After many laborious months, I've finally finished my first album. I call it "The Only Album in the World With Three Tracks". I want to thank everyone for their unending support and donations as I've climbed this hell of a mountain, and for your support, I've decided to release it here first, free of charge.

I will of course need some fancy album art to make this a reality.

Anyway, about two months ago, Taizen Chisou, Charlie Carlo, and myself were all happily listening to music. I'd been discussing for a while how I wanted to remix one of Taizen's tracks. And then Charlie decided he wanted to remix one of them first, so he did, and then he remixed mine, and then I remixed both of theirs, and then I decided no album would be complete with only two tracks so I took it a step further and finished a remix I'd done for Mega about a year ago during the 64Remix competition.

Now, when I remix, I tend to alter existing phrases and throw in my own. I also tend to have a very melodic focus.

And so, the results are as follows:

For a long time I'd been wanting to remix this track, but never could figure out what progression to base everything off of. The result was a remix that deviates so far from the source that it's almost unrecognizable. I noticed, after finishing, that it takes very strong influences from Celtic music (the ending) and Touhou music. Coincidentally, when we were all slapping gibberish names on our tracks, I hit some RNG website that churned out "Celtic Whale: The Lunacy Project" as its first result. My jaw is still hanging.

I like Charlie's music because it's unique and kind of eerie, but when we were all sharing the remixing love, I held my head for a few hours wondering how I'd ever remix one of Charlie's tracks. They have a lot of character and not a lot of melody, and the melodies that exist are very discordant. With me being a melodic composer, I had some difficulties establishing some ground to work on.

It took a while but after going through his Bandcamp, I found a couple that I could work with, and chose one of his boss tracks. The result was a more upbeat version that pays its respects to discord in the ending.

For some reason, Mega and others took a liking to this when I posted it, despite the fact that I was working on two hours of sleep, two cups of coffee, sitting at school waiting for my next class. The time I spent on the initial version was also about two hours. I was fairly happy with it when I uploaded it, but I knew it was one of my poorest compositions in terms of quality.

I'd promised Mega for a while that I'd update his remix with something less pitiful, making him promise not to use this track everywhere he went, and the result was a little different than I thought it'd be. Rather than maintaining the upbeat nature like I had before, I went for some smaller breaks as I'd envisioned when I first started listening to this track, and I think it turned out pretty okay.

I hope you guys enjoyed this, because it gave me a reason to compose again. Downloads are enabled for these tracks, for those who want to take them home or something, because a few of you yelled at me for not having downloads enabled before.

Also, Soundcloud really doesn't like my cymbals.