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Released 12/14/2009.
Duration: 2:48.

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Also released as:

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

Contributors:

• Joseph Aylsworth → Harlequin (Rock Version) Next track contribution by this artist (guitar)

Tracks that Harlequin (Rock Version) references:

• Harlequin by Mark J. Hadley

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Artist commentary:

Michael Guy Bowman: (composer, from Music and Stuff)

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.

Michael Guy Bowman: (Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music, adapted to text) 7/20/2024

Oh, the rock version of Harlequin. That was such a cool deal. That was I think one of the first really collab-y things I did, where it was like, "hey, let's work with multiple sources, let's take this person's piece" - that was a Mark Hadley composition - "let's take that and let's arrange it some other way," and we got live guitar on that one - not my playing, but, y'know, better than I could have done that quickly. I think it's so funny that when it comes through the speakers, it's just, so stupidly loud... it just blasts you with energy.