Old Secret Old Secret

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Released 11/26/2020.
Duration: 4:26.

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Also released on Hiveswap Friendsimabout 1 year, 11 months earlier and James Roach Collectionabout 7 months, 17 days earlier.

Tracks that Old Secret references:

Old Friends by Transistor and Darren Korb

Tracks that reference Old Secret:

from Official Discography:

Ghost Train by James Roach

from Fandom:

2 P O I N T 6 M I L L I O N by Interrobang
Cognize by Cecily Renns
A new Journey by koba
Converge by Difarem
licord eternity by Cecily Renns
Secretz Barz by SplitSuns
Andrew Hussie's Wild Ride by Pipko Fanfare
Daydreamer by electric lantern
~ * ＳｅＣＲｅＴ ~ ＦｅｅＬｉＮＧｓ * ~ by Pipko Fanfare
Descent Into Madness by Cerulean
Hunting the Most Dangerous Game by Kanishka
Spacetime Continuum by apatheticPianist and Pascal van den Bos
Caught in the Facts by Panfex
ALIVE by heir-of-puns
I Am Bigger Than This Story by Frost Carter

from Additional Tracks:

Old Skacret by James Roach

Tracks that sample Old Secret:

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Artist commentary for Old Secret:

The following commentary is properly placed on this track's main release, Hiveswap Friendsim.

James Roach ✑

(Boldir's theme)

here it is folks.

this was going to be in act 3, then i made it the EOA2 cutscene but it still cut off too early to be a full release and i just really liked it so i wanted you guys to hear it now instead of later.

i used it for boldir because it fit her whole aesthetic, but this song was originally wrote for a scene where joey and xefros are on the run. having been hardened by their journey they hit the streets. it was meant to be a really sort of somber realization.

I LOVE the mood of the transistor soundtrack and you might notice this drum beat and title are a very obvious nod to the song "Old Friends" (though someone else named it, years ago) I was specifically instructed "make it sound like this song" but since then I have worked to make it sound like more my own thing. you can see the influence of that soundtrack on all my work, though. the slow driving half-time beat. the airy reverb on chordal tones. the dirty bass. originally meant as a placeholder i never got over how the beat drops the backbeat on every other 4. I could dweeb out about this for hours.

Hiveswap Friendsim

James Roach Collection

HIVESWAP: ACT 2 Original Soundtrack

James Roach

Toby Fox

Homestuck

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Old Secret Old Secret

Old Secret Old Secret