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Cover art by Lazicful MSPFA MSPFA.
Released 8/15/2017.
Duration: 2:12.

Listen on Bandcamp or SoundCloud.

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Flashes & games that feature Ypsilanti:

• [S] Bill: Walk around.

Artist commentary:

Kal-la-kal-la: (composer, booklet commentary)

I endeavoured to express a feeling of ‘stasis’ with this track. The title comes from the name of a song by Sufjan Stevens, ‘For the Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti’. When first I heard the song I had no idea that Paradise and Ypsilanti are the names of towns in the US State of Michigan. As such I assumed Ypsilanti was some sort of term that referred to purgatory, corresponding to paradise. And that’s what this track is meant to represent, my idea of what ‘purgatory’ sounds like. Distant echoes in caverns of ice. What does that have to do with Redditstuck, you might ask? You’ll see.

Lazicful: (track artist, booklet commentary)

After a lot of artistic consideration I ultimately decided to go with the 2 things that come to mind when I hear stasis and icy cave; stalagmites and bricks, for what is more static than a brick? I also thought to myself, ”what would be a fitting choice of color for such a cool, cold cavern?” Blue! Blue is a very cold color, it all added up! And so I decided to make the image purely consist of blues, to truly convey the isolated feeling of a desolate area with truckloads of “stasis”. The track utilises a lot of, bear with me here it’s going to get a little music theory-y, “echo and reverb”, noises that are supposed to simulate sound hitting distant walls. And since the echoing is so intense, it made sense for the area to be positively huge!

12/22/2017 Kal-la-kal-la: (SoundCloud description)

The A# is gone and it's never coming back sorry.

5/20/2024 foreverFlummoxed: (Redditstuck Discord, excerpt)

for volume 3: does Ypsilanti show a known location/planet?

5/20/2024 Gordian: (Redditstuck team, Redditstuck Discord, excerpt)

Ypsilanti: I think Lazic just pulled the art out of his ass based vaguely on Kal's liner notes, but you can think of it as inspired by LORAS