hsmusic-data/groups.yaml

Category: HSMusic
Color: '#0088ff'
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Group: Official Discography
Directory: official
URLs:
- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/music
Featured Albums:
- Homestuck Vol. 1-4
- Homestuck Vol. 10
- Beyond Canon
- AlterniaBound
- Homestuck Vol. 8
- Hiveswap Act 1 OST
- 'coloUrs and mayhem: Universe A'
- The Wanderers
- Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido
- Strife!
- Genesis Frog
- One Year Older
Description: |-
    Homestuck's official music releases, comprising the canon foundational to and long inspiring its vibrant fan community.
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    Music was introduced into Homestuck soon after its 2009 launch, in contrast with previous MS Paint Adventures, and it rapidly became an iconic aspect of the story. Homestuck's music contributors flourished into a loose and diverse collective of artists, the Homestuck Music Team; official music albums were released via Bandcamp at a dizzying pace, whether in [[album:homestuck-vol-1|numbered volumes]], [[album:strife|solo efforts]], or [[album:alterniabound|themed compilations]]. Despite their cult success, the team fizzled out after the release of [[album:cherubim|Cherubim]] in 2013, with subsequent official releases mainly being concrete, contracted work for various spin-off efforts.

    On October 25th 2019, the official Bandcamp page was thoroughly restructured without warning, with albums being haphazardly combined into compilations. Unique track artwork was discarded and many albums were left completely unavailable. Currently, HSMusic presents these albums as they were originally released.
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Group: Fandom
Featured Albums:
- Land of Fans and Music 5 Act 2
- P[S]
- Vinculum Vitae
- Ophiuchus (Full Suite)
- Cool and New Greatest Hits
- album:jailbreak-vol-1
- Strife 2
- Vast Error Vol. 1-3
- Friendsim 2 - Volume 1
- Pantheon
- Land of Fans and Music
- Moons of Theseus
Description: |-
    Albums created by the Homestuck fan community, released independently.
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    The fandom of Homestuck has been creating music since before Homestuck's own conception ([[track:problem-sleuth-theme|yes, really!]]); originally sharing music around the (now-defunct) MSPA Forums via Tindeck (also defunct), learning musicians would practice their skills writing tunes and sharing them with community members. Andrew Hussie would call for contributors to an official soundtrack for the comic (which would, of course, set the stage for Homestuck's [[site:flash/|revered Flash animations]]); musicians would share their work, and the best were picked to join a group known as the Homestuck Music Team. And all the while, fans kept writing, collaborating, and sharing their own music.
    The first album to find a distinctly <i>unofficial</i> album release was [[album:homestuck-for-the-holidays]]; it was a Christmas-themed album put together by members of the Homestuck Music Team, released to a new Bandcamp, [Homestuck Gaiden](https://homestuckgaiden.bandcamp.com/), on 25 December 2010. Half a year later, this would become the home for an altogether new idea, pioneered by [[artist:elaine-wang]]: the Homestuck <i>fan-album</i>.
    (That story is really hers to tell, and that she did in the introduction to the [[album:lofam]] booklet. Give it a visit!)
    With the ball now rolling, fan musicians were creating and collaborating more than ever before; now they weren't just making music for themselves and for each other, to be shared on only a single colossal forum thread - their music would have a home!
    The community grew ever stronger and larger from there, and the albums below are just a portion of the result. With a fair amount of luck, this wiki has come to be a second home for the albums we share; we encourage you to explore: delve deep, find yourself lost, and discover something new!
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Group: Beyond
Featured Albums:
- Psycholonials
- Shortcuts
- Oceanfalls Vol. 4
- Qualia
- UNDERTALE Soundtrack
- Songs of Rivervale
- album:solar-sessions
- Namesake
- Gravity Makes The Flame Rise
- CYBER CITY SOUND PAK
- Paths
- Triassic Slump
Description: |-
    Albums from a musical landscape beyond Homestuck, by artists with roots in the comic's own community.
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    Countless artists together made an early abode in the community around Homestuck, expanding their sound as they shared their music with other artists and listeners alike; many, in turn, would put their experience into works beyond the webcomic. Some began personal discographies; some scored games and other new projects, finding followings altogether anew; some joined together, collaboratively creating in a spirit inspired by the comic community's own fan-groups.
    Each of these musicians found roots in Homestuck, in time branching out beyond; the albums in this area of the wiki are a small selection of what they've gone on to create. We encourage you to delve in and explore; every album is its own unique work, and many familiar faces await within!
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Group: Additional Tracks
Description: |-
    Organizational "albums" for grouping tracks that have been referenced by other tracks or featured in flashes and games. Though these aren't real album releases, they contain lots of interesting music and media that have become part of Homestuck's musical landscape!
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Category: Fan-musician groups
Color: '#ffec14'
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Group: Casual Sunday
URLs:
- https://casualsunday.bandcamp.com/
Description: |-
    <i>"people who have made music by themselves and who are just now figuring out how to do it with other people.<br>we're still learning"</i>
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    Artists primarily from the Homestuck Music Team, now doing their own thing as a collaborative group.
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Group: Cool and New Music Team
# Makin: Future wiki editors beware. When adding "all" the CANMT to the albums to the wiki, I skipped nine:
# 1. Three Sound Test volumes after the first: the first had a few tracks that got finished or referenced later, but largely they became a place for musicians to put their non-CANMT tracks, which is kind of out of scope. Many of them also don't have references listed, and they're massive albums.
# 2. All three Queue volumes: they are vastly low effort mashups, I'd know, I contributed those myself heavily. Doesn't feel like it's soundtracks for Cool and New Web Comic, they're an attempt to ape Siivagunner. Would require filling the wiki with hundreds of more references beyond homestuck.
# 3. Bro and Game Web Comic: it's literally mashups of normal tracks with Game Bro/Game Grl. AI can handle this one when it gets good enough, if it's even worth adding.
# 4. Rain: it's an album by Cecily Renns which has some lyrical references to her work on CANMT, but was largely an indie album unrelated to it. Unclear why it was in the CANMT bandcamp in the first place.
# 5. Leak 08-07 (Late Ones): this is less a music album and more a joke about video game leaks and ARGs. It's a bunch of corrupted music files that are in later albums or the final sound test.
# That said, if you want to add them, go ahead. I thought they were out of scope or not worth adding, but your mileage may vary.
Directory: canmt
URLs:
- https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/
- https://canwc.mspfa.com/
Description: |-
    muisc for cool and new web comic, a story based on homestuck but better
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    Ostensibly a music-making collective for Cool and New Web Comic, a torrential content output led to dozens of albums with varying degrees of relevancy to the fanventure. Currently inactive.
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Group: Homestuck Gaiden
URLs:
- https://homestuckgaiden.bandcamp.com/
Description: |-
    Sharing some of the first unofficial albums, the Homestuck Gaiden was a home for albums not accepted or marked for [[group:official]] release.
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Group: The Paradox Music Team
URLs:
- https://pascalpotatovandenbos.bandcamp.com
Description: |-
    "A team of composers and artists who work on a very diverse range of projects. We have a team member for anything at the PMT, and love working on new things that peak our interests."
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    "From scoring video games (retro or modern), to collaborating on concept albums, and even creating audio visual projects from scratch."
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Group: Unofficial MSPA Fans
URLs:
- https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/
Description: |-
    The eventual merger of a variety of earlier groups, the Unofficial MSPA Fans (UMSPAF) are the musicians behind a diverse selection of Homestuck fan albums.
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Category: Solo musicians
Color: '#fc9003'
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Group: Circlejourney
URLs:
- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/
- https://soundcloud.com/circlejourney
- https://www.youtube.com/@Circlejourney
- https://soundcloud.com/machinasolis
Description: |-
    Works include [[track:after-the-sun]], [[track:fuchsia-moonrise]], and [[track:frost-and-clockwork]]. They're currently a manager of [[group:unofficial-mspa-fans]], and have helmed various community projects, such as [[album:songs-from-the-planet-earth]].
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    Solo electronic artist from Singapore, with influence from East Asian and Celtic folk music, film soundtracks, and synthpop. When they're not making music, they are also a professional artist and web developer.
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Group: Clark Powell
URLs:
- https://clarkpowell.bandcamp.com/
- https://soundcloud.com/plazmataz
Description: |-
    Composer of [[album:medium]] and [[album:symphony-impossible-to-play]] as well as dozens of tracks across the Homestuck discography, and artist behind several independent albums whose tracks were recompiled and featured as the soundtrack for [[group:psycholonials]].
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Group: Cristata
URLs:
- https://cristata.bandcamp.com
Description: |-
    Artist behind [[album:perfectly-generic-album]] and beyond, and creator of crossover fanventure [Deltastuck](https://mspfa.com/?s=33534&p=1). Releases music under [[artist:cristata|a variety of names]].
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Group: Devieus
URLs:
- https://devieus.bandcamp.com
- https://weeklybeats.com/devieus
Description: |-
    Plural 'jack of all trades' from the Netherlands; they wrote a suite of twelve EPs based on each of the trolls' lands, and they've composed a track each week of every second year since 2012.
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Group: Funk McLovin
URLs:
- https://funkmclovin.bandcamp.com/
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIyu12_DBaAkDfFq-UQuHNw
Description: |-
    <i>"Funk McLovin, AKA Jojo Raber, is some kind of entity. We don't know more than this."</i>
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    [Description via Bandcamp.](https://funkmclovin.bandcamp.com/)
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Group: horizon
URLs:
- https://ohanadyomene.bandcamp.com/
- https://www.youtube.com/c/horizonandyomene
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT1fD1HwqKOat1Rlw19IUyg
- https://open.spotify.com/artist/1ZJ8zo8gqXAQe41z6b2qT3?si=Kx1oTfz2Q4ezN3w0Y33G3w
Description: |-
    Singer-composer and storyteller, also writing as OPHELIA ANADYOMENE; soloist behind dozens of many renowned covers including [[track:flare-with-vocals]] and [[track:derse-dreamers-ii]], plus works in other fandoms and emotionally moving, genre-diverse original music.
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Group: James Dever
URLs:
- https://jamesdever.bandcamp.com
- https://soundcloud.com/jamesdevermusic
Description: |-
    Classically trained composer known for [[track:candles-and-clockwork]] and his solo album [[album:sburb]]. Specialises in impressionistic contemporary classical music.
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    <i>"Born in Denver, Colorado. Bachelor of Music in Music Composition and Percussion Performance from University of Northern Colorado. Accidentally started writing music for Homestuck in 2009. Lover of aleatoric music, minimalism, and impressionism."</i>
    [Description via Bandcamp.](https://jamesdever.bandcamp.com/)
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Group: James Roach
URLs:
- https://hames.bandcamp.com/
- https://www.jamesroach.net/
Description: |-
    LA-based composer and audio engineer behind [[album:hiveswap-act-1-ost|Hiveswap]], [[album:pesterquest-soundtrack|Pesterquest]], and much more. He's been doing music for over twenty years; today, he's the creative director behind the HICU.
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Group: Jamie Paige
URLs:
- https://jamiepaige.bandcamp.com/
Description: |-
    Saw wave elemental talking in pictures. Contributor to several LOFAMs and other fan albums, as well as [[album:homestuck-vol-10]], Jamie Paige's solo work is a rainbow of breakbeats, vocal synths, and gay shit.
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Group: Michael Guy Bowman
URLs:
- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/
Description: |-
    Renowned for [[Sburban Jungle]], his official solo album [[album:mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido]] and many other hit Homestuck releases, Bowman has gone on to create his own expansive personal discography since.
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Group: Nasqueron
URLs:
- https://nasqueron.bandcamp.com/
Description: |-
    Artist behind tracks across a wide variety of fan albums (where she's credited as [[artist:kal-la-kal-la]]), with two experimental noise-poetry albums by her own solo release.
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Group: Parsec Productions
URLs:
- https://parsecproductions.bandcamp.com/
Description: |-
    Best known to Homestuck fans for creating some of its [[Skies of Skaia|foundational]] [[Aggrieve|themes]], and to the internet at large for Slender: The Eight Pages and [[album:slender-the-arrival-soundtrack|its sequel]], Mark J. Hadley is a multitalented composer and independent developer.
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Group: Solatrus
URLs:
- https://solatrus.bandcamp.com
- https://soundcloud.com/solatrus
Description: |-
    Known primarily for [[track:frost-vol6]] and his solo album [[album:prospit-and-derse]], this artist has been making electronic and orchestral music for many years.
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Group: tempest2k
URLs:
- https://nuclear333.bandcamp.com/
Description: |-
    Co-creator of the webcomic [INHOSPITABLE](https://inhospitable.net/), and musician with a history spanning half a decade. Plural internet artist.
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Group: Tensei
URLs:
- https://tenseimusic.bandcamp.com/
Description: |-
    Metal composer behind hit 2011 release [[album:strife]] and overall guitarist and musician behind a whole host of memorable tracks. He's gone on to release the 2017 sequel [[album:strife-2]] and a variety of other collaborative tracks since Homestuck!
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Group: Toby Fox
URLs:
- https://tobyfox.bandcamp.com/
Description: |-
    Artist of well over 100 tracks in Homestuck's musical canon (including the elusive [[Penumbra Phantasm]]), Toby Fox went on to compose the much-renowned soundtracks to his games [[group:undertale-and-deltarune]], firmly planting his place in modern game and internet history.
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Group: what is lost in the mines?
URLs:
- https://what.bandcamp.com/
Description: |-
    <i>"we're all simply fluttering away"</i>
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    [Description via Bandcamp.](https://web.archive.org/web/20201222140725/https://what.bandcamp.com/album/bashful-hearts-out)
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Group: Xszelor
URLs:
- https://thehighblood.bandcamp.com/
- https://scorpan.bandcamp.com/music
- https://frostcaster.bandcamp.com/music
- https://dvojka.bandcamp.com/music
- https://valkzaron.bandcamp.com/music
- https://daedricblessing.bandcamp.com/music
- https://youtube.com/channel/UC_QWQcPwmurZOIT2ET5lIiQ 
- https://youtube.com/channel/UCWuy-Anv7SJTs-blebX030Q 
Description: |-
    Death/black metal artist known under many aliases, with their "Highblood" project being entirely focused on Homestuck's purple caste.
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Category: Fandom projects
Color: '#c466ff'
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Group: Deconreconstruction
Directory: deconrecon
URLs:
- https://vasterror.bandcamp.com/
- https://twitter.com/Deconrecon_
- https://www.deconreconstruction.com/
# - https://music.deconreconstruction.com/
Description: |-
    Studio consisting of many creators from the Homestuck fan community and beyond, responsible for [Vast Error](https://www.deconreconstruction.com/vasterror/1), [its spinoffs](https://deconreconstruction.itch.io/snowbound-blood), and other projects.
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    Vast Error is a fanventure from early 2013 that takes the Homestuck setting and inspiration from traditional fan-adventures to create its own storyline with original mechanics. Musicians and artists from past Homestuck fan albums and beyond have created many albums and works for it and its playable spinoff, Snowbound Blood.
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Group: Desynced
URLs:
- https://desynced.bandcamp.com/
- https://twitter.com/DesyncedTeam
- https://desynced.xyz/
Description: |-
    A fanventure by a talented team of authors, artists and musicians, in the works since 2017 and updating since early 2020!
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Group: Stuck at Home Con
URLs:
- https://sahcon.bandcamp.com/
- https://sahcon.com/
Description: |-
    Affectionately abbreviated to SAHCon, this yearly online fan convention started its run in 2019.
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    Since 2021, every edition of SAHCon has featured the premiere of a new fan album created for the event, featuring a variety of musicians.
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Group: SVERT
URLs:
- https://svertofficialsoundtrack.bandcamp.com/
Description: |-
    "Official soundtrack for a fanventure that does not yet exist."
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    Music for an upcoming fanventure based on a Homestuck tabletop role-playing game session. Primarily composed by [[artist:gryotharian]] with [[artist:scorpyus]] contributing numerous tracks as well.
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Group: The Genesis Project
URLs:
- https://genesis-project.bandcamp.com/
- https://genesis-project-news.tumblr.com/
- https://www.sburb.me/
Description: |-
    A Unity-based game project made by a team of Homestuck fans to replicate Sburb.
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    Quoting its official site, The Genesis Project is...
    <blockquote>...from a 2.5d perspective, with RPG mechanics. There's a big focus on character customization, short play sessions that allow you to explore all options in game, and playing with others through a multiplayer system.</blockquote>
    While still in development, it's completely free to [download](https://www.sburb.me/download/) and play on any common OS!
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Group: Tumblrstuck/bent
Directory: tumblrstuck-bent
URLs:
- https://sammneiland.bandcamp.com/
Description: |-
    Music by [[artist:samm-neiland]] from MSPA-themed fanventures based around the "Tumblrstuck" meme/fad.
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    Mainly based on the MSPA conjunction tumblr based fan-adventures "Malbent" and "Glitchedstuck".
---
Category: Projects beyond Homestuck
Color: '#32c7fe'
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Group: Oceanfalls
URLs:
- https://nightslights.bandcamp.com/
- https://www.patreon.com/oceanfalls
- https://oceanfalls.net/
Description: |-
    A scrapped game project turned into a webcomic, created by [[artist:nights]].
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    One of many webcomics drawing early inspiration from Homestuck and the MSPA format, Oceanfalls stands out for being a totally distinct story from the world of Homestuck and SBURB, and it has its own community of fan musicians and artists contributing to its album-spanning soundtrack!
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Group: Psycholonials
URLs:
- https://psycholonials.bandcamp.com/
- https://www.psycholonials.com/
Description: |-
    "While in communication with supernatural forces, two influencers launch a daring new social media brand." A visual novel by [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew Hussie]].
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    Heavily influenced by COVID-19 lockdowns, the George Floyd protests, and other controversies of mid-2020, Psycholonials is Andrew Hussie's first post-Homestuck original work, releasing from February 3rd to April 20th, 2021. It features music by [[artist:clark-powell|Clark Powell]], often repurposed from her [[group:clark-powell|previous independent efforts]].
    Each of Psycholonials' 9 chapters was released alongside an EP album containing music featured in that chapter. On the game's third anniversary, coinciding with the game becoming free, the EPs were removed from Bandcamp, with the now heavily-discounted full soundtrack remaining available.
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Group: UNDERTALE & DELTARUNE
URLs:
- https://tobyfox.bandcamp.com/
- https://undertale.com/
- https://www.deltarune.com/
Description: |-
    <i>"The role-playing game where you don't have to kill anyone!"</i>
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    Besides being an acclaimed game with its own much-deserved passionate fanbase, the soundtrack of UNDERTALE - single-handedly composed by [[artist:toby-fox]], who also developed the game largely on his own - is well recognized for its extensive use of leitmotifs. Musical themes are reused all throughout the soundtrack; several have even made their way beyond their original context and been referenced by fan musicians in their own Homestuck tracks!
    DELTARUNE is Toby Fox's current project, a continuation of sorts set in an alternate reality; the first chapter has been released for free, and the remaining chapters (and their soundtrack) will be released as a set when the game is complete.
    Much as Homestuck's discography helped foster a community of creation and collaboration, the music and reach of UNDERTALE and DELTARUNE have inspired countless up-and-coming musicians to create remixes and delve into music creation with their own talents and ideas.