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Released 12/25/2010.
Duration: 3:22.

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Tracks that Anthem of Rime references:

• Carol of the Bells by Peter J. Wilhousky
• Frost by Solatrus

Artist commentary:

Robert J! Lake, Nick Smalley, and Hanna Nakamura: (album audio commentary)

(Continued from A Skaian Christmas)

Nick: This one is Anthem of Rime by Solatrus and I.
RJ!: Yes.
Nick: I went over there a couple days ago and he was just joking around about putting Carol of the Bells to the song.
RJ!: And it works.
Nick: It worked.
RJ!: So well. Oh my god.
Nick: He didn't know... Well, he knew what to do, but he didn't have a basic concept of it.
Nick: We just sat there and we were like, what if we did this? What if we did that?
Nick: And that's pretty much how most songs happen on the music forum, I guess.
RJ!: Yeah, pretty much, actually. Our process creatively is kind of haphazard.
Nick: What if I did this and this? That would make a great song, right?
Nick: I love the beat in this song.
RJ!: Oh my god, so much.
Nick: Solatrus and I, we thought to ourselves, we need to find a chill beat for this song.
Nick: So we were like, alright, let's find something on Freesound.
Nick: And we just looked up the word chill and it was like the first result.
Nick: We just looked at each other and laughed and put it in there.
Nick: And then it was his idea to put the industrial beat over it, which worked really well.
RJ!: It works incredibly well.
Nick: The French horn part, he was thinking of keeping that the same, but I thought, what if we put the Carol of the Bells with the French horn?
Nick: And we put it there and it worked perfectly.
Nick: Frost was made to be Carol of the Bells.
RJ!: Yep.
RJ!: I think there might be some sort of irony in the fact that Frost gets a remix out officially before its original.
RJ!: Because that's what's happening, I think.
Nick: Yeah. I found that weird.
RJ!: I don't think I can legally say much more.
Nick: Now, originally this song was called Flow.
RJ!: Flow, yeah, that's right, because it was the land of mind and flow? Brain and flow? What is it?
Nick: It was Thought and Flow.
Nick: It was Thought and Flow, that's what I meant.
Nick: Yeah. That was his main concept for it.
Nick: He was trying to come up with a cool name for it, and I just joked around and I said, how about Brainwave?
Nick: And that was a really stupid name. That's just been a joke name for it the whole time.
RJ!: Brainwave.
Nick: But now that Andrew's used it in Jade's Medium.
RJ!: Land of Frost and Frogs.
Nick: It's a friggin' cold-ass place, so he's like...
Nick: He still calls it Flow, I mean, why wouldn't he? Because it's his gog-damn song.
RJ!: His track, yeah, he has the right.
RJ!: But it's officially Frost.
Nick: I like how he ended this, he glitched the bells, which was awesome.
RJ!: Ahh, glitch glitch.
RJ!: He's been doing a lot more of that glitching lately.
Nick: Good song, great song.

(Continued in Pachelbel's Gardener)