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Homestuck Vol. 2 Listen on: YouTube (playlist)

Homestuck: (whatpumpkin.com side blurb)

The second official Homestuck album, which includes the music of mid Act 2 though early Act 3.

Andrew Hussie: (MSPA news post)

Annnnd volumes 2 and 3 are up.

That was fast.

Huge, ridiculous megaprops to Cindy for coordinating all this album stuff for me. It just wasn't happening otherwise. You might think we were dogging this release for a long time, but it really did take this long to get it all together, rounding up final mixes from the crew, reformatting chores and stuff.

And a reminder: when you buy these songs the artists get the monies, so you're saying THANKS DUDES with your dollars.

Homestuck: (Bandcamp credits blurb)

Mark Hadley
Michael Guy Bowman
Joseph Aylsworth
Bill Bolin
Robert Blaker
David Ko
George Buzinkai
Gabe Nezovic

Harlequin (Rock Version) Listen on: Bandcamp, YouTube

Michael Guy Bowman:

The rock version of "Harlequin" sure made a scene, blasting through people's speakers as the background music for the Green Slime Ghost pogo game. Joseph nails the tough bits along with some sweet harmonics on the chorus.

Upward Movement (Dave Owns) Listen on: Bandcamp, YouTube

Quasar Nebula:

Andrew Huo's edits aren't described more specifically, nor credited on Bandcamp; this credit is pulled from the original MSPA sound credits. It was removed sometime between June 12, 2012 and August 5, 2012, when the sound credits were updated with proper links back to Bandcamp.

Explore Listen on: Bandcamp, YouTube

Buzinkai:

I tried towill write something a little more thought provoking this time without too much drummage in the background. It came out smoothly, and I do think it's quite the haunting melody. I was unaware that Andrew wanted me to finish the original loop, and someone else remixed a longer ending for it, doing quite a fantastic job.

Michael Guy Bowman:

"Explore" was one of Buzinkai's distinctive snippets that I arranged - the melodies she writes are always strong, and the only appropriate scale to work on with that kind of material is grand.

7/23/2017 Michael Guy Bowman: (Bowmantown Discord, excerpt)

A hot take on Explore? I mostly remember technical stuff about it, like that was the last time I used FL slayer before I decided it sounds dumb.

I think putting together all these collab tracks really early on helped build the culture of the forum. There was this sense that what Andrew was attempting to do was to build a studio of musicians whose work would cross pollinate. There were guys like Malcolm and Mark and Seth and Bill whose work was ready to go on its own. So I worked with them less and was more interested in people like Nick or George whose work was less arranged. And I wanted to work with musicians who could bring their own playing to the work so I leaned on Fenris and Joe Aylsworth.

I don't think I knew just how "all in one" digital production was until I saw how quickly someone like Mark Hadley would turn out new hs music. It was competitive quickly. I guess my father being deeply anti-electronic music was a big influence. I wanted to work with musicians to qualify some reality to the work. To me it's very sexy to imagine the power of the ensemble. Composition might just be putting the right musicians in the room. So I practiced a lot more collaboration early on.