Doctor of The Waking Phantasm (This Name Sucks)
By Pipko Fanfare
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Released 8/20/2016.
Duration: 4:13.
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Artist commentary:
My first completely serious track for Cool and New, this one exists only because MEME NUMBERS (and I'm glad that it does!) I did 4 songs for Vol 1 and 1 song for Vol 2/II, so naturally I had to do 3 for this volume to complete the mythical 413. You may also notice that all three of my tracks on this one have lengths that are permutations of 413 just to take it that extra mile (including awkwardly cutting off Dr. Doctor mid-phrase to force it to fit!)
By this point I had used up the low hanging fruit with Dr. Doctor and Dr. Pepper, so my original thought was to do a cover with mostly or entirely real instruments. I already had done a cover using nothing but bass guitar back before CaN was a thing, and I figures I could expand that into something bigger. Obviously that's not what ended up happening here at all! This song went through a lot of changes as I was making it, and the final product bears pretty much zero resemblance to anything I was imagining at the start. There are still quite a few real instruments - the acoustic and electric guitars, as well as the bass guitar are all live recordings. But everything else is synths, soundfonts, and VSTis. Even the name wasn't decided until the track was totally complete - it was just "doctor 3.rpp" on my computer until it was done and I realized that some Savior of the Waking World and Penumbra Phantasm had snuck in. After using up all my creativity on the track itself, none was left for the title, and so this shitty name is what we get to live with. Oh well.
I'm also getting REALLY sick of Doctor...