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I've been hoping someone would ask! Since this album is essentially suppose to be a primer or introduction to the darker parts of Japanese folklore or Shinto mythology, I wanted a title that would touch on what each track's inspo has in common - death! Yurei or Onryo are essentially ghost-like beings that come about from a dishonorable death, Oni punish you in hell, Bake-kujira sort of sum up the collective fears of the sea and a lot of mass death via famine is attributed to them, Gashadokuro threaten to eat you in the forests, Jorogumo are beguiling deaths, and Wanyudo threatened to kill children if they strayed from their parents. So every being mentioned in the track list is either created from a specific cause of death, or could *be the cause* of the listener's death. :P

Thank you so much, your words mean a lot! Production wise it's not as hard as you might think -- NI's Kontakt 14 stock instruments mainly with some freebies from Cymatics. Composing wise, I just studied a lot of gagaku and Noh theatre music, there's actually some great YT videos that go into traditional Japanese music theory, like the Yo scale, and some of the common rhythms and writing techniques used in their theatre and court music. If you like this sort of music, you might also enjoy artists like Shogun's Castle, Gates of Morheim, Kurotokage, and Goryō! They're all excellent "Japanese dungeon synth" artists -- basically the internet genre this would fall under if you had to assign a music genre to it.

Thank you so much for taking the time to comment, it means more than you could know. Especially when I have writers or other creatives tell me it's inspiring them or putting them in a flow state, nothing could be a higher compliment.

Thank you!

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Thank you!

Thank you for the encouragement!

Thank you so much! I really appreciate that feedback :)

Thank you for your in-depth feedback and encouragement :) I greatly appreciate it, and while I don't have a date in mind I do think I will return to this subgenre at some point in the future - it was very fun to make.

ありがとう 😊

YES. And thank you!

Thank you :)

Thank you :) that means a lot

Thank you!

I agree

@@aleksistristanshaw no problem, me that should thank you from doing great music :D

Huh! I've never sped it up like that before but I see what you mean :D thank you for your comment!

Yes, you can purchase this music pack or any others in the UE Marketplace, Unity Asset Store, GameDev Market, or Itch.io :) links are in the description of the video or in my channel's "about" section. Purchasing a license in one of these stores will grant you unlimited, non-exclusive, commercial use of the music for any and all games you wish to use them in.

Thank you! It was my first time writing for one, I definitely intend to use it more in the future :) it's limitations as opposed to a piano was a fun challenge.

Thank you! I really appreciate the feedback :)

Hell.

It's suppose to be unsettling lol it's a very personal, emotional ambient album for me.

Thank you! That means a lot. My mixing has improved greatly since I made this a couple years ago but I'm still really proud of this project - it was my first dark ambient album :)

If you're serious, send me a DM on instagram :) instagram.com/aleksis_shaw/

@@aleksistristanshaw danm, nvm I don't have an instagram account

@@anake9598 you can always send me an email, it's listed on my channel about section

Thank you so much! :) there are some tracks I think are a little buried in my catalogue, so I plan on giving this channel a little more attention in the coming months.

That's my RUclips music link, as you can see it's under the same name. It's just wise for artists to also post on their personal channel :)

I agree, if I were to actually score a Backroom's game I'd probably do mostly dark ambient stuff and take a lot of inspo from artists like The Caretaker. This track was produced really early in the urban legend's birth - long before any of the lore or aesthetics were fleshed out :)

Thank you! That means a lot to me :)

No, I meant, heres almost no WiFi in backrooms level, so its barely made in the backroom.

@@sansate_ Level 3 seems like the most logical option to record/upload stuff despite there being tons of entities.

@@williamdixon2446 I know, but i said ALMOST no WiFi in backrooms, not FULLY. hehe