Hello fellas and ladyfellas.

I've only been here for 5 months and the community here have welcomed me so kindly. I've met some wonderfully talented and awesome people, most notably through the NGADM in which I was lucky enough to snap up joint third place alongside last year's winner, Kor-Rune. What an honour and a wonderful opportunity I've been blessed with participating in. I've learned a hell of a lot and I'm now on my way to going even further with my musical identity.

Thank you to everyone for your kind words, invaluable critique, and all-in-all motivation. I'll be seeing y'all around!

Anybody know much about setting up a website/website design/domain registration/hosting etc.

I'm at a loss and I don't really know much about this kind of thing. Help pls thx! :)

So this has become my little place to vent I guess. So it looks like I'm still in the NGADM {Newgrounds Audio Death Match for those who are unfamiliar}! Last round I was up against the omnipotent Headphoamz, my favourite contender right from Round 1 and a now a kind friend. Anybody who's been watching the competition or knows of Headphoamz can probably feel that nerve-wracking ball in their stomach and I was certainly no different. While putting together Mystic's Shore, I'd actually managed to prepare myself properly for leaving the wonderful process that is the NGADM.

So. The results come out and I read the other groups placing my hand over the monitor is I scroll down, as mine and Headphoamz' results were the second group, but I wanted to read them last as I was feeling fluttery {like a butterfly on a warm spring day}. I was actually a little shocked at some of the results, but bam, Kor-Rune, SteamPianist and johnfn all through. Back up I scrolled to group two. "etherealwinds vs Headphoamz"...

I scrolled down little by little, slowly revealing each judge score one by one. I'd actually seemed to score really quite highly, noticing lots of 9's all over the place, only to see I got 9.39. What the hell? Before moving onto Phoamy's scores, I quickly scanned through the other groups and sure enough, I ended up feeling real pleased. "Going out of this competition with the second highest score is only the best of honours" I thought to myself. So back up again, scrolling one by one down Headphoamz' scores noticing all of her 9's too! It seemed like we'd got practically the same scores and to my disbelief, it could actually be really quite close which is something I definitely wasn't expecting.

"9.26". For about 10 seconds, I was actually feeling SO happy for her and feeling I must congratulate her because I'd forgotten what score I'd got. I was just thinking how astonishing it must be to get 9.26 because that's a bloody high score. Then the realisation hit me that I'd actually gotten... somehow... that tiny bit higher. What? It took me a good few hours at least to get my head around all of this. I felt angry because Headphoamz wasn't going through and she was definitely my favourite to win. I felt shocked that I'd managed to get through not only that round but to the semi-finals. I've been put up against 4 REALLY respectable musicians up til now! Breed, xHalcyonicFalcon, ChronoNomad and now Headphoamz. On top of all that, I really couldn't get my head around the fact that by Headphoamz having the second highest score that round, that meant that I had the highest...? I guess even a few days later as I write this, I still kinda can't believe it.

Anyway, here's Headphoamz' wonderful track that earned her such a deservedly high score. Huge props to her.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/551755

I'm now up against the wonderfully talented johnfn. Who knows how this is going to turn out? ._.

So I don't know how it works elsewhere, but in my Law degree there are six modules.

Passing each module = 20 points and to go onto year 2 you need 120 points.

I was practically shitting myself for my last module's results because either I'd have failed the year or passed and gone onto year 2. I got my results today and I passsssssssed!

yayay okay so now NGADM Round 2 results tomorrow, hoho my nerves are shot.

Gonna keep this short.

About 8 months ago, I decided on a whim to submit a remix of Hymn of the Fayth from FFX to OC Remix. Knowing how completely strict they are, I fully didn't expect to get accepted. Guess who's now an official OC ReMixer?

fdsofja so baffled. This is a huge achievement for me as OC Remix is genuinely such a prestigious website when it comes to video-game music. I can certainly tick that off the bucket list. *___* Feeling amazing.

I'm still a little in shock. I was so happy to have passed the auditions, but that's one thing. Then the REAL competition starts, and that, is a whole other thing entirely. With everyone being fueled by their competitive streaks, their A-game really is on, so I was really in for a challenge. I was laid in bed, dreading checking the results (I'm not sure why to be honest, I wouldn't have minded losing, it was actually what I fully expected)!

How I got to Round 2, let along got there with the fifth highest ranking this round is beyond me. There are SO many talented people on here, seriously. Professional sound engineers and musicians who have been doing what they do for a very long while now. I'm really, really grateful. I'm a little more fearful of Round 2 now because the pressure genuinely is on. The difference between this coming entry is that I didn't feel too much pressure for Round 1, simply because I expected to have lost. I just did something close to my heart that I loved to make.

Now, I've gotta mix it up and create something amazing. This is an interesting and exciting competition indeed!

I've made a Twitter account. Feel free to follow me or contact me via the account here.

I'm approaching 850 subscribers on my personal YT music channel which I'm really thankful for. Feel free to check it out for more of my work!

www.youtube.com/etherealwinds

Not sure how many people will get to hear them on here but time will tell!

so I guess this makes me the newest of newgrounders, howdy. My name's Jordi.

keeping it brief, I'm primarily a musician. I'm hugely inspired by the celtic genre of music, as well as Asian and soundtrack music (probably from growing up playing Final Fantasy and listening to Nobuo Uematsu).

I sing and mainly play the piano and harp, but can play guitar and some other woodwind instruments at a basic level. I enjoy digitally arranging too; I use FL Studio 10.

I'll post some compositions etc. up soon enough but for now, feel free to check out my YouTube channel here

All the best and have a good day.