Alpha soundtrack of a game I’m working on I’ve released early because I got busy with college.

When Lin Lai and Yun Quan were first announced I wrote a pair of songs for them, this one originally intended for Lin Lai, and one for Yun Quan I didn’t get very far with, that were two different takes on a song about the same thing.
This song is about how I graduated high school in 3 years, community college in 1.5, and ultimately all it lead to was me missing out on major life experiences and losing contact with childhood friends whilst not even being able to find a job. Infinite Time Loss is written from the perspective of me post deciding I was going to have get a master’s if I wanted a chance of getting a job in the gaming industry. The upcoming/scrapped Yun Quan song was the thoughts I experienced my last year of college on the first day when I almost died of heat exhaustion walking back to my apartment.
I finally picked this song back up around the time Beta Studio released when I finally figured out what to put in the section just before the first chorus, that now samples I’ll Keep You Fire Alive, As You Once Did Mine, Hatred Over Unsalted Popcorn, Save, Whispers of Quicksilver Serenity, and Ordealist Remedy.

Sunday was written around the day I recovered from being sick for like a week and binged Taskmaster NZ. It is basically just me fucking around with something I sampled from the show. The lyrics are placeholder lyrics I didn’t really bother to fix and don’t really have any meaning.
This character is named Sunday Williams for reasons that are obvious if you have watched the show

I kind of gave up on this song which is why the album art is just Dawn’s mmd model and tuning/mixing are worse than usual. It’s about when I first started producing, and had a group of people stalking my videos and harassing me for some reason that I never really found out beyond a theory I have that it’s cause they though I was pirating (I wasn’t)

This song was written to either be given to Yun Quan or Lin Lai upon release, and as you can see Lin Lai won out. That said I didn’t think he fit for the main track, so he was delegated to an alt singer version.
This song is about the emotions I felt towards finding out the owner of a relatively small youtube channel I watched regularly, and kind of admired, had passed away. The sort of emotions I was feeling about how I wish I could’ve told him how much I aspired to be like him, and questioning whether or not feeling like that was alright in the first place. “I’ll Keep Your Fire Alive” is a bit of an overstatement and I just went with that phrasing cause “I’ll Keep Your Fire Alive, As You Once Did Mine” seemed like a good title, and it’s really just in reference to how my works will always be somewhat inspired by him, not some ego-crazy vow to carry on the legacy of a stranger.

Likely Story for a Loser is planned to be the ending song for a platformer I’m working on (if I ever finish it). It’s one of the favorite songs I’ve made recently and some of the most effort I’ve put into one ever lol.
It is written from the perspective of the game’s MC, Faye Sonata, and about her growth and change as a person.
This song pulls from the regret I feel towards things I’ve done in the past, and how even though I’ve become a completely different person, apologizing can’t change the fact I’ve hurt people.
Because I feel like it might come across poorly the lyrics “Forgive me, I know this is a Likely Story for a Loser” are not a plea for forgiveness, especially not one based on guilt tripping. “Likely Story for a Loser” as a phrase is meant to encompass the general public’s reaction to people declaring they’re a different person now when apologizing, and how in online drama there’s this odd notion that people aren’t able to change, it’s a disavowment of someone’s truth based on the purely negative perceptions people have of them. Thusly the phrase as a whole is really just as simple as “I know you don’t wanna hear this but I still want to apologize”, it’s an acceptance of the fact they aren’t own forgiveness by apologizing.
(I’m super sleep deprived typing this up something can probably be phrased better)

Album Art girl’s name is Jessica Sawsbitter
This song is about the same person Hard Drive is about, but while Hard Drive was written from a place of sorrow over the friendship not working out, Hatred Over Unsalted Popcorn was written from a place of anger after finding out this person was a pedophile and realizing the arguments they started with me that caused our relationship to fall apart that seemed to come out of nowhere literally all made sense if their motive was related to wanting to draw porn of my minor OCS.
“Hatred Over Unsalted Popcorn” has two meanings, one for the active part of the friendship, and one for the aftermath. In terms of the active friendship “Hatred Over Unsalted Popcorn” is meant to encapsulate this person starting arguments and tearing me down over what seemed like nothing, with a similar absurdity to if you grew to despise someone cause they didn’t salt popcorn. The afterwards meaning might be more of a stretch than I intended, but “Unsalted Popcorn” just really feels like it’d be some gross code word for kids to me. In the most straightforward sense the meanings are just “You hate me for no reason/I hate you for being a pedo”.
Hate Me Twice is a phrase I’ve tried to make a song out of for so long so I was happy to finally get it out of my head here. The reason I let the person stay in my life for so long after they started being mean to me is because they really phrased things in a way that made me feel that maybe I was in the wrong and I should abandon my morals and give into them. In the end they blew up at me over me saying “The Steam Deck will not kill the Switch” (I shit you not this is the full story I’m not manipulating anything) and then said they needed “time to think about things” I just decided nothing was going to save the friendship and soft-blocked them everywhere. All that suffering to try and make them not hate me, just for them to end up hating me twice.
There’s a bit more to this song but it would reveal more than I think I should right now.

I think the day before this I saw some TikTok of someone releasing an ADHD song and it was the same like “oh I got bees in my brain” type shit I fucking hate and because I was already releasing music around this time I finally decided to give my crack at it.
This song was originally going to be about me impulsively buying shit, but I realized it was going into the cringe territory and stopped that in it’s track. The song I made using the inst in it’s place sounded kind of empty at the start, so Kevin’s rap has survived somewhat in a rap version.
The final song is a bit of a sappy tune about how I feel like I lack the ability to finish my projects and fear I’ll never accomplish my dreams, but my boyfriend’s belief in me gives me the strength to try and overcome it.
I also didn’t tune this at all for some reason? Like my songs in SV aren’t super tuned but I usually try to fix stuff heavy vibrato when it defaults to that and I did not do that in this.

This is the first song I made after getting Splice.
It was written around a week after the 1 year anniversary of my graduating college when I first started getting depressed over the fact I couldn’t land a job and get into the industry I so desperately want to.
I graduated High School in 3 Years, Community College in 1.5, and gave up my summer break at my transfer school to ensure I would graduate in only 4 years. I gave up on experiences and lost my friends in order to try and excel in Game Dev and it quite literally amounted to nothing but lost opportunities. It’s fucking soul crushing to apply to have only ever landed 1 or 2 interviews despite applying to any job that fits my skillset, and it’s hard to find the motivation to keep going. That’s basically what this song’s about.
I also took this song as a challenge to use Cheng Xiao in English and ended up drawing out a soft part of her I’ve literally never seen anyone use aside from me.
Also I sampled Alpharad Gold in this cause I thought it’d be funny.

The revised version of Hard Drive.
The original version of the track (and I think the isnt) were remastered, but yellow version stayed the same.
This version also contains 3 new versions:
Speed is why the album as a whole exists, I wanted to release a sped up version cause they were hot on TikTok and decided to just reupload them all under this new album. It is a nightcored version of Hard Drive (Remastered).
Duet Version was only made to set up the Dunder_Pocket Spotify page I chose to abandon in favor of a centralized Dunder Spotify page.
JP Version has it’s origins as an unused demo song for Dunder_Intercalaris AI.
The Instrumental is currently my most popular track on Spotify as it’s in a lot of sleep playlists. It currently has 7k+ streams.

This song is a first person monologue from Hayato about her feelings towards her relationship with Savannah and her refusal to let her go.

There will probably be a song covering what happens before this, but until then some extra info will be here:
From Hayato’s PV, she and Sav were really good friends and she viewed her death as a tragedy and something she needed to fix. Using never before seen spiritual technologies, Hayato was able to transfer Sav’s spirit into an SSD before it could escape to the afterlife.
Sav ended up being pissed off and revealed to Hayato that she didn’t like her and that she didn’t want to be bound to her for eternity.

In her sorrow, Hayato blocked off Sav’s access to the outside world and cut contact with her until she felt like she could approach this again.

This lyrics to this song were written by ChatGPT with the prompt “Write me a song about suffering inside of an SSD”. It was the hot thing at the time and I just wanted an excuse to write a Japanese song, and I did it expecting the lyrics to be bad. Now that dipshits seriously use these kinds of things for writing shit and people are losing writing jobs to these models trained on stolen data I will never do this again, the atmosphere around ChatGPT was just VERY different at the time and I apologize for that.
But yeah idk, this song just kind of uses a bunch of Studio One samples as it was made before I discovered Splice. Lyrics are a whole lot of nothing aside from the spoken part which I wrote myself which are really the only thing providing any sort of story in the long run.

Story wise this song is just Savannah going insane in the Hard Drive after Hayato cut contact with her and refused to let her free. It’s kind of nothing lol.

The character on the album art is Woman Modachii from “Gamer”, despite this this is not a “Gamer” song, she is simply there because I was iffy on if this song would be part of Hard Drive or not when I released it.
This song is about my leaving a friend group I used to be in. It revolved around someone I could tell thought very little of me and who decided she was going to try and get me removed from the friend group. She would constantly do things to belittle me under the guise of jokes that I knew weren’t due to her having isolated people from the group while I was in it, and having heard her history from other people in the group. Despite my attempts to mask a lot of what she didn’t like about me, it became clear she wasn’t going to let up. In the end I took things into my own hands and left the friend group, losing contact with most of the people in it.

Story wise Save Scum is about Hayato’s second attempt to reach out to Savannah. Hayato tries to persuade Sav into accepting the situation and being friends with her again, but Savannah can tell she’s hiding something and continues her insistence on letting her go to the afterlife.

Unknown to Savannah, Hayato begins altering her memory files to try and create a version of her who would feel grateful for what she did, and erases the memories of each contact attempt when she does something to mess it up.Hayato’s save scumming unfortunately isn’t perfect, which leads to Savannah getting a more and more intense sense of Deja Vu, which leads to each version of her starting to question why Hayato seems like a better person than she remembers. When Hayato leaves some files open, Savannah eventually learns of the save scumming and the knowledge that Hayato’s just manipulating her becomes embedded into her soul where Hayato cannot alter it.
Hayato freaks out and modifies a significant portion of Savannah’s memory in an attempt to make her cool with that knowledge, but ultimately fails, leaving a save scummed Savannah alone to question if she’s even the same person anymore.

This is the first Hard Drive Series song written with the story in mind (SiaSSD, though a part 2, was just a spiritual follow up).
In the last chorus, Qing Su and Saki were put through Internet’s XSY VST.

Some time after Save Scum, Hayato decides to try and swap Savannah’s spirit with that of a new character, Declán. After kidnapping Declán, Hayato hooks him up to her computer and creates a sort of spiritual ΔP to draw his spirit into the hard drive and then move Savannah’s spirit into his body. 

Due to Hayato winging the whole process, she creates the initial ΔP going the opposite of the way she intended. As a result Savannah’s spirit merges with Declán along with her memories being transferred into his already occupied brain, the two now permanently being inseparable.

Saván (idk if that’s their final name or not) comes to several hours later and before even attempting to figure out who or what they are, catches Hayato off guard, perform the ΔP process on her and trap her spirit in the Hard Drive.

Was written to be a “Save Scum” 2 but became kind of it’s own thing.
It’s kind of about how I feel like if I die young my Mother will go out of her way to make sure I’m remembered as the person she wants me to be (a freaky awful ghost) and not the person I actually am. “Back me up and burn me the way that you do” is in reference to how I don’t want to be cremated when I die but that’ll probably happen despite that.
The talk section doesn’t really have a meaning I just wanted to use the Pitagoe I bought a few months prior.

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Place in the timeline is kind of nebulous. This song is a character song for Savannah more than anything and how she was against Hayato backing her up after death.

The original version of Hard Drive. Story info will be under “Hard Drive (but again)”.
I wrote this song the night I moved out of my first apartment as a distraction from cleaning, and it was the first song I completed in like a year.
The year prior around the same time, I had to cut a friend of mine out of my life completely cause they started being horrible to me. Files related to that person (such as their voice) still linger on my external SSD and I can never really bring myself to delete them even knowing what they did to me.
This song was my first SynthV orignal ever.

Just kind of a fun house song idk lol.
I’d wanted to make a sequel to Lost Soul Marta for over half a decade at this point and finally got around to it and fixing up Marta’s design.
I decided to make it a bit of a anti-suicide anthem (I can’t think of a less cringy way to put this) to try and offset all the songs I’ve written about people killing themselves (or at least appearing to) to reach a salvation from very solvable problems when I was younger.

This song follows Marta’s story throughout the “Ghost World” as she grows to regret her choice to leave Delta.
Marta is greeted by the 4 ghosts who had been talking to her since she was young but quickly learns they were lying to her about the state of their world and that she was only brought there to try and get her to marry one of them. As she has no place left to stay, and the properties of this world prevent her from dying, Marta reluctantly moves in with them.
To try and earn enough money to escape her living situation Marta ends up becoming an adult film star(I honestly don’t know why I landed on this) and meets a new crew of ghosts who feel for her situation and offer to let her move in with them. Through these ghosts Marta eventually meets Manifestation of a Tiring Idea who she learns is looking for a new body to use as a vessel into Delta. Marta decides to give it to him as it’s the only way she’ll be able to reach the afterlife.
In her final moments Marta sets up a new microwave contraption to attempt to send a message to Pane Mois and tell him not to make the same mistake she did and cherish his life, not knowing about the events of Laugh Smiley Ordealist.

The sequel to Laughy Smiley Ordealist.
I had ASTERIAN for like 6 months at that point and had never even used him for a cover, which is when I realized he’d be great for a gospel song, leading to this song.
Kevin and Natalie also worked better as choir vocals then I expected.

This song follows a currently unnamed priest who leads a cult centered around The Laughy Smiley Ordealist/Pane Mois. Since his ascent to Godhood, people learned of how Pane reached his higher sense of being and began worshipping his ways as the ideal way to live life.
The person on the album art (will probably be redone) is not Pane, but the unname priest who has altered his appearance to look like him.
Though this cult idolizes The Ordealist, none of them have ever personally been affected by him except for the priest in a one-off event he claims remedied him of his demons. Despite this, these faithful followers continue to pray he’ll come back to them and teach them his ways.

These are the only songs on Lost School Z I thought were decent enough to put on streaming.
Trudging Foreward never even got a PV.

Mid-Game is the morning theme in a game I’m working on tentatively titled “The Mystery of Thad Thompson: Another “Gamer””.
Was originally written for stardust, but I didn’t feel like contacting Quadimension for permission, so it’s a Solaria song now. Despite it’s release data this was written before Gametuary and Mid-Game.
It was originally a pretty non-sensical song where every other word was “Game” or “Gamer” but as I developed the game more I opted to make this one a bit more serious (Ritchy’s rap is still nothing). It is written from the POV of the character “Woman” who is processing her feelings for Thad, and whether or not she believes that he’s changed since the first time he hurt her. This song is where the “Wasn’t I enough for you” lemotif seen in this series of songs first started.

Mid-Game is the mid-day theme in a game I’m working on tentatively titled “The Mystery of Thad Thompson: Another “Gamer””.
Teto’s riffs in the rap section interpolates “Ring a Bell” and “A Perfect Sky” by Bonnie Pink, and the lyrics reference some of her other works.
The lyrics are slightly less goofy then Destruction of Gametuary, but still intentionally written to come off a tad nonsensical. It is about being blindsided by a breakup, and will have a bit more meaning in the game itself.
This is the Short Mix of the song.

Destruction of Gametuary is the night theme of a game I’m working on. The lyrics are a bit goofy on purpose, but I think ultimately it’s about drunk texting an ex.

This is the ending theme to an unreleased follow up to “Gamer”+, released as I liked it at the time.
The song is about Gamey’s feelings towards Thadlet and how although she finds him annoying sometimes and doesn’t reciprocate his feelings for her, she still wants him to be in her life.

Soundtrack for the visual novel “Gamer”+ Crossroad of Sympathy (Original Game Soundtrack).
Only the track “Intro” has vocals.
The soundtrack is entirely comprised of reused/unused instrumentals from primarily Lost School Z.
Intro specifically uses a WIP instrumental of a track made long after Lost School Z with the only written verse removed (You might be able to find it on my YT somewhere?).
This soundtrack is bad and just exists to perpetuate the joke that “Gamer” was originally.