Lampy from CTRL by MOULE

LAMPY - A thumpin' techno track soundtracking the Cyber Threat Resistance League's discovery of Lampy, an AI taking the form of a firefly! Lampy's not like the other rogue AI Bugs and wants to help CTRL find Delgado by tracing all addresses holding Delcoins.

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Lampy began all the way back on June 14, 2018 as "The Land Down Underscore" which was about a cyberpunk version of the Australian outback, but finished recently, re-purposed as "Lampy" to cover the MOULE WORLD arc of the Cyber Threat Resistance League (CTRL) tracing Delcoin transactions across Big Crypto's blockchain, as they suspect Delcoin could relate to Delgado's disappearance. They find most addresses holding Delcoin start with "1ab".

While discussing their findings over NNMS, a supposedly anonymous private chat platform, CTRL encountered Lampy, a Bug (an AI program, almost universally rogue) that was actually helpful and wants to help them save Delgado from Big Crypto! They were suspicious at first, thinking Lampy was just another Bug crawling out from the dark web to thwart their progress, but Lampy soon unveiled every 1ab address in what they call "The Labyrinth". They are now closer to finding Delgado's blockchain avatar and bringing it into an address free from Bug control. However, their chats were quickly swamped by rogue bugs, but Lampy left behind an encrypted clue to help CTRL on a more secure platform. You can read more about CTRL's discovery of Lampy here: https://mastodon.moule.world/@Melody/112100247278941092

My aim was for this track to be techno, synthwavey and tech-house-y, but dropped the synthwave sound to favour more techno-y vibes. It also follows a storyline with the following:

1. An intense bass beat opening soundtracking CTRL querying Big Crypto's closed-source blockchain without getting caught.
2. After a sudden stop in beats, a more intense "chorus" begins when CTRL discover that a lot of the hexadecimal addresses receiving and holding Delcoins start with "1ab", leading to their discovery of Lampy.
3. The first pad-dominated section soundtracks the AI bug Lampy, but its mood sours in the middle of its melody as CTRL think it's just another bug out to thwart their efforts.
4. Similar to section 2, with bongos adding to the sense of urgency of CTRL. The melody of Lampy creeps in once again.
5. Similar to section 3, but with a more upbeat melody soundtracking Lampy using its AI powers to expose all 1ab addresses making up what Lampy calls "The Labyrinth" in which Delgado the Bull is housed in.
6. Outro slowly removing all the instruments to lead to a creepy ending.

As for the cover artwork, I started with a single grey square, manipulated to form Lampy the firefly's body. I did look at some reference images online of fireflies while making this (it's my first time designing a firefly so I wanted to get it right) but did not trace anything.

After Lampy was designed, it looked like just a normal firefly, so I wanted to give it unique features by editing their lower wing (and later their elytron; their left wings are behind these two) to have a circuitry design that also formed the basis for spelling "Lampy" as the word art. Lampy also has electricity flowing between its antennae for more uniqueness. I also made the background of connected squares with hexadecimal code in it symbolising Big Crypto's blockchain, used the Delcoin symbol I made for Dead Internet's cover artwork, and added a magnifying glass with CTRL's logo on it showing them discovering Lampy (or rather, Lampy discovering them) during their blockchain search.

My original design in mind was going to have a black background instead of blue, with yellow within the magnifying glass symbolising Lampy lighting up the way to navigate through Big Crypto's blockchain, but it was going to be too hard to edit with the original blue squares I designed and I ended up using a strict blue, white, yellow colour scheme. It's now canon that Lampy's blue as well!

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I'm extremely proud of this track's mastering and from a sound engineering perspective think this is my best yet. Let me know what you think on the Fediverse at https://MASTODON.MOULE.WORLD/@MOULE (or copy and paste @MOULE@MOULE.WORLD into your own instance's search bar), or get in contact via "Contact MOULE" to the right of this page!

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Tracklist

9.	Lampy	7:12

Credits

from CTRL, track released March 29, 2024

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