~ Sparkling Scribble ~

05.11.2022

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#	Title	Length	File Size	Link
1	Happy Bees In A Flower Meadow	05:00	6.9 MB	Audio
2	Little Town	03:47	5.2 MB	Audio
3	VANILLA と CARAMEL	04:41	6.4 MB	Audio
4	Sour Plum	03:36	5 MB	Audio
5	Theme Of Hellokittyminigun	04:03	5.6 MB	Audio
6	Tiny Robot Factory	04:28	6.2 MB	Audio
7	Working To Make Everything Alright Again	05:29	7.5 MB	Audio
8	Lacework! Clockwork! BERSERK!!	04:21	6 MB	Audio

Exclusive Trivia!!

'Sparkling Scribble' was released in November, so I wanted to change its name to 'Sparkling Scribbling November', but I had hand-written the text on the original (and currently still used) cover, and I couldn't manage to replicate how it looked because I had to make the cover up from scratch. The 'cydthezombie' text (much like on the cover for 'Distorted View Of Our Future') was meant to look like the text on the cover of 'The Ocean', an EP I made that will never see the light of day again.
'Happy Bees In A Flower Meadow' was named because I thought that multiple of the instruments I used were reminiscent of the buzzing of a bee, but also because it reminded me of the bitcrushed soundtrack of Siactro's then-recent game 'Beeny', which is a game where you play as a bee character. It was the first song composed for the album, and I remember being really happy after making a song that was over three minutes, since the album I had made beforehand was full of a lot of very short songs.
'Little Town' was a simple song that may have reminded me of a JRPG town theme, hence its name. Not much else to say.
'VANILLA と CARAMEL' was originally called 'VANILLA + CARAMEL', but I think the '+' symbol might not have been allowed or something, so I switched it to 'と', which just means 'and'. I thought of some of the instruments making up the 'VANILLA' part and others making up the 'CARAMEL' part, if that makes any sense, even using panning to emphasis it.
'Sour Plum' was one of my favourite from this album, its name coming from the first instrument you hear, which sounded metallic and 'sour'.
Wow I wonder where the name 'Theme Of HelloKittyMinigun' came from! I legitamately thought this song was so good that it deserved to be the 'theme' of my website despite it not showing up anywhere but here, and of course the chiptune remix I did of it for Static Mosaic. Cute song, I think the intruments sound nice bitcrushed, and the way that melodies move forward and back is cool.
'Tiny Robot Factory' is another favourite, though it definitely wasn't around the time of this album's release. I think it's overwhelming and huge, and sort of emotional if it weren't a bit repetitive, and while it's still basic, I think younger me was onto something with this song! I've reused a few motifs from this song in newer songs of mine, and even done a remix of it in a different key to make it feel a bit more lively. Funny how I didn't even use the 'tiny robot' preset instrument in this song, but I did use it in 'Sour Plum'.
'Working To Make Everything Alright Again' was the 2nd song to be composed for this album, but it's kinda baffling how different it is from 'Happy Bees In A Flower Meadow'. It was a solid attempt to make another emotional song, and there's a lot to like about it, especially how much is going on at any given time. I like how high-pass those drums are, but I've never thought to replicate them in other songs, the sort of 'static' noise in the background sounds cool as heck, and I like the hard cuts to parts with brand new instruments. Feels fun!
'Lacework! Clockwork! BERSERK!!' is my least favourite, and I put it at the end knowing that it was really weak compared to the rest of the songs. Nice sounding instruments, but it's completely stagnant! I've used some of these motifs in other songs, though. I vividly remember searching up words that rhymed with 'lacework' for this song's title.

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