I have added two new songs that belong on "The Career Goes Further" to Newgrounds. The songs are titled "Dream State", and "Thunder and Rain 2". In the track listing, there first were the respective tracks "The Conjuring" and "Every Sunset" in their places, but they've since been replaced with the aforementioned new uploads, which I actually have already recorded back in June and July of 2022. It suited me better to record two new tracks that fit into the mood of the album more rather than cutting corners and using two existing songs that I didn't even like in the first place.

I've also updated the other songs so that they are perfectly synced with the distributed release. I've also improved the audio quality a little bit for convenience, though I would still highly recommend you to listen on Spotify, Apple Music, and perhaps even buying them from the iTunes store, where I have also released a couple singles.

Regardless of what you do, I hope you've enjoyed listening to the project, and thank you for following me, if you did. See you with the next release.

-BlighterProductions

Hello everybody,

I am glad to tell you that, after a relatively long hiatus, I got back to producing music again. This hiatus was mainly because I had to focus on my personal life.

I am in my final year of school, and exams are just a few months away now. Of course, I’ll be spending most of my attention on completing physics exams, but I also take some free time to make music.

For this particular song, I also have got into contact with someone from my school to deliver the vocals for this new song. This song will be the first song I ever made to have actual proper vocals on it.

I also got involved in the process of creating my own digital artwork. I currently have a side project running to design my own cover artwork for one of my singles, so I can distribute it on TuneCore.

So, yes, sorry, it took a while for me to get my priorities sorted. I am not sure when I will be able to publish the song, but I will drop a news post when I got it ready.

See you soon again,

BlighterProductions

I proudly announce hereby that my album “The Career Goes Further” is officially released, and thus, available in stores now.

Apple Music/iTunes Store: https://music.apple.com/nl/album/the-career-goes-further/1660709288

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7mbze33jXay1MjE80ABzxX?si=tWMp7Q08REytE0Tf120xZQ

YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nnwdGMO4zH9AJ7Pnekoy8UyIMGKdnzOZw&feature=share

Since last weekend, I have an account on TuneCore. I have submitted my album “The Career Goes Further” for an official release on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Tidal, Deezer, Qobuz, etc. This means that there will finally be high-quality versions of my music available.

Links will be provided as soon as the album is available across those platforms.

I just came to realize that my Newgrounds account has been up for three years since today. I honestly don’t know what to say, other than: “Time flies like a fucking demon. Where did those years go?”

Anyways, I’ve been reflecting on the music I wrote in the past, and while my decision already stands that I wanted to change my style a bit, I now have a better sense which direction I want to go. I don’t often listen to my own music, but it’s always fun reflecting on my old stuff. You know, checking what I could do differently, or paying attention to certain details I put in my songs.

So, I got into the NGUAC for the third time now, so if I can put myself to it, Emperor Lands isn’t gonna be the only thing you will hear from me this year, hopefully. I hope to at least make it through the knockout round. If I somehow manage to do that, that’s more than enough for me. I got other priorities too, because there have been only two things that I wanted to make my living of: film and music. While music is a hobby having become more and more fun the more I explore it and practice it, film and movies is probably what I really want to make a living out of.

I am currently writing this from my hotel room in Austria, and I decided, when I am back home, that I want to do an official distribution of my music, so that it is available on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Tidal, all those platforms. It will probably no longer be a Newgrounds exclusive to listen to my music, so that’s a benefit. Another one, if I hopefully get noticed, is that I will get enough listeners to make some money from it. At the same time, I will happily continue making more music, more video’s, and try my best to deliver on that.

But there is also something called school. I am entering the final exam classes when the summer holidays are over, so I will also study hard. Very hard. Probably to the point that I can’t deliver as frequently as I did in the period of 2020-21. While I got a big project scheduled, I also need to focus on physics exams. I have been studying my ass off before the holidays, and I will do that too after the holidays, so I think that the holidays are my best hope of putting some material out.

Well, I guess that’s all I have to say. I’m quite sure this is more of a novel than a news post at this point. I want to wish my fellow contestants the best of luck in the NGUAC. I am awaiting a review on my Tryout submission Mount 511, so there’s that too. And further on, I want to wish you guys the best of luck too. Peace out!

-BlighterProductions

There are some more tracks that I didn't officially want to release to Newgrounds because they're either not completely finished or just simply never intended to be released in the first place, but you can find them on my Soundcloud profile. Enjoy your listen. It's probably the last material for this year, unless I find enough time and inspiration to make a track for the KO-round of the NGUAC. They're made because I want to experiment with my styles a bit.

Best regards, BlighterProductions

Hello everyone, it’s me again. I wanted to keep you guys up to date. This time, I am not that active for different reasons (I don’t have any physical issues, thankfully), but I started working on a big project, which I expect to be 23 tracks long, and it’s probably gonna drag well into next year.

As a result, I am not gonna be active that much this year, if not at all, but this is to let you know that this channel isn’t dead or anything, it’s just W.I.P at the moment. I intend for the album I am working on to be released next year, so I will have plenty of tracks ready by that time, if everything goes well.

Further on, I think it was just important to let you know where I’ve been. I am very much fine, but just not a frequent uploader. I just want to change formula as well. Instead of releasing tracks once they’re done, I instead want to release an entire cluster of tracks on one release date at the same time, making it feel more of an album.

This idea stems from when I just had released The Career Goes Further. That album wasn’t even really gonna be an album, but rather a compilation of songs that passed the revue (that is to say: songs I approved of). Now, I consciously want to create an album, and I want to put a lot of work and effort into it. To me it’s always been Quality > Quantity. For me, it’s important to make music in a way that I am satisfied with it (I don’t just upload things that I am not happy with, or unfinished, leading to me (almost) never releasing demo’s). I want to keep pushing myself, gather experience along the way, and not to make two songs that sound the same. I want to reinvent myself with every song, and at the same time, keep a certain consistency in my works.

So yeah, that is basically why I didn’t upload that much. So I hope that it doesn’t put your patience to the test too much, but I would much rather put 6 months of work into one song, than to throw shit at the wall, and to see what sticks.

Thanks for reading, and good luck with whatever your goal in life is. 👍🏻

-BlighterProductions

Hello everyone. Happy 2022, best of wishes, and stay awesome!

-Signed BlighterProductions

Nice. 😁👍🏻