My first new piece of music online in twelve years, and my second finished since coming out of my hiatus of about as many years. It's nice to be back, Newgrounds. :)

About this piece: Returning to production has been... weird. I still know about production what I knew in 2012, I think, but now I feel so out of date/out of practice! And now I have to squeeze music time between a full time job and all the other obligations of adult life. So, I've been thinking a lot about my process and which habits I need to drop and which I should develop so I can keep music fun for the long term.

For this piece, I wanted to finish something instead of spinning my wheels on the details right from the start. So I let myself cut the occasional corner where I felt frustrated, still pushed myself where I saw achievable ways to improve the end result, and generally let myself use what I already have to make what I know. I'm kind of disappointed in how the mix came out — I could only mix on common consumer earbuds this time and I don't have too many people to get feedback from anymore — and the master is a little weird because somehow this is the first time I'm properly attempting to master my own music. Still, I'm pretty happy with how this came out overall (and that it did at all)!

Now excuse me while I never listen to this lead melody again, lol.

If you liked this and want more, you can visit my old accounts for now:

https://soundcloud.com/karco

https://karco.newgrounds.com/

Expect more music in a few weeks!