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Theme From Handheld Port
01:23
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This is supposed to serve as a short intro, but it wasn't gonna be the original intro. The original name for it was "Circumarrival", but the new song is based on the song "Theme From Impostered Window" from the would-have-been album "Impostered Window". It samples the sound "Slow Down", a formerly unidentified sound as detected by the USA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) using its Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous hydrophone array. I don't know why I use the old album name.
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Variable Marble
03:13
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This is an IDM track that was influenced by the track "Donkey Rhubarb" by Aphex Twin. The main theme was inspired by "Elfenlied" by Hugo Wolf, after my weeaboo friend told me to watch the anime, but apparently it also sounds like the fifth movement to the "Suite for Toy Piano" by John Cage. The name doesn't mean anything; both words just have the same last three letters.
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Promenade de Bolingbrook
01:38
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This is a title that appeared on the original prototype track listing, but is an earlier song that I decided to include here. It was written to celebrate my hometown's 50th anniversary, but I knew that I wouldn't finish it by that time. It was written for an orchestra. The melodies were inspired by a YouTube video of a trucker's commentary as he passes by Bolingbrook on the highway.
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Magna Pinna
02:33
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This ends the way it was gonna begin. It was gonna be an ambient piece but I put a noise intro in front of it. And now it's unfinished. It samples "Words Like Arsenic (Thine Eyes Befall the Celestial Carnival)" by Nuclear Bubble Wrap. This is probably the first and only time that any song by this band will be sampled. It might not even qualify as ambient. I don't know if I've made ambient stuff before but maybe I want to. The name is a portmanteau pun on the Magna Carta and the song "Magnapinna Squid" by Michael Hearst, referring to the genus of the bigfin squid.
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Diaphlegm
01:48
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This is an acid banger hit that was influenced by the track "Bradley's Beat (Part 1)" by Bradley Strider, one of Aphex Twin's pseudonyms. It features some jazzy 12-bar blues chord progression thing at the end.
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Two Fountaindales
03:14
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This is a combination of Aphex Twin's piano pieces from "Drukqs" and Venetian Snares' use of oddball time signatures. It samples a video I found on YouTube about the Fountaindale Library in Bolingbrook.
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This is a Pogo-style remix of the film by director / animator Don Hertzfeldt, most well-known for his Academy Award-winning 2000 short film "Rejected". He actually had not heard of the idea of remixing movies until I asked him about it on his Reddit AMA and he actually rejected the idea of it. It features a special thanks section at the end as a reference to the "Respect List" from Aphex Twin's "Ventrolin (Crowsmengus Mix)".
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Derrick McMillon Joliet, Illinois
The background image is "Wheat Ear" by Salvador Dalí, 1932. The order of the releases are neither chronological nor alphabetical, but rather relative best to relative worst.
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