Free Association
Free Association is a band in Splatoon 3. They are credited for most of the music that plays in the Spire of Order in Side Order. They are groups of small, metallic-looking entities resembling a school of fish floating around some of the Spire's floors.[1]
Songs
Fictional band | Song name | Audio sample |
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Θrder Square: Inciner8 | |
Σntrance: Dynamis | ||
First Principles | ||
Θrder Square: Subjug8 | ||
Σntrance: Archon | ||
Upward | ||
demol1sh | ||
demoli2h | ||
d3molish | ||
jest1ng | ||
je2ting | ||
j3sting | ||
rout1nes | ||
routine2 | ||
routin3s | ||
souven1r | ||
2ouvenir | ||
souv3nir | ||
j1tters | ||
jitter2 | ||
jitt3rs | ||
CΘld StΘrage | Phase 1: Phase 2: Phase 3: | |
ΘctΘpticΘn | ||
EchΘ Θnslaught | ||
New World Order | ||
Θrder Square: Liber8 | ||
Σntrance: Platonic Solid |
Besides First Principles, Upward, and New World Order, Free Association's songs follow a naming convention where certain letters are replaced with lookalike numbers or characters from the Greek alphabet, similarly to leetspeak. Additionally, for Θrder Square: Subjug8 and its variants, an 8 is used to stand in for the ending part "-ate" in each word using SMS language.
Trivia
- Free Association's album artwork is an edited picture of the background of the Vending-Machine Corner floors. The same view can be seen from the floor when looking right.
Etymology
The group's name is a pun on free association, a psychoanalytic technique designed to help patients express unconscious thoughts, and possibly also the sociopolitical concept of a free association of producers (also sometimes shortened to simply "free association"). Both inspirations can be related to the Memverse, both in terms of it being a virtual reality that incorporates the unconscious desires of its users and creators, and Order's goal of creating a world with no variation or desire.
Names in other languages
The name of the artist is the same as English in all languages except for Japanese.
Language | Name | Meaning |
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Mnemonic Clouds |
References
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