along with the harmonies of the piano and other strings is really quite moving. It is a great pleasure to be a part of this song and album! +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Press A to Reset +Artist: Private I. +Track Art: oxfordroulette +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/press-a-to-reset +References: Hate You, Theme +Commentary: + Private I.: + Let's face it. Even though most of the Beforan session was allegedly sloppy teen romance, the end of it was awesome. They literally went out with a bang. So I thought, what if the whole session was made into an 8-bit NES game? This tune is the on cellosupposed theme of the final stage of BEFORUS: The Game. Or something. Sorry, I suck at names. + The song roughly covers the session from Damara intiiating the Scratch to the creation of Alternia. Can you guys see what part of the story is conveyed in each part of the track? + I used FamiTracker to make the legitimate 8-bit sound. "Hate You" by Toby "Radiation" Fox and "Alternia" by Seth "Beatfox" Peelle ("Theme" by Toby "Radiation Fox") was used in the track. I had a great time making this song, and I hope you guys enjoy it too! :) + oxfordroulette: + I tried to make this image like some kind of classy high-res 8-bit shoutout to match with the song. The color scheme was inspired by wathcing a two year old draw all over the wall with neon glitter crayons. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: The Scratch Before The Calm +Artist: Laurent Désautels-Séguin +Track Art: Scarodactyl +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-scratch-before-the-calm +Commentary: + Laurent Désautels-Séguin: + This song is divided in 3 parts: everything is sad and not going well - They enter the palace for the Scratch and it's mysterious - The Scratch begins and it's intense. For the sad part, it's just sad chords. For the mysterious parts, I used a lot of mysterious arpeggios and delay effects. For the Scratch, I used a lot of bitcrush, dramatic arpeggios, and I reused chords from the sad part and arpeggios from the mysterious parts because the Scratch is mixing things. I was inspired by the music of Steven Universe for the style of mysterious arpeggios. I think the music of the series did a great job with how they represent dangerous mystical stuff. I created all the sounds with NI Massive, used Replika for delay and Decimort for bitcrush. I had a lot of fun doing these songs and I hope that you liked it! + Scarodactyl: + I was really happy wit hthis song from when I first put on this song and heard the slow, ominous opening. I think it really captures the sense of dread and mystery that surrounds the Scratch. Though the song has a three-part structure, visually I wanted to focus on the event itself. We only briefly see this in the comic, and it's a very striking scene. It was a lot of fun to draw the gigantic music box at the center of everything, and the various lighting effects were an interesting challenge. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Voided +Artist: Cyclostome +Track Art: slitherbot +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/voided +Commentary: + Cyclostome: + The majority of the Beforus trolls are introduced inside the dream bubbles, a construct of paradox space. In my track, I used deep thrumming tones and a mournful temor melody to simulate the feeling of being alone in space and of being alone in the universe. The ghosts of the Beforus trolls who we meet in-game live widely in the past. I strove to create a melancholy atmosphere that would be reflective and ambient, just as the dream bubbles create a reflective space for characters to dwell in memories. + Instruments used: Tenor saxophone, ukulele
DAWs used: Audacity
Equipment used: iPhone 5c, Toshiba laptop + slitherbot: + while listening to the track i could feel how melancholic it was, and that inspired me, i wanted to have swirls and bubbles over somewhat of the view of prospit/derse with the 12 trolls standing silhouetted! i tried to create the same feel as the song with the art. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Dream Around +Artist: Laurent Désautels-Séguin +Track Art: enjistier +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/dream-around +Commentary: + Laurent Désautels-Séguin: + This song is about the famous Openbound walkaround. I tried to do some automatic writing to represent the mood of the draem bubbles. I think that the soundtrack of Tekkon Kinkreet influenced me for the vibe of the song. Now is a good time to talk about the programs that I use. I'm using Massive for my sounds, Reaper to compose and I use the Replika delay and Decimort bitcrusher> The song ends with Lord English's theme because why not! + enjistier: + This track, I feel, well portrays Meenah's recruitment adventures as she learned about the characters of the Beforus trolls. I tried my best to capture the vast and colorful environments encased inside the dream bubbles that Meenah explored. The dream bubble is implied through the use of a circular frame, and you may notice the crack in the universe, a symbol of Lord English's impending threat. + The world of Homestuck is always so wonderful, and I feel like people forget about it sometimes. I'm glad that fan musicians and artists can come together like this to create such beautiful works about something we love. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: The Sylph is In +Artist: Sara Stebbins +Track Art: Quietserval +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-sylph-is-in +References: Cobalt Corsair +Commentary: + Sara Stebbins: + My track was inspired by Aranea's exposition booth in Openbound. I tried to go for a swing piano piece kind of in the vein of Charlie Brown, though I didn't adhere to that completely. I alsou sed themes from "Cobalt Corsair" on Colours and Mayhem Universe A. Basically, it was written to be something one could tap dance to. + Quietserval: + Because the song took themes from swing dancing and Aranea's expasition booth, I thought it would be fun for Aranea to cut loose in her own private library. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Vwiolet Vwelvwet +Artist: Dallas Ross Hicks +Track Art: Cro +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/vwiolet-vwelvwet +Commentary: + Dallas Ross Hicks: + Cronus Ampora is in love with the 1950's era of Earth but wishes he could be in love with somebody. Anybody. This song captures the style of music from that time, starting with Cronus's generally pleasant mood but giving way to his overbearing on-the-make obnoxiousness that invariably drives people away. This doesn't make his loneliness any less real, which is illustrated at the end of the tune by a slow, sad finale. I grew up listening to this kind of music on my parents' radio so I really enjoyed bringing elements of my favourites from the Fifties to life in this song! + Cro: + It's amusing once more to be drawing Cronus; he's practically a staple for me. That being said, I had a challenging but workable idea of how I wanted to present the piece. Seeing Cronus on a quest for love but failing would eventually lead to that path of sulking, and that is presented within his gray, stormy scheme (that, and the 50's barely had much in color still). With the fact he's outside of a dream bubble (a watery, lily pad dream bubble) where a red string of fate passes, it's almost like he's fishing for a pirze without really getting any bites. T oget even deeper into this harshness, the fact that it's a dream bubble can only leave for his hopes to be trapped in that; a dream. Something that could come so close, yet so far, and he continues trying to get a fish to catch his hook. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: STRONG Like Hoofbeast +Artist: theh0nestman +Track Art: felicitousArtisan +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/strong-like-hoofbeast +Commentary: + theh0nestman: + I liked the strong man character type and wanted to take a simple piece of music and build strength. Also, robot guitar noises. + felicitousArtisan: + I wanted to capture both a sense of melancholy and also one of power and solidity so I went for something that resembles a Modernist statue or a piece of Communist Propaganda, but with a sad, thoughtful pose. The talky guitars gave the track a retro feel, which I also tried to work in with a bit of grunge too. It's kind of an uncharacteristically cool looking portrait of Horuss to match a track that has an understated strength and dtermination, creating a sense of tragedy since none of the Zahhaks seem to ever live up to the promise of their strength. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Whispering Chucklevoodoo +Artist: Llyona Fang +Track Art: Ann-Marie Blackington +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/whispering-chucklevoodoo +References: Homestuck Anthem, Harlequin +Commentary: + Llyona Fang: + A Meulin and Kurloz fansong. From its light-hearted and delicate beginning, it transitions into the mysterious sounds of an abandoned carnival. Out of the darkness, there rises an oblivious bliss, framed perfectly with the hint of a silent skeletal smile. + Ann-Marie Blackington: + A cheerful interaction between friends—or is it? My goal for this image is to show the insidious nature of Meulin and Kurloz's seemingly innocent relationship. Among the static lies a corrupted carnival abandoned years before, or perhaps never used? Unaware of the dark tendrils surrounding her, Meulin falls under the spell of her former matesprit's chucklevoodoo. Behind the stitches a menacing smile appears; in the distance, a silent prayer is lifted. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: 7UR8UL3N7 coll4bor4t1on +Artist: laptopStrummer +Track Art: Sigourney Martin +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/7ur8ul3n7-coll4bor4t1on +Commentary: + laptopstrummer: + This song is about Latula and Mituna relationship, it's a 3 part song that tells a story. + Don't count on me to expalin it to you though, but feel free to interpret as you like :) + Thank you for listening !
laptopStrummer + Sigourney Martin: + Hey! It's Siggy! When I listened to this song for the first few times, I was thinking of having both Mituna and Latula in the ipcture, but I felt like just having Mituna with Latula's hands holding him made it a little more symbolic in a way? Bleh, I'm never good at that kind of stuff, but this was fun to make! +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Solus Vates +Artist: TempiTunes +Track Art: Sam Garcia +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/solus-vates +Commentary: + TempiTunes: + This song is meant to represent the relationship Kankri has with his friends. Due to what we've seen in comic, I picture Kankri to have a strained relationship with the other trolls, leaving him feeling left out more often than not. This piece starts out bravado with a crunchy organ, representing Kankri's own bravado and righteous outlook, transitioning into a sad and lonely bit of chimes and violin. The piece ends with warm strings (they are his friends after all), leaving with a callback to the lonely chimes. + I titled this piece SOlus Vates, which is probably horrible Latin as I've never taken a course, buti t's meant to mean Lonely Seer/Prophet, relating to the left out and lonely feeling Kankri feels around his companions as well as his role as the Seer of Blood. + Sam Garcia: + when i heard the song i just felt sorry for kankri, it represents pretty well how lonely kankri felt in his timeline, so in the drawing i decided to put kankri in a place where he would have spent most of his time during beforus, and i thought a library or some sort of study would fit well! and at the corner of the table some colorful flowers to represent his friends that are kinda with him. i had a lot of fun drawing this! i hope you like the drawing ^^ +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Radglare +Artist: RowBird +Track Art: oxfordroulette +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/radglare +Commentary: + RowBird: + This is the first time i did a theme for a specific character by myself. It was harder than i expected, i did know what kind of vibe i would want to give it; hiphop/breakbeat with an oldschool vibe to it, something that would remind you of tony hawk pro skater. But i would make it very melodic with heavy 8bit-like influences to better suit her gamer girl character. Choosing a chord progression also was quite a challenge to me, it had to suit her character. After playing around and switching up orders i ended up with something that just felt right. + The first part represents hir first impression, the downtempo part is dedicated to her more serious 'libra side'. In the end it will all come together and really emphasise the radical personality she has created for herself. + oxfordroulette: + The DJ scratches in the track reminded me of some kind of golden age of hip hop/Blade Runner fusion. And when I think techno neon late 80s grunge, I think Latula Pyrope. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: We Are +og3th3r +Directory: we-are-tog3th3r +Artist: The One Music Maniac +Track Art: Josefin B. +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/we-are-og3th3r +Commentary: + The One Music Maniac: + "We Are +og3th3r" is a Latula-focused piece regarding her interactions with Porrim. Latula allows herself to let go of her "rad girl" act around Porrim, which she uses as a defense channel for her insecurities regarding her lacking hte sense of smell. When Porrim and Latula interact, they are able to openly ponder about life and the mysteries of universal questions, such as the possibilities and the capabilities of fate, should fate truly exist. The heartbeat-like rhythm symbolizes their open heart-to-heart conversation, the chimes representing Latula's carefree spirit, and the mallets exprses Porrim's inquisitive thinking. + Josefin B.: + Porrim and Latula's interactions have always been one of m yfavourite parts of Homestuck as a whole. Their conversation, to me, seems like a break from the actual story and we get two adult women being friends and discussing spiritual, universal and personal matters. I wanted to capture that, but also their own personalities in the art. We have Latula, who happily leans over Porrim as a greeting, trusting her to be there. We have Porrim, calmly waiting for Latula whom she trusts will arive. Latula is not wearing her shades, because these two see things eye-to-eye. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Divert Momento +Artist: TempiTunes +Track Art: Txesare +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/divert-momento +Commentary: + TempiTunes: + "Divert Momento" is the song for Meulin and the misspelling is intentional. The title is a mix of Divert Moment, representing the moments that Meulin is "Diverted" for a moment by Kurloz's mind control, a momento, and Divertimento which is a type of music similar to a serenade, which is the name of one of the Homestuck songs for the Disciple, who Meulin is similar to but not exactly. + Txesare: + Meulin is portrayed in a dreamy state. I tried to add my personal interpretation of Kurloz's control over her through the paint and the nails as a trait that is hidden on that fantasy. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Curly Fury +Artist: laptopStrummer +Track Art: Sam Garcia +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/curly-fury +References: Blackest Heart, Purple Tyrant, Purple Bard +Commentary: + laptopStrummer: + For Kurloz, I wanted a song that begins and ends with silence. I borrowed the melodic theme from Blackest Heart (and Purple Bard and Purple Tyrant aswell, those are all Makara-themed songs) and played wtih it. I couldn't resist to put some of my (dare I say signature ?) stellar samples for the ambient outra. So some of the sounds actually come from space ! Thank you for listening. Cheers ! + Sam Garcia: + when i listened to the song, and saw its title, the only thing that came to me was the "vast honk" or how kurloz sewed his mouth, i wanted this drawing to more or less show how kurloz was then (after he sewed it) and at the vast honk. i hope you like the drawing! +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: The Light Forms Us +Artist: Blackhole +Track Art: Circlejourney +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-light-forms-us +References: ♍ - Let Me Dance, Let Me Glisten +Commentary: + Blackhole: + This song was born out of a desire to remix the theme from Flutterwhat's fantastic "Let Me Dance, Let me glisten", one of the earliest tracks we received for the album. That song is about Porrim, and incorporates ideas of her radiance as a rainbow drinker, and so I had those images in my mind when I was putting this song together. However, for my own spin on the LMDLMG leitmotif, I wanted to give the track a broader meaning, so I decided to turn this into a song about the Green Sun, and how its light shines through the furthest ring and presides over the Beforan session (and many others). I used a similar set of sounds to those which I incorporated into [[Formant (Sprite Chorus Mix)]], the eponymous Formant synth common in both tracks always having given me the feeling of radiant light. + Circlejourney: + The track is nominally about the Green Sun, but the inclusion of the main leitmotif in Porrim's principal track links the Sun to Porrim specifically. I found that an interesting relationship and decided to explore it in the track art. This track gives me a strong ethereal cosmic vibe; to match that, I drew Porrim basking in the glrious light of the Green Sun, which fills half the sky even though it lies beyond the universe, indicating its power and importance. Deep magenta seemed like the perfect colour to pair with the sun's green. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Fortune Fins +Artist: rest✩taurus +Track Art: Lyza K. +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/fortune-fins +Commentary: + rest✩taurus: + Now this was a fun track that turned out exactly as I first imagined it. Just a fun, playful bouncing thing. Meenah was always a threat to the session, but Aranea nurtured friendship with her just fine. Both trolls involved have to be a certain kind of light-hearted for that to work, and I really think they were. In any case, that's how their ghosts acted up until their separation. While it lasted, it was flitting and pumping and strong, in its own flighty way. A relationship propelled by fiath in the future and their own capabilities. Remember: each play revives the les8ifins for just a little longer. + Lyza K.: + This track is happy and bubbly so I drew slightly younger Meenah and Aranea in a slightly cartoonish style. With bubbles. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Thief of the Ring +Artist: The One Music Maniac +Track Art: Gillian Pascasio +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/thief-of-the-ring +References: Carne Vale +Commentary: + The One Music Maniac: + "Thief of the Ring" is a pre-GAME OVER themed composition that covers Aranea's selfish motives & how it caused the imapct of GAME OVER, including: possessing Gamzee to steal the ring from John, almost forcing a kiss on Jake, forcing Jake to use his Hope power, killing Jade, getting angry because John promised the ring would be for Calliope, forcing Roxy to sleep, having to fight Brain Ghost Dirk as he rips her soul out of her body, and causing Jane's vengeance for the death of her ectobiological granddaughter. + Gillian Pascasio: + The music, with its beat, and of course its theme that ties into GAME OVER, I naturally went towards bold colors and contrast- which is actually a staple of my art! I focused on the motif of the ring itself, and Aranea's life/death, giving her one dead eye and one living eye, split by the shadows. The ring itself is incorporated into her seven pupils, and the circular overlays. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: In the Light +Artist: slitherbot +Track Art: Pitchin +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/in-the-light +Commentary: + slitherbot: + yeaha this song is centered around aranea and her chance with the life ring. its a short song but i put love into it. my favourite part is the end of the song bcuz of the fire, she wanted to shine but got too close to the sun >:3c ..IDK WHAT ELSE TO SAY,, I LOVE THIS SPIDER LADY. + Pitchin: + As they say: the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and Aranea - being as bright and blind as she is - didn't really see her destination before she fell back into it. Gotta say, one of my favourite character arcs and I already wanted to do something with it when it first happened. I might ahve accidentally listened to the song several hours on a loop while doing this @u@" Even if I say so mysef, I fokin love that hair. Also fire. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Funeral March of the Avenging Dead +Artist: SerialSymphony +Track Art: Fayghost +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/funeral-march-of-the-avenging-dead +Commentary: + SerialSymphony: + Someone needs to take my voilins away fro me, I love them too much.
-'Skip'/SerilaSymphony + Fayghost: + Don't worry, your violins are safe with me. I promise to wakl them twice a day. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Past and Present +Artist: Oliver Hendricks +Track Art: Scarlet Schaefer +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/past-and-present +Commentary: + Oliver Hendricks: + "Past and Present" is meant to represent the action and devastation of the Beforus trolls' past. There are moments inw hich the trolls look with melancholy at their mistakes, but they hope for the future. It's almost as if they know that their ancestors will go on to be heroes. + Scarlet Schaefer: + I took into account how Oliver Hendricks described his piece and decided to make it wholly symbolic, two friends now enemies considering what has happened between them. The blood on the walls is also a symbol of all the pain that the Beforus trolls as a whole experienced. As for the artistic feel I wanted to portray in my piece, I played heavily into the tone of the song itself and used a style more of what you would most likely see in sequential storytelling. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Beforus +Artist: Toris Crow +Track Art: Elanor Pam +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/beforus +References: Theme +Commentary: + Toris Crow: + Early last year, I wrote a song called "Featherlight." This is an extended and improved version of it made exclusively for the Beforus Album project and will not appear in any of my own albums. It serves as a mirror for the song [[Alternia]] in the album "AlterniaBound." This song is dedicated to Not-Terezi-Pyrope (Blackhole) for making this project possible. + Blackhole: + <3 + Elanor Pam: + Aranea once referred to the Green Moon as a "large(r) green interloper" that had never belonged to her world. Thus Beforus is represented by the Pink Moon standing alone in the sky; the Beforan players contemplate it from a tree branch of one of the Pyrope's forest. Is this a night before the end? A dreambubble illusion? As the track art for the last song on disk 2, the ambiguity seemed fitting. One way or another, it's now nothing more than a bittersweet recollection of simpler times. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: ♬ Disc 3 ♬ +Directory: disc3-beforus +Artist: Blackhole +Track Art: magnoliajades +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/disc-3 +Commentary: + Blackhole: + Disc 3 was originally conceived as a "bonus" disc, containing just a couple of tracks that were included in addition to the main body of the album. In the end, though, it grew into something bigger, band became an integral and important section of the album, containing some of our most key tracks. With the same track count as Disc 1, it keeps the album nicely balanced lengthwise, and is characterised by tracks that are somehow different from the principal themes of that Disc and the more narrative soundtrack pieces of Disc 2. These include tracks that did not slot easily into the Disc 2 chronology, remixes, vocal tracks, and a few special pieces for the album finale. + magnoliajades: + This was probably the first (or one of the first) art pieces made for the Beforus project, as it was also used as promotional art. I was honored to have the privilege of creating it, and kept it simplistic as I did not know what to expect out of the art that others would be putting toward the project later on. Also, I had no other way to quickly create digital art at the time other than with an iPad. I like to think I helped make everyone else's art look even greater! I also thought about karaoke parties while making this, but I think that's perfectly fine. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Fuchsia Moonrise +Artist: Circlejourney +Track Art: Yellowstockings +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/fuchsia-moonrise +Commentary: + Circlejourney: + This track was inspired by the fact that, because the corruption represented by the Green Moon was not present in the Beforus timeline, their nights would have been lit by the Pink Moon alone. Pink is a decidedly strange colour to associate with nighttime, but I do enjoy the imagery immensely. This track is meant to evoke the image of a mysterious pink night. It combines ethereal piano accents with a square lead riff that one might associate with Meenah Peixes, who lived on the moon for a period of time. + Yellowstockings: + This piece exploers the visual effects of a pink moon's light on a Beforian seascape and a young Meenah as she contemplates abdication. The drama and scope of the track Fuchsia Moonrise lent itself to a turbulent seascape while the quieter aspects of the track inspired something more contemplative and calm. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Burgundy Revenge +Artist: Matthias Ramalho +Track Art: Smear +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/burgundy-revenge +References: English +Commentary: + Matthias Ramalho: + A Damara Megido song, focused on her hate against her archrival and an excellent host. It took me 6 hours and is based off Meenah's and Doc Scratch's songs. + Smear: + Conceding to the original track artist's commentary, this piece was made to represent a strife between Meenah and Damara. Burgundy Revenge to me was a very creepy and atmospheric track so I decided to set it in a black and smoky enviornment. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: #problematicfave +Artist: theh0nestman +Track Art: JulietCee +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/problematicfave +Commentary: + theh0nestman: + Kankri Vantas was the most difficult character I've had to write a song for in my whole life. He's too sensitive. He reminds me too much of Tumblr, but then I guess that was the point. Anyway, I was relieved to learn I could do an instrumental, and it turned out to actually be my problematic fave. Sorry it's so short. Feel free to loop! + JulietCee: + I must admit, Kankri is one of my least favourite characters, I can't stand the guy. I wasn't so thrilled when I received my allocation, but I decided to view it as a challenge and do my best. I let the music guide my hand, as I often do when I'm drawing, and here's the result. Red is my favourite colour and I loved playing with it. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Tree Dwellers +Artist: MariEaster +Track Art: Quietserval +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/tree-dwellers +Commentary: + MariEaster: + Tree Dwellers is about the Lost Weeaboos; a group of Beforan otaku trolls living in a secret forest village far away from normal troll society. The track was originally made to be a fan track for Nepeta, but I found the track to fit surprisingly well with the whole concept about the Lost Weeaboos. + Tree Dwellers was never made to be a piece of music that sounded 'brilliant' or 'genuinely composed'; the simplicity and silliness of the track gave me MSPA feels, so I chose to keep it that way as a silly detail in the Beforus Album. + Quietserval: + As MariEater wrote in their track commentary, the song "Tree Dwellers" was meant to be fun, simple, and silly. So for the track art I wanted to show an everyday scene in the village of the Lost Weeaboos; tree houses, trolls dressed up in cosplay, and of course fisticuffs. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Puppeteer +Artist: thesketchqueen +Track Art: Vanessa Auqué +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/puppeteer +References: Sburban Jungle +Lyrics: + Hello my darling dear
I’ve always been right here
Waiting for you, waiting for you
What’s that, my darling dear?
Suddenly I can’t hear you
Cat got your tongue? + Puppeteer, puppeteer
There’s no need to fear
Puppeteer, puppeteer
You're my love, the one I hold so dear + I’m known to be the one (you're slipping away)
Who’s always good with love (i can't hold on)
I make purrfect matches both red and pale (to you)
There's no room for mistake (we’re falling apart)
I never miscalculate (why won’t you hold)
I could never fail (to me) + Right? + So what is this sinister feeling?
Why do you insist on disappearing?
Why do I black out on a whim,
Then wake some place I’ve never been?
Where are you, my darling dear?
Suddenly I can’t hear at all
Cat got your tongue? + Puppeteer, puppeteer
What of you should I fear
Puppeteer, puppeteer
Suddenly nothing is so clear + Lapses in memory as
Your darkness takes hold of me
The screams of damned fall on deaf ears
A bittersweet melody only I can hear
Is this pity or is this love?
Or is my decision one I’m not a part of?
Logic begs for me to get away
But how do I live without you beside me? + Puppeteer, Puppeteer
Now you’re here, I see you crystal clear. + jumbled mess :)) + Puppeteer, Puppeteer
I’m paralyzed with fear
Puppeteer, Puppeteer
You’re my love, the one I hold + You’re slipping away, I can’t hold on to you
We’re falling apart, why won’t you hold to me
You’re slipping away, hold on. +Commentary: + thesketchqueen: + This song has gone through three lyrical overhauls (the third was becuase the song I created got too personal), two instrumental overhauls, and a shift from "real" instruments to virtual instruments. It's a mess. I wanted to focus on something of the dynamic between Kurloz and Meulin, especially all the gross mind-control stuff. I wanted to give lots of double meanings to the text, too, because puppeteer, nothing means what you think it means, la-di-da. So. Puppeteer. The end. + Vanessa Auqué: + For the track art I wanted to focus more on Meulin being controlled, so I chose to show her as a cross between a puppet and doll, as a nod to all the mind controlling and chucklevoodoo stuff going on with Kurloz. She gets her mind broken into and toyed with like it's no big deal, by none other than her closest friend, for who knows how long, and then lights some catnip with him afterwards. It's a mixture of creepy and cute, just like them. For the background I chose to use bright purples to give it more of a glow-y, neon, big-brother-is-looking-into-your-soul vibe, as well as make reference to Kurloz. + Give up your mind and jump into the void. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Cardinal Movement +Artist: rest✩taurus +Track Art: Txesare +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/cardinal-movement +Commentary: + rest✩taurus: + I had a lot of ambitions with this one. It didn't end up how I originally imagined, but I think it's frantic in just the right way, the repititions rae a bit unnerving in just the right way. Boss battle songs odn't usually fade out, but neither do entire universes and their heroes! This track is named after the Beforan session scratch construct, and is meant to convey the inner workings of our lovely Thief during the very last high-stakes moment of her life. The original plan was to include a sadder, slow portion; owever, when it came time to finalize, that just didn't feel right. This was something Meenah ahd been planning ever since the Horrorterrors spoke to her. Of course she has feelings, but she wasn't about to have a change of heart on this: not when it would save all of her friends. She's sweet (and terrifying) like that. + Txesare: + I tried to show Meenah in a situation where she is considering the repercussions, where she's certain this is the best option even though such a huge price has to be paid. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Anacronus +Artist: Laurent Désautels-Séguin +Track Art: rockytoad +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/anacronus +References: Flare +Commentary: + Laurent Désautels-Séguin: + Anacronus is a song about "what if Cronus was an 80's cop". So the song is inspired by artists like Waveshaper and Infinity Shred. At first, there was supposed to have drums in the song, but I found the sound to be more wide, threating and John Carpenter-esque. In the middle part, I quoted Flare by Plazmataz because why not. I made all the sounds with NI Massive. // When I heard about the project, I wanted to do a cool Cronus track... except that he's not really cool. So I made him an 80's cop. I tried to do something like John Carpenter: epic, dangerous and a lot of arpeggios. + rockytoad: + I read that it was supposed to be 80's cop Cronus and played around for a little bit with that. The theme sounds dark and emotional, which rpompted me to, humorously, think about that meme where a person is on a stool with a microphone and has faded versions of their face around. Obviously I didn't do that here, but the more I thought about it seriously, the mroe I thought it'd fit. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Madam Firefly +Artist: violasarecool +Track Art: magnoliajades +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/madam-firefly +References: Homestuck Anthem, Skies of Skaia +Lyrics: + Madam Firefly,
Blinking in the sky,
Swim through the stars to find your place,
You're wandering through endless space. + Tricky little bug,
Tend to your mother grub,
Don't worry 'bout the pink and blue,
'cause green is all you ever knew, + Until the blood was dripping teal and bronze and gold.
You took the mantle from your ancestors of old.
And though the changes were like chains upon your heart,
You cut them loose and tried your best to change your part. + Madam Firefly,
Dead eyes don't gleam so bright.
Look o'er the bubbles' pulsing glow,
You've many friends dispersed below. + White glimmer fades to grey,
You're stronger every day.
Provoked, you have a sharp tongue
And wit for one who died so young. + Madam Firefly,
Blinking in the sky,
Your ghostly limbs are full of grace,
Enrobed in fabric made of space. +Commentary: + violasarecool: + when i saw that this album was going to be focusing on beforus, i wasn't really sure what to do with that; my song-writing aesthetic is pretty light and fluffy, and my favourite alpha trolls would have to be meenah and porrim, a pair of fairly punk kids. but i was thinking about porrim's thing with light and her ability to flicker on and off where kanaya hasn't mastered that yet. and i thought, what about a firefly, that'd be kind of cute, and then once i had that idea i wrote most of the lyrics in an afternoon. + magnoliajades: + I enjoyed making this piece since Porrim and I share the same zodiac sign and I already think she's gorgeous. I focused on the mood of the song (and how the sound of the vocals made me feel) more so than the lyrics, and tried to capture those moods in this picture. Listening to the track was comforting and felt... warm. I was glad the composer intended to take a lighter aesthetic approach, because that was something I could eaisly match. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: 7UN3 R3M1X +Artist: Princezz +Track Art: Shu +References: 7UN3 +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/7un3-r3m1x +Commentary: + Princezz: + I made this song in a hurry when I thought I'd lost the other song (I know it's bad to delete stuff but I was trying to hide it from someone who wouldn't have reacted well...but that's another story). This song isn't as good because I couldn't remember how to recreate the sound in the original song. But I thought I'd have it here anywa. + Shu: + It was mostly inspired by the track's mroe distorted sound effects and its playful melody. It's definitely a catchy tune and I found myself humming around while drawing this so I hope I did the composer some justice! I'm glad I got assigned a Mituna song because I've never actually drawn him and it was a lot of fun hahaa// +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: East Beforan Funk +Artist: Blackhole, The D +Track Art: memento vivere +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/east-beforan-funk +Lyrics: + D: Aaaaaaow! + D: Kick it,
D: And I'll see
D: East Beforus
D: Drives you crazy.
R: We're here, for them bright clothes,
R: Lost Weeaboos,
R: Got all the pieces.
R: Smilin', while I'm,
R: Living it up in the trees,
D: We'll soar across Beforus,
R: Just doing as we damn well please, yeah,
D: We're too hot! (R:Hot damn)
D: Like Pyralspite or Pupa Pan,
R: We're too hot! (D:Hot damn)
R: Sing it out, like bangarang!
D: We're too hot! (R:Hot damn)
D: この曲が長すぎます。
R: We're too hot! (D:Hot damn)
R: And you know what we've got
R: Break it down. + D: Girls let us bring it to ya, (R:Whoo)
R: Boys let us bring it to ya, (D:Oh yeah)
D+R: Y'all let us bring it to ya, (D:Yeah!)
R: East Beforan Funk gon' give it to you,
D: East Beforan Funk gon' give it to you,
D+R: East Beforan Funk gon' give it to you!
D+R: When high dark strikes and you're in the spot,
D+R: Don't believe us? Just watch! + D+R: Don't believe us? Just watch! + D: Don't believe us? Just watch!
R: Don't believe us? Just watch!
D: Don't believe us? Just watch!
R: Don't believe us? Just watch!
D: Whoa, oh, oh, oh! + R: Hey doll,
R: Stop a minute.
R: Spread your wings, let them flitter a bit!
D: Time's rollin', 'til the scratch,
D: Rufioh, take it back!
R: If you follow, we'll go cross the Medium and more,
R: We'll carry the flame up in the game,
D: And we damn well know the score! + D: We're too hot! (R:Hot damn)
D: Like Pyralspite or Pupa Pan,
R: We're too hot! (D:Hot damn)
R: Sing it out, like bangarang!
D: We're too hot! (R:Hot damn)
D: のがクライマックスに行きましょう。
R: We're too hot! (D:Hot damn)
R: And you know what we've got
D: Break it down. + R: Trolls let us bring it to ya, (D:Oh)
D: Humans let us bring it to ya, (R:Woohoo)
D+R: Y'all let us bring it to ya, (D:Yeah!)
R: East Beforan Funk gon' give it to you,
D: East Beforan Funk gon' give it to you,
D+R: East Beforan Funk gon' give it to you!
D+R: When high dark strikes and you're in the spot,
D+R: Don't believe us? Just watch! + D+R: Don't believe us? Just watch! + R: Don't believe us? Just watch!
D: Don't believe us? Just watch!
R: Don't believe us? Just watch!
D: Don't believe us? Just watch!
R: Whoa, oh, oh, oh! + D: Before we go,
D: Let us show you something funky! (R: Yeah)
R: East Beforan Funk, East Beforan Funk,
D: East Beforan Funk, East Beforan Funk,
R: She said East Beforan Funk, East Beforan Funk!
D: I said East Beforan Funk, East Beforan Funk! + R: Come on, dance,
R: Let's own it,
R: You're a mutant? Yo, just flaunt it,
R: Wanna spread your wings? Get on it,
R: 'Cause we're bold enough to just show it.
D: Come on, dance,
D: We'll own it,
D: Low blood colour? Just flaunt it,
D: When high dark strikes and you're in the spot,
D+R: Don't believe us? Just watch! + D+R: Don't believe us? Just watch! + D: Don't believe us? Just watch!
R: Don't believe us? Just watch!
D: Don't believe us? Just watch!
R: Don't believe us? Just watch!
D: Whoa, oh, oh, oh! + R: East Beforan Funk, East Beforan Funk, (D: Oh yeah!)
D: East Beforan Funk, East Beforan Funk,
R: East Beforan Funk, East Beforan Funk,
D: East Beforan Funk, East Beforan Funk, (R: Whoooohoooo)
R: East Beforan Funk, East Beforan Funk, (D: Oh yeah!)
D+R: East Beforan Funk, East Beforan Funk,
D+R: East Beforan Funk, East Beforan Funk, (D: Hey Hey,)
D+R: East Beforan Funk,
R: Aaaaaaow! +Commentary: + Blackhole: + This one was based on a somewhat crackpot idea of mine that had been floating around in my head for a while. Uptown Funk is undoubtedly one of the best records of this decade so far, and, what with the concept of the Homestuck song parody having a fairly rich canon at this point, I thought it was a shame that it had yet to get the same treatment. I thought a fairly tongue-in-cheek "East Beforan Funk" re-arrangement and re-lyricised cover of the track would be a fun thing to slot in at the end of the album. Several times I thought that I might not finish it in order to make the cut, especially seeing as arranging the entire track with new instrumentation in FL was incredibly painstaking, but I got there in the end! + The whole vocal portion of the track is somewhat of an homage to a failed project that I was working on with the pseudonymous "The D" some years ago, "Scourge Siblings", to record some of the lyrical accompaniments that I'd written for various Homestuck tracks over the years. None of that ever really came to full fruition despite our best efforts at the time, but I think this is probably the best thing that could have come out of that failed project! I hope it as fun to listen to as it was to make. + memento vivere: + I figured that a parody of a real song deserved parody album artwork to match, so of course I ended up Funkifying Rifoh and Damara and mimicking the actual Uptown Funk album artwork. Considering the state that we saw Damara and Rufioh in Openbound, it was kinda nice to be able to draw them from a time when they were having lighthearted fun together! +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Rex Duodecim Daemonia X (ReDuX) +Artist: Veritas Unae +Track Art: HermesNitram +References: +- ♈ - Fatalism +- ♉ - Breathtak1ng +- ♊ - The Mituna Method +- ♋ - Civil Discussi9n +- ♌ - MOG^3 +- ♍ - Let Me Dance, Let Me Glisten +- ♎ - R4d1c4l! +- ♏ - Salv8tion +- ♐ - Creeping Blue +- ♑ - Pious Noise +- ♒ - Aquasex Renegade +- ♓ - Killer Beach +- Rex Duodecim Angelus +- The Thirteenth Hour +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/rex-duodecim-daemonia-x-redux +Commentary: + Veritas Unae: + This piece... I don't think I've ever had a chance to write anything like it. It was insanely challenging, least of all trying to find some way to fit in all of the principal tracks. I've tried my best to include something that sort of sounds close to each of the tracks while telling a story, but I apologise if it's not exactly what or as much as you expect. + The King Awakens. Kankri's Rally. Horrus and Rufioh's Attempt. Meulin and Kurloz's Carnival. Damara, Centre Stage. Retaliation and Aranea's Failure. Porrim's Glow. Cronus's Final Stand. Mituna and Latula's Efforts. Aranea's Return. Meenah's Finale. + I could spend a while talking about this so I'll just note a few things: Kurloz mimics RDA like Gamzee did. Aranea attempts to make a big show against the king around 4.33, but fails (Porrim steps up to help after this). The Thirteenth Hour appears at the end of the Mituna/Latula section as well. It's something "ve always wanted to reference in a track and seemed appropriate for thsi song that was literally finished in the last hours of the project. I hope you've enjoyed this album as much as I enjoyed spending several long nights toiling over this piece. + HermesNitram: + The fight with the Black King is surely one of the most exciting parts of the game, and I tried to show the spirit of the fight that each Beforus troll would have. The order of trolls on the picture follows the track, and each one has been assigned the most possible fitting weapon that would help them fight the Black King. In order of appearance: Kankri (Social Justice speech), Horuss (untamed strength of bare fists), Rufioh (spear and shield), Kurlzo (chucklevoodoos and needle with thread), Meulin (written fanfiction), Damara (wands), Porrim (glow and the Gigli chainsaw), Cronus (Ahab's Crosshairs), Mituna & Latula (Troll Playstation), Aranea (dice and Mindfang's sword), and Meenah (2x3dent). The visualization of Black King is left to the imagination of the audience. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Motions of Infinity +Artist: Toris Crow +Track Art: Hongxii +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/motions-of-infinity +Commentary: + Toris Crow: + This song can be interpreted as being about the Scratch from the Beforus trolls' point of view. I wanted to write a song that had a suspenseful single-note intro, similar to in the song [[English]] from the Homestuck album The Felt. I wrote the song to be dramatic because the Scratch, for them, signifies the end of their roles as players in their session. + Hongxii: + I wanted to show the initiation, the process, and the result of the Beforus trolls' scratch. Damara, happily volunteering and having the power in the first place, initiated the cardinal movement, and Meenah blowing up everybody so that they would continue to exist as ghosts, and the result, their alternate selves born in a whole new world and society. I put the ancestors because they had a role in preparing the Alternian trolls to be stronger to win the game and that all started with the alpha trolls scratching their session in the first place. diff --git a/album/beyond-canon/album.txt b/album/beyond-canon/album.txt index 1ffa206f..45103850 100644 --- a/album/beyond-canon/album.txt +++ b/album/beyond-canon/album.txt @@ -3,10 +3,30 @@ Date: April 13, 2020 Cover Art: Xamag Track Art: none FG: #f2a400 +Canon: Beyond +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-canon +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CliIjlWjOMY +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnVpmehyaOFbH-1hH663k70qBQp5jc_CU ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: exclusion zone Artist: horizon -URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/exclusion-zone +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/exclusion-zone +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yllaAhv5EYA +Lyrics: + (vocalizations of "ee" and "ah")
always
you --
(vocalizations of "ee" and "ah" continue)
-- made a monster
ha ha ha
ha ha-ah + "You sit up there all day long and do nothing. Except come down and make tea. + you just made a monster (x4) + (sampled vocoder breakdown begins) + the skyline, the skyline, the
storyteller
the skyline, the skyline
the storyteller + you just made a monster (x4) +Commentary: + horizon: + (YouTube) + my contribution to Homestuck^2's first album: exclusion zone from Beyond Canon. + i can't express how meaningful it was to be able to write something for this, so i won't try. all i can say is thank you, thank you, thank you. + you have given me a home i would be happy to be stuck in. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Now I'm a Villain Artist: David Ellis @@ -86,12 +106,8 @@ Artist: Waif Track Art: Waif URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/light-burns-out-gestalt -- https://soundcloud.com/shes-beautiful/light-goes-out-gestalt Commentary: Waif: - (SoundCloud) - It is all happening again - She needed the money (Twitter) Time is a flat circle and I made another official song for #homestuck to be released on #homestuckday It never ends @@ -112,9 +128,11 @@ Commentary: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: After the Sun Artist: Circlejourney +Track Art: Circlejourney URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/after-the-sun - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEIWdGAOBuc +- https://soundcloud.com/circlejourney/after-the-sun Commentary: Circlejourney: (Twitter) @@ -123,6 +141,8 @@ Commentary: as promised... me in 2016: I should join at least one Homestuck fan project before the comic ends, this may be my last chance me in 2020, somehow on the team of people who made the music that inspired me, making music for a comic that's still going: well, + (YouTube) + It's about beginnings in endings...building the world in the comic's early pages, and rebuilding the world after the end. But also, all interpretations are valid. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Narrative Command Artist: Sean William Calhoun @@ -178,6 +198,19 @@ Commentary: no promises but you know. i am just a little creacher - i wasn't technically lying + (Twitter) + might as well talk a tiny bit about this song, Four Kids (and a Game They Played Together), since people are responding to it way more strongly than i kind of expected + the original version of the track from yeaaaaars ago i wrote as an instrumental i intended to be the "homestuck end credits theme," which ended up not panning out for a bunch of reasons, but the song was always a fave of mine, and stuck around on my hard drive until i polished it up as the finale of the main portion of Stuckhome Syndrome P1V1. i still love this version of the song very much. + i had a vocal version brewing in my head for ages. literally from before stuckhome syndrome was released. i mean, the first line (it's been a little bit since the last time we all talked/so how are all of you doing?) was just a sudden thing about me getting volume 10 together + i never had anything besides that opening line, though, not really. for ages i thought i'd finish it up for the last stuckhome volume (i haven't even put the 2nd together...but i will! this year probably?) but a lot ended up hitting me in the interim and i didn't have time for it + about five months ago i was contacted to be a part of the homestuck 2 music team and was told the lowdown: it was a clean slate, and a chance to establish the musical rockbed for homestuck 2 going forward. no quotes of hs1 songs whatsoever, but we'd be making new songs TO quote + i messed around with a few other demos but it was pretty quick for me to settle on deciding to do this. since four kids was never actually released as part of homestuck proper, it ended up feeling like the perfect time to pull the track together for real. + though the instrumental of the new version came together with steady work over the past few months the actual vocals and lyrics didn't coalesce until about two weeks ago. i had messed around with dozens of variants until then; the only stuff finalized earlier was the chorus + singing it was fresh hell because it's stretching my range extremely hard, but i didn't want to do pitch correction. on the final track there is some on the backing vocals for two parts, mostly to help finish the thing quickly, but the majority of it is natural + it was endless, endless retakes and it still sound bad to my ears but i think the roughness maybe helps the emotional quality of the song? i guess? + for my part, i'm just glad it's done and i'm glad it's apparently good. anyway. thanks + oh and lastly i guess speculate all you want about the meaning of the song but i'm not going to engage with any of that stuff because i kinda feel like what the song is feeling is clear without my input on that front + but. yeah. thanks again. <3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: crystal hung in firmament's descent Artist: Emelia K. diff --git a/album/cherubim/album.txt b/album/cherubim/album.txt index 634ccd58..c6382d7d 100644 --- a/album/cherubim/album.txt +++ b/album/cherubim/album.txt @@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ Album: Cherubim Cover Art: Kait Linney (lines), Shelby Cragg (coloring & logo) Date: March 14, 2013 FG: #ff7600 +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-7-8-with-cherubim +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka9R4mX8LZo +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5wuj4bznbEntObWXb7BFZBl3Jq1Ep1Kb ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Reverie Artist: Alexander Rosetti @@ -15,7 +19,7 @@ Commentary: Track: Power Fantasy Artist: Clark Powell References: Reverie -Track Art: Elyse Holmes +Track Art: Indolentjellyfish URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/power-fantasy-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Stellarum Salve diff --git a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a/album.txt b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a/album.txt index 6b08cf92..2f9c64aa 100644 --- a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a/album.txt +++ b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a/album.txt @@ -3,20 +3,23 @@ Directory: coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a Cover Art: Shelby Cragg Date: April 2, 2012 FG: #9292e2 +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/colours-and-mayhem-universe-a-b +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL333B705C8C7572E3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: ~~SIDE 1~~ Artist: Toby Fox -References: Black +References: Liquid Negrocity Track Art: none Directory: side-1-universe-a URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/universe-a-side-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Rust Servant -Artist: Will Ascenzo +Artist: Willow Ascenzo Track Art: Leslie Hung URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/rust-servant Commentary: - Will Ascenzo: + Willow Ascenzo: If Violet Mariner was the elder child and Teal Hunter the middle child, then Rust Servant is the youngest child onto which I poured all my love and affection. This was one of my favorite pieces to work on and even today I’m still pretty pleased with how it turned out, from the striking staccato and col legno strings opening the song to the frantic violins, melancholic chromatic percussion, deep brass, and fast-paced drum grooves. I wanted the song to be big, epic, a little scary. If I may be so immodest, I think I succeeded. Rust Servant was the only one of my three contest submissions to remain allocated to the character I had in mind while writing it, Aradia’s tragic ancestor and Lord English’s dreadful Handmaid (although the name was changed from the terribly uncreative Handmaid of Death to something more apt for the naming scheme of the album). When I wrote this song, I had just taken an Intro to Hinduism class the previous fall and had written a short research paper on Kali, the Hindu goddess of time and death (more remembered for being related to death—those of you who have seen Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom must be familiar with the Thuggees, a cult of Kali-worshipers infamous for conducting human sacrifices—and, apparently, ripping people’s hearts out and setting them on fire as well). And, of course, because I am A SHAMELESS HOMESTUCK NERD, I immediately thought, “Time? Death? THAT REMINDS ME OF ONE OF THE TROLLS” (no I didn’t write my paper on that, i’m not that terrible). It doesn’t come through much in the song itself, but that’s where I got the inspiration from. And the moral of this story is, take a theology class (or two, or three) on a religion you know nothing about. It’ll give you all sorts of new ideas for Homestuck fanart. @@ -59,11 +62,11 @@ Commentary: Inspiration for this piece came after listening to a segment of Hans Zimmer's "Attack" from the Pearl Harbor Soundtrack. I intended for the song to have a 'majestic' tone, but initially couldn't think of a character to set this theme to, so I chose the four beta kids. However, after being reassigned characters I think the piece fits equally well if not better with the Dolorosa. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Teal Hunter -Artist: Will Ascenzo +Artist: Willow Ascenzo Track Art: Myotishi URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/teal-hunter Commentary: - Will Ascenzo: + Willow Ascenzo: Teal Hunter was sort of the middle child of my three Homestuck music contest submissions. Even now it’s still my least favorite of the three songs I submitted. Why Radiation picked it along with my other two, I’ll never know. I certainly wasn’t expecting it to be chosen. With over a thousand submissions I’m sure there was no shortage of Redglare songs for him to choose from. Maybe the $20 I slipped him when I submitted my songs had something to do with it But his ways are not our ways. When Volume 9 came out, a lot of people looked at Radiation’s arrangement of Stress by Buzinaki and started noting similarities between it and Teal Hunter. Radiation wrote about why the two songs sound similar in his commentary for Stress. If we’re going to talk about “what sounds like what”, then I’ll lay my cards on the table and state that Teal Hunter was begun as pretty much a direct reference to 00 Gundam from the Gundam 00 soundtrack (if you can’t tell by now, I really like Gundams). When I started the piece, the first draft was more or less a low-rent version of that song, in the same way a cartoon that wants to parody Indiana Jones would get a song that sounds close to John Williams’ Raiders March without being close enough to qualify as plagiarism. So I just kept fiddling with it until the two melodies sounded different. By the time I got to the final product and had added the buildup in the beginning, the two had nothing but their rhythm and syncopation in common. Teal Hunter’s original title was Bête Blanche, a play on bête noire, a French phrase literally meaning “black beast” that the fan name “Bec Noir” is most likely a reference to. As evident, the song was originally allocated to PM, the one Exile powerful enough to battle Jack Noir to a stalemate. @@ -88,7 +91,7 @@ Commentary: BRASS | STRINGS | WOODWIND | PERCUSSION AND MISCELLANEOUS (dead dropbox links) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Indigo Archer -Artist: Rachel Macwhirter +Artist: Rachel Rose Mitchell Track Art: Chelsea Thomas URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/indigo-archer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -98,7 +101,7 @@ Track Art: Asiul URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/purple-tyrant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Violet Mariner -Artist: Will Ascenzo +Artist: Willow Ascenzo References: Showtime (Piano Refrain) Track Art: rumminov URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/violet-mariner @@ -171,7 +174,7 @@ URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/teal-seer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Cobalt Thief Artist: Ray McDougall -Track Art: Ray McDougall +Track Art: Shannon URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/cobalt-thief ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Indigo Heir @@ -241,7 +244,7 @@ Track Art: Lynnai Hicks URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/nine-lives-one-love ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Temporal Shenanigans -Artist: Rachel Macwhirter +Artist: Rachel Rose Mitchell Track Art: Astrom URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/temporal-shenanigans Lyrics: diff --git a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b/album.txt b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b/album.txt index 050abe64..5279da07 100644 --- a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b/album.txt +++ b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b/album.txt @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ Cover Art: Shelby Cragg Directory: coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b Date: April 13, 2012 FG: #a5d2e2 +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/colours-and-mayhem-universe-a-b +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD729D6C2BFB4844C ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: ~~SIDE 1~~ Artist: Toby Fox @@ -57,7 +60,7 @@ URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/universe-b-side-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Cyan Beast Artist: David Ellis -Track Art: Paperartichokes +Track Art: PaperArtichokes URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/cyan-beast-2 Commentary: David Ellis: @@ -152,7 +155,7 @@ Track Art: Emily Blundell URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/do-the-windy-thing-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Pilot Light -Artist: Thomas Ibarra, AutoDevote +Artist: Thomas Ibarra References: Flare Track Art: KIIPPU URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/pilot-light-2 @@ -164,7 +167,7 @@ URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/ohgodcat-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Cupcake Girl Artist: Liam O'Donnell -Track Art: Ella +Track Art: dodostad URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/cupcake-girl-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Phantasmic Youngsters @@ -266,7 +269,7 @@ References: - Showtime (Original Mix) - Warhammer of Zillyhoo - Explore -- Black +- Liquid Negrocity - Doctor - Lifdoff - Harlequin diff --git a/album/diverging-delicacies/album.txt b/album/diverging-delicacies/album.txt index c85424e8..2a8c7a11 100644 --- a/album/diverging-delicacies/album.txt +++ b/album/diverging-delicacies/album.txt @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ Cover Art: Ephemerald Date: March 1, 2020 FG: #f2a400 Canon: Fanon +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/album/diverging-delicacies +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1fTYKSo2grAJ--CZjFkFeFa3Uy6-xV4x ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Greetings from Earth C! Artist: pizzagremlin @@ -169,7 +172,7 @@ URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/giving-up-the-ghost ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Pursuit in Polykrome Artist: heir-of-puns -Track Art: swan +Track Art: sw4nfire URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/pursuit-in-polykrome ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: [CANDY EPILOGUE | 🍭] diff --git a/album/genesis-frog/album.txt b/album/genesis-frog/album.txt index d8133927..24df90a2 100644 --- a/album/genesis-frog/album.txt +++ b/album/genesis-frog/album.txt @@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ Artist: Alexander Rosetti Cover Art: Marina Date: October 23, 2012 FG: #00aa77 +URLs: +- https://albatrosssoup.bandcamp.com/album/genesis-frog +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_RoZCvUP9w +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLia7MqxG6On5M5Z2OtoNgCWzNmCiRcWZo Commentary: Alexander Rosetti: I’m uploading the commentary for Genesis Frog as text for those of you who could not buy my album but were interested in a composer’s thoughts and detailed descriptions on its concept and execution. This is Part 1 of 4. If you like the album I encourage you to purchase it if you are able, as it helps support me and it will be that much easier to bring you more music in the future! @@ -172,7 +176,7 @@ Commentary: The piece opens with a major chord in the strings, as if to continue the train of thought left behind by the previous track’s end. However, the chord quickly changes into something more dissonant, and the tone shifts from light to dark. The choir answers the strings, and the piece progresses in this manner with the two sections being featured the most. A gamelan ensemble plays in the background, very out of tune with the rest of the ensemble, lending to the sense of foreboding. There is a musical device in here that represents Jack, a descending line that implies a tritone. It comes in quietly and at irregular intervals, indicative of the murderous asshole lying in wait among the confines of the temple. As the music progresses, this motive comes in more and more until it is an ostinato under the chordal strings and choir. Eventually the piece crescendos and leads into the next track, where Jack is finally the star of the show. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Bilious -References: Prospitian Folklore, Black, The Temple's Withered Bloom +References: Prospitian Folklore, Liquid Negrocity, The Temple's Withered Bloom Track Art: Rikuru URLs: https://albatrosssoup.bandcamp.com/track/bilious Commentary: diff --git a/album/hiveswap-act-1-ost/album.txt b/album/hiveswap-act-1-ost/album.txt index b3fdf8b5..6cfb9cfb 100644 --- a/album/hiveswap-act-1-ost/album.txt +++ b/album/hiveswap-act-1-ost/album.txt @@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ Cover Art: Homestuck Track Art: none Date: September 14, 2017 00:00:05 FG: #33cc77 +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-9-10-with-s-collide-and-act-7 +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgPxbofdLF4 +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYtcpsy5kmMBxI5JuhAvlAV7wHkrts_w9 Commentary: Cohen Edenfield: Hey, it’s Cohen. But more interestingly, it’s James and Toby, giving some commentary on the first half of the HIVESWAP: Act 1 soundtrack, available now on Bandcamp or bundled with HIVESWAP: Act 1 on Steam and Humble. We’ve got the first half of the discussion today, with the next half going up next Wednesday. Wait…did I say all this once before already? No. Impossible. diff --git a/album/hiveswap-friendsim/album.txt b/album/hiveswap-friendsim/album.txt index 40288fd1..d9c4f3bf 100644 --- a/album/hiveswap-friendsim/album.txt +++ b/album/hiveswap-friendsim/album.txt @@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ Cover Art: P-PAMda Track Art: Homestuck Date: December 15, 2018 FG: #33aaff +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/hiveswap-friendsim +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkwFC9Y_i4E +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo6jbRGXGrthDwNj6v6rJKBBmRNluTn3d ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: ARTCHOP (APPARENTLY) URLs: @@ -245,7 +249,7 @@ Commentary: (Lanque's other theme; no commentary) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: WORST END -References: English, Black, GRAVEYARD SHIFT +References: English, Liquid Negrocity, GRAVEYARD SHIFT URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/worst-end Commentary: James Roach: diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-1-4/album.txt b/album/homestuck-vol-1-4/album.txt index aa8588f8..d85606cf 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-1-4/album.txt +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-1-4/album.txt @@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ Date: October 24 2011 Cover Art: Homestuck Track Art: Homestuck FG: #aaccff +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-1-4-with-midnight-crew-drawing-dead +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N342A3G5jo +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6_yub4_EV2R6PzZdPigyPIiCGFfh3Nzb ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Showtime (Piano Refrain) Artist: Kevin Regamey, Malcolm Brown diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-10/album.txt b/album/homestuck-vol-10/album.txt index 1d3199c6..bde9a512 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-10/album.txt +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-10/album.txt @@ -1,6 +1,9 @@ Album: Homestuck Vol. 10 Cover Art: Lexxy Date: June 12, 2016 +URLs: +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW9-Ov8CiRY +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo6jbRGXGrth0hlSpAR9bO9_-iBqPy7Dq Commentary: Robert J! Lake: (project manager) This almost didn't happen. @@ -79,7 +82,7 @@ Commentary: Track: Beatup Artist: Clark Powell, Astro Kid References: Beatdown (Strider Style) -Track Art: Shannon Murphy +Track Art: Shan Murphy URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/beatup-2 Commentary: Clark Powell: @@ -106,7 +109,7 @@ Track Art: Mika B. URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/you-killed-my-father-prepare-to-die-2 Contributors: - Yishan Mai (drums, mixing) -- Will Ascenzo (orchestra, choir) +- Willow Ascenzo (orchestra, choir) - DJ最テー (guitars) - viaSatellite (bass) - David Dycus (synths, composition) @@ -116,7 +119,7 @@ References: - Showtime (Piano Refrain) - Showtime (Original Mix) - Aggrieve (Violin Refrain) -- Black +- Liquid Negrocity - Checkmate - Gaia Queen Commentary: @@ -125,7 +128,7 @@ Commentary: viaSatellite: (bassist) Homestuck had been one of the best experiences of my life, and being able to contribute music to it on several occasions fulfilled a few of my dreams. It's been a massive pleasure to work with y'all. - Will Ascenzo: (orchestra, choir) + Willow Ascenzo: (orchestra, choir) The amount of musical fan activity that came out of Homestuck was really quite incredible, and something I've never seen in any fandom before. For all the highs and lows in the Homestuck fandom the way the fandom appreciated fanmusic was special. David Dycus: (composer, synths) Homestuck gave me a sense of musical purpose I have not experienced before or since. diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-5/album.txt b/album/homestuck-vol-5/album.txt index 8fb2b982..f8890313 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-5/album.txt +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-5/album.txt @@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ Art Date: April 13, 2017 Cover Art Date: June 13, 2010 Cover Art: Lexxy FG: #00aaff +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-5-6-with-the-felt +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuBmOO4muV8 +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6_yub4_EV2SVvGuBwOxgN4aMhISOZito Commentary: Florrie Haero: track art on these tracks has been uploaded from the Homestuck Vol. 5 Anthology! the official release of Vol. 5 didn't come with track art; this collaborative project organized artists to submit their own original art for the album. the art was originally shared in a huge colection on tumblr on 4/13/17 and has now been collected here for viewing convenience and discoverability! @@ -33,7 +37,7 @@ URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/clockwork-melody-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Heirfare Artist: Alexander Rosetti -Track Art: sollay-b +Track Art: Sollay References: Showtime (Original Mix), Showtime (Piano Refrain), Harlequin URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/heirfare-2 Commentary: @@ -83,8 +87,8 @@ URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/skaian-ride-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: White Artist: Toby Fox -Track Art: rainahkretva -References: Black +Track Art: RainbowCookiz +References: Liquid Negrocity URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/white-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Octoroon Rangoon @@ -110,7 +114,7 @@ URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/welcome-to-the-new-extreme-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Crystalanthemums Artist: Alexander Rosetti -Track Art: Chuchumi +Track Art: Chumi URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/crystalanthemums-2 Commentary: Alexander Rosetti: @@ -118,7 +122,7 @@ Commentary: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Skaia (Incipisphere Mix) Artist: Solatrus -Track Art: Razzberrysheep +Track Art: razzberrysheep References: Skies of Skaia URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/skaia-incipisphere-mix-2 Commentary: @@ -144,7 +148,7 @@ Commentary: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Sarabande Artist: Erik Scheele -Track Art: sol-lay +Track Art: Sollay Directory: sarabande-vol5 URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/sarabande-2 Commentary: @@ -180,7 +184,7 @@ URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/sunslammer-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Lotus Land Story Artist: Toby Fox -Track Art: knightic +Track Art: fenkko References: Lotus, Doctor URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/lotus-land-story-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -296,9 +300,8 @@ Commentary: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Crystamanthequins Artist: Erik Scheele -Contributors: Perry Sullivan (Mannequin) -Track Art: Jununy -References: Crystalanthemums, Mannequin (by Perry Sullivan) +Track Art: Jenny +References: Crystalanthemums, Mannequin URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/crystamanthequins-2 Commentary: Erik Scheele: @@ -349,12 +352,12 @@ URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/vertical-motion-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: The Beginning of Something Really Excellent Artist: Robert J! Lake -Track Art: A-vodka-mutiny +Track Art: a-vodka-mutini URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/the-beginning-of-something-really-excellent-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Pyrocumulus (Kickstart) Artist: Robert J! Lake -Track Art: Thespacemaid +Track Art: thespacemaid References: Skaian Skuffle URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/pyrocumulus-kickstart-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -369,7 +372,7 @@ Commentary: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Throwdown Artist: Steve Everson -Track Art: trainwreckgenerator +Track Art: Gene URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/throwdown-2 Commentary: Steve Everson: @@ -477,23 +480,29 @@ References: - Upward Movement (Dave Owns) - Sburban Jungle - Beatdown (Strider Style) +- Mutiny - Skies of Skaia - Showtime (Original Mix) - Aggrieve -- Black +- Jackknive +- Liquid Negrocity +- Guardian - Harlequin - Explore - Chorale for Jaspers - Underworld - Three in the Morning +- Non Compos Mentis - Pumpkin Cravings - Vagabounce - Skaian Skuffle - Doctor -- Savior of the Waking World +- Penumbra Phantasm - Endless Climb - Atomyk Ebonpyre - Lotus +- Problem Sleuth Theme +- Dirgeish ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Homestuck Artist: Mark Hadley diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-6/album.txt b/album/homestuck-vol-6/album.txt index 08e65eae..2906eaf3 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-6/album.txt +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-6/album.txt @@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ Track Art: Homestuck Directory: homestuck-vol-6 Date: January 5 2011 FG: #6699ff +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-5-6-with-the-felt +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrNz5d97JIA +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6_yub4_EV2S0deHxo7RKV0zPQ0TCx7Za ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Frost Artist: Solatrus @@ -113,7 +117,7 @@ Commentary: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Blackest Heart Artist: Mark Hadley -References: Black +References: Liquid Negrocity URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/blackest-heart-2 Commentary: Mark Hadley: diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-7/album.txt b/album/homestuck-vol-7/album.txt index d4d30421..dda58e1c 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-7/album.txt +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-7/album.txt @@ -3,10 +3,14 @@ Directory: homestuck-vol-7 Cover Art: Homestuck Date: May 31, 2011 00:00:05 FG: #b536da +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-7-8-with-cherubim +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNibQ4LxeME +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL42042A1D4689C9E0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Black Rose / Green Sun Artist: Malcolm Brown -Track Art: Vinks (lines), Shelby (colors) +Track Art: Vinks (lines), Shelby Cragg (colors) URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/black-rose-green-sun-2 Commentary: Malcolm Brown: @@ -20,7 +24,7 @@ Commentary: Track: At The Price of Oblivion Artist: Malcolm Brown References: Chorale for Jaspers, Rex Duodecim Angelus, Black Rose / Green Sun, Aggrieve -Track Art: Shelby +Track Art: Shelby Cragg URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/at-the-price-of-oblivion-2 Commentary: Malcolm Brown: @@ -41,13 +45,13 @@ URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/even-in-death-2 Track: Terezi Owns Artist: Toby Fox References: Upward Movement (Dave Owns) -Track Art: Guzusuru +Track Art: Angela Sham URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/terezi-owns-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Trial and Execution Artist: Malcolm Brown References: The Lemonsnout Turnabout, Crystalanthemums -Track Art: Shelby +Track Art: Shelby Cragg URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/trial-and-execution-2 Commentary: Malcolm Brown: @@ -134,7 +138,7 @@ URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/earthsea-borealis-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Warhammer of Zillyhoo Artist: Michael Guy Bowman -Track Art: Vinks (lines), Shelby (colors) +Track Art: Vinks (lines), Shelby Cragg (colors) URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/warhammer-of-zillyhoo-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Savior of the Dreaming Dead diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8/album.txt b/album/homestuck-vol-8/album.txt index 0c28c0f0..6fb647a4 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8/album.txt +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8/album.txt @@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ Album: Homestuck Vol. 8 Date: October 25, 2011 Cover Art: Homestuck FG: #4ac925 +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-7-8-with-cherubim +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cIpWboujY4 +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL497A0AACAD8DBE57 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Calamity Artist: Michael Guy Bowman @@ -89,7 +93,7 @@ Commentary: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Escape Pod Artist: Michael Guy Bowman -Track Art: Peter Turner +Track Art: Paige Turner URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/escape-pod-2 Commentary: Michael Guy Bowman: @@ -353,7 +357,7 @@ URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew-acap ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: How Do I Live (D8 Night Version) Artist: Michael Guy Bowman -Track Art: Victoria Grace Elliot +Track Art: Victoria Grace Elliott URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/how-do-i-live-d8-night-version-2 Contributors: - Thomas Ferkol (electric guitar) diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-9/album.txt b/album/homestuck-vol-9/album.txt index 79f77311..8e8a7759 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-9/album.txt +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-9/album.txt @@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ Album: Homestuck Vol. 9 Cover Art: Lazylaz Date: June 12, 2012 FG: #f2a400 +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-9-10-with-s-collide-and-act-7 +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1BVIEipjwk +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy5UGIMKOXpOfcXVfECYjb09aHc2uSEUv ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Crystalmethequins Artist: Clark Powell, Astro Kid @@ -51,7 +55,7 @@ Commentary: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Trepidation Artist: Svix -Track Art: Cheddar +Track Art: Kiko B. URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/trepidation-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Firefly @@ -316,11 +320,11 @@ Commentary: Tavia Morra: This is another one that RJ let me do whatever I wanted on. After thinking about the title of the track, I remembered the moment in Homestuck when we all finally found out the answer to the infamous question “What Pumpkin?” And what a heartwarming answer it was! To me, this was one of the most gentle tear-jerking moments in the comic to date. It just made sense to draw. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Track: iRRRRRRRRECONCIA8LE +Track: iRRRRRRRRECONCILA8LE +Directory: iRRRRRRRRECONCILA8LE Artist: Michael Guy Bowman Contributors: Thomas Ferkol (electric guitar) Track Art: 8bitkitten -Directory: iRRRRRRRRECONCIA8LE URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/irrrrrrrreconcila8le-2 Commentary: Michael Guy Bowman: @@ -486,7 +490,7 @@ URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/battle-against-an-unfathomable-enemy- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Noirscape Artist: David Ellis -References: Black, Crystalanthemums, Descend +References: Liquid Negrocity, Crystalanthemums, Descend Track Art: kendle bentley b! URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/noirscape-2 Commentary: @@ -509,7 +513,7 @@ Track Art: skepticArcher URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/dogfight-2 Contributors: - David Dycus (organizer & synths) -- Will Ascenzo (orchestra) +- Willow Ascenzo (orchestra) - Yishan Mai (drums & piano) - DJ最テー (guitar) - viaSatellite (guitar & bass) @@ -522,7 +526,7 @@ References: - Black Rose / Green Sun ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: A Taste for Adventure -Artist: Seth Peele +Artist: Seth Peelle References: Dissension (Original), Carefree Action, Showtime (Original Mix) Track Art: minty URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/a-taste-for-adventure-2 diff --git a/album/lofam/album.txt b/album/lofam/album.txt index 145185e2..7b23254e 100644 --- a/album/lofam/album.txt +++ b/album/lofam/album.txt @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Cover Art: melodiousDiscord Date: July 30, 2011 FG: #4876ff Canon: Fanon +URLs: +- https://homestuckgaiden.bandcamp.com/album/land-of-fans-and-music-unofficial-album +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLobrSigyi16AZehECGnfHOlArBUu-96Ea Commentary: Elaine Wang: So. I'm Elaine Wang, orngjce223, electronic orange juice; and I do stuff. A lot of stuff really, like dragging a friend along on a dizzy jaunt through philosophy and moral free will in the context of Skaianet Laboratories, while writing an outline as to how to create a Rose Strider AU, while attempting to forecast whether GIF or PNG images will be readable in fifty years, while tossing around a rhythm in my head which might or might not turn into a song, while figuring out what environment variables to set in a bash shell to make it look as much like Homsetuck as possible, while doing pixel art to fill in the gaps, while cooking pasta. @@ -60,7 +63,7 @@ Commentary: Fun fact: I didn't realise for a hwile that "Homestuck" and "Alternia" were technically remixes themselves, amking this a 3x remix-of-remix combob. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Downtime -Artist: AutoDevote +Artist: Thomas Ibarra Track Art: JNJ References: - Showtime (Piano Refrain) @@ -102,13 +105,13 @@ Commentary: Initially everything is piled on top, in the center. In revision for the album I pan everything back and forth. It may be noted that this song still sounds perfectly fine in mono, though. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Crystalanachrony -Artist: Well Manicured Man +Artist: Willow Ascenzo Track Art: Aelyrin References: - Crystalanthemums URLs: https://homestuckgaiden.bandcamp.com/track/crystalanachrony Commentary: - Well Manicured Man: + Willow Ascenzo: If I had to pin this song to just one of Homestuck's swelling cast of characters, it would have to be Aradia. When we first meet her in the Hivebent act, she's an emotionless ghost who later becomes a ghost frog, then a ghost in a robot body (or a "ghost in the shell" :rimshot:), before making her final sea change into a cheerful fairy god with time powers (which explains the ticking and subtle reversem elodies of the song, atl east). The peppy piano and melancholy backing strings and woodwinds represent these aspects of Aradia's presonality - accustomed to death, she acts as a cheery Charon for her fallen teammates. I built the piano melody (and the title) out of Alexander Rosetti's "Crystalanthemums" because to me, ever since [S] Make her pay, the tune has been irrevocably linked to the trolls, Aradia, Terezi, and Vriska in particular. It also translated to a peppy piano melody much better than Toby Fox's "[[psych0ruins]]" would have. This song is also an homage to Michiru Yamane's impressive body of soundtrack work for the various Castlevania games. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -141,8 +144,8 @@ Track: First Guardian, Last Stand Artist: Chase Track Art: melodiousDiscord References: -- Black - Beatdown (Strider Style) +- Liquid Negrocity URLs: https://homestuckgaiden.bandcamp.com/track/first-guardian-last-stand Commentary: Chase: @@ -289,12 +292,12 @@ Commentary: I intended this to have a bit of an iconic feel (note the orange halo formed by the clouds). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Atomik Meltdown -Artist: Hames +Artist: James Roach Track Art: Pancake-Fairy References: Atomyk Ebonpyre URLs: https://homestuckgaiden.bandcamp.com/track/atomik-meltdown Commentary: - Hames: + James Roach: I liked the idea of Ebonpyre being used as a strife theme for Dave, so I wanted to go a little further with it. I imagined Dave using al ot of time-skipping while he fights (as represented by the record scratches). Atomik Meltdown was probably my first real foray into fanmusic. I had written two remixes previously, but I didn't really spend much time on them. Looking back on this song now, all I can see are the mistakes and the naive part arrangement. At the time I remember really being excited about this. Thank you for the nomination. Pancake-Fairy: @@ -303,7 +306,7 @@ Commentary: Track: Jackie Treats Artist: Artisticpolo Track Art: Pancake-Fairy -References: Black, Frost:frost-vol6 +References: Frost:frost-vol6, Liquid Negrocity URLs: https://homestuckgaiden.bandcamp.com/track/jackie-treats Commentary: Artisticpolo: @@ -429,7 +432,7 @@ Commentary: Track: Under the Hat Directory: under-the-hat-lofam Artist: Erik Scheele -Track Art: TheifofTruth +Track Art: ThiefofTruth URLs: https://homestuckgaiden.bandcamp.com/track/under-the-hat Commentary: Erik Scheele: @@ -678,7 +681,7 @@ Commentary: As soon as I listened to this song, I knew I had to draw the artwork for it. To me, it clearly represented the passage from childhood to maturity that each of the kids, especially John, were forced to udnergo in their short-lived session. Focusing on our favourite Friend-Leader, I attempted to capture this with an image of him turning his back on the relative safety and comforts of childhood and the watchful eye of his guardian. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: The Drawing of the Four -Artist: Well Manicured Man +Artist: Willow Ascenzo Track Art: Red Pen References: - Sburban Jungle @@ -686,7 +689,7 @@ References: - Beatdown (Strider Style) URLs: https://homestuckgaiden.bandcamp.com/track/the-drawing-of-the-four Commentary: - Well Manicured Man: + Willow Ascenzo: The title is, of course, a blatant reference to Sven King's Dark Towerseries. The song is a build-up to each of the four kids entering the Medium (they're being "drawn" into the game just as Eddie, Susannah, and Jake were drawn into Mid-World, but that's enough for now about something that isn't Homsetuck), so we start out with a slow rendition of "Sburban Jungle" played on the piano (John's instrument) with subsequent accompaniment by a violin (Rose's instrument). Then, here come the drums (Dave's isntrument), and we kick the song into high gear when the flute and bass (both Jade's instruments) come in. There's al ong period of pseudo-improv frm the bass, flute, and violin before returning to the meat of the song - and a nod to the Squiddles theme (another reference to Rose) before the finale. Curiously, the order of the instruments exactly matches the order of the kids' introduction. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Ira quod Angelus diff --git a/album/lofam2/album.txt b/album/lofam2/album.txt index 6ec0a9de..c4801027 100644 --- a/album/lofam2/album.txt +++ b/album/lofam2/album.txt @@ -1,9 +1,12 @@ Album: Land of Fans and Music 2 Directory: lofam2 -Cover Art: Lunise +Cover Art: Christina Lillard Date: December 25, 2012 FG: #33a1c9 Canon: Fanon +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/album/land-of-fans-and-music-2 +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_Njm6JMBBED5Iz-9Cct870dIQ3ip-6dF Commentary: Liza Fletcher: This album means a lot to me, for a lot of reasons. Not just because it represents literally months of planning, organization, rounds of messaging, upsets, drama, triumph and general hard work on the part of me and some very good friends of mine. Not just because we managed to get some of the top talent in the fandom to contribute not only music but track art. Not just because that talent includes music and art team members and the uniquely universally beloved superfan Dante Basco. Not just because that talent also includes many friends I love dearly, some of whom I got to know through this project. @@ -13,7 +16,7 @@ Commentary:
Special Thanks: -CONCEPTION/ORGANIZATION-
Lambda Bledsoe
Liza Fletcher - -ORGANIZATION TEAM-
Slogbait
Veritas Unae
Rachel Macwhirter
Paige 'hrmnzr" Stanley
Astro Kid
Sarah (clumsyroyalty)
Shoona
Charles "Crazy-8" Neudorf
Yishan Mai (Cat Boss)
Brad "Avinoch" Griffin
Mark "Dagoth Xil" Ciocca + -ORGANIZATION TEAM-
Slogbait
Veritas Unae
Rachel Rose Mitchell
Paige 'hrmnzr" Stanley
Astro Kid
clumsyroyalty (clumsyroyalty)
Shoona
Charles "Crazy-8" Neudorf
Yishan Mai (Cat Boss)
Brad "Avinoch" Griffin
Mark "Dagoth Xil" Ciocca -MASTERING-
Brad "Avinoch" Griffin
Veritas Unae -COMMENTARY BOOKLET-
Brad "Avinoch" Griffin -WEBSITE CODING-
Veritas Unae @@ -95,7 +98,7 @@ Commentary: Track: Rectify Artist: Thomas Ibarra Track Art: Seth Massey -References: Black, Atomyk Ebonpyre, Showtime (Piano Refrain) +References: Liquid Negrocity, Atomyk Ebonpyre, Showtime (Piano Refrain) URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/rectify Commentary: Thomas Ibarra: @@ -127,14 +130,14 @@ Commentary: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Good Dog (Best Friend) Artist: Yishan Mai -Track Art: Lunise +Track Art: Christina Lillard References: Courser, Carefree Action URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/good-dog-best-friend Commentary: Yishan Mai: ~ in loving memory of becquerel ~ He was a good dog, and the best friend anyone could ever hope to have. - Lunise: + Christina Lillard: I was inspired by the pesterlog on page 6758 4858. Even thuogh I had heard this track long before that update, when I listened to it again to get an idea for what kind of track art I'd like to draw for it, all I could think of was that pesterlog about alpha Jade. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Unforgiving Terrain @@ -155,7 +158,7 @@ Commentary: After the original art file crashed like a piping hot baby on a meteor, I decided to create an Egyptian hieroglyphic-ish piece for this song because you know, DESERTS and WANDERERS and WOW JUST GOSH. But I also wanted to add in some of WV's little cahlk drawings too because it's cute! I mean, come on. Look at them, being happy and carefree and unaware. Yes, I know deep in my heart that this story will have a very happy end. No doubts about it. *insert evil laughter here* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: CR1M1N4L, CR1M1N4L -Artist: Rachel Macwhirter +Artist: Rachel Rose Mitchell Track Art: Pandora URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/cr1m1n4l-cr1m1n4l Lyrics: @@ -170,7 +173,7 @@ Lyrics: Criminal, Criminal! To the window!
Criminal, Criminal! It's your fault, you know.
Criminal, Criminal! It's your time to go.
I'll secure the rope and you're out with a throw. Criminal, Criminal! To the window!
Criminal, Criminal! It's your fault, you know.
Criminal, Criminal! It's your time to go.
I'll secure the rope and you're out with a throw. Commentary: - Rachel Macwhirter: + Rachel Rose Mitchell: L3T TH1S B3 4 L3SSON TO 4LL OF TH3 PROSP3CT1V3 CR1M1N4LS OUT TH3R3 1 4M 4LW4YS W4TCH1NG F1GUR4T1V3LY @@ -260,7 +263,7 @@ Track Art: Amethyst Barron References: - Atomyk Ebonpyre - English -- Black +- Liquid Negrocity - The Ballad of Jack Noir - Walk-Stab-Walk (R&E) - Let's All Rock the Heist @@ -301,7 +304,9 @@ Track Art: Spectrumfizz URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/sports Commentary: Jamie Paige Stanley: - Hey, you. Yeah, you. No, this isn't Paige speaking. It's Florrie. Me. Please, for goodness sake, tell me that I forgot to embed the commentary image for this track here. I don't have access to the booklet on which I'm writing this ATM, so I can't grab a screenshot. Plz. Thank you. + Hey, you. Yeah, you. No, this isn't Paige speaking. It's Florrie. Me. Please, for goodness sake, tell me that I forgot to embed the commentary image for this track here. I don't have access to the booklet on which I'm writing this ATM, so I can't grab a screenshot. Plz. Thank you. + got it lol + Spectrumfizz: dude come check this out hummusr is like one of my favoprite musicans so i made a thnig for this MAD TRACK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -375,7 +380,7 @@ References: - MeGaLoVania - Spider's Claw - Walk-Stab-Walk (R&E) -- Black +- Liquid Negrocity URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/fighting-spirit Commentary: Kevin Grant: @@ -388,7 +393,7 @@ Artist: Thomas Ibarra Track Art: Spectrumfizz References: - Harlequin -- Black +- Liquid Negrocity - Sburban Jungle - Carefree Action URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/irradiated @@ -413,7 +418,7 @@ Commentary: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Rise of the Denizens Artist: Domble -Track Art: Lunise +Track Art: Christina Lillard References: - Courser - Earthsea Borealis @@ -427,7 +432,7 @@ Commentary: Domble: The original version of the track sounded nothing like this. What I want is for people who heard the first one to think, "wow, this guy really got less bad in a year." It references all the songs it originally did, whether in the same basic way (Courser, Ruins) or differently (Dawn of Man, the rose rap). That one terrible LEGENDARY ENDLESS DVS SAX song I amde almost went on the album instead of this and I felt like paying tribute to it, so that's where the little sax rif came from. - Lunise: + Christina Lillard: I had the feeling that I had to met some pretty high expectations when I was called upon to draw this one, so I was pretty nervous about doing it. I spent a long time mulling over how I was going to go about drawing this track art after I completed the art for Stalemate. We don't know nearly as much about the denizens as we do about the kids or the trolls or even the carapacians, but I took what we do know about the beta kids' denizens and ran with it. Brad Griffin: note: Lunise wrote seven paragraphs about the creative process behind this wonderful art piece. I can only fit the first one on the page. @@ -446,7 +451,7 @@ Commentary: Track: Who Mourns for Jack Noir? Artist: Nitrosparxx Track Art: Corrina -References: Black, The Beginning of Something Really Excellent +References: Liquid Negrocity, The Beginning of Something Really Excellent URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/who-mourns-for-jack-noir Commentary: Nitrosparxx: @@ -625,7 +630,7 @@ Commentary: Back when I had a far more depressing view on being trapped in the veil I wanted to make a short tune for it using a chrod progression I played on piano all the time and really wanted to use. Reminds me a bit of how some of the chords go in Shadow of the Colossus, but a lot less epic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Til The Last Breath -Artist: Branden Cameron +Artist: Brenden Cameron Track Art: Racheme References: - Showtime (Original Mix) @@ -666,7 +671,7 @@ Artist: Joe Ouellet Track Art: Racheme URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/wind-in-my-heir Commentary: - Joe OUllet: + Joe Oullet: WIMH is one of my fisrt original Homestuck fan-pieces. Originally entered in the contest to select tracks for Colours and Mayhem, it was a song geared towards John and his powers as an Heir of Breath. I chose a very laid back feel to this piece, progressing fom a soft choir at the beginning, picking up an arpeggiated synth and kick on the way to a more intense section of the song. I wanted the song to flow just like the wind: starting softly, the breeze picks up gradually, when suddenly a gust of wind comes, only to leave just as fast as it came. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Fighting Spirit ~Second Form~ @@ -702,7 +707,7 @@ Commentary: This is my favourite song on the album, and I ended up doing two track arts for it. This one is better, I think! I decided to use Doc Scratch because the song was about the Green Sun, and out of all the characters associated with it, I felt Doc Scratch best suited the song. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Doghead -Artist: Will Ascenzo, D. Crystal +Artist: Willow Ascenzo, D. Crystal Track Art: albel-is-mine References: - Chorale for Jaspers @@ -710,7 +715,7 @@ References: - Carefree Action URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/doghead Commentary: - Will Ascenzo: + Willow Ascenzo: I got the idea for "Doghead" shortly after "Cascade" and Jade's incredible ascension. I set out to create something epic, fast-paced, and exciting, but once I'd finished the first part, I found it was missing something. So I approached MSPA forumite and fellow Homestuck fan musician D. Crystal to see if he could add some guitar and drum tracks. He was happy to oblige, and the endresult turned out much better than the work I could do by myself. I learned two lessons that one day: one, that two heads are better than one and collaboration is incredibly fun, and two, that electric guitars make everything better. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Jane's Theme @@ -752,11 +757,11 @@ Commentary: And what you see here is the finished product. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Blood Knight -Artist: Rachel Macwhirter +Artist: Rachel Rose Mitchell Track Art: Elanor Pam URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/blood-knight-2 Commentary: - Rachel Macwhirter: + Rachel Rose Mitchell: When I amde Blood Knight, I was still pretty exhausted from putting Mechani% - now known as [[Indigo Archer]] - together. I'd never made anything as complex as Indigo Archer bfeore and on top of that I had massive anxieties about getting into the competition. I was stressed out! So Blood Knight nearly never happened. About a week before the music contest ended, I was talking to my best friend and he said he thought I could make a kickass song for Karkat. I didn't really believe him at first. Karkat is one of my favourite characters and I didn't feel confident about capturing him at all. But my friend persisted and threw a few ideas at me. Eventually I found myself in Cubase making music again with my best friend to tahnk for it. Immediately, I knew it needed electric guitars. That was problematic for me as I'd never, ever gotten synthesized guitars to sound halfway decent before. Heck, I'm still not entirely sure how I managed it, but I'm super happy with how it turned out. The feel of it matches what I was going for; not quite metal, not quite a ballad, kind of melancholy but also kind of in your face. Sort of. You might be able to tell that I had an easier time making it than describing it, heh. Pretty darn proud of this piece. @@ -781,12 +786,12 @@ Commentary: A year and a half later, Red Miles definitely sounds like a first attempt. My only objective was to try to make the most over-the-top, attention-grabbing chiptune-metal song I could muster, so I threw in every trope I knew: the pipe organ, the wall of 8-bit synths, the Inferno electric guitar patch, and the Sburban Jungle motif (which I would use many, many more times). It may have been a bit much, but it was a necessary first step. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Elegy for a Thief (Dreamscape Remix) -Artist: Will Ascenzo +Artist: Willow Ascenzo References: Spider's Claw Track Art: Cap URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/elegy-for-a-thief-dreamscape-remix Commentary: - Will Ascenzo: + Willow Ascenzo: I wrote Elegy for a Thief back in August 2011, inspired by the evocative image of ghost-Vriska standing in the snow outside John's house. After re-arranging it into a solo piano piece, I sat on it for a while. Eventually I began to work on another remix, but forgot about it. Then the song was nominated for Land of Fans and Music 2, and I rushed to polish up the song now that I had better tools and more skill. But I'd lost the original file, and the only remaining part of the scrapped remix was the right-hand piano notes (luckily, those were the most important part of the song)! The new remix is exotic and a bit hypnotic, syumbolizing John and Vriska's journey through the sureal and fantastic memory-realms of the afterlife. Cap: Originally, I planned to do a sentimental image of Vriska standing in the snow, but it turned out pretty lame. Then I figured hey, since I'm making somethin for a fantastic song for an amazing troll, why not make the piecea lmost as gr8t as her? So the snow idea melted and turned into this bizarre, dreambubble-ish creation! @@ -807,7 +812,7 @@ Lyrics: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Embittered Shore Artist: Max Wright -Track Art: Sarah +Track Art: clumsyroyalty URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/embittered-shore Commentary: Max Wright: @@ -826,18 +831,18 @@ Commentary: this entire album was a joke at clark's expense ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Finale Strife -Artist: Will Ascenzo -Track Art: Ducky Seils +Artist: Willow Ascenzo +Track Art: Ducky Senpai URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/finale-strife Commentary: - Will Ascenzo: + Willow Ascenzo: I began "Finale Strife" as a long, slow-burning build-up song for the final battle with Lord English, in a similar vein to "Finale Toccata" from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. That, however, didn't pan out, and it ended up turning into a fast-paced, high-energy strife theme more in the vein of "The Curse of Sorrow" from Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (the only Castlevania game I've actually come close to beating), especially the organ, electric guitar, and snappy drum kit. The main melody has some resemblance to the Black King's theme from [[Rex Duodecim Angelus]] by Malcolm Brown, but not enough to qualify as a remix or arrangement. - Ducky Seils: - I initially ahd no idea what I was going to do for this song. I skimmed through the tracks and noticed this one by Will Ascenzo (who did some of my favorites on coloUrs and mayhem: Universe A like [[Teal Hunter]] and [[Violet Mariner]]), and I was instantly sold probably because of my love for pipe organs. Anyway, for a lack of better inspiration, I used the description Will left on soundcloud - "Final battle with Lord English." Tie that to Aranea's mentioning that Jake was destined to beat Lord English, and I had my inspiration. The lineart took much longer than it should have since my tablet had been freaking out and I haven't gotten the new one yet, but the coloring went quite smoothly. + Ducky Senpai: + I initially ahd no idea what I was going to do for this song. I skimmed through the tracks and noticed this one by Willow Ascenzo (who did some of my favorites on coloUrs and mayhem: Universe A like [[Teal Hunter]] and [[Violet Mariner]]), and I was instantly sold probably because of my love for pipe organs. Anyway, for a lack of better inspiration, I used the description Will left on soundcloud - "Final battle with Lord English." Tie that to Aranea's mentioning that Jake was destined to beat Lord English, and I had my inspiration. The lineart took much longer than it should have since my tablet had been freaking out and I haven't gotten the new one yet, but the coloring went quite smoothly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Gangsta Artist: Dante Basco -Track Art: Sarah +Track Art: clumsyroyalty URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/gangsta Lyrics: ??? @@ -919,7 +924,7 @@ Commentary: When given the chance ot make an extra track for LOFAM 2, I jumped at the opportunity. It turns out I was assigned a Felt realted track, specifically to Stitch. I wanted to stay true to the feel of the album The Felt. I used strings, light percussion, and most importantly, I messed around with teh tempo. This was a little bit of a challenge for me, but I think it turned outa lright. Fun fact; The glitchy effect was not on purpose, it was an export error I thought sounded cool so I kept it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Ave Dei Novi -Artist: Will Ascenzo +Artist: Willow Ascenzo Track Art: xkoraxayomex References: - Doctor @@ -928,7 +933,7 @@ References: - Atomyk Ebonpyre URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/ave-dei-novi Commentary: - Will Ascenzo: + Willow Ascenzo: When I started "Ave Dei Novi" (a song made just for Land of Fans and Music 2), I fully intended that it would be the biggest, strongest, most well-composed, best Homestuck fan composition I've workedo n tto date, a sort of capstone of Homestuck fan music. The first Land of Fans and Music had two of my early songs on it, and I felt it was appropriate that I do my best and show how far I'd come in a year for the second album. "Ave Dei Novi" takes its cue, partially, from the bombastic and incredible Gundam Unicorn soundtrack by Sawano Hiroyuki, especially in the orchestra and percussion grooves, which I worked very hard on. I think I'm most proud of the bongo groove breakdown in the middle and the "Atomyk Ebonpyre" section near the end. Those two parts ended up especially fantastic. xkoraxayomex: Overall I feel that the artwork suits the piece in terms of relativity and presentation. I think it looks refined and somewhat detailed, but there is room for improvement. When I read the title for the piece, Ascension, I automatically thought back to Jade's god tier, as it is simply gorgeous and I just love it. It was a milestone for her becoming an even more essential character in Homestuck. @@ -975,22 +980,22 @@ Commentary: Oh and the title makes me think of The Dance of Eternity by Dream Theater which is a really cool song. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Alphamatic Replacement -Artist: Xander Wright +Artist: Xauric Track Art: dodostad URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/alphamatic-replacement Commentary: - Xander Wright: + Xauric: So... this piece was originally designed to just be... exactly that. Just another piece. It wasn't meant for Homestuck, it wasn't meant or Tumblr ora nyone to see it. But a fantastic friend of mine told me about the Homestuck Music competition, so I figured why not. I sent this in after tweaking it a bit, and just for fun, threw it upon Tumblr. I then left for vacation, but still had internet access. I came back to see my song exploded on Tumblr, and was promptly getting upwards of 1,000-3,000 views a week. Needless to say, I was ecstatic. The song itself was kind of... my own personal blend? I love songs that combine organic and inorganic elements, and with Homestuck being the big thing on the block lately, I decided to try it out. As evidence by this album, it didn't make it, but it certainly was a big hit. However, what's funnier is that the version I put on Tumblr was the unmastered version, so when I put the mastered version up, it didn't get nearly as many hits as the unmastered version. A lot of people have asked me whether or not I'm going to make a second Homestuck track. And as much as I love the motivation from fans to do so, I don't think I could handle trying to one-up a piece like this and failing. So, here's to you, Homestuck. dodostad: For me the sogn was about alpha kids, no question about it. It took me a long time to come up with a composition that I liked and that seemed to fit the song. LOOK OUT FOR THE MILES JANE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Planetarium -Artist: Rachel Macwhirter +Artist: Rachel Rose Mitchell Track Art: Spectrumfizz URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/planetarium Commentary: - Rachel Macwhirter: + Rachel Rose Mitchell: Planetarium was the first piece of Homestuck fan music I ever made. I'd oly just caught up with the archives when I was set a composition assignment or university. Having never used Logic to compose before, I had fun playing with a bunch of the different inbuilt instruments. When I found the koto, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I tried to make it sound somewhat ethereal and otherworldly to represent the Incipisphere in all its beautiful weirdness. To try to do that, I threw a whole lot of reverb and delay at pretty much every track. I really did not know what I was doing, but it was fun. The vocal lines were an afterthought. Actually, no, they were less than an afterthought. They werent actually something I thought I should include at all, but the assignment had a requirement of at least four recorded audio tracks. I threw those lines together at home on Cubase (I don't actually have a Mac, let alone Logic!) the morning the piece was drew it, slapped them onto the piece with Logic that day and got the assignment in just in time. But in the end, I think they enhanced the feel of the piece, so I'm kind of glad I had to chuck them in there! Spectrumfizz: diff --git a/album/lofam3/album.txt b/album/lofam3/album.txt index 30b95dca..dbba58db 100644 --- a/album/lofam3/album.txt +++ b/album/lofam3/album.txt @@ -4,13 +4,16 @@ Cover Art: Quietserval Date: December 15, 2013 FG: #88a4ff Canon: Fanon +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/album/land-of-fans-and-music-3 +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2E1aOkERtLVH6mVZNPZ8Cou4_K_6n7QS Commentary: Veritas Unae: In 2011, some musicians got together. They had an idea, to grab together some of the many pieces of fan music floating around the MSPA forums and the internet, and compile it into an album for the fandom to download. I can remember excitedly heading to my second semester classes at university listening to the tunes that these fantastic artists had provided, and the track art to go with each song. I'm so glad to have worked with most if not all of these musicians along the course of the past 3 years. I got my own chacne to participate in these endeavours in 2012, with the fan musicians coming together to work on Sburb OST and LoFaM 2. And now we're here, in 2013, releasing LoFaM 3 for you all. I hope you love each and every track on this album, much like I remember loving LoFaM in 2011. Many thanks have to be extended to everyone who brings these projects together, most of all Lune, who has handled everything art for the project! I couldn't have done it without her. Thanks to Brad for making the booklet, AndrewNeo for hosting all this fan music for us, Xzaz for being incredible at picking tracks and references, as well as the brave sacrifices he has made for the album, and to Solatrus, Konec0 and Mark for helping along the way. Thanks for listening! - Veritas Unae - Lunise: + Christina Lillard: So this sure is a thing! I did art for LOFAM2 and retconned in a nice banner for the rehosted LOFAM1, so naturally I sold my soul to the LOFAM once more to draw things and wrangle some artists for the third album! I consider this project a tribute to the creative side of the Homestuck fandom. You guys rock! I hope yoiu enjoy this album and take a look at all the cool art for it. - your friendly neighborhood Lune
@@ -90,7 +93,7 @@ Commentary: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Emissary of Dance Artist: Yishan Mai -Track Art: poinko +Track Art: Phil Gibson URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/emissary-of-dance References: - Emissary of Wind @@ -139,12 +142,12 @@ Commentary: ...brenna"randomencounter"curranyan"nucleose"rodriguezmarcynabors(shadolith) sammneilandmax"imbrog"wrightgecdavidkorobert"kali"blaker paige"hrmnzr"stanleysinisterpsycheian"myusernamesmud"white toby"radiation"foxveritasunaedavid"dirtiest"dycus teamdogfightdavidellis(alunatic'sdaydream)demographerist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Dance of Viridian and Violet -Artist: Will Ascenzo +Artist: Willow Ascenzo Track Art: rosesarecrimson References: Dance of Thorns, Endless Climb URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/dance-of-viridian-and-violet Commentary: - Will Ascenzo: + Willow Ascenzo: Dance of Viridian and Violet is an oldtrack of mine--about two years old! I was surprised anyone remembered it enough to nominate it for Land of Fans and Music 3, but I suppose I should never underestimate people's willingness to dig years back through a fanartist's works. Anyway, like I said, it is very old and absolutely no mastering was used on it whatsoever (I'm scared to actually look at its waveform) since back then I didn't know what mastering was. The song ended up sounding quite beautiful, and I sitll think so today, despite my relative lack of skill. Of course, this track being so old, I'd long since deleted the original FL Studio project file during spring cleaning, so I didn't have access to any of the MIDI data (the same thing happened with [[Sign of the Scorpion]]). I couldn't even properly remaster the song since I no longer had a lossless source. That's why I made a brand-new arrangement of the piece for LOFAM 3 that captures the piece's ouriginal beauty and romantic feel while only adding to its richness and elegance. Both Dance of Thorns and Endless Climb are hinted at in the composition, and while there aren't any quotes from Alternia/Bound, the stately elegance of the piece is meant to recall Kanaya. rosesarecrimson: @@ -262,7 +265,7 @@ Commentary: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Fracta Sub Luna Artist: Thomas Ferkol -Track Art: Ella +Track Art: dodostad URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/fracta-sub-luna Commentary: dodostad: @@ -386,12 +389,12 @@ Commentary: There's no sleepy eyes,
Just a snoozing Roxy butt.
(I'm not complaining) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Sign of the Scorpion -Artist: Will Ascenzo +Artist: Willow Ascenzo Track Art: rufiohbascoh References: Spider's Claw URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/sign-of-the-scorpion Commentary: - Will Ascenzo: + Willow Ascenzo: Sign of the Scorpion is an old track of mine, about maybe 14 or 15 months old, and while I'm legitimately proud of a lot of compositional elements, the mastering and production horrified me looking back on it. Like [[Dance of Viridian and Violet]], I'd long since deleted the project file, since it was just a one-off Homestuck song that I figured I was unlikely to ever need again, so I made a nwe arrangement of the piece from scratch, taking elements I liked frmo the original and putting them in a new context. It doesn't quote any Homestuck themes (I don't believe the original did at all), except for a brief mention of Spider's Claw right at the end. The new arrangement has a bit more of a hard-rock feel and toned-down orchestral elements, making it a bit more reflective of Vriska as a character. rufiohbascoh: I did a track art for one of Ascenzo's songs back in LOFAM2 as well and also the art for Rust Apocalypse. So, when I saw two songs by him on the available songs for track art, I couldn't really help myself. His songs are great. I know you like it, I can tell. Hope the track art seems suitable, and that you'll enjoy that as well. I have nothing else to say on the matter. That's it. @@ -531,12 +534,12 @@ References: URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/garden-of-eden-part-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Electric Fireflies -Artist: AutoDevote +Artist: Thomas Ibarra Track Art: Elanor Pam References: Firefly Cloud, Doctor, Showtime (Original Mix) URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/electric-fireflies Commentary: - AutoDevote: + Thomas Ibarra: Many of my recompositions tend to be experiments with lemotiffs, and Electric Fireflies is no exception. While largely focused around the light flicks of piano melody within Firefly Cloud and the song itself by Erik "Jit" Scheele, I found my experiment to take a coures of its own. I tried to follow Jit's carefully integrated elements of Doctor to discover that his method employed a much more flowing and intertwined realization of instrumental melody; this was something I felt tha I did not achieve. I felt refreshing to observe what can only be described as mastery of melody, theme and atmosphere. It was a pleasure to make this piece. Elanor Pam: Sketched and colored in Paint Tool Sai and color adjusted in Photoshop. @@ -725,7 +728,7 @@ Commentary: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Forest Fire Artist: Brad Griffin -Contributors: Jeremy Iamurri (with regards to), Clark Powell (with regards to) +Contributors: Solatrus (with regards to), Clark Powell (with regards to) Track Art: sayachan-art References: Flare URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/forest-fire @@ -776,7 +779,7 @@ References: Rust Servant URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/maid-in-spades Commentary: Max Wright: - Taking the motif from Will Ascenzo's Rust Servant and completely changing the genre was one of the more fun piece ideas I've had. + Taking the motif from Willow Ascenzo's Rust Servant and completely changing the genre was one of the more fun piece ideas I've had. Maid in Spades is a piece written fro the Handmaid, reimagining the character in a swinging bundle of positive vibes. Now, I could try and justify the choice of genre here by referring to her past, how she is a tragic character with a pure heart, how she was nurtured into evil... but the truth is: this piece doesn't fit the Handmaid in the slightest. But really, it was never meant to. dodostad: @@ -805,12 +808,12 @@ Commentary: Doing art for a dance remix of Frost wouldn't have proved tricky if not for a perplexing (but very cool) track title. And so, here we have Jade and some frogs integrated as part of a... metaphoric-circuitboard-type-thing by Echidna. I think if you imagine the song set to a trippy frog-gathering montage on LOFAF with this imagery, you'll get a better idea of what I was aiming for. At any rate, I'm really happy with how it turned out, and I hope I've done the track the justice it absolutely deserves. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Pirates of Alternia: Dead Troll's Chest -Artist: Will Ascenzo +Artist: Willow Ascenzo Track Art: rufiohbascoh References: Cobalt Corsair, Violet Mariner URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/pirates-of-alternia-dead-trolls-chest Commentary: - Will Ascenzo: + Willow Ascenzo: 0:00-0:14: An unassuming troll merchant ship sails the ocean, its precious cargo of shitty romantic comedy movies tucked safely within its lower decks, unaware of the danger that approaches. 0:14-0:24: A pirate ship suddenly appears from out of the fog, closing in fast! Its captain: the dastardly pirate Marquise Spinneret Mindfang! 0:24-1:05: Mindfang's pirate crew boards the vessel, and a battle ensues! This part introduces the main theme of the piece, which is adapted from the first thirty esconds or so of Imbrog's Cobalt Corsair. As the fight continues, another ship closes in... @@ -835,7 +838,7 @@ Commentary: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Explore [Keygen Mix] Artist: ndividedbyzero -Track Art: Lunise +Track Art: Christina Lillard References: Explore URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/explore-keygen-mix Commentary: @@ -843,7 +846,7 @@ Commentary: What even is keygen music? I have no idea, but if it exists, I hope this sounds like it. This song is pretty important to me. Prior to completing it in March 2012, I had really only been making small loops in FL Studio that only had one or two instruments, save for two submissions I'd sent to the Homestuck fanmusic contest, which, while pretty good in terms of structure even by my standards today, didn't exactly have much to them in production value. But when I took it upon myself to rearrange Explore, that suddenly changed. I was extremely self-deprecative about it at first, but as I began to listen to it more, I realized that it didn't sound all that bad- in fact, it even sounded.. tolerable, compared to everything else I'd made. And that was essentially when I resolved to work on making my music sound even better. In fact, people liked it enough that it was nominated for LOFAM 3, no more than a year later. Having improved a lot by that time, I decided to touch it up a little, and this version is the result. I didn't really change all that much, besides adding and tweaking a few instruments, but I hope it sounds better nonetheless. - Lune: + Christina Lillard: My interest in doing Homestuck fanart has waned over the past few months, but I will always have a soft spot for the exiles no matter what. So it is only natural that I do goofy exile art for an Explore arrangement! Even though I was seriously burned out on art in general when I did this, I think it turned out okay. Goofy, happy exiles always turn out okay! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Ohgodboss @@ -861,7 +864,7 @@ Commentary: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Dogfight (Dirtiest's Dubstep Remix) Artist: David Dycus -Track Art: Lunise +Track Art: Christina Lillard References: - Dogfight - Bec Noir @@ -872,7 +875,7 @@ URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/dogfight-dirtiests-dubstep-r Commentary: David Dycus: My first attempt at a dubstep song, from my ill-conceived dubstep phase. It took a ton of time, an entire new drum pack, and ultimately, a new laptop to finish. It's not my favorite song I've ever made--it doesn't sound like a real dubstep song, in my opinion--but I learned a lot in the process of making it. - Lune: + Christina Lillard: I HOPE YOU LIKE GAMEGRL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Starblaze diff --git a/album/lofam4/album.txt b/album/lofam4/album.txt index b086b69f..7d390926 100644 --- a/album/lofam4/album.txt +++ b/album/lofam4/album.txt @@ -1,15 +1,18 @@ Album: Land of Fans and Music 4 Directory: lofam4 -Cover Art: Sozay +Cover Art: Sozzay Date: September 9, 2017 FG: #aed6f0 Canon: Fanon +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/album/land-of-fans-and-music-4 +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYr2YZ5D3rfQBkwagYEi_JPvVYUIVfxn6 Commentary: The Unofficialmspafans present:
LAND OF FANS AND MUSIC 4
The Team:
Lambda Bledsoe
Veritas Unae
Liza McCall
ndividedbyzero
Lathan Jury
Emily
Aris "ostrichlittledungeon" Martinian
Makin Booklet:
Circlejourney - Additional Help:
Mark Ciocca (Dagoth Xil)
Yishan "Catboss." Mai
Seijen
SerialSymphony
nights
power464646
Bambosh
wheals
Kal-la-kal-la
WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES
SplitSuns + Additional Help:
Mark Ciocca (Dagoth Xil)
Yishan "Catboss." Mai
Seijen
SerialSymphony
nights
Grace Medley
Bambosh
wheals
Kal-la-kal-la
WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES
SplitSuns Special Thanks:
Elaine "OJ" Wang
M. Alex "melodiousDiscord" Moser
Brad "Avinoch" Griffin
Robert J! Lake
Christina "Lune" Lillard
The Cool and New Music Team
Andrew Hussie & What Pumpkin Studios
The Homestuck Music Team
Lambda Bledsoe: @@ -143,12 +146,12 @@ Commentary: I wonder what life was like for the carapacians, floating out in space away from everything going on on the battlefield as it got prototyped. Seems kind of lonely. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Pax Condesca -Artist: ViKomprenas +Artist: Viko Riféo Track Art: Circlejourney References: Crystalanthemums, Negastrife URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/pax-condesca Commentary: - ViKomprenas: + Viko Riféo: Wait why did this get on the album it sucks It's about the Condesce, obviously. It's vaguely about her conquering a planet? The natives fight a long fight and then they just barely win! and everyone is reflecting on their loss and then she just glasses them or whatever she does. There's Crystalanthemums mostly because it seems to be teh default badass-trolls theme. Also that is some badass art. Circlejourney: @@ -194,12 +197,12 @@ Track Art: Chumi URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/skaian-dreamers Commentary: Difarem: - Thsi track has quite the story! It was originally meant to be fake "loading screen" music, to accompany a parodic video on the Cool and New Music Team youtube channel about Overseer v3 (a web-based sburb web game, whose development team I used to be part of) being shut down by What Pumpkin (though the C&D was later found out to be fake). The project fell through, so I continued working on it and posted it on the LOFAM Discord server, where it got approved (thanks Lambda), though the deadline had tehcnically passed. + This track has quite the story! It was originally meant to be fake "loading screen" music, to accompany a parodic video on the Cool and New Music Team youtube channel about Overseer v3 (a web-based sburb web game, whose development team I used to be part of) being shut down by What Pumpkin (though the C&D was later found out to be fake). The project fell through, so I continued working on it and posted it on the LOFAM Discord server, where it got approved (thanks Lambda), though the deadline had tehcnically passed. Chumi: it sounds like a song for the beginning of a cool adventure! so that's what i drew :o ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Emerald Waltz -Artist: Will Ascenzo +Artist: Willow Ascenzo Track Art: Beta References: Darling Kanaya URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/emerald-waltz @@ -286,12 +289,12 @@ Commentary: Like the song, this fantastic art was originally used for Act 8 Volume 1. It's a pretty stark contrast to the carefree art for Glide immediately before it; Alternate Calliope has now taken off her hood, with a look that indicates that she means business. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Bonehead Destiny (LoFaM Cut) -Artist: power464646 +Artist: Grace Medley Track Art: Elanor Pam References: Unite Synchronization URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/bonehead-destiny-lofam-cut Commentary: - power464646: + Grace Medley: This song was originally written for FLSA's Problem Sleuth album, however those of you who've heard the original may notice some subtle differences. This song is meant to be a theme for late-game PS, with the first half representing the over-the-top surrealism of Higgs Bonehead's sacrifice, and the second, the far more interesting rush to beat DMK. I pretty much spent the ages 10-12 listening to Daft Punk and Digitalism near-exclusively, and I think the influence shines through pretty clearly here. The second half is a slight nod to the rush of [S] Dirk: Unite and Synchronize, which I feel is stylistically similar to the pacing from the end of PS. Elanor Pam: The futility of a sacrifice, the chaos of a final battle, the wrath of an arbiter, the finding of love after death, the absolute ownage of a sharply written missive. All these and more contributed to making the epic ending of Problem Sleuth what it came to be known as: a confusing clusterfuck of hilarious and completely insane shenanigans. @@ -435,7 +438,7 @@ Commentary: Aris Martinian: After the acapella and post-punk versions of I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew, you may be wondering how there could possibly be a unique version of this song without stooping to What Pumpkin's level and making "I'm a Member of the Midnight Ska." theh0nestman manages to take this early 20th century classic somewhere entirely new. This version of the song has a country rock feel to it, with soft verses leading into harder, crunchier choruses, and the bridges between verses taking us into previously uncharted melodic territory. dodostad: - I was asking around for iconic rock album covers to base the art on since it was rather classic rock take on the midnight crew. SOmeone said Nirvana's Nevermind and I laughed and laughed and went with it + I was asking around for iconic rock album covers to base the art on since it was rather classic rock take on the midnight crew. Someone said Nirvana's Nevermind and I laughed and laughed and went with it ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Crystalendofgames Artist: Jamie Paige Stanley @@ -457,7 +460,7 @@ Commentary: Track: ~~DISC 2~~ Directory: disc2-lofam4 Artist: Lambda Bledsoe, ndividedbyzero -Track Art: Remi +Track Art: Buck References: Jackpot URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/disc-2-2 Commentary: @@ -619,7 +622,7 @@ Commentary: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: All the Luck Artist: Xoro Laventer -Track Art: P. Gibson +Track Art: Phil Gibson References: - Spider's Claw - MeGaLoVania @@ -628,7 +631,7 @@ References: - Lotus URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/all-the-luck Commentary: - P. Gibson: + Phil Gibson: Vriska is gr8 and thank goodness she saved all of space and time so we could hear this album wheals: Xoro was working on a little 8-song Vriska album concept for the CANMT, to be released on 8/8/2016. Though the idea never came to be, he made a couple songs for it, which then languished on the main tab of our organization sheet. Reading through the list of semi-abandoned songs there, I convinced him to put it on our Volume 8, so it ended up with some 8-related action. At some point, either the LOFAM judges listened to the album and felt it was a standout track, or Xoro submitted it on his own. The latter is possible since right around then was when Lambda put out an open call on /r/homestuck for song submissions. Either way, Xoro felt the song could bei mproved, so the song as presented here is an even more polished version of the v8lume one. Relistening, many of the changes jump out. Right away you can tell some of the instruments have changed. (Enemy Approaching, the Undertale song, is still an obvious compositional inspiration, even though the instrumentation being less electronic makes this version less similar in that sense.) Some of the mixing is better and more punchy, a skill that Xoro excels at. Terezi's theme opens the bridge, after which the song contains new composition. Returning to the original motifs of the song after the bridge, it continues to put a new spin on them. I never cease to be impressed by the musical improvements of my friends in the Homestuck fanmusic community. And I'm glad that in a managerial role, I can facilitate others' improvement. Let's all give Xoro a thumbsup for the great work here. @@ -681,14 +684,14 @@ Commentary: I'm personally glad Elanor took the Hiveswap route for this song's track art, because I feel it fits the song so well even beyond Old Secret. The song invokes a calm theme for Joey, and speculation on all of the possible misadventuers she'll have that we'll soon get to see. As of this writing, Hiveswap's definitive release date of September 14th was revealed three days ago, and I hold hope it won't be delayed any longer. In the meantime, Daydream is a theme that embodies thoughts of that wait and that hope, and of course, thoughts of the game itself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Grimbark -Artist: Will Ascenzo +Artist: Willow Ascenzo Track Art: Amethyst Barron References: Penumbra Phantasm URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/grimbark Commentary: Amethyst Barron: A space werewolf with reality warping powers would be terrifying and I wanted to reflect that. Also I really like drawing drooly sharp teeth. - power464646: + Grace Medley: Okay, okay. Before you start listening to this song, just picture in your head the absolute BEST grimdark Jade theme. Then hit play. If you're not confused as to how Ascenzo managed to read your mind, you did something wrong. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Upward Meowvement (Davepetasprite^2 Owns) @@ -908,7 +911,7 @@ URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/cleopatras-cocktail-party Commentary: nights: I'm really happy with this piece! The music sets a uniquely nice atmosphere on LOPAN, which I hoped to capture in this art's composition and colors. (Also the glass is just water, I promise I don't condone underage drinking, please don't call the cops) - power464646: + Grace Medley: During his time as a musician for Homestuck, Thoams Ferkol touched on a wide range of styles, from metal to neoclassical to krautrock, and everywhere in between. One he hadn't done, though, was disco... Until now! Conceived as one of three land themes for the alpha session (LOPAN in particular), this track sadly never saw an official release, but it's here, now, for your listening pleasure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Quest Crypt @@ -947,11 +950,11 @@ Commentary: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Sunslammer (Cement City Remix) Artist: Cement City -Track Art: Culljoy +Track Art: Cro References: Sunslammer URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/sunslammer-cement-city-remix Commentary: - Culljoy: + Cro: This was quite an interesting piece to work on; I was trying to do something with perspective though you know, practice will eventually take someone far! Anyway, here's Jade. The green sun is in the corner because outside of paying mind to the spacey environment, it somewhat references her whoel god tiering ordeal, which essentially meant the first guardian bonus pack. ndividedbyzero: i think this song speaks for itself so here are some lyrics. @@ -1000,12 +1003,12 @@ Commentary: (ps, viko told me to say johndave is canon i guess) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Robert Jailbreak -Artist: FriendlyCoy +Artist: Matthias Ramalho Track Art: Jaspy References: Pumpkin Cravings, Assail, Jackknive URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/robert-jailbreak Commentary: - FriendlyCoy: + Matthias Ramalho: This track is a joke. It doesn't have a serious purpose. But it is, in fact, an 8-bit track I worked quite hard to make sound good. If you love 8-bit and RJ, then this is the track just for you! Jaspy: so i worked on this art way back in the beginning of the year just to see if i could contribute to the album and made a piece of art i'm pretty happy about, i don't really do art stuff so this was a first for me but im glad i could have worked on the album in some way still. it was pretty fun working on the art in general, coming up with the idea was pretty quick after i heard the song, but the hard part was trying to draw lil rj for the art (with a trackpad, dont use trackpds), and after a few revisions i think i got it to a pretty close style to the original. anyway glad i could help work on the album, and hope you dudes all enjoy the rest of it @@ -1180,7 +1183,7 @@ Commentary: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Thyme on My Fries Artist: SplitSuns -Track Art: TwinBuilder +Track Art: Ephemerald References: - Time on My Side - Smackdown @@ -1267,7 +1270,7 @@ Commentary: Omega Timeline is a song about the Game Over timeline, which Terezi heavily assists in healing with a plan she formed herself. Naturally, then, it works for the art to show Terezi in the middle of her final journey in this timeline, inches away from finding her true potential. It fits the adventurous and determined nature of the song pretty well! The fact that the letter Omega is associated with Libra helps too, of course. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Emerald Cinders -Artist: power464646 +Artist: Grace Medley Track Art: sonotcanon References: - Rhapsody in Green @@ -1276,7 +1279,7 @@ References: - English URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/emerald-cinders Commentary: - power464646: + Grace Medley: 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 isa bout 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: snowman a la mal from inception. credit to power for the concept! @@ -1304,7 +1307,7 @@ Commentary: GPI: Fondly regard Selan spending too much time fiddling with the background ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Prospitian Monody -Artist: ViKomprenas +Artist: Viko Riféo Track Art: Jas References: - Cascade (Beta) @@ -1312,7 +1315,7 @@ References: - Rex Duodecim Angelus URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/prospitian-monody Commentary: - ViKomprenas: + Viko Riféo: I honestly can't believe this got in. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm satisfied with it, but seriously this took ages to get to a publishable state. 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 [[Broken Dreams]] on the SBURB OST, but focusing more on Derse's triumph than on Prospit's downfall. @@ -1360,21 +1363,22 @@ References: URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/ultimate-alchemy Commentary: Interrobang: - 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 ViKomprenas 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. - 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 ViKomprenas and Xoro Laventer, 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 amde 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. + 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. + 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 Xoro Laventer, 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 amde 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. Circlejourney: 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]]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: The Sock Ruse -Artist: Facetious & Friends -Track Art: Nick Turner +Artist: Alex Votl +Contributors: Facetious (Alex Votl) & Friends +Track Art: Nick Tucker URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-sock-ruse Lyrics: Please send me the lyrics, i love them but i cannot make out a few parts <3 From Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, page 7. Commentary: - Facetious: + Alex Votl: 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: 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. @@ -1435,7 +1439,7 @@ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Crystalline Repose -Artist: Will Ascenzo +Artist: Willow Ascenzo Track Art: dodostad References: Crystalanthemums URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/crystalline-repose @@ -1487,7 +1491,7 @@ Track Art: Kate Griffith References: Moonsetter URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/moonsetter-strider-remix Commentary: - power464646: + Grace Medley: 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. WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES: Honestly, the head of an ogre doesn't sound like the most comfortable chair to me, but evidently, the Striders disagree. I guess they're too... cool... diff --git a/album/medium/album.txt b/album/medium/album.txt index 2ca2f1b1..71a35989 100644 --- a/album/medium/album.txt +++ b/album/medium/album.txt @@ -1,9 +1,12 @@ Album: Medium Artist: Clark Powell Date: April 14, 2011 -Cover Art: Cindy Dominguez, Homestuck +Cover Art: Cindy Dominguez Track Art: none FG: #22ccff +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/symphony-impossible-to-play-with-medium +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB9D2EAC43B6195B8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Light Directory: light-medium diff --git a/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead/album.txt b/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead/album.txt index b425ac88..71f51fc3 100644 --- a/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead/album.txt +++ b/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead/album.txt @@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ Date: Febuary 4 2010 Cover Art: Homestuck Track Art: Homestuck FG: #dd0000 +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-1-4-with-midnight-crew-drawing-dead +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQBK41qzhR4 +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL83FE65DF950D7072 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Three in the Morning Artist: Clark Powell diff --git a/album/mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido/album.txt b/album/mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido/album.txt index 5c49d51d..1d5e8a7d 100644 --- a/album/mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido/album.txt +++ b/album/mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido/album.txt @@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ Cover Art: Tavia Morra, Richard Gung Track Art: Tavia Morra, Richard Gung Date: May 31, 2011 00:00:04 FG: #eecc22 +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBZx4eTVu4Ufun +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAA4CC77749E4B58E Commentary: Michael Guy Bowman: Is there a linear story to this album, or is it some other form of story telling? diff --git a/album/one-year-older/album.txt b/album/one-year-older/album.txt index 189602de..9e5ec05e 100644 --- a/album/one-year-older/album.txt +++ b/album/one-year-older/album.txt @@ -1,8 +1,11 @@ Album: One Year Older Artist: Erik Scheele -Cover Art: Killian Ng +Cover Art: Vivian Ng Date: August 15, 2012 FG: #00aaff +URLs: +- https://erikscheele.bandcamp.com/album/one-year-older +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL43D61BA1D4DF9B24 Commentary: Erik Scheele:
okay first things first
I
MADE THIS
FOR YOU
@@ -88,7 +91,7 @@ Commentary: At any rate, the music I went for was to just go along with that, a peaceful song for his demise before he came back. It feels kind of morbid, but since the concept of death has kind of gone out the window and back again in Homestuck, it's hardly as morbid as it could be. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Unlabeled -Track Art: Killian Ng +Track Art: Vivian Ng URLs: https://erikscheele.bandcamp.com/track/unlabeled Commentary: Erik Scheele: @@ -115,7 +118,7 @@ Commentary: The piece started out as extreme laziness on my aprt, just idle playing around with various distortion on synths and samples, until the school project came up and wanted results fast. So I threw some things together until they formed the opening, and took a very lax approach to the piano part, a sort of "here's a riff, now play around with it, there's your part" with a drum loop over top. Thankfully my laziness didn't extend to the whole thing, and it all got more polished up and developed over time. It still keeps the "improvised piano part based off one riff" idea, though. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Respit -Track Art: Sasha Morrissey +Track Art: K URLs: https://erikscheele.bandcamp.com/track/respit Commentary: Erik Scheele: diff --git a/album/perfectly-generic-album/album.txt b/album/perfectly-generic-album/album.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5add0c16 --- /dev/null +++ b/album/perfectly-generic-album/album.txt @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +Album: Perfectly Generic Album +Artist: Cristata +Date: November 10, 2019 +Cover Art: Cristata +Track Art: none +FG: #1cb611 +Canon: Fanon +URLs: +- https://smoothiefruitee.bandcamp.com/album/perfectly-generic-album +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjYwXMkTvx6XTlCI7yQymaeeow-92CCS9 +Commentary: + Cristata: + Thank you to the original Homestuck Music Team for inspiring me, and to all the folks in the fandom who wont stop making fan content. You all rock and drive me to make my very best work. Never stop. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: New and Improved +URLs: +- https://smoothiefruitee.bandcamp.com/track/new-and-improved +- https://youtu.be/PNFVwcHAqmI?list=PLjYwXMkTvx6XTlCI7yQymaeeow-92CCS9 +Commentary: + Cristata: + New And Improved Webcomic. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Healing June +References: Doctor +URLs: +- https://smoothiefruitee.bandcamp.com/track/healing-june +- https://youtu.be/xZtfOpp-0jo?list=PLjYwXMkTvx6XTlCI7yQymaeeow-92CCS9 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Moondancer +References: Moonsetter +URLs: +- https://smoothiefruitee.bandcamp.com/track/moondancer +- https://youtu.be/Y9ltxPAI1r4?list=PLjYwXMkTvx6XTlCI7yQymaeeow-92CCS9 +Commentary: + Cristata: + Moonsetter still makes me cry every time I listen to it. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Perfectly Generic +URLs: +- https://smoothiefruitee.bandcamp.com/track/perfectly-generic +- https://youtu.be/hYDmVvC2lMU?list=PLjYwXMkTvx6XTlCI7yQymaeeow-92CCS9 +Commentary: + Cristata: + Perfectly.... generic! +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Nepeta Plays Kingdom Hearts and Loses her Shit Over Lion King Sora +URLs: +- https://smoothiefruitee.bandcamp.com/track/nepeta-plays-kingdom-hearts-and-loses-her-shit-over-lion-king-sora +- https://youtu.be/Xdp-61b-k2c?list=PLjYwXMkTvx6XTlCI7yQymaeeow-92CCS9 +Commentary: + Cristata: + This was made as a joke to annoy a friend but I ended up enjoying it instead, so now you all get to listen to it too. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: NEBULAMPHIBIAN +URLs: +- https://smoothiefruitee.bandcamp.com/track/nebulamphibian +- https://youtu.be/pIf8vXLo-kg?list=PLjYwXMkTvx6XTlCI7yQymaeeow-92CCS9 +Commentary: + Cristata: + Frog time. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Quartz and Melody +URLs: +- https://smoothiefruitee.bandcamp.com/track/quartz-and-melody +- https://youtu.be/I8AMmelSZm8?list=PLjYwXMkTvx6XTlCI7yQymaeeow-92CCS9 +Commentary: + Cristata: + You ever think about how cool the trolls' lands were? +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Thought and Flow +Directory: thought-and-flow-pga +URLs: +- https://smoothiefruitee.bandcamp.com/track/thought-and-flow +- https://youtu.be/3vE59Fdjdh4?list=PLjYwXMkTvx6XTlCI7yQymaeeow-92CCS9 +Commentary: + Cristata: + Because I do! +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Gaster's Theme +URLs: +- https://smoothiefruitee.bandcamp.com/track/gasters-theme +- https://youtu.be/kBzGz-XmMew?list=PLjYwXMkTvx6XTlCI7yQymaeeow-92CCS9 +Commentary: + Cristata: + Listen, if you didn't think I would shoehorn Gaster into this album somehow, you were incredibly, horribly wrong. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Another Noir (Extended Void Mix) +URLs: +- https://smoothiefruitee.bandcamp.com/track/another-noir-extended-void-mix +- https://youtu.be/if21XVJnGlE?list=PLjYwXMkTvx6XTlCI7yQymaeeow-92CCS9 +Commentary: + Cristata: + Another Noir patch notes + + 50% more dance-able
+ Added more [REDACTED]
- Removed Herobrine +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Megalo in Death // ʞɔɐq ǝʞᴉɹʇS ɥʇɐǝp +Directory: megalo-in-death +URLs: +- https://smoothiefruitee.bandcamp.com/track/megalo-in-death-q-s-p +- https://youtu.be/scoo6r7rW_E?list=PLjYwXMkTvx6XTlCI7yQymaeeow-92CCS9 +Commentary: + Cristata: + I promised I'd get a megalo on this album. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Welcome to Your New Suburban Reality +URLs: +- https://smoothiefruitee.bandcamp.com/track/welcome-to-your-new-suburban-reality +- https://youtu.be/_3NstB6oouo?list=PLjYwXMkTvx6XTlCI7yQymaeeow-92CCS9 +Commentary: + Cristata: + Acts 1-3 were really good, actually. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Eternally You +URLs: +- https://smoothiefruitee.bandcamp.com/track/eternally-you +- https://youtu.be/mqPxB2ustEU?list=PLjYwXMkTvx6XTlCI7yQymaeeow-92CCS9 +Commentary: + Cristata: + See ya next time! diff --git a/album/prospit-and-derse/album.txt b/album/prospit-and-derse/album.txt index 79f1257a..bc67d9eb 100644 --- a/album/prospit-and-derse/album.txt +++ b/album/prospit-and-derse/album.txt @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Track: Darkened Streets Track Art: A. Smith URLs: https://youtu.be/mVpqo-OdbSk Commentary: - Soaltrus: + Solatrus: This was definitely the song that started everything off. It’s dark, dreary, but still majestic like the very moon it describes. The music takes on you a flight. You’re one of the Derse Dreamers, the wind rushing across your face as you approach the moon’s surface. Carapaces scurrying about, too afraid to be caught after curfew, wary of Jack Noir and his gang. My original goal was to make this song set the example of how I perceive Derse. Dark, but not evil. Fitting for the Dreamers we know and love there. I definitely tried to go into some new territory with this song. While I’ve always loved the Metroid Prime Trilogy soundtrack, this was my first real attempt at trying to imitate many quality’s of that trilogy’s music. diff --git a/album/s-collide/album.txt b/album/s-collide/album.txt index 4b887568..ad7c617c 100644 --- a/album/s-collide/album.txt +++ b/album/s-collide/album.txt @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ Cover Art: Homestuck Track Art: Homestuck Date: April 6, 2016 FG: #cc3322 +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-9-10-with-s-collide-and-act-7 +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcwqP0pMxGE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Creata (Canon Edit) Artist: Seth Peelle @@ -15,13 +18,14 @@ Contributors: - James Roach (editing, cheers) URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/oppa-toby-style-2 References: +- Ham And Steak - Rex Duodecim Angelus - English - Cascade (Beta) - Doctor - Crystalanthemums - Crustacean -- Black +- Liquid Negrocity Commentary: James Roach: i love cheers in songs (i edited the cheers into tobys song for [s] collide, and have written them into a few things) so the sword/shield gym theme really does it for me diff --git a/album/sburb-ost/album.txt b/album/sburb-ost/album.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4b4c800c --- /dev/null +++ b/album/sburb-ost/album.txt @@ -0,0 +1,370 @@ +Album: Sburb OST +Directory: sburb-ost +Cover Art: melodiousDiscord +Date: November 24, 2012 +FG: #ffb400 +Canon: Fanon +URLs: +- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/album/sburb-ost +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2E1aOkERtLXq9YuH-q42kkqvsYGl7fvD +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: ~~~~DISK 1~~~~ +Directory: disk1-sburb-ost +Artist: Veritas Unae +Track Art: none +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/disk-1 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Waiting For Adventure [Loading Screen] +Directory: waiting-for-adventure +Artist: Michael Guy Bowman +Track Art: Tavia Morra +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/waiting-for-adventure-loading-screen +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: SBURBan Prelude [Main Menu] +Directory: sburban-prelude +Artist: sidewalkbanana +Track Art: RunDoubleRun, Emily +References: Sburban Jungle +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/sburban-prelude-main-menu +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Meta Choices [Options] +Directory: meta-choices +Artist: sidewalkbanana +Track Art; RunDoubleRun, Emily +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/meta-choices-options +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Ignorance Is Bliss [Tutorial] +Directory: ignorance-is-bliss +Artist: Marcy Nabors +Track Art: Esabelle Ryngin +References: Homestuck Anthem +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/ignorance-is-bliss-tutorial +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Metamorphic Choices [Kernel Prototyping] +Directory: metamorphic-choices +Artist: Veritas Unae, Marcy Nabors +Track Art: Dawn Davis +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/metamorphic-choices-kernel-prototyping +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Dawn of the End [Countdown] +Directory: dawn-of-the-end +Artist: Max Wright +Track Art: invalidgriffin +References: Sburban Jungle, Umbral Ultimatum +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/dawn-of-the-end-countdown +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: A Spirited Conversation [Sprite Interaction] +Directory: a-spirited-conversation +Artist: Veritas Unae, Charles Neudorf +Track Art: Adoxographist +References: Metamorphic Choices [Kernel Prototyping] +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/a-spirited-conversation-sprite-interaction +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Layers Upon Layers [Build] +Directory: layers-upon-layers +Artist: Marcy Nabors, Jamie Paige Stanley +Track Art: Alistair Diszrali +References: Waiting For Adventure [Loading Screen] +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/layers-upon-layers-build +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Mysterious Messengers [Exiles] +Directory: mysterious-messengers +Artist: Traikan +Track Art: Vero +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/mysterious-messengers-exiles +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Overly Ostentatious Ogre [Miniboss] +Directory: overly-ostentatious-ogre +Artist: Red Pen +Track Art: Tawa, Kate Holden +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/overly-ostentatious-ogre-miniboss +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: The Porkhollow is Overflowing! [Echeladder] +Directory: the-porkhollow-is-overflowing +Artist: Veritas Unae +Track Art: Toe +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-porkhollow-is-overflowing-echeladder +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Consort Air [Consorts] +Directory: consort-air +Artist: Brad Griffin +Track Art: 8bitkitten +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/consort-air-consorts +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Fraymotif Samba [Consort Shop] +Directory: fraymotif-samba +Artist: James Roach +Track Art: Esabelle Ryngin +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/fraymotif-samba-consort-shop +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Waking the Beast [Denizen Encounter] +Directory: waking-the-beast +Artist: Eston Schweickart, Yan Rodriguez +Track Art: Zilleniose +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/waking-the-beast-denizen-encounter +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Glow in the Distance [Save] +Directory: glow-in-the-distance +Artist: James Roach +Track Art: melodiousDiscord +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/glow-in-the-distance-save +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Lulling Lutescant [Prospit Sleep] +Directory: lulling-lutescant +Artist: Veritas Unae +Track Art: Phosphorescence +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/lulling-lutescent-prospit-sleep +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: On Golden Dreams [Prospit] +Directory: on-golden-dreams +Artist: Veritas Unae +Track Art: invalidgriffin +References: Lulling Lutescant [Prospit Sleep] +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/on-golden-dreams-prospit +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Amongst Smiling Faces [Prospitian Dignitaries] +Directory: amongst-smiling-faces +Artist: Tarranon +Track Art: Kate Holden +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/amongst-smiling-faces-prospitian-dignitaries +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Grudge in A Minor [Jack Noir] +Directory: grudge-in-a-minor +Artist: Yishan Mai +Track Art: melodiousDiscord +References: Liquid Negrocity +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/grudge-in-a-minor-jack-noir +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Lavender Lullably [Derse Sleep] +Directory: lavender-lullaby +Artist: Veritas Unae +Track Art: Phosphorescence +References: Planet in Shadow [Derse] +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/lavender-lullaby-derse-sleep +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Planet in Shadow [Derse] +Directory: planet-in-shadow +Artist: Yishan Mai +Track Art: Kat +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/planet-in-shadow-derse +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Drolls and Dignitaries [Dersite Agents] +Directory: drolls-and-dignitaries +Artist: Yishan Mai +Track Art: Selan Pike +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/drolls-and-dignitaries-dersite-agents +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: The Ultimate Riddle [Ultimate Riddle] +Directory: the-ultimate-riddle +Artist: Marcy Nabors +Track Art: melodiousDiscord +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-ultimate-riddle-ultimate-riddle +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Eldritch Murmurs [Horrorterrors] +Directory: eldritch-murmurs +Artist: Fuzz +Track Art: Vero +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/eldritch-murmurs-horrorterrors +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Outer Reaches [Veil] +Directory: outer-reaches +Artist: Charles Neudorf +Track Art: Esabelle Ryngin +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/outer-reaches-veil +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Inner Depths [Labs] +Directory: inner-depths +Artist: Brad Griffin +Track Art: Tarranon +References: Outer Reaches [Veil] +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/inner-depths-labs +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Autogenesis [Ectobiology] +Directory: autogenesis +Artist: Red Pen +Track Art: Phosphorescence +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/autogenesis-ectobiology +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Broken Dreams [Prospit's Fall] +Directory: broken-dreams +Artist: Veritas Unae, Charles Neudorf +Track Art: Brad Griffin +References: On Golden Dreams [Prospit] +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/broken-dreams-prospits-fall +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Paradoxical Meteor Shower [Reckoning] +Directory: paradoxical-meteor-shower +Artist: Trent West +Track Art: Kat +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/paradoxical-meteor-shower-reckoning +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Emerald Icarus [Green Sun] +Directory: emerald-icarus +Artist: Marcy Nabors +Track Art: Mixt +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/emerald-icarus-green-sun +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: ~~~~DISK 2~~~~ +Directory: disk2-sburb-ost +Artist: Veritas Unae +Track Art: melodiousDiscord +References: Emerald Icarus [Green Sun], CumuloSeerus [Oracle Clouds] +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/disk-2 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: CumuloSeerus [Oracle Clouds] +Directory: cumuloseerus +Artist: Brad Griffin +Track Art: Tavia Morra +References: SBURBan Prelude [Main Menu] +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/cumuloseerus-oracle-clouds +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Checkerboard Checkmate [Battlefield] +Directory: checkerboard-checkmate +Artist: Tarranon +Track Art: Tavia Morra +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/checkerboard-checkmate-battlefield +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Skaiaward [Skaia] +Directory: skaiaward +Artist: Marcy Nabors, Solatrus +Track Art: Toe +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/skaiaward-skaia +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Resurrection [God Tier] +Directory: resurrection +Artist: Brad Griffin +Track Art: Kate Holden +References: Sburban Jungle +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/resurrection-god-tier +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Land of _____ and Frogs [Frog Gathering] +Directory: land-of-_____-and-frogs +Artist: Veritas Unae +Track Art: Brad Griffin +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/land-of-and-frogs-frog-gathering +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Rana's Abode [Frog Temple] +Directory: ranas-abode +Artist: Yan Rodriguez +Track Art: Toe +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/ranas-abode-frog-temple +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: The Will to Fight Further [Denizen Strife] +Directory: the-will-to-fight-further +Artist: Kevin Grant, Yishan Mai +Track Art: Dawn Davis +References: +- The Will to Fight (Original Mix) [Denizen Strife] +- Showtime (Piano Refrain) +- Waking the Beast [Denizen Encounter] +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-will-to-fight-further-denizen-strife +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Barren Session [Game Over] +Directory: barren-session +Artist: Brad Griffin +Track Art: Nurse Tiger +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/barren-session-game-over +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Dilemma [The Choice] +Directory: dilemma +Artist: Fuzz +Track Art: Dawn Davis +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/dilemma-the-choice +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Vulcanic Volcano [Forge] +Directory: vulcanic-volcano +Artist: Traikan +Track Art: Selan Pike +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/vulcanic-volcano-forge +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Check the Chequered Castle [Battlefield Castle] +Directory: check-the-chequered-castle +Artist: Veritas Unae +Track Art: Mixt +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/check-the-chequered-castle-battlefield-castle +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Endgame Execution [Black King Battle] +Directory: endgame-execution +Artist: Yishan Mai +Track Art: shymuffin +References: Rex Duodecim Angelus +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/endgame-execution-black-king-battle +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Where ribbIt All Began [Genesis Frog] +Directory: where-ribbit-all-began +Artist: Tarranon +Track Art: Tawa +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/where-ribbit-all-began-genesis-frog +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Higher Hopes [Game Complete] +Directory: higher-hopes +Artist: Tarranon +Track Art: Mixt +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/higher-hopes-game-complete +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Gods of the New World [Universe Creation] +Directory: gods-of-the-new-world +Artist: Max Wright +Track Art: invalidgriffin +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/gods-of-the-new-world-universe-creation +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: ~~~~BONUS~~~~ +Directory: bonus-sburb-ost +Artist: Veritas Unae +Track Art: Veritas Unae +References: Gods of the New World [Universe Creation] +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/bonus +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: The Untold Story [Skaia Exposition] +Directory: the-untold-story +Artist: Brad Griffin +Track Art: Brad Griffin +References: +- CumuloSeerus [Oracle Clouds] +- Check the Chequered Castle [Battlefield Castle] +- On Golden Dreams [Prospit] +- Checkerboard Checkmate [Battlefield] +- Overly Ostentatious Ogre [Miniboss] +- Resurrection [God Tier] +- Gods of the New World [Universe Creation] +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-untold-story-skaia-exposition +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Melody && Form && Composition [Alchemiter] +Directory: melody-form-composition +Artist: Charles Neudorf, Marcy Nabors +Track Art: Selan Pike +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/melody-form-composition-alchemiter +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Take Flight [Battleship] +Directory: take-flight +Artist: Veritas Unae +Track Art: Pseudonym +References: +- Checkerboard Checkmate [Battlefield] +- Check the Chequered Castle [Battlefield Castle] +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/take-flight-battleship +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Born to Die [Doomed Timeline] +Directory: born-to-die +Artist: ThiefofTruth, Brad Griffin +Track Art: Manyan +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/born-to-die-doomed-timeline +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: The Will to Fight (Original Mix) [Denizen Strife] +Directory: the-will-to-fight-original-mix +Artist: Kevin Grant +Track Art: Dawn Davis +References: Showtime (Original Mix) +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-will-to-fight-original-mix-denizen-strife +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Prime [Pause] +Directory: prime +Artist: Trent West +Track Art: Nurse Tiger +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/prime-pause +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Godfight [PvP] +Directory: godfight +Artist: Yishan Mai +Track Art: Shoona +URLs: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/godfight-pvp diff --git a/album/sburb/album.txt b/album/sburb/album.txt index a7ccac2a..567741c3 100644 --- a/album/sburb/album.txt +++ b/album/sburb/album.txt @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Cover Art: Vivian Ng Track Art: none Date: July 13, 2011 FG: #34cdff +URLs: +- https://jamesdever.bandcamp.com/album/sburb +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL988516F160FCCF3A Commentary: Tyler Dever: (original commentary) diff --git a/album/song-of-skaia/album.txt b/album/song-of-skaia/album.txt index 1f72dc0c..621249de 100644 --- a/album/song-of-skaia/album.txt +++ b/album/song-of-skaia/album.txt @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Cover Art: minty Track Art: none Date: January 1, 2012 FG: #02b7ff +URLs: +- https://parsecproductions.bandcamp.com/album/song-of-skaia +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnVpmehyaOFbcZ8PWCeZmXZZw0W9HQ_9T ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Null Directory: null-mark-hadley diff --git a/album/squiddles/album.txt b/album/squiddles/album.txt index f6f84abc..8d63ee25 100644 --- a/album/squiddles/album.txt +++ b/album/squiddles/album.txt @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ Date: August 26, 2010 Cover Art: Homestuck Track Art: none FG: #bb44ff +URLs: +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy5UGIMKOXpONMExgI7lVYFwQa54QFp_H ----------------------------------------------- Track: Squiddles! Artist: Alexander Rosetti diff --git a/album/strife-2/album.txt b/album/strife-2/album.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e198372e --- /dev/null +++ b/album/strife-2/album.txt @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +Album: Strife 2 +Artist: Tensei +Date: March 13, 2017 +Cover Art: Marimo +Track Art: none +FG: #a347c5 +Canon: Fanon +URLs: +- https://tenseimusic.bandcamp.com/album/strife-2 +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo6jbRGXGrtga6SrkG6lFuibIh1nBq5AA +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Spirit of Storms +URLs: +- https://tenseimusic.bandcamp.com/track/spirit-of-storms +- https://youtu.be/SxAgn108-EI?list=PLo6jbRGXGrtga6SrkG6lFuibIh1nBq5AA +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Sanguine Panchromatic +URLs: +- https://tenseimusic.bandcamp.com/track/sanguine-panchromatic +- https://youtu.be/6Vcp1k7NCFM?list=PLo6jbRGXGrtga6SrkG6lFuibIh1nBq5AA +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: G4M3 OR D13 +Track Art: nights +URLs: +- https://tenseimusic.bandcamp.com/track/g4m3-or-d13 +- https://youtu.be/yFlmr242IfA?list=PLo6jbRGXGrtga6SrkG6lFuibIh1nBq5AA +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Rouge on the Rox +URLs: +- https://tenseimusic.bandcamp.com/track/rouge-on-the-rox +- https://youtu.be/3hepsdc1xPc?list=PLo6jbRGXGrtga6SrkG6lFuibIh1nBq5AA +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Perfect Cascade of the Heart +References: Cascade (Beta), Time on My Side +URLs: +- https://tenseimusic.bandcamp.com/track/perfect-cascade-of-the-heart +- https://youtu.be/8_iVaqCiRFE?list=PLo6jbRGXGrtga6SrkG6lFuibIh1nBq5AA +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Hope Strikes Eternal +Track Art: nights +URLs: +- https://tenseimusic.bandcamp.com/track/hope-strikes-eternal +- https://youtu.be/OK4EIzezQ78?list=PLo6jbRGXGrtga6SrkG6lFuibIh1nBq5AA +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Aerosoul +URLs: +- https://tenseimusic.bandcamp.com/track/aerosoul +- https://youtu.be/EQfJqxsQ_P8?list=PLo6jbRGXGrtga6SrkG6lFuibIh1nBq5AA +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Arachnofunkia +Track Art: nights +URLs: +- https://tenseimusic.bandcamp.com/track/arachnofunkia +- https://youtu.be/gHllq3hex28?list=PLo6jbRGXGrtga6SrkG6lFuibIh1nBq5AA +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: The King in Red +Track Art: nights +References: Crustacean +URLs: +- https://tenseimusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-king-in-red +- https://youtu.be/8kMVJ8wvLoo?list=PLo6jbRGXGrtga6SrkG6lFuibIh1nBq5AA +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Heel Girl +References: Umbral Ultimatum +URLs: +- https://tenseimusic.bandcamp.com/track/heel-girl +- https://youtu.be/RrU12KztX0Q?list=PLo6jbRGXGrtga6SrkG6lFuibIh1nBq5AA +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Unite Division +References: Liquid Negrocity +URLs: +- https://tenseimusic.bandcamp.com/track/unite-division +- https://youtu.be/qZWBziarZ2E?list=PLo6jbRGXGrtga6SrkG6lFuibIh1nBq5AA +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Spirit of Storms (Reprise) +References: Spirit of Storms +URLs: +- https://tenseimusic.bandcamp.com/track/spirit-of-storms-reprise +- https://youtu.be/psmbW5obOrQ?list=PLo6jbRGXGrtga6SrkG6lFuibIh1nBq5AA diff --git a/album/strife/album.txt b/album/strife/album.txt index e921c2c5..bc81ddd5 100644 --- a/album/strife/album.txt +++ b/album/strife/album.txt @@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ Cover Art: Tauhid Bondia Track Art: Homestuck Date: February 16, 2011 FG: #e83240 +URLs: +- https://tenseimusic.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-strife +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz2a5VxQZME +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA6uDhvF1uwwbNxxpsrs31uu8p2DX0Jve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Stormspirit URLs: https://tenseimusic.bandcamp.com/track/stormspirit @@ -16,7 +20,7 @@ Track: Dance of Thorns URLs: https://tenseimusic.bandcamp.com/track/dance-of-thorns ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Time on My Side -References: Beatdown (Strider Style), Black +References: Beatdown (Strider Style), Liquid Negrocity URLs: https://tenseimusic.bandcamp.com/track/time-on-my-side Commentary: Tensei: diff --git a/album/symphony-impossible-to-play/album.txt b/album/symphony-impossible-to-play/album.txt index d4989cca..5d75b877 100644 --- a/album/symphony-impossible-to-play/album.txt +++ b/album/symphony-impossible-to-play/album.txt @@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ Cover Art: Tavia Morra Track Art: none Date: August 1, 2012 FG: #dd5544 +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/symphony-impossible-to-play-with-medium +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGj-hDDFktI +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnVpmehyaOFbZGlJ_NhUuG0yPfBRzFpfv ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: I - Overture Directory: overture diff --git a/album/the-felt/album.txt b/album/the-felt/album.txt index 1d1d0c75..510b67b9 100644 --- a/album/the-felt/album.txt +++ b/album/the-felt/album.txt @@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ Cover Art: skepticArcher Track Art: Homestuck Date: December 2 2010 FG: #33aa55 +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-5-6-with-the-felt +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o76TAd1ExFE +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlGklfYAdslavhtb5kUefK1V_ki5NvbVu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Jade Dragon Artist: Robert J! Lake diff --git a/album/the-grubbles/album.txt b/album/the-grubbles/album.txt index 865801cc..f458b6b4 100644 --- a/album/the-grubbles/album.txt +++ b/album/the-grubbles/album.txt @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Cover Art: The Grubbels Track Art: none Date: September 14, 2017 00:00:04 FG: #dd0000 +URLs: +- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/hiveswap-act-1-ost-with-the-grubbles +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo6jbRGXGrtjQOs-3_TbJ6SvFBUEhztgj ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Broom Temperature URLs: diff --git a/album/the-wanderers/album.txt b/album/the-wanderers/album.txt index 106304d0..5f47e8a5 100644 --- a/album/the-wanderers/album.txt +++ b/album/the-wanderers/album.txt @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ Album: The Wanderers Cover Art: Lauren Ross Date: July 14, 2011 FG: #ffcc66 +URLs: +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF3092FD8EA59F218 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Carapacian Dominion Artist: Seth Peelle @@ -112,7 +114,7 @@ Commentary: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Nightmare Artist: Malcolm Brown -References: Black, Rex Duodecim Angelus, Carapacian Dominion +References: Liquid Negrocity, Rex Duodecim Angelus, Carapacian Dominion Track Art: Left URLs: https://youtu.be/CVxTL43Czuc Commentary: diff --git a/album/unreleased-tracks/album.txt b/album/unreleased-tracks/album.txt index a8755512..93ba69b5 100644 --- a/album/unreleased-tracks/album.txt +++ b/album/unreleased-tracks/album.txt @@ -77,6 +77,17 @@ Artist: Toby Fox References: GameGrl (Original 1993 Mix), Teal Seer URLs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc4nIdsuG7o ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Ham And Steak +Artist: Malcolm Brown +References: +- Rex English +- Unite Synchronization +- Homestuck Anthem +- Showtime (Original Mix) +URLs: +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqT3gaihbPE +- https://soundcloud.com/dragonxvi/ham-and-steak-unused-homestuck-music +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Hello Zepp Artist: Charlie Clouser URLs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhSHXGM7kgE @@ -109,10 +120,18 @@ Track: I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew Artist: Eddie Morton URLs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARLPT5rKjWo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Jadesprite +Artist: Toby Fox +URLs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdXvlsXlKOk +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Kazoostuck Artist: Toby Fox URLs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjKX8H3mSJo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Track: Mannequin +Artist: Perry Sullivan +URLs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAyPFa3nEK4 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: not a creature was stirring Artist: Alexander Rosetti URLs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdlh6FRPnCw @@ -137,6 +156,11 @@ URLs: - https://clarkpowell.bandcamp.com/track/requiem - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kWFQy0kWC4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Track: Rex English +Artist: Toby Fox +References: Rex Duodecim Angelus, English +URLs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTQo2rPvEzM +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Riches to Ruins Movement II Artist: Toby Fox References: Riches to Ruins Movements I & II @@ -187,7 +211,7 @@ Artist: Demographerist URLs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6NrArPldZo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Windchime Foley -Artist: Clark Powel +Artist: Clark Powell URLs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSMMmOtRLiU ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: XROM @@ -222,6 +246,7 @@ Commentary: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: 2chords Artist: James Roach +References: Upward Movement (Dave Owns) URLs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3JQPZ2T03k ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: ill probably just name this one something normal oh no wait oh jeez aw beans -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5