Adventure Thing #2.13 - "Stars (Tea and Movies)" & I Fight Dragons and Friends (Patreon)

O hai there - this week we've got a track that is on the border between unreleased and partially released, since it was posted on a random soundcloud account but we never really told anyone about it. So a handful of you might know it, but likely not many.

Unreleased Track - "Stars (Tea and Movies)"

This is a track that bears some similarities to "Modern Cyberman" in its genesis. The underlying musical track was given to me by our A&R guy at Atlantic, as something that needed a top line. It was a fun experiment to write the top line (melody and vocals), and this is what came out. 

The track isn't very IFD at all, and it never ended up going anywhere, but it was still a lot of fun to make, and I enjoy listening back to it all these years later.

Semi-Released Tracks - I Fight Dragons & Friends

When the Project Atma kickstarter started taking off like a rocket, I scrambled to think of cool things we could release every week throughout the campaign (foreshadowing these Album Adventures???). One of the ideas I had was to try and introduce our fans to other artists we like, primarily by having them do covers of IFD songs. This included every IFD member as solo artists (even Chad!). The crazy thing is that this was not at all planned, so people had to pull things together within a couple of week time frame, which was pretty nuts. Actually we had some other friends that wanted to join but just couldn't make the time frame work, like Area 11 who wanted to do a version of the Wells Track ("It's Not Me It's You"). Here's the ones that we released!

• "Money (8 Bit Weapon Remix)" - I've been a big fan of Seth and Michelle (both 8BW and Computeher) for many many years, they were some of the first chiptune artists I discovered and fell in love with back when initially starting IFD, and I love this remix with its super grindy bass and distorted vocals
• "cRaZie$ (Packy Lundholm Cover)" - This is Packy covering Crazies in the vein of his solo material (which if you haven't checked out you should do yourself a favor and listen to all of it). Super vibey with hand drums and organ and yum.
• "Just Decide (Living In Pretend Cover)" - Andrew Lothian has been a friend of the band for many many years, having done merch and front of house sound for us on our early tours, and he's had many awesome musical projects over the years (including songwriting collaborations with Bill as Will Post), he's currently releasing as Wallace Tallman.
• "Money (Will Post Cover)" - Bill in rare form with a piano / vocal cover of Money, also if you haven't checked out Will Post lately (his solo project), you really should. He's had a couple of well-deserved massive hits lately off of his latest album Beautiful Love, and the whole thing is pretty stellar.
• "cRaZie$ (Superpowerless Remix)" - Oliver Hindle is another one of those chiptune artists I found early on and fell in love with, when he was primarily releasing music as Superpowerless. Specifically his "Wasted My Time" was an early favorite for me and I still love the video for it. 
• "Going Nowhere" - This one is just one of Hari's solo songs. Little known fact, I met Hari at the first open mic I ever went to in Chicago, and we would hit up different open mics together around the city. I loved his eclectic folk songs about things like being the Hulk ("You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Green") and being an Oompa Loompa ("We All Work In A Chocolate Factory"), and I didn't even realize he played bass until one day he emailed me a track of him playing bass over a song I had just released (the rest is history. Ancient history at this point 🤣)
• "Chad Solo" - yep.