Hey Guys I'm New
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An entry-point to the Wibi discography.
The Three Genres
Wibi have mastered all three distinct genres. Some albums are in multiple genres, e.g. Low Bar's self-titled album covers the 3 genres in separate tracks.
Tracker
Releases with music made in OpenMPT.
Telephone
Releases with minimally processed live recordings (usually made with our phone).
Tenacity
Releases with music made in the Tenacity audio editor (or Audacity before 2025).
Technicality
Every great trinary has an exception that proves the rule true.
Chronology
Origins
Our early stuff, before we really felt motivated to make music aside from showing people in gamedev spaces how interesting and multitalented we were.
We did get to make The Softdrinq Suite with poetmistry, so that was nice.
Wibi Global Media Empire
Wibi Global Media Empire was an audio-only Youtube channel we started as an experiment in meritocracy: to see if we could get popular solely off of uploading music and nothing else; no social media presence, no showing off the rest of our discography, nothing. The answer, if you're wondering, is "no."
Regardless, this is where we generally consider the modern Wibi discography to have begun. Where we stopped proving we could make music, and started making music.
Mastodon Era
When we started posting songs on our (long-defunct) first Mastodon account, and making compilations of the songs we posted. We were back to the "aspiring indie gamedev ALSO MAKES MUSIC?!" model, but unlike before, we had a bit more faith in our work. (Spoiler: we never stopped being an "aspiring" gamedev before we stopped caring about gamedev culture.)
YSMM Wave 1
Kicked off by our desire to bring the Mastodon era to a head by releasing a self-titled album and posting it to some music subreddits. Ended up completely curving away from the sanded-off singular identity we craved and introduced our individual side projects.
As the name suggests, f0f's ambient release You Should Make Music, If You Want., and the sentiment behind it, was influential to this decision. It also bookended this era, with the initial 1-song version being our first release of 2025, and the expanded 3-song version replacing it after the wave of releases was definitively over.
YSMM Wave 2
Intended at first as a direct continuation of Wave 1. Wibi, f0f, Anne & the Sycophants, Prod, and Low Bar were all meant to have their own major releases, with Squishy Things releasing a debut super-album consisting of everything Princess had done for MyOHC (our personal 1-hour music-making jam everyday Saturday) since Don't Trust Any Music You Hear Online. Ernie was also making music here and there as GSRSUS. Wave 2 seemed to be shaping up as this huge congregation of Wibi's greatest musical talents that would make Wave 1 look like nothing.
But not much went to plan. The Wibi album was released (Intriguing Fascinating), but f0f's album never got much steam (its gimmick requiring us to collect obnoxious phrases online we disagreed with and use them as song titles didn't help), Anne & the Sycophants' EP (which was put off since the beginning of Wave 1) was put off even further, and Coldsore's gimmick for the next Prod album — recording entire "fake albums" of unharmonic playing and making ambient cut-ups out of them — started rubbing her the wrong way enough that she ignored the recordings she'd made for the project and made and released Gullible in a couple of days. Princess's efforts as Squishy Things did come to fruition, but the epic mega-album turned out to make more sense as a 35-minute album and a companion EP.
Then, at the last minute, Wisp and Lowry spontaneously recorded two releases as Low Bar - completely unrelated to the Low Bar album that was planned at the very start of Wave 2. Turns out we're no good at finishing what we.
The "congregation of minds" was sort of achieved with 2'11", as well as with the 3 Bricks Is Fun bonus tracks that had various projects remixing Anne & the Sycophants' "3 Bricks Is Fun". (But that's secret, so you're not supposed to know about that.)
YSMM Wave 3
Wave 3 was a fickle thing to begin with. The only certainty was that it would start when She Said Ag's debut soundtrack album came out. And it did. So it did.
Wave 3 was mostly spontaneous and showed a further descent into uncontrolled chaos as opposed to carefully planned aesthetical chaos. Five artists debuted throughout, all with some type of noise music release (except the surrealist beats and ramblings of Protect Computers Act by Coup, as Ted the Caver's Nephew-in-Law).
This wave never had a central Wibi album like Wave 1 (Wibi) and Wave 2 (Intriguing Fascinating); in its place were two album-length archival releases, Meaningless Mundane and Why Would You Make Music?. The former captured outtakes from Intriguing Fascinating and some soundtrack work for a shuttered personal project, and the latter compiled demos for an unrealized collaboration with Poetmistry that had previously been chopped up into You Should Make Music, If You Want. At one point, a central album of new material was intended, Fake Sound Revolution (with OK coming out as a teaser), and its initial deadline of New Years Eve seemed reasonable, until we lost interest after assembling side A.
In the middle of Wave 3, it seemed certain that we would commit to the grind and put out several album-length tracker releases that never happened and will not be detailed in the interest of brevity. Wave 2 hadn't taught us anything, evidently.
We imagine Why Would You Make Music? to bookend YSMM as a whole; YSMM started with the 1-song release of You Should Make Music in January 2025, and now it ends with the demos that were chopped up to make it. Perhaps the trajectory of YSMM answers the questions posed in the track titles of You Should Make Music's album-length reissue: "Should you make music?" Yes, but don't expect anything in particular out of it. "Will you make music?" Inevitably. "What do you want?" Well, fame and order, except when we want neither, which is always.
Post-YSMM
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Variations on a Theme
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Releases that are mainly multiple different takes on the same song. Singles often fall into this category.
