Hi everyone, I'm glad you stopped by to read a random music man's retrospect on a very crazy year that has just gone by. I will begin by saying this: I feel like 2023, although a great step-up from the previous year of 2022, could have had more going on, or at least in my opinion. Looking back, not much actually happened this year at all. However, I cannot really say the same thing for how I improved musically speaking, and I don't think I am exaggerating when I say that 2023 has been my best year of music by a landslide. Let's list all of the reasons why I think this:

1. This year was when I made my current Top 1 and Top 2 most listened tracks of all time, 'Ensom' and 'Adamance' respectively, which is an enormous achievement.
2. I have managed to participate in two contests this year: the 2023 Newgrounds Underdogs Audio Contest (NGUAC), and my great NG friend of mine's contest, the "Walk Away Remix Contest", which I won by a mere 6 points!
3. My best songs of all time in terms of quality were produced this year, with those being (in my personal opinion) 'Ensom' and 'Joyride', which also happen to have taken the longest for me to make.

I am so glad I was able to reach the ears of over 15k listeners this year not including songs from other years, and I am very happy I was able to improve musically speaking thank to all of you guys' support in this community. And with that being said, I wish everyone a happy and exciting new year going forward.

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR! :D

LISTEN TO 'ADRIFT' BELOW:

Hey everyone! Today I wanted to celebrate 6 years of my music on Newgrounds. It's a very special day, so I thought I would bless the Audio Portal with my biggest project ever. It took dozens of hours to complete, and I managed to have fun with it every single second of it. I hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoy making this stuff for you guys!

ALSO AVAILABLE ON SOUNDCLOUD

https://soundcloud.com/speedrhythmics/adrift-original-mix

CHECK THIS SONG OUT BELOW:

Hello everyone. Today, after a 4-month-long hiatus from releasing music, I have decided to bless the NG Audio Portal with my best project by far: 'Adamance'!

This song took me over 24 hours to make, so it would mean a lot for people to listen to it and enjoy it as much as I enjoyed producing it. Enjoy!

ALSO AVAILABLE ON SOUNDCLOUD!

https://soundcloud.com/speedrhythmics/adamance-original-mix

Hello everyone! It's been a very long time since I have posted anything on this platform (4 months as of writing this). I deeply apologize for my absence, as I have had ups and downs in inspiration lately.

Next week, I am getting the Sennheiser HD 560S shipped to my house so I can make cleaner mixes in my music. After that, I plan to come back somewhere around April, however there is a very small chance I won't come back until early May which I hope won't be the case.

At the moment, it is safe to say that whenever I do come back, I will have a really big surprise!

Have a nice one everyone!

~SpeedoRH

Hello everyone! I wanted to thank every single one of you who followed me and thus, contributed in this achievement I've been wanting to reach for the past 5 years. I am truly thankful to everyone.

I will also take a quick moment to thank the Newgrounds community as a whole for being supportive and participating in all my work, giving me helpful reviews along the way.

FLP SNEAK PEEK:

CHECK THIS SONG OUT AT:

https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1156002

Hello everyone. I am here to announce that today I am releasing my really emotional Melodic Dubstep/Future Bass banger, 'Quantum Future'!

This 5 minute long emotional journey took me 13 hours to make, and massive amounts of tweaks here and there to make this song sound absolutely perfect, so check it out and enjoy!

ALSO AVAILABLE ON SOUNDCLOUD!

https://soundcloud.com/speedrhythmics/quantum-future-original-mix

Hello everyone! I wanted to announce that I have become a supporter of NG, which feels great after anticipating to do it for the past 2 years. Not only that, but I have decided to rebrand myself as "SpeedoRH" instead of my 2016 username, "SkuttenGamerGD". This is because the latter was a name I had quickly come up with when I was 9 years old, and thus it doesn't mirror my current self. As of today, (08/16/22) I will change my name indefinitely, and will only mention my old name in tags so people who have known me for a while don't get confused (I have been known as Skutten for the past 5 years of my NG existence, so I can see that happening).

Hope you understand my motivations!

~SpeedoRH



(Album cover for an upcoming song of mine. I placed it here to fill in the big empty space in the post tbh xD)

Hello everyone! In case any of you were wondering, I am alive, and I have recently got back into producing tracks again.

Well, as the title suggests, my July (and many other people's) hasn't started great, not musically speaking, but in general. I have heard the news too obviously, since I am an avid Bedwars player, and I have been so for the past year and a half. Not to mention, I used to watch this person's videos quite persistently in the past, meaning this event has messed me up my week really badly. I'll stop anticipating this now: I am talking about Technoblade.

He meant quite a bit to me, since, as I mentioned before, he was one of the people that I used to watch during quarantine and for long after (which is also when and why I started playing Bedwars in the first place). It's so depressing and heartbreaking to hear he has passed away.

As a musician, I don't know what kind of tribute I could make for him, since he was an extremely important figure to me and many other people and I feel that whatever I could possibly come up with on my DAW wouldn't be emotionally strong enough or important enough of a project enough to represent him respectfully and accurately. That is why I likely won't make any tribute to him at all for fear of not representing him in my music accurately enough. In case I do however, don't expect anything big ;(

For the time being, all I can do is remember him through this post:

R.I.P. Technoblade (1999-2022)

We will never forget your greatest achievements, and the impact you've made for so many people like me during your short lived life.

I apologise for the particularly depressing post, but I just felt like getting this off my chest, which I don't do often on NG. Sorry again ;(

Hello everybody! I wanted to announce this, since I didn't think it would be a good idea to just leave without warning. Because of personal stuff I've been going through, I will be unable to make music consistently for the time being. This will probably be the case until somewhere around July (still cannot promise anything though).

To clarify, I AM NOT QUITTING MUSIC OR NEWGROUNDS! I have no intention to do so at all. I am only announcing that it's unlikely I will be able to do any major projects on this profile for a few months at least. I don't wanna leave music behind, it's one of the best things that have ever happened to me up until now, and if I wanted to quit, that's what I would be announcing. I love what I do, so leaving it simply doesn't make sense. This is just a break.

Last thing before I leave: I will be visibly active on Newgrounds, either answering your reviews, rating submissions around the platform and checking my inbox semi-regularly. The only thing that will be different throughout this period is I will unlikely upload anything (although I might still drop some 8-bit projects during this period; I still cannot say for sure).

Alright everyone, thank you for reading and I will see you soon!

~SpeedoR (aka SkuttenGamerGD)

Hello Newgrounds! I wanted to just show appreciation for helping me put Peroxide to Frontpage!

I am absolutely shocked about this, since I have only gotten frontpaged once before, with the song Euphonic Harmony from about 4 months back, and Peroxide was posted on Newgrounds at a time where there usually aren't that many users online. Again, thank you all immensely for this achievement!

If you haven't already, check the song out at this link: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1125736

Again, I want to thank every single one of you for helping me get it to frontpage! You will hopefully hear more music from me soon.

Many thanks,

~SpeedoRH (SkuttenGamerGD)