SPOILER WARNING : This video may contain some minor spoilers for the webcomic Homestuck.

I know it's 4/15 now, but it's still 4/13 in my heart, where it really matters. I have never seen a calendar in my entire life. Behold, my biggest project and most visually incoherent video so far.

Homestuck has been one of the most important and most influencial pieces of media in my life since I've discovered it in 2012 when I was in high school. Over time, because of its nature as a webcomic from the first half of the 2010's with frequent hiatuses, my interest in it fluctuated, but since a few years ago having people in my social media feeds still engaging with the fandom and being enthusiastic about it made memories resurface and made me regain interest in the comic, its fandom and more importantly, its fanart community !
I originally thought about making this since the end of HS in 2016, but only started to make progress more than a year ago. Back then, the scope of this project was much smaller and I thought I could crunch through the process and make it in time to release something for the 10th anniversary on 13/04/2019, but when I missed the date I decided to go back and include every song I had cut for brevity, re-track every part I had rushed to try to fit the schedule, include a ton more stuff... Meanwhile, I got involved into other projects, graduated, got a job, but one year later I'm finally proud to release this babby !
As per usual with my covers I experimented a lot with new stuff during this time, this was the first thing I recorded with my now not so new 8 string guitar, had the opportunity to record about half of it with my electronic drumset, and tried a lot of arranging and production techniques. Since it was my first time doing a project of ths scale, every step of the process was challenging and I had to try a lot of new ways to stay efficient, or else. It became clear very early on that I had to split the medley into several parts for management purposes and so my computer could handle the project files, even though I envision the medley as one big piece. As I said this was recorded and filmed over the span of more than a year, through different seasons, with varying lighting, at different times of the day or night, in different places, with two different phones, so the result is quite a poor visual consistency but it still showcases most parts I played and wanted to feature alright, so I'm happy. I also asked Tricky_goddess, a fellow HS fan that I met in the Discord of a band we both like, if she could make a cover artwork to go with the album release of this medley, and she greatly did so !
I hope I did justice enough to all this music that has been part of my high school soundscape and that definitely helped shape the way I envision music to some extent, from helping me actually picking a DAW and getting into producing music for the first time to influencing my arranging and songwriting, as well as getting deeper into VGM.

Happy 11th anniversary to Homestuck !

Download this medley on Bandcamp : https://teeveemusic.bandcamp.com/albu...

Original songs and artists :
[turns out youtube video descriptions have a character limit, please check the comment section for the tracklist !]

Homestuck is a webcomic by Andrew Hussie
https://www.homestuck.com/
https://www.homestuck2.com/

Cover art by tricky_goddess
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Thanks to PotatoBoss for his feedback and help with credits checking
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