“Since childhood, I’ve at all times been drawn to the musical facet of all the pieces—theme songs in exhibits and flicks, professional wrestling entrance songs, and online game soundtracks, after all. Music enhances visible and interactive media, however the reverse can be true, and I sadly by no means get the luxurious of working with different artistic individuals. The universe appears to leap by hoops to make all roads result in doing all of it your self, which is how I ended up as a producer and musician within the first place. I find yourself instructing myself the right way to play devices, combine and grasp, and be a photographer and video editor. I wasn’t going to depend on Konami or Nintendo to come back in search of me, so I added recreation developer to the checklist.”
These are the highly effective phrases from the artist I Am Kassandra for Social Way of life Journal. It’s an honor to be taught extra from the artist, who describes their musical fashion:
“As a listener, my music desire has at all times been all over, and it’s just about been the identical as an artist. Once I was ‘daxelin,’ you possibly can hear a kind of style swap from album to album. The way forward for I AM KASSANDRA’s musical fashion goes to get very exhausting to explain, however for this album, being a gaming expertise, the swap occurs virtually observe to trace.”
When requested if any songs or soundtrack moments from this launch really feel particularly significant—whether or not creatively, emotionally, or in relation to the sport itself—the artist shares:
“‘A Tune’ and ‘RAGE QUIT!!!’ had been to start with phases of writing means earlier than this album was even an concept. I used to be at a little bit of a breaking level, and my existential obsession with science and making an attempt to actually perceive the universe was starting. ‘A Tune’ was a tune, ‘RAGE QUIT!!!’ was a poem, and all of it adopted the primary line: ‘Generally after I get up, I want I by no means did.’ That ended up being simply part of the tune, and it sort of became this ‘closing boss’-type idea, the place you attain the tip of actuality.
“When it got here time to make a stage for it within the recreation, it developed into this ‘what if’ concept. What if individuals are seeing UFOs? What if individuals are being kidnapped? However what if the ‘aliens’ are literally individuals—conducting experiments and surveillance proper above everybody’s heads, whereas additionally gaslighting them into believing they’re one thing else solely? The idea helped dial the tune again a bit, which it wanted. The unique poem was a lot darker, and I’d have by no means shared it.”
Pulling from a deep properly of nostalgia and ambition, the artist displays on the roots of the challenge and the impression they hope it leaves behind:
“As I mentioned, I used to be an enormous fan of online game soundtracks—Donkey Kong Nation, EarthBound, Avenue Fighter II—and the best way each fighter had such a memorable stage tune. I’d love for EVERYTHING IS ERROR to resonate with an viewers as an entire, however this challenge allowed me to have a full-circle second, whether or not it goes viral or not. I had a number of enjoyable and frustration making this recreation, nevertheless it’s truly out now on iOS and Android, and I had no concept what I used to be doing lower than half a yr earlier than its launch. Even if you happen to don’t like the sport or soundtrack, I’d hope you might take one thing away from that.”
But when that chapter was about arrival, what comes subsequent is about reinvention. Turning the web page, this artist doesn’t maintain again relating to the longer term, collaborations, and a artistic shift that feels as private as it’s uncompromising:
“I feel I obtained myself labored up earlier over my lack of collaborations haha, I need to see my inbox flooded from all of the artistic peoples of LA after this! Actually, as excited as I’m about this challenge being accomplished, I’m equally excited for it to be behind me. This album was a set of labor that spans three years. Three years in the past ‘a tune’ was launched as ‘Tune’ beneath daxelin (now pulled from streaming companies). To be candid, a few of it feels dated for the place I’m at as an individual, in flip as an artist. As experimental as this album might (or might not) sound to an viewers, I nonetheless thought concerning the viewers, I feel all of us do, to a point, even once we suppose we don’t. I cannot be doing that sooner or later. I don’t know the right way to clarify it with out sounding like some cliché ‘I make music for me,’ or like I’m now going to make a 15 minute tune of silence the place a lone doorbell chimes at 11:11. I’m saying I’ll create exterior of the performative performing world of ‘civilization,’ the hypocrisies, the political storylines, the instigative puppet masters and their offended puppets, and all the issues that preserve the typical human distracted from their very personal existence. There may be this recreation we play, the place all of us exit and fake we aren’t a collective consciousness, considering, and saying the identical wild issues as our neighbors, behind closed doorways, in our heads, perhaps packaged in numerous phrases. I’ll create, and I’ll determine whether it is applicable to have a median human viewers, one which pretends, after.”
To shut, the artist, I’m Kassandra displays on the sudden evolution of the challenge, revealing how a easy concept shortly grew into one thing way more bold:
EVERYTHING IS ERROR didn’t start as a recreation—nevertheless it turned one by enlargement and experimentation.
“It was initially launched in November 2025,” the artist explains. “After that, I wished to make music movies that felt like recreation phases. So I taught myself coding. Then animation. Then character design. Then all the pieces else.”
That course of shortly escalated into full-scale reinvention.
“I ended up pulling the album, rebuilding it, and remodeling all the pieces to perform as each a soundtrack and a playable expertise. By April 2026, each the sport and album had been full and launched collectively.”
I AM KASSANDRA is a music producer, artist, and recreation developer. Thanks Kassandra, in your time with Social Way of life Journal!
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