I was in marching band in high school, so this is like... entirely based on my high school's fight song which means it probably sounds exactly like some random college's fight song. Did you know they do that. Wild. Is it notre dame? i don't actually know. I will never be free of the sins of my past. 

-James

Vault Fightsong (Full Version)

When Xefros beats the vault puzzle, I wanted it to end a little more triumphantly. Originally I was like... man what if I hire my old high school marching band to record this?? Then i remembered I carved "JAMES ROACH: YU-GI-OH MASTER" or something into the table in the band room senior year so maybe I shouldn't go back.

- James

Vault Fightsong (Marching Band Version)

here are three victories, representing the three stages of victory in life:

Overcoming an Obstacle
Reaping the Benefits of your Hard Work, and
Finding a really stale cracker i guess

maybe its true what they say and winning really isn't everything?? Sounds like something a loser would say. YIKES.

VICTORY VICTORY VICTORY

I would get a lot of tracks like this from Toby. He'd send me a bad mp3 piano sketch and then it was usually my job to decipher it and arrange it. It was actually super fun back in the old days when we just had time to dick around with stuff like this. You see it in the "ALTERNATE RECIPE" B-side too, where we're just like arranging eachothers stuff and having fun. Act 2 has a lot more of that.

- James

Original [SPOILER] Piano Concept

The credits needed to be like 10 seconds longer but we'd already put the album together so I put this on the end and now it sounds weird to me without it.

- James

INTERMISSION 1, ACT 2

I asked for a few instrumentalists on twitter for a "SECRET PROJECT" but it was actually just to record hornlines for what became SPORTS! Personally- etc. 

A homie by the name of Paul Henderson who I have known off and on as a homestuck fandom person played trombone, (and was recommended to me through our sound designer Marcy Nabors) but I ended up never being able to find a trumpet player to complete the like "slightly outta tune high school ska band vibe" so i scrapped it. Kind of a cool melodic line though!

Redacted Rumpus Room Refrain

Marcy is my personal savior and did SO MUCH sound design/foley work without me ever giving her context for what she was doing. I also asked hey are you good at humming because you are good at everything else. What do you KNOW? She was. Though, turns out we didn't want to give xefros a canonical voice (so far it had just been me gasping/sighing etc in cutscenes) Anyway, here is an unused track aptly named "XEFSAD dot WAV" which................. might get redone later? who knows how sad things will get? ha! YOU? unlikely.

a non-vocal version of this happens when xefros gets crushed by rubble.

XEFROS HUMS (ft. Marcy Nabors)

Toby and I take two attempts at the same short scene.

After speaking with Jude and removing the sheet from the portal, the music cuts out. That was actually a bug, but it sounded really cool and dramatic to have the music stop and just the ambient wind and house sounds play so I said to leave it.

CONVERSATION LOOPS

PIGEON SONG, FULL

for real i just forgot to put them on the soundtrack

TITLE SCREEN, DAY/NIGHT

heres the proto version of everyones favorite ska song

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