The Walten Archives

Music - Official Soundtrack Channel

Adjacent to the main Martin Walls channel, there exists the YouTube channel The Walten Files - Official Soundtrack, a channel which catalogs much of the music utilized for the series, including original compositions made for the series, among other tracks. While this channel doesn't contain in-universe lore information like the other side channels or the Findjackwalten website, there is still a lot of interesting context and history as well as fun facts behind the music included on this channel.

Morse Easter Eggs

In some of the music created for TWF3: BunnyFarm by series composer Jacob Woodson, there are hidden words encoded in Morse Code.
The most obvious and well-known of these is in the track Sounds of Surprise, which can be found on the soundtrack channel. This song plays at the startup of the BunnyFarm arcade machine.

The morse, "... --- ...", translates to "SOS"

Another morse easter egg can be found on the track Think Rabbit, Think, which first plays during the Tic-Tac-Toe minigame with Billy, contains morse as well.

The morse, "... . .-.. .–." translates to "HELP"

The track It Begins, while not actually included in the final product of BunnyFarm as the scene it was made for was cut, also contains morse.

The morse, " -.-. .- .-. " translates to "CAR"

Rocket's Leitmotif

These songs, all also composed by Jacob Woodson for BunnyFarm, all contain the same leitmotif, which is a recurring musical phrase or melody associated with a particular character or concept.

(if you know of any other instances where this leitmotif is present, or know of any other leitmotifs in the soundtrack of The Walten Files, email me!)

B.S.I. Jingle

On July 30th, 2022, the video Where Genius meets Fun! (B.S.I. Jingle) would be uploaded to the Official Soundtrack channel. This song is an original composition for the series, but despite clearly being performed by the lead singer of Sweet Tuesday, a band that has composed and produced several other songs for the series, the video's description attributes it to the fictional band "The Ponzi's". The Ponzi's place and history in the world and story of The Walten Files is tied directly to the content of the FelixComplex K9 channel. This is the first time FelixComplex content has seen a crossover with other official channel content since The Showstoppers II album was uploaded to the main channel in late August of 2021.

The lyrics of the B.S.I. Jingle are as follows:

Striving to come up with brand new things, B.S.I brings innovation!
Out with the old and in with the new, B.S.I brings new creations!
Turned to something new, not old
Turned to something touched with gold

[Instrumental]

Bunny Smiles, Where Genius meets Fun!

Non-Original Music (The Jukebox Section)

The video Oh, Can't you see? contains the song that plays during the white text monologue section of the hidden video “Lucky You”. The song is a severly compressed version of the song “Heartaches” by Al Bowley, which was sampled for the song “It’s Just a Burning Memory” from the album Everywhere at the End of Time by The Caretaker, which shares thematic similarities to The Walten Files.

An excerpt from the song's lyrics are also quoted in a pinned comment from Martin Walls in the video's description.

The upload Felix Kranken contains a slightly distorted and compressed version of the song Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall performed by Ella Fitzgerald and The Inkspots. This song plays towards the end of the hidden video Guilty.
According to a Twitter Q&A from Martin Walls, this is also canonically Felix's favorite song.

Other songs on the soundtrack channel whose upload titles differ from those of the actual song are as follows:

-Every Single Part of Her Body was Bleeding is Goodnight, my beautiful by Russ Morgan

-Everything is Through, Dear is Masquerade by Jack Hylton And His Orchestra (This song was popularized by its inclusion in The Shining, and is also repeated in part for the track What the hell is wrong with you?)

-What are you doing here? is the Dan W. Quinn version of Streets of Cairo, or The Poor Little Country Maid

-A Beautiful Rose is Det Er Det Skønneste Jeg Ved

-I'm Half Crazy, All for the Love of You is Daisy Bell, as performed the IBM 7094, the first computer to sing

-Jack's Waltz is Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)

-Lovely Red Children is Sicilienne, Op. 78, composed by Gabriel Fauré

Golden Mirror

This song gets a section to its own both because it's my personal favorite and because there's a lot to be said about it. It's notable immediately because of its unusual thumbnail: a red, corrupted version of the Season One poster seen as the thumbnail of all of the other Post-BunnyFarm video uploads.

In the comments section, there is a pinned comment from Martin Walls containing a quote that would later appear on Findjackwalten.com/jennyletterson


Because the song has yet to appear in an episode of The Walten Files, the intention behind its inclusion and its possible association to any specific character is something that can only be speculated on. However, this comment, as well as the additional context detailed in this section, indicates to me that this song is specifically associated to Sophie, and to her relationship with her family and with her girlfriend.

This upload of the song also retains the opening monologue from Jackson C. Frank, who wrote and performed it. Transcribed, it reads:

“Golden mirror is about- uhm, what happens to you when you think about the blues, not in an emotional sense, but you are actually going through it, because there are hundreds of these things that happen every day. Walking along the street, you get a great feeling. And uh, golden mirror is when you’re disturbed. You’re turned away from the golden mirror, and you contemplate what actually makes you sad.“

The Song's very status as a Jackson C. Frank song is also interesting. It released in 1968, years after the release of his first and only album, the self-titled Jackson C. Frank from 1965, and was not released as a single or any other such standalone release. It came out of a period of rapidly worsening mental health for Jackson, grappling with long-term depression resulting from trauma in childhood (He would, later in life, be diagnosed with Schizophenia, though he disbelieved this diagnosis for the remainder of his life.) where the music he was making was notoriously angsty and somber, failing to connect with his audience. A quote from his friend Al Stewart from an interview with Folk Roots Magazine corroborates this:

"He started doing things that were completely impenetrable. They were basically about psychological angst, played at full volume with lots of thrashing. I don't remember a single word of them – it just did not work."

Importantly, all recordings of Jackson C. Frank's 1968 material, perhaps because of their lack of popularity, were considered Lost Media until their rediscovery in 2017, found in a stash of recordings of the BBC radio show "My Kind of Folk", where they restored to their current available quality. A YouTube upload better detaling the circumstances of Golden Mirror's resurgence can be found here.

This combination of aspects seems especially relevant to Sophie, a character whose trauma surrounding the disappearance and presumed death of her entire family has created for her a yet unknown level of psychological difficulty, and has led to her to being put on medication (Something incredibly socially stigmatized, often even today.) which has caused her long-term memory issues relating to her own trauma, much alike to how the music most articulate of Jackson C Frank's suffering was forgotten by the world, left undiscovered until years later, to finally be uncovered on accident.