WoodenToaster

WoodenToaster and Glaze are two pseudonyms used by a British brony musician. He prefers to be called Glaze, but is more widely-known by his YouTube account name WoodenToaster, which started out as a random video game handle and has no particular pony connection.

In the fandom, he is primarily active as a composer of instrumental pieces of electronic music, but he does occasionally provide vocals for a song. He has increasingly collaborated with other musicians, usually focusing more on the instrumental parts of a song than on the vocal component (that was the division of labor for "Love Me Cheerilee", for instance ). He is among the most remixed composers of the fandom.

He first burst onto the brony scene in May 2011 with a remix of an unrelated song by Renard using very brief clips from the show (see below). He also cites Renard as one of the major influences on his musical style.

Avast Fluttershy's Arse
WoodenToaster's first bit of pony music is a remix of the 2008 song "Avast Your Ass" by Renard. The pony version joins a long tradition of remixes of this song which take a couple of very short snippets of an unrelated soundtrack, string them together and change their pitch so they match Renard's melody. In WoodenToaster's case, the dominant (but not only) "snippet" is Fluttershy saying "yay", from the episode Sonic Rainboom.

As of April 16, the song has garned close to a million views, twice those of the Renard original. A remix by TheBaffMan has proven almost as popular with over 800,000 views as of the same date.

Rainbow Factory
"Rainbow Factory" was an entry for the sixth installment of the Toast Beard competition; it came in second to an early version of "Rainbow's Blood" by Interrobang Pie. The theme was "Where do rainbows really come from?".

The idea to "take a darker tone" than usual for a pony song, and parts of the melody, were inspired by the film Beyond Re-Animator WoodenToaster had watched the night before composing the song. The song's lyrics are not explicit, but suggest that Cloudsdale is not all it seems. The titular rainbow factory is said to be a place "where your fears and horrors come true". It later inspired the fanfic Rainbow Factory.

Beyond Her Garden
The lyrics center on Carrot Top, WoodenToaster's favorite pony. They are intended to be aspirational for the pony, who, in the show, was "always depicted as doing something wrong" ; they encourage Carrot Top that she has not yet reached her full potential, but can become a star if she tries and trusts her friends. Show composer Daniel Ingram has called "Beyond Her Garden" one of his favorite brony original songs.

Among the many remixes the song has received, two stand out; both for their popularity (over 200,000 views each, as of April 16, 2012), and because they led to subsequent collaborations with WoodenToaster: One is WoodenToaster's favorite, by The Living Tombstone.

The other was retitled "Beyond Her Tomb" and consists of Mic The Microphone laying a rap track over the Tombstone remix. The rap lyrics are based on the same theme as the original ones, but drive the point home more forcefully, adding "haters" who try to put Carrot Top down and hold her back. They also contain some references to the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The video description gives more background information on the added lyrics: In that story, Carrot Top lives in a village surrounded by lifeless land. No unicorn from the village has the power to make the ground bear fruit, but Carrot Top, though just an Earth pony, somehow does. She is deemed a witch and apparently killed, but returns unharmed the next day, bringing the villagers over to her side. Half a year later, outsiders who have heard of her gifts come to the village and demand her death. The villagers try to protect her, but she offers herself to the angry mob. She is burnt alive and this time does not return. But over the remains of her house, her tomb, a garden begins to grow almost immediately.