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D.E.S.I.R.E.私が若い頃

death's dynamic shroud

Released on March 1, 2014

Alternative Title: D.E.S.I.R.E. WHEN I WAS YOUNG

Duration: 47:56

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Heavy Wolf Bastard: “What does ‘D.E.S.I.R.E.’ stand for?”
James Webster: “Sorry but nothing - just an old sci-fi jRPG trope like J-E-N-O-V-A”
- 04/02/2021

James Webster: “i used a screencap from an old indiana jones game on the cover of D.E.S.I.R.E.
“fate of atlantis i think"
“i've never played it, but i love love love the PC pixel art from that era”
- 10/19/2021

Tracklist

• C-ガソリン
• クリスタル
• REMEMBER TONIGHT
• FREAKYトカゲ
• プロジェクト「ワンダー」
• DOLPHIN
• 不安
• 『 スローダンス 』
• 初恋の人
• REGRESSION
• ベッドSHADOWS
• LINIP銀
• SERVER SHUTDOWN
• HALLWAY神

1. C-ガソリン

   Alternative Title: C-GASOLINE

   Duration: 01:58

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   Slush: “i wanna write a whole short story that i was inspired by C-Gasoline”
   - 2/20/2022
   [...]
   James Webster: “i was catching up on staralgia since i was off the server for like an entire week when i ran across this post! you'll be really disappointed tho, it's another one of my personal in-jokes lol
   “There's this weird song from the late 60's called ‘Classical Gas’ which I always thought was the stupidest title but also catchy - back in the early 00's I would keep a playlist in my iTunes library for all my classical music and called it ‘classical gas.’
   “When I had the idea to try to eccojam classical music as an album opener I grabbed ‘Tales from the Vienna Woods’ by johan strauss and arbitrarily called the ableton file ‘C-Gas’ - later replacing ‘gas’ with the katakana for ‘gasoline’ and now here we are
   “oh i misread OP, you wanted to write a story not hear the story lmao my bad”
   [...]
   James Webster: “i fucking love johan strauss haha"
   “both richard and johan strauss have appeared on DDS albums
   “idc how played out blue danube is, it's one of the greatest examples of a borrowed minor iv cadence is all of western music”
   - 2/21/2022

2. クリスタル

   Alternative Title: CRYSTAL

   Duration: 03:01

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3. REMEMBER TONIGHT

   Duration: 04:11

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4. FREAKYトカゲ

   Alternative Title: FREAKY LIZARD

   Duration: 01:30

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5. プロジェクト「ワンダー」

   Alternative Title: PROJECT 'WONDER'

   Duration: 01:39

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   FangTheWerewolf: “@HCMJ apologies if I’ve asked this before, but where was Project ‘Wonder’ sampled from because I truly do love it.”
   James Webster: “Those early NUWRLD mixtapes I was mostly sampling from songs I remembered as a kid - that was a small sample from the title screen for Sky Shark for the NES, one of my first video games”
   - 04/17/2021

6. DOLPHIN

   Duration: 04:25

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7. 不安

   Alternative Title: ANXIETY

   Duration: 01:17

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8. 『 スローダンス 』

   Alternative Title: "SLOWDANCE"

   Duration: 02:23

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9. 初恋の人

   Alternative Title: FIRST CRUSH

   Duration: 06:49

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10. REGRESSION

    Duration: 05:04

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11. ベッドSHADOWS

    Alternative Title: BED SHADOWS

    Duration: 03:17

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12. LINIP銀

    Alternative Title: LINIP SILVER

    Duration: 01:46

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    alex: “What is the Linip that appears in various track names?”
    James Webster: “in Animal Crossing I always make my animal catchphrases things like “Narson Wales!” or “Libox Tram!” or “Linip Brilbo!” Etc. (Tech and I think nonsense is really funny because we are babies). So I just called a song LINIP and added “silver” like a place medal - then “gold” on DERELICT, and finally “Turquoise” on REGRET - because the album cover was turquoise and I thought the idea of a “turquoise medal” being awarded to a broken soul was poignant and slightly beautiful
    “But ultimately absurd, but like DDS itself we like to build larger ideas out of things that start as little jokes”
    - 11/05/2020

13. SERVER SHUTDOWN

    Duration: 06:40

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    James Webster: “[Favorite memory working on D.E.S.I.R.E.] Giving the FFVII piano collection The Caretaker treatment for “SERVER SHUTDOWN” - when the phrase finally resolved after 5:30 of looping it was deeply satisfying the first time.”
    - 12/25/2020
    
    Mental: “is SERVER SHUTDOWN in memory of the final fantasy xi servers”
    James Webster: “SERVER SHUTDOWN is about that idea yes - that one day the FFXI servers will go down and with them an entire living breathing simulated world will simply vanish from this earth, as so many have before it. It's one of the most emotionally intense genres of online video, look up any failed online game's final moments - everyone is chatting and /dancing and saying goodbye and then suddenly the screen goes black - connection to server lost.... and it's all just gone
    “luckily there are some pretty well scripted FFXI private servers out there but... it's not the original server-side code just a close approximation, so it's almost like puppeteering a corpse
    “so yeah, that concept is one that haunts me haha”
    - 03/21/2022

14. HALLWAY神

    Alternative Title: HALLWAY GODDESS

    Duration: 03:52

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    cathy the stupid: "I too wish I could be blessed in the glorious light of a Hallway Goddess"
    [...]
    James Webster: "we all kind of have - the hallway goddess is just the person you had a crush on in middle school and when you saw them in the hall at school it was like time slowed down and you heard angels singing"
    - 09/04/2022

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