PSFMer - Present Future [Drumfunk]

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Grab this song and lots of good tunes from Ponies at Dawn: Wanderlust :


I wanted to make another pony flavoured drumfunk tune, so in this one i combined voice samples from both G4 and G5 ponies. Twilight with the solemn lines from the apocalypse scene, and Pipp singing that ooooo yeah line from MYM chapter 3 (present & future yea?). AJ Bridel does such a fantastic job as Pipp's voice, she is so musical with her voice. The moment i heard it in the episode, i was like 'this is definitely going into my samples folder'. Coincidentally, she was singing in more or less the same key as the one i chose for this song, so i only needed to slightly adjust the pitch to get it to fit. And also Twilight's own placid vocals fit the vibe quite well imo

On the technical side of things, there's lots of focus on the drums (which is the entire premise of the genre). I couldn't resist using the Soul Pride break yet again, from the song Soul Pride Pt 1 and 2 by James Brown and his band. The drums were performed by Clyde Stubblefield, and he's nothing short of a legend. So much groove and nuance in all the ghost hits, making the recording come to life. It's perfect for chopping and rearranging into new contexts, and i've seen it done in a good number of drumfunk records. So i wanted to have my own take on it. Stubblefield would never have guessed that the drum break that he played would eventually end up in a track inspired by little horses

I took so long to finally upload this song because i was stuck on the art part haha. It's kind of a curse that i make my own art for each song, because if i don't get inspired, then i'm going to put it on the backburner. For this one, i was inspired by that one channel which puts out a bunch of drumfunk mixes. They always have a wooded/forest theme to match the music, so i built a wooded area in SFM, and put a bunch of fog to make it all mystic and such. Building the scene and lighting it took much more time and effort compared to doing Twilight's simple pose haha

Please check out the link to the Ponies at Dawn: Wanderlust album, there's lots of fun tunes in there to enjoy