By Catboss catboss Bandcamp catbossstudio SoundCloud.
Cover art by Red Pen reddpenn Tumblr.
Released 7/30/2011.
Duration: 6:18.

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Tracks that Beginnings (Press Start to Play) references:

• Skies of Skaia by Mark J. Hadley
• Homestuck Title Screen by MK_97
• Homestuck by Mark J. Hadley
• Theme by Toby Fox

Artist commentary:

Catboss: (booklet commentary)

So I might as well start off with a brief self-introduction. Hello everynyan! I'm konec0. Sometimes I do fanmusic. Sometimes that fanmusic ends up being non-Nepetaquest related (rare!) and finds its way on to the Fanmusic thread.

This is not one of those songs.

Near the start of this fanmusic album project orngjce223 asked for someone to remix MK_97's "Homestuck Title Theme", while incorporating more motifs from Homestuck's music. I decided sure why not? And then this song was born. So Beginnings is a remix of a remix, really. The original was a remix of "Skies of Skaia" - I added the motifs from "Homestuck" and "Alternia" because I felt they were representative of the kids' and the trolls' journeys respectively. I mean come on, the title is RIGHT THERE. So yeah.

Since it was a title screen tune, I pretty much drew on what I remembered from game title screens to make it. Really, the only specific influence I can recall is that the piano part at the end was inspired by Kingdom Hearts' title screen tune ("Dearly Beloved"). I love that song.

Fun fact: I didn't realise for a while that "Homestuck" and "Alternia" were technically remixes themselves, making this a 3x remix-of-remix combob.

Catboss: (SoundCloud description, excerpt)

> NEW GAME
LOAD GAME

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One of my two submissions to the Land of Fans and Music album, an unofficial compilation of fanmusic created within the Homestuck fandom. The other submission was MeGaDanceVaNia.

This was not only the first track on the album, but really the only track that was specifically composed for the album. Or remixed, rather. The initiator of the project, OJ, requested for a remix to be done of MK_97's "Homestuck Title Screen," while incorporating more motifs from the comic. I took up that request, and churned this out.

This song was basically a nostalgia bomb for me; I just had to think back to the days of playing SNES-era RPGs, and what I thought a title screen tune should sound like. Chrono Trigger's title screen tune, in particular, was a big influence, as was the simple "Dearly Beloved" from Kingdom Hearts. The chiptune aesthetic certainly helped!