The soundtrack for the Minecraft mod, "Create: Estrogen". Contains ambient music in familiar styles, as well as a secret music disc!

All of these tracks are inspired by two primary sources: Minecraft and Celeste. As the mod is for Minecraft, it was of my personal belief that I had to make songs in vain of the game's existing tracks. Additionally, the mod incorporates features from the game Celeste, so I drew massive inspiration from it as well.

When I started producing this album, I intended to stick to the aforementioned sources as closely as possible. However, I soon realized that would not be possible with my skills. So, instead, I excuse the differences in styles for being my own personal style. I look up to Lena Raine and C418, who both have amazing and unique musical styles. I still hope that I was able to reproduce the right vibes!

Create: Estrogen

As this track is designed to be played in-game through a music disc, it took on a dance vibe, which players may enjoy! It's entirely based on my own styles, with little direct influence from the prior primary sources.

G03C

Lena Raine's philosophy, with a focus on softness and quietness, took control of this track. I intentionally pushed myself to embrace the power of silence, and though I couldn't push myself as much as I'd prefer, compared to my previous tracks, I have achieved my goal.

Only after I had finished this track did I realize it's subconscious inspiration: C418's remix of "Atempause". I loved their rendition of the track. It had been a few months since I had last heard it, so I unfortunately didn't make the connection as soon as I'd like.

Inferred Dreams

Essentially being a remix of Lena Raine's "Resurrections", this track aims to closely recreate the vibe and structure of Celeste. What better way to accomplish that, than to steal!?

I'm quite proud of how I mixed the styles of Lena Raine, C418, and my own while sticking to a familiar sound. What you don't hear are the tens of demos I had unsuccessfully produced before this.

Of course, without using Resurrections as inspiration, this track would be nothing. Thank you, Lena Raine, for releasing such an amazing song, and teaching others how it was composed.

Aurum Berry

My longest individual track to date. The title is inspired by the journey I personally took during production: to be confident — to trust myself. I had wanted to produce a ten-minute-long song since the start of Momentum Deceived's production, yet I didn't believe that I could.

One would believe that longer, simple songs would be easy to make. "There's not much there; how hard could it be?" But it's exactly the opposite. Because of the track's simplicity, there's less to work with. Less to express yourself through. It took me hours and hundreds of revisions before I felt content with the track.

Trust Yourself

The focus for this track is realism. I had started to source, and even create, sample libraries based on physical instruments. Prior to this song's creation, I only used synthesized instruments.

I was scared to try anything more. I didn't believe that I could pull off realistic sounding instrumentation. And yet, through trial and error, many revisions, and lots of manual automation, I believe I've done it.

Amphitrite

A track that was almost entirely produced and mastered in a single day. It doesn't exactly follow the styles of Lena Raine or C418, and was rather made as I went.

Despite its extremely short production time, and the fact that it was rushed, I still enjoy the end result quite a bit! It's a unique track in the album, almost serving as a transition between my older style (as seen in G03C) and the rest of the album.

Sleeping

A short and simple piano piece featuring various motifs from the tracks prior. This almost didn't make the cut due to an unexpected deadline, yet I was able to sneak it in! I'm glad, because despite its simplicity, it's a great closer for the album.

Inner Self-Realization

Created for the first Minecraft Music Pack Jam to be heard in the Basalt Deltas, I tried to find a middle-ground between Lena Raine's ambient nether tracks and the dangerous, hostile environment found in the biome.

In order to stand alongside Minecraft's existing nether tracks, I incorporated a leitmotif often heard in them, while also brining in one of Lena Raine's newer motifs which fit the vibe. The first motif, heard in "So Below", is a descending piano piece which carries you throughout the track. In the latter half of the track, I brought in melodies heard in "Deeper", a track that plays in another hostile environment in the game.

Though Minecraft's nether tracks tend to lean towards ambiance, the Basalt Deltas are a very dangerous biome to traverse, which has been represented in the track's aggressive bass-line. Yet still, there had been a large focus on ambiance through the track's droning sub-bass and massive instruments during its development.

Create: Testosterone

Down Under

issues arise, bugs form. error is inevitable.

Create: Estrogen

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