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[P@D] Hyprah – Isolation / Mantlegen & Einarx – Dreadnaught | Dubstep

Fresh face, fresh music. With their first ever release under this alias, Hyprah is a welcome new addition to the Ponies At Dawn collective with what’s promising to be a set of great production skills. Check out their song Isolation from the new album.

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself…and spiders” – probably not FDR.

Two of the prominent members of Magnus Records, the South Korean internet-based label, Mantlegen and Einarx have both appeared on previous Ponies At Dawn albums and now team up to combine forces to make a track with some absolutely mental sound design. Not one for the faint-hearted.

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[P@D] Aurelleah – Warm Winds (ft. Wubcake) | Orchestral Pop

Shipping time! A slight change of direction from Aurelleah’s usual music, and a welcome return to hearing some of his vocals. But of course, a love song is even better as a duet, so Wubcake takes the part of Marble Pie as her and Big Mac reminisce over meeting. How cute.

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[P@D] Replacer – Handbag | Blues / Alternative

As per usual with Replacer’s songs, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from this when I saw it on the Voyager tracklist. Replacer did, however, bring something completely different to the table add per usual with this darkish alternative song that almost has a marching feel with the driving kick drum, as the rest of the instruments fall in place one by one accentuating the rhythm.

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[P@D] Protocat & Hay Tea – Autumn Leaves / Hydra – Popsicle VIP | Drum & Bass

As we did last time, we’re pairing up similar songs from the new Ponies at Dawn album to give you as many of them as possible! First up is a collaboration that I’ve been anticipating since I first heard about it. Fandom liquid dnb regular Hay Tea teamed up with Protocat, who we first heard about from their remix of I’ll Fly. And the result is just as good as you’d expect from 2 people people make such beautiful chilled music!

The original version of Popsicle was a tropical house track that featured on Starlit Flames, a previous Ponies At Dawn album. Now it’s been revitalised into liquid dnb that’s just add summery and relaxing as the original!

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[P@D] lia;quo – Awakening | Mashup / Complextro

The opening track for Voyager really is something truly special. It combines and samples, in some way or another, every single song from the previous Ponies At Dawn album, Awakening (hence the title). Lia explains the process in the video description, but before you read that, just take a listen to this masterpiece, an ode to P@D!

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Daniel Ingram – A Changeling Can Change (Einarx Remix)

Einarx joins the plentiful number of people who’ve taken on this song to remix it, and the results are pretty good. Vocal splicing and wubs, a relatively standard combination, but hey, sometimes if it ain’t broke you don’t need to fix it.

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Ponies At Dawn – Voyager | Compilation Album | Multi-Genre


Here it is, what’s bound to be the best Ponies At Dawn album yet. With each new album comes both a new selection of artists as well as some of the great ones who have been around for a while – something that is in my opinion the best balance when compiling brony music.

The album is available completely for free on Bandcamp, or you pay whatever amount you wish for it. You can expect to see many of the songs from it posted on the site in the coming days and weeks!