Hey there everyone !

We finally did it, 600 followers on Newgrounds :D

I would like to once again thank all of you for your support. This will be my 6 year anniversary on Newgrounds and I never thought I would be able to meet so many great and talented individuals !

As promised on my latest song Sax Battle, I will start uploading some of the songs that have been taking dust in my library (and some of the new stuff I randomly make everyday).

I'm not sure when I'll upload on Youtube again, but I will confirm I'm gonna make a second channel for the songs I made for games.

In other news :

• I partnered with the roblox game Skullbeat, with currently 6 songs of mine in the game.
• I will participate in this year's AIM contest, hosted by @Random-storykeeper (my first time participating).
• Me and @Benji-G will be admins of this year's NGADM, hosted by @AED-4.
• 2 games I worked on will be coming soon on Roblox.

I also have a ton of projects on hold, so I do accept collaborations :)

What's up guys,

It's 2024. I've been on NG for 5.5 years and I just turned 22.

I don't have much to say because I'm dead inside right now, but I do want to thank you all for the support over the years.

Along the way, I've met a lot of great people here on Newgrounds, including many I now consider important friends.

I think this community is a big reason why I was able to come out of my shell overtime, and what made me realise I want to keep following my passions.

I often get demotivated and end up not posting songs for months sometimes, even with my huge backlog of completed songs. Even then, while I neglect Youtube and Soundcloud (nothing in over half a year), I do post on Newgrounds.

I interact with the community on a daily basis, and I enjoy participating / helping judge community events...

So yeah, I've been an active member of the website for a quarter of my life and will stick around for years to come hopefully :)

Here's a lil' piece of news though :

As college was taking a toll on my mental state, I realised last october that I had 2 years left before graduating. So unless whatever happens, I won't have the time to make music afterwards. I thought "Is it really what I want my life to be ? A shit job just to make a living"

Your boy has taken the courage to do a leap of faith, I reached out to my first online friends from over a decade ago,S some of which have since gone on to become game developpers.

Let's just say I have an opportunity to turn my passion into my job, and I will try my best to reach that point before my deadline. Wish me luck :)

That also means you can expect some albums very soon ! Oh and I might go to the US later this yeah ^^

What's up guys,

This year is my 5th anniversary on Newgrounds. Time went by real quick, that's for sure !

Every Summer, I try to make a post relating my projects, my achievements, and what I've been up to overall. You can think of it some sort of retrospective.

I didn't have the time to do it this summer, so I postponed it, but then I got lazy. I promised myself I'd do it after Madness Day's results were out, and holy shit was that perfect timing.

Anyway, here's some of the stuff that's been happening :

• I started self-releasing some of my songs on Spotify and other platforms (and will do so occasionally).
• Me and the boys have made the Yiff collab, a sequel to the glorious shitpost that was the Penis collab for April Fools.
• The very next day, on April 2nd, I reached 500 followers on Newgrounds (very cool).
• Then I released my song Radiance, a follow-up of my song Wonderland, which I consider one of my best songs. It somehow got a little bit of popularity because a big DIY fursuit cosplay tutorial youtuber kept using the song.
• I got to judge this year's AIM and NGADM events (the latter is still ingoing).
• I placed 19th out of 445 contestants in this year's NGUAC, a bit below last year's 17th/442, but still great !
• I entered the Dreamcast collab as a producer and made a song for this animation by @Liquorice
• I am getting a shared DLC with my friend @debisco for a VR game called "Box to the Beat", which is a great opportunity.

I'm separating the last achievement from the rest because it's the newest and the coolest to date.

Last year, I participated in Madness Day with my song Madness 2022. I placed 7th and got featured among the 8 winners.

It was a first for me. I also got 20$ from Krinkels, which was the first time I ever got paid for my music. It wasn't much, but it meant a lot.

This year, I wanted to do better, I wanted to try repeating the dream !

With a messy schedule and almost no time left, it would be tough, but it was worth a try...

I decided to collaborate with my friend @Benji-G on our collaboration for Madness Day, which I've called Mayhem.

It's an electronic track inspired by last year's entry, but darker and incorporating both cyberpunk and dnb elements.

The clock was ticking, the tension was rising, Benji had just stopped playing League of Legends at 3 am to add the final elements to the song... and at 4am, a single hour before the deadline, it was done. We had finished just in time.

While the song wasn't frontpaged at first, it did get a decent amount of listens overtime. The impressive thing however, was that it kept a score of 4.9 while close to 30 votes, which was the best ratio both me and Benji had ever reached.

Eventually, this happened.

But the very next day, I receive a particular message from Benji that turned this bitter-feeling comment into comedy gold.

We had won Madness Day... But not one of the last spots like I did the year before, not the 4th spot which we were aiming for, the First place !

This is my first time actually winning a contest and I'm glad it was my first collab with you Benji, let's do this again in the future ^^

Huge thanks to @Krinkels and his team for hosting this amazing contest, and big thanks to @ld-w for the frontpage.

Anyway, this was the annual thingie, see y'all next year I guess !

(also, f- you @singpiano, you deserve it man).

Hey guys,

If you know me, you know there are 2 things I love more than anything else in life : collaborations and shitposting.

So when I noticed April Fools was coming fast, I knew what I had to do.

I carefully assembled an elite team of Newgrounders to help me work on the song in VC at the last minute, much like its legendary predecessor (in typical X3ll3n fashion).

This masterpiece shall continue the legacy of the Newgrounds Penis Collab 2022 and the Tom Fulp Disstrack, possibly reach even greater heights in Newgrounds' collective minds.

This song is more focused on storytelling than memes this time, but hey, gotta try new stuff every now and then.

With that said, I hope you'll enjoy it, we put our hearts into it, we shed sweat, blood and tears, but ultimately :

It was worth it.

Therefore I hope you'll enjoy it, link down below !

Hey guys, it's time for the annual update !

It's been a bit over 4 years since I joined Newgrounds and started making music.

Let's make a quick recap of what I've achieved here over the years :

• August 31st 2019 : 100 fans
• June 25th 2020 : 200 fans
• July 12th 2020 : Musics usable in Geometry Dash.
• September 10th 2021 : 300 fans
• September 1st 2022 : 400 fans
• Followed by TMM43 (Early June 2020) and Krinkels (Early 2021 ?)

This is definitely gonna be the last year I get 100 new followers :^)

Since the end of last year, I started involving myself a lot more within the community.

I joined the NG Audio Pub discord server and met many great artists, I also joined the NG Podcast server in which I made this year's Tom Fulp Disstrack while in VC (Also, fuck you @SingPiano, I do not sound like xQC).

I also started taking part in community events :

I am judging this year's NGADM and am also one of the Final 35 contestants in this year's NGUAC (along with my friend Rocket Start).

I am also gonna participate in this year's secret santa event for sure, just like last year.

We're already 3/4 into the year, time sure flies. While I didn't grow that much in terms of production skills, I like to think I was able to grow as a person thanks to all the people I met.

I hope that by the time I reach my 5th year on Newgrounds, I'll have managed to perfect my production skills, expanded my horizons by learning new genres, but also collaborated with many Newgrounds artists (Prepare your ass @Benji-G).

Obviously, I hope Tom Fulp will follow me back then. The grind never ends ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

So yeah, to wrap it up, I'd like to thank everyone who have been following me so far. It's thanks to you that I keep on doing my best doing what I enjoy the most, music :)

Expect many new original tracks from me !

Yours truly, Mr. "Frenchman" X3ll3n

Hey there guys !

I've been working on many songs in the past few months. Most of them aren't ready for release, but I was able to have a couple prepared.

I rarely make original tracks, but this summer, you can expect the following :

• June 26th : Original Future Bass song [Velocity Release]

• July 1st : UK Hardcore collaboration with @Astedroid [Velocity Release]

• July 13th : Tropical House collaboration with @AethenMusic

• August 5th : Original Melodic House song [NomiaTunes Release]

Presave this one : https://push.fm/ps/nomiatunes-colorful

Those are the confirmed ones you'll definitely see this summer, although I do have a couple more tracks I'm trying to sign :)

[P.S. Would be cool if some of them got frontpaged, especially the first one]

Also, I just bought a new laptop, therefore I'll be able to make music during my holidays ! My friend @TrickshotMusic will try to teach me Colour Bass :D

One last thing, I'm a judge in this year's NGADM, very epic.

That's all for now, have a good day !

X3ll3n :

Newgrounds : https://x3ll3n.newgrounds.com/

Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/x3ll3n

Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP7YVa81D4B0oZ2ypDzGGeg

Other Platforms (Instagram, Audius...) : https://linktr.ee/x3ll3n

Sup' guys, it's me, the birthday dude !

I just noticed we're the 24th, and realised I missed the deadline for Pixel Day (but hey, at least I didn't miss my own birthday this time).

I wanted to make a song for both Pixel Day and my Birthday, but I eventually forgot about it. So instead, I decided to share some infos on what I've been doing for a while !

Music : Learning new genres

If you talk to me on Discord, you might be aware that I've been trying to improve as a producer over the past few months. I feel like everyone else is improving except me, which is extremely frustrated as I feel left behind.

So for the past few months, I tried going out of my comfort zone and tried some new genres.

• Melodic Dubstep : The Quest of the Perfect Stack

If you know me well, you're probably aware I absolutely love melodic dubstep.

There's many different types of Melo-Dub : bass-focused, stack-focused, incorportaing color basses, the Mestrix kind...

I love all of them (but Roy Knox, Skybreak and Alesda hit different).

Basic Melodic Dubstep seems to be a reachable goal for me (unlike other Dubstep-related genres) so I've been slowly but surely getting the hang of it.

I received some advices from Jarrix and @MestrixMusic, which I thank a lot.

• Future Bass : The Wub one

Haters will say it's just melodic dubstep without the growls, and I will say they are not completely wrong.

There's many type of future bass songs, but the one I'm going for is similar to PatFromLastYear and Nurko.

So far I've gotten some pretty good attemps at it :)

• Future Bounce : The long-time coming

I like Future Bounce a lot. There's a lot of cool ID's and remixes I've never shared but will eventually post on my second alias). The main problem is that my leads and mixing usually sucks.

Some days ago, I've made a pretty cool track which reminds me of old Retrovision a little bit. I will work on it with @Astedroid so stay tuned !

It also reminds @Rodsyk of Sam Ourt somehow. Check out Rodsyk, he's a pretty cool and talented dude !

• UK Hardcore : Because Speedcore was just too hard

It's the 3rd time it happened since I've started making music, but I fell down the rabbithole once again.

I'll be honest with you : I think I'm already pretty decent at it ! It's a pretty beginner-friendly genre on a basic level.

Once I'm able to finish an entire song (I suck at structuring songs, except for drops), you can expect a couple of those on my channel.

I will also try learning Rythm Game Hardcore / Speedcore, but don't get your hopes up.

My guy @Astedroid will probably help me with that since he gets the hang of it.

• Colour Bass : The unexpected and painful one

You know me : I suck at Dubstep. It got me into music production, i always wanted to learn to make it, but I just can't.

Just like UK Hardcore, I've tried getting the hang of it and my friend @TrickshotMusic showed me a couple of cool tricks.

I'll probably give it a serious try, but I first need to understand basic Dubstep.

Let's hope @Hookington and @Froej keep giving me some tips. Cool peeps, check them out !

• Dark Progressive House : What do you mean it doesn't need chords ?!

The final one I can think of at the moment. It's pretty hard to make but I'm going for a Revealed type of vibe.

I think Bertuss has made a tutorial which sounds pretty much like what I'm going for if you're curious.

It's quite hard for me to learn because it's quite different from the Progressive House I usually do, but hey, we all gotta start somewhere.

What else ?

1. You can probably expect a Future Bass EP in the near future.
2. Two Original Tracks (One needs a better drop snare and I'm currently looking for a vocalist for the second one [which is hard when you can't afford one]) Those have been done for months but I just want to make them a bit better.
3. A guaranteed Melodic House EP with @MestrixMusic (Already 3 solid ideas I sent over to him).
4. A reboot of one of @TMM43's classics (once I'm finally able to finish working on it). I swear I'm not procrastinating, it's just hard.
5. A bunch of collabs with some good friends.
6. Potentially some 2019 songs of mine on my second alias which I've talked about earlier. Trust me, they are pretty good and I just forgot about releasing them.

So is it just Music Stuff then ?

Nope !

The past year, I've browsed the art portal almost everyday, talented artists like @Bacun (probably my favorite on Newgrounds) made me want to learn digital drawing even more than before.

I've been learning various softwares (Photoshop, Paint Tool Sai, Clip Studio) for some time now, here's what I'm planning to do :

• Painted and Semi-Realistic Landscapes (Concept Artist ?).

I just love those, it's pretty hard to understand at first but i think I'll get the hang of it :)

• Vector Arts

I already understand it, just gotta better my "compositions" if that makes sense

• GFX

Logos, Banners, that could be neat

• Finally, Characters

The reason I put this one at the end is because it will take a very long time to learn. I'm starting from nothing and am currently going through what I call "the painful part" : Anatomy.

I basically have to start learning from scratch which is gonna be hard af, but I'll try my best.

I'd like to learn Anime, Chibi and Semi Realistic styles first, and then slowly develop my own style. I love stylized designs, which is probably why i like Bacun's art so much

What about Newgrounds ?

I might participate in a few contests this year. I think I'll give AIM (Art Inspired Music contest) a try, probably NGADM and NGUAC too if I have time.

I'd also like to host my very own Newgrounds Megacollab, might be hard though.

That's all for now. Props to you if you've read this far. This literally took me over 1 hour to write xD

As a token of appreciation, I will sharing some of the musics I've been working on to you guys.

Just leave a comment with which of the stuff you're curious about :)

You can also ask me anything you want.



Have a good day !

- X3ll3n

P.S. I've linked the people I've talked about throughout the post, don't hesitate checking them out

Boys oh boys, we've come a long way since I first joined Newgrounds.

I grew up playing flash games on the website as a young kid, yet it wouldn't be until 2018 that I make my account.

On the 17th of July 2018, I touched FL Studio for the first time. I was on holidays without any wifi and only had a bunch of previously downloaded tutorials.

2 days later, I post my very first song called "Hypercymatics". It was bad, real bad. An incoherent mess of cymatics loop with no structure whatsoever. Yet it's where it all started.

Overtime, I started improving, posting various songs and remixes. It was paying off :

• August 31st 2019 : Only a year later, BOOM ! 100 fans
• June 25th 2020 : After two years, BOOM ! 200 fans
• July 12th 2020 : My music is usable in Geometry Dash.
• September 10th 2021 : After a bit over three years (time sure flies ahah), I unexpectedly hit 300 fans

Not only that, but I got noticed by some people who seemed out of reach when I was younger, like TMM43 (Classic NG producer) and Krinkels (the Madness animation guy).

I met many amazing people, some of whom I became good friends with. I learnt a lot and gained a little bit of self confidence.

I really want to thank you all for your support over the years. Specially the ones who have stuck with me since the beginning of this little adventure. It really means a lot to me.

Now, I'd like to talk about my goals in the website for 2022 :

• First of all, I would like to reach 400 fans on Newgrounds. This is going to be hard, but sometimes you need to set yourself high objectives. It would also be pretty cool to be noticed by our lord and saviour Tom Fulp
• Learn new genres, like Complextro, Future Bounce, Melodic Dubstep, Speedcore...
• Join a couple of Newgrounds events (NGUAC, NGADM, AIM...), host a remix contest and potentially organise a megacollab (an idea I've had for a while)
• Work on a few collaborative projects, a solo EP, finish a bunch of my tracks, start posting on Spotify, work on my sideproject (DarenX, where I'll rework some of my old abandonned projects)...

As a closing statement, I would like to encourage you to give music production a try if you're interested in it. It's much more straightforward to learn than it seems. I'm not very talented, but I've finally found something I would like to do professionally if I ever have the occasion (along with digital drawing, but it's much harder for me to learn).

And if you already make music, there's a Discord server for Newgrounds artists :)

I hope you have a great day, huge thanks to @Astedroid, @TrickshotMusic, @Froej, @theRUD, @Fumijena and @MestrixMusic for being amazing friends.

I know, Fumi and RUD already said it a couple of minutes ago, but since I have a bigger following than them on Newgrounds, I must also share it :)

I've met RUD in 2018, I was the guy who scouted him on his now deleted profile RUD1 (he wanted to change name lol).

I really liked his tracks, started coming to his streams and we naturally became friends (along with one of his other viewers, Fumijena).

So basically, for a couple of months now, both me and Fumi knew about the secret collab RUD had with Elektronomia.

We did hype it up a bit, but we never said what the secret project really was... until now !

As it turns out, the announcement finally came. Our fellow producer's collab with Elektronomia will come out on NCS on the 29th of April !

I knew we had some NCS producers on Newgrounds, like DJKadenza or Deaf Kev, but it's always a surprise to see someone from your community getting into a nearly 30 millions subscribers channel, specially when that person is one of your close friends.

I am so glad I was able to meet RUD (and Fumijena), it's always fun to chat with them :D

So yeah, that it ; let's wish all the best to him ! ^^

Follow RUD there :

Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJmJDPPiCXyRz3iO2TLa87Q

Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/rudnorway

Newgrounds (obviously) : https://therud.newgrounds.com/

Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/artist/6IJyibMKpIZOeGR8FlxzBb

What's up people, long time no see !

I didn't have the time to do an update in a while since, as we all know, 2020 has been a pretty shitty year in many ways.

So here I will tell you about some news, future projects, and more.

Let's start with my goal for 2021 : Reach 300 followers on Newgrounds !

I originally hoped to get to that goal by the month of July (I reached both 100 and 200 followers during summer 2019 and 2020). Due to my inactivity, the lack of uploads and the fact that I'm not uploading some of my tracks as I feel they are not good enough, I hope to get close to it by the end of the year if I get lucky :)

I also have 2 other goals but they don't seem as "easy" : Get my first featured track in the audio portal and getting noticed by our lord and saviour : Tom Fulp

Well I did get noticed by Krinkels so I guess there's a chance lol.

I plan to make a couple of new shoutouts for music producers. I already have a list with a bunch of talented unknown people from the platform so you can expect one soon. They won't be monthly as I am pretty busy with college though.

Now, let's talk about upcoming projects !

I have a bunch of tracks and remixes done or currently on the works (but I'm not releasing them as I think I can improve them).

One of these is a collaboration with my friend RUD. We plan to make it in either Magic Music or NomiaTunes.

It seems his profile was deleted of Newgrounds recently for some reason, we'll check onto it.

This year will also be the year when I finally build myself a good computer. Up until now, I used a laptop for music, but since I'll buy some equipement with my economies from the past 2 years, you can expect some streams from myself ^^

Last but not least, I'm thinking of using my second alias, "DarenX" soon, but I'm not sure for what exactly. I'm hesitating between :

• More high-quality stuff
• Simple OST remixes
• Gaming

I would like to thank you all for your support. I've started my music carreer here on Newgrounds for nearly 3 years, met a lot of amazing people and artists, including some who became good friends of mine.

I am someone who lacks self-confidence and isn't really good at communicating with people, but I believe I got better at it after I joined the community. So once again, thank you all very much ^^