MICROSITES

SONIC4
"the death of blox (a partial flashback)"
KRM-BLX02 - Digital Download + Special Edition LP
 

This album is a shorter and more exciting version of The Death Of Blox.

Different games and moments are held up for display as we take a trip

down the memory lane of our online social hangouts. Great for parties.

I came up with the idea for 'The Death Of Blox' after parting ways with a dear

friend of mine who I met in 2020. We had so many memories together, we

built many things, played many games and cracked many jokes while going

through the quarantine life together. The feeling of our friendship coming to

an end because of how both of us changed for the worse really felt like the

final nail in the coffin for the age of Roblox.

I went back and saw a pale shadow of the past. Repetitive and boring games,

endless microtransactions and greedy developers who lack soul in their games,

unfair moderation and endless drama within the toxic community, horrible updates

being pumped out by Roblox just to please corporate investors that are out of touch

with the scene. For me personally, something had died. The spirit, the fun, the

community. Roblox and its games felt dead to me.

The original 'The Death Of Blox' project was big with 40 tracks, using almost

every classic hit from the old Roblox times and stripping the spirit and energy

away from them to represent the old and dying games of the past. This was not

nostalgia; it was an inverted praise to a time when Roblox was about bringing

people together for a shared experience. A time when only the game's quality,

the passion that went into it, and getting on with the people mattered.

However, A Partial Flashback is centered around nostalgia. It's a throwback to

a time when Roblox was about bringing people together for a shared experience.

A celebration of our best moments, compiled to eleven tracks that have now been

pressed by Kunaki as a ‘memory of the dead past’. A monument to a lost era that

was finally set in stone via a physical format. A proof of its existence.

The tracks are in reference to the popularized games of Roblox from the time,

and some personal takes on my memories from those days. The people, the

music, the parties, the battles, and the long-lost games. Flashbacks only, now

consigned to their own dusty experiences.

"We danced like we never did before. We danced in the darkest

hour of the night. It's dead now, it's over. Long it may live..."

-Sonic4 after 'The Death Of Blox' event that took place in

the abandoned location of Sonic Cafe.