But I liked your songs. Especially the FF ones. Well, I guess I see your point in leaving. I'll miss hearing your music. Good bye.

you most certainly NOT are retitring, i WON'T allow it! >:(

(i get unbanned in 8 hours. =P)

So, you are still going to be here? I feel a little bit better.
But no new songs? And you're working on a flash project?

You saying you were never really a "good" audio musician insults like 99% of the musicians on Newgrounds, since you're better than at least 99% of these. Sure your average probably isn't the highest, but you've certainly made more awesome songs than anyone else I've heard.

I'd complain about you not making more, but you have so many songs. I haven't heard like 200 of them, so I guess you making more wouldn't really do any good for me.

Well that's it. Your not the only one 'retiring'. But newgrounds is and will always be for flash artists. Audio page seems really useless in some ways. Obviously the charts system. Sometimes i see some good songs, but always some 'whored' songs which are really bad end up being 1st alltime scoring. No offense to the guy, but i don't think that pokerap deserves 1st alltime. Oke its slightly origenal and kinda fun. But there are awesome songs in the alltime scoring that are just lower. And end up to nothing.
I'll suspose thats newgrounds, ít's just less audio-user-friendly. I think it should be based upon reviews. Not only does it give you more criticsm ( well most of the time ) but then you also know WHY they vote low. Or whatever. Since reviewing requires an account and can't be done anoymous, that might help mass 0 voting.
Ah well, there been tons of ideas to improve the AP. Some really good and would probably work. But i suspose the admins don't have time for the AP. Or maybe they are, but progress is really slow. Whatever it might be, the cost: Some great people (temporarly) leaving, is quite high to me :P
In the end, when AP is renewed, all great artists are gone and it will die anyways.

(i'm a bit negative today lol )

I miss the good old days when I'd see a new song from you like every 48 hours :(

Can't believe its been almost 4 years since I heard your music for the first time.

Chrono Trigger - World Map I believe :)

You'll always be my favorite audio artist on Newgrounds!

retire from NG if you want... don't retire from music man... or you want me to cry ? Is that what you want ?

but ur still goings to bee on da forumz?

Well, I wish you the best of luck with whatever you have decided to take up, be it flash movies, games, or anything else! I really enjoyed your music, but I guess I'll just have to satisfy myself with seeing you around the forums from time to time! ;D

Anyways, see ya, and good luck!

hey mate, just sort of passing by. I agree with your sentiments, I have come in and out of music for sometime now, but thats all part and parcel of how my life is developing thus far, you know growing up. Never 'retire' mind, no point, just rephrase it as a hiatus, a sabbatical and when you are good and ready, when the mood takes you, when inspiration grabs you by the balls and won't let go then have another crack. Retirement sounds like burning your bridges and it's never a good thing to do, unless a period was particulary nasty.

The 0's yes are shit, this scripted thing more so, but it's a given. In all honesty and actuality NG doesn't really accomdate our demographic, it never has and so it will never change. It's always been a nice place to use as a scratch pad and it has gotton myself a little piece of fame at times. Anyways mate, i may or may not see you on these forums, but get cracking on with some art whether it be with the ink or the mouse your work in all formats and domains has always been quality.

Peace and Hugs

PBJ

go on teh irssi i havent talken to you in aaaaaaaaaaggggggggeeeeeeeeessssssssss

if you aren't submitting anymore can you at least keep what you have here? I really do like your music :)

man...it sucks to hear your stopping to submit music,you are one of my favorite audio artist in newgrounds...however i do hope that you put your own music in your flash's when you start submiting them..anyway take care man!

Damn.. I know you've submitted a lot of songs, but you've also done some very good ones. Tales of Symphonia and Moonlight Shadow are some of my favorite tracks here on Newgrounds Audio, and I go through the entire 30 Best Weekly tracks every damn week, I've heard a lot. Heck, I discovered plenty of songs I'd had heard before by tracking down the origins of things you remixed.

You have a lot of musical talent. There's a reason your things are on lists, people listen to them. Take care, and don't forget to follow where your muse guides you. - Blackfoot

LOL!

ur doing the same thing i already did. i left newgrounds but i'm still here, its kinda funny actually. i figured i'm useless here since i don't make any flashes or anything so i'm just playing my PS3 online. i got bored of newgrounds rlly fast, but i'm sticking with myspace its more fun there.

I've also retired. Sadly, there is no future the audio portal atm. Too many crap is being submitted to portal. That flood buries anything good. Plus almost no "professional" flash animator uses the songs from the audioportal. =(

i've retired for 1 month, during which, i made 17 audio tracks and a downloadable CD.

There goes Dj immune too. (geuss i was right, the NG AP will die eventually)

You are awesome. You make the best music and the best animations a mega FF fan geek like myself could ever wish for. I have been listening and watching your stuff for 3 years, and none of it has ever gotten old. You should be making more totally awesome stuff, not retiring! That's even worse than Square Enix retiring for me. NO!!!!!!!!!

Really? darkside too?
Well that's probably not the last one..
:'( isn't there anything that could prevent this?

Dam that sucks. Hope you comeback to do some more ff7 you were dam good at those.

Oh and the MK remix people are complaining of is now under mod review lol.

Hey Chronamut!
Remember me?
Well, I am quite bummed that you are retiring, but I understand you reasons.
But I look to the bright side of things now, and maybe in the future you will come back to making music. I have enjoyed your music very much!
And y'know, I just started making music a few months back, and I have submitted two of my newest songs to Newgrounds just yesterday. Maybe when they are up you can check them out :)! They are going through approval.
Good luck with the flash!
Bye :D

~Alan (RetellaVII)

-And by the way, you are a very good musician!

Well, I liked your music. And I was rating 5 on a lot of them too.
Shame there's people like that how just 0 for the heck of it. D= Well, best of luck with whatever you do next. To me, you're one of the more memorable artists on Newgrounds, and I'm pretty sure there's others that share this opinion.

I agree with you :$
Things are getting worse in the AP

Sorry to hear that man, I also left some time ago for similar reasons. Right now I'll give it one last try and see if I'm able to distribute some of my stuff...

NG has truly become a (pardon me) whorehole. People don't really care about quality and creativity anymore, it's only about the competition, the urge to produce something very fast and push it with phrases like "This was played by an orchestra in...". No more love in the music I hear anymore.

srry it's just that ff7 is my fave game!!

Oh and I am glad i grabbed a free download of an original before, it was being re-inspected.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOES!!
!!!! wtf mate, one of the musicians i look up too is retiring? T.T man i hurt. your music is beyond awesome and damnit i love the feedbacks id get from you, one of the few honest people around. ><

Noooooooo, well, as you said, it's not truly the end, just a continuation of what you've been doing. I myself will honestly say that going through your music, you have some of the best music I've heard on here, I won't say the best ever, but some of your tracks are easily among my favorites on here such as frogs song. You also did so many random songs that made me happy, alice DJ (I think that's the name) the goofy movie powerline song, all sorts of random shit that brought back memories. Anyway, I'll pick out a few of my favorites and 5 them every day that I can, I currently do so with Matoya's Cave by Realmguys, I hate that it takes me two days to get it up .01 then somebody brings it back down even though it's so old. I do the same with frogs song when I remember. Anyway, I hear you on the decline of the audio portal, it's a sad thing but it's true, the audio portal has no real truth to it's scores, which is why I search the depths for good music rather then the front pages. Send me a message whenever you drop a new song to the portal, I'll be the first to 5 it if I can, I've always loved music, good luck with flash, it's my current job (game programming). Peace out,

-Porter

I stand with my point.

Druid thinks your a cock fag

Chicken Salad in a Sexy Voice.

wow!! ive seen your audio submissions...
280 songs since 2003 !! thats alot of work
respect !!

I wish I could hear more from you. You do make some of the best songs. At least on the bright side, you are still here.

So you retire before I get my LoL boss music eh? Lol, I STILL have not forgotten.
Ah well. I suppose you've done more than enough as it is.

Come on, is your ban EVER gonna end?! Both the Lounge and the Piccies thread are suffering. >:(

I've always liked your music... and it's not always about popularity :)

I hope to see you around(and possibly that finished "Green Eyes" remix) sometime! :)

Well Chronamut

I'm not gonna lie, half the reason WHY I came on newgrounds.com was to see your music, apparently it has declined and I wish you the best in whatever it is you do. Just know you got skills and make sure you use them to your full advantage. Keep it real Chronamut, tis been a honor listening to your music.

Fan Forever
Priceman45

Do you live in a town, in north ontario? With dream comfort memory to spare? And blue, blue windows behind the stars? Yellow moon on the rise, Big blue birds flying across the sky? And are they throwing shadows, on our eyes? (Neil Young, Helpless. In case you'd never heard it). Too bad you're topping making songs, I really kinda liked your renditions. About the zeroed songs... there's something a couple of people are trying to get together.

I'm sorry.

Tis a shame to see ya retire man. I've just recently gone through and re-downloaded all the various songs of yours I lost when I had to reformat. Can't say that I find fault with your complaints, what with people voting 0 an leaving reviews going haha i voted 0 lolz (and with some songs somehow staying up near the top, despite (to my ears) not sounding all that good...).

This may sound selfish, but any chance you found the rest of your dancing mad song (I like FF remixes)

Also, I will admit that I have only listened to your video game music. Video game music is all I listen to (man am I diverse or what?) Anyhoo, while this may sound a little conceited on my part, if ya wanna recommend a few pieces of your non-video game music ill give it a try.

Farethee well, Chronamut (unless of course you pump out more items for the flash/audio portal in which case I will have to greet you once more).

"ya I just got a brand new computer with lots and lots of cpu and ram - I think im gonna start making songs again :P"

Dude, if that was the issue I would have saved up to buy you a new computer :P
Awesome news, get to it, and when your done, don't let the newgrounds crowd bring you down if that's what ends up happening, just look at the good reviews, look at it yourself and enjoy what you make like I always do :)

You said you wanna work on flash. I'd love to see it :D if you decide to make some can you post them here for us to view? Oh, and i dont join fan clubs. As for your retiring, im glad you announced it instead of us having to find out. Such a smart and creative person you are now make something and get paid for it XD. Oh and I have to disagree with you on kamikase. I've played that game for years, it was played b4 meeting the wise men but not during, each wise man had a unique battle theme. none of them matched. Kamikaze is actually the final dungeon of the 1st disk. I'm not trying to correct a legend like you but i had to post disagreement on that note, but its old news so so dont take this comment seriously. Come to think of it... that news is years old! Why am i typing about it? Guess I've been wanting to say it for a pretty long while >.> Good luck with that flash, im looking to make flash in the future too, looking forward to "competing" with you.

no offence but, why is your fanclub ' official' . That doens't make any sense ! :O

Because I had Chronamut sign up for the site to answer questions about his art or music directed at him by fans. Also because I got his permission to post some of his artwork up on the site so that his fans know that hes not just a musician. And Chronamut has placed a link to it on his user page here, thus authenticating it, so I renamed it to the Official Chronamut Fan Club. Plus, this is the first Chronamut Fan Club. (To my knowledge.)

I'm waiting for administrative approval on your fan site. I had to sign up, being your #1 fan and all right? :)

Are you making something for the aura collab???

Gah... that's disapointing. I was just getting into your music too DX

But, Oh well. It'll take me quite a while till i'll get bored or even finish LOOKING at all of your music XD Anyway, hope to see a come back!

bitch.

i'm at skewl.... why did u leave? =0

Well you've uploaded a buttload of awesome songs here, and I'm pretty sure many of 'em has or will be used in a sprite movie of good or bad quality, at one point or another...
Anyhow, I bet you'd get a lot of attention if you did a sudden come-back at a random point of time!

Wow, a fanclub??? That's cool.

dont retire your ambience songs are amazing!