We’re posting two EPs this evening: the first of these is from Einarx, who managed to get some time off from their military duties to make a song for Awakening and include it as part of an EP! Catch the full writeup after the break…
Electronic
[P@D] EnsionD – Bloom (feat. Francis Vace) | Progressive House
It seems to have become a recent tradition for EnsionD and Francis Vace to collab on Ponies At Dawn albums, and I’m loving it! Not only is EnsionD a great house producer (better than my attempts at the genre by far), but these songs give Francis a chance to show his vocals fit multiple styles of music. And of course, it features Taviscratch, so it gets instant HMH approval!
Daniel Ingram – Out On My Own (Harmonic Wind Remix) | Electronic
Another carriage joining on to the back of the remix train! This time Harmonic Wind gives us their take on the only everyone’s favourite season 6 song, go take a listen.
Virus Ponies – Thank You | Bounce
As the title implies, this new song from Virus Ponies is a thank-you present for their followers after having reached 100 subscribers. Go check it out for some classic bounce, with some slightly explicit text-to-speech lyrics, just as a heads-up.
[P@D] Kadenza – Memento / Violin Melody – Sundown | Trance
Two rather different types of trance songs from Awakening today. First up is Kadenza’s Memento, part of a small series of songs that were spread across 3 different Ponies At Dawn albums! All 3 songs, (Quell, Reflect, and Memento) follow the same kind of hands-up/hard trance vibe. I still don’t know the story behind them, but I guess Kadenza’s left that deliberately open to interpretation!
Violin Melody has been slowly building a name for themself over the past couple of years, and I believe this is their first P@D feature! This song sits somewhere between trance, house, and hard dance; it keeps a solid beat and a good saw bass, but has some lighter melodic moments too.
[P@D] Thrasher & Night Crow – Beneath Clouds / Foozogz & Sights Unseen – Out Of The Forest | Hardcore
Combining hardcore, trance, metal, and dubstep all into one song, Thrasher and Night Crow bring us the epic Beneath Clouds. If you’re familiar with Celldweller, imagine that but by pony musicians and you’ve got this song here (more or less ;D). I hope to hear more music like this from these two in the future!
In a collab that I didn’t see coming, but makes total sense, Foozogz and Sights Unseen bring us a dark changeling-themed song. Fooz brings out the lesser-known darker side to his production and Sights adds his haunting vocals to make this industrial hardcore piece complete.
[P@D] Sonic Rainboom – Three Words (Needless To Say) [feat. PegasYs] | Electro-Pop
Not entirely sure what to call this, but it’s a really cute song! We don’t often hear such calm and poppy songs about Rainbow Dash but this works really well; you can find ph00t’s in-depth explanation of the lyrics in the video description.
Hay Tea – Kratia (Age Of Vinyl Remix) | Drum & Bass
A present to Hay Tea from Age Of Vinyl for reaching 1,000 subscribers, this remix of Kratia is chill liquid dnb with a twist. I never would have expected to hear a synthpop section in a dnb song but Age Of Vinyl made it work brilliantly here! Go listen for super chill and melodic sounds.
[P@D] Phoxi – Starlight Ataraxia / 174UDSI – To A New World (feat. GloryOfTheRainWings) | House
Phoxi here is a relatively fresh face to the fandom, but they’ve made themself known in certain circles already (you may remember Panic Display). Starlight Ataraxia is a future house song with great sound design and plenty of GlimGlam for those of you inclined towards reformed villain pones.
14UDSI and GloryOfTheRainWings are no strangers to collaborating with each other; they’ve done songs together on previous compilation albums. An electro house track with trancey synths and stellar vocals, this is one of my favourites from 174UDSI to date. Keep up the great work!
Silver Note – Unicorns and Soundwaves | Album | Rock / Electronic
Compiling nearly 2 years’ worth of his brony music, Silver Note has just released his first ever album. After the break I’ll take a look at each track and give you a full rundown of it, going from his oldest songs to his newest!
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