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ティーンファンタジー:MYSTIC QUEST

death's dynamic shroud

Released on February 14, 2014

Alternative Title: TEEN FANTASY: MYSTIC QUEST

Duration: 01:13:02

Emurr: “[...] @Tech Honors , I listened to MYSTIC QUEST for the first time tonight in my quest to review every DDS thing in the catalog, and thats the only one I hadnt heard before besides the mixtape club releases.
“Its one of my new favorite projects in the discog, and I was just curious if like, you knew that you were setting the tone for DDS as a whole, or did that project come about as you just experimenting?”
[...]
Tech Honors: “literally i was just experimenting, that was my first time making an album with Ableton. i had gotten into this one vaporwave album (https://linckoln.bandcamp.com/album/now-thats-what-i-call-music-vol-2) and i liked how it used pop samples (i had never heard Chuck Person's Eccojams before) and i wanted to do that while also sampling SNES music.
“it's the worst DDS album imo. it's way too long, and the effects processing isn't very good, and the editing is borderline non-existent. but it was a nice starting point for me. much like with Shenmue Online, James and i never really had much intention for anyone to ever hear it lol”
- 06/26/2021

Hyper Reality: “ok...how do I make text that looks like this: Ï Đ☯ℵ’☨ ₭ϧ§ ⋃ ŁÏ₭€ Ï Ų§€Đ 2
“and like: ☮⭐︎§ℇ∀ ¢Ʀℇ∀ƗŮƦℇ パレード⭐︎☮”
[...]
Tech Honors: “i just use the generic Mac app "TextEdit" which I think defaults to Helvetica. Then i go up to the top of the screen and click 'Edit' and then select "Emoji & Symbols" and it gives me a big chart with every unicode symbol and then i just browse thru them and double-click on the one i want and it types it into the TextEdit document. It's an extremely tedious process and i hate it lol"
[...]
Tech Honors: “i really liked the idea of future operating systems not being able to read it correctly, sort of making itself ephemeral by design”
- 04/06/2021

smug duck: “[MYSTIC QUEST cover girl is from] a stock photo, no?”
Tech Honors: “it wasn't a stock photo, it was part of an ‘oral fetish’ themed art exhibit”
- 12/15/2020

Tech Honors: “[...] the cover artwork for MYSTIC QUEST and DESIRE could definitely be considered (literal) asian fetishization, but I like to think we've moved forward from that by now”
- 03/24/2021

Tracklist

  1. ⩥⩥⩥§CHøøL UNI4M⩤⩤⩤

    Alternative Title: SCHOOL UNIFORM
    Duration: 08:10
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  2. ₱IƵƵA Đ℞E∆M

    Alternative Title: PIZZA DREAM
    Duration: 03:57
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  3. ~☯RAL FIXẪ✞I☯N~

    Alternative Title: ORAL FIXATION
    Duration: 05:49
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  4. *✿* LO♥︎E ₵OMA // LO♥︎E DA¥D℞E∆M *✿*

    Alternative Title: LOVE COMA / LOVE DAYDREAM
    Duration: 08:12
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  5. トラジディー

    Alternative Title: TRAGEDY
    Duration: 08:51
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  6. ENDLE§§ 夏の唇☀︎☼☀︎

    Alternative Title: ENDLESS SUMMER LIPS
    Duration: 05:07
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  7. ♔♕

    Alternative Title: KING & QUEEN
    Duration: 04:07
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  8. ♍︎INT PRO♍︎ DR€SS ✔︎

    Alternative Title: MINT PROM DRESS
    Duration: 05:36
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  9. ❖PR∆Y ✞✞✞ 4 ✞✞✞ ₲ΩD❖

    Alternative Title: PRAY FOR GOD
    Duration: 07:34
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  10. ダンス✪✪✪ファンタジー

    Alternative Title: DANCE FANTASY
    Duration: 06:11
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  11. ❤︎BL◎◎D GENE§I§❤︎

    Alternative Title: BLOOD GENESIS
    Duration: 09:24
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    cathy the stupid: “I'm pretty sure tech made the original with lossless files lol”
    Tech Honors: “far from it lol - original blood genesis was a youtube rip”
    - 11/23/2022

    Tech Honors: “of my own albums, i don't really like Mystic Quest that much. i was mostly just fucking around with slowing shit down when i made that - i made the whole thing over a weekend. i think there were like 10 additional tracks that didn't even make the album, that's how low-effort the whole thing was. i just wanted to slow down some pop songs and some 16-bit video game music.”
    whitmusic: “10?? 👀”
    Tech Honors: “probably something like that. lemme check
    “i ended up turning one of them into ‘The Aquarius’ on Yellow Flower Lost
    “oh yeah and one of them i end up turning into ‘Butterflies’"
    [...]
    Tech Honors: “okay so all in all, it looks like there are actually 11 tracks that didn't make the cut. but like i said, i ended up using two of them in other songs. additionally one of the songs I sampled, James ended up sampling for a song later on for a different dds song haha
    “oh shit, one of these also ended up being used for ‘Disney Prince$$’”
    - 02/06/2021

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