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The Mystery Collection
"Mysteriously Mysterious Mystery"
From 8:30 to 8:41 (EST) on YouTube, I released The Mystery Collection, a compilation album beginning with "Mysteriously Mysterious Mystery" and with eleven other songs based on that first track, a track I originally wrote on October 18th, 2017 — nine years ago — at age 13. It was the second song I ever posted online — the first being "Get Spooped" — on Scratch. The reason I think it stuck around as long as it did is that it's really simple: it's a minor, three-note arpeggio. You sit me down at a piano, my first instinct will always be to riff on this song. In the years since I wrote this piece, I started using it as "my theme" so to speak. You can see it, for example, in Founding America in the Minecraft Backrooms, where I used it ad nauseum (even in scenes where I was nowhere to be seen). However, one iteration, "Enigmatic" is a cover of my friend's song (which I'd forgotten was the case until I compiled the OST video). He wrote his own song with the same arpeggio because, admittedly, it's not the most original motif. It's appeared in work before 2017 and it's appeared after that too. I've heard it in Small Saga's "Their Burrows Deeper", Iconoclasts' "Moonlight (VS Ivory Beast)" and The Newton Brothers' score for the Five Nights at Freddy's films. Sometime this decade, I've started using other of my early songs' melodies to represent myself in soundtrack from "Get Spooped" to others I never finished and released. However, for whatever reason, at some point in my adolescence and in the nine years since I made it, this song, "Mysteriously Mysterious Mystery", grew incredibly important to me.
"Easiest Case"
After "Mysteriously Mysterious Mystery", I did try to find a use for that arpeggio in two different projects — an early version of a character theme and a Not Good medley of the music I'd made so far until then. However, I wasn't satisfied with either usage. So, despite there being other remixes of the original song that ought to be sandwiched in between tracks one and two of this album, this one was the first that just acted solely as a remix of the original without trying to make it into something else.
"Everything is Mysterious"
This song, man. This song. I love this song. After composing it, I would listen to this song and limiting myself to the one minute length of the song, monologue to myself, mumbling, pacing around my room, pretending I was a detective stumped with an impossible case. I would dramatically look to the side like someone just walked in with more information or as if an imaginary wall-mounted corkboard with all the suspects and evidence, and the red string connecting them suddenly just made sense. I was locked in roleplay for the full minute and, while there's many more tracks in this collection that have impressed and captured me since, this one was the first one that really transported me elsewhere.
"Drawn into Mystery"
This one was actually for a school project. I had to make an opening title sequence for a non-existent TV show and came up with this sequence where I wake up (which is why there's that alarm-clock-esque beeping at the start) and get dressed in rotoscoped cartoon clothing before leaving my room as my cartoon self, ready to solve a mystery. It was really tedious to do, and why I didn't give myself less work is beyond me — I could've just used an existing song too — but, I didn't and now we've got this.
"Chillin Battle"
This was originally supposed to be used in a Rivals of Aether mod I was working on featuring myself. I got as far as creating this (and a victory theme variant) alongside a few stage graphics and character animations; I animated some attacks featuring my Ice Sword and various Minecraft weapons, alongside a taunt where I stance up like I'm back on JOE MAMA #0 and either say "they call me the Funny One" or some other line of dialogue based on my alternate costumes. Ultimately, realizing that I, someone who does not care about platform fighters (or Rivals of Aether's base cast) really and only plays it to laugh about custom characters with friends, don't know how to make a balanced "platform fighter" custom character. So, I decided I should probably shelve the idea. Unrelated though, but this one is the first and only track on the collection with vocals performed by me (as opposed to being done with soundfonts) for about eleven seconds at the end there.
"Alternatives"
The title for this one is derived from its filename "mmm_alternatives2.mcsz". When I composed it, I think the idea was just to experiment, and never to actually release it (the first time I ever exported it out of MuseScore was, like, a year after I composed it), but I liked where it fit into the listening order between "Chillin Battle" and "Chaos Chillin".
"Chaos Chillin"
Like "Alternatives", I believe I was just experimenting with the form (given I used BeepBox to make this), but then it spiraled into this weird (kind of) battle theme against "Chaos Chillin" or something, an AU Chillin that does not exist. I almost actually missed this one on account of it not being in my MuseScore files. If you want to check out what this looks inside BeepBox, I've linked the page here.
"Mysterious Waltz"
It is kind of wild that it took me as long as it did to make a variant of "Mysteriously Mysterious Mystery", a song known for three repeating notes, in 3/4 time. That said, I do genuinely struggle with writing non-4/4 pieces. If you ever see a song not in 4/4 time from me, just know it was a struggle. Hell, this track itself concludes out of 3/4 time and back into my comfortable 4/4 time.
"Mystery Mansion"
If you tune into my friends' streams on Twitch, you may have heard the shortened version of this track whenever I get really close to the mic and villainously monologue at Amber Polybrow about how I hate her or that I'm gonna kill her or whatever. It's always a great time. Except if you have your volume on high when I decided I want to do the bit.
"Another MMM Thing, I Guess"
When I saw the title of this one while working on this album, I was like, "this is probably just a sketch I won't care that much about" but then I listened to it and now it's track number ten on The Mystery Collection. It's also, like— The title is so absolutely right, too. "It's another one, I guess. Throw it on the pile." I hope, if you've (at any point listening to this album) thought, "Jesus, it really is just the same song over and over with only a few exceptions," I hope you at least feel seen seeing this title.
"Something Mysterious is Afoot..."
If you've heard "Get Spooped" (linked in the first paragraph) before listening to this collection, you might recognize how much it's appeared in this album in conjunction with "Mysteriously Mysterious Mystery". They both work well together and I recognized that early. Also in this track is the unreleased (because it's unfinished) "Cry, Why Don't You", a song I wrote in 2019 and have, in recent years, added to the Chillin leitmotif list. It was actually originally going to be included in the list I sent to Amber Polybrow for the fifth "Music Competition" stream, but I decided against it on account if it not being ever published. Instead, I gave her, like, three iterations of "Mysteriously Mysterious Mystery" (like an asshole) with a little "Get Spooped" at the end as a treat.
"Change Suite"
Like "Drawn into Mystery", this was composed for a school project, a documentary short film with a central theme of change, and its absence. One issue I'd had with "Mysteriously Mysterious Mystery" and a lot of my music is how repetitive it is. I would, especially for my first few years composing, come up with two to four bars of something and then copy and paste it throughout the entire song with little iteration, adding and removing an instrument or two. I introduced my Grade 8 class to "SAGA - Main Theme" (which we listened to for an hour while playing Smash 4 on my friend's Wii U he brought in that day), and while my other classmates were like, "this is sick" and it gave me a really big head, that friend kept me grounded and told me it was kind of repetitive. Like any criticism ever given to my work, I have taken that extremely to heart, and, from then on, tried to make my music change throughout. Working on Traversal has helped too; I have really found most of the tracks I've made for the game have shed that trademark Chillin repetition, even if they, said with derision or not, still have other musical elements I rely on without realizing. However, for this project, a project that speaks on a lack of change, I decided to embrace that repetition. The track is repetitive, and that's the point. It's sort of an ambiguous note to leave this collection on, but of all the music I've made with "Mysteriously Mysterious Mystery" over the past nine years, these tracks were the ones I felt were the highlights. There have been more "Mysteriously Mysterious Mystery" remixes than I've put here — loads more — and there will be loads more in the future. But until then, I hope, even if listening to this collection wasn't your ideal listening experience, that you at least enjoyed listening to some parts of it.
October 18th, 2026 - 08:45 EST