seriously though, thank you so much. pretty cool that 100 people have ever been interested in what i make. can we get to 200 by 2027???

i missed my account anniversary last year, but not this year! kind of weird that it's only been 3 years. it's been a very very long 3 years... i plan to keep sticking around! newgrounds is one of the scant few sites that isn't completely soul crushing to post to. even if i don't get a lot of eyes on my stuff here most of the time, it's still better than soundcloud. anything is better than soundcloud.

with the release of my latest track i now have 100 entire audios on this website! that's roughly 2.86 songs per month! (of course this includes the month in which i released 33 songs which is definitely NOT an outlier tee hee)

thanks ng for being a good place to uploads my audios!!

On December 6th, 2020, I uploaded my first ever piece of music to YouTube, entitled "Jesus Pizza". I get more and more tepid about linking it every year since it sucks, but it's necessary as an introduction!! I know I'm late again this year, but I had finals to worry about, plus at this point I think it makes more sense to transition this post towards the end of the year anyway, since an end of year recap on December 6th feels kind of wrong.

Anyway, what did I do this year??

NGAP20

My first collab of the year! I teamed up with Jaksana who did a little vocal intro at the beginning of my entry, which I think added a nice touch. I'm really glad I got to contribute to such a huge celebration of the audio portal! I didn't feel that my entry was super intricate, but that doesn't really matter, it's the thought that counts! Now that I'm in the Newgrounds Audio Collab Discord, that's been opening the door to even more collaboration, though I'm still trying to get over the whole shyness thing. I never actually uploaded my part of the collab here on NG, but I did put it on my website (which is also new this year), which has songs and demos that I never uploaded here!

Beat Saber Collab

Unfortunately, this one isn't out yet, but I will give it a mention because I cooked for this one and I'm still really antsy for it to be done. I made a song that will eventually be included in a Beat Saber map pack filled with songs from other musicians here on NG, organized by sereneFalconer! The cover arts for each song are also made by NG artists, and in my case I was paired with UnsolvedCases, who was a pleasure to work with and who also cooked hard!! If all goes well, I should be able to reveal my contribution in 2024!

Sea Shanty Collab

Yeah okay this one isn't out either, but my part is done for this one too, so I still count it as this year. I made an instrumental for the upcoming Sea Shanty Collab organized by VoicesByCorey and MonkaBonka809! I did a cover of "The Last Shanty", in this case the Derina Harvey Band version. I saw this collab back when it was first proposed in like April, but I didn't feel I had time for it at that point. When it was revived a month or two ago, I listened to The Last Shanty and felt like I had to hop on, so I did! Once the whole collab comes together I think it's going to be really awesome, so stay tuned for that!

Okay that's it for the collabs, but I did pop off in general this year

Seriously I feel like my improvement this year has been monumental. Once the summer hit, something just changed, and my compositions have just been getting so much more interesting. I can't even count the amount of times I've just been working on a song and been like "holy shit I made this???" and then I physically stand up and start pacing around. In the grand scheme of things I'm still not exactly a professional, but I've really been on the up and up.

Greatest Hits

I do still have one more song that I'm working on right now, but I still don't think it will trump Wishing Star as my personal favorite song of the year, mostly for personal reasons. I made Wishing Star right as I was leaving for college, and that period of time combined with the instrumentation and composition of the song made it so that it has a strong emotional impact for me. Production-wise, it's probably not even the best song I made this summer, but production < feels.

Another one I really liked this year was Make It Last Forever, which was the first song in my streak that's been lasting throughout the latter half of this year. It was the first song where I really felt that little bit of extra spice was added, and it definitely shows.

Last one I'll mention here is 555, which I really really enjoyed making. The sampling of a voicemail is radically different, but it was fun. It was probably the most fun I had working on any song this year, just because it's infectiously bouncy. It also blew up over on cohost.org, which is the website that it was originally made for in the first place, which I'm still riding the high of over 2 months later. It really accented how much I've improved lately.

What next?

No idea! Only time will tell. I'm sure I will do more collab stuff next year, and hopefully garner the cajones to go even more outside my comfort zone. Until then, I hope you all have a very good holiday season!! Thank you to everyone who supported me and who I collaborated with this year, 2023 has been the best year of my life so far and pretty much everyone I've met this year on NG and Cohost has contributed to that.

i had a sort of pseudo-goal for myself to see if i could get frontpaged without making a single purchase towards music stuff but with my entry for the sea shanty collab, being limited to 8 tracks just isn't viable. hopefully this will open the floodgates for some more interesting stuff coming from me though!

hi newgrounds! for those of you who don't know, i have a small website, but tonight i finally finished my music webpage i've been chipping at. it's got every song i've ever posted on here, with demos of those songs where applicable. it's also got some stuff i never released here or anywhere! so check it out if you're so inclined!

my friend @felithix started a youtube channel in which they will be performing cool covers of cool music from cool video games. nothing to do with me i just wanted to gas them up :)

check out this awesome cover of my castle town that they posted already!

so go like and/or subscribe and/or comment to support some Good Music OnLine

no clue how that happened but awesome!! thanks newgrounds!

nothing to show from me this year, but i hope you are all enjoying the mountain of stuff that has already been released today.

and thanks for 80 fans :)

who said newgrounds wasn't for the kiddies as well. listen to my new song and you can be able to watch why newgrounds is the next house of children's entertainment!