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The cover artwork of CTRL+ALT+DELGADO showing Delgado the bull madly running out of his prison cell he smashed open as the environment turns red, while also showing a blockchain map showing Melody and Lampy help work to get his authentication token into an address they can control allowing him to be freed.
The cover artwork of CTRL+ALT+DELGADO showing Delgado the bull madly running out of his prison cell he smashed open as the environment turns red, while also showing a blockchain map showing Melody and Lampy help work to get his authentication token into an address they can control allowing him to be freed.

CTRL+ALT+DELGADO

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Dramatic and noisy electronic music soundtracking the Cyber Threat Resistance League (CTRL)'s operation freeing Delgado at the heart of Big Crypto's blockchain prison The Labyrinth!
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CTRL+ALT+DELGADO (2024)

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I'm excited to share CTRL+ALT+DELGADO: dramatic and noisy electronic music soundtracking the Cyber Threat Resistance League finding Delgado at the heart of Big Crypto's blockchain prison The Labyrinth, and his chaotic and unpredictable escape from there, fighting bugs and running for freedom!

This track started off from scratch and was very tricky to make without direction. I started by reversing the ending of my track Reality Collapse (moule.bandcamp.com/track/reality-collapse), lowered its pitch, added reverb, and made it loop. Then I added what sounded to me like creepy numbers station bleep bloops by typing "DELGADO" in Logic Pro's Musical Typing keyboard, editing the output.

Next up I added glass smashing effects and creepy monster noises, and after much self-deliberation quickly abandoned the "audio-drama-only" vibe I was going for in favour of drum and bass music with rapid-fire snares and beats. Some extratone blast beats also feature, but they were heavily reverted and covered with last-minute beats I added.

It was a pain in the ass to get this track's volume, EQing, and mastering correct, as I was working with broken headphones and recorded the different parts at different volumes.

As for inspiration, someone posted this humorous video (yewtu.be/watch?v=oV0eeRdZS10) on the Fediverse about Mark Zuckerberg escaping containment, which had the track "Second Warning" from the Lobotomy Corporation OST (yewtu.be/watch?v=pe3h62MrlPE) playing in it. The theme of that video coupled with the short snippet of music in it inspired the rapid-fire snares and beats of CTRL+ALT+DELGADO, though I listened to the full version of Second Warning afterwards and it sounded like that version also soundtracks Delgado's escape from The Labyrinth much better than CTRL+ALT+DELGADO itself.

As for the cover artwork, it was made in Assembly, a graphic design app for iOS.

This cover art's timelapse starts with using Delgado's asset from Bad Luck's cover artwork and editing OpDaMyZr's running pose from HASTY HASTY HASTY HASTY's cover artwork. I've also changed Delgado's shoes so they're leather and not the yellow sneakers from Unlimited Data's cover art as they're much fitting for his character. In this artwork he is made to look very crazed, with bloodshot eyes, as he hasn't been seen in over a year, and his horns (and gold chain necklace) were converted into Delcoins via the rogue AIs and used as one of their sources of power.

The next part involved designing the top of the cover artwork showing CTRL, via Melody, moving Delgado's "lock token" out of The Labyrinth's blockchain addresses into one they control, causing Delgado's cell in The Labyrinth to unlock, him to break free, and fight monsters off-screen. I then designed the cells, which were originally going to be much more smaller and upright-cylinder-shaped, but wanted to keep consistency with Delgado crying in a cubic-shaped cell as shown in The Labyrinth's cover artworks (the track preceding the events of CTRL+ALT+DELGADO).

At this point my Assembly began crashing, so I had to export the top of the cover artwork as its own image and use as the project's background from now on. I spent a lot of time designing CTRL+ALT+DELGADO's word art in another project to avoid the crashes and imported it to this one via Assembly's stickers function when I finished making it.

I add more details which I end up changing a lot in this cover artwork. Delgado's prison was mostly blue, and he would've escaped the cell in the middle. However, Delgado mostly took up space in the centre of the image that obstructed the second cell and left the space around the third cell (closest to the background) empty, so I depicted Delgado escaping from that one instead and moving the smashed glass over there. The prominent blue colours were changed to red for an emergency feel and to match the ceiling alarm lights' colour.

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