Starbound Orchestral OST

I've been given the ok to sell my contributions to the the Starbound project here on my site, and, after a few days of collecting tracks, editing album art, and uploading files, I can happily say that the Starbound Orchestral OST is available. $10 gets you over 4 hours of orchestral and synthetic music from Starbound, including all of the "Experimental" tracks originally available on Soundcloud. Included in this album are two new orchestral tracks-- "Nomads (Passacaglia)" and "Accretion Disc". 

All of the mp3's are high quality-- 192kbps for the Experimental tracks and 320kbps for the Orchestral tracks. You can listen to all of the tracks at the OST page before your purchase-- all purchases are handled through Stripe.​ You'll need to download the album in sections-- with such high bitrates, it takes up more than 500MB, which is larger than my ecommerce system will handle in a single file. Just follow the instructions to redeem Parts 2 and 3 of the soundtrack.

And of course: Enjoy!​

Track listing:​

Horsehead Nebula 1 7:36

Stellar Formation 2 7:49

Eridanus Supervoid 3 7:33

Haiku 4 7:36

Cygnus X1 5 13:23

Psyche 6 5:26

Large Magellanic Cloud 7 6:14

Epsilon Indi 8 10:58

Hymn to the Stars 9 4:38

Europa 10 6:05

Atlas 11 4:07

Casiopeia 12 6:05

Mercury 13 6:26

Temple of Kluex 14 8:36

Mira 15 20:05

Procyon 16 9:09

Blue Straggler 17 5:43

Nomads (Passacaglia) 18 10:08

Accretion Disc 19 4:58

Tranquility Base 20 11:55

Vast, Immortal Suns 21 4:05

(Experimental OST) Arctic Battle 1 22 2:24

(Experimental OST) Arctic Battle 2 23 1:55

(Experimental OST) Arctic Battle 3 24 1:40

(Experimental OST) Arctic Constellation 1 25 11:04

(Experimental OST) Arctic Constellation 2 26 9:25

(Experimental OST) Arctic Exploration 1 27 4:16

(Experimental OST) Arctic Exploration 2 28 4:00

(Experimental OST) Crystal Battle 1 29 3:08

(Experimental OST) Crystal Exploration 1 30 3:04

(Experimental OST) Crystal Exploration 2 31 4:21

(Experimental OST) Desert Battle 2 32 3:38

(Experimental OST) Desert Exploration 1 33 2:30

(Experimental OST) Desert Exploration 2 34 3:06

(Experimental OST) Glitch 35 3:20

(Experimental OST) Inviolate 36 2:47

(Experimental OST) Lava Exploration 2 37 4:48

(Experimental OST) Lava: Exploration 1 38 3:20

(Experimental OST) Ocean Battle 1 39 1:22

(Experimental OST) Ocean Exploration 2 40 3:23

(Experimental OST) Tentacle Battle 1 41 1:27

(Experimental OST) Tentacle Exploration 1 42 2:40

(Experimental OST) Planetarium 43 4:18

(Experimental OST) On the Beach at Night-- Original Version 44 4:17

Pixel Portraits

I suppose I should make an avatar of myself in the character creator.

That was easy.​

Switching to Squarespace

I have long maintained my own Wordpress-powered site, and before that, joined Wordpress.com a few weeks after they opened to the public. I've built Wordpress sites for employers, friends, and even spent some time running my own hardware out of my own home to keep a WP-powered site online. 

In other words, I know ​Wordpress. I know a little PHP. I'm pretty good with Linux (or at the very least, I'd like to think I can keep a secure LAMP machine up and running without having to rely on anyone but my ISP). 

So, why Squarespace? ​

​I've heard a lot about the service-- I've been an avid listener to This Week in Tech and its associated Leo Laporte-hosted podcasts since long before Squarespace started their advertising binge there. Even though I've been a loyal customer of Laughing Squid for several years (and would recommend them wholeheartedly to anyone who wants fantastic Wordpress hosting), I kept finding myself wishing I didn't have to manage plugins or run Wordpress updates or go buy premium Wordpress themes just to keep a modern site online. Wishing that I had a simple, working​ WYSIWYG editor that didn't insert random "&nbsp" into my text, that actually produced the same layout every time-- without the need for endless boxee plugins or markdown editors or irritatingly unreliable HTML5 audio players.

Add to that the fact that e-commerce on Wordpress can be a nightmare-- do a search for "wordpress e-commerce" and see what I mean-- and I finally just got tired of it. Tired of editing PHP and CSS by hand, tired of hearing about how easy it was to do thing things I wanted to do, if only I moved to Squarespace. ​

So I tried it. And within 24 hours, I had a site that I was really happy with. Editors that I was familiar with. E-commerce ready to turn on with the click of a button.​

Call me dumb, or a n00b, or lazy. Its probably true. But I've built a Squarespace site in less time that it used to take me to hunt down that plugin I wanted so badly, or find a premium theme that worked with the most recent version of Wordpress. I bought 1 beautiful stock image with some money I'd made on AudioJungle, and I was good to go.​

It was that easy. ​

And I've never been happier with my site.​