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Interesting

What an interesting melody. I felt it was really something interesting, then you have these random spurts of notes. I felt they kind of ruined the song, the song's flow and overall feel was jeapordized by those spurts of notes.

The song's core holds potential, I really liked where it was heading.

In any case it does loop rather exceptionally, so bonus points for that!

I'd like to invite you to check out some of my work sometime DyingFuzi! Keep up the good fight!

DyingFuzi responds:

thanx (= i know there are some random parts. i guess that i liked them because i didn't want the song to be too obvious or classic or something. so maybe i will change\improve this song like i sometimes try to do. thanx for the cooment, i guess i'll go check your work now(= thanx again.

Impressive!

A new piece eh! So soon too. Excellent.

I like what you did with your voice in this song at the beginning. It was a little hard to make out what you were saying, and I felt it was a tad loud, but it got the point across, and this time I felt it didn't clash with the song in any way.

The song's melody itself was just great. It was pushing, it was energetic, and it kept going. The panned reversed sounds were interesting, but I felt they were used in too much abundance, especially at the end where they were hitting some pretty high notes.

I'm a little sad to hear this won't be finished. This song really holds a ton of potential in my eyes.

When your voice goes all opera like at the end, that was priceless! I loved it, really gave some good energy.

The instrumentation is also down right, it all sounds like it belongs, it's just those reversed sounds that I think you used in too much.

Overall, great track! Try to get this one done if you can >:(!!! This one easily gets a 5/5 from me.

Dj-PinkWalrus responds:

why thank you! But, ummm, that was my friend singing at the begginning. =(
Anyways, i appreciate your input again!

Simply wonderful

This is so simple, yet so awesome. That background noise REALLY helped. I never would have thought to use such a thing. The song itself is very crisp, and I actually disagree with the earlier review, adding ANYTHING else would have ruined it's simplicity, which I felt all of it's power came from. Though near the end it does have periods of silence that drag on a tad too long.

I don't have much else to say WinTang, but I wanted to drop you my support. Keep up the good work, congrats on 50'th submission!

WinTang responds:

Thanks! As for the drags, I'll need to see how they turn out, I could always edit a bit. I just really wanted to eliminate any sense of 4/4.
Thanks for the support!!

Inspiring

I'd have to agree with Winter on this one. I felt the lead up to the fighting scene itself was supurb. Now don't think that means I dislike the battle scene itself (In my mind the battle scene begins the moment the snares start pressing down on the listener more), that part too was in my mind pretty damn impressive, oppressive, and vicious, however there was just this tense energy I liked more in the beginning.

The song also loops wonderfully.

The flutes in my opinion are just as great as the french horns, if not more so. Especially when they play this repetitive riff again and again. it's only five notes, but I personally think they did a lot for the song itself.

I felt the french horns were a little too laid back when the snares and timpini started striking down harder. I could be wrong however, increasing their volume may drown out the subtle strings.

In any case, it was a great experience sorohanro. Keep up the good fight! Keep them coming!

sorohanro responds:

well, your musical intuition and knowlege gave you a preety close image of what i intended to write.glad you liked it, and if you liked it, that means is good...
i didn't noticed the fact that is looping nice... now that you told me...
i had a brake here because i'm workin with a band in Bucharest for the new album,and i have to practice trumpet because i will have a VERY important concert in St.Petersburg.
hope you'r ok, i missed your reviews :)
take care

Interesting

I actually liked your voice, I felt it gave a strange feel to the piece. True there were some moments it didn't work with the song's melody, but overall it was a rather neat feeling.

The song's beginning was very powerful, I really liked it. gr4ve knows more about electronic arts then me so take his advice more seriously, I can only tell you what I liked and didn't ;).

The fast arpeggiated notes gave it a powerful push. The robotic vox wasn't that annoying, but the transition to your voice again was far too quick, with no break down, or crash or nothing, I felt it could have been handled better.

The ending, where your voice trailed off saying "free", I thought that part was handled down perfect.

All in all a good piece, well done! Keep up the good fight. I'd like to invite you to check out my work sometime. Keep them coming Dj-PinkWalrus

Dj-PinkWalrus responds:

you know, listening back on this, I would have to say that the transition to my voice, specifically in the middle of the song, was a little to abrupt. Thank you very much for the advice! I will for sure look at your work!

Take care Twisted.

Such a sullen, subtle piece. I can hear all sorts of emotions and voices in this piece. There is a sadness of course, there can never be a farewell without hues of sorrow flowing from it's core.

However there is also a dream like feel to the piece. I get the image of somebody sitting on a sandy beach, on an island, just gazing up at the stars.

The beach sound is excellent to it's cause here. It really gives off that feeling of lonelyness, that extra edge of sorrow to push the song forward.

When that flute comes in it was quite interesting. I wonder what this song would have been like if you added more reverb. It would have sounded lonelier, it would have sounded more distant. Like something you can never touch, but is always there.

I was a little disappointed you didn't do more with that harp you had at the beginning. I felt that harp held a HUGE amount of power for this piece, it DEMANDED you knew how it felt, and with the seashore it was a great piece to the puzzle.

In any case, I am always saddened to see a fellow artist leave, but such is the world that we live in. I wish for you the best for whatever you may do from here on. Keep up the fighting spirit! I won't say goodbye, because I do not believe in saying thus. By saying goodbye it entails we may never meet again, and i'm fairly sure this is not true. So I guess, i'll see you later ;).

Twistedtechnology responds:

well, i do have AIM ^^ so if you ever wanna get in touch my screen name is kenshin9989 ^^ I have one more piece that uses the harp, it was far to big to put on newgrounds, and with all the zero voting going around i wasnt going to even bother posting here anyway. If you go to dmusic *dotcom* and look in the classical/orchestral section, there will be a song called "Searching for a Light" perhaps the harp in that one would do more than this one did XD Thanks tons for the review!
IT really means a lot to me ^^

~Twistedtechnology

Damn impressive!

I felt this song had a lot of power in it! I really enjoyed the sound effects you had going on in the background, and those strange hi hats sounds which border on the feel of a siren of course fueled your whole image.

I really liked the melodies you had going on here! The strings, the piano, everything worked DAMN well in my opinion! I'd say that the song borders on classical more so then trance.

The strings, were just divine. I really liked how you worked them. I can't believe this song got such a low score.

You've mixed in a good deal of synths as well as real instruments, which is a feat I can respect for it is something I can't do yet so mad respect points to you.

Here comes the sirens and glitched up saw synths! The song gets more and more frantic. I was expecting some kind of big explosion at the end, it kinda trailed off, but it was still damn impressive.

In any case, great work, 5 from me! I'd like you to check out some of my work sometime! Keep up the good fight, and keep them coming preffertobedead!

preffertobedead responds:

Thanks a lot!!...i was hoping someone get the feel of those strings =)...i get a low score because of the mass Zerovotes on all the portal...you know the problem...=S

Impressive

The second that flute melody came in, I thought the song was becoming truly intense. Then you bring in that oboe and the songs core alters. It changes from it's peaceful state into something a tad sadder, and you introduce that piano very well!

The song is TOO SHORT! XO!!!
WHWWWHYYY11!1!?

You're really onto something here, I think this song could become truly something powerful! If you're using Fruity Studio's, I would like to try and finish this song, with your permission of course. There is just so much I see to this.

In any case, this song really clicked with me. It reminds me so much of my earlier style, and I miss that style so...

5/5 from me i2, keep up the great work!

i2abbitz responds:

of course you can!! :) lemme figure out a way to send it to you..

Neat

You're making much better use of that Delay Llama then I could hope to ;P.

In any case the song as you said sounds like it's some kind of dream, ethereal thing, which I guess with a title called dreams, is a good thing! I thought there was like... some kind of whale sounds somewhere in the background at some point. I didn't have any clue what to make of it XD. But it was pretty impressive.

If only there was a way to make the pitch of that Delay Llama change at your whim, thats where it's true strength really lies. I've heard some demo's and let me tell you, it has some SERIOUS power, but it's hard to tap. I don't think Fruity Studio's can alternate it's pitch, it IS a rather old VST.

Anyways, the song was pretty clean, looped well, and just an entertaining listen overall. I liked your harp like instrument, it really set the mood right, with plenty of pads and background sounds to furthar emphasize this feeling. Good stuff Echoz, good stuff indeed.

EchozAurora responds:

I really wish that I could change the vowel sounds, that would allow for a lot of play. You can on the VST, but not through the piano roll. I hope the next version of FL allows you to program controls on external VSTs like it does on knobs inside the program. Not too sure how that could be done, but it would open up a world of possibilities.

Interesting

This should definitely should have been in Techno, it's such an interesting mix. You've got some glitching going on and that was pretty neat. I felt the song sounded a tad empty until those synths came in sometime halfway, the melody work there was rather enjoyable.

Then you broke into hardcore glitchness!

Definately an interesting track, i'm surprised nobody else has reviewed it! In any case, excellent stuff, keep up the good work! I'd like to invite you to check out my work sometime.

ABITA responds:

yeah.... i was hoping for more feedback but oh well...Thank you though. :)

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