Showtime (Piano Refrain)

By Kevin Regamey.
Cover art by Homestuck.
Released 8/9/2009.
Duration: 2:20.

Listen on Bandcamp or YouTube.

Also released as:

• Showtime (Piano Refrain) (on Homestuck Vol. 1-4)

Tracks that Showtime (Piano Refrain) references:

• Showtime (Original Mix) by Malcolm Brown

Tracks that reference Showtime (Piano Refrain):

Official:

• Showtime Remix by Gabe Nezovic
• Heirfare by Alex Rosetti
• Light by Erik Scheele
• 3 In The Morning (Pianokind) by Erik Scheele
• John Sleeps / Skaian Magicant by Toby Fox
• Showtime Remix by Gabe Nezovic (re-release)
• Violet Mariner by Willow Ascenzo
• You Killed My Father (Prepare To Die) by Team Dogfight
• Conclude by Seth Peelle

Fandom:

• sometimes i call andrew hussie 'andy' and so far he hasn't corrected me by James Roach
• Skaia Voyages by Seth Peelle
• Carolmanthetime by Erik Scheele
• Downtime by Thomas Ibarra
• Farewell by Fuzz
• The Will to Fight Further [Denizen Strife] by Kevin Grant and Catboss
• Rectify by Thomas Ibarra
• Showtime (End Strife Remix) by Plumegeist
• Violet Mariner (original) by Willow Ascenzo (re-release)
• Garden of Eden (Part 1) by Veritas Unae and David Ellis
• HOMOSUCK. DIRECTOR'S CUT, OF THE YEAR EDITION. by ndividedbyzero
• Dance of the Dead by Veritas Unae
• Resend by Noisemaker
• oh, 2017? by jan Misali
• Gone in a moment by Not Eno
• 🎼 Fraymotif ! by Tee-vee

Flashes & games that feature Showtime (Piano Refrain):

• [S] John: Play haunting piano refrain.
• [S] YOU THERE. BOY.

Artist commentary:

Kevin Regamey:

To be honest, I've fallen off the MSPA train pretty hard. This has undoubtedly been the busiest year (or two) of my life, and I am only now returning to reacquaint myself with what the heck is up.

Malcolm wrote the chiptune version of Showtime first. I heard it, dug it, and created a piano arrangement just for the hell of it. Like Malcolm has said - earlier on, we didn't necessarily know what we were writing for, so we just wrote whatever spoke to us. I had posted a "Work in progress" version to the music boards, and I received some positive feedback. Positive enough for me to elaborate it into a full piece. As luck would have it, Andrew was finishing up the first playable page of Homestuck just as I posted the full version. As such, I was lucky enough to have the honour of first musical appearance in Homestuck, but most of the credit should certainly go to Malcolm - for defining John musically at such an early stage of the game, and for being the sole inspiration behind this track.

Oh, side note: My midi keyboard was misbehaving when I wrote this, so every note of the piece was clicked into a sequencer. D: