{"id":7753,"date":"2026-10-08T20:18:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?page_id=7753"},"modified":"2026-10-08T20:18:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:18:52","slug":"cocojoey-stars-reroll","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?page_id=7753","title":{"rendered":"Cocojoey &#8211; STARS REROLL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7754\" src=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoey-Stars-Reroll-FINAL-DIGI-COVER-1600x1600x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoey-Stars-Reroll-FINAL-DIGI-COVER-1600x1600x300.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoey-Stars-Reroll-FINAL-DIGI-COVER-1600x1600x300-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoey-Stars-Reroll-FINAL-DIGI-COVER-1600x1600x300-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoey-Stars-Reroll-FINAL-DIGI-COVER-1600x1600x300-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoey-Stars-Reroll-FINAL-DIGI-COVER-1600x1600x300-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoey-Stars-Reroll-FINAL-DIGI-COVER-1600x1600x300-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">To be released on CD and digitally on November 6th, 2026. CD packaged in mini-LP jacket with artwork from HausMo Max and Kendall Buckingham. This is the catalog page with album information and artwork. To purchase, head to our <a href=\"http:\/\/hausumountain.bandcamp.com\/\">Bandcamp page<\/a>.<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 400px; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=110153840\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/tracklist=false\/tracks=3949125124\/esig=dd62dddb0614fc3edd76527e34a8b0f3\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cocojoey.bandcamp.com\/album\/stars-reroll\">STARS REROLL by Cocojoey<\/a><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chicago-based songwriter \/ producer \/ multi-instrumentalist <\/span><strong>Joey Meland<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> makes music under the name <\/span><strong>Cocojoey<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Their album <\/span><em><strong>STARS<\/strong><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(HAUSMO144, 2025) stands as a contemporary landmark in the Hausu Mountain catalog, showcasing their ecstatic approach to \u201cpop music\u201d that overflows with finely wrought details and juxtaposed flashes of far-flung genres. Meland\u2019s omnivorous compositions tie together aspects of prog, death metal, video game music, experimental electronics, and untold other styles into luminescent pieces that still hit as pop tunes. Animated by their creator\u2019s penchant for earworm hooks and dazzling melodic architectures, <\/span><strong>Cocojoey<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s songs teem with their virtuosic keyboard performances and vocal takes that flit from gorgeous operatic falsetto all the way to guttural growls that activate the mosh pit whenever they perform live. A calendar year after the album\u2019s release, <\/span><em><strong>STARS<\/strong><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gets a second orbit around the galaxy in the form of <\/span><em><strong>STARS REROLL<\/strong><\/em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though nominally a collection of remixes, the fellow Hausu Mountain artists that Meland asked to rework songs from <\/span><em><strong>STARS<\/strong><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">treat the source material as a jumping-off point to sculpt bespoke worlds of their own, infused with the sonic signatures and future-facing production styles that each artist explores in their own music. Hausu Mountain is nothing if not a family enterprise, as the label\u2019s artists regularly make music together, play shows and tour together, and consider each other close friends. With <\/span><em><strong>STARS REROLL<\/strong><\/em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the roster of buds gleefully deconstructs and rebuilds <\/span><strong>Cocojoey<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s album, following their own ideas wherever they may lead while never losing the euphoric energy and stylistic variety that made the original shine so brightly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Angel Marcloid<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> takes on <\/span><strong>Cocojoey<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s \u201cTIME TO GO!\u201d under the banner of her <\/span><strong>Fire-Toolz<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">moniker &#8211; a flagship project in the HausMo catalog that now releases music with the venerable Warp Records. Her \u201cvapAORwave edit\u201d dials down the tempo on the original (a classic vaporwave strategy) so Meland\u2019s voice lands in a lower register closer to a hard rock singer of yore, and Marcloid\u2019s production brings the AOR flourishes to match: soaring guitar solos, majestic keyboard lines, tom-heavy drum fills. The composite sounds like something you\u2019d hear on an 80s-focused oldies radio station and struggle to remember where exactly it came from. Montreal-based producer <\/span><strong>d\u2019Eon<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reconstructs <\/span><strong>Cocojoey<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s \u201cTRUST IN EVENTS\u201d from the ground up in his post-baroque digital production style, arranging the original\u2019s melodic cascades for a deep arsenal of synthetic instrumentation. A percussive string section carries the chord progression as <\/span><strong>d\u2019Eon<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reiterates the lead melody with intertwined horns, woodwinds, harpsichords, and dulcimers. The version filters the twists of Meland\u2019s composition through <\/span><strong>d\u2019Eon<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s classical sense of grandeur, equally suited for a symphonic concert hall or the soundtrack of a turn-of-the-century Squaresoft RPG. Chicago-based producer Mike Meegan a.k.a. <\/span><strong>RXM Reality<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gets rowdy with his remix of \u201cODD EYE SLIDE\u201d as he rearranges tiny fragments of the original into a jittery high-BPM grid that ripples with ballistic drum programming and speaker-shredding bursts of ultra-definition sound design. Chopping Meland\u2019s voice into momentary samples and weaving them into a new web of hocketing shouts, <\/span><strong>RXM Reality<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> emerges with something akin to Chicago juke music charged by incessant repetition and complex micro-rhythms, with each new element he introduces ratcheting up the intensity closer to the boiling point.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Jersey-based experimental prog freak queen Faye Fadem a.k.a. <\/span><strong>Trust Fund Ozu<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(who has her Hausu Mountain debut in the pipeline for 2027) jokes that her remix philosophy amounts to \u201cmaking a whole new <\/span><strong>Trust Fund Ozu<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> song\u201d &#8211; and her take on <\/span><strong>Cocojoey<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s \u201chearth&lt;3\u201d proves to be no exception. Though her remix maintains some melodies and synth parts of the original, her ferocious new vocal performance and dizzying drums mutate an already overloaded song into an even more bonkers experience that leapfrogs from one torrential climax to the next. HausMo honchos Max Allison a.k.a. <\/span><strong>Mukqs<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Doug Kaplan a.k.a. <\/span><strong>MrDougDoug<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> each turn in reworks of their own. For his \u201cScramble\u201d of \u201cTHE I LIKE SONG,\u201d <\/span><strong>Mukqs<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> strictly sticks to audio sourced from <\/span><strong>Cocojoey<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s original, but grinds individual elements into dust and sprinkles them across the stereo spread with hard panning spatialization tactics. In the fast-scrolling collage style that defines one branch of <\/span><strong>Mukqs<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s music, his version peppers Meland\u2019s screams and programmed drums over thinly diced synth lines, piecing together a queasy cut-up noise session that never repeats any moment twice. Kaplan\u2019s \u201cScrumble\u201d of \u201cTIME TO SPARE\u201d stretches out to over eight minutes as he recontextualizes the MIDI data from the original song\u2019s session file into a warp-speed network of short loops that elastically shift their starting and ending points &#8211; in keeping with the MIDI-scavenging \/ re-arranging production ideology that has defined his solo output on HausMo. <\/span><strong>MrDougDoug<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s unique tonal sensibilities transfix us with his Conlon Nancarrow-esque piano rolls, chunky bass slaps, and squished vocal formants, while his remix\u2019s sum total feels like zooming into single phrases of Meland\u2019s composition and expanding them into an ever-rotating cross-section of each detail.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remixes by <\/span><strong>Cocojoey<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> bookend <\/span><strong><i>STARS REROLL<\/i><\/strong><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as the composer takes the opportunity to re-imagine \u201cTINY SPRITE IN THE ORCHESTRA OF THE STARS\u201d through two distinct lenses. The collection opens with \u201cTINY SPRITE (COCOJOEY DANCE MIX),\u201d in which Meland surrounds their original\u2019s delicate synth melodies and wistful vocal takes with a constantly morphing palette of modern dancefloor production. Shards of breakcore segue straight into dubstep bass womps and give way to acid techno squiggles, transmuting a song that originally sounded like exploring a tranquil video game environment into a banger fit for peak time at a particularly outr\u00e9 rave. Meland zeroes in on the cozy VGM factor of \u201cTINY SPRITE\u201d with their collection-concluding version dubbed \u201cORCHESTRA OF THE STARS (Cocojoey\u2019s Town Theme).\u201d Rebuilding the melodies with a menu of dayglo PS1-era synths and pianos planted against a sprightly 808 drum track that pops with tom-tom bubbles and clave clicks, the rework\u2019s welcoming atmosphere paints the image of a town square bustling with activity. It serves as a fitting end to a collection populated by a crew of friends with diverse production styles and approaches to the process of remixing &#8211; as if Hausu Mountain\u2019s roster got together to check out the market and grab lunch together in a townscape brought to life by <\/span><strong>Cocojoey<\/strong><b>\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s vibrant musical vision before each heading down their own alleyway and off into the distance.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7756\" src=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/CD-Front.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/CD-Front.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/CD-Front-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/CD-Front-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/CD-Front-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/CD-Front-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/CD-Front-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7757\" src=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoey-Headbang-by-@scrapemydata.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoey-Headbang-by-@scrapemydata.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoey-Headbang-by-@scrapemydata-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoey-Headbang-by-@scrapemydata-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoey-Headbang-by-@scrapemydata-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoey-Headbang-by-@scrapemydata-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoey-Headbang-by-@scrapemydata-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cocojoey-Headbang-by-@scrapemydata-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7755\" src=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/CD-Back.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/CD-Back.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/CD-Back-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/CD-Back-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/CD-Back-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/CD-Back-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/CD-Back-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8212;<\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; To be released on CD and digitally on November 6th, 2026. CD packaged in mini-LP jacket with artwork from HausMo Max and Kendall Buckingham. This is the catalog page with album information and artwork. 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