So I finished my first free album a day or two ago, and I dub it EAZ :) If you wanna read about it, check out this thread in the AF Lounge :) I know that it's only five songs, but I actually busted my fucking ass a million times over trying to make these songs sound great. Plus I spent a little over a year writing them :( So check it out, and I hope you all enjoy!

EAZ download

Keep it easy Newgrounds!

-Zenon

Finally, after years of failed projects, bad ideas, good ideas, random inspiration spurs out of the middle of no where and countless cases of writers block... I finally submit 600 pieces to the audio portal. So if anything, just give the 600th song a listen. I hope you guys enjoy it!

Gradiate--_--

Keep it easy Newgrounds!

-Zenon

I understand that this post is rather late, just bear with me.

August 13th: - Glowing Reaper

The first song that I'd like to introduce is called Glowing Reaper. I don't know, the reasoning for the name is that I could see someone being hacked apart with a glowing scythe with this song in the background. Plus the melody sounds pretty fucked up, so I thought that it fit pretty well actually.

The entire song was built around the beat that starts for eight measures at 0:50. The willy wonka addition was totally random, and found it accidentally on the internet while I was trying to think of something to do for the build up. Well damn, I think it worked out pretty good. I haven't played with sidechaining in forever either, so this was doing a new song in an old way... well, for me that is :)

Die-Hilation

I said that I was gonna make a post about this song when I submitted it, but I was in a hurry so I couldn't do too much of anything! I hope I remember what I was going to say.

At work a while ago, they had an internet radio thingy going (I'm a janitor at a grocery store) and they started playing this really lame song. Well, at least at the time I thought it was lame. It was like they had taken house music and pooped on it, since the beats were kind of weak and of course, there's those pop vocals overtop of everything. But the bassline... A square wave, distorted, and modulated on the filter frequency and it was warbling around and I loved it! Had that song in my head for a while, and then I finally said, "you know Jadan you should probably be writing these ideas down." So I slapped myself in the forehead, put down the bassline and the drums and didn't even WORK on the song for another 2 or 3 months. Weird effects got added, people started to like the sound, and here is the end result. And I dunno why, but that bassline... can't get enough of it.

Slowly Racing

So like I said in the song description, this song is basically based off of one of Tiesto's dance mixes on Sirius radio. I usually listen to the Area channel or something, they generally play good quality house or something; occasionally it's shitty or way experimental in the wrong way, but usually not. So in this song, they played a bit of the melody. And like most house, tracks, I expected that same 2 bar melody with only slight alterations. As the song got better, I started to fill in the cliche' notes in my head. You know, trying to guess what notes will go next.

The song kept playing, and whaddaya know... he just kept adding to it, and next thing you know, I'm listening to an epic dance mix with like, a 16 bar melody or even longer!? Cool! I really liked the sound, and as soon as I turned that radio off and came home I slapped the part that plays at 1:10 and built the entire song around that.

I apologize if you don't like slow music! Give the whole thing a listen though, I personally think it's worth at least one :)

Keep it easy Newgrounds;

-Zenon

Friday, June 26th: Broken Lightbulb

This song has been the instrument of my confusion for a long time; procrastination was also rampant in the creation of this piece. I always got stuck, couldn't find different things to add, but eventually got somewhat of a finished project completed. Honestly, I know it could be better quality and music wise, but the lyrics... after working on this song for quite a while, the lyrics kinda... attach to you. Feels like they mean more than they did before (which if you read them, will realize that they mean nothing at all). I even wrote a pretty slick synth solo at the end; I tried to make this song sound very old-school psychedelic.

In other news, I've been really fucking inactive; school's done, my birthday was three days ago, and now today is grad... well, I guess the only real thing I can say is that I hope I don't fall down the stairs!

Keep it easy Newgrounds;

-Zenon

Nal1200 started a project a while ago (which you can read all about here) that was put in place to help the Newgrounds artists that chose to participate get their music out there. I jumped in, wrote a song, and got it on there. The track list is as follows:

1. Miles Away - Mrmilkcarton
2. Crystalline - Solus Lotus
3. A Moonless Blue (Feat Lira Yin) - Nal1200
4. Paroxysm - Ruqal
5. Andas - EnV
6. Keys of a Piano - Smurfbeats
7. Dj Splatta - Happiness (BeatSource Remix) - BeatSource
8. Adrenaline - RenoakRythm
9. Say I Am You - Synthetic Music Apparatus
10. Morning Light (OM) - Kr1z
11. Destiny (Feat. Elaine Sharp) - Helix
12. Saying Goodbye - Jesse Valentine (F-777)
13. Audio Hallucination - Danred
14. Estrayed - Astrix
15. Unending Tribulation - Zenon
16. Iceferno - Redmoon Deejay

We all worked our asses off on all of our songs, so we all hope that you guys will take the time to check out the EP which is right here! The full version of my song (Unending Tribulation) is plastered up on my Myspace page, so don't forget to check that out either!

Enjoy the music, and keep it easy Newgrounds;

-Zenon

ADD ME ON MYSPACE: www.myspace.com/psyzenon
(Yes, it's a different url now. I just forgot to make an artist account before)

If you see this and you don't know about everything that happened to me, it's best that you just don't ask and accept that I came back to Newgrounds because a girl made me LEAVE Newgrounds. So I left her. And I'm starting up a blog-ish thingy cause I erased that too :(

August 6th: I Thank You

7 MINUTES!? GOLLY MISTER THAT'S A PRETTY LONG TIME

I'm actually beaming right now, I can't believe that I wrote such a long (and actually pretty good) song in like, 3 or 4 hours. It all started with a melody, and then I found a random little foggy sounding sample. The song changes moods so much that seriously, it's ridiculous.

Also, my band played a show and it was a load of fun. It was technically our first gig too, because the other "first" one we did it was just a wedding with a bunch of old people and we didn't even get paid. Family business, bleh. So the show was deadly, and so was everything else about that night. Didn't get to do my drum solo, but I've been jipped outta those things before; these things happen. And there's for August 6th; this is going to be an eventful month so I'm gonna have updates very soon, as soon as said events happen <_<

August 24th: Appropriately Strange

Another really long Goa trance mix (8:15) and I'm really proud of this one, just as I am with I Thank You; for more reasons than just 'it's a good song'. While I Thank You was more of a very tame and calm Goa trance song that switched between moods, Appropriately Strange is more of a head-on charge of a brutal sounding Goa trance song. Also, considering some issues that are going on right now, I will no longer have the internet very soon. Does this mean that I'm leaving Newgrounds (permanently)? In no way, it just means that I'll be submitting EXTREMELY rarely, and I'll only be able to visit the forums whenever I'm able to access the internet at someone else's house.

I hope you all enjoy the last song (I know I said in the description that there'd be a few other songs that I'll be submitting, but I never got around to finishing them) that I'm going to be submitting here for a very long time. I'll try to find a way to get my music on here though.

September 1st: Atom Bomb

If you guys can actually remember the original version of Atom Bomb, either you knew me on Mixposure back before they updated the site, or you just like my music far too much in the first place. I decided to do a little bit of a rendition since I really liked how old school and badass the licks were that I wrote for the song. That's enough about the song though, click the link and enjoy.

So my brother moved away. Has to be the most depressing experience in my life but I think I'll pull through. School has started and I got myself a really crappy job, so I'll be able to keep myself occupied without my brother's existence without killing myself. Oh yeah, and there's gonna be lots of music to write and lots of WoW to play, and as soon as my brother gets the internet at his place we'll be able to game out again. I think it'll be nice, I miss having him around.

September 7th: View users with you on their Favorite Artists list! (400)

Yep. Just got to 400 fans. That is all.

September 27th: Starve Amongst Feasts

This God damned song has been the source of my mental tiredness since the beginning of September. I created the melody that came in at the 3 minute mark, and then nothing. Absolutely... nothing. I had no ideas whatsover; the melody is much more brooding that what I'm used to writing.
And of course, when you run out of your own ideas, you go back to your old inspirations. This song's introduction/break/melody/and especially the drumwork is greatly inspired by Infected Mushroom's older songs. A few that inspired a song to turn out like this particular song, are songs like "Scorpion Frog", "Gamma Goblins" and "Cities of the Future". Three excellent songs, and without them I'd probably just have another monotone Goa trance song :)

Aside from that, though, my life has been pretty good. Going to school, getting the work done, and trying to get ready for a good old Canadian winter. If we have a few huge blizzards this year, I'll probably get pretty excited. Last night though, of all things that could have happened, I got lit on fire. You read that correctly; I was on fire. I got some pretty bad lookin' burns on my right leg, but after they scab over I'll be fine :D Plus, to make all this better, my brother is visiting for this weekend, and he brought his little puppy :) She's absolutely adorable.

November 23rd: Nightmare Eater

It's been a while, so I thought that it's about time that I write another long and so-called "good" piece so that I can plaster it up here in my blog :) I think what prompted this track's style though was my excessive amount of Astral Projection that I've been listening to recently. Mahaveda? One of the best goa tracks that I've heard in a long time; really gets your head bobbin'.

Other than that, I've been keeping myself sane by starting up drawing again. I'm considering making some news posts showing off my art (I originally wanted to be a cartoon artist, but I was better at music) but I don't think I'm gonna do it; maybe I'll just host the pictures on Facebook or something.

December 20th:

I know that I usually don't update my news posts unless I have a new song worth mentioning, but that'll be very soon, don't worry. I started a new "goa" trance track a few days ago (when I had the spare time) and it turned out to be... I can't decide if the the song is evil, or if it just sounds classical :P I ended up using a harpsichord in the introduction and it's turning out pretty gnarly. I don't write music very much nowadays; I almost forget how to create cool effects with Maelstrom and whatnot. The song will either be done sometime today (if an idea hits me) or I'll try to get it submitted on Christmas.

My life's been going pretty good; Christmas is coming up, my brother will probably be coming down sometime soon, even though that it kind of sucks that I don't have too much money for myself. It shouldn't be too much though (even though I did get into a damn car accident). Yesterday was also my last day of school! My teachers were deadly, they just let me draw all over their chalkboards with weird shit and I had another teacher say that I didn't even need to go to that class today. Screw skipping, I'm allowed to not go to class :D Plus there were no classes in the afternoon, so I just had a prime ass day yesterday.

A few days ago, I moved my drum kit back home from that cold quonset that we played in for a few reasons. I broke three cymbals there (1 Sabian china, 2 Zildjian ZXTs) it was getting fucking cold (I could see my breath, and my drum sticks felt like icicles) and of course, right before I moved the kit, I ripped the bass drum skin apart. Lucky me; I'm not really sad about that though. I got it changed really fast, and I could jam out the next day :) I'm kinda pissed at my kit though; you know, CAUSE TWO OF MY CYMBALS ARE FUCKING SNAPPED GAH. I need new cymbals :'(

December 28th: Phantom Cigarette

Alright, so I didn't get it done by Christmas. But, I did get it done 3 days after, so that's not TOO bad. Haha, I didn't even really want to work on it today, but I woke up and said to myself, "Man... you're three days late on your own promise to yourself to get this song done". So I just did a few things, they sounded good, and hell... next thing I know I have a goa track that sounds a considerable amount different than anything I've ever written, AND it's 5 minutes long. Awesome.

My computer told me this morning that hardrive failure is imminent. I'm not too worried; I got the project I wanted done complete, and all I gotta do is re-install reason and find a demo version of FL so I can create some new samples. Wish me luck everyone.

Keep it easy, Newgrounds;

-Zenon

Who'd a thunk it that one of my songs would be on Stepmania? Especially one of the ones that are God damned three minutes, haha :P I'd never be able to play DDR for that long on a single song, Jesus, I'd die.

Then again, I am a pussy.

Stepmania site, and the thread for it.

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