DJOrsa's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Bleh!!!112765]

Lol.

I was going through your songs and the title of this one looked funny.
I used to play WoW.. lol. What server were/are you on n stuff?

Rawrthaas responds:

when I posted this I was on Cenarius, but shortly after WOTLK I moved to Dawnbringer. Not playing atm though.

[Maniac's March]

I still like your classic rock better. :p

I can't give this much higher after hearing In Hades and your Fugues.
Are those hi-hat's panning? Lol, that's cool.
Nice effects at 1:40. I really like that melody.
The time signature changes are somewhat obvious, I would try to make them more fluid, unless you want them to be abrupt-ish.
Nice soft section at 2:10ish. Cool FX sounds and hat roll.
I'm really not diggin' the quick changes like for example: 3:16 --> 3:17. It's really awesome; I just feel its overused. To make it more powerful I would use it less, but that's just me.

3:40 and all other instances, maybe make those Open Hats closed? They are too repetitive and loud over the awesome key playing.
Keyboard shredding = O_O;
Pure awesomeness.

Hehe fadeout.

adompeace responds:

lol. There are no time sig changes! It's in 16/8 the entire time hahahaha. Well it may seem like it changes a lot because in every bar, there's a snare on the last 8th note so it does sound abrupt. But there are no weird time sigs. Only 16/8, which is only kinda weird :P

You must really like those tracks lol. It's really hard to outdo those tracks since they're so full of win, but I'll try...

[The Gate Of Time Trance]

Awesome..

Very relaxing, the quarter note triplet melody makes it very soothing. Nice drumwork and kick drum. The kick roll at 2:00 is a tad long to be a kick-roll, I'd probably move that to a snare roll, that increases in volume slowly.

2:36 is just amazing. The one-note piano melody makes the song 10x better.

Nice ending, I liked. Great stuff man.

akopa responds:

Thanks for the awesome review!

[F-777 (WF1) - M.O.I Remix]

Amazing!

I can feel the emotion in this song. :D It's really, really nice to listen to. There isn't anything I would change besides tweaking the velocity (dynamics) of the harp and piano to make it sound more human-like. Just a suggestion. Brilliant besides that, though!

wyldfyre1 responds:

hmm I may look into that.

[~- Celebrate the Summer -~]

Catchy.

Good stuff, nice catchy melody.. but you gotta do something about that distortion.. :P. The ping pong'ing delay is sorta odd on the piano in the middle of the song.

The synths sound nice, but I'd tinker em a bit from the preset to match your song's mood. The ending is abrupt, but nice work!

BCCB responds:

Help me with my mixing. =P

[~- I'm There -~]

Excellent!

The build-up to 1:25 is amazing! I really liked it. I would make the lead a tad louder there, to show that you have reached the point you wanted to! Very melodious, it has the same progression as Pachelbel's Canon in D.. which is a very soothing song. Nice melody and cool piano playing. The distortion on the bass drum is really bad at the end though, that's the only thing I would try to fix. Great stuff!

Check out some of my stuff, I like the way you write your music! :D

BCCB responds:

Thanks, man! I'm glad you like it that much.

Yeah, the distortion was pretty bad, but before I tweaked it, it was even worse. I'll try to see what I can do. I'm not good at mixing or mastering at all. Maybe you could help me with that. =P

Thanks for the tips, and I'll look at your music when I'm not too busy.

[Kids (maer808 Remix)]

Awesome.

It's nice to hear a remix of MGMT with lyrics.
I enjoyed this thoroughly.
The fast background synth at 0:45, 1:15, so on could be more powerful.
Nice drum work, and I like that sliding synth thing at 1:40 and throughout the song.
MGMT wins!

maer808 responds:

thx for the review man im glad to see more fans of mgmt, they're awesome!

[Attack of the Numbers]

Sounds.. like anger.

I don't think I've heard a song with much more raw emotion.
It makes me jittery just listening to it. The counter rythyms are just crazy!
Really cool song, the block chords at 2:00 make my head hurt in a good way :D

One of my favorite bands is the Mars Volta. If you have an affinity for cool time signatures, check em out. Listen to Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus and Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt. 27/16 and 11/8 are some cool time signatures in those songs. There's others, but those songs are just amazing. Every time i listen to one of their songs I hear something new.

adompeace responds:

I've been getting into Mars Volta lately. Great band. Didn't listen to those songs. Thanks for the suggestions!

[Crappy star wars theme loop]

LOL.

This is horrible, and I don't know why I am laughing so hard.

VioletVulpine responds:

Because it's funny.

[Pimpwagon Blues]

Cool.

I'd call this like rock blues or something.

"I dont know if Id call it a bluesy song tho, your style is just way to fast haha. Anytime you wanna do serious rocking you jump right into this very fast thrashing style, which I like because its different, but Idk if I'd call it bluesy."

Well, this progression is 12-bar blues. So yeah, its blues, even though its kinda hard.

Cool stuff, makes me think of a movie trailer or something.
The slow section sounds kinda funny because of the bass line, I'd syncopate it a bit more along with the snare. It sounds too straight to be blues at that section.

The beginning is tight as hell though. :D

adompeace responds:

Personally, I like the slower section. It's actually not straight, btw. You're hearing triplets. You should know what those are! XD The triplets give it the swing feel of blues songs. So it goes from straight blues rock to a blues shuffle type of thing. Take another listen with that in mind.