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Obliging
I update this every millisecond omg. Okay hi. I am an OcularNebula wannabe, as I also come here to make electronic music, and I do like to keep things eclectic.

John Carter Sweeney @Obliging

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Posted by Obliging - January 28th, 2024


Q: Do you hate electronic music?


A: No. It just often features melodies that are made to be epic rather than an actual interesting melody. The only exception here is trance because it features melodic beats, with variety in the melody too and with some acoustic instruments, which I truly LOVE. Some trance songs don't do this though, like Winterbliss by cycerin. It's fine though and it's just my silly little personal opinion.


Q: What would you recommend?


A: If you are a beginner to this site and love electronic music, I'd recommend making trance first; you do want to make a melodic piece for your first song, right?


Q: Is trance even THAT good?


A: Absolutely! It's amazing! In fact, I am planning my best song to be a trance song! Trance actually has a LOT of freedom when it comes to melodies; that's the whole point of trance music.


Q: Image when?


A: Okay here is the image.

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This is the last spooky area of my grandma's house. It actually looks quite liminal, too!


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Posted by Obliging - January 27th, 2024


Welp I'll send a picture. I love liminal spaces for how spooky they are and how eerie they are in general. Stay tuned for strangely familiar places 18 I guess.

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This is another spooky area of my grandma's house. I know it looks edited, but it looks like this in the actual house even if it's slightly edited. Oh, and by the way, I won't be sending any more edited pictures as I like it when the pictures are actually 100% real.


This picture and the one before it are still realistic, though.


Audio

Yes I'll be using liminal spaces as my audio image covers. Get ready for the epic dream trance song by the way.


Other Stuff

I don't really have any more pictures that I took in September of 2023. See ya. Oh and by the way I plan to make more forum posts.


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Posted by Obliging - January 26th, 2024


This will be the last post where I talk about making music without actually doing anything.


I plan on making very liminal sounding tunes in the future. However there aren't many songs that I find to be an 11/10, so I will do this for like my first 10 songs, so 9 more. I will aim at dream trance for these songs with some good old drums!

Here's the next image:

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Pretty badly cropped because I took this on my brother's phone and I had to drag the file to the computer and then screenshot it. This wasn't really taken by me, but I helped my brother take this picture so I had some contribution.


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Posted by Obliging - January 25th, 2024


Thanks for 30 fans!!! Next celebration is at 60 and after that is 100.

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I am now gonna be reviewing songs 24/7. If you want me to review your or someone else's song, then don't hesitate to pm me! I judge songs based on atmosphere, mixing (I suck at judging mixing XD), feeling, emotion and freshness, though freshness only rewards one point.

Here's an image:

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Just a creepy mall. :)


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Posted by Obliging - January 25th, 2024


Here are the things I account for in order to like a song.


Atmosphere: (3 points)

Judges how I generally find the song as.


Mixing: (2 points)

Judges how well the song feels with each song note. (aka mixing)


Feeling: (2 points)

Just how epic it feels. Music only good for Geometry Dash levels don't apply here.


Emotion: (3 points)

How epic and fun the song is to listen to. Very subjective but hey. You gotta give your best shot at an objective opinion and not be too disingenuous about how good the song is. However don't be too biased and remember that no opinion is an objective fact. An objective opinion is your true opinion on the song, and not a fact.


Originality: (1 point)

Honestly I don't care if your song is unoriginal. I make sampled music all the time, but make sure your song is original enough to not get stuck in my head too much and as a result, be classified as an average song to me.

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Not really a liminal space. It just reminded me of some liminal spaces. I like it. Btw getting point(s) for emotion in your song can get you a 9/10, 10/10 or 11/10.


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Posted by Obliging - January 24th, 2024


I am currently working on a song that predominantly uses samples, but also has some original aspects to it so that I am not composing my song entirely out of samples because that might break the rules lol idk.


I will ensure that the song is suitable for Newgrounds before publishing it, and I will do anything to change the song if something in it broke the rules. Not much else to say here. Just know that I will ensure that the song and its license for people to use (since it contains third-party samples) is good for the site.


By the way, since photography is not allowed for the art portal, I will share liminal spaces I took here. Oh, and 7 other songs I am working on will use samples. After that, I will consider being more original.


Here is the first picture I will be sharing:

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Fun fact: This is the song cover of the song I was talking about, and final note: I hope to get the song in Geometry Dash, so I put geometry and dash in the tags of this post.


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Posted by Obliging - January 18th, 2024


I deleted all of my news posts because they were so cringe lol. Also I say lol a lot just know that. So yeah. Also hello.

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I know this isn't really a liminal space, but it felt kinda liminal in my opinion with that target thing in the middle. IDK.


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