MelkorMorgoth's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Gold]

Great song! I like your overall usage of timbre and bass. The voices mix quite nicely. Found the melody a little jumpy and there seems even to be a mistake in the lead strings but i couldn't be bothered to search out the exact measure. You can hear it quite well in the intro and ending, when the string melody plays with less accompaniment.

Nonetheless, it's a great tune! Keep it up :)

Pandasticality responds:

thnx for pointig that out, its my first try doing trap music so its filled with mistakes and what not, thank you for your review.

-Pandasticality

[An Uprising v2]

What i liked: the drum programming, the 808ish cowbell especiall (you seemed to have countered it with another cowbell in the intro), soulful but kinda hesitant melodie in the "improvisy" part, i call it. I hope you know which one i mean, because i am not going to list every minute and second a thing i noticed occured :) Also i liked the slight latin tinge that comes up through bassdrum syncopation.

What i did not like: Percussion is a little too busy in the first few seconds. The drum programming and especially the tom is very pop like. Too much for my taste and also it reminds me an awful lot of "The Bongo Song" (Played-A-Live) by safri duo, which is really old news. That song is still a kickass song though, admittedly and i would like to believe, you consciously gave tribute to it. What i also disliked is that all the sounds sound really unchanged and stock and i like to hear strange and seldomly/never before heard sounds.
I hope my sometimes garbled english was clear enough to you as i'm not a native speaker and would like to thank you for providing this piece of music for me to review.

xxxZigZagxxx responds:

thanks for the review! you've highlighted strengths and weaknesses of my song, which i really need to hear. thanks so much and wish you all the best! <3

[Catalyze]

Absolutely sounds like something out of a Windows 95 game or even earlier. It sounds like you played the voices yourself with a midi-keyboard or something. So i give you a 3,0 for the song and a 0.5 for effort :)

[DKIS]

Very nice! First i was tempted to not even hear it to completion but then the synth trumpet kicked in and played a pretty interesting solo. Very nice and vibrant harmonic overtones in the very last part. Like!

Canas responds:

Ah thank you! It's all space themed so I was hoping to capture that atmospheric essence. The solo is going to receive some attention prior to a proper release (might even detune a bit, add some filters or reverb or something). Thanks again for the kind words!

[ThanksTaking]

Some huge rap skills here. Fast and comprehensible and the lyrics are also very creative. The -0.5 in rating is for the sound of the voices, not what they do. The voices just sound a little too "normal" but it's better than bending your voice in weird ways i guess.
The beat is kind of flawless for this kind of music. I like the psychedelic bits a lot :)

Canas responds:

Thanks for the kind words! I guess my only response in regards to our voices is that yes, we are in fact "normal" people! Hence we sound normal! Naturally our flow, diction, and delivery will change dramatically depending on the song. We've got a few more coming out soon and I'm sure you'll hear the difference :P

[Traveling Without Moving]

This sounds like a clever mixture of the Game of Thrones Intro or something similar and especially like some Halo music. A bit too simplistic and kitschie, which takes off 0,5 of my rating. I hope you'll be fine with that. :)

ChrisisD responds:

You're probably right by that. It is simplistic, it is what I needed it to be ;-) The past upload and this one are in a process of being turned into a short story. So it's background music really and for the sounds/feelings they portray they're exactly what I need. But yeah, Halo is in there most definitely. I thank you for your review! Much appreciated!

[Calming Asperity (collab)]

Nice tune :)

[Run Hobo Run]

It is absolutely catchy and relatively well instrumented. The indefinable Horns were kinda goofy and the Bassdrum is really eq-ed in a weird way. Other than that it's a really great Song! :)

SourJovis responds:

Good to hear you think it's catchy, and you like it overall. It's probably the effects on the bass drum you don't like. It's routed through a bass guitar amplifier to give it more power. I thought the jazz brass instruments made the song much more funky and interesting. I thought about puting brass on more sections on the song, but it may be a good thing I didn't. Anyway, the brass turned out the way I thought it up in my head, and it's quite memorable, so to me it's not indefinable. The game is also quite goofy, so I suppose it fits anyway.Thanks for sharing your opinion. I don't think I will do much with it, but perhaps later.