BMD Interviews Stars in Autumn

 

The Brony Musician Directory made time to interview one of our favorite and veteran brony musicians, Stars in Autumn (also known as Jeff the Strider). We talked to him at length about his music, his inspirations, the community, and what it takes to make such great quality music. Hope you take time to listen to this fun and informative interview.

His channel is here http://www.youtube.com/user/Jeffthestrider Hopefully he just may make 3,000 subs this week!! We will continue to aim for monthly interviews with some of our favorite artists where we can get to know them a little better.

PonyVisation

YouTube Location: Indianapolis Age: N/a Describing himself as a new age and classical themed musician he has made many great improvised and bare acoustic piano themes ("Canterlot Suite", "Scootaloo's Adulthood") and culminating in the one hour improvised "The Key of Equestria" and the 70 minute "Boundless Equestria" pieces. Would definitely not be surprised if he had a picture of a piano as his cutie mark.                      Notable track: The Key of Equestria

Pixeltripper

YouTube Location: Buena Park, USA Age: N/a An amazing PMV artist (see "We Will Not be Stopped") who has the made the leap to making his own music. A lover of some of the darker more industrial / darkwave styled tracks so the music takes on some of that sound. I came for the pmv's and I stayed for the music.  Notable track: The Pegasus Who Couldn't Fly

DongleKumquat

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Location: USA
Age: 18

He tends to reside in the electronic trance, downtempo, and ambient styles but has been known at time to veer off wildly in random directions (see "Party Mildly" and "Sugar Rush" for more energized wackiness). Some great original music and instrumentals here to check out!

                 Notable Track: Into the Forest

MindKog

YouTube SoundCloud Tumblr Location: USA Age: N/A Quite a nice range from this brony; from great complextro on "Fixing Everything", to the orchestral adaption of the Antipodes fanfaction, to great progressive house on "The Threadcutter". He's come along a long way in 6 months time and his music shows it. Notable track: Fixing Everything

Colt45BronyEmcee

YouTube Location: N/a Age: N/a He burst onto the brony rap scene nearly a year ago but has been absent for the last 6 months. Foul mouthed but lyrically agile he's a must to listen to if you're brony hip-hop fan. Bronyz 4 life! Notable Track: Damn It Feels Good to be a Brony

Peacock

YouTube Location: Copenhagen, Denmark. Age: N/A While he only has 3 rather short tracks at this point on his Youtube channel (made starting in the end of the May), it looks like they were all well-received and all EqD-approved. Some rather good electro and complextro here.  This artist is a "Matthew N. recommends!" Notable track: Sunshine, Sunshine, Ladybugs Awake! (Peacock Remix)

Faithful & Strong is Out!!

It's out, it's 36 tracks and benefits a good cause!! Check out the link for the tracklist and instructions on how get this amazing album.

LoreRD

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Location: Sweden
Age: N/A

LoreRD is a guy who enjoys to both listen and produce multi-genred music, if you listen to his songs you'll find everything from Electro-orchestra, classical, to techno, metal and other uptempo genres.  ''I'm mostly influenced by Crowded House, Radiohead, Owl City, DragonForce, Foster the People, Tori Amos, Elton John, Billy Joel, Men Without Hats (LFP+Freewave's Seal of approval for MWoH influence), Flobots, Porcupine Tree and Rush (and that's only a few of the people I listen to, yeah....)''

Beetwick

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Location: Seattle
Age: 21

"So far I've made mostly poppy chiptune electronic stuff with vocal cutting a la Pogo or Pinkie Pie Swear, but I'm going to be all over the place exploring different sounds as I make more songs."

Notable Track: Set Phasers to Hug

Carbon Maestro

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Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Age 19

"I specialize in orchestral music, particularly in soundtrack music that might be heard in movies, films, and video games. However, I'm quite familiar with every other music genre and have debated on topics in my Carbon Music Review series. I'm a classically trained cellist with 10 years of experience, and I have composed for major albums such as "Pony Empires Complete" and "Derpy and Carrot Top's Epic.""

Notable Track: "Pony Empires Complete"

Site News

Hey just a heads up to anyone who cares. The Brony Music Directory recently lost Emperor Übermensch as part of our staff as his father has basically cut him off from a lot of contact from the outside world while he goes to college (you can read up on that on the thread from mlr). We are pretty upset by this news and will really miss having him around. Also Matthew N. is going to be away from his home and away on a work related business trip so we will have to make due without one of our most important contributors. We will keep trying to do weekly updates (and we have a few this week) so please be aware of our situation while we try to make do. We appreciate your support.

Oh and the Second Chances has been extended to include any tracks that you may have for all of July and through August 15 with less than 1000 views. If you have one that qualifies then please enter it! Tell your friends and please throw some support our way if you can.

Nexaka

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Location: USA, Georgia
Age: 16

He makes mostly dubstep and drum and bass and trie to mix them with different sounds that you wouldn't normally hear in those genres. He is known for having positive sounding mixes.

Notable Track: Becoming Popular (Nexaka Remix)

Evening Star

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Location: Bath, England
Age: 16

"Evening Star is, simply put, Liquid Drum & Bass. Combining smooth piano melodies with warm drum patterns, I have received generally good response from those that have listened to it: two of my tracks have been featured on Equestria Daily and I hope to be able to produce music like this for a living, some day."

Notable track: Beautiful Night

 

Husaria / Habanc

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Location: Albany, New York
Age: 17

 "Husaria is a quiet house producer, preferring to create energetic electro house or warm progressive house tracks based on inspiration from various facets of My Little Pony and its unique fandom."

Notable Track: Rainshine & Sunbows

Second Chances - a BMD monthly event

We'll keep you posted tomorrow about what was submitted, let you view those tracks, and allow anyone to vote for their favorites.  Would have loved more submissions but appreciate those that took the time to email us their music. 

Official website: Second Chances

Submission dates are for tracks with Youtube publishing dates of 
7/01 to 8/15.
People can submit tracks until the end of the day on 9/15
At which point we have a week of voting until 9/21.
We'll need wav's from any of the winners and we'll release the comp on 10/1 or before that if we use bandcamp. After that we follow the same schedule but for the next month IF we do this again.

Please go to our tumblr for the FULL rules and info on submitting.

Any questions or concerns? Ask us in the mlr thread. Please do not submit tracks in the comments :)