just as the title says, i made a bluesky account!!!

if you want to see some cool stuff that i'm up to go give it a follow! i will be mostly posting song previews, some silly thoughts and also idk we will see lol

https://bsky.app/profile/sotshu.newgrounds.com

cheers!

And so, the year has come and gone!

Happy new year everyone! This year has been WILD, and I mean fucking BONKERS. Actually, there is so much stuff that this recap post is probably gonna be longer than the last one. Get ready to read a whole book.

Speaking of last year's recap post, I think I left myself a goals list to hit in 2024. Let's go through it, shall we?

1. Get to 40 followers on Newgrounds

What the hell, we are almost at 60, we smashed this one lmao.

Thank you all so so much for the support this year! You have NO idea how every single comment or follow means to me!

2. I'm keeping the one song per month rule, but I'll try to release more. Let's say 20 tracks at least?

Lets see, 1, 2, 3, 8, 19, 25, 26, 27. Yep, that one's done too! However, if we don't count the Jamuary ones... nah those count. And of course I did manage to upload monthly! Next!

3. Finish and upload some of those unfinished songs that I talked about earlier.

This one is again getting saved by Jamuary. Man, that event was awesome. Pushing myself to make one song a day was an awesome learning experience. AND we even managed to get a frontpage during the event! That was actually insane! If you wanna read more of my thoughts about the event, here's the Jamuary wrap-up post.

As for this year, I actually don't think I'll be able to attend, at least not fully. This time I unfortunately don't have the luxury of being home for 2 weeks with an infinite amount of free time. That doesn't mean I won't try to make as many songs as possible tho! Keep an eye out for that!

Aight, next!

4. Start a Youtube channel, where I will be uploading some sample flips and original music.

That kinda happened. I do have an official artist channel now, with some releases and 2 vertical videos promoting my songs. No sample flips in sight tho. HOWEVER, I am planning to start posting actual content this year. I have a cool idea for a video series which I haven't seen before actually. I'll keep you guys notified!

I also have an Instagram account. I post whenever there's new music released onto streaming platforms. Go give it a follow if you'd like. And speaking of streaming...

I've started uploading songs onto my Spotify and other streaming platforms. The fact that my music is on there is still insane to me. I think that if 2 years ago when I started posting my music on Newground someone told me that I would have my own Spotify artist profile, I would either explode from excitement or just simply ignore that cuz wdym my music is not that serious bro. So yeah, absolutely insane.

5. Start uploading my songs onto Soundcloud.

wtf why would I choose soundcloud...

Well, I've already talked about the places where I upload, so now let's talk about what notable songs I've uploaded:

First off is "Third Strike", a chiptune posted during Jamuary a day after I learned about pixel day, meaning I was a day late, but oh well. That didn't really matter tho, because It somehow is the most viewed Pixel Day 2024 audio submission??????????

Final Jamuary submission, "Relinquished Runaway". This song was insanely fun to make, and although it wasn't made in one day I uploaded it anyway cuz why the hell not. I later put it up on streaming services, so if you like cyberpunk music, I highly recommend giving it a listen. You can find it HERE.

"AGNOSIA SHATTERED" is a "clear" version of "AGNOSIA". I've made it for my friends' birthday (the original song was also made for him). Both versions are available on Spotify HERE.

"Awake" was actually made like 3 years ago. I've dug it up and decided to sing over it for the first time. It went... uhhhhhh... not that well, however I'm still putting it here cuz I love this song so much.

"Awake" will get a remaster with better vocals some time in the future. When that happens, I will put it up on streaming services. For now, it rests unfinished...

"rndm sng gnrtr" was made in two weeks for the NGUAC Knockout Round. I had to produce the entire song on a mid-ass laptop because I was out on vacation. I unfortunately didn't manage to make it to the next round, I'm blaming it on the conditions, the idea for the song was fire tho...

"Light" is a collab I've made with mt friend Armazi. Man it's insane how well that song went. I loved working on it so so much and I think it's my best song to date. This song also marks my Spotify debut, as well as a rebrand to SoTshu. You can find this song HERE.

And so, we come to the end of the year with "Falling", which was actually released yesterday. The reason I'm including this here is that I'm genuinely impressed with myself. Bro this song didn't even exist 2 weeks ago how did I make this so fast????????

I am planning to release this onto Streaming platforms, it's just too good not to put it there.

I've also released a bunch of other music, they mostly consist of random piano pieces I've made or weird experiments, like this one I've made with just an amen break.

Man that was a lot, next point!

6. Take part in more Newgrounds contests and events

So I didn't actually take part in as many events as I wished I would. To be frank, I've just been either lazy or busy with other stuff. The events I did take part in tho were:

1. Jamuary (Talked about this before, not doing that again lol)
2. NGUAC (I got in with "Relinquished Runaway", made "rndm sng gnrtr", didn't make it past the first round. oh well...)
3. NGADM (Didn't manage to make it out of tryouts unfortunately. I was placed in the fill-in list and had an opportunity to still get in, but I didn't take it because I thought I had to make a different song for NGDAM. After it was over I realised that you could've submitted the NGUAC song to this contest as well. oops...)
4. and of course... wait- that's it?? really??? wow that really isn't a lot lol

okay that was embarrassing LAST POINT

7. Maybe get some money from my music idk

All I can say is that I did get some money for it. And I'm not talking about the few cents I've made off of Spotify royalties. BUT IF YOU'D LIKE TO CHANGE THAT NEXT YEAR I'll probably set up like a ko-fi with commissions or whatever.

And that's the list! It's actually surprising to compile all of this into one post, cuz the amount of stuff actually looks impressive.

Alright. Now, let's set some goals for 2025:

• Get to 100 followers on Newgrounds.

Is that a lot? I feel like that's a lot. But I also feel like if I'm consistent enough with posting quality stuff we can easily make it!

• One song per month AT LEAST.

Let's do this one again, cuz it was pretty fun. It also motivated me to actually make stuff. And future me, if you're reading this, PLEASE make some more than 12. Cmon, you can do better than that.

• ACTUALLY start the Youtube channel.

Self explanatory

• Release an album on Spotify.

I plan on taking a bunch of music I've already made, add like 1 or 2 new songs and put it all in an album. That would be fun, no?

• Get money.

Get money.

• Take part in events on NG

That didn't go well last time, BUT IT'S GONNA BE DIFFERENT THIS TIME GUYS TRUST ME!!!!

• idk do stuff with socials

Is it a good idea to start a Tiktok account? Probably not

• Get money.

Get money.

• Get money.

Get money.

okay i can't think of anything else lol. I think that should do it tho.

Congrats on making it to the end of the post lol.

Some final thoughts:

This year has again shown me that (as corny as this sounds) anything is possible. I did not think that my music would get anywhere, but with just [THREE EASY PAYMENTS OF $3.99] it got onto streaming. If you set a goal, it's actually not that hard to achieve it, as long as you push yourself towards it.

Actual final thoughts:

balls

Again, Happy New Year Everyone!

And for the last time this year, Cheers!

"AGNOSIA" AND "AGNOSIA SHATTERED" ARE OUT ON SPOTIFY!!

STREAM THE EP HERE: https://open.spotify.com/album/2kTQt5OnFoloNcnS9draKv?si=-VOfzYHnSXS_nUt7krs2SQ

i mean cmon you get two songs at the price of one how cool is that you should totally stream it :33

aight thanks bye

STREAM IT HERE:

https://open.spotify.com/album/2oWXFOOStZTkY58er7IU9i?si=YxR8Q-uRRNCagEkuPavMtA

I'll be slowly releasing the better songs on Spotify, it would be awesome if y'all followed me there :33

jk jk

unless?...

hey y'all

I have come here to make an announcement. (a few of them actually)

I have a SPOTIFY NOW! (wahoo!!)

well almost.

There are still a few things I have to do, but it's there.

Once i claim the profile i'm gonna start slowly releasing some of the better songs on there, look out for that.

For now tho there is only one song on there, which it the BIG SONG that I was teasing for a while now. Stream it here:

https://open.spotify.com/album/7fBS2N9wgq9sPoB1mcwzCZ?si=4vTSBcwPQteKVxzOpjruhQ

It's a collab with one of my friends, Armazi. it is available not only on Spotify, but on all streaming platforms as well (and ofc I wouldn't forget to upload it here, have this)

Also with all this comes another change:

I'm REBRANDING (wahoo!!)

I have decided to change my artist name to separate my music from my personal online presence. From now on you can find me almost everywhere under the name SoTshu. I have updated my bio with all the places that you can find me on.

Also, it's pronounced like "so true" but with sh, I think that's obvious no?

I'm gonna keep y'all updated on how the things with my Spotify and other stuff are doing, look out for that.

other than that uhhhh

I bought this guy (wahoo!!)

Yeah it's pretty cool I know. His name is William Afton.

the arturia keyboard is also fine I guess...

I mean that's all I really wanted to say. Thank you guys for the continued support, check out Armazi, check out our new song, check out this awesome frog that's behind your window right now. Pretty cool huh.

anyway I'll see y'all soon

cheers!

yo just wanted to say thank you guys for the huge amounts of support lately. that's all lol

nah I lied

i'll make a bigger post later this week with a BIG announcement, some massive changes are coming, look out...

cheers!

Hey there!

So, I'm not gonna be able to make any more songs this month. I'm going back to school and that means no time for music production for me. The event was extremely fun. And I mean I've never had so much fun while making music.

I've uploaded a total of 16 tracks, some of them were bangers, some of them were not really bangers but still cool nontheless. I've made a playlist of all of the songs, you can find it here:

One of the songs got frontpaged, which is a welcome surprise. It was a late pixel day submission, which I didn't think would get any traction, but what do you know, it's my most popular song now. Listen to it here:

This event was certainly a great lerning experience too. Here are some stuff I wrote down

1. Trying out new genres and stepping out of your comfort zone is pretty cool
2. Doing full drum processing can actually tie them all together nicely (no way common knowledge)
3. Things that sound bad or weird on their own can actually sound great when played in a track
4. Longer sound design sessions are fun as hell (you can make some nasty shit out of a kick like how cool is that)
5. Use soundgoodizer more, it's fire
6. I'm real lazy sometimes

There are other things but uhhhhhh i forgor

And so, we come to an end with this banger that I was cooking up for the past 2-3 months.

Imma start doing more of these events holy shit they are so fun.

Anyway, expect less uploads for now.

Cheers!

This little late pixel day submission got to the front page lets goooooo!

Check out all of my Jamuary songs here:

I'm kinda late, but lets start chiping away at the Jamuary event!

I'll probably upload a track every day for the rest of the month.

Here's the first one!

And here's the link to the whole playlist

Hello once again! (and most likely for the last time this year)

I just want to thank you guys for the support this year, I did not expect it to go that well!

Lets recap:

• I managed to upload at least one song a month since April, and you might think "wow that isn't a lot", and you would be correct. However consider the fact that I am a lazy piece of shit.
• I started a ton, and I mean a TON of songs that sounded really cool and I wish I could upload them, buuuut I'm probably never going to touch them again cuz I'm real lazy and also im afraid that i will ruin something that actually sounds good and then beat myself over it instead of going back and trying again so basically im afraid of failure AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH okay moving on
• I took part in NGADM and gotten some great reviews from people that actually know what they're doing. I didn't manage to get to the next stage, but the feedback itself was 100% worth it. I will get further next time tho! Here is the song that I submited:

• That competition actualy led to me getting scouted, then later I got unscouted and scouted again. Kinda wild ngl.
• I FINALLY released an actual full song that I was really proud of. I somehow managed to completely forget about mastering it tho, so I updated it later. Here it is:

• I made a completely original song for a Geometry Dash collab. Listen to it here:

• Because of that collab, I got my songs whitelisted for usage in Geometry Dash. There are actually some level with my music already. Thank you so so so much for that! I can't wait to see more levels with them!
• I took part in the Music Secret Santa 2023 event. The event was real fun, I'll probably do it again next year. It was a challenge, especially because I got assigned genres that I don't have anything in common. The closest thing to my style was HIp-Hop, so I made this lofi beat:

• And to end the year off, the lofi beat got FRONTPAGED WHAT????? It really came as a suprise to me cuz as I said earlier I don't really make lofi, and if I do, I never end up finishing it lol. It's at almost 4k views right now like bro that is insane I'm never gonna get that much traction again.

And well, that's all of the "main events". This year showed me that it is actually possible for people to find and listen to my music. Once again thank you all for the support! Here's to even more cool things next year!

Actually, lets set some goals, shall we? It will be fun to look back at these in 12 months. Yea lets do it.

So:

1. Get to 40 followers on Newgrounds
2. I'm keeping the one song per month rule, but I'll try to release more. Let's say 20 tracks at least?
3. Finish and upload some of those unfinished songs that I talked about earlier.
4. Start a Youtube channel, where I will be uploading some sample flips and original music.
5. Start uploading my songs onto Soundcloud.
6. Take part in more Newgrounds contests and events (I might try the Jamuary event, but I wont make a song every day, no sir, I have school and stuff)
7. Maybe get some money from my music idk

That should do it. Lets see if I manage to hit any of these lmao.

Ight, so... last song of the year maybe?

And for the last time this year, Cheers!