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coming back to NG after going AWOL, I've managed to upload most of my tracks and update most of the ones that were outdated.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