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Straight From The Heart – Somethings Coming (Herd of Us) | Hip-Hop

Warning: Profanity. Quite a lot of it.

This track was a big collaboration project among several members of the brony hip-hop community. Showing that they take pride in their art, the group collectively known as “Straight from the Heart” uses this debut track to welcome all like-minded producers to their familial and always helpful musical community. Something’s Coming uses a great backing track and beat to support the excellent and diverse flow of each rapper on the track. With a broad display of talent and refreshing revival of brony hip-hop, there’s definitely a lot to be excited about for the future of the genre within the fandom!

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

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Listening to the live album release stream for Rebirth, the thing that strikes me most is how brony musicians are always able to make such diverse songs, and to such a high level of production. From the (admittedly majority) range of electronic styles to the big rock and metal songs, to a full range of acoustic and orchestral tracks, there are constant surprises in store.

We’ll be featuring plenty of songs from the album as they’re released on YouTube by the respective artists or the P@D YouTube channel over the coming weeks. Until then, the album is available to download for any given price on Ponies At Dawn’s bandcamp page.

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4everfreebrony – Lilyana’s Theme (Starved For Light: Original Soundtrack) | Orchestral

Written for the upcoming indie, platforming-adventure video game “Starved for Light”, 4everfreebrony give us this bright, flowing track as a musical descriptor to Lilyana, the brave and loving older sister to young Iris. Lilyana’s Theme utilizes brilliant piano chords with flutes to set the lighter tone of the protecting protagonist while strings come in with a moving, adventurous feel to set the scene for action. Expertly put together and thematically excellent, 4everfreebrony gives us plenty of reason to be excited for the development of this project!

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Rarity Advocate – 7 Vignettes | Piano Sonata

As a piece of fine piano composition, Rarity Advocate gives us this great piece written in seven parts – one for each of the Mane 6 plus Starlight. Each movement is unique in style and reflects well with its attributed pony, while the sonata as a whole fits well together through its use of dissonant tones. Varying tempos and levels of brightness keep the composition interesting and help make 7 Vignettes a truly original track.

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Zephysonas – Lunar Knights | Orchestral

One of the best things about music is the infinite creative possibilities that exist for songwriters, and Zephysonas really demonstrates ingenuity with this track. In order to give this orchestral piece elements of dubstep fusion, Zephy deconstructed the wubs from basic synths in lieu of using mainstream methods. Another beautifully executed technique on display is the use of builds through use of full orchestral instruments instead of standard electronic means, fulfilling a dubstep template almost solely with orchestral components. Lunar Knights has a fulfilling, epic sound throughout, and stands as testament to great songwriting means and execution!

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Zizkil – Egotistical Heart | Fidget House

Trixie is a very complex pony in terms of personality, she have a lot of egocentric actions during the episodes that she appears, with a mix of arrogance and craziness. But we’ve need to give the points to her change in heart like Zizkil says in this beautiful track description on YouTube. It starts with an amazing orchestral, mixed with some glitch elements. That suddenly changes to the best Future Bass drop that you will ever hear, a mechanical and uplifting drop that will make you dance for sure! Then the Fidget House part, delicious and mechanical, keeps me reminding me that day I was listening to Mr. Oizo’s All Wet for the hundredth time! The piano, the violins, the synth work, the drum work. Everything! Everything is an amazing mix of the personalities that Trixie owns, a true treat for a Trixie fan!

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Radiarc – King of Darkness | Epic Orchestral

NB: This was originally posted on Equestria Daily on 28 February 2018.

After a few more ponderous and intricate pieces, Radiarc’s given the more epic style of orchestral a go again. Powerful percussion, intense choirs and some lovely work with strings help to create an atmosphere befitting the king of darkness, Sombra, with some neat guitar thrown in too.

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Strigidae – Time To Be Awesome (covering Daniel Ingram) | Pop

Strigi’s voice has always stood out – he’s a pretty unique vocalist and it’s always nice to hear his songs, whether original pieces or covers of show songs like this one. He’s definitely improved his singing too, he’s really able to project properly in many parts of this song.

I really should see that movie at some point too…

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Rarity Advocate – First Night Alone (Covering ThatSonofaMitch) | Orchestral

Reviving an underrated fandom classic, Rarity Advocate brings us a unique and splendid take on ThatSonofaMitch’s First Night Alone. This track adds new dimension to the synthpop original with a variety of gorgeous woodwind melodies combined with epic horn undertones. Culminating into a harmonically flowing piece or art, Rarity Advocate demonstrates expert orchestration while maintaining the feel and emotion of the original track.

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Hay Tea – Ante Up | Hip-Hop

The power of HipHop. Raw, Pure, and Straight to the Point. Hay tea bringing it up once again. (Loving the title though) With this Beat entering you within the atmosphere of the Wasteland. (Mostly well known for Fallout.) The Beat, the vibe, and everything ele. masterfully done. 🙂 The speech in the beginning also really intrique me to support the Message behind this track. Even if it seems so hidden. “You devote yourself to spending every second trying to get Better. despite the fact that it’ll never be enough.” But you know what? Maybe it doesn’t have to be Enough.
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