A Brief History of Dopinephrine (PDF)

A Brief History of Dopinephrine

IN the fall of 2013, I made a playlist of music for my friends. We all love Hip Hop, and the
playlist was made up of 30 songs that I knew my friends would enjoy. I named it by combining
the names of two chemicals that affect the brain: Dopamine and Epinephrine. Dopinephrine.
My focus was on smooth transitions between tracks. I wanted it to feel polished and highly
listenable. Everyone enjoyed it very much, and soon I was working on Dopinephrine II. I was
building themes with my song choices, and soon realized I was putting the music in an order
that could tell a story.
I went back to the first Dopinephrine playlist, and listened to it again, letting it build story ideas
in my mind. I wrote a VERY short story to accompany each playlist in the first series, and soon
Dopinephrine was much more than just music. The debut nine-part story is the shortest chapter
in the Dopinephrine saga, and was really just a way for me to get started. The characters and
stories became much larger after the original tale.
Dopinephrine is:
1. The Olympus Saga
2. Distant Cathartic
3. The Trees of Fate
4. Epsilon Dunamis
5. Muspilli Rising
6. Pseudo Civili
7. Veiled Empyrean (In Progress)

Here are the covers:

Abstract Serotonin

Dopinephrine 0
(Rhythm & Poetry)

Dopinephrine I

Dopinephrine II
(Rhythm)

Dopinephrine III
(General Pyke)

Dopinephrine IV
(The Dionysus Plague)

Dopinephrine V
(Athlon the Android)

Dopinephrine VI
(Pyke)