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Released 8/15/2012.
Duration: 4:13.

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Tracks that Skaian Shrapnel references:

• Ruins by Erik Scheele
• Walk-Stab-Walk (R&E) by Erik Scheele
• Crystalanthemums by Alex Rosetti

Tracks that reference Skaian Shrapnel:

From Fandom:

• Broken Dreams by Rowyn Berlan

Artist commentary:

Erik Scheele: (booklet commentary)

The lights go down, everyone finds their way back into their seats, and we're off.

This piece marks the beginning of my writing into "events that have not yet occurred". At the time, the scratched copy of Sburb was just starting to show some real-world effects by making the "game" (aka our viewing experience as an audience) glitch up. So, I set about making some heavier action music for it, incorporating heavy use of weird, messed-up glitching sounds and a few heavy-handed uses of numerical motifs. I also brought in Ruins, one of the first piano pieces I ever recorded, the latter section of Walk-Stab-Walk, and Crystalanthemums.

Overall, in my opinion at least, the piece turned out a little strange, a little awkward, and not really nice, but really that works just fine for me. Everything was really going for the characters at the time, after all. People were getting hunted down, friends were turning on each other, nobody in the fandom really knew who was going to be next. Was this person? Or this person? Were you next? It all led to a heavy air of unease that sort of manifested itself in the odd piano riff and distorted drums that were used, and all the heavy glitching that led us up to...