By James Roach hames Bandcamp jamesroachmusic SoundCloud YouTube YouTube hamesatron Twitter.
Cover art by Homestuck.
Released 12/15/2018.
Duration: 4:26.

Listen on Bandcamp, SoundCloud, or YouTube.

Download MIDI/project files.
Read artist commentary.

Also released as:

• (20204/9/2020; about 1 year, 4 months later) Old Secret (James Roach Collection)
• (202011/26/2020; about 1 year, 11 months later) Old Secret (HIVESWAP: ACT 2 Original Soundtrack)

Tracks that Old Secret references:

• Old Friends by Transistor and Darren Korb

Tracks that reference Old Secret:

From Official Discography:

• Ghost Train by James Roach

From Fandom:

• 2 P O I N T 6 M I L L I O N by Interrobang
• Cognize by Cecily Renns
• A new Journey by koba
• Converge by Difarem
• licord eternity by Cecily Renns
• Secretz Barz by SplitSuns
• Andrew Hussie's Wild Ride by Pipko Fanfare
• Daydreamer by electric lantern
• ~ * ＳｅＣＲｅＴ ~ ＦｅｅＬｉＮＧｓ * ~ by Pipko Fanfare
• Descent Into Madness by Cerulean
• Hunting the Most Dangerous Game by Kanishka
• Spacetime Continuum by apatheticPianist and Pascal van den Bos
• Caught in the Facts by Panfex
• ALIVE by heir-of-puns
• I Am Bigger Than This Story by Frost Carter

From Additional Tracks:

• Old Skacret by James Roach

Tracks that sample Old Secret:

From Fandom:

• 2 P O I N T 6 M I L L I O N by Interrobang
• Secretz Barz by SplitSuns
• ~ * ＳｅＣＲｅＴ ~ ＦｅｅＬｉＮＧｓ * ~ by Pipko Fanfare

Flashes & games that feature Old Secret:

• Of Fate, Fortune, and Fashion
• Hiveswap Act 2 (as Old Secret)

Download MIDI/project files:

• MIDI by Unknown

  • Old Secret - Unknown A.mid (7 kB)
• MIDI by Unknown

  • Old Secret - Unknown B.mid (10.8 kB)

Artist commentary:

James Roach:

(Boldir's theme)

here it is folks.

this was going to be in act 3, then i made it the EOA2 cutscene but it still cut off too early to be a full release and i just really liked it so i wanted you guys to hear it now instead of later.

i used it for boldir because it fit her whole aesthetic, but this song was originally wrote for a scene where joey and xefros are on the run. having been hardened by their journey they hit the streets. it was meant to be a really sort of somber realization.

I LOVE the mood of the transistor soundtrack and you might notice this drum beat and title are a very obvious nod to the song "Old Friends" (though someone else named it, years ago) I was specifically instructed "make it sound like this song" but since then I have worked to make it sound like more my own thing. you can see the influence of that soundtrack on all my work, though. the slow driving half-time beat. the airy reverb on chordal tones. the dirty bass. originally meant as a placeholder i never got over how the beat drops the backbeat on every other 4. I could dweeb out about this for hours.