#crwn: intro

[tildeathiwillwrite]

WIP Intro: The Legend of Orian Goldeneye

I've been tagged by @illarian-rambling to do the Wip Intro tag game, so here I am, finally composing a legitimate intro!

Rules: Fill out the questions for your wip! Blank Questions: Title: Genre: Audience: Tags: Stage of the Writing Process: Synopsis:

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Title: The Legend of Orian Goldeneye

Genre: Portal Fantasy, Urban Fantasy

Audience: Around YA/Adult by publishing metrics, TV-14 by show metrics

Tags: #the legend of orian goldeneye, #orian goldeneye, #jasper katherine, #killian cory, #azura lazuli, #diana ozborne, #henrik bronze

Stage of the Writing Process: Rewrites

Synopsis:

On the planet Somnia, there are two worlds, hopelessly intertwined: the physical world, and the dream. In the dream, anything is possible.

...Unless it involves black glass.

The city of Saint's Shoal is in a state of unrest. A dreamshaper by the name of Azura Lazuli seeks vengeance, and she will stop at nothing to see it through. The responsibility falls to Orian Goldeneye, mythical child of balance, to stop her before her actions harm innocents. But he's only one dreamshaper, and every battle between them ends in a draw. He's getting desperate.

So what happens when two strangers get tossed into a prison designed for dreamshapers? An opportunity is siezed, and it just might tip the scales in his favor.

But time's running short, and Orian's new allies, Jas and Killian, may be far more than meets the eye. Will they aid him and put an end to Azura's reign of terror? Or will they bring more problems than he started with?

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Gently tagging @fourwingedwriter @thewritingautisticat @phoenixradiant @crwn-nrth @catwings-writes-things

@pluppsauthor @pluttskutt and anyone else who wants to give it a go! :D

[sentfromwolves]

First last line tag game of 2024, let's GO! Thank you so much for the recent tag @sunset-a-story! I'm working through revising HBABL and drafting CTS for @moon-and-seraph's Words into Potions March event, so I'll share something from there (๑˃ᴗ˂)ﻭ

I'm cheating just a little because this Marek intro carries over from an older draft into the new one. I just liked the writing so much I couldn't let it go hehe

◈ CARVE THE STARS—Chapter One ⌈ Excerpt ⌋

In the garish neon glow of the bar, Marek Khalid looked ruthless. Strips of gory yellow light pooled across the dark brown of his skin, illuminating the black ink of two wolves snarling at each other across the breadth of his collarbone. His eyes were dark pits of anti-color, black as the void, but then he lifted his gaze to Wren and shards of tarry amethyst refracted through them like fragments of shattered glass. He wore a black leather jacket already scuffed by the ruthless desert dust, the dark shine of his shoes faring no better. A silver chain hung at his throat like a delicate noose. "There you are," he said, his voice decadent and unholy. "I've been looking for you."

Tagging the usual suspects and some new friends! @tananaphone @juls-writes @carrotblr @awritingcaitlin @k-v-briarwood @lunafiorewrites @interroblog @littleladymab @lorenfinch @picrosswrites @flowerbwrites @akiwitch @365runesoftheamalgamations @crwn-nrth @maddstermind @forthesanityofstorytellers

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Uprising rapper @thedshaun breaks the long reign held by ELEANOR’s debut EP, A LATE BLOOM, and storms to the top of the #albumoftheweek chart with album, CRWN also currently chart at #4 on #itunesmusic chart 🔥 Why not listen to intro track NONSTOP

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listened in july 2017

Jay-Z - American Gangster

L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae - The Night Took Us in Like Family

Algiers - Algiers

Sneaks - It’s a Myth

Chuck Johnson - Balsams

Jay-Z - In My Lifetime, Vol. 1

Jay-Z - Vol. 2...Hard Knock Life

Chuck Johnson - Velvet Arc

Deafheaven - Sunbather

Chuck Johnson - Blood Moon Boulder

HAIM - Something to Tell You

Madlib - Beat Konducta, Vol. 5 - 6: Dil Cosby & Dil Withers Suite

Toro y Moi - Boo Boo

21 Savage - Issa Album

DJ Shadow - The Mountain Has Fallen EP

Tyler, the Creator - Cherry Bomb

21 Savage & Metro Boomin - Savage Mode

Nick Hamin - Green Twins

DARKSIDE - Psychic

Hand Habits - Wildly Idle (Humble Before the Void)

Knxwledge - HEX​.​10​.​8_

Knxwledge - GREENTXTS​.​V1

Shabazz Palaces - Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines

DARKSIDE - DARKSIDE EP

Nick Hakim - Where We Will Go, Pt. 1 EP

Nick Hakim - Where We Will Go, Pt. 2 EP

Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon

Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy

Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence

FKA Twigs - EP1

Kevin Morby - Singing Saw

Lana Del Rey - Born To Die

Lana Del Rey - Paradise

A$AP Ferg - Trap Lord

Gaussian Curve - The Distance

Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate

Mura Masa - Mura Masa

Madlib - Beat Konducta, Vol. 3 & 4: In India

Coldplay - Kaleidoscope EP

Wizkid - Sounds From The Other Side

Chaz French - True Colors

Terrace Martin Presents The Pollyseeds - The Sounds of Crenshaw Vol. 1

Beach House - B-Sides and Rarities

Daphni - Fabriclive 93

Chuck Johnson - Crows in the Basilica

Lil Uzi Vert - Lil Uzi Vert vs. The World

Lil Uzi Vert - The Perfect LUV Tape

Lil Uzi Vert - LUV Is Rage

Knxwledge - Hexual​.​Sealings​.​LP

Knxwledge - HEX​.​9​.​8_

RAC - EGO

Waxahatchee - Out in the Storm

Michael Jackson - Off the Wall

RAC - Strangers

Chuck Johnson - A Struggle Not a Thought

Sneaks - Gymnastics

MF Doom - Mm… Food

MF Doom - Operation Doomsday

Roosevelt - Midnight Versions

Lana Del Rey - Lust for Life

Vic Mensa - The Autobiography

Hare Squead - Supernormal EP

Nav & Metro Boomin - Perfect Timing

Nine Inch Nails - Add Violence EP

Cornelius - Mellow Waves

Avey Tare - Eucalyptus

Nick @ Knight - Nick @ Knight

Dizzee Rascal - Raskit

MIKE - May God Bless Your Hustle

Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds from Another Planet

Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp

Kirk Knight - Late Knight Special

Slow Hollows - Romantic

Kirk Knight - Black Noise

Alina Baraz & Galimaties - Urban Flora

Kero Kero Bonito - Bonito Generation

Nyck Caution - Disguise the Limit

Kero Kero Bonito - Intro Bonito

DOOM - Born Like This

Hey Violet - From the Outside

SISTER - SISTER: Volume One

Joanna Newsom - Divers

Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens

Grimes - Darkbloom

Arcade Fire - Everything Now

Sylvan Esso - Echo Mountain Sessions EP

Aminé - Good For You

Luke Christopher - TMRWFRVR

Eli Sostre - Sleep Is For The Weak

Little Simz - Stillness in Wonderland

Swimming Tapes - Souvenirs EP

Nines - One Foot Out

Margo Price - Weakness EP

Crwn & Jess Connelly - How I Love EP

Alvvays - Alvvays

Jessie Ware - Devotion

Jessie Ware - Tough Love

67 - Glorious Twelfth

Little Simz - A Curious Tale of Trials + Persons

Rex Orange County - Apricot Princess

Cosmo Pyke - Just Cosmo EP

Rex Orange County - bcos u will never be free

SACRED PAWS - Strike a Match

favourite 3: Flower Boy, Soft Sounds From Another Planet, Mura Masa

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[amplitubeonline-blog]

Trails of Fire: AMP’s Composers for the New Age

Written by Karl Estuart

The age of the beat tape is upon us. Artists such as CRWN have long shown that the local scene had already caught up to the movement that’s made waves and taken hold in the online underground, with others such as similarobjects and the BuwanBuwan Collective now making it completely their own. Trials of Fire works as a statement of where the Ateneo Musicians Pool is in the scene now – a wryly presented statement in line with both the scene and the org’s identity.

The rise of beat-driven instrumental music go all the way back to the 1980s with the emergence of hip-hop, but the culture surrounding releases today markedly belongs to today. Everyone and their friends have put up Soundclouds, have put up songs on their Soundclouds. Everyone has the necessary programs on their laptops, passing around plug-ins that give those synths just the right amount of reverb to sound rain-drenched, the drum loop enough punch to cut through the rest of the lines and allow for a tension that doesn’t disrupt the vibe but rather infuse it with energy, momentum. The essence of this sound, streamlined through several years – the raw boom-bap of the 80s, the jazzy concoctions of A Tribe Called Quest and Nujabes, to the sultry electronic fusions today – was always vibe. To listen was to experience, to live in the producer’s design. Without any lyrics to latch on to, beat music may very well be classical for the millennial, producers the new composers. It’s a renaissance and everyone’s become prolific. 

The convenience of online platforms allows artists to freely saturate the Internet with their output. It’s not just bands armed with their first singles and EPs, but the figure that’s come to be known as the bedroom producer – armed with synths and MIDI controllers collected on budget, a laptop with its screen lined with waveforms on its DAW interface. A musician no longer has to enter studios to get the results they want. They don’t even need to leave their bed to create and put out their work. 

Count the number of people eager to join AMP as producers and it’s clear that beat-driven music has spread, is spreading, and impressing itself upon the sensibilities of every music listener. “There’s a producer subtrack in the Artists Management, under miscellaneous artists,” SPP Head Daniel Scarlata says, “but it might turn into its own track soon.” Having a good amount of producers eager to be heard, the org readily put out calls for the tape and released it online. “It was a very informal thing,” Producer Head Andrea Ramos says. With this release, AMP is directly caught up in the tides shifting towards beat music that already comprises a majority of all uploads in online music platforms. The tape – uploaded in Bandcamp and downloadable at any price, including but not limited to $0 – is in dialogue with an entire body of online beat music, entering the scene modestly without any intentions of setting bars or reforming the sound of the movement. In fact, within the tape can be heard all the trappings of the sound, as well as highlights. 

The tape clearly enters at a point where the scene has become so prominent that any attempts at self-referentiality are well-understood. These are apparent from the cover and title alone, and perhaps also in the songs themselves. Taking ipagpatawad mo by Andrea Ramos, the construction of the song is simple and prototypical – a programmed percussion line, a synth line that loops along with and complements the beat. The song’s structure morphs, develops on this structure – double-time hi-hats soon emerge, and the drums fade away totally to make way for a sample of a classic Pinoy love song ripped straight from the AM radio stations of taxis. All the pertinent elements of the movement’s sound are explored, and nothing more, nothing less. The song manifests all that made the sound such a hit – loose and dreamy enough to color the background and space out to, and just as compelling when actively listened to.

The tape enters the headspace of beat music listeners from the first bars of intro track july by lui., alias of Javier Pimentel. The synth line, supplemented by notes produced in that distinct bedroom-tinged tone, winds up and forward, back and forth, distinct enough to both grab your attention and then lose it, allowing you space and to wander. It is warmly mesmerizing, and the backing sample of somebody speaking feels right at home in what the song has so richly evoked already. The rest of the song, following the prototypical and magical structure of a hip-hop beat with synths and samples laid over, is a taste of the rest to come.

On the tape, every song makes their own key developments on the prototypical structure, such as making way for a curious sample to constructively impede the groove such as on ipagpatawaad mo, a jazzier take with sampled rapping making the song sound like a direct homage to Nujabes on round the fire, a guitar lead on Flow, glamorous and snappy synth eruptions familiar to CRWN listeners on About You, complementary high-pitched pluckings and thick subbass on Cocoa Butter, and the filtered vocal sample characteristic of cloud rap in oil.

Serving as testament to a rising sound that AMP has always been steadily catching up to and moving towards, Trails of Fire is a taste of what is to come, both for the org’s musical explorations and projects. Integral to the culture of beat music is its online presence. What follows are live performances, singular artists taking the stands with a rig of controllers, recreating their beats only to bend them at their will, distending the synth lines or introducing a new sample before swiftly moving on to the next beat. Nothing ties down a producer and their work. In the face of infinite possibilities provided by music-making means today, structure is there to be adopted or subverted. Where will we carry the sound? The tape is the beginning of an answer to this, and may count as one of AMP’s many entries to a scene perpetually in forward-motion.

Listen to Trails of Fire here!