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Boards of Equestria – Music Has the Right to Pony | Album | Electronic / Hip-Hop


A new album from one of Technickel Pony’s aliases (you may remember Beats and Pieces), whose name is in tribute to the Scottish electronic duo, Boards of Canada. The album is mostly made up of relatively short pieces, and keeps to a sort of chill electronic / hip-hop style which runs throughout the entire album.

Technickel’s production style seems to have become a bit more standardised in this album compared to Beats and Pieces (although I do still hear some Sytrus presets in there ;P). While I’m unfortunately unable to do a full album review, I’d love to recommend a couple of tracks in particular. Track 7, Night Time World (ft. donglekumquat) gives a great sort of spacey feel with both the vocals and the lead synths. The following track, Dusk Light, a collaboration with Seventh Element, also has some great instrumentation and has a very strong trip-hop vibe to it.

Again, apologies for the lack of full review, but if you like chill electronica and hip-hop, this is definitely the sort of thing you should check out!

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Sonic Hooves – Barcarolle | Piano Sonata

It’s always quite nice to hear solo instrumental pieces from the orchestral and classical musicians in the fandom. Relax with this piano piece from Sonic Hooves about riding in a boat. Bonus points to them too for the little linguistic explanation of the title 😀

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Elias Frost – Under Our Spell (covering Daniel Ingram) | Finnish Folk

Well, it’s one thing to cover this song, but to translate it into another language and perform it in a style native to the country where said language is spoken. This take on Under Our Spell from Elias Frost features plenty of interesting wind instruments and percussion. And uh, you probably don’t need a translation of the lyrics 😉

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Duo Cartoonist – Trust In Me | Orchestral

With something that sounds like its come straight out of a Disney movie, Duo Cartoonist, producers of the much celebrated Children of the Night, have released their first original piece of music, featuring the talents of a whole bunch of people who helped out to make it a reality. If Disney villain music is your kind of thing, you’ll probably love this.

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Radiarc – I Know | Orchestral

Recently having been generally a proponent of some of the more dark and atmospheric orchestral releases in the fandom, here brings something a little different to that. Fitting beautifully to the chosen artwork is this calm, sombre piece that causes much contemplation.

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Spectra – I’ll Show You My Loyalty (Covering PhonyBrony & Feather) | Acoustic

Our own Spectra’s moving up in the world, having recently passed 2000 subscribers. In order to thank everybody who helped him get there, he’s released this really cute cover of what was arguably PhonyBrony’s most celebrated fandom track. Make sure to check it out if you like acoustic stuff

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GhostXb – From Shadows (Piano Theme for King Sombra) | Piano Sonata

Following on from previous works inspired by the same IDW comic story arc, and even keeping the live element of one of them, GhostXb has a new solo piano piece. I always enjoy seeing songs actually made, it does add a nice personal touch and you really appreciate the work that is put in a lot more. Anyway, go listen to this lovely composition from GhostXb, and if you want, download the EP with both piano solos on it!