While Twilight Sparkle was my favourite of the Mane Six for the first 3 seasons of MLP:FiM, Rarity began to grow on me quite a lot during the episodes following. Her generosity, eloquence, diverse personality ranges, and overall regal presence captivated me as the show carried on. She worked hard, learned a lot, and had some great personal development during the full series run! It is for those reasons and many others, that I went with the title "Elegance" to pay respect to the lovely purple-maned marshmallow horse, we've all come to know and love!
As for the song itself, from the get-go I knew above all else, that I wanted it to feature a harpsichord, as they are an instrument widely seen as being "regal and elegant." I decided to make Trance the genre for this one, as it's a style that commonly lends itself very well to classical music influenced production. As always, the vocal talents of Kazumi Evans (Rarity's "singing voice") have a GLORIOUSLY beautiful range of melodic tenure to them, to where finding good samples for vocal chopping is practically effortless! With a long-lived background in trance music, and many artist influences happily burned into my psyche, "Elegance" was a VERY fun track to write, and would later provide extra fuel and experience points, towards the development of my latest trance-focused alias "NeighGative_"
Friendship From Fire is beautiful, a haunting song from the Wasteland Wailers to take you away to the wastelands of Equestria. Never stop, guys! Ponies At Dawn rocks! princealembic
Flittzy's animesque 'Circles' is a very close second, but NeverLastStanding's 'Go With Me' has recurrently sprung up in my thoughts since the album's debut from the words of encouragement of our Equine friends, given in as heartfelt a manner as those found in Foozogz' works C_||_R
UK percussionist and producer Tom Buford contrasts minimalist electronic experiments with vast soundscapes shaped by classical and jazz. Bandcamp New & Notable May 2, 2024
The excellent Barcelona label House of (S)PUNK is back with a five-song comp showcasing the local hardgroove scene. Bandcamp New & Notable May 1, 2024
Perfect, mellow, techno synthpop for a long, cold expanse of post-midnight cryoseism snowquakes, here in Central Illinois. Pure pleasure for jaded, jejune ears! str8sounds