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Released 12/15/2009.
Duration: 2:47.

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Also released as:

• (201110/24/2011; about 1 year, 10 months later) Harleboss (Homestuck Vol. 1-4)

Tracks that Harleboss references:

• Harlequin by Mark J. Hadley

Tracks that reference Harleboss:

From Fandom:

• HarleBand by 413
• Harleband 2: The return of Harleband by 413

Flashes & games that feature Harleboss:

• [S] Jade: Descend.
• [S] Rose: Ascend.
• [S] Dave: Be the other guy.
• [S] John: Let's bounce.

Artist commentary:

Malcolm Brown:

Harlequin was awesome, and was quite a popular source for remixing the theme (it still is) so this was my early attempt.

The soundfont is actually a FF6 SNES font I found somewhere (At lot of people got it from the choir). The SNES soundfont choice was taken from a kind of natural evolution the music was taking from the earlier Vol 1 8-bi to 16-bit style music.

Not much to say on this one except it was quite a stereotypical 'Epic' boss battle theme - Choirs, church organs, bells, guitar and fast drums.

Crediting sources:

Malcolm Brown: (excerpt)

Harlequin was awesome, and was quite a popular source for remixing the theme (it still is) so this was my early attempt.

The soundfont is actually a FF6 SNES font I found somewhere (At lot of people got it from the choir). [...]

Homestuck: (Bandcamp credits blurb) 12/15/2009captured 12/20/2009

Harlequin By Mark Hadley
Remix by Malcolm Brown

Homestuck: (Bandcamp credits blurb on Homestuck Vol. 1-4) 10/24/2011captured 10/28/2011

Harlequin By Mark Hadley
Remix by Malcolm Brown

Homestuck: (Bandcamp credits blurb on "Homestuck Vol. 1-4 (with Midnight Crew: Drawing Dead)") 10/25/2019captured 10/24/2020

Harlequin By Mark Hadley
Remix by Malcolm Brown

Homestuck: (MSPA sound credits, excerpt) sometime 11/8/2009 – 1/13/2010captured 1/13/2010

Page 2743 - "Harleboss"
(See Harlequin above.) Remix by Malcolm Brown

Homestuck: (MSPA sound credits, excerpt) sometime 6/21/2012 – 8/5/2012captured 8/5/2012

Page 2743 - "Harleboss"
Available on Bandcamp in Homestuck Vol. 1-4
"Harlequin" by Mark Hadley
Arranged by Malcolm Brown

Homestuck: (Homestuck sound credits) around 4/3/2018captured 7/17/2018

Page 843 - "Harleboss"
Available on Bandcamp in Homestuck Vol. 1-4
"Harlequin" by Mark Hadley
Arranged by Malcolm Brown