SlyphStorm

Youtube

Age: 20
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado USA

" I don't write in any particular genre, I just try to write what works and what sounds good to me, and as such I tend to mix things from all genres into what I make. Instead of remixes, I prefer to do a full cover with my own vocals. I try my hardest to tell a story to a listener with word and song just in the way a book would. I'm honored to be appreciated by such a fantastic group of people, and I can only hope to get better as time goes on." He often mixes electronic and rock elements, like frequently having electronic songs with guitar solos.

Notable track: Pegasus Device

Vocal Score

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Location: London, UK.
Age: 21

"I’m a musician who doesn’t like to tie himself down to one genre, but mainly deals with acoustic music (although I’m tinkering with electronic stuff at the moment!). I’ve been a brony since season 1, but didn’t start doing brony music until June 2013. I always wished I had started earlier, but then maybe I wouldn’t have the awesome songs to cover! I’m a self-taught pianist and guitarist, and I also play a little drums too! I’ve got experience in arranging choir and close-harmony acapella music for several voices, and my love for this probably comes out in my work. Vocal harmony is my favourite thing (maybe in the woooorld), which is why it’s usally pretty prevalent in my tracks! <3

Notable track: Acoustic Cover of Love Me Cheerilee

DJDoctorWhooves

Youtube
EQBeats

Location: Australia, Tasmania
Age: 20

"New Artist slowly getting popular on a few websites. He uses many different styles and is mostly known for his relaxing themed songs. He started with minecraft noteblocks and then went on to real music."

Notable track: - Smile Smile (Relaxing Version)

Chaos Sprite

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Location: Chile
Age: 14

Hey, I'm Chaos Sprite. I'm a 14 year old EDM producer and I mostly like to make music about ponies and animu girls. I specialize in making Electro/House music, but have influences from Dubstep and Drum & Bass, to Hard Dance, to Pop, to Rock and Metal, to Orchestrated and Classical Music, and many, many more.

Notable track (Helping Twilight Win The Crown Remix): 

RiffMusicPony

YouTube

Age: 20
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Simply put, I will experiment beyond just one genre and as of recently I've been fusing together other forms of music, lets say dubstep drum beats and injecting a rich lush orchestral score to it. That's what goes into a "RiffMix." And with 6+ years of meticulous guitar shredding craftsmanship, it's no wonder why I have a show offy side when given the right opportunity. I've been featured on EqD once before, and composed exclusively for Solraction.

Notable track (The last pony in Ponyville):

Top Brony Tracks of 2013

As we always do, we will be collecting the Top 2013 brony tracks of the year from various radio stations and different music press and archiving (and linking) them here.

Interview With 4everfreebrony (Interview by Zephy)

BMD + FimMusic Interview With 4everfreebrony (Interview by Zephy)

So this is our 3nd interview for FimMusic and our 5th for Bronymusic,com. It is with our new friend 4EverfreeBrony and we spent a bit of time on Skype talking about his catalog, musical background, and some of his favorite music in the fandom. Thanks to Zephy for arranging, editing, and conducting this great interview. His youtube is here (uploaded to Freewave's due to technical difficulties). http://www.youtube.com/user/Zephysonas

4everfreebrony's youtube is https://www.youtube.com/user/4everfreebrony
Bandcamp is http://4everfreebrony.bandcamp.com/
Thanks again to him for stopping by and doing the interview!

DigiBrony's Top Songs of 2013

We have to thank Digibrony who's been a supporter of FimMusic since we started and he put together this list of top pony tracks for 2013 especially just for us.



Check out the full list here on FIMM. It's part of an evergrowing lists put together by people like you! Get yours together and we'll publish it too.

New Interviews!!

Just a reminder that we are doing interviews for BMD and FimMusic now. We'll try to do them as close to a weekly routine as we can. You can check them out here on FIM and we'll link any other ones done by other brony sites as well.

And this one from last week with Evdog.

Past interviews for BMD can be seen here. We have one for Eurobeat Brony and Stars in Autumn.

Disco / Funk

The sounds of the 70's are back in the form of Funk and Disco! We're betting that despite the fact Discord, Luna, and Celestia are the only ones old enough to remember it that you'll enjoy these reto funky sounds. Put on those flared jeans and bring out your disco balls. Even some disco oriented French House will do.

While there's not enough of either to search for, here are some highlights.

Feel free to recommend some artists (artists that  specialize in it) and tracks not included in here in the comments section.

Trap

Trap is characterized by deep, pulsating, hard-hitting sub-bass, 808 drums, sharp synth leads, and Dubstep elements (drum patterns, heavy bass drops, and a focus on low-end frequencies). A lot of the stuff that comes from the shadier section of Equestria (down south). While Trap Rap has some rapping, Trap itself generally does not.

Check out these artists who specialize in this music (or more than likely check out a few of those below)

Feel free to recommend some musicians (those that specialize in it), and tracks not included in here, in the comments section.

Swing / Electro Swing

Whether its the vocal jazz crooning of traditional swing jazz or the updated and more modern Electro Swing (with bits of pumping house) it's a blast from the past. Granny Smith approves!

Check out these artists who specialize in this style of music.

Feel free to recommend some artists (artists that  specialize in it) and tracks not included in here in the comments section.

The Lyde Octave

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Location: N/A
Age N/A

Hello, I'm Lyde, or you can address me by my full name, The Lyde Octave. I am a very recent musician in the fandom and I have been wanting to do something like this for a long time. So far, the experience has been amazing getting to make my own music. I don't really know the exact genre I make most of the time, but I'll just call it electronic. I also work on Orchestral ad orchestral rock peices, mostly slow, mellow, sad or dark feelings to them, because I'm shy when it comes to acoustic drums. I am a very friendly and outgoing guy, so don't be shy to talk to me at all, I love meeting and helping new people! My uh, favorite character in the show is Lyra Heartstrings because... I don't know, she's just so awesome! my favorite of the 6 is Fluttershy because she's too damn cute! Kay.

Notable track (Home): 

Captain Jack3h

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Location:Oberlin, Ohio
Age:16

"I like Jamaican music :) I invented a genre name for my music, which is Skaggamuffin. It's a combination of Raggamuffin- which is electronically backed reggae and ska. I sometimes make trap and 80s synthpop, if I'm in the mood. I make music mainly in garageband, because 1. it's easy and 2. it's cheap. Sometimes I use Logic, and will be getting new software soon. I've got lots of synthesizers, some old, some new, and some ones I made myself."

Some of my tracks-(all on soundcloud, no embeds)
Dancing in the Clouds
Replacer-Cerulean Blue (Remix)

Orion Melody

Youtube
Soundcloud

Location: Alabama
Age:19

"I compose electronic music primarily with Sytrus and Harmor in FL Studio. I can't really stick with a specific style/genre.. I'm kinda all over the place when it comes to my songs. I have done a couple dubstep songs, some ambient, upbeat stuff, heavy electronic (think rock music, but electronic.. Best way I can describe it. :P). 

Notable track: Venomous

MiJyn

YouTube
SoundCloud
Eqbeats
Pony.fm
Twitter
Google+
Home Website
(alternative home website)

Location: Canada
Age: 15

I've been into composing music since I was 9, and have just started to make electronic music a year ago. I mainly (try to) compose soundtrack-y (mostly orchestral) music, and I love ostinatos (little melodic patterns that repeat a lot). I'm also a programmer, and it has been my main hobby (over music, actually), since I was 8. If you want to know anything else about me, or just want to talk, hit me up, I love talking with pretty much anyone (as long as you're not trolling =P) ^^

Notable track (Everlasting Friendship): 

EQD Spotlights for November

So here's BMD's playlist with all of EQD's spotlights of the month for  November. Just 25 of them this month (hey it was pre-season 4) ! We'll make sure to have December's playlist up by the beginning of next month. You can view previous month's playlists archived on the right hand side of BMD (midway down). Congrats to those who made the cut.

Top Brony Musicians of 2013

With season 4 starting up and 3 years of brony music in existence we have a rare opportunity to see who the top musicians of our scene are. Using the youtube subscriptions totals of each musician we have put together a ranked list of each. While there's plenty of great musicians under 1,000 subs we wanted to thank those who've done a great job of getting noticed and putting out great music for the community (and that's where this list begins at). Here's the prior list from 6 months ago. How times have changed!

If you see anyone over 1,000 subs who we have missed (which is very possible) let us know in comments and we'll add them to the list when we get a chance. We also divided the list into alicorns, unicorns, and pegasi to make it interesting. Anyone with ** after their name does more than just music so may have a sub boost there. PMV artists are not included. Musicians who have left and deleted their youtubes or their catalogs have been dropped but have an honorable mention at the very bottom. Remember that popularity is not the same thing as quality and that there is no reason for being butthurt over the brony community's favorites.

(Updated on Dec 10, 2013)<---------------

FimMusic has Launched!

So I think its about time to put a post on here about FimMusic which is the blog that several of us have put together as a news blog for both the Brony Musician Directory and MyLittleRemix.

We designed it so we could talk and blog about events, musicians, and things that happen on MLR and outside of it in the brony community. It's very much a music site designed by musicians for other musicians and those who still actively listen to and make this music in this community. We'd like to think that we can help get a little more visibility for those who need it as a community music blog. Just like on MLR its fun to be active and enthusiastic about the music we are still making about mlp. It's important to see what others are doing and what's going on in the community.

http://fimmusic.tumblr.com/

Zephy's Off-Kilter Picks of the Week #2

Here is the second edition of our new feature Zephy's Off Kilter Picks of the Week. These are some assorted tracks that are the favorites of busybody (and bmd staff member) Zephysonas!  He has selected them as the cream of the crop of brony music this week. We hope you give this a read and them a listen. reat collaboration.