Replay Value.
Commissions done for The_Black_Watch on the RV IRC channel
Don’t know why I didn’t reblog this when it first came up, but…
Scott, Rigel and Hookshot respectively. Thanks a lot Rave.
‘M Bored.
So the first- I’ll say twenty for now- peeps who reblog this thing get a random item drawn! It’ll be a 3in x 3in .gif. (Note that I’ll do the generation)
I always like drawings. c:
I was attacked by all my MSPA clothing earlier this morning.
Despite the look of terror, it was really soft and really warm.
LOFAM2 Favourites (1/2)
So after listening to the Land of Fans and Music 2 album for a few weeks now, I’ve got a decent number of favourites from it and I figured I’d share them. I’ve picked out twelve and in the order they are on the album in, I wrote down some thoughts and why I liked them. Theres six in here and I’ll probably do the last six in a day or so from now. Anyways…
Jackpot: A fun upbeat song. My favourite part is probably from about 2:57 until the end, but the little things in the background (I’m not really sure what they are to be honest) sort of…I don’t know fill it out I guess? I’m not exactly knowledgeable about music creation, but I know what I like. Really fun to play through on Audiosurf as well, but definitely enjoyable on its own merits.
Unforgiving Terrain: I’ve been a fan of Silence for a while now, ever since I heard some of his stuff on Tindeck. Combined with The Wanderers being one of my favourite compilation albums ever meant that this was never going to work out badly. I remember someone on tumblr (I think it was Jit) complaining that Mayor Maynot is pretty much the only thing that people remember from the album which is a shame. The Wanderers as a whole is amazing and though I don’t like putting other work down Mayor Maynot is probably my least favourite track from there. Unforgiving Terrain as a combination of what are (in my opinion) the five best songs from the album into a single track was never going to produce something I didn’t love. The closure from about three minutes on is excellently done and even before it was on this album I loved this song.
CR1M1N4L, CR1M1N4L: I’m not normally a fan of music with lyrics, yes there are some exceptions, but they’re generally few and far between….this is one of them. The lyrical work here is amazing and the Harpsichord has been one of my favourite instruments ever since I first heard it however many years ago. I wish I had more to say on this, but nothing more really needs to be said.
Crystalguitarthemums: I don’t think I’ve heard a Crsytal- song I didn’t like and the trend hasn’t stopped with this rendition. Calming and beautiful, the excellent guitar work really brings this song out on this album. For those in the Replay Value community, I can make the additional reference as this is what I think what playing the Song of the Land to awaken it would sound like when the instrument is a guitar.
Psychadelic Psychodelic: This song….just this song. This is, to me, the Lord English equivalent to Rex Duodecim Angelus, and I can give no higher praise then that. This legitimately gave me chills the first time I heard it. The violin at around the half way mark and the reference to Let’s All Rock the Heist at 1:10 were the definite highlights. I don’t know what you were aiming for Konec0, but if dramatic boss music was it, you nailed it. The only regret that I have about this song is that it does not share the same difficulty as RDA in Audiosurf.
Electrocumulus: Another really fun track on Audiosurf (the game is awesome and you should play it), the album art and the comments in the pdf for the album nail the feeling I get from the song too. Its far too fun and high energy to be a strictly Battlefield song, and John being silly with the Car in the clouds fits it so well. I’ve found it help when I’m feeling down or tired and I put this on it helps to wake me up and put a little more energy in me.
Well there it is. Like I said at the top, I’ll probably do the next part sometime this weekend. If any of the people whos music I’ve mentioned here find this, just letting know you’re music is appreciated and well done.
My name is Clark Powell, and I am a freelance composer. I am also a part of Homestuck’s music team!
I just dropped the price on my solo album by half. If you haven’t checked it out yet, now’s the time! Go take a look!
Hey you. Yes you reading this. Go buy this album, its amazing and well worth the $3.50.
Broken Rainbow
By the afternoon of January 4, I was pretty much done with the whole album. I’d finished mastering “Rust Apocalyse” the day before and had finally edited “White Angel” and the rest of the tracks to my liking insofar as I’m ever perfectly happy with any finished product of mine (I am inclined to disbelieve any artist who says, “yes I am perfectly and totally content with what I have just created in every way”—just saying). So I had five tracks sitting there, uploaded to Bandcamp, ready for me to publish at the stroke of midnight on January 5, and I thought, there’s something missing here—like an intro track.
This is pretty much the same thought process I had when I was releasing Prospero back in August. I don’t want the listener to just rush headlong into the meat of the album (despite Rust Witch being a rather slow track). I want the first track to be something that says to the listener, “look—this is what you’re getting yourself into”.
The title “Broken Rainbow” is a holdover from what the title of the album was going to be before I made “Rust Apocalypse” an eponymous track. The image of a “broken rainbow” was one that I was rather focused on while putting this album together. I feel it evokes the genesis of all these tracks—a bunch of songs about the Ancestors on coloUrs and mayhem—without explicitly relating them to Homestuck. When rufiohbascoh was doing the cover art for the album, I neglected to inform him of my own artistic vision, but somehow, he ended up making a grimy, rusty rainbow paint-splatter background that pretty much captured my idea without me having to suggest anything to him.
I wrote and mastered the whole thing in the span of a few hours. According to lizawithazed, this song is a devil on Audiosurf. Mercifully, it is also short.
I love this track.
but yes, it’s a stone cold DEVIL to surf.
Hey Liza, you maaaay want to check your email inbox. No paticular reason, just throwing it out there.
edit: Also, I really enjoyed the album. Totally worth the buy.
Theres always that really satisfying feeling when you completely and utterly beat a song on Audiosurf.
This is one of those times.
god. DAMMIT.
I WILL RECLAIM MY THRONE
mark my words
Good luck with that man.
