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The blog of an amateur house music producer.

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MP3 Download: https://daks.bandcamp.com/album/what-went-wrong-daks-remix

I've had this track half done and sitting on an external hard drive for the past 10 months, and honestly, I wasn't planning on uploading it ever. Recently though, after seeing Griffinilla ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_grRQJ5qgQ ) upload his collaboration with SoGreatAndPowerful (SGaP), it reminded me of how cool SGaP's music was, and I was kind of inspired to finish this track up. It's no secret at this point that I'm no longer making pony music, so don't consider this some return to form or anything, think of it more like I was called back in for one final mission, and now it's complete.

While I never got to work with SGaP directly, I do hope he returns someday, even if it's just so I can tell him how awesome everything he did was. What Went Wrong was one of my favorite tracks from my time in the pony fandom, and it stills holds up to this day.

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Happy Holidays Everyone!

Remix of Merry Christmas Darling by The Carpenters.

MP3 Here: https://daks.bandcamp.com/track/every-days-a-holiday

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New french house track entitled Overpower! Enjoy!

Mp3 Download: https://daks.bandcamp.com/album/daks-2015

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MLP Episode 100 + Some Quick Thoughts

I haven’t watched My Little Pony in a long time. Don’t get me wrong, I still maintain that it was (and probably still is) a great show with an incredibly creative fanbase and fun community surrounding it, but as time wore on I just kind of lost interest in the series (roughly around the crystal empire story). But after hearing about the apparently fanservice-filled Episode 100, I decided to give it a look-see.

While I never really declared myself as “leaving the fandom” (or any overdramatic nonsense like that) I suppose someone who hasn’t watched the show in 2+ years can’t really consider themselves a part of a fandom for said thing anymore. However, I’ll always have very fond memories of the artists, personalities and just generally talented people I discovered through the series.

However, that’s not really what this post is about, this post is about the 100th episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Some have been calling it fanservice drivel, others have been calling it a masterpiece. I’m not sure where exactly I fall on that spectrum, but I do know one thing: That episode is literally the nicest thing I have ever seen any television program do for its fans... ever. From the moment it started until the moment it ended I was grinning ear to ear. Every single reference was spot-fucking-on, and every moment brought me back to those early days when everything was silly and lighthearted and the fandom was still growing into what it is today. I would almost go so far as to call it nostalgic (maybe that’s too far). Lyra and Bon-Bon, the flower sisters, Derpy and Dr. Hooves, Steven-Friggin’-MAGNET. WHAT!? The sea serpent that was named after shitty youtube captions? That’s right! All of it was just perfect, and so much fun to watch.

I think the reason it resonated so much with me is because I was there when so many of these things were established. I was there to see the inception of all of these silly little jokes, and in a way, it almost makes me feel like I was a part of something kind of awesome, even if I’ve since moved on.

So I guess... Nice work MLP: FiM team. You made me remember how much fun it was to be a fan of your show.

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Unintentional, I swear.

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New track for 2015! “Minus One!”

Click here to download it from bandcamp: https://daks.bandcamp.com/track/minus-one

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Fiddling with a remix of the Jungle Challenge them the Yooka-Laylee team uploaded to their kickstarter page. Looks like it’ll be a pretty fun game, I can’t wait to get my hands on it.

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Remix using clips and samples from the 2013 anime series: WataMote!

Mp3 Download + Instrumental Here: https://daks.bandcamp.com/album/watamote-daks-anime-remix-single

If you enjoy what you see, reblogs are always appreciated! :)

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My first official release in almost a year. If anyone’s still out there.

MP3 Download: https://daks.bandcamp.com/album/daks-2015

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Reblogging for the daytime folks.

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My first official release in almost a year. If anyone’s still out there.

MP3 Download: https://daks.bandcamp.com/album/daks-2015

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It's been a long time since I've done anything related to MLP. I just recently remembered how cool this SoGreatandPowerful song was though, so I decided to fiddle around with it in Logic Pro. Not sure if I'll release this remix on my channel, or even finish it, but it's definitely been cool hearing it again wtih new ears.

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This track is turning out awesome, I have some fun ideas I'd like to do with my daks Channel in 2015 and this feels like the right track to kick things off. Here's hoping I can get back on track this year.

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The daks Christmas special. :)

I've wanted to sample this song for a long time.

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Yo! I really love your tunes. What do you do to get the baseline so clear from your samples.

Thanks for the kind words. Honestly usually it's either very careful EQing, recreating the bassline itself with a synth, or some combination of those two.Hope that helps.

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What I'm listening to today. Todd Edwards is always awesome.

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This might be the catchiest thing I've ever chopped together.

The beat and piano part are still placeholder of course, but I'm liking how this is sounding.

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Breaking my radio silence to give you guys a preview of what could very soon be a track comin' out. :)