ABOUT

EXCAVARA is an interactive music experience by TMSTRY. Somewhere beneath a forgotten city lies an archive of lost music. You grab a pickaxe, you descend, and the track literally assembles itself around you — stem by stem, layer by layer — until the full mix plays at the core. Each drop is a limited edition, and the first excavators to reach the core own that track. Not metaphorically. On-chain.

This is not a game with music in it. It is music with a shovel. The digging exists so the listening means something.

CREDITS & THANKS

Built, written and recorded by TMSTRY — with an enormous thank you to the original excavation crew, the early testers and friends who dug, broke, complained and advised with surgical precision:

• AIDAN YAGU — who dug straight down, got stuck between two rocks, and accidentally invented our jump button. Every softlock you never experience is his doing.
• SÆRA NOVA— for taste, judgement, and asking “but why?” at exactly the right moments. The archive is prettier because she raised an eyebrow at it.
• ASH JOHANSEN — excavator #2, blooper reel legend, and living proof that you should sign in before reaching the core. Her outtakes are buried somewhere down there. Good luck.
• FJTD— the first artist to hand over a track and say “fine, bury it then.” She walked the entire submission flow back when it was held together with tape and good intentions, found every part that wasn’t, and has never once said “I told you so.” The archive owes her its intake form.
• PJM— professional bug hunter, accidental art director. Saw a white line nobody else could see (it was there). Noticed our excavator hovering a millimetre above the ground (she was). Timed a pickaxe swing and ruled it “too frantic” (it was). Madisynn and the cheese fries are entirely his fault, and the ghost that drifted past you at 300 metres was probably him, still testing.

Found a bug? Congratulations, it’s a relic now. Dig deeper.