[DO NOT REUPLOAD MY TRACKS. IF YOU WISH TO REMIX/COVER/CHART IT, FEEL FREE TO DO SO, AS LONG AS YOU CREDIT EVERYONE INCLUDED.] [SEIZURE WARNING!!! THIS VIDEO CONTAINS A LOT OF FLASHING LIGHTS!!!] Join our Discord Community Server for news, teasers, and events! https://discord.gg/Ff2SnGyRZ4 SELF-PACED feat. @DJAwesomeYT Instrumental: https://youtu.be/W0i_BmTPjTk?si=rPwSmiEnsahA6YPG Bonus Track (Side-B): https://youtu.be/hh7wZJ-kXdk FLP: https://ko-fi.com/s/59594cb012 Streaming Services: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/redseas07/self-paced BPM: 168 | CREDITS | • redseas07 - Arrangement, Composition, Mixing, Sound Design, Shadow VA, Background Art • michimoomo - "Sonic and the Black Sun" Owner, Character Art, Additional Art, Pace (Sonic) VA, Brains (Tails) VA • DJ Awesome - Composition, Brawn (Knuckles) VA • CDJAM - Character Artist, Background Artist and Animator • LemonMarkers - Background Artist • Checkty - References to the main original Self-Paced motif (from the previous mixes) • pr3771bvnn1 - Helped with vocals on the drowning section • Estrogen_Storm - Chef Sauté (Dr. Robotnik) VA • turdle - Helped with the drowning section chords • SleepiIdol - Rosy (Amy) VA • Grace - Black Sun VA, Additional Art • Self-Paced V1 and V2 (Scrapped Mixes) by Finley Rendon, Checkty and Joey Animations A message from redseas07: "Hi everyone! After 9 months of wait... IT'S HERE! SELF-PACED is FINALLY releasing after so much time. I just want to thank everyone who waited patiently for it to come out, and whoever supported my work so far, even if it wasn't SELF-PACED related. This year was absolutely insane and I loved it a lot, I'll definitely remember it for the rest of my life. I hope 2025 can be as good as this was, and that we can all have fun and enjoy every single moment and things we'll make in the future! Again, thank you all for everything, see you soon :]" A message from michi: "Hey everyoneee i js want to say thank you so much for all the last minute support on this release.. It is such a relief to finally get this song out into the world (for real this time and not through leaks) i love Pace and Shadow a lot and finally getting to put their big stepstone out there makes me really happy, and i hope you guys love it and are ready to see what else i have to offer, im not done making content anytime soon so keep your eyes open!! Me and the SP team worked our asses off to get this out, 15 days for a video this high quality is a LOT of work for 5 people.. i love all of them so much and couldn't ask for a better group to have done this with, they kept my head high even when i was extremely sick and burnt out, they kept me going so we could finish this, go support ALL OF THEM!! they deserve so much love ❤️ I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and keep enjoying our content, love you all!!!!!!!" | LORE | SELF-PACED is one of 4 songs in the "Sonic and The Black Sun" story. Pace the Hedgehog is an alternate version of Sonic, he lives in a world of peace, a world where there really was no need for a hero, evidently he is not trained to be one. The song takes place after "???", Pace flees from the scene after having his first encounter with the Shadow, leaving Brains, Brawn and Chef Saute to fend him off. He stumbles into a forest, finding an old book sitting atop a stump, he begins to wander while giving it a read, learning about a power that could help him defeat this new threat and finally be the hero he is expected to be, the Chaos Emeralds. Pace arrives at the ancient castle where the emeralds have lay for years, he begins to search the castle for them, unknowing that the threat he wanted to use the emeralds to defeat, had already beat him to the punch. Shadow, a creature seeming like it was almost made of mist and fog, created from the reversed energy of the emeralds, with it's mind being set on only one goal, use it's power to rule the world and make it into it's perfection, every being under one mind. The more creatures Shadow inflicts with his possession, the more his knowledge of the world grows, and the more his hunger to perfect it follows. Pace and Shadow fight back and forth for control of the emeralds, and Pace's body, as Shadow seeped himself into Pace's brain, he began to know more and more, learning about what the emeralds can really do. He uses this knowledge to distort Pace into a warped version of his "Hyper" form, and brings him into the sky to help him cover the sun with his essence, truly shining himself over the world at last... for now.