Title:Empire Released: 2007 Format: CD Production Company: HTH Studios Keyboard/Synth/Sequencing: Crowchild Software: Early GarageBand Keyboard: Korg Original Retailer: CafePress
A tremendous thank you to our friend Sirdan, for retaining archival copies of both Rio & Empire since the time of their release and providing them for this update.
It’s built as an open-source experiment, meant to grow, adapt, and eventually invite collaboration once the foundation is solid. What you’re seeing on this page is the entry point: four concept albums released through SUNO that establish the tone, atmosphere, and narrative logic of this version of the Florida Project.
The Prelude, The Florida Project, sets the mood before the city exists—raw land, ambition, and the serious industrial mindset required to carve a metropolis out of central Florida’s wilderness. It’s the prologue to everything that follows.
Before the towers, before the monorails, before the skyline had a shape, there was the raw expanse of central Florida and one man insisting a city of tomorrow could be carved out of that wilderness.
The sound of a metropolis that has survived its proving years and now knows it will endure.
Taken together, the four albums aren’t just soundtrack pieces—they’re the audible blueprint of the setting itself.
EPCOT City begins with music because it’s the cleanest, fastest way to communicate the kind of world this is meant to be: corporate-futurist, ambitious, grounded in 1960s–1990s technical optimism, and serious about exploring what Walt actually meant when he said the city would “never be completed.”
That’s the doorway. The larger experiment grows from here—documents, timelines, maps, systems, corporate entities, and eventually an openly collaborative framework where others can build within the same fictional city.