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Redditstuck Vol. 3: Small Medium at Large Listen on: Bandcamp

Redditstuck: (booklet commentary, back)

PAMPHLET BY XENOZANE AND RADICAL DUDE 42

"I hate PDFs" - Radical Dude 42

Burnt Bridges Listen on: Bandcamp

pragmaticNihilist: (composer, booklet commentary)

I made this song because of Evan’s conversation with Josh, which particularly struck me. It leaves a lot of room for potential character development; in fact, it gives me the impression that Evan will reach a breaking point, hence the more powerful end to this track. Evan tries so hard to please that he may just end up isolating himself.

HeyItsKane: (track artist, booklet commentary)

I decided i was going to do something without lineart for once, and i’m honestly surprised that it wasn’t completely terrible.

Down Vice Street Listen on: Bandcamp, SoundCloud

Kal-la-kal-la: (composer, booklet commentary)

Jazz... jazz is good. I decided I wanted to make a jazz-funk style track for the Land of Casinos and Hedonism, and indeed, for a while the project file for this track was just called Jazz-Funk.als. I worked out the chords at the piano, and had a lot of fun working out the bass part, which is intended to drive the track.

David Burt: (track artist, booklet commentary)

Do not let the title of this track deceive you, this is a land of Blackjack and hookers. The blackjack is rigged, and the hookers like to dance. They’re also green and feel like pool table felt.

This land shot was definitely a challenge, as the panel went through several iterations before it wasn't too much of an eyesore. Originally there were many more neon signs and a massive slot machine in the distance, glowing through the fog. However the team agreed with me that there were too many things to look at. I didn't want to take too much attention away from lady liberty’s saucy sister.

Sparkle Fairy Listen on: Bandcamp, SoundCloud

Gordian: (composer, booklet commentary)

so glad this fucking song is done

BlueChaos: (track artist, booklet commentary)

First time drawing a background, and it probably turned out to be shit but let’s enjoy this amazing track

8/15/2017 Gordian: (SoundCloud description, excerpt)

chelsea strife

(That's) Inadvisable Listen on: Bandcamp

Commander Cello: (composer, booklet commentary)

I just really wanted to make a song for Tomesprite, so I did. I think I finished it a couple of days after Tomesprite was revealed. It was also fun playing with synths, which I hope to do more of in the future.

HeyItsKane: (track artist, booklet commentary)

My main focus was going into more detail with tomesprite’s face. Admittedly the sev i drew could probably have used a bit more work, but the thing’s already done.

COblivion Listen on: Bandcamp

Memory//REWRITE: (track artist, booklet commentary)

This was 99% procrastination. I was too busy playing with my Korg synth up to the point that I spent about 30 minutes actually making this piece

Clear Voyance Listen on: Bandcamp, SoundCloud

Gordian: (composer, booklet commentary)

not even joking, this song is actually about religion and how evan’s qualities embody it as a whole. see if you can figure that one out fuckers

Quinn Harlock: (track artist, booklet commentary)

I just did what I thought looked cool, with help from Gordian.

Gordian: (SoundCloud description, excerpt)

something something christianity

Swing and a Miss Listen on: Bandcamp

Bin: (composer, booklet commentary)

This was originally supposed to be in the Windwaker soundfont, but I gave up on that after five minutes. Instead, I used my trademark saxophone that I stole from Kal, as well as my trademark accordion/melodica/bandoneon. And also my trademark Kapp’n guitar, which also happens to sound really good as a bass. Additional shoutout to SGM drums for being good in literally everything. Man, I love soundfonts. Anyway, this song was a lot of fun to make, and hopefully fun to listen to as well.

Set0Kaiba: (track artist, booklet commentary)

Ass kicked by a statue, who doesn’t have feet. or hands

Attendre Listen on: Bandcamp

Husr: (composer, booklet commentary)

As seconds pass into minutes and minutes into hours, the dreary tedium of amusing oneself can begin to wear one down. Attendre attempts to capture that boredom- inflicted deterioration.

Bin: (track artist, booklet commentary)

Husr gave me free rein over track art, more or less, which was probably a bad idea on his part, considering the end result. It's a bit of a loose interpretation of "waiting for time to pass," but I think it still embodies the central themes of frustration and tedium. Anyway, sprites look bad when you rotate them, so I put a radial blur over the whole thing so people would thing it was intentional. You tend to pick up on these kinds of tricks when you're a master artist like I am.

Bushito Listen on: Bandcamp

Commander Cello: (composer, booklet commentary)

This song represents how Sev wants to be cool, calm, and collected, like some sort of main character in an anime. Except he’s not, have you SEEN the dude? So everything falls apart at the end.

Big thanks to the other people on the Redditstuck album team, I couldn’t have made it sound good without them.

Radical Dude 42: (track artist, booklet commentary)

It’s sev as a shitty samurai. He made the armour himself.

Smut Mania Listen on: Bandcamp, SoundCloud

Gordian: (composer, booklet commentary)

the original gordian rs song. finally here performing for you

Gordian: (track artist, booklet commentary)

wow another art with words in the background. hilarious and original

8/15/2017 Gordian: (SoundCloud description, excerpt)

This song has come a long way. Brings a tear to my eye.

Please report it for nudity

Kotomundi Listen on: Bandcamp

Bin: (composer, booklet commentary)

I started this one way back in April, so I’m glad that it finally gets to see the light of day. The process was very similar to Saoshyant, mostly consisting of messing around with drum patterns and going ham with the strings. The Touhou Japanese influence started to leak in after a while, and I was powerless to stop it. For the majority of the song, the melody is driven by a koto, with support from a shamisen, though they switch places in the latter half. The shakuhachi makes a brief cameo in the middle, because the weebs have their hands in everything. Finally, I’m officially suing Gordian for stealing this song. You’ll hear from my lawyers.

XenoZane: (track artist, booklet commentary)

This art brought to you courtesy of GIMP's "Smooth stroke" feature

Ypsilanti Listen on: Bandcamp, SoundCloud

Kal-la-kal-la: (composer, booklet commentary)

I endeavoured to express a feeling of ‘stasis’ with this track. The title comes from the name of a song by Sufjan Stevens, ‘For the Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti’. When first I heard the song I had no idea that Paradise and Ypsilanti are the names of towns in the US State of Michigan. As such I assumed Ypsilanti was some sort of term that referred to purgatory, corresponding to paradise. And that’s what this track is meant to represent, my idea of what ‘purgatory’ sounds like. Distant echoes in caverns of ice. What does that have to do with Redditstuck, you might ask? You’ll see.

Lazicful: (track artist, booklet commentary)

After a lot of artistic consideration I ultimately decided to go with the 2 things that come to mind when I hear stasis and icy cave; stalagmites and bricks, for what is more static than a brick? I also thought to myself, ”what would be a fitting choice of color for such a cool, cold cavern?” Blue! Blue is a very cold color, it all added up! And so I decided to make the image purely consist of blues, to truly convey the isolated feeling of a desolate area with truckloads of “stasis”. The track utilises a lot of, bear with me here it’s going to get a little music theory-y, “echo and reverb”, noises that are supposed to simulate sound hitting distant walls. And since the echoing is so intense, it made sense for the area to be positively huge!

12/22/2017 Kal-la-kal-la: (SoundCloud description)

The A# is gone and it's never coming back sorry.

5/20/2024 foreverFlummoxed: (Redditstuck Discord, excerpt)

for volume 3: does Ypsilanti show a known location/planet?

5/20/2024 Gordian: (Redditstuck team, Redditstuck Discord, excerpt)

Ypsilanti: I think Lazic just pulled the art out of his ass based vaguely on Kal's liner notes, but you can think of it as inspired by LORAS

Hubris Listen on: Bandcamp, SoundCloud

Gordian: (composer, booklet commentary)

this song is so old but its finally on a fucking album

the trap drums were originally a joke inspired by TYBP but i think they work unironically

Austinado: (track artist, booklet commentary)

I wanted to make something that wasn’t just in the MSPA style for this track. Sadly though I’ve been doing nothing but MSPA style due to working on Vast Error’s EOA1 for weeks before I was meant to do this so I feel the end product isn’t the best representation of what I can do. I really like the shading I gave DD here though.

8/15/2017 Gordian: (SoundCloud description, excerpt)

unironic ironic trap drums

Robot Listen on: Bandcamp, SoundCloud

Gordian: (composer, booklet commentary)

who knows how this will ever be used ;0 ;0 ;0

HeyItsKane: (track artist, booklet commentary)

This is a heart-rending image showing fan-favorite satellite mere moments before tragedy struck.

8/15/2017 Gordian: (SoundCloud description, excerpt)

robot

sev Listen on: Bandcamp, SoundCloud

Gordian: (composer, booklet commentary)

this song isnt that old. insert joke about CANMT leitmotifs here. lmk if it sucks

Quinn Harlock: (track artist, booklet commentary)

Idk i just like sev, so i chose this one. Since it was just Sev as the cover, I thought of doing the most important thing about him so i did him with his Time Instrument. Not much else to say i guess.

8/15/2017 Gordian: (SoundCloud description, excerpt)

Basically just references.

Bygone Listen on: Bandcamp

Bin: (composer, booklet commentary)

As some of you might be able to tell, I took influence from an obscure indie game by the name of

Though the mellow piano technically comes from Earthbound and the clarinet comes from the Megadrive soundfont, the aesthetic is pretty blatantly on display here. If you’re not currently experiencing an immense bout of NOSTALGIA, you obviously have no business listening to music at all.

Radical Dude 42: (track artist, booklet commentary)

Past Luke is stylin’, yo.

Ruhe Listen on: Bandcamp, SoundCloud

Gordian: (composer, booklet commentary)

the original german-title-gordian-song. hope you like it

Radical Dude 42: (track artist, booklet commentary)

Altair is the calm in the storm.

8/15/2017 Gordian: (SoundCloud description, excerpt)

told you Frieden was based on something

6/5/2024 Gordian: (Redditstuck Discord, excerpts)

They are all kind of about religion and holiness
I guess if we are looking at it all from afar I should give up the game a little

The Frieden art is the Cologne Cathedral
The Gnade art is the Lichtdom ("Cathedral of Lights")
And the names respectively mean Peace, Grace, and Calm

I think all I have to add is the obvious connection to Evan and Eve

Oh one more thing: "Ruhe und Frieden" means "peace and quiet" as in "Give me some peace and quiet!" But "Ruhe in Frieden" means "Rest in Peace"

Coltish Listen on: Bandcamp, SoundCloud

Kal-la-kal-la: (composer, booklet commentary)

I was playing about at the piano when I found this chord progression, and I thought it was pretty pleasing. Ran to the computer, clicked in the chords and improvised over them on the accordion, then added the rest of the instrumentation and mixed it. I was aiming to give the whole piece a cosy, nostalgic feeling, like a fond memory of something past that one might calming. The e-piano with delay reminded me of the Volume 1 track Colt Blooded by jjpollution, which was written as a theme for Luke, and I figured Gallopsby to be something that would be associated with happy memories for Luke.

Radical Dude 42: (track artist, booklet commentary)

Old horsograph

Wanderlust Listen on: SoundCloud

Gordian: (composer, booklet commentary)

song written by me. we considered a version without words but that would defeat the point. i guess we all agreed on how intrinsic they were.

this was actually a song about Chelsea to begin with - or at least, my interpretation of her character, and not a canon representation. In a way, it’s about how relatable chelsea is, to me. this is me basically saying “it’s not lore you dunkass”.

ConstaChymic: (track artist, booklet commentary)

I was gonna make the image just like I do other drawings, but then I remembered that most of the artstyle for HS related stuff is no AA lines, so I made it pixel lines. This kinda made it not turn out the way I wanted, because I’m terribad with pixelated lines, but I dont really think I wanna change it.

Bin: (assistant artist, booklet commentary)

I've never played Persona, but I thought the "desaturated person on saturated background" thing was cool, so I did it to Consta's art. I also added the weird black and white shadow things for a wacky 3D effect. Basically, Consta did all the hard work and I messed around in Photoshop for like 20 minutes. Please direct all praise to Consta.

ConstaChymic: (alternate artwork)

Bin: (alternate artwork)

3/28/2017 Gordian: (SoundCloud description, excerpt)

the zero stands for zero talent.
song and piano by me

3/28/2017 Gordian: (SoundCloud artwork)

6/4/2024 Christofferoff: (Redditstuck team, Redditstuck Discord)

damn I can't believe all these years later I actually didn't know you released wanderlust as a bonus track

thought that was unreleased still
*except for your soundcloud

6/4/2024 Gordian: (composer, Redditstuck Discord)

i rescinded it almost immediately
it still exists on whoevers pc downloaded it within like two days of release

@Lan i guess this is of interest to you
you can use the track art here on Wanderlust in addition to the SC one -- i feel like Constas wonderful art deserves to see the light of day

(is consta even here still)

6/4/2024 Christofferoff: (Redditstuck team, Redditstuck Discord)

dumb. you are a perfectionist even when your stuff is good actually
(your stuff is always good actually)

6/4/2024 Lace Luxim: (Redditstuck team, Redditstuck Discord)

yeah wanderlust is excellent even years later

Quasar Nebula: (wiki editor)

We've placed this track between Coltish and Unreal City, matching its position in the album's commentary booklet.

Unreal City Listen on: Bandcamp, SoundCloud

Redditstuck: (Bandcamp description)

Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you
Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or a woman
—But who is that on the other side of you?

Kal-la-kal-la: (composer, booklet commentary)

Unreal city,
Over the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.

With this track I attempted to embody the eerie feeling I associate with Derse. The track is in 7/4 because that’s the best time sig, with various industrial drum loops that were originally in 4/4 cut together to create the beat. There are various elements that aren’t in sync with the rhythm of the track and are more textural than anything else, intended to represent the sound of things heard far away. The piano track is particularly inspired by the piano from the song ‘Condition Oakland’ by Jawbreaker.

HeyItsKane: (track artist, booklet commentary)

I decided I wanted to try and do a detailed image of derse, because the song is about derse and i’m apparently a masochist.