Candles & Potency (by Jeremy “Solatrus” Iamurri)

As part of the leadup to Volume 10’s release, a full album’s worth of music was prematurely ‘leaked’ by the team. None of the music was from the actual album, and a good guffaw was had by all.

Most of the leaked playlist was vaporwave remixes of old Homestuck music (I didn’t even know vaporwave was a thing!). The first few tracks, though, were actually proposed (but bumped) from the final album. Gave it that ‘air of authenticity’ all modern pranks require. Better yet, it exposed some more solid music to the world. Ironic, I guess?

This one’s an experimental techno remix of ‘Candles and Clockwork’, off of Volume 5. That cool new beat makes it my favorite of the rejected tracks from the album, and my favorite of many ’Candles and Clockwork’ mixes over the years.

Thanks go to Makin for uploading these tracks to YouTube, and for hosting the pre-release stream (which was a riot).