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Consonant Conquest Consonant Conquest

Consonant Conquest Consonant Conquest

Artwork by Monckat monckat Bandcamp YouTube YouTube achrananth Tumblr Achrananth Twitter monckat.net Other ← Heir of Grief (Sax Cover) Previous cover art by this artist → Sburban City Next cover art by this artist

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Released 12/19/2021.
Duration: 4:22.

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Also released on cool and new volume 3as Learn With Caliborn (Typing Adventure) 3: Consonant Conquest about 5 months, 17 days earlier.

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Artist commentary for Consonant Conquest:

Interrobang ✑

I wanted to make what's probably the last Homestuck song I'll ever release publically something special, and I think the final product here fits that bill. This track began as an experiment with the layering of different-length loops on each other in a way that would never exactly repeat itself, which you can hear in pretty clearly the first section - it's something one encounters often in minimalist and ambient music, and I'd like to do more with the technique in the future. Hope you enjoy!

Monckat ✑

I like to think Caliborn worked really hard on this one, maybe it's hanging over a mantelpiece in Lord English's manor somewhere. He's added some tasteful JPEG artifacts and plastic wrap filters to his style, I'm so proud of him!

The following commentary is properly placed on this track's main release, cool and new volume 3, where it's named Learn With Caliborn (Typing Adventure) 3: Consonant Conquest.

Interrobang ✑ Composer

Going by title, this is the final installment in a trilogy of tracks - koba's "Learn with Caliborn - Typing Adventure" off of Cool and New Volume 2, and my own "Enter with Caliborn - Destruction Adventure" from Cool and New Homestuck Volume 2. For those unfamiliar, these tracks were at least in part based off of the "Boss Battle" theme from a Pokemon-themed typing game. However, that theme appears nowhere in this track. Why, then, should I call it what I'm calling it? Simple - I couldn't think of anything better, and Sanctferum threw had the idea for the current title. Lets switch gears to the track itself. I'm a big fan of Bowman's "Constant Conquest" from the Cherubim album, and doing a remix of it was something that was rolling around in my head for a while. The first half is an almost ambient remix of the original, employing some techniques I'd wanted to experiment with for a while as well. Each instrument in the percussion section is on a loop of a different length, resulting in an ever-changing "beat" under the track's melody. The second and final section is maybe a bit more straightforward, and I think I did an okay job spiritually replicating the incredible drop present in Bowman's original. Anyway, I'm glad the song turned out the way it did, and to me, its a good way to go out in terms of Homestuck Fanmusic.

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