Quick post before I call it a day (at least it should be quick)

I've realized I have too much going on to keep a consistent posting schedule. I won't bore you guys by listing all the sutff that's going on. Maybe things will calm down, maybe not. Although chaos can lead to stress, I'd rather have that then a boring, repetitive schedule. My new moto is to wing it. And by "wing it" I mean wing practically everything.

I have made one song. It's titled Atomical. I'll try to release it soon. I feel like it's finished but at the same time I feel like it's lacking a lot of character. I essentially whipped it up in one session on FL Studio in what only felt like a few hours, but may have been more. Since I finished it so quickly, I feel like I rushed over a lot of things and didn't take the time to flesh it out. Hopefully, I can get over this internal quarrel and upload it so I at least have SOMETHING to say for my absence. Not sure how many people care if I'm consistent or not with my postings, but I, for some reason, feel that it's important to post at least once in a while to show that I'm still around.

This post, much like my most recent song, was me just putting thoughts on a screen (or musical motifs, in the song's case) knowing that it'd work itself out to something, and that the technicalities aren't important. I hope that's not an indication of Atomical's quality, but who knows.

Thanks for tuning in. stay awesome!

-Yeelp

Sorry for not being active the last few weeks, I needed a break after a few back-to-back of non stop stress and work - from school, work and life in general. I've wanted to get more active to stop the, what I now see as inevitable, procrastination seeping through me. Like I said, it was inevitable. I forgot the limitations of my own self as I woke up every day and went straight to business until I collapsed anywhere from 10:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. after having got in a commendable day of work. Only to wake up the next day and do it again. Now, with some time off school and not much else going on, I had little reason to get up in the morning, so I often didn't - only waking up a few hours before work - if I had work that day. Even though I WANTED to get up and work on music, writing or anything, I often lacked the motivation to even move - thus rendering me too lazy to get anything done.

I'm not sure how much more time I need for this "recuperation" so to speak, but I hope it won't last much longer. In order to at least leave you guys with SOMETHING, I've decided to go ahead an upload that Oh, Canada! remix. Make of it what you will, and as always, constructive feedback is always admired. 

By the way, if everything goes to plan, this should be the LAST song I make using native FL Studio plugins. I should be getting my hands on some nicer sounding ones this week.

So thank you guys for all you patience, kind remarks, feedback and support. I should see you all sometime next week!

-Yeelp

I heard that my friend got a music assignment that consisted of essentially "remixing" Oh, Canada!. Guess what I did once I got home that day?

I made my own remix for Canada's national anthem sing dubstep and vocoders...

Let's talk about mistakes... 

I may upload it or not, I'm not really sure... Thoughts?

Just wanted to update you guys on my new social media that I've attained: Facebook and Instagram.

I decided to make a Facebook page as it allows me to reach out to more people in a different medium - which is always important. You can find it in the Links box on the left or you can click here to check it out! It's been created as of 2/25/2016 so it's pretty young - as such it's kinda barren for now. But I plan to fix that. If you guys gave it a like that would mean the world to me. I'm sure I wouldn't mind returning the favour.

Also, I created a Facebook profile as well - for those interested. More of an accident than anything but hey, let's roll with it. So if you want to send me a friend request as well on Facebook I don't mind at all either :P 

Finally, I've created an Instagram that's just for showing producing techniques and again for reaching new people through a different medium. It's also in the Links box on the left. Likewise, it was also made at the same time that I made the Facebook page so it's barren for the time being. But again, I'll fix that.

Thanks to you all for your amazing support and appreciation of my work. Stay awesome!

-Yeelp

Well, this post has been LONG overdue! To be quite honest, I'm not sure why I never got around to it. I have no valid excuse. So here we are: the first "real" post of 2016! 

*Crickets chirping*

Well, let's just get it over with then...

Actually, before we begin, I hope you all had a great Familly Day and awesome Valentine's Day! Kinda funny they'd be back to back since they're kinda similar. Hope you all had fun spending time with those who mattered most to you!

And, for those wondering - although I would question why you'd even bother wondering - I had no real plans on either of those days. So don't ask.

So, for the showcase, I wanted to feature my first attempt at swing and my most recent creation.

The spotlight goes to the swing song; the genre has definitely seen an increase in popularity over the recent years, at least in my eyes. This song isn't swing, but more electroswing which is pretty much modern swing - it's swing with modern elements like more advanced drum machines etc. My song, Tap Tap Swing, uses mainly swing elements; since it was my first shot at the genre, I didn't want to get to fancy right off the bat. There's a piano, saxophone, trumpet, clarinet and a few synths at work in this song. I really like the groove that I captured with this piece to be honest. I should also mention, this was my submission for the Newgrounds Secret Santa which now happened FOREVER ago. Whoops!

The next song is my recent creation and part of my science themed album: The Science of it. The song is appropriately named Sys-Time-atic (a pun on the word "systematic")  since the structure of the song makes it feel very robotic and, well, systematic. Furthermore, the drums kinda sound like what I would envision the interior of a complex clock to sound like.

So here they are in all thier glory!

I want to talk a bit about the story I've been working on. To tell the truth, I've been lazy. VERY VERY lazy. I've had ideas but never wrote them down. I'm going to try to work on the story some more this month and hopefully get something presentable. I want to be able to show a bit of what the story is like so I can get some feedback.

Musically, I want to try composing some chiptune. But I want to analyze some elements of chiptune first before I take a crack at it. I currently have a NES plugin for FL Studio and I've been messing around with that today. I'm also taking a look at a few chiptune songs and analyzing them for thier structure and form. Currently, I've been taking a look at Bit Shifter's Hexadecimal Genome - a chiptune song that I listened to a while ago and really liked. You can click the embeded link or just go to my Soundcloud and find it under my favourites. If you have any other chiptune songs that you know of to really reflect some of the key elements of chiptune music, let me know! So, while I study up on chiptune, I'll be filling in the space with reuploads of my old creations that I never got around to reuploading!

Anyway, I don't really have much else to say! So thanks for reading and thanks for checking out my content! Stay awesome!

-Yeelp

Well, It's finally 2016 and well... I'm off to a rocky start. It has the potential to get better but I'll know for sure tomorrow.

Regardless, I've been gone awhile and haven't made a post for 2016 yet so here I am; making a post saying that I won't be able to make a 'real' post until later. 'Later' being anytime between tomorrow and the end of my exams, which end on the 29th of January. I know that would be a long time to wait but I don't have any intentions on making you guys wait that long. So I'll talk about a few things in a small post since I'm here on NG at the momment. So no musical showcase!

First off, I hope everyone has been doing well - I hope you had a great new year. I hope you guys partyed with friends and/or familly. In other news, I got a hand on my brother's old laptop which is everything I need for, well, anything. It's an i7 processor which is super awesome for me because those can be expensive. With the computer also came XSplit and a few other broadcasting softwares so my YouTube channel has a bright future - once I learn how to use XSplit. Yes, it also has FL Studio. I now have no need for my Hackintosh XD. Cortana is kind of interesting. She pronounces my alias correctly: 'Yeelp' instead of 'Yelp' which is how some people pronounce it. If you guys are interested more of the specs I can provide it for you guys if you tell me what you want to know about it.

So yeah I don't think I have any other random micellaneous things to mention! I did watch the first episode of the SMBZ reboot which was quite well done so that's what my free time was taken up by :P

Anyway, that's all I have to say! I'll try and make small posts like this when I can until I can finally push out a full post. Since it's 2016, my new ending is just gonna be stay awesome! So yeah, stay awesome guys!

-Yeelp

One blue screen and roughly 24 hours later I'm finally doing this! 

So, for those who celebrate, did you all enjoy you're Christmas? If you're not of those who do celebrate, did you enjoy the holiday festivities? I hope you all had a great time with whoever you spent your time with!

Before I begin the news, I'd like to thank you all. Each and every person who took a look at my breakcore track Secrets - which I featured last week. It currently has 553 plays and 41 downloads! These figures may seem small but it's a huge milestone for me! 500+ listens on one track means a lot to me! Louis' Isolation, my other featured track, fared pretty well with 313 plays and 51 downloads! I always seem to talk about getting myself out there on other websites but it seems like NG will pretty much always be my home music-wise! Thank you. For everything. If you didn't get to check out the two tracks, click here to check out Secrets, my breakcore track, or here to listen to Louis' Isolation - another one of my Drum & Bass songs. I made art for Secrets as well! This is what it looks like! Yeah, it's cheap Photoshop editing but it's better than nothing!

Time to feature more stuff! My most recent track: Nuclear Rave from the album The Science of It, is already doing well with 210 plays which I'm proud of! This is a futuristic dance song at 128 BPM. I like how this one turned out. It's upbeat and groovy and pretty much everything a dance song should be!

The next track to make the spotlight is Poden's Nightmare from the album Yeelp's Uprising. This one is a dark almost trance like Dnb track. The bass is pretty fat and the drums are fast and intense. It clocks in at 168 BPM.

I would've liked to feature my NGASS gift - Tap Tap Swing; which was my first attempt at swing, but it is poinl's gift so I'm going to wait a bit to see if I can get his a-ok to post it to NG. If not, I may post it anyway. Regardless, it's not making the spotlight this time around.

So here are the two tracks! Let me know what you think!

With New Year's around the corner, it's time to reflect on my accomplishments of 2015 and plan for 2016. Let's start from when I got back to NG and we'll just go from there.

Since coming back to NG after going AWOL, I've managed to upload most of my tracks and update most of the ones that were outdated. So, NG is coming along nicely. Tumblr, Soundcloud and Youtube  are very small in terms of the attention they get but they will grow eventually. 

Musically, I'd have to say I've done some great work this year! I've polished my abilities and I'm starting to feel more confident about the tracks I release! It's all thanks to you guys or course! My best track I'd have to say is George's Swarm. After getting a few reccomendations on the older outdated track from the NG community, I decided to revamp it and man did I revamp it! Click the name to visit it! I'm really happy to this day with how it turned out!

I also finished my album Yeelp's Uprising as well this year! I haven't uploaded it all yet to NG so that's the first on the to do list for 2016 along with all the other tracks I haven't uploaded!

Which brings me to my plans for 2016! Well, my NG plans anyway! I really want to focus are reaching more milestones like X amount of fans or X amount of plays or even a certain rating score on a song! Of course, to acheive these, I need your support! I hope you'll be as helpful as you were when you checked out my breakcore track! A listen, rating and comment on any song totally makes my day as they are pretty much always constructive and allow me to improve! This pretty much brings my plans for 2016 to this:

• 20+ fans by the end of 2016
• 1000+ plays on one song By the end of 2016
• Rating of 4 or higher on a song by the end of 2016
• More reviews on my content

Yup. Four simple things. That's all. And I'd appreciate your help so much in this! Like I said, you guys are great! 

If you remember, I talked about a book I was thinking of writing. Well I want to see if I can get that done by the end of 2016 too!

Well that wraps up my New Year's resolutions. I know this post was a bit long but it IS the last post of 2015! I'm looking forward to a new beginning in 2016 and the oppurtunity to make more music and listen to more music! So thanks for everything you guys have provided for me in 2015 - NG really is a great place!

Before I leave, I'd like to give a BIG shoutout to Demonic-Overmind! Your two NGASS songs for me were fantastic - I loved them! I find it heartwarming that you put me as a tag in your two songs! Keep up the great work! Go click his name and give some of his songs a listen! They're great!

Well this is this last time I get to say this phrase this year. Stay bold, stay focused and stay awesome! I'll see you guys in 2016! Have a good one!

-Yeelp

I WAS writing a news post when my computer gave me the infamous blue screen of death! Sigh... I don't want to restart the post now so I'll do it later... If I don't get it up today then I will tomorrow! Sorry guys!

Before I even begin, consider this: grey is the colour perceived as a hue of silver whereas gray is that range of in-bewteen shades between white and black. One can argue that they are different colours. THE MORE YOU KNOW!!! (I'm not sure why I started with that...)

And again, like last week, I'd like to share what I believe to be my best and most recent work: Secrets. This breakcore song is typical breakcore in structure and in style, ie. massive use of the Amen break. If you don't know what the Amen break is, check out this forum post I made that discusses it. It's also the forum post where I ask about whether or not using it will count as plagiarism if I use it in a track. Turns out it's all good! In this track, I tried out side chaining for the first time and I must say it's pretty cool (Seen at 0:52)! I will be uploading this track to my Soundcloud and my Tumblr in 4+ hours as it's 2:20 here rn and I need my sleep! I'll get it on my YouTube too! Consider this your early Christmas present from me as I really think this track has what it takes to be an early Christmas gift! 

Another track I want to mention is Louis' Isolation. It was the next track I wanted to try side chaining with but it didn't work out. This track is from Yeelp's Uprising and was created a while ago while I was AWOL from NG. I wanted to edit it and see if side chaining would work before uploading it. I still like the mix - it turned out pretty well. It jumps from 140 to 160 BPM. I think that aspect of the song worked quite well - so much so to warrant it's mention here - but it's not good enough to take the spotlight here.

Let me know what you guys think about both of these tracks! I really could use the feedback! Thanks!

I may include this audio spotlight section with each of my posts where I talk about a few of my tracks that I'm proud of. Of course, this section will be a WIP as I'll make changes to the structure and layout of it all as it develops with further posts.

Moving on, I've been experimenting with some somewhat obscure genres (like breakcore) recently. When I say obscure, I mean that I haven't seen them around anywhere a whole lot - if at all. I might try happycore next - what do you guys think? Is it worth it?

I don't have much else to talk about - either that or I'm too tired to remember (it IS 2:37 rn as I'm typing this very sentence.) One thing I can mention is that my NGASS (The Newgrounds Audio Secret Santa) track is comeplete! I'm kinda shaky when it comes to my opinion on the track - it's a genre I haven't done before (or anything like it) So here's hoping it's good! I won't upload it to NG as it's a gift track - not an actual track. However, I may provide the Instaud.io link to those interested!

Man... I need more things to talk about... School's still being very demanding of me even during the break... *sigh*. Oh well, it is what it is.

Anyway, I want my sleep so I'm going to wrap this up by saying that my feet are surprisingly cold XD... actually no... that's a bad way to end things... I'm going to say that I will try to make a post on Christmas if possible and around New Year's if possible. Speaking of which, I still need New Year's resolutions! 

So thanks for reading all the way through small group of fans! I think I mentioned everything I wanted to... If If forgot, then I forgot. It's now 2:47 so forgive me if I missed something (Or even mispelled something XD) Hope you guys are as stoked as I am for Christmas if that's what you celebrate! Stay bold, stay focused and stay awesome!

-Yeelp

Before I begin, I'd like to share my newest work: The World is Vast. This Bubblegum bass styled chillout loop was originally gonna be a song but I couldn't really flesh it out more than this so I just looped what I had and went with it. I think it's pretty good - I'm just a little letdown that I couldn't flesh it out. Oh well. I'm going to upload it to Soundcloud and post it to my Tumblr as well so be sure to check it out over on those pages too if you enjoy it!

Sadly, there isn't much for me to say this week music-wise. School's been pinning me down - preventing me from working on anything else, and when I'm not working on school, I'm working on post secondary application stuff. Furthermore, the NGASS has taken up any extra free time I've had as I need to have my song done by th 20th. The song is technically done, but I'm not too proud of it. I'm trying to pull out something better from the mix I have but I'm not sure how much 'better' I can make it. I clearly need more work in this specific genre.

However, I managed to go through all of my Yeelp's Uprising tracks that haven't been reuploaded to NG yet (and even some of them that already have been reuploaded) and tweak them, add final touches and polish the mix. I haven't exported them out of FL Studio yet but I will when I get the oppurtunity and then I'll upload them to NG right away! I might even get some done tonight! That's the 'little progress' I've made.

On a COMPLETELY unrelated note, I'm I the only one who renamed my FL Studio shortcut on my desktop from 'Fruity Loops Studio.exe' to 'Fruit Loops.exe'? It just makes sense to me.

With Christmas and the winter holidays a few weeks away, (I can't even believe it's here already, anyone else feel the same way?) I might get too busy to make a post during the winter holidays and might have to do it afterwards. So, I might make a multiple posts before the holidays, as opposed to one a week to compensate, if I can, I'll make a post on Chritmas Day too and I can tell you guys about some of the things I got and other cool stuff like that. Speaking of which, I STILL need to do some Christmas shopping... I only need to get 2-3 gifts and I can't even do that! Yikes... Let's not dwell on that. And with Christmas nearing, so does the new year! Anyone already have thier new year resolutions worked out? I could use a few ideas! :P

While making this post, I was thinking of how I could be more interactive with my "fan base", (do we count 3-4 people as a fan base?) I was thinking of a variety of things but these ideas are things that are better off with a larger fan base. Getting myself out there to interact with a large portion of the NG community isn't the easiest. Anyone got any ideas? Clearly reviewing content/being active on the forum etc. gets me known and I'm trying to work towards doing that, but I was just wondering if there were other things I could try as well.

I'm not gonna talk about a genre of music this week. I've already gone on long enough. If you want me to talk about a specific genre of music and my opinions on it in my next post, suggest it in a comment or something/PM if you really want.

Anyways, I hope you guys had a stelar week and I hope that this week brings more productivity for me (and for you guys if you need that kind of productivity). And as always, Stay bold, stay focused and stay awesome!

-Yeelp