For the NG Audio Deathmatch audition we have re-visited Hania's track "Take Over" from 2016 and reworked it into our current style. It's also been renamed to "The Next Big Thing".

♫ ♬ Lyrics ♫ ♬

Ha-ah-ha-ha

You and me can be the next big thing

Put the world on it's knees

Make it scream

You and me can be the next big thing

Put the world on it's knees

Make it beg as it screams

Welcome to paradise

All dreams are recognized

And then materialized

Ha-ah-ha-ha

Welcome to paradise

All dreams are realized

And then materialized

Ha-ah-ha-ha

You and me can be the next big thing

Put the world on it's knees

Make it beg as it screams

You and me can be the next big thing

Put the world on it's knees

Make it beg as it screams

Hold my hand

Let's fly to the stars

Bring your whiskey

And I'll bring mine

Take my breath

As the air disappears

We're a little late

Or somewhat on time

Ha-ah-ha-ha

You and me can be the next big thing

Put the world on it's knees

Make it scream

You and me can be the next big thing

Put the world on it's knees

Make it beg as it screams

Welcome to paradise

All dreams are recognized

And then materialized

Ha-ah-ha-ha

Welcome to paradise

All dreams are realized

And then materialized

Ha-ah-ha-ha

You and me can be the next big thing

Put the world on it's knees

Make it beg as it screams

You and me can be the next big thing

Put the world on it's knees

Make it beg as it screams

Hold my hand

Let's fly to the stars

Bring your whiskey

And I'll bring mine

Take my breath

As the air disappears

We're a little late

Or somewhat on time

Found some time and inspiration to submit a second song to the Art Inspired Music contest!

Thanks to @maynetenance for the inspiration piece "Racr"

Thanks to @teffyd for rocking out with us on this one!

It's rare, but occasionally we find someone worth joining forces with to take on this life. Build your army! Bring the war!

♫ ♬ Lyrics ♫ ♬

Hold onto all the things that make you; you

Even when all the things are trying to break you

Hold!

Bring all your war ships to the front line of your mind

You’re ready to put up a fight

Your only goal is to survive

Keep all your fears at bay

Load up your soldiers in a line

They’ve trained their whole lives for this time

They’re chanting “we will do or die”

“We will just keep all our fears at bay”

Hold onto 

Hold onto all the things that make you; you

Even when all the things are trying to break you

Hold!

Bring all your super sonic guns out to the fight

We won’t go quiet in the night

We will raise hell before we die

Keep all our fears at bay

Search and destroy the enemy 

Never give up we can be free

This time, the next and any day

We’re ready and we will keep all our fears at bay

Hold onto

All the things that

Make you; make you. 

Bring the war! (a bunch)

Bring all your war ships to the front line of your mind

You’re ready to put up a fight

Your only goal is to survive

Keep all your fears at bay

Bring all your super sonic guns out to the fight

We won’t go quiet in the night

We will raise hell before we die

Keep all our fears at bay

Load up your soldiers in a line

They’ve trained their whole lives for this time

They’re chanting “we will do or die”

“We will just keep all our fears at bay”

Search and destroy the enemy 

Never give up we can be free

This time, the next and any day

We’re ready and we will keep all our fears at bay

Hold!

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Trackers+ Into Hell

Goth/Pop 2023

When you're on the wrong path, and you know it, don't be surprised when life turns to hell. Has a bit of a Madonna in the late 90s vibe about it.

♪♫ Lyrics written and recorded by @hania ♪♫

Step once, step twice, step until you feel the ice, and realize that hell is cold

No warmth, no fire, the Devil is a liar, and hell is not what we've been told

It's a barren icy field of stone, solid, frozen, and alone

Stand there and you'll never end your pain

For the frostbite never goes away

You'll spiral into endless blame and nothing you can do will save your soul

Step once, step twice, step until you feel the ice, and realize that hell is cold

No flames, no fire, the Devil is a liar, and hell is not what we've been told

So keep on stepping down the road, you're stepping down. Keep on making moves and head onto the ground

So keep on stepping down the road, you're stepping down. Keep on making moves and head onto the ground

So keep on stepping down the road, you're stepping down. Keep on making moves and head onto the ground

So keep on stepping down the road, you're stepping down

Step once, step twice, step until you feel the ice, and realize that hell is cold

and head onto the ground

No warmth, no fire, the Devil is a liar

The Devil is a liar

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Oi (Madness)

UK Hardcore/Freeform - 170bpm

Heavy drums, acid bass and melodies for all the pew pew pew.

Oi, Merry Madness Day

Newgrounds Audio Deathmatch - Round 1

Group H

Famous - Big Beat - 128bpm

From the creative influence of The Prodigy, The Crystal Method and Fatboy Slim we decided to drop a Big Beat track about sacrificing your soul for fame. Everyday we see it, Tik Tok, Facebook, Instagram, whatever the platform, we watch and/or participate in the game of fame. Some sacrifice more than others and I wonder if people will learn that sacrifice doesn't guarantee success. Listen as the vocals becomes more processed, trying to be something else, have the life sucked out of them by desire. The twisted circus melody portays the reality of their stage. 🤡

Would love to hear some feedback!

♫ ♬ Famous Lyrics ♫ ♬

I wannabe famous

(famous)

I wannabe shameless

I wannabe brainless

(famous)

I wannabe

(famous)

Famous

I wannabe famous

I wannabe famous

I wannabe famous

I wannabe

I wannabe up there, singing up somewhere

I wanna be famous, I wannabe

I wannabe famous

I wannabe shameless

I wannabe heiness

I wannabe

I wannabe up there, singing up somewhere

I wanna be famous, I wannabe

The story, I want it

I feel it, I crave it, I need it

I want to be, want to be

Famous 

I wannabe famous

I wannabe shameless 

I wannabe brainless

I wanna be

I wannabe heiness

I wannabe brainless

I wanna be famous 

I wannabe

I wannabe up there, singing up somewhere

I wanna be famous, I wannabe

I wannabe famous

I wannabe famous

I wannabe famous

I wannabe

The Power The Glory The Music

The Power The Glory The Music

The story, I want it

I feel it, I crave it, I need it

I want to be, want to be

Famous

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I composed this song when I was... oooo... like, what... 14? But these lyrics didn't exist as they are today. This song has morphed into something so, oh for a lack of better word, sexy. I love the visuals this creates. The love this person feels is so full-scope. Every layer is catered for in their desire for that unobtainable, passionate dream they're having. 

I sent the original track to my mate Bafana (the button pusher in Trackers+) and he created this beautiful backing track for me to lay vokes on. I don't know how he gets the vision I have in my brain, but he does. And it works. Then I went round to his studio space and dabbled a little in the composition process to add my little touch to the instruments. Then he further adds his punch in the musical face, and we end up with this song. And I'm in LOVE with it. 

~~Lyrics~~

Dreaming - you are just dreaming

Open your arms

And hold out your hand

For you're just dreaming

Do you understand

You are just dreaming

Just dreaming

Touch me in the night and I come alight and my heart can not stop falling

Hold me and adore the way that I feel for I feel that you are falling

See me and the love I breathe into you when you tell me you need me; falling falling falling

For you're just dreaming

Kneel and feel me drop, I fold as we dance to and fro as we go; falling

Taste me in the light my mind has unlocked what was blocked and I'm now falling

Take all of the things I own and my soul over all of the world; falling falling falling

Hold on

Hold onto your heart

Grab on

Grab onto a part of life

Grab onto your strength

Dream on

Dream on

We are invincible

They can not beat us

We are invincible

They can not beat us down

Beat us

A 2nd submission for the Art Inspired Music 2023

A TV/Film soundtrack for the Warden created by @bazookabonsai for his dark sci-fi fantasy comic book "KERKA".

"What little warmth remains, what small innocense is still undefiled, is yours to guard..."

We imagined this as an animation and what that Intro/Credits theme would sound like. Described as a dark sci-fi fantasy, we combined some high energy rock with some dirty electronic bass. The recorded vocals, bells and vocal synths give it that heroes light.

See the original artwork "KERKA: Wardens work" here

Art inspiration by: https://frederikhornung.newgrounds.com/

So... hear me out. Here is the story this image told me.

You're in a rut. A robotic rut, just waking up. Now shower, shit and shave, got to work, go to sleep. Rinse and repeat, just a cog, mindlessly existing in this mechanical society.

0:00 So this track starts with the jungle beat, with the robotic grind of routine. Intensity and pressure builds. There must be more?

1:51 Awakening. A passion stirs, a hobby, a new person in your life, a call to your soul. The thought gets lost as the machine pulls you back in. But the Beast is awake.

2:26 Get the fuck up. The beast within is taking control. You're no longer that cog. The fire in your soul builds and it's your time to find happiness. Find success, discover a purpose in life and embrace it.

3:20 You feel alive. Primal happiness. You've done it. No more self sabotage, only push forward.

4:22 You're aware you still exist in the machine, but you march to the beat of your own drum. You're still surrounded by "cogs" who have not yet awakened their souls, and may never, but that is not your weight to carry. Keep your fire fueled.

The. End.

The track is a bit of a mashup. I wrote the drums first for that jungle feel. Used the FL Studio 303 Emulator "Transistor Bass" combined with some guitar fx pedals for the robotic elements. Bassline with some distortion automation to give it the growl of a beast awakening. Then brought in the Breakbeat / DnB elements. The piano merges with synths to bring it all to life.

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This song is a celebration of the friendships that have formed through Newgrounds, in particular the Audio Portal.

Trackers is a musical project is made up of @bafana @hania and @inyourdreams. Bafana and Hania have been friends since 2012 and InYourDreams joined the crew in 2016.

Been friends with @thatjohnnyguy for even longer than that but finally joining forces on this track from Mortal Kombat in 2021!

Anyways, Newgrounds is a place of friendship for us so that's the song we contributed to this collaboration.

Thanks @tomfulp and thanks @thatjohnnyguy for piecing it all together!