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#NUWRLDの気持ち

death's dynamic shroud

Released on April 6, 2014

Alternative Title: FEELINGS OF #NUWRLD

Duration: 59:25

“James Webster: Most of my samples are found through life experience. [...] A lot of the early mixtapes I had my whole life experience to guide me - like I used to leave Star Fox 64's menu just on looping in my bedroom as a kid because I loved the music, or I always wished the cool part of Zora's Fountain in Ocarina of time went on longer, or I remember it being 2007 and that time I smoked a bowl and played Pikmin and started crying during Olimar's journal at the end of day one because the music was so beautiful, etc.”
- 03/08/2021

Discussion of the album title and its possible meanings.

James Webster: “When I first started doing covers for DDS albums it was the first time I had really done something "glitchy" outside of the [HCMJ - Metropolis] cover and experiments with photoshop AI with [HCMJ - Iron Cities]. Before then I was mostly into album covers containing one potentially iconic photograph.
“The first DDS cover was straight up a screenshot from Shenmue I found online and put a soft focus filter on, but the covers got progressively more involved from that point. RPG Windows Vista I felt really close to getting what I was really after, and then Feelings of #NUWRLD was truly the breakthrough and the genesis of the methods I continue to use today.
“It was the first time I had ever used Blender, making the 3D text was a huge milestone moment, and maybe just as important it was the first time I grabbed a row of pixels and stretched them off the canvas - which I just loved as a way to represent the way we were taking tiny bits of music and sort of blasting them into the infinite. I had seen some vaporwave art that were using filters and programs to simulate glitching, but I wanted to make something that didn't look like anything else out there - so I was determined to do everything manually with basic Photoshop tools.
“It's really exciting, tbh, because when you grab a certain line of pixels you never know what exactly you're going to get until you stretch them out. I'll never forget how sick it was getting the big block of pixels on the #NUWRLD cover... in fact for [The Sailing- Anniversary of Spears] I dropped in the same lines from #NUWRLD's file and just changed the color! Those same lines are also featured on the new Vitesse X remix cover - they are just perfect. [...] There they are" clear image of the stretched pixels featured on the album cover
- 01/01/2022

Tracklist

  1. MACHINE死

    Alternative Title: MACHINE DEATH
    Duration: 02:47
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  2. ノーバディホーム (パート1)

    Alternative Title: NOBODY HOME (PART 1)
    Duration: 02:35
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    FangTheWerewolf: “Possibly overthinking this but is there a deeper meaning to the fact that Nobody Home Part 3 is CRAZY different in mood than 1 and 2”
    James Webster: “there are 4 versions of that song on the Mystical Ninja 64 ost, I just wanted to use different versions of the same theme to create a sort of 'symphonic cohesion' on #NUWRLD (and saved the 4th with the surprise turn around for DERELICT) - and part 3 it's like a music box winding down or something to me”
    - 05/07/2021

  3. NEWSPAPER

    Alternative Title: NEWSPAPER
    Duration: 01:03
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  4. SPACEYガール

    Alternative Title: SPACEY GIRL
    Duration: 03:03
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  5. 美麗な画面

    Alternative Title: BEAUTIFUL SCREEN
    Duration: 03:40
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  6. リラックスENJOY

    Alternative Title: RELAX ENJOY
    Duration: 05:31
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  7. ダンス

    Alternative Title: DANCE
    Duration: 01:59
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  8. NIGHT-T天

    Alternative Title: NIGHT-T HEAVEN
    Duration: 05:26
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  9. ノーバディホーム (パート2)

    Alternative Title: NOBODY HOME (PART 2)
    Duration: 03:31
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    FangTheWerewolf: “Possibly overthinking this but is there a deeper meaning to the fact that Nobody Home Part 3 is CRAZY different in mood than 1 and 2”
    James Webster: “there are 4 versions of that song on the Mystical Ninja 64 ost, I just wanted to use different versions of the same theme to create a sort of 'symphonic cohesion' on #NUWRLD (and saved the 4th with the surprise turn around for DERELICT) - and part 3 it's like a music box winding down or something to me”
    - 05/07/2021

  10. 入力終了

    Alternative Title: END OF INPUT
    Duration: 00:18
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  11. 木WIND木

    Alternative Title: WIND BETWEEN TREES
    Duration: 02:13
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    [Favorite memory working on #NUWRLDの気持ち]
    James Webster: “Getting FFXI up and running on my ps2 again to sample the game and sound effects on the old hardware for “木WIND木.””
    - 12/25/2020

  12. 『CRUELストーリー』

    Alternative Title: "CRUEL STORY"
    Duration: 02:44
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  13. 近藤浩治

    Alternative Title: KOJI KONDO
    Duration: 03:27
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  14. アップビートwwwwwww

    Alternative Title: UPBEATwwwwwww
    Duration: 04:08
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    [in response to someone posting Wave Race 64 - Config music]
    James Webster: “wow even I had forgotten about that sample haha
    “i used to just browse N64 osts while recording onto cassette and then dump them back in massive files as slower/wobbling speeds, clip out bits and then form them into tracks
    “so there's a lot of guesswork when I try to remember certain samples - that one was def completely lost from me”
    - 03/04/2021

  15. 街の時計

    Alternative Title: CITY CLOCK
    Duration: 02:19
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  16. JETTING地下室

    Alternative Title: JETTING BASEMENT
    Duration: 03:06
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  17. 彼女のGARDEN

    Alternative Title: HER GARDEN
    Duration: 03:57
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    mental: “as far as I know, HER GARDEN is the only diamond and pearl sample from DDS, right?”
    James Webster: “i was living with tech in dayton at the time, playing diamond - i came across that track and started freaking out, plugged my DS into my speakers and blasted it yelling to tech ‘OMG tech do you hear this song?!?!’”
    Tech Honors: “haha i remember this exactly”
    - 06/01/2021

  18. ノーバディホーム (パート3)

    Alternative Title: NOBODY HOME (PART 3)
    Duration: 02:19
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    James Webster: “there are 4 versions of that song on the Mystical Ninja 64 ost, I just wanted to use different versions of the same theme to create a sort of 'symphonic cohesion' on #NUWRLD (and saved the 4th with the surprise turn around for DERELICT) - and part 3 it's like a music box winding down or something to me”
    - 05/07/2021

  19. 普通預金口座

    Alternative Title: SAVINGS ACCOUNT
    Duration: 03:32
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  20. またあとで会いましょう！

    Alternative Title: SEE YOU LATER!
    Duration: 01:37
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