2014-12-27 4:01:27 ¶ ● ⬈

beat-bro:

> By Various Artists. See the Bandcamp page for details.

> Original fanart (used in the comic) by Lexxy.

> Four excellent songs combined into one mind-blowing medley. It’s probably the most popular single track in the Homestuck catalog.

> The four individual pieces are Cascade, Flare (reviewed here), Savior of the Dreaming Dead (reviewed here), and Black Hole / Green Sun (reviewed here). I’ve reviewed most of the four parts previously, so I’ll stick to the first part. There’s a ‘beta’ version of Cascade on this album as a bonus track, but I think that the final version turned out a bit more polished.

> Once again that xylophone gets a heavy-duty workout in the intro. At about 1:33, there’s a really cool phaser or flanger effect on the lead guitar, a great improvement over the ‘beta’ version of Cascade featured later in the album. The ‘Cascade’ portion of the track varies from fast-paced to introspective.

> Of all the music in the Homestuck library, this piece is probably the one you could best describe as a soundtrack, rather than a stand-alone composition. Parts of it were modified specifically to fit the Flash animation, but that doesn’t really hurt its quality as a track. Andrew Hussie described it a little more (as well as the production and content of Cascade, the Flash animation) in a series of Tumblr posts that you can find here.

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