Strange Odyssey

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Shoutouts to rancid rodent (k_fel on discord) for the awesome artwork.

This is a 20 minute EP with four original songs. I started work on the oldest one in 2015, while the newest was from just a few months ago. I hope you enjoy.

Genre: progressive dreamfunk

0:00 - Strange Odyssey:
This one started as an attempt to restart an old project based on Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, but morphed entirely into a two part spacefaring adventure: part one, a Persona 5-style exodus from earth, and part two continues into the strange odyssey of space, with turbulence along the way, before landing us on another world. There was originally a different part 1 which I played on a stream a while back, but I scrapped it. I also fought very hard with myself to not do a silly narration voiceover to dramatically announce the different story elements unfolding throughout the song.

5:25 - Machine Gun:
A song I started as a follow-up to a decade-old chiptune track called Wobblewood. Intended to follow the hypothetical 8-bit game protagonist from the twisted forest into the factory in which this song is set. I've always been a big fan of the bell lead in this one, and used it in another old track, A Nightmare in Monochrome. Speaking of monochrome, this song was inspired by the music from the super underrated black and white indie metroidvania game Hero Core. A very cool little title where you can go directly to the final boss immediately if you feel like a Epic Dude.

7:37 - The Method:
A little track I devised during the height of my Wu Tang addiction, featuring a bassline shamelessly taken from a Comus song. Smoke it.

8:42 - The Sky Breathing Fire Medley:
A big ol' medley/mashup of tracks I cooked up out of an interest in sampling the Phideaux song Inquisitor and a cut from the Legion soundtrack, which then became a wild and schizophrenic sequence of sampled and interpolated video game music, as well as songs from Opeth, Ayreon, Agnes Obel, Zero 7, Sleigh Bells, Depeche Mode, Pink Floyd, and many more. The end result is an entirely new and unusual compositional mashup/plunderphonic prog trip-rock voyage. Extremely pretentious! Bonus points if you can name all the tracks sampled/interpolated within! (No, just saying "Metroid Prime" does not count.) Please don't call HBomberguy on me, or even NBomberguy!!! It's not plagiarism if I call it plunderphonics!!!
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