More community voted Top 10 songs, and a good half of them came from Ponies At Dawn: Voyager, great job by the entire P@D collective. Anyway, take a look at which pony songs* made it into the top 10 this month.
*Oh, and Say by BlackGryph0n & Baasik is in there too for whatever reason ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ponyphonic is known for their timeless (relative to fandom lifespan) songs, and it’s about time we saw another! It’s been over a year since their last original pony song, and this certainly is a great way to make a comeback. With so many melodies and sounds being played by guitar and strings in this, you’d be surprised to hear that it’s all done using live instruments. That’s right, not a single orchestral VST in sight, something which I greatly admire when available and done properly! And with so much emotion poured into the song, it’s likely to draw up some feeling in you too.
This gives me flashbacks to about a year ago when the original of this track was released. Unfortunately far too late for the remix EP, but it’s nice to see this tune still being remixed. In this particular version, AoD makes plenty of use of the horns from the original, combined with a classic break beat rhythm and hip-hop style drum sampling.
Is it just me, or is anyone else reminded of the Wii Shop music? Fruity’s new track sees him trying out not one but two styles I’ve never heard from him before. It starts off with a slower future bass section, filled with plenty of 808 kicks, sub bass, and vocal splicing. The middle section switches up into a faster tempo hip-hop section, before going back to the previous future bass style again.
Well this is something different… Shady’s trying his hand at electronic music production. This upbeat piece is a very poppy and upbeat piece about Derpy and keeping an optimistic attitude in life.
Drawing on one of the main motifs of Legend of Everfree, The Cosine Pitchshifterz and Lightning Runner made this track about Twi’s internal struggles. You can kind of split this song into two separate styles: While it starts off with the usual kind of heavy hardstyle I’ve seen a lot from TCP, it descends into this wonderfully melodic section in the middle, bringing in and out the hardstyle kicks as well, before switching back to the heavier stuff at the ending too, a great progression!
So, uh…hey. Been a while since I wrote up anything here, and so this writeup is a little later than anticipated, but let’s not dwell on that! Instead let’s take a look at this (almost) brand new EP from 174UDSI! I think this is the first time I’ve seen some sort of album release from him, so this’ll be a new experience for me too. Anyway, let’s jump right in and look at it track by track, shall we?
Yes, that’s a ponification of Man of Constant Sorrow. Yes I absolutely love that Steely’s done this. It’s a simple version, performed just with voice and acoustic guitar, like the version from the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? Keeping it simple sometimes works out for the best, and it certainly does so here.
Hey, that artwork looks familiar… Don’t let the genre label deceive you, it’s still got ertrii’s signature chill vibe to it, just at a much faster tempo than usual. Short but sweet, this song does seem to encapsulate the essence of the artwork used in the form of sound.
Another new song from fandom newbie cuberoot, this time an original piece with a more energetic feel than their last remix. Great supersaw chords and leads give this track that classic electro house vibe.
Horse Music Herald 