MaestroRage's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[-Sound of my Dream-]

Interesting

like the preview, this has such a happy energy to it. Buzzing with all sorts of positive influences.

It gets a tad repetitive though. Then again I believe the goal of trance is not to move around too much while providing some awesome twists and turns here and there. Subtle changes with dramatic effects.

I could be wrong, feel free to tell me if I am ;).

The piano part cuts off a little too suddenly, and the ending was too abrupt. The rest of the song is solid.

Keep up the good fight Pyroific, keep em coming! I'd like to invite you to check out some of my work sometime.

Pyroific responds:

thanks for the positive feed back!

[-Preview-[Demo]]

Neat!

A damn sick demo... I trust you will pm me when the full version is out >:(!!!!

Not much to say, but I wanted to drop my support for the piece. I am definitely interested in the final version.

So much energy, catchy melody. Though isn't electronic music with this much energy referred mostly as Techno?

Keep up the good fight Pyroific!

Pyroific responds:

w00t! i wuv u :)

[Casted Life]

Intense

Hello Bosa! A piece like this is criminal to see with no review. You weren't kidding when you said you spent a lot of effort for it. It's I think one of your best, if not THE best work i've heard from you.

It's such a chaotic cluster of melodies, intertwined to each other. Like a kind of dark village life. I don't know why, but i'm getting the melody of a happy town, but the feel is angry, somewhat excited and focused. Maybe the town is preparing for war?

I like the bells in the background, truly adds more and more to it.

The ending with the piano was also neat. I felt the ending was too abrupt, but it makes for an excellent looping point this way.

I would have liked more layers for the piano, another countermelody, given perhaps another higher up melody!

In any case, excellent work. Keep up the good fight Bosa! Keep em coming!

Bosa responds:

You know what? I believe I will keep them coming. The zero voters may have strength, but I can be stronger. I won't stop submitting music. I will keep going.

Thanks,
Bosa

[Karco -- Falling Farther --]

Excellent!

Hmm... what an excellent way to come in... with that filtered piano. I have to say right away I was wondering, where you would go from there.

It was a rather pleasent surprise on my end, to suddenly see such a dynamic burst of strings and snares.

So driving. It made me think of a Final Fantasy movie clip with a falling feather, in a battle field. The feather flies gently and lands on the hilt of a blade that was dug into the earth. A soldier grabs the hilt when the snares and strings swell up. The feather falls off the hilt and is picked up by the wind, and travels the desert, showing us all the devestation.

There will be no angels showing their faces here, no mercy to rear it's ugly head on the fragile souls of the participants...

A great image. I truly enjoyed this song. I felt the file size was a little large... was this exported at larger then 128kb/s?

In any case, this one was great. Easily a 5 on my scales of scales!

Karco responds:

Hey, Maestro. :) I was planning to review one of your songs and ask you to review this sometime soon but I never thought you'd come review it yourself. :D I definitely was aiming at a driving, dramatic song and your story was an interesting, fitting one. Final Fantasy also came to my mind as I was making this. Also - I rendered this MP3 a while back and submitted it only now so I'm not sure about that kbps rate, but I'm fairly sure that it was rendered at a larger rate. Much appreciated, Maestro, glad you enjoyed my song. Thanks for the review. :)

[Up and down (Loop)]

:D

XD. I really really like this melody. It's so damn sweet and playful. It's also a PERFECT loop. There was only the blasted mp3 split second silence that mp3's have, but even that was handled rather well.

Nothing much to say, but so very much to listen to. Well done Meteor! This is a slick loop.

MeteorSuit responds:

Hey thanks a lot. It feels nice to know you appreciate it :)

[-World of Cold Metal-]

Sweet!

Such an interesting piece! It sounds kind of happy, a little excited. The future is here, and it's great!

This is strange to me, as i've heard too many "the future is a place of black and destruction" from so many people and places, I have forogtten how a happy future might look.

I guess I should thank you for showing me ;).

I personally like the computer beep like sounds. Really added to the piece, made me think of streams of light zipping and dashing in the sky... brilliant.

The mastering, and equalizing were perfect.

I didn't quite find the ending abrupt, I rather enjoyed the song, it loops rather well. I guess thats just my opinion!

The percussion were also neat. Diverse, and powerful.

Keep up the good fight quickshot! You are realling getting good at this! Keep em coming.

quickshot-x responds:

I didn't actually expect this song to be so popular, I've gotten lots of marvelous Reviews so far. I'm very happy you liked it! There really isn't much to say anymore, but if you read the other reviews then I guess you pretty much know everything That I had said. If you really like this you'll love cry of an Angel! Thankyou for your review my friend!

[Dance to the beat now!]

Catchy

What IS IT with you and DEMANDING people dance, or STFU, or Rave, or ROFL, like seriously >:(! We're here to listen to your tracks, not be subjected to questional motives!

But this song, heh... I like this song. A lot.

The beginning was so simple, I was sitting here going "Please oh lawdy lawd, please let it expand like cancer, and expand it's horizons", and it tutelly did.

For work all done in one night, this is exceptional, I am lucky to get something done in a week, forget a night.

The really simple, but alarmingly catchy melody line is what made this song so damn enjoyable.

This definiately gets a 5 bomb, and just for you, i'll get up in computer class and do a little jig.

Especially since that voice told me too... I have no choice in this matter...

*dances to teh beat now*

Keep up the simply awesome work Fatheringness-esque, and keep up that good fight eh! (I also didn't find it that repetitive)

*dances away*

Father-of-Death responds:

FUCK YOU!!!!

hahahaha!!!

DOOD!!!

you are the best ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

thnx so so so so so much for your support!!!!!!!!!!!

i'm so happy right now cuz of all the support i'm getting!!!! ^^

THNX EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

<3

[STFU N' RAVE!]

Sweet

how does one STFU AND Rave? I mean thats like just flailing your arms wildly in the air, slapping and smacking people left and right in such a fury it would all end in restraining orders...

I see what you did thar.

To the song itself, there is a huge amount of energy coming from it. Just pumping, which I guess is the point of a rave track!

But it ended so soon :(

The song itself didn't move around too much, but it was damn awesome for what WAS there. Excellent work Father-of-Death, keep up the good fight, and keep em coming!

Father-of-Death responds:

fuckin hell you rock!!!!!!!!!!

[Tengu]

Neat

I love oriental instruments.

I myself love the dizi flute, and Erhu violin. But I don't know the name of this instrument, could you tell me please?

Very short, but quite effective, nothing to criticize, but I wanted to drop my support. Keep up the good fight Talon!

TalonVulpes responds:

I'm afraid I do not know the name of the instrument I'm trying to emulate - what you're hearing is a modified flute.

Thank you for your review ^^ I'll have more music up soon.

[Living in the real world]

Sweet

I really enjoyed the mix of sounds in this song. Especially that reverbed ocarina/flute? sound. That really... really just made the song for me. The vocals complimented that woodwind's feel, you have a good voice, really.

The song was smooth and worth the listen. I would say the vocals were a tad difficult to hear and make out, due to the effects you put on it, but the more I listen to it, the clearer it becomes.

I don't have much else to say Shenkhar, this was ace. Keep up the good fight and keep em coming! I'd also like to invite you to check out some of my work sometime!

Shenkhar responds:

Thank your for the review! I guess the reason the vocals were hidden was because my mic quality was low and I wanted to hide the crackling and hissing... But I'm going to re-record them later. Also, I took the time to listen to some of your work - - it is quite amazing. Your orchastration was intelligent and flowing, with an epic feel. (and FYI, the reverb flute was the "Romatic" preset in the ToXic III plugin for FL studio. Usualy I like to use my own instruments, but that was too nice to pass up)