CHRISTMAS IN THE BACKROOMS | The Backrooms Christmas song!
27,279Whilst I was in the attic last week, fishing out our Christmas decorations, I stumbled upon an old box of VCR equipment clearly left by the previous owner. Alongside the dusty old hardware were a bunch of tapes. Most were too degraded after what must be decades in a dusty attic to play at all. The few that did work were mostly home recordings of old TV. Clearly well used, garbled from countless re-recordings over the same fragile strip of magnetic tape, snippets of programming from years gone by.
Uploaded here is one of the small salvageable segments from a tape labelled 'Christmas '86'.
Strangely, since I found that tape... I've not actually been able to find my way back down from the attic. There was a hatch here somewhere... A ladder? But it just... Keeps going...?
Is anyone there?
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I told you I wanted to do something new! I never said something couldn't still be spooky!
And yes, it is kind of a demi-parody of 'Holly Jolly Christmas'! I've wanted to do something jazzy since I last attempted it with 'Another Horror Holiday' way back in 2019. But where that was a pastiche of more modern festive jazz, I wanted to go back further and take a stab at a real classic festive sound.
Couple that with my love for the old TV holiday special aesthetic and weird hobby of enjoying vintage commercial compilations and the idea of a 'Backrooms Holiday Special' on a mysterious old tape wedged itself in my head a year ago and hasn't left since. It felt like a match made in heaven. Analogue horror meets analogue holidays!
A huge thanks to everyone who helped put this together! Bonecage for producing the music, Freeced for providing the piano and of course to Coda for animating everything and providing the CG environments!
See you all next year folks! If I can ever find my way out of here...
#backrooms #thebackrooms
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Lyrics and Vocals by The Stupendium
Video by The Stupendium & Lizzy CJ
With animation by @CodaAnim
Music produced by @Bonecage
Piano by @Freeced
Vintage commercials sourced from @SomeClassicGameMusic
VHS Noise provided by @PaulsVids
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