Say goodbye to Sonic4, and hello to 2025. (+ END OF YEAR news)

Hey everyone. It's been a long year, hasn't it? A lot of stuff happened for all of us. We had our good moments where we all laughed and had fun, and our bad moments where we were emotionally distressed and broken. For all of us, the ratio between the good and bad is different but hey. We made it to the end.

For me personally, 2024 was a great year in retrospect. A lot of good stuff happened. I met Alice, ASDF, Tewi, Remilia, Reimu, and a couple more people I don't remember. I don't meet that many people, after all. 

We've done a lot of stuff together, and it was mostly fun. Remember the WatZatSong times? The Aslanicus war? Remember when the listening channel was active, and we were listening to a bunch of music ASDF played for us? Remember when we were joking about Snooker Loopy and it was actually funny? Remember when the motherfucking CHAT wasn't DEAD? And remember when we all had a soul inside of us, because life wasn't fucked for us back then?

Another important thing that happened was Alice98 Test Records. A sub-label that started with a joke trend HappyEpicBoi made. Honestly, I was more active on Alice98 Test Records and damn I'm a huge fan of it, to admit. We got Dead Princess, we got AuralAwfulDanmaku, and many other amazing albums from Alice98 but mostly me because she doesn't make much music.

Even though this one's gonna be a little frustrating, but the FREA$H fiasco was another highlight of 2024, starting from April. We uncovered a rabbit hole of fake bootlegs and had a back-and-forth war with a kid that can't even communicate properly. It was fun taking the piss of him for some of us. We even made FREA$HCAMP, a low-quality sub-label intended to make fun of Issacco. In a sense, this was both heartbreaking and motivating for me at the same time because... If he didn't keep annoying me with his shitty clones, I wouldn't have worked harder on my own label out of spite. Another good thing that came out of this, was the creation of fumofumo, another sub-label mainly focused on low effort and ruleless releases, ran by ASDF and joined in by many.

We also had many artists who joined the label for the first time! We had Tewi Inaba making her debut as The Lifeguard and The Machine, who is very passionate about her work and someone I look up to for her creative sampling. We had The Careborn, who always cooked up the goofiest songs with funny lyrics that'll make you laugh (UNLESS YOU'RE A FUMO). He might have been silent recently, but that's for his own health. And the most recent, we had James Woz, who is slowly re-releasing some of his albums on this label, quietly.

The surprising return of Just Yuri as Yukari-sama was also important. I gotta thank her for still taking care of me during these shitty mood swings and carrying this server emotionally as a whole. She was a huge motivation for me, especially during December. She's a real OG and a real GOAT.

I had more fun moments throughout the year, but they're too personal and insignificant for this blog post. So, let's get to the bad.

Right off the bat, I can confidently say that my life became shit after August. With the release of Maalesef, hayat artık eskisi gibi değil (maetp exclusive), there's no hope and AuditoryStaleD​ö​ner #2, I've shown you just how bad my life got during those days. Depression, mood swings, hallucinations, and many more that were bothering me at the time. Of course, it was the most hopeless I felt, but things did get better over time. I'm still not perfect though. I still deal with hopelessness, disassociation, mood swings, and stuff like that.

I've seen a lot of my friends suffer this year too. Some, probably suffer more than me. I shouldn't name them, but they know who they are. It might seem hopeless at first, but there's always something good in life for everyone. It might be in a month or a year, so NEVER STOP BELIEVING, Y'ALL. Like, I suffered through the worst times of my life in 8th grade and look at me now.

And if you got a problem, try to actually solve that shit with us. Staying silent won't do shit about it. It will only make you feel worse. And the ones that are involved in those problems, actually LISTEN to the motherfucker that's ranting about you. Most people won't really understand that last part, but those who know, know. Our friends became like co-workers, and no one gets it.

Well, that's enough bad talk. I wish all of us a happy new year, 'cause come on. We suffered a lot, when will be the day when we finally see the sunshine again? January is usually a shit month, for me because there will be an exam week RIGHT AFTER this break ends. From January 6th to January 10th, I have to suffer again, a lot, for five days. I'm very worried about it but like, I don't know man. Life goes on.

Let's get to the news now, shall we?

I dropped my FINAL ALBUM as Sonic4. I know that it's a sudden ending to this alias, but I really don't got anything else left to make anymore. I don't have the passion, I don't have the creativity, I don't have a reason to keep on making shitty songs in an attempt to impress others. So I said, why don't I just make everything that I've wanted to make for the past two years? And that's what I did.

In this album, you'll find a whole bunch of songs for your listening pleasure... Or displeasure. I made this album in a sudden mental clarity after months of feeling like shit, for one day, I suddenly felt like myself again. I suddenly became the old Sonic4 again. I finally started remembering everything, and I was finally able to make good stuff again.

So, I was cooking like crazy. I was rapidly producing music, I made most of these songs in mere minutes without even listening to them fully because I tried to get everything off the back my mind for the last two years of my journey before I forgot them, before that clarity ended.

And I did a good ass job. For the classic Sonic4 fans who loved my music in the first season, you'll definately enjoy this one. I tried to make various different styles of music to keep things interesting, too. It's a long album, but it's just a little longer than AuditoryStaleDöner.

THE WORST AND LAST OF SONIC4 by Sonic4

This is pretty damn important, and so are my other old albums. Sonic4 as a character got me flying high through 2023 and maybe 2024, but that character is practically dead. I can't be the same old Sonic4 anymore, because the times changed, and so did I.

Once again, gotta say what's up to my man Just Yuri for keeping us happy and inspiring me to make this. PLEASE listen to this, you ignorant cunts. This is literally my last fucking album. To me, someone showing that they care is a bigger reward than anything. I love the cunts that do care.

And you can also listen to my older, good albums too. Y'all actually gotta start listening to shit.

Here's a smaller news: James Woz re-released an old album of his. I didn't listen to it yet, so I can't really say much about it but he says that it's probably his best album ever.

Return to form: the album by james who asked

EDIT: James Woz dropped another album, and a new album this time that I'm listening to right now. It's better than channel blue in my opinion. Go listen to it:

(The) Mid-Life by James Woz (featuring c'est no whatevrr)

ANOTHER EDIT: Yukari-sama's album reviews got closed. Yukari / Yuri said she doesn't wanna continue the microsite, so I removed the links for it. It might come back if she wants, so yeah.

And that's all the news I got. I would've normally done something like a 2024 highlighted albums list, but it's 3 am as of writing this and I don't have the brain power to do that. Y'all should debate your favorite albums in the server instead. 

I'm really running out of time. I don't know what is awaiting me in 2025 but it's just sad. I'm stuck in the past, yet I'm forced towards the future. 2025 is gonna be my last "good year" because in 2026, I'm gonna turn 18, and I'm gonna graduate from high school. That might sound like a good thing but there will be a lot of suffering that comes in the road that ends there. And y'all already know, 2026 will be when Sonic4 365 happens.

Man... Y'all should love each other more. Be a little happy and stuff. We love y'all, I love y'all, I don't know about the some of you that don't like each other or yourselves but we're all friends that are still with each other in the end. No matter how crazy or fucked up this community is, no one left. I mean, kel left but that's kinda irrelevant. They were never active here in the first place.

I don't really know how to end this blog post once again. It falls flat, but thank you to all for this wonderful community. It was my dream to achieve that, and it makes me happy to see Sonic4 Test Records still getting some sort of attention. Even though I say I hate y'all sometimes, y'all should know that that's prolly just the mood swings talking. I'll keep on running the label for y'all.

Oh, and by the way, this isn't the end of my music forever. I still might drop as Eray & Hits, and as my other aliases in Memories Always Endure The Passage. I might also make more compilations too.

And uh... Yeah. Bye y'all, happy new year for us one by one depending on our time zones, I wish all of y'all the best in 2025, I hope y'all will be happy and shit, and I hope we make more good memories with the time we have together. I hope this community never breaks. I hope we all get the happy times we've been hoping for. I'll probably be suffering for a bit, but I'm out here y'all. You can talk to me and talk to each other about this blog post. In the end, it's just another blog post. 

-Sonic4xxx